THE POWER OF BOOKS BY BISHOP DAVID OYEDEPO | SEPT 2019

Changes people's position. I pray by the revelation of the world coming for today, all through the day, we supernaturally change your position. Father, thank you. I honor Your Word today in Jesus' precious name. Give another of this country. You may be comfortably seated.

I want to first this morning introduce a secret: the guarantee of continuous change of level. Nothing ever becomes outstanding without understanding the root of anything. Understand, our standing is understanding. No one's ministry will ever be any more outstanding than its level of understanding. "He that wanders away from the path of understanding shall abide in the congregation of the dead" (Proverbs 21:16). So, the level of life and impact in anybody's ministry is a function of his spiritual understanding. How many still walk in spiritual understanding of the truth that guarantees an oomph always and in every place?

Can I say this here this morning? I have never met young with you in my life. They don't one-on-one, on one public in my life. In my life, I've never met him. I mean, learn to me, but didn't work because I couldn't make the journey. But I've never seen him in my eyes with my eyes. I never lied to a group from Connecticut. He doesn't have, he doesn't know it. I never landed from Kenneth Copeland. Does not this area? But I devote don't be chose book till I understood what it takes to make it work.

Since 1985, I've been receiving the seed of short growth and treating it at the various levels that were in. I've never sat with him. He has never leaves on me. Then what happened? Understanding has been boosted. I eat. Danny understood by books. Many people so understand brain is dumb low. Most of us are running by common sense. You can't get any better result. Our common is also see what God has done in short growth without meeting your mental in it by seeking understanding through his materials.

Now, there are no internet facilities. Assessed to anything you want, but I copied the book, modern numbers. There's a book, modern numbers. I photocopied it page by page, but I was aware to get a copy. First-class to those attending classes, you ain't getting exploration, explorative study. You go to the place where does one go to those who about them? I've never, never met him. My faith was burning. I never met again until '86. I'm from '76. I have been sitting on that again through his materials, and just my faith was moving and moving and moving, and everybody around me knew that this is one faith kid. I never saw him since I'm until a disease.

Understanding is boosted through books. Daniel 9:2. I understood by books. And I'm speaking to all largely Africans who are here. The Caucasians would say, "You want to hide anything from a black man reading a book? You won't find it because you can't talk from here to oh silly on your flight." While some others are building destinies on the same flight, you want outstanding ministries. You want to keep scaling new levels. Then keep seeking deeper understanding of what to do, how to do it.

Paul, a man of unusual assets to revelation, say 2nd Timothy 4:13: "The cloak that I left our truest with couples when thou comest, bring with thee the books, but especially deep parchments." Parchment, Xia means notes. My notes. My notes. I found something from my note in 2001. 10, 10, 2001. Mmm, does last week? The Holy Ghost speaking straight to me, or my personal what to do life. You had jelly yesterday, saying that a first listing, then you went the second time, making outlines. Okay, taking notes, and then the thought. I'm making outlines. Nothing boosts our standing, boosts understanding like seeking more understanding from those who know more than you do. Um, because of the abundance of revelation given to me. Now, that is the result of 2nd Timothy 4:13.

Then you go to 2nd Corinthians 12:7. This man of books began to flow in unusual revelation, unusual revelation by divine illumination and canter through books. "Remember thou art the fountain of life, and in delight shall we see light, for with thee is the Fountain of Life." There are human beings. There are gifts of God in the body that we see light through their light. The light go give them. Now, a number of them also saw a light through their life. Now go give to others. Whicka remain. We may all be lecturers and his crew, but there is one as his graduate assistant is also teaching in class. Hell is like assistant lecturer is teaching in class. There is also a professor emeritus is teaching in class. In fact, they carry the younger lecturers to come with them so they can learn how to see things. So we are all pastor, yeah, but you see, they are in different grades. So I'm passionately introducing you to this secret behind every exploit: learning at the feet of giants in your field. Learning at the feet of giants in your field.

When I go to the field by degrees of God, and I spend three hours, I'm likely returning with about three hundred souls. Why don't you find out? I stole one of my son has gone with me before. Of course, entry, please. We are nobody was gathering, and I began to proclaim the blessing like Tony. We might train the cones, and is that you're coming? He was shouting, "Email from where you are coming!" And they came with the mastery skill of marketing. The gospel will go. 61 source in that place. No, good. Yeah, no, yes. They are here. We didn't hear my voice. You come. I've come to proclaim blessings on you on this ground. May the blessings of today rest upon your life. You beginning, amen. From Muslims, enemies, and are coming. What is to come? George Grosz, who don't know anything about God. You come and give them because which you lead them to Christ. Walk over to the next place. Life. We need understanding to experience nationals. We need understanding to experience Nestor. We need increasing understanding to keep experience experiencing nationals.

All of our respected senior friends, his wife was getting one out, and Willie, they have been married for 50 years in ministry together. Toward a harpy, it is in their respective field. They live in California. One day, later hood on the book, "The Wisdom That Walks." He said, "For the first time in my life, I understand the miss you leave." Thinking, read. Don't just read like a newspaper. Read, ponder, read, meditate. Squeeze the virtue and what you are reading like you squeeze the juice from an orange ball. And I went through this book and partly read, they read some chapters, and the church, and the church that look, we are not presented in his head. I had bounced back to life. Life became more meaningful, just from this law to auto lane to oh to no.

There is need for a book revival among ministers. I call you book revival. That's a need for it. How shall we walk the works of God productively? The worker is to believe on Him. When we are saying now, see, you don't find any very nice tree without vibrant faith. Faith is what empowers us to move from level to level. Clarity barriers on the way. So you want the wisdom that gives the rest and pleasantries? Look for it. You may get it from this book. I'm not a bookseller. I've never drawn a time in my life from books, and yet I can't tell you what it is that they say. Every year for since 1985, when my first two books were published, after they about drawn a time in my life, if I give you a book gift, I paid for it. Never ones. I'm not a book dealer, but I'm a market of light. Ask my son. In those days, I carry against books on my head, and we go from one all night to another and be advertising. Now, on page 82 of this book, I encountered light. There is light all over this book. I was marketing against book without a time commission in my life. One day, the Lord said to me, "When I found was a fateful window, I made you another people who are running about themselves to buy our books." In Baltimore, Maryland, I went for a meeting and I wept. I'm a market of light. I don't have material returns on it. Is it wrong? No, it's my about it. It became my vow. When I needed money, every money I could get, it gave the world. So what's my business? So please settle down. No conference we ever deliver to you all it takes to change level. No, there is no conference. If it's three weeks, it'll do it. It is true that the gates of lrac see a way forward, but we have this material. Sit and get lost. I did this in UAE in one meeting. The police caught fire that if Satan, you can't stand the way of God. Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and believe the glory everlasting. Those that he can go blue remain calm in that wood chip on that devil to you.

Somebody came to my office and crying. A man crying. You know that secret? A concern women can cry because they are prone to it. You in such a woman, you can cry for the next one week. The sort of money as property immediately. That's your business as God. But the woman, you mark the time, the exact posture, and you already statement down. I've never had as I said, and I had that you're talking against me. No. Somebody brought a newspaper to my house. Wanker honest it, and I said, "I live in this estate." And ready cover story of this newspaper is coming out tomorrow. As I don't need people's. It says me directly about. I say, "Yes, I don't for me or against me." I said, "Go to office, you'll find one man guy. His name is one so. Give it to him. Is one Woody's beep. I know he was in Tula. If you know what I have to read, will give me that junk." Welcome into Canaan land. Unity construction. And then I was her robot one place. The a belieber or something. And so they say, "White people, by people." I said, "We don't." Then ensuring one magazine, my picture was so beautiful on it. Is a lot of this. I said, "We don't buy the mumbles inter love time." Now, I have not asked T tomorrow. What is in there? People 1999. I've never excuse me. I want people to D. Can you find out what they are saying? Till now, you don't have a Foucault scofflaw see? Oh, please Domon. I said, "Go to the busto, buy this copy. Talk to me at 11:00." Is reading it, but I make him. But he was loving as a horrible inside eluded a with that chip. Just within seven days, what looks like a and the movement in his life was rode away. The power of light in him was life, and the life is a light of mail, and the legends in darkness, and darkness cannot comprehend it. The devil is not your problem. Is light you need. When light steps into a room, darkness won't get out of it.

There is this book, "The Unlimited Power of Faith," the master driver of every vision. He said in Habakkuk chapter 2 and verse 4: "The just shall live by his faith." His vision. We only see the light of the day by faith. If he thinks I can't do it anywhere else in the house, let him go ahead. For right a vision, make it plain. You to deliver by faith. "Blessed is he that believeth, there shall be performance of those things which were taught." Ha, from the Lord. It takes faith to deliver God's mandate on your life. So build your faith. I read virtually everything that again ever wrote, maybe not once, not twice, not three times. Faith cannot be wished. Faith has to be built, and the beautiful by those who are proved that they have found it, and they engage any with it, and it's producing results in their life. Follow them who have obtained the promise, not those who explain the promise. Faith is the substance of every meaningful life and of every of stand a ministry. Faith is D substance. So with our faith, your ministry has no substance. Tally in Jerusalem until when? Do it power from above. So anointing for exploits is he three in one book: "Understanding the Anointing," "Anointed for Breakthrough," and then "An Origin for S Play." There are three separate books put into these, and what's doing is to help you grow from one level of anointing to another, from anchored deep to native, from native to waist-deep, from which deep to live as a Kenobi pass over. So don't let the size KIU. There are three books and one. Anybody annoying for brief - you already have a thought of it. You have understand Indian origin, have a thought of it, and then the third one is one ok anointing for exploit. An idea for accomplishing your usual. I mean, you know what it means to embark on a project. I would demand a hundred million and time and again and again and again and without making no announcement to nobody. I'm getting it going without stress. Faith provoking the hand of God upon any issue that has commanded. And then we have exploits in ministry, and that's what you came here for. You came here to have meaningful adventure in ministry. It's comprised of forces and laws that makes it happen. Don't glance it. The law of diligence. Yes, I know that they know focus. That's my area. The law of sowing and reaping. Yes, everybody knows. I noticed the law of mentorship. I as I have had, I mean, Popeyes my mentor for life. Now, this to me, because God gave it, is helping to establish a ladder for change of levels in humans. You will come pick the forces, you can pick the laws, and find which one we are not aligning with, and then get back to fix that step, and then your operon it. When it's time, let me know what we're here to do this morning is to just let you experience nest levels by taking appropriate steps. If I'm going up here, and this step is meeting, and this step is missing, have a problem. Change a level. I mean, I agree with that. The best place to begin is the beginning. You'll be sweating here and ever see walks a lot, but they're not moving forward because there are audio steps missing on the ladder that makes it difficult to go forward. Every testament is an act of God. What is a function of your understanding? I caught it. That's what people say natural when they are given testimonies, and then it has only erupted. You catch an understanding of the truth in any area, you just began to experience testimonies from one level to another. If what is happening now to today's not explain what is exploit? I am hey, what is inspired offered Ivan without struggling too much? Coconut University. What is right? You want to start universe, go to a new city, go to Havana fest. If you come back and you still want to do it, let us know. There is nothing lock about life. Light is a product of light. Life is a product of light. In Him was life, and the life is the light. The power of books. I read the book authored by Kenneth Copeland, "Six Steps to Excellence in Ministry." I mean, I've seen doubt boo before. What a blessing. You know something about a book? I buy it everywhere I go, and I just buy modern turf of them. It's a very tiny book. You read, you understand three times. There is no reflection of chapter one, chapter in his life. Is under standard award. All it is is one thing to listen, ready to understand. So I can accept so much who guide me. So these books are guides. They they guide us to do what those individuals may have done. I've done, and has brought about the resource, the command. How can I not understand? How can understand so much? You gave me. I still believe by the grace of God. Had no one studies understand financial prosperity, and it's even actually grounded if you understands it. If he understands it, I have not been grounded once since I saw it. All I can do is to present it to you. If you're interested, it's your duty now. Studied or to you understanding. You think that was proof aliens? Good on it. They don't understand as a problem. How about an incident? Your life would oscillate, but they don't mock what you read. The morrow to understand. You can fill with facts. Watermark in your paper ID facts. They don't muddy stories. See mark the facts. So you seek understanding from those who understand. If you want a chair to pass, who said what is it mathematics? Do not hire somebody who filled it. You already are determined to dissolve the MIUI. Atrazine. Mui is now to teach yourself to know. If you say, "Why is a good man? He's a good man." We're looking for good understanding. This campus is phosphorus. Was completed in seven months. How many months now? Much. 6, 2002. Construction started. October 21, 2002. Dedicated. Now to horse of residents sitting, 1005 Manor, providing accommodation of 1500 students. You know, for Kota building, all of that, restaurant, fertilia, the colleague, all of that, drain, rude, water, in seven months by the hand of God. That is the audacity of faith. What is it? That is the sagacity of a. That is fet. Say, "Give it to me. I can deal with it." That's a shame. Leave it to me. One hon do it. That level of it is not the one you capture only tentative eating are smiling DNA. Well, the good news is, if you read today, to show tomorrow. If you don't today, it was a show tomorrow. So got or the bookstore or the book stand and get anything you want. If you think it will help you. If you think it will help you. Now, let me close by, please. How many minutes remaining? Oh, 17 hours. Hello. 17 more minutes. Now, in static Covenant University, this is the secret. I never stepped the ground of our university, anniversary of the grounds of Cambridge University, and about 30 grams of Harvard University, but from my room, and we are the net. I started the first nine leading universities in the world to the point I could stand on allowed did by date what they did. I Russo from grad study and declared Coburn, I shall be a new generation Harvard. We are we today? There are some research areas where we lead globally. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Today, in less than 20 years. Now, [Applause] Oxford was 1,000 years and 19 when I did. I studied 1,000 years, and my team, a one-time paco2 here is director of African Studies today in Cambridge. Life it answers to understanding. When I give the false address to our council, one of the professor stood up and said, "You know, my 35 years in academics, I've never seen anybody reviled the structure of a university the way you did." By how you are not taught? Is talking about the world? You can bring the war to your room. You can bring the war to your room. It's only about a Tunis and listeners today. We have been invited to come on stock of another invasion. One of the European nations, not main nation. I wanted to mention. Denis, please say to them, "And seek understanding. Is a wisdom is the principal thing. With all your getting, get understanding. Get understanding." You can't occupy principal place in life without seeking the principal thing. Get understanding. Get understanding. Get understanding. Get understanding. I pray the distance level conference will not be theoretical in your life. You don't need to play. I've never seen any crooked man way crown. You still robbed your life. Yeah, your dignity has been eroded. Nobody takes dignity without integrity. I heard the voice of God for the first time in my life through the book of Tlo's mom. What if I never read? Whatever never in contact God in it. I don't be guessing like many old iPod guessing. There are mainly guessing people in the world. What are we to do now? Yes, I think what is going on nice touching schools. Let's start primary school and secondary school. MA, yeah. Night for primary school. Yeah. The one who briefed you. Does we pray for them? That is this how to live? Because is a guess walk. Because they guess what? When is from the Lord, I'll go prepare the truth. You feel, and yet the good will be greater by the day. Does the regular getting into? So it's over to you. I pray that this part of understanding we live with you for life. Let me hear your loudest amen. Let me hear your loudest amen. The law said to connect Copland is a gap back to all the writings of Canadian all the tape so Connecticut since 1962, and he began to go over it again like eiseley new understanding. You change your level. Somebody here is changing level in the name of Jesus Christ. Somebody has changing level in the name of Jesus Christ. One time I returned from a trip, and my wife says me said to me, "What have you brought us a common sea?" I opened the false bad books. Second say, "What ssa?" That's always. I said, "The content of this book, if understood, can make me manufacture of the things I will abort." Your value for wisdom and understanding would change your level forever. That's what works. So you don't have to go. You don't even need a ticket, sir. You don't need passport to change your wall. You don't need the pathways that will pray and fast for visa. You don't need. You don't need. One I wanted to know that we have had faculty from Harvard came in here as I joined visiting professors on this ground in Nigeria. Inside this forest, arise, shine, for your light has an anywhere light. The dominion of light over darkness is instant and unquestionable. May you keep encountering light. Also, we have some packages that will bless you and concentrated messages on subjects of faith, of vision, of wisdom, of success. Some of them have 80 messages on them. Some of them have a hundred messages on them. So you can tune in to anyone you want and listen to the point that to understand and to the point of encounter. Somebody are conserved blood is enough. Listened to this world is a new blood here. This world. So it on the MP3 on and the blood a hard life is just in to grips with the truth. He is the word of the Lord. Everything created. He has the word of the creator. Everything. Everything. Somebody was listening to a tape, and then our the car crash. He parked his car in a filling station, and Nutella was coming. I carried this container, see containers, and the container fell on the car. Impressed him dead. So a member of the church was passing by, saw the stick of the church as truth. Please carry Jesus identity anywhere you go. Jesus is Lord. Doesn't know who we are. Dick. We granted one day in our journey, and somebody saw Jesus is Lord, and he's a Baptist. Becasue this talk, and they helped us out of the place. You didn't see the more stop. So they stopped. I said, "Please, I want to know where the carrot is in the video. There is days. I want to know where to put him." So he went to the hospital, and by the time they got in the mortuary, by the door, virtually 100 shaky. So the Russian to emergency and then fix him up. It burns back to life. His body. One good Jesus came in. What Osaka? He was listening to it till when that accident happened, and it took a plane on when was off. So why responding to one ok? Shout Amen. The hand came up, and is to walked himself to the platform to give his testimony. That's the power prophetic world. It changes people's position. Well, the good news is, you have what it takes. Given what it takes, it takes understanding to experience change of levels. And understand we encounter through the menisci of those who understand the subject you are seeking for. And looking at again, house plenty of faith, and he demonstrates it, but he does not have as much light as connect Oprah hearts on prosperity. Praise God. And so you knew you pick it. You need that to pick it. There are many anointed authors on this earth today who speak the mind of God on issues and have proved it in their lives. Look for them. Connect with them, and keep your life going. No matter who we invited to minister in your ministry, it will never change opposition. Its own destiny that will change it. Fresco, you better understand. I mean, we enjoy the refreshing that comes from people that minister to us. Yes, but as for that ministry, your level on the understand is what we say limit your growth, a limit on this passion. My prayer is that everyone here will live to experience the reality of this kind of understanding. Let me hear your loudest amen. Let me hear your loud as amen. Lift up your right hand to heaven. Thank go for show you the way. For this is the way forward. For show you the way forward. This is a way forward. In Jesus precious name, we have prayed. In the name of Jesus, we have prayed. Whatever snowshoed is likely going to fail. I had New York Times asked me a question, impromptu question. What do you do with your time? I said, "I read and I think." Hello. What I what I what? There is no day I don't think so, including Sunday, where I don't have notes before this meeting is over. We'll bring you a load of some of these diaries for you to see how people explore into their future. Please take on this responsibility, and you'll never be a liability in the name of Jesus. Praise the Lord. Please David, come. Let's have this bit of information. I think it will help. [Applause] Hallelujah. If you consciously read for two hours every day in a week, you are ready book. So in a year, minimum, you read his 50 books, and in 10 years, you must have read 500 books. So cautiously for me, happy. No matter how busy you are, minimum two hours every day, and each day, week, you read one full book. Thank you. What you've done this morning is seeking deeper understanding for continuous change of levels. Seeking deeper understanding for continuous change of level. No one here will ever be granted in life and ministry again. Rise to your feet, everybody. Don't walk yourself dry. Stay fresh as you walk on fresh insight. We'll keep you fresh every day. What those authors do is to interpret scriptures to everyone's understanding, and it's important to know that it's not a substitute for the world you are reading. The reward and you are did interpreted world on any subject of interest to you. A man on any subject of interest to you. Coming to full-time ministry, I read that in a biography of our Stan Lee ministries across centuries. I came into ministry like I would say humorously, I was 39 years older than my colleagues. Haven't bought into the wisdom of 39 great lives to align with what they did. I made it work, and to avoid what they did that affected them, that affected them negatively. That's what we study for. Lift up those two hands to heaven. Pray for grace. Pray for grease over your life to take responsibility in seeking knowledge and understanding. And Jesus precious name, we have prayed. Somebody once asked me, "How do you get time to read?" And I asked, "How do you get them to eat?" What eating is to you is what reading is to me. As long as it's time to eat, there might be time to read. You don't need. You won't know. You don't understand. You cannot be outstanding. It's all about investing one's time appropriately. Benjamin Franklin said, "Do you love life? Is there day? Invest your time. Don't squander it, for that is a stall that life is made of." You want the best out of life. Don't spend your time. Invested. No one has any more time ran order 24 hours. I look at it to each one, the poor, the rich, the failure, is successful. Same time. It is the investment quality that determines the outcome of each one's life. I pray that your time with God, your time the second understanding through reading of books and listening to tapes, we keep on being a large body day in the name of Jesus. I just told them before the kremser, I've never made John betray my life, but I've studied his walks since 1985 with all consistency and sense of mission. Here we are to divide Greece. We have never made Daniel said, "Understood by books." By books. I told them about your book, "Six Steps to Ministry Excellence in Ministry." I want on 12 copies of it on my bookshelf. Understanding only those who seek for it find it. You don't see for it, you can't find it. It's all about a sense of commitment to the future. We look forward to you. Want to get anything great out of life? Seek understanding. Are the root of anything of standing is understanding. And I pray that your second I will not stop at this conference. So just pack up a new lifestyle for you where you can see them and seek spiritual understanding of any subject of interest to you in the name of Jesus. This morning, we have Dr. Kenneth Copeland, Pastor Jerry Savelle, are all in this service. Give the Lord a big hand, please. Get seated. Please get seated. One of my favorite verses. Every time I autograph a book, I put this scripture underneath it. Most every letter that I write, I include this scripture in it because it's life-changing. It certainly was for my life. I've lived by it for the last 50 years. I'm celebrating 50 years in the ministry this year, and 50 years they're working with Brother Copeland. Hallelujah. And God has been extremely good to Jerry Savelle. I don't know why I'm his favorite child. I just am. Hallelujah. I know He's no respecter of persons, but He certainly makes me feel that way. Amen. First John chapter 5, beginning in verse 1: "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God." Drop down to verse 4: "For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith." Look at your neighbor and say, "I have the potential of being a world overcomer." Have the potential to be a world overcomer in the name of Jesus. And I think you ought to thank God for that in advance. Amen. Thank Him right now that you are a world overcomer. Now, if the Bible is true, and it is, then that means that God has provided everything we need to live a total victorious life. A life of victory. Living in defeat is son of the curse. In Deuteronomy chapter 28, verse 25, the New International Version says that defeat by your enemies is a curse, and we have been redeemed from the curse. Any say amen? So I am redeemed from living a defeated life. I am blessed to live a victorious life. 2nd Corinthians chapter 2, verse 14 says, "Now thanks be unto God, which always causes us to triumph in Christ." Does the word "always" mean in Nigeria what it means in Texas? Always means no exceptions. We have the ability and the God-given right to triumph always. It's never God's will that we win a few and lose a few. It's God's will that we win every time. And you say amen, because the Bible says we have the potential to be a world overcomer. In the Message translation, it says, "In Christ, God leads us from place to place in one perpetual victory parade." Hallelujah. I'm in a victory parade this morning. God has led me from Texas here tonight to Nigeria, and I am experiencing a victory parade. Praise God. And when I leave Nigeria and I go back home, I'll be in another parade when I get back home, a victory parade. Hallelujah. It's wonderful living in victory. It's wonderful being triumphant. I tried defeat. Didn't like it. So I decided to be a winner. Hallelujah. Amen. So once again, if this is true, and it is, then why would we ever accept defeat when we don't have to? And we're talking about the theme of this meeting is going to a higher level, going to the next level. And if you're going to the next level, we said last night that it begins in the way you think. It begins in that your thought life. "As a man thinketh in his heart so is he." So if you think defeat, and that's exactly the way your life is going to end up. You're gonna live a defeated lifestyle. For me personally, I don't ever think defeat. I don't ever think in terms of defeat. No matter what I'm going through, no matter how impossible it may seem, I dared to believe that somehow, someway, God is going to see me through. Thinking, sure neighbors say, "I believe the same thing. Somehow, someway, God is going to see me through." Stayed with me again. "Somehow, someway, God is going to see me through." And then tell somebody, "I refuse to accept defeat." Amen. Defeat is not in my plans. Praise God. Those that are still in the world and think like the world, they constantly think defeat. But Paul tells us that we are not to be conformed to this world, as we read last night, but we are to be transformed by the renewing of our minds. The Message translation, I repeat, says, "Don't become so well adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking." A lot of people around you have a defeat mentality. A lot of people don't expect to overcome. A lot of people don't to be victorious. They simply have a defeat mentality. But you must determine that you are not going to run with that kind of people. That's not the people that you become best friends with. My best friends are winners. My best friends are people of faith. The people that I run around with, they don't talk defeat. They talk victory. Praise God. And you say amen. So it's important that who you fellowship with, who you run with, so to speak, as we say back home, has everything to do with your outcome. If you run around with people that are constantly talking to feet, eventually you're gonna begin to think and talk just like them, and you'll wind up living just like them. So it's very important that you associate with people that believe that you have the ability to win. Amen. 2nd Corinthians chapter 10 and verse 5 teaches us that we must be selective in our thoughts. The Bible says, "Casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ." In other words, if it doesn't line up with the Word of God, then keep it out of your mind. Cast it down. If Satan is telling you there's no way that you can win, cast that thought down. Besides that, he is a liar. The truth is not in him. And if he's telling you you cannot win, dare to believe just the opposite, because God says you can win. You can overcome. Can you say amen? They get somebody to tell them, "I am a world overcomer." The Message translation says, "We are to tear down barriers that are erected against the truth of God." The King James calls them strongholds. Don't allow the thoughts of failure and defeat to stay in your mind, stay in your thinking. They're simply lies of the devil, and he's trying to get you to fall for them. He's trying to get you to accept them. But praise God, you don't have to accept them. Kenneth Hagin used to say, "I can't stop the birds from flying over my head, but I can keep them from nesting in my hair." Amen. In other words, you have the ability to think negative thoughts. I have the ability to think negative thoughts. But praise God, I refuse to accept them. If they attempt to enter into my thinking, then I cast them down. I pull them down. If it doesn't line up with the Word of God, then I cast it down. I cast it out. The Bible says not only to be selective in how we think in casting down everything that attempts to exalt itself against the knowledge of God, but it also tells us how to think. "Think on things which are true, thinks on things which are of a good report." So how you think has everything to do with how your life is going to turn out. If you expect to go to the next level, then it begins with your thought life. How you think. Can you say amen? Hallelujah. Now, I want us to listen to this. The Bible says from the amplified version that the god of this world, Satan, has blinded the minds of believers that they should not discern the truth. He blinds the minds of believers so they cannot discern the truth. The truth is, you're not a failure. The truth is, you don't have to live and defeat. The truth is, you're a world overcomer. The truth is, you have the ability to triumph always. So it's your choice who you will believe. I remember a number of years ago, way back in the late 70s, about '79, '80s, somewhere along in there, I had bought some property out on the south side of Fort Worth, and it was just a small plot, small acres, about five acres to start with. And the Lord impressed upon me to start believing Him for all the land that I could get my hands on in that very area. And so I began to do that. And right across the road from my property was a hundred and two acres of land that was all pasture land. It was not anything built on it. In fact, there had been cattle on that land when I first moved out there. And the Lord said, "If you will remain patient, I will arrange for you to have all that land you won't and pay whatever you want to pay for it." So I said, "Consider me patient right now." Amen. Now, patience means to be constant, to be consistent, never changing, regardless of the circumstances. That's what patience means. That's a Bible definition of patience: constant, consistent, never changing, regardless of the circumstances. Shortly after the Lord said that to me, there was an article that came out in our local newspaper, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and it showed a picture of the land that God had spoken to me about, and it had an article about a corporation that had just bought that land, and they had a diagram in there or a plan of what they were going to build on that land. So I held up the newspaper and I asked the Lord, "Did you read the paper this morning? Somebody bought my land." He said, "No, I don't read that trash. Throw it away. You shouldn't either." And then He said this: "Whose report will you believe?" Amen. I said, "I believe the report of the Lord." Now, throughout that day, there were thoughts that came up in my mind, "Well, maybe I didn't hear God after all. Maybe that was just something I dreamed up." I had to cast those thoughts down, because remember, He said, "If you will remain patient, then I will arrange for you to have all that land you won't and pay whatever you want to pay for it." So I remembered what He said. I said, "I cast down every negative thought. I've cast down every thought that doesn't line up with what God said to me, and I cast it down, and I will refuse to allow it to remain in my thinking." It wasn't long after that there was another article in the newspaper that said that corporation went bankrupt and they lost that land. Now, I didn't pray that on them, but it doesn't pay to touch God's anointed. Amen. And so, so far, it looks like, you know, that land is still available. But it wasn't long after that another corporation came in and bought that land. But this time, I didn't ask the Lord about it. I just said, "Lord, I remember you told me if I remain patient that I will have all that land I won't and pay whatever I want to pay for it. So consider me still patient." And eventually, that corporation went bankrupt and they lost the land. And then finally, a third corporation bought that land. I didn't say anything to the Lord about it, because I knew what He was going to say. Didn't I tell you remain patient? And so I was determined to be constant, consistent, and never changing, regardless of the circumstances. Amen. And the third corporation went bankrupt. Three corporations bought my land, and they all went bankrupt. Finally. Now, I'm up in New York City. Jesse Duplantis and I were doing a meeting together in New York City, and we left there, and we went to Philadelphia to do another meeting. And while I'm in Philadelphia, I get a phone call from my general manager, and he said, "We got a call today from the RTC, which is a government agency, and it said, 'Tell Mr. Savelle that it appears that he's the only one buying land out there and not going bankrupt, and they said, 'Tell him we don't want this land. We want money. Tell him to make us an offer because we want this land off the books.' And then he also said, 'And tell Mr. Savelle that there is a 1.3 million dollar lien on this property, and so what he's going to offer us has to be far greater than the 1.3 million dollar lien.'" And so I told him I'd call him back after I've visited with the Lord about it. And so I said, "Lord, you said that you would arrange for me to have all that land that I won't and pay whatever I want to pay for it. I said, 'I've decided I want it all. All hundred and two acres.'" He said, "Okay, what do you want to pay for it?" I said, "Now, they said that I have to make an offer of over 1.3 million and then some, but I don't even want to do that." He said, "Then what do you want to do?" "I told you I would arrange for you to have all that land and pay whatever you want to pay for it." I said, "Lord, all I want to do is pay $200,000 cash. I want the lien removed. I want a clear title. Not only that, I want the mineral rights." He said, "Then call him and tell him." So I called my attorney, and my attorney is a born-again, spirit-filled, Bible-believing, miracle-working attorney, because I led him to the Lord many years ago. He's been with me 35 years. And I called Wayne. I said, "Towed Wayne the story. I said, 'Call the RTC and tell them, here's my offer. Tell them I want all 102 acres. I will give them $200,000 cash. I want the lien removed, and I want the mineral rights and a clear title.'" He said, "I'll do it, Brother Terry, and I'll call you right back after I hear back from them." And so several hours went by, and then Wayne called me back, and he said, "When I called them, I started off with this: 'Do you believe in miracles?'" They said, "No, we work for the government. We don't see miracles." And he said, "Well, I believe in miracles, and my client believes in miracles, and here's his offer. He'll give you $200,000 cash. He wants the lien removed. He wants a clear title, and he wants the mineral rights." And he said, "There was total silence." He said, "Are you still there?" They said, "Yes, but that's so ridiculous. We're not even going to, we're not even going to tell our superiors about his offer." He said, "Yes, you are. Your superiors told you to get the offer from him and report back to them. So you tell them, and then you report back to me." He said, "They called in a few hours, and their opening remarks were, 'We now believe in miracles.'" [Applause] Amen. Now, see, if I had a defeat mentality, I would not own that land. If I had not cast down vain imaginations, thoughts of failure and defeat, I wouldn't own that land. So we acquired a hundred and two acres for $200,000, and I got not only the land, but a clear title, the lien removed, and the mineral rights. And the Lord was very specific in telling me to get the mineral rights. And so, as time went by, some major gas companies started coming to our office and wanting to know if we were willing to lease that land so that they could drill horizontal gas wells. They said, "There's gas on this property." You see, if I hadn't got the mineral rights, I wouldn't be entitled to the royalties that came from that gas. So they drilled two horizontal wells to start with, and my first royalty check was over three million dollars. Amen. Not bad for a $200,000 investment. Amen. Not only that, but they decided they had to get the gas to the main plant, and then they offered me another half million dollars to drill to run pipe through that property. And then they decided there was gas on the property's north of my property, but it had houses on it, but they said there's gas under all those houses, but there's not enough land for each homeowner to drill the horizontal well. They said, "If you will allow us to put the pad site on your property so we can drill on their land, we will pay."

You are a royalty for that. My first royalty check was $450,000. Every time I turned around, I was making money on this land, amen. Not only that, but not too long ago, a major developer, he devotes mostly on the south side of Fort Worth, he came to me and he said, "I'd like to buy a portion of that land." And he said, "What would you ask for for just a small part of that acreage?" I say, "Well, how many acres do you want?" He told me. And then I said, "Well, what would you offer on it?" He said, "Well, I'll give you one point two million dollars for that." I said, "Make it 1.5." He said, "You got it."

So every time I turn around, God's doing something else with that land. I'm building buildings and paying cash for them. I'm buying airplanes and paying cash for them. I'm upgrading my equipment and paying cash for it. How do you all? Because I refuse to accept defeat, amen. And what happened? God took me to another level. Maybe you want to go to another level, then refuse to accept defeat. Say it out loud: I refuse to accept defeat, amen. Give the Lord a good shout, praise God.

Jesus said in John chapter 8, verses 31 and 32, "If you continue in my word." Now, the Amplified says, "If you hold fast to my teachings." If you hold fast to my teachings, that's important. The very opposite of holding fast is letting go. Satan is out to steal the word, amen. Mark chapter 4 says it in the parable of the sower. Shows the word. Once the word is sown, Satan cometh immediately to steal the word. But that doesn't mean you have to allow him to do it. In fact, you've got an advantage. When, when, when you know that Satan is trying to steal the word from you in advance, then you have an advantage. You, you are not ignorant of his devices.

Many years ago, in 1970, it was Brother Copeland was preaching at the church that my wife grew up in, and I began going to after I surrendered my life to the Lord. I've shared a little bit about it last night. Brother Copeland came back to do another meeting, and now I'm a front-row Christian. I don't settle in the back looking for a way out. I'm on the front row. I can hardly wait for him to come. And, and, and, and I could hardly wait to hear what he had to say. And so one morning, while he was teaching from the parable of the sower, soweth the word, and shortly after he had read where Jesus said, "Satan cometh immediately to steal the word," I had two daughters, and they were both very young, and they were both in the nursery during that service. And while Brother Copeland is preaching and teaching on the subject of the sower soweth the word, suddenly we heard a scream from outside the auditorium. And the nurse, the attendant, came through the side door with my youngest daughter in her arms, and my daughter was screaming at the top of her voice, obviously in pain. I don't know what's happened to her, but there's blood all over the nursery attendant's dress, and blood on my daughter. And I still don't know what has happened. And she said, "Brother Jerry, Brother Jerry." I stood up to go take my daughter. And I still don't know what's happened, but she's still crying, obviously in pain. And I turned to see what Brother Copeland would do. It's one thing to preach faith, it's something else to live it. He taught me faith. I turned to see how he would react. And I'll be honest with you, if he would have reacted any other way than the way he did, it probably would have affected my life in a very negative way. But I turned to see what he would do.

Now, back in those days, he wore a lavalier microphone around his neck, and it had a cord that was attached to an amplifier, you know. And so he could just go so far. He could just walk so far as long as that cord was. And he took the mic off and he walked down to where I was, and he laid his hands on my daughter, who was still crying in pain, and he said, in about this tone of voice, "I command the bleeding to stop and the pain cease." And Terry stopped crying immediately. She laid her head on my shoulder and closed her eyes. And then he went back to the platform and said to the audience, "Now listen to me, I'm not through preaching." And he took up where he left off.

I walked out of the auditorium and went into the men's restroom, the men's toilet area, to try to find out what happened to my daughter. I'm watching the blood off her hands and found out they, these two fingers right here, had been cut off at the first joint. I could see the nail root. I could see the nerve. This baby is less than 13 months old. And of course, being a loving father, when I saw what had happened to my daughter, I felt fear trying to rise. But I just read a scripture that morning before going to church from Jude 20, "Praying in the Holy Ghost, building up your most holy faith." If there's anything I needed right then was some holy faith. How do you do it? So I just started praying in the Holy Ghost, and faith, faith came, and fear left. And then I wrote in my Bible. You know, Copeland had sent me one of his own personal study Bibles, and I had it with me when I went into that restroom. I laid it on the shelf there by the sink, and I wrote in it, "My God will restore my baby's fingers according to Mark 11:23." I'm saying it, I believe it in my heart, and I could have what I say. And I put the date on it, and I signed it.

In a few moments, the nursery attendant knocked on the door and said, "Brother Jerry, can I come in?" I said, "Yes." She came in, and she said, "I didn't know what to do with these." And she had my daughter's fingertips in the palm of her hand. Little tiny fingers with little tiny nails. And she put them in my hand. Now, I don't know how you feel about your children, but at that moment, I'd rather somebody cut my arm off than see what was in the palm of my hand, my baby's fingers. And that fear tried to come up again, but I prayed in the Holy Ghost, and fear subsided, and faith came. How do you do? Well, this is not the time to run from God. It's not time to run to the word. On you, Brother Copeland was still preaching. So I took her back in the auditorium, sat there with me. She was just as quiet as she could be. In fact, she fell asleep on my shoulder. I listened to the rest of Brother Copeland's message. He walked off the platform, came up to me, and said, "What do you believe?" "What are you believing?" I said, "My God will restore my baby's fingers." He said, "Then I set myself in agreement with you, and don't let anybody talk you out of it."

And so we decided that we needed to go to the doctor to have them properly dressed, because you can't leave them exposed like that. So when we went to the doctor, they called in one of the top plastic surgeons in the state of Louisiana at that time. His name was Dr. Simon Wall. He was a man from Asia. And when I walked in his office, I couldn't help but notice his Buddha statues. And so, but they said he was the best. So he examined my daughter's fingers. I gave him the fingertips, assuming that he might be able to reattach them. He said, "I can't do anything with these. The tissue's dead. The nerve is dead." And I watched that doctor take my baby's fingertips and throw them in the trash. Now, I was saved, I spilled what the Holy Ghost, but I wasn't sanctified. I almost slept him. And he said to me, I said, "When did you do that?" He said, "It's impossible to reattach them." He said, "All I can do for your daughter is take some skin from her hip and do a skin graft. They'll never be normal. They'll never have nails." I said, "No, sir. I don't accept that." Say, "I'm not accepting defeat." I said, "I'm not accepting defeat." I said, "I'm not accepting defeat." I said, "I don't accept that, sir." I said, "My God will restore my baby's fingers." He said, "It's impossible. It's medically impossible." I said, "I'm not talking about what medical science can do. I'm talking about what else, shadow, I can do." Amen.

Now, here's God couldn't do things like that. So I understand where he's coming from. I understand his medical background. You know, the guy's not just trying to deceive me. He knows what he's doing. But I said, "No, you do what you can do, and then God will take it from there." He walked over to my wife and he said, "Your husband's in shock. He's not accepting the truth." I said, "No, sir, you're wrong. I am accepting the truth. I accept the Word of God. It's a higher form of reality than what you're saying." And my wife said, "No, sir, we believe that our God will restore our baby's fingers." Well, he thought we both had lost our minds. So I just said, "Go do what you can do, and God will take care of the rest." And so he did a skin graft. Took her to the room. Told my wife, "Just keep her overnight." I told my wife, I said, "Brother Cobras got one more service tonight. I'm going to hear him. And as soon as he gets through, I'll come right back to the hospital and I'll preach to you what I heard him preach so our faith will be on the same level." Hallelujah, amen.

So as soon as he got through preaching, I went back to the hospital. I preached it just like I did my best to preach it, just like he did. And we both were in the same level of faith. We took her home the next morning. And the doctor said, "Before we left, bring her back in six weeks." And so we got her home. And the next night, the next day, I'm sorry, the day before the six weeks appointment was to take place, we received a little card in the mail from Kenneth Hagin Ministries stating that Kenneth Hagin was going to be in Tyler, Texas for one night. And Tyler, Texas was about a hundred miles from our home. I had never heard Kenneth Hagin before. I'd only heard Brother Copeland referred to him and talked about how he learned so much about faith from Kenneth Hagin. I told my wife, and I still don't know to this day how that card got in our mailbox. We certainly were not on Kenneth Hagin's mail mailing list. We didn't even know the man. But that card was in the mailbox. And I said, "Carolyn, we're going to Tyler, Texas. If Kenneth Copeland listens to Kenneth Hagin, then we're gonna listen to Kenneth Hagin." And so we drove to Tyler, Texas. And on the way there, we were confessing that we'd have a front-row seat. I wanted to, I wanted to see his eyeballs. I wanted to be as close to him as I possibly could get. When we got there, it's a little small hotel ballroom, didn't seat more than a hundred people. And a man met us at the door and said, "We're sorry, there's no more room, no more chairs, no more places to sit. The place is full." I will not accept defeat. And so we just stood there as he walked off. And I said, "Just pray in the spirit. We're here, and we're gonna hear it. Kenneth Hagin, God means for us to be here." And so little why he came back. He said, "Well, and, and we took one other person with us. There was three of us." He said, "Well, we just found three chairs that we didn't know we had." And said, "The only problem is, do you mind sitting in front of the front row? That's the only place we got to put up." We're sitting in front of the front row. And I'm this close to Kenneth Hagin. And I felt like he's preaching to me, and everybody else was just listening in. When Kenneth Hagin got through preaching faith to Jerry and Carolyn Savelle, we didn't even need an automobile to get home. We were higher than a Georgia pine tree. We just knew that we knew that we knew that we knew the next morning when we took her to that doctor, we were going to witness a miracle.

And so when we took her to Dr. Simon Wall the next morning, and he cut the bandages off, he lifted his hands and he screamed, "My God!"

I said, "I said, what is it, Doc?" He said, "Look, the nails are back. The fingers are normal. This is a miracle." And then I said to him, "Not your God, my God. Hallelujah. My God." Glory to God. Now, if I had accepted what the doctor said, my daughter would be missing two fingers today. In fact, every once in a while over the years, when the devil tried to tell me something was impossible, I'd go to my daughter and I said, "Terry, may I borrow your fingers?" And I'd hold them up and I'd say, "What do you say, devil? Look at this. You said this was impossible." Don't run off. I just chased him around the house with her fingers. How do you do? Hallelujah. Don't ever accept defeat. Defeat is never inevitable. I like to say it this way: God will never say it's over until you win, amen. It's never over until God says it's over. But God will never say it's over until you win. So make the decision that quitting, giving up, is no longer an option in your life. And you say, Amen. Give the Lord a good shout of praise, hallelujah.

So Jesus said, "Hold fast to my teachings. Hold fast to my teachings. Don't allow Satan to talk you into giving up." You remember the story in Numbers chapter 13 where Moses had sent out the spies to look at the land, and they came back with a defeat mentality? 10 out of 12 of them did. They said, "There are giants in the land, and we are but as grasshoppers in their sight." Now, where did they give up with that? They didn't get that close to them. In fact, they were afraid of them and they ran off. How do they know what they're thinking? No, they had a defeat mentality. "We're but grasshoppers in their sight." They didn't have to accept defeat. In fact, Joshua and Caleb didn't. They had a different spirit, amen. Look at your neighbor, say, "I have a different spirit." Never, never, never accept defeat, because defeat is never inevitable.

Now, the Apostle Paul made this statement. Is in telling a story of something that happened to him, and it's found in 2nd Corinthians chapter 1, verses 8 through 10. And for the sake of time, I'm not going to read the King James. I'm just going to read the Message translation. He said, "We don't want you to be in the dark, friends, about how hard it was when all this came down on us in Asia province. It was so bad, we didn't think we were going to make it. We felt like we had been sent to death row. That is, that it was all over for us. As it turned out, it was the best thing that could have happened to us. Instead of trusting in our own strength or in our own wits to get us out of this, we were forced to trust God totally. And he did it. He rescued us from certain doom, and he'll do it again, rescuing us as many times as we need rescuing." And the King James, it says, "We were pressed out of measure above strength, in so much that we despaired even of life." Sounds pretty bad, doesn't it? It sounds like this is quite an ordeal. In fact, Paul said that it looked like the only way this could possibly end up was it would cost us our lives. But they decided instead of giving up, trust God. Look at your neighbor, say, "Instead of giving up, trust God." In other words, this situation became beyond his ability, beyond his strength, beyond his, his personal ability to overcome it. But he decided that since God has delivered me in the past, oh, why wouldn't he do it again? And he decided to trust God. And God came through for him. And he said, "And as long as I continued to trust God, he will always come through for me." Amen. So he would not accept defeat. In fact, he didn't give up. He didn't quit. And instead, he fought a good fight of faith and came out the winner, praise God. He was fully persuaded that if God has delivered him before, he could and would do it again.

Now, if you study the life of Paul, more than once Paul faced death, but he would never accept defeat. One of the stories is found in Acts chapter 14. He was in Lystra, and he was taken out of the city and stoned and left for dead. Stoned and left for dead. But he still wouldn't give up. In fact, he got up, brushed himself off. He must have been quite a sight. You know, these people were famous for stoning, amen. They didn't miss. They left him for dead. Some of his followers were standing around looking at him, laying on that dusty road, thinking, "What do we do now? The greatest person in Christianity has just been stoned. Where do we go from here?" While they're pondering, "What do we do next?" he got up, brushed himself off, and said, "Let's go right back in that same city and keep on preaching." How to do? Amen. He would not accept defeat. Look at your neighbor, say, "I will not accept defeat."

That's not the only time he faced death. In his letter to the church in Philippi, at the time he wrote that letter, he was in prison, facing death in the natural. There was no way of ever being released from that prison. But he said this in verse 19 of chapter 1, "I know this will turn to my salvation." I know this will turn to my salvation. In fact, when the jailer came in and, and said, "Paul, we're going to kill you." His attitude was, "Do me a favor. For me to die is gain." To live is Christ. But then he said, "I know this will turn to my salvation." In other words, he did not expect to be defeated. He would not accept defeat. And he later wrote to those same believers in Philippi and said, "I have decided to be with you to help you in the furtherance of your faith." Amen. He would not accept defeat. And he was released and kept preaching the gospel. And they couldn't kill him until he said these famous words, "I have finished my course. I have kept the faith." Amen. Notice, they couldn't kill him until he was satisfied that he had finished his course. He would not accept defeat.

If we're going to the next level, then we have to determine that defeat is not an option. Quitting is not an option. Failure is not an option. And you say, Amen. Let me close it with this real quickly. About two years ago, I went to have a physical, and they discovered, and I'd had no symptoms, I had no idea anything was wrong with me. I've enjoyed good health all these years. And they discovered that the main artery in my neck, where blood flows from the heart to the brain, was 90% blocked. And they said, "This could cause an aneurysm and other things as well." And I said, "We recommend that you go in, and we will just remove the plaque buildup. You'll be in the hospital overnight, maybe the next day, then you can go home, rest a couple of weeks, and then get back to doing what you normally do." So we went in to have the plaque removed. While I was in surgery, they discovered that some of the plaque broke off and went to my brain and caused a full-blown stroke. I was not even aware of what had happened to me for a couple of days. And when I finally awakened, I had lost total use of my right arm, mostly my right leg. At the worst part of all, total memory loss. I didn't even know my family. I didn't know my wife. I didn't know my children. My wife said, "Brother Copeland came and prayed over me." I hardly remember him being there. She said, "Jesse Duplantis came and prayed over me." I hardly remember them being there. The only word I could say in English was, "Yes." "Yeah." "Whatever they ask me, yes." I was just like a vegetable. And the doctor told my wife, "He will never walk normal again. He'll never be normal again. He'll never preach again. He'll never travel again. And you're gonna have to accept this." She said, "Sir, you don't know our God, and you don't know my husband. He will not accept defeat." Amen.

And so they kept me in the hospital several days. And, and by the time they released me, I still hadn't recovered. I had to hold my arm up on my chest. If I let go of it, it was dead weight. It just followed the side. I walked like this. If I could walk it off. And I still can't remember anything. Not a sermon ever preached, not a verse ever studied. I don't remember close friends, what their names are. And they let me go home. And even though I couldn't communicate, in my mind, I'm thinking, "If they let me go home and be in my own environment, my recovery will be immediate. I'm not going to accept defeat. I'm not finished with my course. I'm not going to live like this for the rest of my life."

And so I had a granddaughter that was working with me. And one morning, after I had been home for a day or two, I pointed to my garage out back of my house where I have classic cars and classic motorcycles that that used to be what I did before I went into the ministry, restore classic cars and so forth. And I have a collection of them. And I pointed to her that I wanted to go to the garage. My wife says, "Quit calling it a garage, it's a museum." And so I finally got her to understand what I wanted to do. She went and got my keys and helped me walk out to the shop like this. Once again, if I dropped, if I let go of this arm, it was dead weight. I'm just walking like this. She unlocked the door, turned the lights on, turned the alarm off. And I walked over to my oldest motorcycle, it's a 1942 Harley Davidson. It actually saw duty in World War II. And I wanted to start it, but I can't remember how to start it. But I prayed in the Holy Spirit, prayed in tongues, and the Lord reminded me how to start that motorcycle. And I got it started. And I started every motorcycle in that shop. Then I went to my classic cars, and I started every car in that shop. I left all of them running. The smell of fumes was exhilarating. And then I cut everything off and started back outside. And when I got, when we closed the door, I said, "Rachel, give me the keys." And she gave me the keys. And then she said, "Papa, did you see what you just did?" I said, "What?" She said, "You did it with your right hand." God totally restored my arm. God totally restored my leg. And then all my memory came back. And in three weeks, I was preaching around the world on three different continents. I mean, oh yeah. Hey, man. Do I look like a man who had a full-blown stroke and would never preach again? And God is no respecter of persons. He wants to take you to the next level. Don't accept defeat. Give the Lord your best shout today. I lift up those two hands and celebrate His faithful God. You're on your way to your next level, the challenges around you notwithstanding. Lift up those two hands, everybody. Give God thanks and praise for that great, great transformation. Give Him praise. Give Him praise. Every testimony, say, "Point out to your heritage." Give God thanks and praise. Give Him glory. Give Him glory. Give Him glory. I refuse to accept defeat. I am born to win. I'm born to become the world. Come on, I began to profess that. Profess it before the Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Amen.

We'll do. Ask Jesus, or speak to me one more time this morning as this third word is coming. This, come on now, lift up your two hands. Ask Him. I want to hear from you, Jesus. I want to hear from you again. And the word of the Lord came to me a second time. I want to hear from you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. In Jesus' precious name.