Faith Gives Substance To What You Hope For | Andrew Wommack | For His Kingdom Conference 2025

Stand and give the Lord a shout and give Him a welcome to our pulpit. Amen.

Thank you, man. You're a blessing.

I love you, brother. I love you.

Praise God. Well, thank you very much. Praise the Lord. Amen. Thank you. Thank you. You can be seated. Praise the Lord. Man, I had a great time last night. I hope you did. Those of you that were here, do we have people here tonight that weren't here last night? Could you raise your hand?

Well, quite a few. Praise God. Let me just say again for those of you that didn't hear that I'm just honored to be here with Mac and Lynn. I'm impressed with them. And the closer you get to them, the better they look. That doesn't happen to everybody. Sometimes when you get behind the scenes, you think, "Oh, Jesus, let me see their anointing again." But um I tell you, Mac and Carrie, Mac and Lynn are the real deal. And I just really appreciate them and appreciate being a part of what they're doing. And I am a partner of what they're doing around the world. And so it's an honor for me to be here and to be a part of this. And and uh it's just awesome.

Let me mention real quickly that this is Mike and Carrie Picket with me. I I called their name last night, but you guys stand up. This is Mike and Carrie Picket. And I first met Carrie when she was 10 years old. I was ministering in her home church. And then she came to Caris Bible College and graduated and went to Russia and she ran our offices and ministry in Russia for 16 years. And uh Mike was a missionary over in Russia. So they met in Russia and then they've been back with us for 10 years. And they're the ones that are going to be taking over the ministry as Jamie and I get promoted to glory and uh so anyway, it's a blessing to have them around and they they just do so much and um praise God for them.

Also, we got Joanie Decker here someplace. Where's Joanie? Stand up, Joanie. And Joanie is the one that runs our local Caris Bible College that we have here. And uh it's been going for a number of years. And they have a booth out here that I would encourage you to go check it out. We have uh a lot of things. You can come local, you can do it online, you can do it by correspondence. And so uh she's got all the information out there if you're interested in our Bible college. And uh it would be a real blessing to you.

We've also got all of my materials out here. And last night I started talking about imagination and I have a book on imagination, the power of imagination. And I asked Mike to go out there and get one and bring it in. And they're all gone. But you can go to our website or you can call. We have a 24-hour uh 7-day a week uh phone center and you can call and receive all of our material. And I'd really encourage you to get that.

So let me just real quickly just summarize some things. Last night I was talking out of Isaiah 26:3 where it says, "The Lord will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed upon him because he trusteth in him." And the word mind there is the Hebrew word yeter and the only definition of it is conception in parentheses purpose. So when it's saying that he will keep you in perfect peace whose mind is stayed upon him, this isn't just thinking about your thoughts, not random thoughts. And uh again, this is the reason I'd love for people to get the book because I go into a lot of detail. I don't want to take the time to do that.

But some people think on a surface level. Did you know in the New Testament a word that is used for imagination like in Luke chapter 1 verse 51? It says the Lord will, this was uh Zechariah prophesying and he said that the Lord will scatter the proud in the imagination of their heart. The word for imagination there is the Greek word dianoia and it means deep thought, which is the definition of it. So some people when they read Isaiah 26:3, "The Lord will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed upon him," they just think about, "I've just got to think about the Lord." But you got to go deeper than just thinking. It has to be a deep thought to where those thoughts paint a picture on the inside of you. That's what your imagination is, is your ability to see something with your heart that you can't see with your eyes. And last night I used a lot of examples on this. You use an imagination constantly. You can't function without an imagination. But most people don't realize it. But you have an imagination. And if you don't use it properly, it'll actually work against you. And I'm going to, if I can talk quick quickly enough, I'm going to try and get over to some scriptures that will show you that that your imagination uh is an area that uh it leads to a hardened heart, uh a blind heart if you don't use it properly.

And so anyway, that's what we were talking about, imagination. I used a lot of scriptures. Uh, one of them out of Genesis chapter 11 is where the Lord says, "Now nothing that they have imagined will be refrained from them." And so the imagination of men even challenged God and God divided our languages so that we wouldn't be united for evil. Nimrod was putting together a kingdom and they were united for evil. And so the Lord was even challenged by the imagination of man. Anything that challenges God, anything that he saw was so detrimental to him that he had to divide our languages shows you how powerful it is. And I could just go on and on.

So anyway, this is last night is what I talked about that your imagination is where you conceive things. Children don't come by the stork. You have to conceive a child. Miracles don't come by prayer. Now, I'm not against prayer. Lynn was teaching on prayer. I agree with all of that. Prayer is like water. And all of this, it's powerful. But conception takes place in your imagination. And even more specifically, in 1 Peter chapter 1, verse 23, it says, "Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible by the word of God that lives and abides forever." The word of God is the sperm of God. That's right.

Man, I wish I had time to teach on this. I had a teaching entitled "The Word Became Flesh." It's probably out there and you could go get it. But did you know that the birth of Jesus was 100% natural in every single way except that a man didn't provide the seed. God's word was the seed. Mary says, "How's this going to happen?" And and the angel said that the Holy Spirit will come upon you and the thing that'll be conceived in you will be of the Holy Spirit. And she said, "So be it unto me according to thy word." And when she received the word, that's an incorruptible seed, sperm, and the word of God was what conceived Jesus. That's the reason that it says in John chapter 1 that the word was made flesh and dwelt among us. "In the beginning was the word and the word was with God." Jesus is the incorruptible seed of God. And the virgin birth was 100% normal except the word was the seed instead of the sperm of a man.

So the way that you receive this conception is you take the word of God and as you meditate on the word and it comes alive to you, you conceive miracles. You don't just pray for them. Now again, prayer, I'm not diminishing prayer, but prayer, if you're, it's like water and ground. If you haven't planted a seed, you can water and fertilize the ground and nothing's going to grow. You got to have a seed planted. The word of God is the seed. And prayer is very, very important, but it is not a substitute for you not knowing the word. And there are so many people that are trying to get a miracle and asking God for a miracle, and yet they've never planted a seed. That's just as crazy as a person that would pray over this carpet and wonder why nothing's growing. It's because it's not fertile ground and you haven't planted a seed.

So, we have to conceive a miracle. So, anyway, I could go on and on just talking about how important your imagination is. But here's a point I want to bring up. And after I saw these truths about your imagination and I began to understand this, one of the questions I had was, if your imagination is this powerful, why is it always spoken of negatively? You know, last night I mentioned that there's 38 times the word imagination or imaginations is used in the Bible and there's only one positive time. I read that verse last night out of 1 Chronicles chapter 29 and it says David was praying and said, "Oh Lord, keep this forever in the imagination of the thoughts of their heart continually and prepare their heart unto you." And that that was talking about God, help them to remember this miraculous thing that he saw. That's the only positive uh use of that word that I can see in scripture. And so I thought, if this, if imagination is that important, well then why isn't it spoken of in a positive way?

And then one day, let me turn over and read this to you out of Romans chapter 8. And again, let me just define that your imagination is the ability to see something with your heart that you can't see with your eyes. If you can see it with your eyes, you don't have to imagine it. You only imagine it if it's not present at this moment. And so I was reading here in Romans chapter 8 and in verse 24 it says, "For we are saved by hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For what a man seeth, why do he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it." And as I was meditating on these verses, I got to thinking, you know what? This is your imagination. When it's talking about that you hope that is seen is not hope. Did you know if you have, if you say "I'm hoping for something," you would never say that you're hoping for something that you already have. You only hope for things that are off in the future. Hope is always off in the future. As it says here, if you can see it, then it's not hope.

And anyway, as I put all these things together, here's what the Lord spoke to me. And I want to talk about this tonight is that hope is a positive imagination. Imagination, with one exception, is spoken of negatively, but hope is just a positive imagination. And then let me put this together with Hebrews chapter 11. And Pastor Mack uh played, if you weren't here this morning, he played a video where he was speaking in Spanish, but it had English subtitles under it. And this is what he was preaching on. And he made these points this morning. Hebrews 11:1 says, "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." You know, again, I'm not trying to discredit faith. Man, without faith, it's impossible to please God. Down here in verse six, faith is important, but faith only gives substance to something that is hoped for. So, the first step of faith is hope. And there's a lot of people that just try and skip all of these steps and they just try and get into faith. They hear somebody preach about what faith will do and so they're just trying to believe God, but you have never hoped. You have never used your imagination to paint an image on the inside of you as being victorious in whatever area that you're believing for. And so you first of all have to have hope.

You know, um, man, I just went blank. Oh, Charles Caps is who I'm thinking of. Charles Caps, did he ever preach here?

I'm sure he did. I knew that you'd be friends with him. But I heard Charles Caps one time give an illustration about a guy that came out of the back woods and he didn't have electricity or anything. He was just a real hick. And he came down into town like once every five years or something. And he came into a church service and he was in this church and it was beginning to get hot and he was beginning to fan himself and then an usher comes up and turns this little thing on the wall and within just a minute or so he could feel cool air blowing on him and he was so impressed with that he he couldn't wait for the service to get over and he went up to the usher after the meeting was over and he says, "What's that thing on the wall that you did?" And he said, "What are you talking about?" And he says, "You turn thing and I could feel cool air." And he says, "Well, that's a thermostat." And he says, "Where do you get a thermostat?" And he says, "Well, you can go to any hardware store and buy a thermostat." So this guy went to a hardware store, bought the thermostat, and went back to his little cabin in the mountains. And when it got hot, he went over there and turned it. And guess what? Nothing cool happened because the thermostat isn't the power unit. It but it controls the power unit. And he was using that illustration to say that hope is the thermostat for faith. Faith gives substance, tangibility to something that you have hoped for, which again, as the Lord was speaking to me, I believe hope is your positive imagination. And we've got so many scriptures about hope in the New Testament. And uh again, I could spend much more time than what I've got to be able to share that with you, but hope is so important. And most people try and skip this area. They're saying, you know, somebody will say something like, "Are you healed?" And they'll say, "Well, I hope so." And they'll say, "Don't hope." You need to believe. But you got to hope before you can believe. It's the first step. Faith gives substance to things that are hoped for. And if you don't have any hope in you, if the image you see, and I could spend more time on this, but did you know every one of you have an image of who you are and what you can do and what God can do through you? You may not have sat down and written it out and you might not be able to describe it to anybody. But if uh you know, like when Mac was talking tonight about the offering and and saying, you know, "Why aren't you believing to be a sugar daddy?" And some of you just immediately, "That's not me." You'll even talk about those rich people over there. You know, the moment you say that, you have just put yourself into a category that is not the rich people.

That's right. Thank you for that thunderous silence.

And there's, well, I don't want to be rich. Well, what's wrong with you? I've had people before say things like, "Well, man, I I don't have much, but I've got enough and God's taking care of me and so there's enough for me and and that's fine. That's all I want. And that I'm not greedy." You have totally misunderstood everything. The reason God blesses you is so that you can be a blessing. It's what it says in Genesis chapter 12. "I will bless you and make your name great and you shall be a blessing." You can't bless anybody if you're poor. And so a person who says, "Well, I've got enough and I wouldn't believe for anymore." That is a super greedy attitude. You think money is only for you. So as soon as you get you and your four, no more, who cares about the rest of the world? Let all of these churches that Mac and Lynn are believing for, let somebody else build them. I'm not going to do anything about it. I've got enough for me. That is super selfish.

I know many of you don't like what I'm saying, but it's absolutely true. If you think that money is for you, well, then you're the greedy one.

I guarantee you, Mac, you know, he he he's blessed me and he's been flying me around in his plane. I just love it. I haven't gotten to a place where I got a plane, but Mac's been flying me around. And you know what? There's people, I'm sure, that criticize him, but he couldn't do what he's doing if he didn't have that. And he's not using this plane for himself. He's using it to preach the gospel. But there are other people, you know, you should never criticize. You should never criticize a person's harvest until you see how much seed they've planted.

And one of the problems is that they criticize people like Mack and Lynn for all this prosperity and starting churches all over the world and spending all this money. And they criticize him because you're judging him by how much you plant. I had a friend who pastored a church and he um he lived in a super nice house, millions of dollars for his house and he liked fast cars. Matter of fact, Jamie and I were with him one time when they when they a truck drove up and unloaded a Corvette that had two ignitions on it. One for normal driving and one when you really want to go fast. And Jamie drove it. I didn't drive it, but Jamie drove it. And people criticized him about, "You're a pastor. You shouldn't have things like this." But did you know I was with him one time where I ministered for one service in his church, and I think he gave me $30,000 for one service. There was another minister there that he gave $20,000. He was a missionary. And the same weekend, a friend of mine was there and he gave him a 40 or $50,000 brand new car. He gave away hundreds of thousands of dollars in one day. And people criticized him. But you know what? I got to know him and his uh the amount of money he spent on his house or the total price for his house equaled to 14 months of his giving. How many of you would like to live in a house that equaled 14 months of your giving? That's the reason that God didn't say you give a certain amount. He gave a percentage. And when you criticize somebody who lives in a nice house and got nice cars and things like this, but you don't know how much they've given. This guy wound up buying 12 cars for me over like I don't know, 15 or 20 years. He gave away millions and millions and millions of dollars. The man was a super giver. And I guarantee you if you give like that, the Bible says over in 2 Corinthians chapter 9, verse 10, "God gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater." God gives money. It's talking about money if you read it in context. He gives money to people who will sow it. If you are short of money, God doesn't see you as a giver. If he saw you as a giver, he would give you money. But if you're going to build a dam and everything that comes your way, you're going to get it so that you can get a bigger house, a bigger car, more stuff for yourself instead of letting it flow through, it will actually hinder the flow to you.

I'm getting way off of where I meant to go, but Max's enjoying it. But you know what? You see people, you have an image of yourself. And there are some of you that see yourself as poor. And you'll talk about, you know, you'll tell your kids, "Well, we aren't rich." The truth is, we're all rich.

Amen.

This is one of the reasons that in our school, we make people go on a foreign missions trip. Because I've taken our students before to a dump in uh Mexico where we saw people that were 40 years old who were born in a city dump in a cardboard box and they're 40 years old and they're still living in a cardboard box. Have never gotten off the dump in their life. And I guarantee you there's not a person in here that is more prosperous than that. I've heard a stat that if you have $10 disposable income, you are richer than 90% of the world's population. Anybody in here who's thinking, "Well, I don't have much. I'm on welfare. I only get $2,000 a month." Most people on the planet would kill to have what you have.

There are some of you that are griping because you got a vehicle, but it's just not the newest. It doesn't smell new. Did you know you can go buy that new car smell and spray it in your car? But there are some of you that you just see yourself poor. You talk poor. You know, I went out to eat. I I mean, uh, Doug Nice, you probably know Doug. Doug, he's now gone to be with the Lord, but he was my media buyer. And Doug Nie took me to the Broadmoor one time to go golfing. And it's the nicest course that I've ever played on. I've played on St. Andrew's course in Scotland and all over the world, but this was a nice course. And anyway, it was so nice that you had to have a caddy. I wasn't used to going places where you had a caddy. And so after we were through, the caddies were cleaning the clubs and they were waiting on us to tip them. And so I opened up my wallet and all I had was a $20 bill. So I leaned over to Doug and I said, "Doug, if you got change for a 20?" And Doug, he was nice. He just looked at me and he said, "I'll take care of it." And he went around and gave everyone all four of the caddies a 20. And it made me feel about that big, like you cheap thing. And you know, it wasn't long after that that I played at another golf club down in Phoenix, and it was a fancy golf place again. And one of the pastors, I was playing with three pastors and one of them says, "You got change for a 20?" And I just said, "Let me handle it." And I went around and I gave them all a 20. But you know what? I was just raised to think poor. I was raised to just pinch pennies and stuff. We had a woman that actually went through the depression and she was a part of our school for a while. And this woman would drive all the way across town, spend an extra 20 or 30 minutes and to save 30 cents on a coupon to get triple coupons. She would spend $5 on gas to go save a dollar. That doesn't make sense. You know what that is? That's uh imagination. She saw herself poor. She took every jelly jar that she had and she would scrape it out and put water in there and get the juice and stuff. She took all of the soap and when the soap uh was running down and you couldn't use it, she would save them and then melt them together to make another bar of soap. And I'm not saying that that stuff is bad, but it shows you that she had an image. She saw herself poor. She thought poor. She talked poor.

And as you think in your heart, that's the way that you are. And I believe it's in this imagination. You've got an image of yourself, who you are, and what you can do. The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 8:9 that "Jesus became poor so that we through his poverty might be made rich." And some people will say, "Well, that's not talking about money. That's talking about rich emotionally and relationships." If you take every verse in 2 Corinthians chapter 8 and chapter 9, every single verse in those two chapters is talking about money. For you to take that verse 2 Corinthians 8:9 out of its context and try and say that's not talking about money, that's not right. When you take a text out of its context, all you got left is a con. And this is wrong. Jesus died to make you rich.

That's right.

Rich.

That's right.

And I know, did you know if I was in a secular venue right now, there's not a person that would disagree with this. They'd all be excited like, "Man, this is awesome." But you say this to religious people, and I can guarantee there's people in here that hate me for what I'm saying. And you think that this is a some kind of apostasy what I'm saying. And yet I'm quoting scripture to you. You go study it out. 2 Corinthians 8:9. He died to make you rich. If you aren't rich, you aren't taking advantage of what God has given you.

Now, rich is somewhat of a relative term. And I'm not saying he wants everybody to live in a 20,000 square foot home. You know, Jesse Delanis is coming and I think he lives in a bigger than 20,000 square. I don't know. And there's nothing wrong with that. If that's what he wants, that's fine. But I can guarantee you, Jesse gives away a lot more. Matter of fact, he's the one that gave Mack the plane and he's given away a lot of stuff. Jesse has given away more than he's ever kept. God doesn't care what you have. He doesn't look at what you have. He looks at what you've given.

And there are some of you that would never live and drive a fancy car, live in a fancy house, but you keep more than people like Jesse and Mac and myself and other people. Man, we give away, you know, I have given away over a hundred million books, CDs, DVDs. We give away over a million downloads per month. We give away our materials and stuff. I have given away tens of millions of dollars worth of materials and stuff and yet people will criticize me. You don't criticize a person's harvest until you see how much seed they put in the ground.

That's right.

So anyway, I got kind of that I'm going to blame that on the Holy Spirit cuz there's some of you in here that have an image. You see yourself poor. You see yourself as "I'm just I'm just a single person. I'm an older person. I'm on um, you know, on um Social Security." If your faith isn't bigger than Social Security, I'm not sure you're saved. Social Security, man. And there's some people that just they have a mind. I'm not against you. I you know, this is the reason that I don't pastor a church. Nobody would come. I blow in, blow up, blow out, and Mac and Lynn have to handle all of the stuff. And they'll fix this after I'm gone. Okay? I'm not against you. But I'm saying that, man, anybody who can't believe for more money than what Social Security would give you, something is seriously wrong with you.

Hallelujah. You got access to all of the riches of heaven. "My God shall supply all of your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus." And you're sitting there pinching pennies and talking of poor. And man, if the gas goes up, you don't know what you're going to do. If the tariffs cause things to increase a dime over something, you're ringing your hands about it. Mercy. What's wrong with you? You know, I I'm not going to pay any more for gas than I've got to, but I don't care if gas goes to $10 a gallon. I got it. I'm going to have it. I'm going to have my needs. Whatever happens, my needs are not supplied according to this world system. And if you're one that's ringing your hands, it's cuz you see yourself as a poor little person and you only have so much. You see, God is just giving you a limited amount. God has given you as much as you can believe for. You could be as rich and you could be as influential as you want to be if you do it not for selfish reasons. The love of money is the root of all evil.

1 Timothy chapter 6:10, "the love of money, not money, the love of money is the root of all evil." And there are people that don't have very much money, but boy, you love it and you hold on to it. When it comes time for the offering, you aren't going to put anything in there because you love money. There are poor people that love money. There's poor people that spend more time talking about money than they do anything else. And their whole life revolves around money and thinking about things. Man, God doesn't care how much money you have if you let it flow through you. If you don't dam it up and just keep it for yourself, if you let the money flow through, it's one hand to receive and one hand to give. And as the money flows through, there's plenty for you. You need to be like a hose that just lets the money of God flow through you. And and did you know the inside of the hose gets wet when the water flows through it?

You can't help but prosper.

That's right.

I'm really trying to get on to some other stuff. But this is

You need to hear this stuff.

And did you know when a preacher preaches this, everybody's thinking, "Well, he's in this. He's trying to get my money." I'm not getting your money. They've already taken the offering. I'm not saying this for any reason other than it's the truth and it illustrates how there is poverty thinking. There is a poverty image.

And brothers and sisters, I'm saying this in love, but God did not put this on my heart to say these things to all of the people who didn't come tonight. This is for people that are right here. There are some of you right in this auditorium that you just resent everything I'm saying and that God loves you and I love you, but it indicates how you've got a wrong image of yourself. Did you know when Jesus was born, a man named Peter Daniels commissioned some people to evaluate how much the gold, frankincense, and myrrh that were brought to Jesus was. And after studying this, they came back and said it was an absolute fortune. You know what it was? God asked Joseph and Mary to bear his son and to raise him. And Jesus didn't expect them to do it out of their own pocket. He gave them a fortune that more than paid for the upbringing of Jesus and provided for them and met all of their needs. God is El Shadai, not Elchipo. Amen. That's right.

And God supplied their needs with an abundance. The scripture says 2 Corinthians chapter 9, verse 8, that "God is able to make all grace abound towards us so that we always and in the Greek that word means always having all sufficiency in all things may abound unto every good work." Mac and Lynn are doing things here. there. Man, I was so blessed today to hear of the tens of thousands of people that have been born again through the ministry of this church. Did you know there's not very many churches in the United States that see a thousand people in an entire history of the church born again? And they got tens of thousands. Man, it's awesome what they're doing. They're building these churches all around the world. And God has brought you to this church and had you connect with this church. And you know what? God's not going to give Mack and Lynn all of this money personally. It's this body that's going to be doing it.

God brought you here and he said he's able to make all grace abound towards you so that you always having all sufficiency in all things may abound unto every good work. This is a good work that's going on here. And some of you aren't abounding. Some of you aren't being the partner that you need to be. I'm not saying that to condemn you. Mac and Lynn love you. They did not tell me to say this. Amen. Don't you come back and gripe at them for what I'm saying. But Mac and Lynn have a vision. And God brought you to this church, not just to sit there as a sponge and receive and soak it all up, but also to bless you so that you can be a blessing. So that you could hear these truths so that you could begin to prosper.

Amen.

Every person in here should prosper. And you ought to be able to build hundreds and hundreds of churches before that money comes to Mac and Lynn. It's going to come to you.

You You know, if you want to prosper, you know what you need to do is find a ministry that needs a lot of money and say, "I want to be a partner with you." Because before it goes to them, it'll have to come to you first. You know, Jaime and I had a woman that was in one of our Bible studies. And this woman was so poor that Jaime and I had to give her food every once in a while. She had either two or three kids and her husband was working at a Dairy Queen and they were just struggling and we were struggling too. And there's times that she gave to us. So, it was a mutual thing. But anyway, I got to teaching these things and she was just a housewife. And she got to praying one day and she says, "Father, how could I ever be rich?" Cuz she had nothing. She didn't even work outside of the home. And she says, "How could I ever prosper?" And so she was making some clay one day for her kids to play with. And she didn't like the clay that you bought in the store because it was toxic and it would stick to the carpet and it would do things. And so she came up with her own formula that wouldn't stick to anything except the clay. It was you could you could eat it if you wanted to. And as she was cooking this clay and saying, "God, what could I ever do that could ever make me some money?" God says, "Why don't you take this clay and roll them into little cylinders, put them in a a baggie and take them to these play days, to these craft fairs, and start selling them." And did you know within a year that woman had 80 people working for her? She became a millionaire. And then she went on Shark Tank and she took a um what do you call it? A skateboard. She took a skateboard, took the wheels off and put a bubble on the bottom of it and you stand on it and she did this as exercise. And she won that thing. And she told us that someday she believes her royalty check off of that could be as much as a billion dollars. Came from having nothing. and she just took the stuff that she had. There is no shortage of money. Every person in here could begin to prosper if you would change the image that's on the inside of you and quit seeing yourself as a taker and always going around dropping hints wanting somebody to give something to you and instead you started thinking, "God, I want to be a blessing and in order to be the blessing that I want to be in order to help Mac and Lynn and all the things, God, I need to prosper. I want to prosper because I want to build your kingdom." Yes.

If you would start thinking that way, God would show you and you could take these scriptures that I've talked about and you could see supernatural blessing come.

Amen.

Every person in here can do that. Somebody says, "Well, I I don't have an education. I'm a college dropout. First semester college dropout." And did you know that we have to have around $9 million a month for me to just pay my basic bills? I have to have, I don't even know how much it is, but thousands of dollars per hour, 24 hours a day. I now think this way. When I have to drive across town and it's going to take me an hour, I sit here and think, "Is it worth $25,000, $2,500 for me to go do this?" That's what my time's worth. I know some of you think I'm weird, but I think you're weird. I think you're weird to sit there and think small when God Almighty lives on the inside of you and you got all this power and you're sitting there just wondering about, "Oh, God, could I do this?" And you're you're thinking so small, man. The Lord said, "Prove me. Try me. See if it doesn't work. See if I won't open up the windows of heaven." Don't you think the windows of heaven is enough to help you get over your little problem? Somebody might be thinking, "Well, I live in a foreign country and it doesn't work." He said he'd supply your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. This is doesn't just work for Americans. I've had people say, "Well, that's an American gospel. You can't preach that in a foreign country." Well, I have and I've seen it work in foreign countries. I've seen people in foreign countries have the best hut in the whole uh, you know, village. And whereas most people only have one chicken, they'll have a dozen chickens and they'll have two or three pigs and they'll be more prosperous than anybody else. To some degree, this is relative. I admit to what your need is, but I guarantee you, you should you should be um a blessing. I was just studying in Isaiah chapter 26. I'm going to forget everything else. I'm apparently stuck right here. Amen. But I was reading in is in Genesis chapter 26 about um Isaac going out and sewing in a year of famine and reaping a hundredfold return. And he was so prosperous that Abimelech the king came out and said, "Leave us. You are more prosperous than all of us." And he was he was more prosperous than the entire city all put together. Did you know that they've done that in the city that I live in? They are actually threatening to deannex us and kick us out of the city because my income, we have to have just in the US, this doesn't include, you know, uh overseas, about $40 million overseas, but in the US, we have to have somewhere around 110 to $120 million a year to pay. And the whole city budget is only $20 million a year. They came and we're going to keep me from doing something and and it was totally illegal. It was a bribe. They said, "If you'll give me $7.8 million, we'll remove all the restrictions." And I said, "You're crooks." I said, "That's extortion." And they had a vote coming up on August the 4th. I think this was 2022 or 2023. And I said, "We've already got a lawsuit filled out. We It's all done. All we got to do is push a button. And if you turn me down on August the 4th, I'm going to sue you for everything you've got and break the city." And they were seven to two against us. And after I told them that, they went to their lawyer and their lawyer says, "You have not got the right to do this to him." And they told him, he says, "He will win." And so they voted seven to two for me.

Amen. Did you know I couldn't do that if I didn't have any money? And if we were just barely getting by and I'd have to go, "Please, could you help me?" Did you know Trump, what he, we are the largest economy in the world. Uh, China is the second largest economy and they are like one-tenth as big as we are and yet they are the second largest economy in the world. If you put all of the EU together, I think together they might be a little bit bigger than China. But we are just we are this 100-pound gorilla compared to the rest of the world. And all of our presidents have been going around and acting like we have no power. Trump is using the prosperity of this nation. He has settled seven wars in six months. Seven wars. And I was just listening this afternoon and he's meeting with Putin tomorrow about the Ukraine war. And if Putin doesn't cooperate, he is going to start putting, he's already put a tariff on uh, what is it? North Korea, India. He's already put a tariff on India buying oil from the Russians. And if the Russians don't uh cooperate, he's threatening to put another 25% tariff on everything coming from China, which will basically cut off all of Russia's income from that. And he's using prosperity to bring Russia to the bargaining table. I guarantee you Putin doesn't want to give up anything. He wants to reconstitute the USSR, the Soviet Union. But Trump is using, we are blessed. And and previous presidents are going around like we're a beggar and just, "Would you please not do this?" And man, I love the way Trump's doing.

Here's my Trump watch. It's autographed and on the back it's got a picture of him going, "Fight, fight." I love it. I know some of you disagree with that and you're entitled to your opinion, but I'm not going to agree with you or we'd both be wrong. [Applause]

Anyway, the point I'm making is that in order for you to have influence, in order, you know, Mac was talking about this to the pastors today about that God wants you to be an influence. He wants you to make a difference. Not to just have a little place where people can come and lick their wounds, but where you can go out and make a difference in your community. You can't do it if you're poor.

We give away millions and millions and millions of dollars. Millions of dollars. I couldn't do that if I didn't have any money. I've got all kinds of widows that I support on a monthly basis. I'm doing things that I didn't I couldn't do if I didn't have money. And there are some of you that you can't abound to every good work because you don't have any money. That is not God's will for you. And this poverty mentality, this poverty image that you see on the inside, you're praying for money. You're asking God to bless you, but your faith can't give substance if you see yourself poor. Your, let me say it this way, your faith is bringing to pass what you see. The Bible says in Proverbs 23:7, "As a man thinks in his heart, so is he."

Did you know your life is right now the way you think it it is? It may not be the way you want it to be. It may not be the way you've been praying for it to be, but your life is the way you see it being.

That's right.

Some of you think, "Oh, no. I see it differently, but this is the way it is." No. The Bible says, "As a man thinks in his heart, so is he." Your life is the way you see it being. Somebody says, "Well, I didn't see myself being sick." You may not have sat there and thought, "I want cancer." But you you were thinking, "I'm only human. I'm just like everybody else." You weren't seeing that you are the anointed of God, that you're the one that has the anointing of God. You know, it it says in uh Exodus 23, verse 25, it says that "the Lord will bless your bread and your water and take sickness away from the midst of you." The words "take" and "away" are the way it goes. And the word "take" and "away" is the exact same word. It used the same Hebrew word on either side of the word sickness. And the only definition of that Hebrew word is to turn off. God will turn off sickness. Turn off from the midst of you. Did you know you can get to a place to where you aren't sick all the time trying to get well? You can get to where you don't get sick.

Again, I'm not condemning anybody who's sick. And I'm not saying that you're a sinner or stuff, but I'm saying that you aren't appropriating what God's given. It says he heals all of your sicknesses. Heals all of your diseases. Jesus went around and healed all who were sick. And yet, there's a lot of people that you were raised with allergies. You were raised with things. I'm not against you. You can you can be sick all you want to be sick. I'm not against anybody who's sick. You can still go to heaven if you're sick and you'll get there quicker. You can be sick if you want to. If you don't like what I'm saying, just keep the way you're thinking and be sick. And God loves you. But you don't have to be sick. He

Heals all your sickness, all of your diseases. You can walk in supernatural health. But there are many of you that have just seen yourself sick your whole life. This is the way you see it. You plan your vacations around being sick. You don't go at certain times of the year because your allergies would bother you because of the pollen count. Again, I'm not against you. I'm just saying that this is the way you think.

You know, I saw a man raised from the dead in Pritchette, Colorado. And it's a long story. I won't go into it, but it was a Pritchette, Colorado was a town of only 144 people. And we went there to pastor a church that had 12 people in the church. And we saw a man raised from the dead. And we started having a hundred people come to the church. It wasn't big by some people's standards, but proportional to the size of that town. It was awesome. Amen.

I think you said there's what 10 or 11 million people in this area. If you had 9 million coming to church, that'd be awesome. That would be the same percentage. So anyway, we saw some great things happen. But then it had been like 10 or 11 years, and I hadn't seen anybody else raised from the dead. And I was reading in John 14:12. it. Jesus was speaking and he said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also, and greater works than these shall he do because I go to my father." And let's just forget for a moment all of the greater works. What are you going to do with the part of that verse that says, "The works that he did will you do also." And this isn't saying about just pastors. This isn't saying about just people that are full-time Christian professionals. This says if you believe on him, you'll do what Jesus did. He raised the dead. And he even gave you a command. And he in Matthew chapter 10 verse 8, "Go heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead." He gave you a command to raise the dead.

If you're a believer, you're commanded to raise the dead. How many of you have seen the dead raised? Here's one right here. Anybody else? Here's another one back here. Anybody else? Anybody else? Here's one right here. That's three. Four. Anybody else? Five. Man, this is awesome, isn't it? But that's five out of a thousand, 500, 2,000, whatever. I'm not condemning anybody, but God gave every one of us a command. It right after it says, "Preach the gospel." Then it says, "Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead." What are you doing about that? He gave you a command. Aren't there any dead people in Minneapolis, St. Paul? Is it that you don't have any opportunity to do that? And so I got to reading that and thinking, "Father, it's been over a decade since I've seen a person raised from the dead." And so I said, "I'm going to do what I did before." And you know what? I took Man, I hadn't got time to explain this. I'm just going to tell you. And I'm asking the Holy Spirit to this is a perfect example of everything I'm trying to teach about your imagination and how that the word of God is an incorruptible seed and you have to sew it in your heart. So what I did, I took all of the instances in the Bible of a person being raised from the dead and I wrote them out on a piece of paper and I meditated on them. First of all, you have to read it and get the information. But then you have to go beyond just information and you have to see what happened. And then I not only saw Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead, but I started imagining me raising Lazarus from the dead. It's one thing for you to know and say, "Well, I believe Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead." He He said that you have the same power that he has and that you will see the same works. Have you ever seen yourself raising Lazarus from the dead? I began to take those things and I actually, you know, where Elisha laid upon a dead boy and put his hands upon his hands and his feet upon his feet and his mouth upon his mouth. I got on a bed and I was imagining me doing that. And again, I know some of you think, "Boy, you're weird." Well, I've seen bunches of people raised from the dead. Until you get better results than I've got, maybe you ought to be weird. And so I saw myself doing these things and I saw myself doing all this and I got to where I just I meditated on this so much. I'm what they call a lucid dreamer. I've read an article in Reader's Digest about this and I'm the kind that I d I can go to sleep and I dream. I dream all night long. I c I sometimes can't tell if I'm awake or asleep because I'm just thinking all the time and I know what I'm thinking. The only way I can tell I'm asleep is because it gets weird. Like I'm running in sand and going nowhere or you know you show up preaching and you don't have your clothes on. I've had that dream something like that. So I can tell sometimes that I'm asleep but otherwise I'm just thinking the whole time. And so anyway, I I was focusing so much on raising people from the dead that every night I would raise 20, 30, 40 people from the dead every night because it's what I was focused on. It's what I was imagining. And I would just see myself raising people from the dead. And this went on for like six months. I must have raised thousands of people from the dead in my dreams. And then on March the 4th, 2001, Jaime and I had just gotten in from Mexico and we had only gone to bed at 2:00. And at 4:15 in the morning, my son, my oldest son, called and he said, "Dad, I'm sorry to tell you, but Peter, my youngest son, is dead." And I asked him what happened. I said, "Don't you let anybody touch him till we get there." And so Jaime and I had to get up out of bed. We had to get dressed. And it took us an hour or 15 minutes to drive into Colorado Springs. We didn't have cell phones back then. And so anyway, we started having all of the feelings that anybody else would have and stuff like that. When we got in, we found out that he had been dead for four over four hours, around four and a half hours. He had been stripped naked. He was pronounced dead. He was put in a morg in a freezer with a tow tag on. And within 5 or 10 minutes after we got the call, he just sat up and started talking. And he was raised from the dead after being in a morg for 4 hours. No brain damage, no more than he had before, and he works for me now. But did you know the point I'm making is some people think, well, God just sovereignly did that. He didn't sovereignly do it. I conceived that miracle. I read in the word that he said to do it. I meditated on it until it became a revelation and until I saw myself raising people from the dead. And there's a reason why that happened. I'm not saying it was based on my goodness. It has nothing to do with me being worthy of it or anything like that. But you do have to have the image on the inside of you. If you can't see it on the inside, you'll never see it on the outside. And there are some of you that are praying for healing, that are praying for prosperity, praying for deliverance, praying for other things, and yet you've never seen it. You beg for it all the time, but you see yourself sick. You see yourself poor. You see yourself defeated. You see yourself as somebody who's not important. How could God ever use me? And you're wanting God to do something sovereignly without flowing through you. It says in Ephesians chapter 3 20, "Now unto him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all we ask or think." Do you believe that? That's not true. Have they got the scripture up on the screen? Now unto him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all we ask or think according to the power that works in us. If you don't have any power working in you, God cannot or you could say will not, he is not going to flow through you without your cooperation. Mac was making a great point of that today in that video that he showed. He's got to flow through you. And you know, the first step is you got to see it. You got to let the word of God paint a picture on the inside of who you are. And the sad fact is most of us have let this life paint a picture to us. We've let some teacher in our grade school paint a picture. You know, James Brown is a friend of mine, the guy who's on CBS Sports and does the Super Bowls and he just came and spoke at our summer family Bible conference. James and James Brown and Tony Dunie. And anyway, James was giving the story that when he was a kid, they were saying, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" And he went to the um library and he got a book on I think it was on being a doctor or something like that. And he was reading that and his teacher, he's a he's a black man and his teacher was a white woman and she came by and she looked at that and she says, "People like you can't be doctors. You need to get something else." And anyway, he was able to go beyond that. Now he's prosperous. I mean, he reaches I forgot what they said it was, 50 million people during the football season watch him on television every week. and he's become so prosperous and won so many awards and things. But I'm saying that there's people just like that that some teacher told you that, oh, you'll never amount to anything. Or your parents told you or maybe your own experiences told you. You know, when I was in high school, I was the center on the football team and I was the long distance center and we were in the division playoff playoffs and we were right up against the goal line and we had to punt and so I centered the ball to the kicker but he wasn't able to go back the normal 12 to 13 yards because of the end zone. So, he was short and I centered it about right here. And because he was short, it was right here. And it went right through his hands and into the end zone. And we lost the division championship by two points that everybody in my 2500 uh people in my school blamed me for it. I was the I was the escapy. I mean, I it was terrible. And you know what? Praise God for Jesus. I was able to overcome it. I'm not scarred by it. I got over it. But something like that could you could sit there and just look at that and think, "Well, I can't do anything right." And uh praise God, I was able to get over it. But there are some of you that have had negative things happen and just some little thing like that. Maybe some ex divorced you and you're going to sit there and limp through life and you have an opinion of yourself. The word of God is how you should relate to yourself. When somebody says, "How are you?" Instead of telling them how you feel, why don't you turn over to the word and say, "Well, let me see how I am uh right here. I'm blessed. I'm blessed with all spiritual blessings. I'm above only and not beneath. I'm the head and not the tail." That's the image that you have to have of yourself. And brothers and sisters, I'm saying this in love, but I know because I deal with people all of the time. This is a great church. You're doing great things. But I can guarantee you, the majority of the people in here, you don't have a clue of what God really wants to do in your life. You're letting your past experiences and limitations and lack of money dictate to you. You know, it was a major turning point in my life. I when I started in ministry, every time the Lord told me to do something, I'd pull my wallet out and God, how can I do that? I'd start looking at my resources like Jesus telling the disciples, they don't have to depart. You feed them. They immediately said a 100 penny worth 100 days wage couldn't pay for all of the they looked at their resources instead of at God's resources. It was a major turning point in my life when one day and I mean this was back in the late 1990s. I just decided I'm never going to judge what God wants me to do by how much it cost. I quit thinking in terms of money. Now I I don't ignore it. It's not like I never think about it, but I never limit God by my resources. Matter of fact, when we started building buildings, we now have over $200 million worth of assets that are paid for. It's all debtree. And when we started building this first building, I spent a million half dollars with architects designing the buildings. We were ready to build it. You could take it to a builder and give it to them. a year and a half, a million and a half dollars I'd spent. And we sat down to say, "All right, are we going to do it?" And I said, "Let's do it." And I said, "How much is it going to cost? I had never asked him. I never thought about it. I didn't limit God. God told me to take the limits off of him, and I just sat down and designed what I wanted. I didn't look at my bank account and say, "Well, what can we do? How much do we have? How much can we borrow? How much payments can we come up with? I just sat down and said, I'm going to do what I believe God wants me to do. And I designed the building that I wanted. We've got the largest wooden beams, my builder says, in the state of Colorado, but he said in the United States. I don't know for sure if they are or not. I didn't compare them with somebody else, but they are awesome. Each wooden beam is 90,000bs, 45 tons. They're awesome looking. And you know why I did it? Cuz I thought they were pretty. It's what I wanted. Most Christians who say, "Oh man, we got to do things as cheaply as we can. Let's put up a tin building and not look make it look good." I tell you, I hate that attitude where Christians have to do things cheaply because after all, we're Christians. We aren't the secular world. We can't spend a lot of money. That's man, that attitude stinks. That's a terrible reflection on God who built Man, look at creation. It's so awesome. It's so majestic. And yet Christians are so cheap. I tell my students all the time, you you're going to wear your lanyard out going and get gas, going to eat or something, and you're going to have your vest on that'll say Caris on it or something like that. Don't you dare go out there and not tip them and and do things. You you be kind. You are representing God, but you are also representing Caris. And don't you be cheap. I've had waitresses come before and say they hate Sundays because that's when the Christians go out to eat and they're the worst tippers of them all. Now, I don't believe that's true in this place because I know Mac and Lynn teach, but I'm saying as sad to say, there's a lot of Christians that you just are cheap. You go around and ask for a discount. I tell our students, don't you ever ask for a discount. If somebody offers it to you, take it. I'm not saying that you pay thing more than things are worth, but don't you go around as a beggar. Don't go around acting like you don't have anything. Amen. I'm glad I'm leaving. I don't want to hear your criticisms. And I know that there's some people that you're going to criticize this and I'm sorry, Mac, you'll have to deal with. And I'm sure Mack has taught these things. I know that Mack and Lynn, they don't have a poverty attitude. You couldn't have this without that. You can't do what they're doing with a poverty attitude. And if God sent you here to this church, he sent you here not only to be blessed, but to be a blessing. So why don't you receive it? Not only will you have your needs met, but you'll be a blessing to other people. There's so many other people that need what we have. You can't be a blessing to people if you aren't blessed. He said he would allow you to abound unto every good work. If you aren't abounding unto every good work, then you aren't prosperous. I don't care if you've got millions of dollars, but if they're all tied up in stocks, and if you can't give when there is an opportunity, you're poor. God's definition of prosperity is having enough of his supply to accomplish anything he leads you to do. And if you can't do everything that God has led you to do, you're poor. The only exception I'd make to that is you may be in process. He's not going to give you everything all at once because it would ruin you. So, he will give it to you as you're able to handle it. Like when the Israelites went into the promised land, he says, "I'm not going to drive them all out at one time because the beast of the field would multiply, the thorns would multiply, and you wouldn't be able to handle it. I will give you the promised land as you're able to handle it." And so, you may have some things that you ultimately desire to do that you may not be able to do right now, but you should be in process. You should be able to see the blessing of God and you should have momentum moving in that direction. And if you're just sitting still waiting on your social security check and that's the extent of your faith, you haven't entered into God's blessing. I'm not telling you to take your social not to take your social security check. I don't take social security. I've never paid into it. I don't get it. So, I get nothing from the government. Jamie gets social security. I'm not against it, but I'm saying if that's the limit of your faith and if this is where your trust is and you're waiting on the government, you are missing the fact that God is your source. God will meet your needs. You aren't limited to just this world system. You aren't limited to your retirement plan. Praise God. Honestly, I did not plan on any of this. I had a great teaching from Romans chapter 1 that was awesome. But you know, I have people come to my ministry and and anytime somebody teaches like this, I just love it because when I say it, everybody thinks, "Boy, you're after my money." And they think that I'm doing it for ulterior motives. I'm not getting anything out of this. I'm not getting a commission. And the offering's already been taken. I'm saying this because I really felt like as I was trying to describe how that our imagination is negative and it's not the way that God wants it to do. This is one of the greatest examples is how poor we think. And we are in a rich country. We are blessed and prosperous more than most people. Did you know most kings that have lived on this planet didn't have the conveniences, the blessings that you've got? They never had a microwave. They never had a car like you did. They never have a phone that they could talk to people anywhere in the world that they are. You've got conveniences. You are blessed, blessed, blessed. And yet there's still people that are thinking poor. You need to change your thinking. And if you can't see yourself rich on the inside, you'll never see yourself rich on the outside. If you keep having a poor mentality, it will be reflected. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. You are the way that you think. It's what the scripture says. As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. If you don't like where you are, change your thinking. Specifically, the image, your imagination. Start getting hope. You may not be in a place to where you can believe it right now, but you can start hoping for it. You can start developing the picture. you need to go look at things. You know, we're beginning to expand our CARIS Bible College and one of the things we did, we went to three or four universities. So, I could see what a full university is like. And right now, I think that our school is second to none. What we teach is great, but our facilities aren't as good as they need to be. We don't have any athletic facilities in every university we went to. The young people, this is one of the things that they want. So, we're in the process of building a 440,000 square foot athletic center that's going to have raetball courts and pickle ball courts and basketball courts and a jogging track and a nice hockey rink and everything you could imagine because I believe that that's what God wants me to do. We're going to make it so that people don't have to be second class just because they're coming to a Christian school. But you know what we did? We went and saw things. And when I saw it, I liked it and I thought about it and I prayed about it until I saw what our place is supposed to be like. Our auditorium, I've been dreaming for decades about if ever if God ever gave me a like a place where we could have people come for a conference. What would it be like? And I mean for decades I've looked at things and I remember being in Carl's rural Germany and I was in an auditorium and when I just thought this is what I would like our auditorium to look like. Now our auditorium is bigger than the one I saw in Germany but nonetheless it was the same type of thing and I said that's it. All of a sudden I saw it and once I saw it on the inside guess what I now have it in reality on the outside. Everything that is now physically real was on the inside of me. Everything that you see here was on the inside of the Hammonds at one time. They had to conceive this and you have to conceive your miracle. You need to start dreaming. Yes, this man Peter Daniels that I mentioned earlier that commissioned to find out how much the gold, frankincense, and myrr was, he was a he was a bum on the streets in Australia, homeless, and he just got tired of it and decided he was going to change. So what he did was go to the library and started studying successful people. And he studied hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of successful people. And by doing that, he saw himself starting to be successful. I don't even know if he's alive now. Do you know who I'm talking about? But anyway, he's old now, but he used to charge a hundred and something thousand dollars just to come speak. He's now so important. And he has great businesses, multi-millionaire. And he said that he send spends every Friday. He cancels everything. Doesn't have anyo uh appointments. So he can just think. He spends one day a week doing nothing but thinking. And he might not use the terminology I'm using, but he's he's imagining, seeing things come to pass. Where do you want me to go? What do you want me to do? You can get so busy just trying to occupy that you don't ever have time to dream. You can ask Mike and Carrie. Every time Jamie and I go on a vacation or something, they they tell all of the staff, "Get ready cuz when he comes back, he's going to have something for us to do." Because every time I get time off to think, God starts showing me things and I come back and we grow again. It happens every single time. Man, it's important for you to dream, for you to see things with your heart. Father, right now, I just pray for my brothers and sisters. And Father, I believe you had me get off on this rabbit trail and deal with this. And I'm asking for people here that have been thinking poor, thinking small, that have been limiting you by their unbelief, that have let the words of a teacher or some negative experience or some ex shape them and and just diminish what who they are and what they can do. Father, I pray right now that you open up their heart and help them to see who you want them to be, what you have for them, and that they wouldn't limit you, that they would begin to prosper. And I know that whatever it is that you want them to do, it's going to cost money. And I'm just asking that you would get rid of this small thinking and that people would begin to start believing big not just for themselves so that they can have more stuff but so that they can be a bigger blessing so that father they can just be a blessing. Thank you Jesus. You know, there's some of you in here that you love to give. And you may not particularly be uh the people that I was talking to tonight, but you just love to give. And the Lord is speaking to me right now that you have a gift of giving. That's listed over in Romans chapter 12. It's a spiritual gift just like a teacher, a pastor, or whatever. There are some of you that are called and anointed to be givers. That's your anointing. You may have never known that, but this desire that you have to just give and you always want to be a blessing. That is a spiritual gift. And you can't fulfill your calling if you aren't prosperous. So, I want to ask right now, those of you who know that you have this gift of giving, I want to pray for you right now. If that's you, I want you to stand right where you are. Here's She's ready. If I'm not asking about if you need money for yourself so you can have more money. I'm asking about those of you who have a desire to be a giver and you know that this is what God has called you to do. Maybe he didn't call you to go over to these places and start things, but he called you to be a giver and to be a part of it. If that's you, that's the ones I want to stand. Now, all of us are supposed to be givers, but people that are called to giving. Father, right now for all of these, we just we receive this calling. I believe that there's some of you standing right now that you've never consciously accepted this call and you have never consciously said that, I know I am anointed to be a giver. And so right now, Father, I pray for those that this is becoming revelation to them right now for this seed that is being planted in their heart. I believe that they are conceiving right now in the name of Jesus. That a conception has just taken place and that Father, it's beginning to grow. And that there will be a birth. That there will be a time when they start seeing finances just flow through them. not just for them but so that they can be a blessing. We right now receive this word. Father, help people to understand to wrap this in prayer and in faith and protect this seed. And we just agree and speak that Father, you are releasing an anointing right now on all of these people to be able to prosper. Whatever they set their hands unto, they are going to prosper. Right now, I want you to put your hands out where you can see them and look at these hands. God said he would bless whatever you set your hand unto. If you set your hand to nothing, a 100 times zero is zero. But you go set your hand to something. And right now, we bless these hands. Father, we thank you that whatever we touch is blessed. Whatever we're doing, thank you if we are working for somebody else. Thank you that this business is going to start prospering because of our faith and because of the anointing that you've placed on us and that Father as the business rises and increases that Father it'll work to our advantage and that our income will increase. People that are self-employed and have their own business or they're selling things or doing things. They're using their talents. Father, I just thank you for promotion supernaturally coming on them. Thank you that supernatural finances flow right now through these people's hands. Thank you, Jesus. And Satan, we rebuke the devour and we say that all the ways that you've been stealing from us and siphoning uh finances from us, we just command it to stop right now. We speak that everything is blessed. Our cars are blessed. Our washing machines is blessed. We aren't going to have things break down. Father, we just thank you that everything we set our hand unto is blessed. And all of the ways that Satan is stealing from us is stopping. All of the money that's being spent on medication and on doctors. Father, thank you for health coming to us and that we are not wasting our money on all these other things. Father, we thank you for healing flowing. Let's everybody stand right now and receive these healings. We thank you that healings are flowing right now, that people are being healed, supernatural healing. Thank you, Jesus. Man, people that have had chronic pl pain for over 20 years. I'm talking specifically to people that have had pain for over 20 years and you've learned to live with it and you see yourself sick. It's the way you dream. It's the way you think. Right now, see yourself differently. See yourself without any pain. Begin to start imagining what it would be like to live without any pain, without any pain medication. Conceive it and then your faith will go to work to bring it to pass. But right now, start seeing yourself painfree. See yourself without that tumor. There's somebody here that's been dealing with hemorrhoids and you you've never seen yourself free from that. See yourself completely free right now. Just begin to imagine this. There's people that haven't been able to walk properly. You aren't able to do things. You need to start dreaming. If you aren't at the place yet to believe it and to walk in it right now, start imagining yourself. Well, start seeing yourself. Start drawing pictures of it. Go get pictures of people that are free of the very thing that's got you in bondage and put those things up on your on your refrigerator. Instead of putting a fat person up there to motivate you to lose weight, put a skinny person up there and say, "That's who I am. It's hiding inside of here." And you start seeing yourself skinny. You start seeing yourself successful. Yes, there's somebody here that's lost your hair. See yourself with a full head of hair. Start imagining it. Start seeing it right now. Thank you, Jesus. Father, we agree and receive. Praise the Lord. There's some of you that haven't been able to get out and do things because of your sickness. You need to go buy something that you would have bought if you were well. You need to think about that. If you don't if you don't ever go buy shoes because what's the use? I can't walk anyway. You ought to go buy you a pair of shoes. You ought to start doing things that'll help you to see yourself doing the things that you can't do right now. I tell you, I believe that God is touching a lot of people here tonight. I believe that the Lord is using these things that I've said to motivate you. But you need to receive it. You know, I can speak these truths, but I can't make you believe this. I can't make you receive it. You've got to do something. You've got to reach out and you've got to receive it. Thank you, Father. Faith without works is dead. Thank you, Jesus. I know that there's too many people here for me to lay hands on every single person, but man, I would just I'd love to pray with you, but I can't. So, I'm asking you to just receive. This can be between you and the Lord. You can receive. Let me ask this. If you need a healing in your body, if your faith has been quickened and you understand what I'm talking about and you're willing, maybe you aren't ready to receive right now, but you're ready to start believing and imagining yourself. Well, if that's you, I want you to raise your hand right where you are. If you need a healing in your body, and I want those of you that are around them, keep your hand up in the air. And I want those of you that are around them to look. And if you see somebody with their hand up, go lay hands on them. And I'm going to lead us in a prayer, but you pray and don't beg God. Don't ask God to heal them. God's already healed them. You take your authority and you start speaking healing over this person. You release this healing power into them right now in the name of Jesus. So, is everybody that's got your hand up got somebody laying hands on them? look around and make sure that everybody's got somebody laying hands on them. Father, we just thank you that by the stripes of Jesus, we were healed. If we were healed, we are healed. Thank you that whatever's happened, it doesn't matter if the doctors say it's incurable. It doesn't matter if it runs in our family. It doesn't matter if it's a hereditary. Doesn't matter how long we've had it. I just thank you that by the stripes of Jesus, we are healed. right now and we do what your word says. We pray one for another that we might be healed. We lay hands on them and right now command healing to flow in these bodies. Don't just beg God, take your authority. Command healing to come. Command pain to be gone. Command parts of their body that don't work to work right now. Father, we just release this anointing right now. Sickness go. Cancers go. Alzheimer's go right now. We break this power right now in the name of Jesus. Eye problems, you leave right now. Be healed from the top of the head. Man, there's somebody's got splitting pain in your head right now. Here's the healing power of God. And there's that pain leaving you. neck problems are being healed right now in the name of Jesus. Somebody had a car wreck and crushed one of your vertebrae right here. Here's the healing power of God. You weren't able to move your neck. You You didn't have freedom of movement. And when you did try and move it, you had pain. All of that pain's gone right now. Move around. Begin to do what you didn't feel like you're doing. There's people here that have had your shoulders stoved up. You weren't able to raise your hands and move your hands. Here's the healing power of God. Corpal tunnel syndrome is being healed right now in Jesus' name. If you've had pain in your wrist right there, begin to move your wrist. And there goes all of the pain as you move your hands. Here goes all of your pain. Elbows are being healed right now. And just on down through your body, all heart, veins, arteries, your digestive tract. Somebody is with a h highal hernia is being healed right now in Jesus' name. Command that healing power to flow for this colon to be healed. Stomach ulcers to be healed right now, hips to be healed. Thank you, Jesus. Somebody had a um man. What is that? What's that um muscle on the back of your thigh? Hamstring. Hamstring. That's what it was. Somebody here pulled your hamstring and you've been suffering with that. Here's the healing power of God right now. Healing that. You can move around. You're free now. Knees, all of this arthritis, any bone on bone stuff is being healed. Neuropathy all the way down. Athletes, foot, all kinds of stuff right now from head to toe. Father, we release your supernatural power to flow right now in Jesus mighty name. Let's praise God and receive that. Thank you, Jesus.

All right, if you would sit down for just a minute, I want to take just a few more minutes. Let me ask for somebody who's already seen a healing manifest and you've already got the manifestation. If you haven't got a manifestation, that doesn't mean that you aren't healed because Jesus spoke to the fig tree and it took about 12 hours for what happened in the roots to become manifest above. So, I'm not saying that you aren't healed. But somebody who's already seen a physical manifestation of your healing tonight, if that's you, I want you to stand up right where you are. If you've already got your pain gone or some tumor that you can tell, where are you? Here's somebody up here. Here's two or three people up here. Man, the balcony was receiving better than down here on the bottom floor. Here's three people over here. Anybody else? Here's one here, man. Here's a bunch back here. Praise the Lord. Awesome. Let me have just a few people that you've already got a physical manifestation and you can display it, manifest it, show it. Uh come down here and just real quickly tell us what's happened so that people will be able to see uh what has happened. So somebody who's already got a manifestation, is this you? Come up here. Have we got a microphone that we can use for them? So what happened with you? I tore my hamster. All right. Right here. Use this mic. So, a few years ago, I tore my hamstring and it popped teaching fitness. So, it's been really just bothering me so bad. And I mean, I've was in so much pain. And even before coming here, I took Tylenol and ibuprofen and just confessing my healing. But you were preaching and even yesterday, imagination and conceiving it. And I conceived it. I saw myself healed. Amen. And you called it out. So I started jumping up and down. Faith without works is dead. Started jumping up and down and it just pain left. Could you Could you Amen. Could you not jump up and down before? Well, I was doing it, but it was hurting. So, can you do it now? Give me the mic. Oh, yeah. Let's see you jump up and down. Amen. Thank you, Jesus. That's awesome. Thank you very much. Come up here, brother. Amen. So, what what happened for you? 7 months ago, I had a liver transplant. And uh so, just just past that seven months and they said that I've recovered better than anybody they've ever saw. And during that whole process, I was just saying that's cuz I have a higher power. And I says,"I pray that you do what God tells you to do to help me get where I need to be." And then right after the seventh month mark, then Slooh, the old Sloohoot came in and says, "Now you have cancer in your right lung." And I just finished all that therapy and all that stuff. And I didn't have any types of side effects. I have my hair. I mean, and I feel great. And uh I'm just waiting to get the paperwork from the hospitals to Can you tell any difference tonight? Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Amen. Yeah. That's awesome. Happy. That's awesome, brother. Thanks. Hey, God bless you. Come up here. So, did anything happened to you tonight? Amen. So, I I should have definitely broke my wrist the other day. I'm a weirdo, too, where I started rollerblading. I don't know how to stop. I don't know how to break when I rollerblade because I don't know how to skate. Maybe you ought to do something else or learn how to break. So, I fell on my wrist and I declared that I'm not not one of my bones will be broken and it's been bothering me for a few days now and I just know that it's not broken. Amen. Amen. It feels great. Move it around. I play basketball. I dribble with it. I've been using it lately. So, but today it feels way better. That's awesome. Thank you, brother. Praise the Lord. Amen. Amen. Amen. Anybody else here? Come up here. Let me get down here. So, what happened with you? Um, for the last couple months, I've had a pain in my elbow and it shooting pain and burning and um it's completely gone. Amen. Yeah, that's awesome. It is. Did Did you know what caused the pain? I don't know what caused it. It's just been happening for a couple months. That's good. It's gone. It's gone. Awesome. All right, last person. Here's the last person. Come up here. What happened for you? Do you remember me? I'm sorry. From um Colorado. We went we came to see you and I had lupus. Oh yeah. Yes. Um we just want to give the Lord glory cuz a few months ago um I was dealing with lupus. Um I could hardly walk. I could hardly even stay awake. And literally it was such a miracle being connected to pastor. He prayed for me and I kid you not, I felt something leave my body that day. And ever since then, my hair's grown. I've got eyebrows. My skin is clearing up. I just want to give the Lord glory. I'm strong. I can pick up water. Thank you so much. When was that that I prayed with you? Um I can't even remember the month, but it was a few months ago. Um where it was a leadership conference. Yeah, that's great. Well, awesome. the Lord. You're a healed woman. Amen. Awesome. Amen. All right, this will have to be the last one. Okay, come up here. All they need to hear is you. I want to show you something. You aren't going to undress. I'm coming here from Bolivia with a leisure in my uh in my knee over here. Um all of a sudden it doesn't hurt anymore. I couldn't walk. I couldn't bend it the way I'm doing right now. It doesn't hurt. I feel good. I even went down to the pool earlier at the hotel and I tried to swim and I actually feel good right now. Amen. Amen. Awesome.