The Lord My Healer - Pt. 1 - Ready To Heal

Go with me to Exodus, the 15th chapter. You just prayed so you're believing with me, right? For utterance. I can't do anything of myself, nor can you, but He can do things through us and by us and to us. In Exodus 15, 26, Exodus 15 and 26, He said, If you will diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord your God, and will do that which is right in His sight, and will give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee which I have brought upon the Egyptians. For I am the Lord that healeth thee. Praise God. I am the Lord that healeth thee. Now this phrase, if you look up the words, it's the word for Jehovah, or actually it's pronounced Y, Jehovah, and other, there's other pronunciations than that. Even scholars disagree. But we say Jehovah. And the word healeth is the word Rapha, or Rophe, depending on who you're reading that. But it literally means Jehovah is the self-existent eternal one. Hallelujah. He's not dependent on anybody else for His existence. And He has existed from eternity past through eternity future, something our brain can't even wrap around yet. But He is the self-existent eternal one, and Rapha means the one who mends you, or cures you. Hallelujah. It's translated heal, healer, physician, cure, mend. He is, and this is one of the names of God revealed in Scripture. I am Jehovah Rapha. He also said, He said, I am Jehovah Shalom, your peace. I am Jehovah Sidkenu, your righteousness. I am your Jehovah Nisi, your victory. Nobody has a right to take any one of these names where He said, I am, and say, no, He was. Is He still the Lord who is with us? Is He still the Lord our peace, the Lord our victory, the Lord our righteousness? Then why wouldn't He still be the Lord our healer? He is. I said, He is, and He always will be. The Lord our healer. That's the name of the series. The Lord, my healer. Hallelujah. Do you know all there is to know about this, or would you hear it again? Maybe hear something you hadn't heard before, right? Know maybe about it. The Lord, my healer. Don't you like saying it? Come on, say it out loud. The Lord, my healer. If you believe that He's your peace, you ought to believe He's your healer. Same Bible, same word construction, just one of His other names. If you believe He's your righteousness, if you believe He's your shepherd, if you believe He's the Lord who's always with you, the Lord who's there, nobody has a right to take any one of these self-existent eternal Jehovah names and say that was for a season. If you're going to take one of them and say, well, He used to heal. He did some things in the Old Testament. He did some miracles with Jesus, and there was some special things in Acts, but all that's passed away, well, then how do you know the Lord who is with us hasn't passed away? How do you know the Lord our peace hasn't passed away? How can you take one and say that doesn't apply? That's not for everybody. No. He always has been. He always will be. He is right now. Jehovah, Rapha, the Lord who heals you. Oh, somebody say the Lord. My healer. Glory to God. The Amplified says, I am the Lord who heals you. The New American Standard says, for I, the Lord, am your healer. The Young's Literal says, for I, Jehovah, am healing thee. I, Jehovah, am healing thee. You can get healed right now. It's right here. I, Jehovah, am healing thee. That's not something I said. That's not something you said. That's something he said centuries ago that was true before he said it. It's true right now. It'll be true throughout the ages to come. I, Jehovah, am healing you. The Complete Jewish Bible says, I am Adonai, your healer. The CEV says, I am the Lord your God, and I cure your diseases. I am the Lord your God, and I cure your diseases. Why shouldn't we accept this? Why should we question this? Why should we make exceptions for this? Why shouldn't we just receive it and say, this is God's Word, and God's Word is God speaking to me? And he was the Lord that heals them, and he never changes. So he is the Lord who heals me. He never said I was. He's not I will be. He is I am. I am. He's always I am. The self-existent eternal one who cures you, who mends you, who makes you whole, your physician. Praise be to God. Oh, somebody say, praise be to God. Now, Jeremiah 8.22 says this. Jeremiah 8.22 says, is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? This is a revelation. Just because we have a healer, the healer, doesn't mean we're automatically healed. He's saying, is there no balm? Balm would be healing ointment. Is there no physician? In other words, my people, they don't have a physician? My people don't have a healer? My people don't have healing? The answer, obviously, is yes, they do. Yes, there is balm in Gilead. Yes, there is a physician. How many believe the great physician has always been there, will always be there? Well, if he's there, and his healing is with him, why is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? That's a good question. Why not? They should be. She should be. His people should be healed because he's the healer. Y'all with me? Well, to begin to answer the question, we're there in Jeremiah 8, just in the 17th chapter, just a few pages over. Anybody been reading close around here? Okay, some people look at you strangely, so that answers the question right there. Others go, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, around here, we read our chapter every day, Monday through Friday, right? And right now, we're reading in Jeremiah. So if you haven't joined us, go back to the information booth in the area after the service, get the bookmark, and it'll show you what chapter we're on, and we'll literally then be on the same page, thinking the same thoughts, right? And it really does, it promotes unity. Besides that, your spirit needs to be fed, some word of God, every day. Just like your body needs natural food, your spirit needs spirit food. And in the 17th chapter, verse 14, he said, heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed. Save me, and I shall be saved, for you are my praise. Said out loud, heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed. Save me, O Lord, and I shall be saved. Why would you say it like this? They are the same. These phrases are interconnected, and they are the same, they're from the same source, they're based on the same provision, and according to the same will, and they're received the same way. It has been changed in recent times. Now, when I say recent times, I mean the last few centuries. Because to God, that's recent. I mean, if it changed within the last thousand years, to him, it changed within a day, which is recent. But from the beginning, it was not that way. Multitudes of church-going people now, all across this country, all across the world, you could not shake them, believing that God is the Savior, Jesus is Savior, and that it is his will for everybody to be saved. But if you bring up healing, that's a completely different subject as far as they're concerned, and it's not. It has never been, it's not supposed to be, it's supposed to be, we're supposed to be just as solid on that as we are the new birth. But most people are not, because they hadn't heard it. They haven't heard it as part and parcel of the gospel, or they've actually been, it's been preached against. A famous evangelist a number of years ago, this would have gone back 50 some years ago, he made this statement. He said, in going to countries and places where people have never heard the gospel, he said, if I can get to people before they've ever heard anything, and when I preach to them the gospel, I tell them not only that Jesus is the Savior, but he's also the healer. That when they come to receive Jesus as Savior, they get healed too, same time. Nobody told him, nobody told him they couldn't. Nobody told him it might not be God's will. Nobody told him that it had passed away and was dispensational. Nobody told him that was just special with the apostles, and when the last apostle died, all that ceased. Nobody had got to him and told him, well, Jesus just did that to prove his sovereignty, but that's not for everybody nowadays. Nobody had got to him and told him the age of miracles has passed, sorry. Might not be God's will to heal you. They've never heard any of that, so they didn't believe any of that. They'd never heard about Jesus, period. A lot of them had been involved in all kind of idol worship, witchcraft, and other kind of junk, but they heard about Jesus. He went to the cross, he took your sins, he bore your sicknesses, he carried your pains. Hallelujah, he was raised from the dead for your justification, and by his stripes, you were healed. He said, when the people come, they get saved and healed. They don't know any better. Thank God. I said, thank God. Well, then we need mind renewal to undo the stuff that tradition has done on the church for these hundreds of years, telling people, no, no, that's different, that's different. It might not be God's will to heal you. We just don't know. No, say it out loud. Heal me. And I'll be healed. Save me. And I'll be saved. You are my praise. They are the same. They're based on the same work of redemption. They're based on the same will and plan of God. Look in Psalm 103. Psalm 103, verse one. Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and all that is within me. Bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and forget not all his benefits. Plural. Everybody say benefits. Didn't say don't forget his benefit. It didn't say don't forget his benefit. That's one of the reasons I talk like I do. I say equipments, houses, buildings, lands. Why? Because God is a God of benefits. Now folks are laughing, but to hear some folk preach, there's one benefit. Huh? You get saved. You miss hell. You go to heaven. Now thank God, if that was the only benefit there was, that'd be worth going that way. But it's not the only benefit. Had two amens and a grunt. It's not the only benefit. Do you believe? There are more, there's more than one benefit. Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and forget not all his benefits. Now if he said benefits, you'd know there's more than one. But when he says all his benefits, you know there's several. Right? There's multiple benefits, and then he kicks off and starts listing some of them. Verse three, benefit number one, who forgives all your iniquities, but it might not be his will to heal you. That's men's idea. Trying to explain why way back hundreds of years ago, and longer than that, I should say longer than that, somebody prayed for somebody and they didn't get healed. Why not? Well, somebody came up with the idea it must not have been God's will. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Any more than you should come to the conclusion somebody came to the altar, but didn't receive Jesus and didn't get born again, so we conclude it must not have been God's will to save them. Truth is not relative. Truth is not subjective. Now let's think a little bit. Have you heard the phrase my truth, my truth, and your truth? It's a popular phrase among some circles. It's a despicable phrase. Well, people say, well, that's my truth. You have to go with your truth, and I have to go with my truth. Well, what they're saying is truth is relative. Truth is based on your perception of it, or your experience of it. Well, that's my truth. No, honey child. Truth is truth. It is unchanging. It is eternal. It's truth whether you see it or not. It's truth whether you believe it or not. It's true whether you receive it or not. Oh, somebody say truth. Is unchanging. Truth is forever. Hallelujah. It's one of the most wonderful things about this Christian life is that there's never gonna come down from heaven version 2.0. Sorry, guys, it's been a couple of thousand years. A lot has changed. Sending you an update. Receive. Get ready. Cause truth doesn't need to be updated. It was perfect when it came out. Hallelujah. And the truth is, he has always been and is and always will be the savior. And he has always been and is and always will be the healer. Hallelujah. The healer. And that truth is not based on who got healed or who didn't get healed or who thinks it's right or who doesn't think it's right. It's independent of all of that. It looms like a mountain. Hallelujah. Over all the passing generations of humanity. It was true. It is true. It'll always be true. I am the Lord. That heals you. Oh, hallelujah. Smart ones will receive it. Smart ones will lay hold and believe it and not be moved by anything they see or feel. To the contrary. Foolish ones will debate it. Scoff it. Say things like, well, that's not my truth. Truth is truth. Whether you believe it or not. It's not subjective. It's not relative. It is eternal. Glory to God. That just does something for my spirit. I mean, I just, in this world full of flip-flop and things changing from morning to afternoon, right? It is so wonderful to build your house on a solid rock. Hallelujah. And no matter how much the wind blows and the rain pours and the flood beats, when you found it on the rock, you will not be moved. Hallelujah. You won't be moved because truth is truth. Truth is truth. I trust any of you that have been with us for any length of time that this is true. And that if you're just with us today, you could still get it. If I fell out dead right here, two seconds later, and somebody said, brother Keith died from a bad sickness. I didn't say it was gonna happen. If I did, does that change the truth of God being the healer? If some way or another I missed out on God's full provision, I didn't live a long, full life. Does that change the truth? But do people base their beliefs on what happens to folks? That's foolish. Foolish, ignorant. This book was here a long time before I got here. Right? Long, long time. And the author was here a long, long, long time before the book got here. Right? No. You don't base your belief in the new birth and salvation on who does or does not get born again. Do ya? Nor do you base your belief in God being the healer on who does or does not get healed. He is. Jehovah. Rapha. Always has been. Always will be. The healer God. Hallelujah. He's the saving God, and he's the healing God. Save me, and I'll be saved. Heal me, and I'll be healed. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not. All his benefits. Mucho benefits. Many benefits. And big benefits. Somebody say glory to God. Glory to God. Benefit number one. Come on, help me out. Benefit number one. Who forgives? All. How many? All. What if somebody told you, well, now, I just don't accept that. You know, I know God does. He forgives some iniquities, but it's not always his will to forgive iniquities. Some iniquities, for some reason, we don't know why, but he's doing something. We just don't understand why, but sometimes it's not his will to forgive all iniquities. See, you don't accept that for a minute, do you? Well, why would you accept that on the next part? He forgives all your iniquities. Same Bible, same verse says, who heals all your diseases. Why would I treat that any different from the first part of the verse? Same verse. Same God. Same verse. Who heals what? Yeah, but Brother Keith, oh, it's obvious everybody's not healed. It's just as obvious everybody's not saved. Right? Everybody don't get healed. We don't know that. Everybody don't get saved either. It doesn't change the truth. The truth. Oh, somebody say, thank God for the truth. Thank God for the truth. Tell me what the truth will do for you, brother and sister. John 8, 31. What did he say? Stick it on the screen for us, please. John 8, 31, what did he say? Jesus said to those that believed on him, if you continue in my word, and John 17, 17, he said, thy word is truth. So you can say it like that. If you continue in my truth, you'll be my disciples, you are my disciples indeed, and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. Glory to God. Free. If you continue in the truth, which is why the devil will fight you so hard to get you out of the truth, to get you to compromise and talk about my truth and your truth and relative and subjective. No, no, no. If it's relative, it ain't true. The truth stands on its own. Whether you believe it or not, it's true, still true. Oh, friend, there's something will happen to you when this dawns on your spirit the way it can. It'll be an anchor to your soul. You will get to the place where nothing can move you. I don't care how smart somebody thinks they are or what argument somebody has. When you've gotten a hold of the truth, all the other stuff, you are impervious to it. You are unmoved by it. You'll know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. Glory to God. Has the truth made you free from the fear of hell and the fear of judgment in eternity? Has it made you free? Come on, has it made you free from the feelings of inferiority and being rejected, knowing I'm accepted in the beloved? Hallelujah, I'm part of the family. Well, it can make you free from the fear of death. It can make you free from the fear of disease. It can make you free from the fear of weakness because the same Bible tells you the truth that he is your healer. Go back to the benefits. Psalm 103. Benefit number one, come on, help me out. He forgives. How many? A-L-L. Friend of mine, oh, this has been about 30 years ago. We were young students in the word of God, and he was very studious, particularly in languages. And he came and told me one day, he said, I did a study on that word all. He said, I looked it up in the Hebrew, I looked it up in the Greek, I looked it up in the Aramaic, I looked it up in the Chaldean, and he just went on and on. And he said, if you study and you go back to the etymological roots of also the Aramaic, the Chaldean, the Hebrew, the Greek, he said, well, this word that's translated from those languages into English, A-L-L, what it really means is all. He said, that's what it really means. All means everything included, nothing excluded. What does that mean? All iniquities are included. No iniquities are excluded. How many believe? I mean, you're not even having to struggle with believing that God forgives all iniquities. Come on, how many would say, I'm not even struggling with that? He forgives all iniquities. Why would you struggle with him healing all diseases? Why? Why is that any different? I'll tell you why it's different. It is different. People struggle with this when they don't struggle with the other. Why? Because you hadn't been taught that all your life. Many people were taught God can heal if it's his will. That's what most people were taught. He could if it's his will. Well, it is his will. And he can. Hallelujah. He forgives all your iniquities. He heals all your diseases. Keep going. He redeems your life from destruction. Another benefit. Hallelujah. Protection is a benefit. He crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies. Man, what does that cover? That covers you getting all kind of stuff you don't deserve at all. You're getting to have and enjoy and do all kinds of stuff that you didn't deserve. It's just mercy. It's just loving kindness. He satisfies your mouth with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle. Don't forget that benefit. Hallelujah. I mean, that sounds like getting 60 or 70 or so and catching a new gear. Something happening to you. You're getting revitalized, renewed, and people going, what happened to you? What happened to you? You go, Psalm 103.5? What treatments you been getting, Psalm 103? I got the full 103. Man, you look it. Yes, I did. My youth is renewed. Hallelujah. Like the eagles. Oh, somebody say praise God. Praise be to God. Hallelujah. The truth is, somebody say the truth. Just because somebody says something's true does not make it true. We gotta discern between what people call truth and what actually is truth. Truth is not relative. Truth doesn't change. It's not subjective. Look in Matthew 18. Something's happening in your spirit. Doubt is getting pushed out. I said doubt is getting pushed out. Wavering is getting removed. You believe it? And what remains is rock-solid faith in rock-solid truth that doesn't change, that doesn't vary. Not gonna happen by the grace of God, but if I backslid and just went crazy, ran off and did stupid stuff, does that mean God's not real? Does that mean the Lord doesn't save? Salvation is not real? New birth is not real? Doesn't mean any such of a thing. It means Keith went crazy. What's that got to do with the eternal truth of God and who he is? Come on, can you see this? You need to know God well enough for yourself that no matter what anybody else does, you know in whom you have believed. And you're persuaded that he's able to keep you because there's a lot of folks doing a lot of crazy stuff down here. And there's a lot of people who get in church and they jump out of church. They jump in the ministry and they jump out of the ministry and depends on which day you catch them as to what they believe and who they are and what they're doing. And if you base your life on them, you're gonna be in, you're gonna be out, you're gonna be up, you're gonna be down, you're not gonna know where you are. That's not true. And that's not God. That's them. I said, that's them. The truth is the truth. No matter what anybody does. Matthew 18, here's the truth. Verse 14. He said, even so, it is not the will of your father, which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish. How many is it God's will for them to perish? Not a one. It's his will for all to be saved, all to be forgiven of all their iniquities, all to be healed of all their diseases. Somebody say all, all, all. But are all saved? Obviously not. Have all received forgiveness for all their mistakes and iniquities? No, they haven't. Have all been healed? Obviously not. But you don't determine truth by looking at other people's lives. That's not how you determine truth. It's not the will of your father, which is in heaven. Jesus said this, that a one of these little ones should perish. Look in 2 Peter 3.9. 2 Peter 3.9. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise as some men count slackness. But he's longsuffering toward us. Again, it's us. We're not waiting on him. Longsuffering means you're tolerant and you're patient. You're waiting on. We're not waiting on him. He's longsuffering to us. Not willing what? That any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. The key is with us. And repentance means change. You change from being stubborn. You change from not listening and not believing and not receiving. You humble yourself and you begin to believe. You humble yourself and submit to his Lordship. You humble yourself and believe and receive his word and obey him and act on his word. That's the key. The change lies with us, not with him. He doesn't need to change. Somebody said out loud, he's not willing. That any should perish. So when people try to tell you, I don't care how many degrees I have. I don't care how they dress. They try to tell you that people perishing is somehow the mysterious plan and will of God. You reject that. Do not accept it for a moment. No perishing of people on this planet is happening according to the will of God. Not a one. Not whether you're perishing spiritually or perishing mentally or emotionally or perishing in your marriage and your family or perishing in your body and your health or perishing in your finances or perishing in your career or perishing, none of that. No perishing. No person perishing is the will of God at all. Go with me to Psalm 86. Actually, don't do that. You go to Isaiah 38 and they'll put this on the screen for us. Go to Isaiah 38, please, and put on the screen for us Psalm 86 five. Psalm 86 five. It says for the Lord, for you, Lord, are good. You are what? Ready to forgive and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call on you. Say that out loud. The Lord is good and he's ready. Now, do you see, this is the same language as you saw in Peter. He's long-suffering toward us. What does that mean? Not willing that any should perish. He's ready to save. As soon, you know, how many understand in your life you could have been born again before you were? How many will acknowledge? You could have been, a lot of you, you could have been born again years, decades, right? You had opportunity. You saw some things, but you didn't. Could you say you were waiting on God to save you? You didn't be alive. Was he ready for you to be born again? Sins washed away. Was he ready years before you were ready? Oh yeah, he doesn't change. And here you see, Lord, you are good and you're ready to forgive. He's ready to forgive every person on this planet. Isn't that wonderful to know? He's ready. He's ready to forgive. He's ready to cleanse based on what Jesus has already done. Well, by the like token, he's ready to heal. He's ready to do everything, bring everything to pass that Jesus has bought and paid for. You'll see that so clearly here in Isaiah 38. Isaiah 38, verse one. In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amos, came to him and said to him, thus saith the Lord. Thus saith who? The Lord. Set your house in order for you shall die and not live. So that proves that in this case, it was God's will for him to not be healed, but to die. Well, the Lord said it. It does not prove that. The rest of the passage proves otherwise. The Lord said, go back to verse one. What did the Lord say? Set your house in order. Get your affairs together. Get ready to die. Why? Because you shall die and not live. Now, if the Lord tells you you're going to die, what's going to happen? Maybe not. So if the Lord said you're going to die, you're going to die. Not here, He didn't. That's not how this turned out. He said, I thought you said God doesn't change. He doesn't. But you said truth is eternal and it doesn't change. It is. And it doesn't change. Guess who changed here? It wasn't God. It wasn't His will. It wasn't His word. It wasn't Him deciding, you know, well, when I talked to you this morning, I wasn't feeling much like healing. But you know, I had a good afternoon and, well, you know, okay. Let's hear it. Is God fickle? Absolutely not. The Lord says, set your house in order, you're going to die. You shall die and not live. No maybes. Verse two, then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord. He got real with God. He thought, this is serious. I'm about to die. I don't want to die. I'm too young to die. I don't want to die. So verse three, he said, remember Lord, I've walked before you in truth with a perfect heart. I've done what's good in your sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. Now it doesn't tell you everything he said and did. Turning his face to the wall is a picture of turning away from everybody and everything and you focusing completely on God and getting serious and real with Him. And in his conversation with God and talking to God, some things happened in him. Some things changed in him. Come on, can you see this? Prayer doesn't change God. You can change in prayer. God doesn't change, doesn't need to. And verse four, then came the word of the Lord to Isaiah saying, go say to Hezekiah, thus says the Lord, the God of David, your father, I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add to your days 15 years, 15 years. Things have changed. Did God change? Well, the Bible said God don't change. Then what happened here? In verse nine, Hezekiah sat down and wrote some things after he'd been healed. The writing of Hezekiah, king of Judah, when he had been sick and was recovered of his sickness. Verse 16, he said, oh Lord, by these things men live and in all these things is the life of my spirit, so will you recover me and make me to live. Verse 19, the living, the living, he shall praise you as I do this day. The father to the children shall make known your what? Your what? What was the truth? Look at verse 20. What was the truth? I said, what was the truth? Oh, somebody ready to shout on it. What was the truth? The Lord was ready to, He was ready to save him when he told the prophet to go tell him he's gonna die. He was always ready to save him, but what's he telling him? You might say it like this. Under the present circumstances, this is what's gonna happen. You're gonna die. Set stuff in order, but Hezekiah got serious with God, spent some serious time praying and seeking God. Some changes happened in him, and I mean immediately. He tells the man of God, go back and tell him, I heard your prayer, I saw your tears, I saw the adjustments you made in your heart, I saw the changes, I'm gonna raise you up, you're gonna, I'm gonna add to you another 15 years, and the revelation, he said, I'm gonna proclaim the truth, the father to the children, I'm gonna make known your truth. Verse 20, the Lord was ready to save me. Somebody say, this is the truth, this is the truth. Everybody on the planet that's lost, the Lord's ready to save them. Come on, is that true? I don't care how mean they've been, I don't care how ugly they've been, how cruel they've been, is the Lord right now ready to save them? He's ready to receive them, hallelujah, and do for them what Jesus has bought and paid for. Is He ready? Is He also ready? Every person on the planet that's sick, with anything, I don't care if it's a toenail problem or terminal cancer, is the Lord ready? Is He ready? Come on, is He ready? Somebody say, He's ready, He's ready. He's ready, He's ready to, this way, He said save here, but that's one of the big words in the Bible, if you look up like the Greek word that's translated save or salvation, it doesn't just mean save from hell, it includes healing, sometimes it's translated heal. He was ready to save me, save me from what? From dying with a stinking disease. He was ready to raise me up. He was ready to heal me. Somebody said, He's ready to heal. He's ready, He's ready to forgive, He's ready to heal, always, always. Every hour of every day and every moment of every night, it wasn't God's perfect way for Him to die right then, that way with that disease, even though He told the prophet to go tell Him, you're gonna die, get ready, because He was. But when He changed some things, He found out the Lord was ready to heal me when He told me I was gonna die. This is revelation. Come on, can you see this? This is revelation. Look what else? The Lord was ready to save me. Therefore, we'll sing my songs to stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the Lord. He said, I got at least another 15 years and we're gonna sing and praise God all of them. I would think that's a good use of your healing, right? He said, there's gonna be some music around here praising God all the time. Verse 21, for Isaiah had said, let them take a lump of figs and lay it for a plaster upon the boil and he shall recover. Really? This passage just turns a bunch of people's ideas on its head. But you know, the truth does that to incorrect theories. Well, this is a natural assist and it didn't just come from somebody in the palace. It came from the prophet. He obviously got this from the Lord. Take a lump of figs, make a plaster, put it on the boil. Well, why do you need to do that? And he shall recover. People struggle so between medicine and faith for healing. And you shouldn't. I said, you shouldn't. You know, Jesus on one occasion, he spit and made mud and put it in the man's eyes. That's something natural. Why do that? Why was that necessary? It's not uncommon for there to be a natural and a spiritual working together. Now, you need to pray and be led about everything you do. Don't just do anything and everything that somebody says you should do to your body. Doctors and nurses, we're thankful for, but they're just men and women too. And they don't know everything. But there are a lot of natural things that can help you. A lot of folks wouldn't be here today, right? If it hadn't been for being helped through the medical profession. But here's something that people have completely turned around. I had somebody tell me one time, you know, I was talking about praying with somebody that was in the hospital. They said, yeah, you know, we appreciate that. Prayer can be a help to medicine. And something rose up in me and I thought, uh-uh. You got it backwards. I didn't tell them that. I didn't think they'd receive it. But I'll tell you, that's completely backwards. Because doctors don't heal people. Nurses don't heal people. Surgeries don't heal people. Come in here listening to me. You can have the best surgeon in the world. He can go in and do a perfect surgery on you that didn't heal you. Now, you gotta heal. Come on, are y'all listening? We're thankful for the, don't you misunderstand me. I have great respect for this field. I believe people can be called to be a doctor, to be a nurse, to be an assistant, just like you can be called, just like I'm called to preach. I believe you can be anointed. You can have the gifts of the spirit. But all of those things are a natural helps to the healer. If the healer doesn't work healing, I don't care what you do in the natural, it's not gonna make any difference. Men don't heal. But at the same time, we don't have to labor and think, well, if I'm gonna believe God, I can't use any medicine, I can't use any ointment. Here, he told him to. Right? He told him to. And whether there was actual medicinal quality in that, or whether God created some in it, or whether it was a point of contact, I don't know what it was. But I know this, it worked. And isn't that the main thing, right? The devil has heaped condemnation on people in our camp. You know, if you have symptoms, if you're using medicine or medical help, but that's a lie. It's a trick of the devil. We shouldn't be condemned that we've got symptoms. I feel like we need some natural help. We should be thrilled that healing belongs to us. We should be excited and thrilled that we have a healer who never changes. Can you say amen? Somebody say, I have a healer. I have the healer. The healer. Glory to God. And you know, nothing works, let's say you're gonna take some medicine, or you're gonna do a procedure. Nothing works like it should unless you mix faith with it. You can take a natural thing that would have a marginal effect and mix some faith with it and increase its effect tenfold or more. It's not a either or. Now, if the Lord checks you and deals with you, don't do that, well, then don't do that. But every situation, you just check your heart. But when he says, get you a plaster and put on that board, what do you do? I don't use means. I'm just gonna trust God. Trust God or die. We can figure what's gonna happen to you. You're already talking about dying. Trust God or die. You better listen to God and live. Listen to God, believe what he said, and put the plaster on. Are y'all okay today? This might have been a little different than what we were thinking. Oh, somebody say, praise God. Praise God, my healer, forever, unchanging. Oh, praise God, praise God. Never let anybody or anything tell you it's not God's will to heal you or not God's will to heal you yet, regardless of what you have experienced. He was ready, he is ready, he does not change. All the changes happen with us. Stand on your feet, if you will.