You are called to trust God's word over your physical symptoms, even when the healing seems delayed. Stand firm in your confession and pray in the Spirit to activate the gifts of faith within you. Let your body not be the final authority, but let His word be the testimony of your life.
You do deserve all the glory. You are our god. You are our hope. You are our confidence. You are our strength.
You are our peace. You are our righteousness. You are the son of righteousness with "healing in your wings". You are our healer. You are the great I am.
You are the I am willing. You're the unchanging God. And so as we approach today, we do so in confidence, and we receive all that you have for us. In Jesus' name, amen. You may be seated.
I wanna do a few questions before we get into the next teaching session. The first 1 is very deep. It's very spiritual. What is your or what was your favorite grand funk railroad? I'm your captain.
We're an American band. Smoke on the water. What role, if any, does fasting play in healing? Interesting. I don't like fasting.
I like food. I like feasting. I have fasted. I I used to fast 1, 2 days a week. My longest fast was just on water was 21 days.
I've never done a 40 day fast. Thank god. I've never felt led to do that. I I think fasting is good in that what it does is it it causes you to lay down your appetites so that your hunger for the things of God be awakened. I don't think fasting in any way twists God's arm to get something done.
That's right. *Faith* receives. You know, when Jesus said this kind goes out with prayer and fasting, some people would turn that like, unless you fast, you can't cast out spirits, but it's it's really a a they were struggling with their faith and and the activation of their faith. They got into *doubt* because he wasn't there, and they didn't understand their identity. It's pre the cross.
This all took place pre the cross. It wasn't post the cross. So after the cross, things change because he is present, directing, speaking. But pre the cross, they were moved by the senses. So when they tried to cast out the demon and the thing was putting up a fight, they backed away.
And he said, what you really need to do is to to get your faith built up and to do that, suppress your appetites, grow in faith, grow in confidence, and then this will come out. I don't feel in any way moved by performance to fast to get something done. If I'm lacking something or if I need a breakthrough, I'm not gonna fast. I'm gonna build up my faith. And the way I build up my faith is by getting in the word.
But if I feel my appetites are out of control, then I'm going to suppress them by going on a fast. And so fasting for me is just about surrender of my appetites so that I may be more sensitized to the realm of the *spirit* than to the natural. Could a person's healing be delayed for a certain time where another would be raised to believe for their miracle? Our healing was provided at Calvary. Sometimes, we don't see instant manifestation, and I I wrote a chapter.
I actually sent it to doctor Dave because I wanna I I wanted to check myself, and he's a great theologian and student to the word. Because I when I talk about delays, I don't wanna give people a way out from believing in the complete "work of the cross", but I've been around the mountain to know that not everything is miraculous and instantaneous. Some is a process. And so it's weird. You go into a situation.
There's people with faith, and they are expectant, and they don't see an instant result. Then you go into a village in Africa who have never heard the word, never know about Jesus, you walk in there and there's miracles. And you think, well, what's wrong with our faith? Is it America? Do we it's because we've got insurance, because we've got doctors, we've got hospitals, they've got nothing.
Is their faith at a higher level? And I'm gonna get into that in this session. I think a lot of times, from when you receive to when it manifests, I call it the "trial of your faith". Through faith and patience, we inherit the promises of God. So there's a there's a gap between receiving and manifestation.
In that period, you gotta keep your confession. You gotta keep your faith. You gotta guard your heart. And and what's the worst is that you die. And if you die, to die is gain.
Did you die in faith or did you die in fear? If you're gonna die, die in faith. And so I'll believe I I have this philosophy. If I'm in a wheelchair blind, sucking oxygen, I will preach divine healing. Yeah.
Why? Because Because my body is not the final authority. His word is the authority. It stands for itself. My body is not the testimony.
His word is the testimony. He is the completion himself. So I would be laying hands on the sick. I mean, you think of Smith Wigglesworth. He was struggling with kidney stones, bleeding on the his miracle services, and yet god's using him despite his own struggle of his faith walk.
Did god punish Smith? No. It's human frailty. The outer man will perish, but we are renewed in our faith and in our spirit, and we're not operating based on our feelings, emotion. We base everything that we say and do by the word of God.
So, it is possible that there'd be a delay, and then another is healed. And and what you gotta do is celebrate their miracle and not doubt yours. That's right. If you're facing a delay, give thanks and celebrate God's provision and speak the word and don't doubt the word and confess the word. And I think sometimes we're passive.
Sometimes when you feel a a challenge to your body, what you do is you run to the medical chest and you take a pill. And am I against medicine? Not at all. But I think sometimes if you would just rise up and say, in the name of Jesus, I forbid this thing in my body. These symptoms have no place, but we're not aggressive in our spirits sometimes.
Maybe just speaking to me. There was a time when my kids were sick. I would just get on my face before god until they were healed. Hey. Go to a doctor.
You know? No. I'm gonna lay hands first. I'm gonna believe god. If there'd be any sick among you, of course, there's sick among us.
Call on the elders of the church. They'll anoint you with all oil. The prayer of faith will heal the sick, and if they've sinned, it will be forgiven them. So I see that there is sickness in the church. But I do like that word if.
If there'd be any sick among you today, is there anyone healed among us? It's like, is anyone walking in health among us? Almost everyone is sick with some symptom or another. And we need to build ourselves, they say of Kenyan's church, that there were very few sick people in it. Why?
Because he preached divine healing, miracles, and identity. That's good. And I think we because of maybe political correctness, society, we sometimes wanna dampen the sound of *authority* that we don't humiliate or make people feel bad when they have sickness in their body, but we've raised up people that now just accept everything as, you know, this is something I've gotta work through instead of being aggressive. No. I don't accept this in my body.
In the name of Jesus, And you start speaking the word over your life and you believe God and you don't just give into it straight away. I was once preaching on *Mark-16*, and if they drink anything deadly, it will not harm them. And as I got to that point, my stomach started to erupt. I'd been in a wedding the night before. The food was poisoned.
And while I'm preaching on Mark-16, I switched off my mic, and I ran to the washroom. I said, preacher, take over. I gave it to the pastor. And I thought, how humiliating? I'm preaching on divine healing and *miracles* and nothing deadly harming and yum running for my life for the washroom.
Easier said than done, Leon. Easier said than done. If someone doesn't have the capacity to believe in healing due to dementia, can they still get healed? With god, all things are possible. I will believe god to my dying breath for them and for me.
But there are times when I've I know the provision of god, but you heard me say this earlier. I hear and I obey. Sometimes when people come to me with critical things and they say, can you pray for my uncle or my father with dementia? And and I believe for a miracle, but I hear god say, this is not gonna happen. I'm not gonna stand there and give them false hope.
You know what I'm saying? The once I I raised the dead and then people brought the dead to me, and god said to me, I'm not gonna raise them. I would love to raise them. I'll look pretty powerful. Be famously awesome.
Of course, I'd love to raise the dead. Preach the gospel, cast out demons, cleanse the leper, raise the dead. That's the word. I wanna raise the dead for the word's sake. But there are times when I know because I know, I've heard, it's not gonna happen.
But then I've heard, and it happens. I do what god told me. 1 of my friends died. He was dead 20 minutes by the time I got to him. And and god said, go lay hands and raise him.
I walked in. The doctors were sitting over him. He's gone. I said, step aside. In the name of Jesus, Micah, call you back to your body.
He sat up, healed, he lived for another 35 years after that. But I heard god. And in fact, when I heard god, god said to me, don't take anyone with you. I want you to go. I was in a board meeting.
I said, pray. I didn't even tell them what to pray. Said, pray for me, and I jumped in my car, and I drove. By the time I got across the city, he was dead 20 minutes. His wife had called me in a board meeting.
I heard the phone ringing in my office, and the spirit of god said, go answer your phone. That was before we had answering machines or texting. I ran. I grabbed the phone on the last ring. I heard Pam screaming.
Mike's dead. Mike's dead. I could hear the kids screaming in the background. I said, I'll be right there. God said to me, don't take anyone.
My board were good men, men of faith. I said, pray. And I left the board meeting. I jumped in my car, drove across town. When I got there, he was gone.
But I heard god, and that's the secret. When someone's critical, I will believe god. I will pray in faith, but god works miracles. God does the thing. All I've gotta do is obey.
And sometimes, I know just because I hear that this isn't gonna happen, but I will never discourage their faith. I'll say, I'll lay hands on you. I'm gonna believe God for you. I'm gonna I'm always never once have I declined an opportunity to pray for someone. Can those we are praying hinder God's healing?
Absolutely. When Jesus went to his hometown, he could work no miracles because of their *unbelief*. And so absolutely, the environment can be not conducive for miracles. So that can happen. You said the gift of faith came on me as you prayed healing over that person to read what does that look like versus prophesying healing over your son and feeling nothing.
Good question. Every now and again, I step into a zone. It's the best way I can word it, where I could be in the lion's den and I'd feel absolutely 0 pain, 0 doubt. I'd like become another man. I just like stand in the face of hostility and death, and I stare it in the eye, and I'm not intimidated and least and and when I step into the gift of faith, it's like I become super bold, scary bold.
I feel nothing. 1 day, the gift of faith came on me. This lady had grown up uneducated. I put a bible in her hand. I said, woman, in the name of Jesus, read.
And she immediately began to read without 1 day's education because of the gift of faith. It was beyond me. I would never have made that up. But the authority, "read in the name of Jesus". How do we explain what this I took a TV magazine like a program.
I stuck it in her hand. I said, can you read this? She didn't understand a word of it. I took her down. I stuck the bible.
I said, read. She could read. Couple of weeks later, I'm in a village in Africa, farming community, and this girl saved, filled with the spirit. She comes up to me. She says, *God* spoke to me that I'm to become an evangelist, but I've never been to school.
She's about 20 years old. She said, do you think it's possible that god would give me the ability to read without going to school? I grabbed my bible. Not my bible. It was actually another person's was Tosa, her language.
I grabbed it based on what had happened with the other family. I grabbed it. I stuck it in her hands. I said, woman, read in the name of Jesus, and she began to read. She became a famous evangelist in that entire area for many years.
She carried the word and did a great work of god. Never been to school 1 day, but it I stepped into that zone. You know? Once I "step into that zone", I call it the gift of faith, but my authority even sometimes when I get in and and I I get into the zone, I feel it in my eyes. I can look and I can penetrate the depths of someone's being that they will either cower for cover because they sense that authority.
And if there's backslidden condition, I've had to come on me. People will dive under the benches and hide from me when I step into that zone. But it's beyond me. I can't fake it. I can't make it.
I don't try self generate it, but I step into that zone. Bam. It's gonna happen. It will explode. And it's a great feeling.
I remember 1 day, I was in a meeting, and that gift of faith came on me because I had a vision. And that I don't see a lot. I hear very clearly. But when I see something, it will unfold. And I and that gift of faith came with a vision, and I stepped into it.
I was in a meeting. The "sound came from heaven" like a mighty rushing wind filled the house just as I saw in the vision, and everyone just went flying back. The entire church was struck with 1 blow. No 1 stood. Their faith had nothing to do with it.
Their hunger for god had nothing to do with it. In fact, I don't think they had hunger for god, really. But the *glory* invaded, and they had a Pentecost. I was in another meeting in Africa, and the gift of faith came on me. It was weird because I actually was carnal, like, seconds before.
I just wanted to go home. I was tired. I'd been away from my family for about 3 months in the bush. In those days, we didn't have cell phones, and I just wanted to go home. I'd come to the end.
I was exhausted. 3 months of pioneering. And now I had this meeting, and the place is packed with people. And I thought, I just wanna go home. And I I had this idea, *god*, could you just invade this building and do what would take me hours to do in minutes?
I wanted to go home. I didn't wanna do a meeting. And I prayed, and the authority of god got on me. There came a sound from heaven like an explosion. It was like, and the entire place fell under the power of god.
And I watched demons coming out, people being filled, being healed, and and I was wanting to go home. Do the math. Like, god just moved. I got the meeting over with, jumped in my car, drove through the night, and got home. It was a great meeting "despite me".
Despite me. That's what I mean. It's all of God. But I did initiate it with the with that gift. So in terms of my son, when I prophesied in I feel like I was operating in the gift of *faith* because I felt 2 weeks in my heart.
When I stepped forward, I said, 2 weeks, you'll walk out. But then after I prayed, the doubt started coming. And I remembered, if you say to this mountain, do not doubt, you'll have what you say. And then I had to fight the doubts. That's why I wrote all the New Testament scriptures because I needed to shift my mind from the doubt that was trying to infiltrate that would nullify what I'd spoken back to the word.
And that's why at the back of my healing school, I have all those scriptures because that's what I prayed. I was in a little hotel room in England. Hotels are so small. I've been in a hotel where you couldn't even carry the suitcase upstairs. It was too narrow.
And that room was so tight. I had this bed and, like, a little walkway, and I walked, and I spoke those words for an entire 2 weeks to contradict the fear and the doubt. So it's not like a perfect science, but when he lay there, in 2 weeks, you will walk. At a week, he regressed, and I was sick. And so I'd been there a few days, and I was still in my suits because I'd come straight from meeting those days.
I used to wear suits, ties to every meeting. And I traveled with just suits, PJs, toiletries. I had no casuals. And so I said to Matt, he was now starting to feel better, I said, I'm gonna go buy some sneakers, fleece, jeans so I can just because my hotel, I had to commute back and forth. I didn't wanna wear a suit and leather shoes.
And it was May, and it was getting cool in England. Still, it hadn't reached summer yet. So I thought, well, let me go get some stuff. And then Matt said, dad, take my shoes. And he had sneakers, Nikes.
And and I went down to grip them, and I heard the spirit of god say to me, don't take his shoes. He must wear his shoes out here in a week. And I said, Matt, I will not take your shoes. These are your shoes and you walking out, but I I spoke with authority. It was stronger than me.
These are your shoes, not my shoes. You are walking out in 2 weeks. And I put the shoes on the foot of his bed. I said, I want you to look at your shoes. You walking out in these.
I'll just go buy shoes. But it you see the transition, a boldness because my natural thing would be, yeah, I'm wearing shoes. So it's another week. I could do that. But I felt I need to obey god.
Anyway, I'm gonna come back to the rest of the questions in the next session. Does that help you? I want to shift. Pastor Dave is gonna minister later in the word of knowledge on a couple of things, but I thought I wanna start this session with an exercise of faith. I want you to put your hand on your belly while they out of your innermost being or out of your belly will flow rivers of living water.
By this, he spoke of the holy spirit at that stage had not yet been given. He is given. And why do I say that? Just as a point of activation, last 2 weeks ago, I was in Connecticut. I said, I want to I want you to put your hand on your belly, and I put my hand on my belly, and I fell back under the power of god.
I went staggering back. And I said, I'm glad this works for me. I hope it works for you. But when I lay hands on my belly, I lay hands in faith. It's not just like I'm doing what Leon says.
I'm actually believing for an impartation. I want you to desire the gifts of the spirit, the working of miracles, discernment of spirits, the gift of faith. Because most of the New Testament church today operates in vocal gifts. Very few operate in power gifts, and we need to make a transition. So let's just pray a little bit in the holy ghost.
Let's pray in the *spirit* and and just ask god to activate in you gifts, healings, *authority*, power in the name of Jesus. Pray in tongues. You can lift up your volume. It's okay. We're believers in this place.
If you don't yet speak in other tongues, then just pray with your understanding. Building yourselves up in your most holy faith, praying in the spirit. I pray, oh God, impartation. I pray, oh God, *activation* of gifts of authority and power manifesting word of knowledge, word of wisdom, *discernment* of spirits, gifts of healings, working of miracles, a pray activation and reactivation where fear and doubt has stepped in that has canceled the operations of the spirit, a break the **force of darkness** that has limited the holy ones of Israel that have limited God flowing through your life in the name of Jesus has set you free from doubt, fear, unbelief, every limitation that has been opposed upon you, and pray an elevation of your vision, of your faith, and activation in those dimensions in Jesus' name. Amen.