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9009--harry Greenwood--Restoration-Wholeness_128k
00:00:00 Speaker: In Auckland, and it's so good to see quite a few familiar faces. I used to say old faces, but then I was always in trouble from that statement. But it's so wonderful to see so many people that we already know, and we're rejoicing in the Lord what he has done. Uh, we may be a little tired in our physical bodies or in our minds, but we're certainly not tired in the spirit, so that won't get in the way one little bit. Especially after that prayer. It better not. But we are so glad to be here. We're in a meeting last night between eight and nine hundred people, and we started off the meeting, and the Lord didn't want a lot of people sitting in the meeting in pain and agony of pain. So we just prayed for them and we sang and worshipped the Lord first of all. And then over thirty people were healed straight away, completely free, not just from the pain, but from the cause of it. And that hadn't finished there. Then we went on to worship the Lord and those who hadn't been filled with the Holy Spirit. We prayed for them. And then we started to worship the Lord, and they came into singing in their new language and worshiping the Lord. I think that's a lovely way to come into the baptism of the Holy Spirit in worship and singing to the Lord. First worship and then power. Mm. Amen. And we had about what is it, seventeen about seventeen people were filled with the Holy Spirit. And it's so wonderful what God is doing, but he's doing it all the time. But most of us don't know that he's doing it because we don't feel anything. I have to tell people sometimes that they're healed. I have to give a word of knowledge in the meeting. Remember once in Auckland, I said, there's a lady over here had just been healed on your left ear. You're deaf in your left ear. And you've been. I didn't know she was sliding off the chair onto the floor. And she was healed in her left ear. And the shock was so much for her. She was just sliding off her chair, Here, but I'm not backsliding. But anyway, the healing cheered her up. But, uh. Sorry about that. You are not here to be punished. Okay. She gave her testimony next night. And it's so wonderful that so many things are happening now. Because we don't realize to what depth of the presence of God we're really in. We don't realize what we can touch now, what we couldn't touch before, and what we're believing now. And God has been feeding your believing and obviously by looking at you all you've been receiving. But we continue to receive all the time, not just when the preacher gets up to preach. So that's an important time. I believe that the beginning of the meeting is a preparation of our hearts to receive the word that God has to give to us, but the word comes through what we sing. Whether we sing the truth, we preach it or we pray it, it makes us free. It has an effect upon us. So all the time we're being prepared for what God is going to do and what God is going to say. So I believe we have a very much prepared tonight, and it's really wonderful that we can go on from here. We're not warming people up. You do your own homework and then you bring it to the meeting to have it corrected or confirmed, right? To be free. It's so good to reverence the Lord, to be quiet, to be still, to listen to him through the gifts. Don't we have such a variety? And the devil is so confused, because if only he knew the program. It's wonderful to be able to worship the Lord together, and to really enter into some of the songs. From there. Really enter into what, um, what we're singing and really mean it from our hearts. The further we move in, the more we get out of it. And this is what God's been doing right through New Zealand, teaching people how to really begin to praise and worship him in spirit and in truth. And we have to believe what we're singing in order to get the best and the most out of our songs. Sometimes a person just likes a song, and they sing it just because they like the tune or something like that. But it's more than that. We have to really enter into what the words really mean and sing it from our hearts because, um, the verse that the Lord gave me while I was sitting down there is in Hebrews eleven verse six, without faith it is impossible to please him, for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Without faith and everything that we do, it's impossible to please God, especially in these days, because there's so much happening all around us. but we have to invest our faith all the time in everything that we do to get the best and the most out of what God is doing. And if we don't invest our faith, we can't expect the Lord to meet the returns, as it were, because if our faith isn't invested, then nothing will happen to us. And right from the beginning of the meeting, God is drawing us all the time closer and closer to himself. And so that we can experience more and more of His Spirit. And in doing so, we will receive the blessing that he has for us. Because without faith in what we do, it's impossible to please him, and we must believe that he is God. When we come to him and he is a rewarder of those that diligently seek him. And the Lord showed me, uh, someone with a magnifying glass. Uh, and there's someone here tonight, I believe, who is really sort of searching for a word from the Lord. And I believe that as you come in faith. Trusting the Lord tonight, that he will, as we magnify him together, says, oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together. And as, as we learn to do that, magnify the Lord first. I believe that in return he will begin to magnify his word to us. I believe that His Word will be magnified tonight in in your heart, so that you will know what to do after tonight. Someone who is searching for a word from the Lord. Without faith, it's impossible to please him. You must believe. You must come to him in faith. And as we come to him in faith, trusting him as our Heavenly Father, he is a rewarder of those that diligently seek him. God is a spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. He is drawing us and teaching us in these days how to worship him. And then we will receive the benefits that he has for us. He has so much for us, and he is ready to pour out his spirit tonight. And as as we prepare our hearts every time we come together, I believe that we will receive those benefits that he has for us, says forget not all his benefits. His benefits are here. But as we plug into the spirit and keep plugged in by our praise and our worship, I know that he has something tremendous for us. So that person who is seeking a word from the Lord, if your heart is prepared, you will hear tonight what God is saying to you. You won't be searching anymore because God will reveal himself to you, those who seek him. Hallelujah! Thank you. Let's just have a short word of prayer, please, and then we'll see what the Lord has for us tonight. Father, we thank you for your goodness so far expressed. And, father, we thank you that your goodness has not yet not been experienced totally, nor has anyone ever come to the end of your faithfulness, or your love or all your provision. Lord, nobody has really stretched you, Lord. And we feel that in this day and generation, this is your desire for each one of us, that we might prove the greatness of our God, and how much is available to us to fulfill our ministries. We thank you, Lord, that we might find out also the value of what you have given us. We thank you. We want to find out also, Lord, the value of believing as we encounter all those things that come against us, bringing us deeper in to that which you say we're in. So we get a little more of what we've really got. We thank you for the revelation that Jesus Christ is here, present tonight, the same yesterday, today and forever, that he has not changed. And we make your omnipotence tonight, Lord, the measure of our expectation. We believe tonight, Lord, what was impossible with man till this moment is now possible with God. So take us beyond our reasoning and our ability to reason, Lord, and reveal to our spirit that which we cannot find out with our minds, so that we know it's you, Lord, that wants us to have what we've heard in Jesus precious name. Amen. I'd like to put it under the heading of restoration, if it's possible. Um, the message tonight. But I'm going to also put it under the heading of wholeness. Wholeness. I believe God wants us to be whole. And I'm going to tell you a story to start off with that happened in Australia. Which will in some way shed a little light on what I'm really trying to get at. The body of Christ have inherited wholeness. You're not going to get it. You've already got it. You were born in this natural world, maybe not whole in every sense. Either your personality, your physical body, or your ability to reason or your mind or whatever. But let me say this. You are born again, whole. You are born again of incorruptible seed by the Word of God. You are born of the spirit. And so it means basically Then you are you start off with wholeness. Now, a lot of Christians don't. They start off trying to get whole, and they're spending all their time trying to get into what God says they're in and spending all the time trying to get what God says they've already got, but they're trying to get it with their reason, or with their emotions or with their feelings, if you like, in the sense they're trying to get it with their senses so that in some way it will register somewhere that they've got it or they've got there. That's why a lot of people are trying constantly to get into God's presence. Now, I believe that we're in God's presence twenty four hours a day, but we're not always in the experience of God's presence. That's why we had the music so beautifully laid and ministered to us, that it's no longer an entertainment, but a ministry to bring us into the experience of God's presence. Because some people have gone through quite a lot today, and you've been in the experience of other people's presence and atmospheres and influences and so forth. But all that has to be stripped off us and stripped off off us by music, by the Ministry of Music. Because when the Ark of the covenant returned to Israel, remember they were playing and singing and dancing. David leading the way. If you're a king, you're allowed to dance. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And so then the Ark of the covenant, representing the presence of God, or the returning presence of God, and the returning presence of God to the church, is ushered in by music of the spirit, because it strips us of all the other influences. Just as David ministered to Saul and he played to him, and the evil spirit left him, so anybody under any evil influence whatsoever can be totally stripped of that evil influence or freed from it. As we respond to it. So it's very important ministry, but we've got to find out, you know, its importance. Everything is important because we're in the presence of God and in his presence there is fullness of joy. Amen. Remember once being totally miserable because of circumstances many, many years ago. And I said to the Lord, Lord, I'm miserable. He said, well, in my presence there is fullness of joy. Where are you living? And I said, Lord, in my feelings, in my feelings. And it was true. Then I began to rejoice. I had nothing to rejoice about. I didn't feel anything, but I rejoiced because I was in his presence. I just believed it. And I came into the experience of what I believed. And the Bible says there joy. There's joy and peace in believing. I believe it's in Romans fifteen thirteen. If it's not, it should be. Now, I believe that the church is on its way into the experience of wholeness. The church is on its way into the experience of wholeness. Sorry, Mike, if you feel alone. And that includes a sense of humor. That's true. If God made us to laugh. There must be something to laugh at. And it's time we had a good laugh. I really believe that it releases you inside. So all the releases that we're having are bringing us into the experience of wholeness in our personalities. The church has been so hurt. As I was sitting there, the Lord said to me, my people have been so hurt by the world, discouraged, and many of them have lost their their dignity. I believe as people, you know, they've been robbed of it by their circumstances or failures or whatever. The cruel things that we've many of us have had to go through and how we've been hurt just as children and not loved and rejected and all that. So wholeness is a very, very, very important aspect of what God is doing today. Wholeness. He wants us to behold as a person. So you can look a person in the eye and not feel inferior, you know, but you're looking out from wholeness. You're you're seeing not what is wrong with the person. You're seeing that person in what God can do for them. You're covering them in his love so you don't see what is wrong, but you enjoy that which is right. While he's dealing with that which is wrong. God only deals with that which we cover in love. Otherwise you're dealing with it. By judging it. No judge is allowed, just fruit inspectors. Well, if God, if God allowed us to judge each other, there'd be no sorry. I was thinking of pruning. Actually, if God allowed us to prune each other, there'd be nothing left. I want to tell you this little story because it's quite unusual. I was in Australia ministering quite a while ago, and two young ladies came forward after the meeting. There were teenagers and one was absolutely petrified and she looked at me with real panic in her eyes and and total fear. Thank you for your sympathy, those two people. But being serious for a moment, they looked at me in this and she looked at me in this way. And then her friend explained to me that she was deaf and dumb, but she had been molested as a small girl and very, very frightened by a man who obviously was demon possessed. And the shock was so great to her system that she became deaf and dumb as a result of it. And of course, she looked at me. I was another man. And this terrible fear. Excuse me. And so her friend filled me in on the detail, and I moved into my spiritual relationship with God. Just remember that. That means I moved into loving the Lord and out from loving the Lord. I loved her. Now sympathy is not enough. Trying to be human and kind is not enough. This will not reach the hurt inside or deal with the fear. Only the love of God can deal with this sort of fear and heal the person from the cause of it. Because perfect love casts out fear. And I believe we're connected to perfect love. Amen. Now, um. I looked at her for a moment, and I loved her. And then I reached out very, very slowly with my hand. My right hand. I remember very slowly. And just loving her very quietly, like you with a shy horse. And then I just touched her, made contact. Now I didn't know what I was doing, but in love. You know exactly what you're doing in this sense. You're doing the right thing. And afterwards, when you get the results, you know that you were doing the right thing. It's wonderful in love, isn't it? You know exactly what to say and do. Sometimes we feel so deeply we don't know what to say. But in love you do. And so then I withdrew my hand, and I said to her friend. Okay, then you can take away. So she took her away, and she came back next night after the meeting again. And she came up to me and she looked eagerly into my face to see if the same love was there. And then she saw it there, and then she just stood there then and there. She is no longer now frightened of me. And I was trying to understand what the Lord was saying to me. And he was saying, you see, to get to me because I'm a man, she's got to get past the man. She's got to get past the man. She's got to get past you to me. And so I entered into the love of the Lord for her again. And this time I came a little closer, and she didn't, you know, pull back. And I just put my arm around her and just held her for a moment, just for a moment. And she let me just for a moment, and I let her go with still the love of the Lord. And oh, it's so wonderful when you know how much God loves a person. And so I, I was withdrew then and I said, you can take her home. I knew that was all that was required. When you minister in the spirit, you don't have to conclude everything. You just leave it where God wants it left. It's left. And. And you keep the door open by loving the person. So that when the person comes back, you continue to minister to the open door. And this was really fantastic because the next night her friend came up and said to me, she wants you to pray for her. Oh, now this is what I was waiting for. And so now I looked at her and she saw the same love. And I put my hands on her head. And I prayed for her. And she screamed. She screamed out as loud. I've never heard a scream so loud. And it came right out the whole thing in that scream. And she settled back and began to weep. For ten years she couldn't hear and couldn't speak, and she was able to hear perfectly and speak perfectly. And the next night there was nothing in her. That love went right down to the very root, and took the root out and made her whole inside. And then she was whole outside. And I believe a lot of physical healing is tied up with inner healing a great deal. Believe you me. And I feel that maybe what God has been doing, because relationships are so important, because they are the areas where we can be hurt the most. And when God starts to heal in relationships, and you can open up again and have a relationship with a brother and sister in the Lord, I'll tell you, you'll get healed. Then from all that apprehension and all that fear of being hurt, you'll get healed from the whole thing. And she gave a beautiful testimony, and she was free and totally free. I wanted to tell you that because Jesus is very interested in making people whole. There are several stories and I'll just refer to them as we go along. First of all, we have the man at the pool. The pool of Bethesda. And this man is being crippled for about thirty eight years, and he can't get into the pool and he can't get to Jesus. But everybody else has got their eyes on the water because an angel comes along and stirs up the water at a certain time. And the moment that water is stirred up, the first one in gets healed. Everybody knew the routine. Now he'd been had this infirmity for thirty eight years. People weren't really are. Many scholars are not really certain. Actually. If he was there thirty eight years or he came a little later, it would appear that he could have been there thirty eight years if he had the infirmity that long, so that he could get get healed. Now Jesus then didn't use the pool, so he closed it up there. You know, he closed up the temporary source of healing and brought about the permanent part, the permanent healing for for the people by not using the water by healing direct directly. He closed that up and there's no record that anyone else was ever healed there again. But he said to this man and he made a tremendous statement. He said, wilt thou be made whole? Wilt thou be made whole? Now Jesus could only offer that man what he'd really got. He couldn't say, well, would you like, you know, just to be healed of this disease or whatever? He couldn't. He had to offer him everything. Because you see him give us everything. He came to bring wholeness, and he was a whole person. And when you're a whole person, you think in wholeness. Your attitude towards things is in wholeness. Everything you say is in wholeness. You are a whole person. And everything you plan, you plan in wholeness. You plan as a total person, as a fulfilled person, as a complete person and this is so vital. So he said to man, wilt thou be made whole? But I have nobody to put me. He still got his eyes in the pool. Nobody to put me in to, to the pool when it stirred up. And and Jesus just just healed him right there and then. He wasn't interested in in the pool whatsoever. And or, you know, he didn't say, well, let me just stir the water up for you. No, he just said, wilt thou be made whole? And he was the source of the of that that man's wholeness. And he made him absolutely whole. He made him absolutely whole. And that really touched me deeply, because I thought of all the sick milling around Jesus. And there were so many of them. Maybe he was exposed to sickness more than any other man on earth. They can you imagine every day, day in and day out, sometimes hundreds and thousands of people in desperate need, and many of them with sicknesses that are not really covered by medical, uh, help or medication. You know what I mean? Open sores. No bandages and things like that. And leprosy and everything else. And the Bible says as many as touched him. He didn't catch what they'd got. They caught what he'd got. As many as touched him to, to as many as touched him were made perfectly whole. Were made perfectly whole. So I want to look at one particular case in Mark's gospel in chapter ten, and it's blind Bartimaeus. And then we'll go on to another case, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, in verse forty six to the end. And they came to Jericho. And as they went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the way side, begging. Now can you imagine the scene? Because blind men in those days they wore a particular robe, an outer robe, to denote that they were blind? Some scholars say it was yellow or whatever color. But anyway, just like we carry or people carry a white stick. And so he's there. Here he is there sticking. And he heard that Jesus of Nazareth. Now, if you're blind or you're sick, you're the first person generally to hear about any other source of healing. Somebody comes to town or if there's a new medicine out or a pill because somebody hears it straight away and they think about you. Now, obviously, this man had heard about Jesus, and quite a lot, because immediately he starts to shout out, and thou, thou Son of David. In verse forty seven, have mercy upon me. And he really did shout. He shouted so loud that they told him to shut up. You know you're making far too much noise. And so. And be quiet. And now here is the man's first commitment. First commitment to the knowledge that he's got first commitment. And now he's been dampened. What does he say? Oh, I better be quiet. No! This man shouts even louder, thou son of David, have mercy on me! Now, didn't you think Jesus heard him the first time? Of course he did. Here's everybody. The first time we shout a little louder, as if he's deaf. Why didn't he respond? Because Jesus wanted a further commitment. Thank you. I'll have that now. Thank you. It's called if you give a cup of cold water in his name, you shall in no wise lose your reward. Hmm. And the message in this is very simple. You always give people a thirst for what you enjoy. Never mind. Maybe visual aid is not enough. And Jesus stood by and commanded him to be called. So Jesus heard him, but he wanted another commitment. So if you can remember that my wife brought out that word. He's a rewarder of those that diligently seek him. You must believe that God is. He had to believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. He's got to believe he's the Messiah. He's got to believe everything that's been been said about him. He's got to believe the whole lot. He's got to commit himself. Totally. So Jesus said, bid him come. Bid him come. Well, if everybody else heard him, Jesus heard him, too, because Jesus must have been speaking. And that's why they couldn't hear what Jesus was saying, because this guy was shouting his head off. Thou son of David, have mercy on me. Can you imagine a man who is blind and there's a chance of healing? What's he going to do? Whisper? Do you know how far you'd go to be free? Well, Jesus went there for you. And he, casting away his garment, rose and came to Jesus. In verse thirty. Now I know some Christians, if they were standing by, you know what they'd say to blind Bartimaeus? Ha! I wouldn't do that if I were you. I mean, what about if you don't get healed? How are you going to find your garment again? That was the. That was the final commitment. That was the final commitment. The final commitment. He's not coming back to blindness, that's for sure. And so that Jesus answered and said unto him, what wilt thou that I should do unto thee? What will you have me do? Which seems a rather strange question to ask a blind man. It's pretty obvious, you know. What will you have me do for you? Because Jesus saw that this man had a greater need than blindness, a greater need. And then blind Bartimaeus said, Lord, now that is a fantastic statement, because we know that no one can say, Lord, except by the Holy Spirit. But he said, Lord. So there must have been a total openness to Jesus all the way into his personality, into the person that he really was, and not just the selfish desire for healing, but something more than that. Jesus awakened something in him, and it would be wrong to for Jesus to say, well, you just need your sight restoring in your in your on your way. No, Jesus had to let this man say what his need really was. And very often we sometimes say our need is this. But Jesus will meet your need to the depth of your need, and he will reveal himself to you to the depths of your desire to know him. You see, he does not just reveal himself to any Tom, Dick, and Joe. My name is Harry. For no reason. There has to be a commitment. And we we see. We see something happening here between the lines, which is really coming to to a total commitment. And he said, Lord, that I might receive my sight. And Jesus said unto him, go thy way. Thy faith hath made thee whole. And the simple word is that we believe is zoso in the Greek, which means a spiritual wholeness as well as physical. So his need was spiritual. So Jesus had to let blind Bartimaeus see what his need was. And then Jesus gave him what he really needed. So my God will supply all your need and not according to your need, but according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Jesus was interested in giving this man wholeness, and wholeness is what he received and he received his sight. Now he spoke to the man's faith. Obviously he wouldn't say to the man, thy faith hath made thee whole. If the man could see. But the man couldn't see. But he still spoke, and said, thy faith hath made thee whole. And the. And blind Bartimaeus believed he was whole before he was whole. So that meant he believed from the spiritual realm, and out it came into the natural realm. And so he could see. But Jesus wasn't speaking to his body, was he? Thy faith hath made thee whole. Don't tell a man he can see. When he can see, he tells you. That's Irish logic and there's not a lot of it around. And immediately he received his sight and followed him in the way. And I said, Lord, why did he follow you in the way? And the Lord said, because he called me Lord. When you say, Lord, you then follow. You don't follow until you say, Lord. You can say Savior, but you'll stay put. But when you say Lord, you start following. Amen. Now to me this means a great deal, because if Jesus said, Then I've come that you might have life, and that more abundantly. And he said, I am the life. In John chapter fourteen six and John ten ten, I. You might have it more abundantly. And we saw then his life he was a whole person. And then I believe that all that Jesus Christ gave up at Calvary, that's his wholeness. If you like his health. His righteousness, he was made sin who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. Now he did give up his health. Well, the point is, he wants it back in our experience. Everything that Jesus Christ gave up at Calvary, he wants it back in our experience. He intended that we should behold. Now, if he wasn't in a sick body before Calvary, he doesn't want to be in a sick one after. Sorry, it's his life, not Paul's or anyone else's, that we've received of his fulness have we received? In John one, verse sixteen. Now I'm totally convinced then, that the early church were whole. There was not one lack amongst them. And we get a tremendous example in acts chapter three, when Peter is on his way up and and John to the temple in verse four, Peter fastening his eyes with John said, look on us. And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them. If he knew they were preachers, he would have been disappointed. And Peter said, silver and gold have I none. Typical preacher, but such as I have, give I unto you in the name of Jesus. Now, just a moment. What do you have? Well, you see, we have wholeness. You mean you're going to give somebody something that you've already got? Yes. And if you hold, you automatically, automatically gravitate towards those that are not. You just can't help it immediately. You you you you're reaching out and you find out too straight away that that person is not whole. I meet a person and I know if they're whole, but you can't know a person's whole until you're whole. You can't know that a person's wrong until you're right. You can't know what is wrong until you're in that which is right. So when you're in that which is right or you're in the wholeness, then you automatically start to give what you've got. Here's a man asking for alms. And Peter gave him legs. Never mind. Now. But they had something to give. So if Peter and John are living now, this is what the church has got to give. You see, if we actually believe that the body of Christ today is living in his health, then you might as well say as he is, so are we in this world in one John four seventeen. It's not agreeing with the Bible. It means, put it this way. If I draw a circle like this and I put you right in the center, and I say, now you are whole, you are born again whole. This wholeness comes out from your spirit to your soul, out to your physical body. How? By a vehicle called the Word of God. You have to believe what God says you are spiritually. Yes. As a person, physically and materially. So now man's order has been changed, where he was created from his lowest form to his highest form, body, soul and spirit. Now he has a recreated spirit and he lives now spirit, soul and body. So you've got to believe you've got everything before you get it. And God's word, then, is the evidence to faith just as clearly as the absence of sickness? Is the evidence to your physical body that you're healed, or the evidence that you have through your senses, that you've got your car, you've got your home, or you've got that material thing that you've reached out for. But Faith already knows it's got that because faith is the evidence of things not seen in Hebrews eleven one. Now if you start living this way, you're going to have the most exciting life because you are thinking in wholeness. How can I think in wholeness? Because in one Corinthians two sixteen we have the mind of Christ, A mind that has never thought in sickness. Never thought in fear. Hallelujah. Never a thought in defeat or poverty. Never thought in those areas. In himself. He's thought about other people being in that condition. And he fed the multitude. Wholeness came out straight away. Wholeness connects man. Supply up with God's supply. Five loaves and two fishes to the heavenly supply. Jesus had no problem in his thinking. Now how am I going to do it? His accountants were just having their minds blown. Well, two hundred pennyworth. Let's put it through the computer again, Peter, will you? Two hundred. Two hundred Pennyworth is not going to feed this lot. Five thousand. The rest of the families. Well, Jesus took that problem away from them, and he blessed it as far as he said, he gave the extension to the supply. And that's what God has done in Jesus Christ. He's connected us up to heaven's supply, the natural to the supernatural or the natural to the spiritual. And everything that is spiritual comes over the bridge of faith, and you carry it over in the word. Amen. The word. Like the centurion, he came to Jesus for healing for his servant. But he didn't bring a body. Well, how are you going to receive it? Have you brought an envelope or a bag? We can put it in. I mean, it sounds funny, but it's true. He said, no, Lord, just speak the word only. Oh, you've come with your faith. Oh, then you you can receive the answer straight away. Whenever you come to God in faith, you get instant answer. Because faith doesn't require any evidence whatsoever to know it's got the answer. The Word of God is the evidence of faith. She went away. Went home with the results. Not for the results. With the results. Hallelujah. Isn't that simple? It's like coming for healing. Leave your body at home. That's the servant. You mean when you come for healing, you don't bring your body and you forget about your body because you get healed first in your faith. Otherwise, if you come with your body, you wait. Waiting to be healed. And then you believe you're healed. When will you believe you're healed, sister? Oh, when I'm healed. Well, you won't have to believe. Then you'll know. You know, I could really have this the wrong way round. Yes. We've been living so long in the natural. We're trying to be spiritual. Well, you're naturally spiritual because you're spiritually natural. You are. You are born this way. That's your excuse. And stick to it. You are born naturally spiritual. You are born for the spiritual realm. And so when you're in wholeness, you begin to think like Jesus thinks and you're constantly reaching out to people, and it's wonderful when you think of the mind of Christ. Oh, God has not given us the spirit of fear. In two Timothy one seven but the spirit of love and power and a sound mind. Peter said later on someone else he said, Jesus Christ hath made you whole. Before the cross he made them whole. And at the cross we were made perfectly whole. And the lovely thought is this, that if any man be in Christ Jesus in two Corinthians five seventeen, then he is a totally new creation. Old things have passed away and all things have become new. So, folks, you've got to get used to wholeness. You've got to grow in it and develop in it. That means you've got to constantly renew your mind spiritually. Otherwise, your five senses will tell you you're not whole, it's not working, your body is sick, and so forth. And that constant flow of information into you tells you that you're very inadequate. You haven't believed You don't have enough faith? No. The negative only reminds you of the positive. And once you get the negative, it's an opportunity to move out into positive. Let me say this. The effect on your mind of just praising the Lord just for one week in every situation would be so remarkable. You just wouldn't believe it. The effect on you would be absolutely remarkable. The people wouldn't believe you the same person because praise is an acknowledgement of victory. Oh, this is so easy. We make it difficult. We really make it difficult. Now, can you imagine what it's like for a person who is thinking in love? He is whole in his thoughts, so he's reaching out. A person that is thinking in fear is retreating. A person that's thinking in faith or in love and faith and love is advancing a totally different people altogether. So what do you to do? Move back into your relationship of wholeness? Whatever attacked you and caused you to fear or whatever it is, move back in to your relation of wholeness with Jesus and just love him in that wholeness, and worship him. And out from that wholeness you'll deal with the fear. Oh, this can change your whole life tonight, and I really mean it. And your family and all your relationships. Because as you love the Lord and you lift people up before the Lord that you can't stand or you know you have, your back gets up when you meet them or they irritate you, you lift them up before the Lord. And as you love the Lord, you lift them up in prayer and you pray for them, that wholeness comes out into your experience. And so there's no reaction within you. And when you meet them, you've built up a great amount of love between you and them, and you just gotta hug them the moment you meet them. And they're healed also by that love of their reaction to you. Folks, there's a lot of healing needed in the body of Christ, but somebody's got to start off believing they're whole. In the Old Testament, I'm reminded of the story. Excuse me. I'm not going to be much longer. Just an hour or two. Of David. The attitude of David when he came onto the battlefield, that David was a whole person. He was anointed to be anointed. Anointed to be king. But he was a whole person. In other words, he didn't know what it was like to be defeated. Now, can you imagine how he saw Goliath and how Israel saw Goliath? Israel looked at Goliath and thought, mhm. Then they saw themselves on the ground with their heads off. When David looked at Goliath, he saw Goliath on the ground with his head off. If you're looking at fear, you see yourself as the victim. When you look in the faith, you see the other person as the victim. Well, David, what brings you into this confidence and this this tremendous courage that you've got as a teenager, very inadequate to face nine foot six high problems. Well, he said, it's like this, you see up there on the hills. I have a lovely time with father, and I talk to my God. And I believe because I'm a king, I must first learn to look after sheep. And then I can look after Israel. And if I'm too big to be led, then I'm too little to lead. So I've got to look after sheep first of all. And I've got to prove, God that if I can't look after the sheep there, I can't look after Israel, no matter what comes against those sheep. There's a ministry within me in his name to deal with the offenders. And the lion comes along. And what do you do, David? Run away from it, as any normal person would. No, no no, no. I think in holiness. You think in holiness? Yes. I don't think in fear. But surely you must think practically. I mean, a lion can devour you. No, no, no, that lion is taking away a lamb. Trespassing shouldn't be doing that. And so you run after him. You kill the lion. That's right. You thought. Did they teach you that in Bible school? No. No, no. And then what else? Well, there was a bear came along one day and he grabbed a he grabbed a lamb, too, and he ran away. What did he do? I ran after him. Wait for it. And I killed him with my bare hands. So you know that you can't do that normally. But I did it in the name of the Lord. I was given a job to do, and I've got to do it to all unto the name of the Lord. Paul says to all, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, whether in word or deed. That's about in Colossians three seventeen. It should be. Okay, So what are you going to do then? Are you going to fast and pray and see if it's God's will for you to take this man on? No, no, no, no, I'm going to take him on because he's against the Lord and anyone who's against the Lord. I'm against him. Yeah, he's against Israel. He's taken away the name of the Lord. Degrading it. I'm not going to stand for it. So what are you going to do? I'm going to bring him down to size. All right, Goliath, now you've given me the program. You've told me that you're going to feed my flesh to the birds of the air. And you. And you're going to feed my flesh to the to the the beasts of the field. All right, I'm going to give you the program. Now, from the Lord's point of view, I'm going to feed your flesh to the birds of the air and and your flesh to the beasts of the field. And I'm going to take your head off. You haven't got a sword. I'll use yours. I'm economizing. Since you've got a big head, I need a big sword. So what did David do then? David is so smart. You see the name of the Lord? He came in the name of the Lord. Goliath came in all his ability and all his equipment. But David came in the name of the Lord. And we know this. The name of the Lord is a strong tower, and the righteous run in runneth into it and are safe. So really, David was towering over Goliath. Right. The groom there was terrible. But it's true now. David got his stones together. And so five of them. But what about. But that's unbelief, surely. I mean, five small pebbles. He only needs one. Yeah, but he knows about Goliath by now. He should know about Goliath. Four brothers. And if they turned up, he was willing to take them on as well. And so now there's no fear in David. And there's. And so there's no conclusion. He's not saying, well, what if it doesn't work? No. You don't think like that. When you think in wholeness, you tackle every situation as if it's already complete. It's complete in your mind and in your thinking. That's why when God tackles anything or says anything, it's already completed, complete in his mind because he can't see anything to stop him. And when we're in wholeness and we look at that world, we'll see nothing out there to stop us. There's nothing out there that can stop us. And that's the truth. Praise God for it. It's it's the truth. And so then David put a stone in and right between the eyes of Goliath. And something like that had never entered Goliath's head before. And sorry. And down to size. He came, and then he took off his head. He. Then he was more than a conqueror. And David knew this, that if he wanted to get to the throne of Israel, the only way was by the bear, the lion and Goliath, and then he could rule on the throne. And it's the same with us. There's Goliath in our lives, too. And the only way we're going to reign with Christ Jesus is to deal with those Goliath. Instead of running away, David ran toward Goliath. He wanted to get it over with. Maybe the lunch was early that day. He wanted to get get it over with, but he didn't see in the wholeness of his thinking. He was thinking in victory. That's wholeness. That is normal. That is normal. And to me, it is natural. And so I've been ministering on this in different places as God has revealed a new revelation on it, and people have walked out of their sickness. People have been healed in their relationships with God and they realize, Lord, I'm a whole person. And all the time, like the the, all these meetings are bringing us out into the experience of that wholeness, bringing us out into the realization of what we've really got in Christ Jesus, what we can do through Christ Jesus. What we are in Christ Jesus. This is it. We're bringing we brought out into that realization, for in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. In Colossians two nine and in verse ten, we forget it. We are complete in him. So spiritually, then we are whole. And when you start thinking in in prosperity, that's wholeness. us. You. You come down and you pick up the bill with your wife, and you put your arm around her and say, darling, look at the size of this bill. Isn't it wonderful? They're getting bigger. Oh, Lord, you're showing us just how much supply is available to us. Oh, Lord, try and make it bigger next time. Hallelujah. You see it already paid because you're thinking in wholeness. It's like when they came to Jesus and they wanted him to pay his tax, and he wouldn't, um, because he was a king. Kings don't pay tax. And so he wouldn't give him any money out of the bank. And he said, Peter, uh, we need to you need to pay your tax. Okay. Now you go down to my bank or what bank? The riverbank. You'll find the fish. There is where I keep my money, I fish there. When you catch it, you'll find enough money to pay. Pay the tax, man I see. Why do you use a fish? Well, when I travel around the shores of Galilee, I like my bank to follow me. But the point was this. Jesus thought in wholeness. And that means there is knowledge available to you to bring wholeness into that situation. You accept it as you see it, and then you limit yourself. Then the moment you accept that situation as it is, whatever it is, you move back into your spiritual relationship with the Lord and you see it through his eyes. He was made poor that through his poverty we might remain poor. That's the reverse version. Let me give you the revised. He was made poor. That's in two Corinthians eight, verse nine. For those who want to follow on and do some studying tonight he was made poor, that through his poverty we might be made rich. Now, some Christians are frightened of being rich. Well I'm not. God wants us to prosper. And the moment you're prospering, all the circumstances, your business and everything else has nothing to say to you except that you need to move further into God's supply. You need to believe more for the whole business or whatever, because God's prosperity is not measured by how much you've got, but by how much you give. You know, if we were whole in the material realm, in our thinking, we wouldn't be run around by the devil. So many of us striving to make ends meet, we'd have enough over every time to minister to the Lord. That's true. Prosperity is having all your needs met. Met with enough over to minister to the needs of others. I'm not interested in a man's prosperity which makes you rich. I'm interested in God's prosperity that makes everyone else rich. And that's the truth. And that's good. It's the same thing in your physical body. You're hit with sickness in your physical body, but because you believe you're living in health. Oh, it's so wonderful. You don't fight it. You don't fight the sickness or disease. You just rejoice in the Lord and say, thank you, Lord. And out comes the wholeness. Through your rejoicing, and out comes the wholeness through the word that you're quoting. You said you bore my infirmities and carried my sicknesses, and by your stripes I was healed. In Isaiah fifty three verse four and five, seven hundred years prophesied before Christ arrived, fulfilled in the New Testament in Matthew eight, verse seventeen one Peter two twenty four. By his stripes we were healed. That's that's my permanent standing physically in the eyes of God. He sees you totally whole in your physical body. And so the devil attacks your physical body, says you're sick. In your body is a perfectly true Satan, but don't go away. Now the truth is, he bore my infirmities and carried my sicknesses, and by his stripes I'm healed. That's the truth. And the truth is spiritual, and the truth makes me free from what is true. Oh come on, the truth makes you free from what is true. What is true is what is natural. What you can see, feel, hear, smell and taste. Well, put it that way. The truth is spiritual. Your body doesn't have the last word. You don't get your health any longer from your body. You give it to your body a living from the spirit outwards. You're living in his health. Sorry, folks, you were born again into it. Is that true? Yes it is. Jesus gave up his health at Calvary that he might have it back. In our experience. And if the church believed that they were whole in their physical body. I preached this, and people get hold up to fifty people in one meeting without even praying for them. Terrible. Now you don't get a chance to pray for people to get healed. But it's true. Either God has done the whole thing spiritually and it's in the spiritual realm. If everything's in the spiritual realm, then it must be perfect. If it's a perfect salvation, Then it's God's salvation. So how is it going to come out? The moment I believe that, I'm whole. So instead of I remember that the day and I preached health in this country for so long that a lot of healthy people are walking around. But I can remember the day that God gave me that revelation of health and that. And I can remember that in being awakened in the middle of the night and I got a dose of flu. I must have left the window open in influenza. But I got a I'm sorry about that, but I got a I got a dose of flu. I got a dose of flu. And my nose was running and my eyes and oh, and a headache. And my stomach was upset and my throat was sore and my temperature was up. I said, hold it there. Hold that just. I'm glad there was nobody around. Hold that just where it is now. What do I have? He bore my infirmities and carried my sickness. And by his stripes I am healed. I am the Lord that healeth thee. Forget not all his benefits. Who forgiveth all thine iniquities, and healeth all thy diseases. The word is life to all those that find it and help to all their flesh. I will let you prosper and be in health even as your soul prospers. Thank you Lord. That's what I've got. I turned over and went to sleep and didn't spend the rest of the night trying to get rid of what I didn't have. I woke up in the morning absolutely free, totally healed. And I had discovered that when you preach anything, your challenge on it, you get revelation in here, you get situation out there, and the situation brings you into the experience of the revelation. So everything that's negative that comes against you is there to tell you that you're whole. If the devil tries to rob you of something, you must have it. It's even logic. So you know he's a liar. Just take the opposite to what he says. If we actually believe this, can you imagine the depth of worship and praise we'd get into? Oh, when everybody came to the meeting believing they were whole, and then the body functions. The body functions in the gifts. And there's a person who can't get into their wholeness. They've got too much against them. There's a weight on them. And that gift comes and sets them absolutely free. Keeping the body whole because nourishment must begin to flow. Remember in Colossians two nineteen, and then we increase with the increase of God in our midst. Oh, if God could get a people together who believe that they were whole, who didn't come with their needs and their burdens and their troubles, but believe that as they were living in, in, in, in the spirit that God was meeting them all the time. And when they came into the meeting, they came to meet with the Lord. And what happened that God through the body of Christ, was meeting with them. And that's what's happening, folks. God is cleaning up his body all around the world in their spiritual life, their emotional life, their relationships, one way or the other, and they're coming into wholeness. We have a lovely peace when we come together because we're not fighting each other. We're not frightened of each other And because we're loving each other, we are bringing each other out in the in the fullness of what God has put in or put us all in. And that's the truth. There are no introverts in the spirit. You're all extroverts because you're coming out in him. And if you're coming out in his life, his life is whole. Amen. It's whole. So your whole in your spirit, in your soul and your body. And I wanted to emphasize that tonight because Jesus can only give us what he had before Calvary. He can only give us that. So after Calvary, then we ought to walk even as he walked in one John two six and I say that because we are whole, then in our spirit, every day that you awake in the morning, you wake up in that wholeness. You wake up to the spiritual realm. You bring your soul into the spiritual realm. Otherwise your soul will be droopy. Oh, I think I'll stay in bed today. I don't feel well and I feel if I go out, I'm bound to be run over or I'm going to have a feeling a little run down already. Uh, you know, I think I'll just. I'll just stay in bed today and be God's undercover agent. Well, listen, God's. God's not looking for undercover agents, believe you. Me. But if you don't bring your soul into the spiritual realm, then all your feelings will tell you exactly where you are. And you'll be all that day trying to get rid of the wrong feelings. To get the right feelings. If the. If the just live by feelings. Most of us would be in bed every day to just live by faith in what God says, and we bring our souls into the spiritual realm and all that life that's in the spiritual realm. Hallelujah starts to come out into our experience, folks. We're looking for wells, or like some people are waiting for it to shower. Showers of blessing. Won't there be showers of blessing? I know he's raining, praise God. But but I believe we have a well within us and you just start drawing water. But I don't have a bucket. Yes, you have the bucket of praise. Let it down. It goes down empty. Oh! That's brilliant. You don't feel anything? That's right. I don't feel like praising the Lord. It does go down empty. You're right. But it comes up full. So praise is just a vehicle for God to fill with his presence. God inhabits the praises of his people. Now, that's too easy. I mean, why pray when you can worry? I mean. So we awake in the morning and we say, right now we are renewed in the inner man. Day by day. The inner man is renewed day by day, not convention by convention, you know, but day by day. Well, who's going to renew the inner man? Lord, I give the inner man to you. Renew him, fill him up and give me him back. No, no, no, you renew yourself in the spirit. So what do you do? You pray in other tongues, building yourself up in your most holy faith. Praying in the Holy Ghost. You build yourself right up to face that day. Whatever you should encounter, you are now conscious that you're whole. You're conscious that God has made your day for you. You look in the mirror and say, right, you are more than a conqueror through him that loved you. Amen. Dress yourself up in the garment of praise. Amen. Praise God you can do all things through Christ who strengthens you. Hallelujah! Praise God! My God will supply all your need according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus. Amen. Well, where is the devil? I, I mean, you'll go. You'll go out to face your day. A totally new person. Excuse my terrible sense of humor in this presentation. I know you've been farmed for a few days, but. But. And that. That is right. That is right. But what I'm saying is. And I want you to see beyond my humor, that this is so vital for us if we do not dress ourselves up in what God says we are as sons. You don't go out as a slave or would be, you know, so many people degrade themselves. They see the devil first thing in the morning. They take the whip off him. Give me that whip. Then they go beat themselves. You miserable, wretched, up and down, wishy washy, miserable, failing Christian. Some people don't need the devil at all. He has a holiday in some places. We degrade ourselves now we're quite willing to degrade ourselves. But no, we're not willing to go around saying I'm more than a conqueror through him that loved me. Amen. Now that's the point. Is who said that about you? You're not just saying it. It's been said about you. Who's behind it? That makes all the difference. And I love it when God. God says to us, now look. Look out there and see all that's against you. Yeah. Now, can you imagine how much is for you? Wow. And you look at yourself and say. I'm one of the weak things of the world, and please don't come up to me and say I'm one of the weak things in the world. I had somebody once wouldn't say that to me. He said, Brother Greenwood, you know. I'm one of the weak things of the world. I said, God bless you, brother. What a ministry. What a ministry. And he said, oh, what ministry? I said, confounding the mighty. Oh, oh. I don't think I'm weak enough yet. I'll tell you something. Don't go and say to God you're one of the foolish things of the world, or he'll have you confounding all the intellectuals. It don't. God hasn't called us because of what we are, but because of who he is, not what we've got, but God, what he's got. And this is so wonderful. It means that there's nothing out there that you have to face that is not hasn't already been faced by Jesus Christ. And he's given us all the equipment, but he wants us to come out into the experience of it. He wants us to begin to believe that we've got what God says we've got. And that's going to be really exciting in the days to come. I just praise the Lord that we are whole tonight. And let me say this if you believe that, then all the ministry, all the messages and everything else that comes your way is going to bring you out into that experience. Once you believe you've got a thing in your faith, then God has committed to producing it in your experience. Amen. That's where it starts. And that's a very simple act of faith, which I would like to do tonight, because I think some of you are going to miss your tea if I go on. And that is so important, isn't it? For the teetotallers totally tea and some Christians in the morning. It's quite true. They start the day with a couple of cups of coffee or three cups of coffee, and without that three cups of coffee, they'd never be able to start. They got the motors turned over. I used to try praising and loving the Lord and feeding yourself and feed the inner man. So your God conscious all day and not self conscious. You go to work and there's a terrible atmosphere in that place. Oh, there's evil, the language is terrible. Well, you if they can create a terrible atmosphere, you can create a lovely one. You go there filled with the joy of the Lord and the love of God, and you sit down and say, praise the Lord. Hallelujah. And I'll tell you that there'll be so uncomfortable that people won't want to talk about the Lord, because you're bringing them into the presence of the Lord. Don't worry about what they're trying to bring you into. You bring them into what you're into, and you can do that. And it's the same at home. You pick up the telephone, just say, praise the Lord. You're clear the line in no time, I can assure you. Somebody, somebody is bound to say, sorry. I didn't realize this exchange went all the way through to heaven. But I'm nearly finished now. Some people are maybe a little glad, but I was reminded of the Baptist minister since we're close to that at the moment. But a Baptist minister who was in an elevator going up about, I think it was about twenty one stories he had to go, was the only tall story I've got tonight. And maybe you've heard this before, but forgive me, it's story one hundred and forty three. And he got into that elevator with these, a whole lot of businessmen. And they were swearing and cursing and carrying on. And he was really terrible. He stuck it just for one floor, and he said, praise the Lord. And there wasn't another sound for the rest of that journey. They weren't quite sure how far this elevator was going. But the point was this if they weren't ashamed to curse their God, well, he wasn't ashamed to praise his. And I think it's time that we let the praises of God be continually in our mouth. That's the greatest mouthwash the Christians of God. You want to have a row with your wife? How about praising the Lord for two minutes first and then try it? You want to tell the driver in front of you what you think about his eyesight, and he's driving and all the rest before you get all tied up and everything else. We waste so much time. Let's just praise the Lord. Then you'll say nothing wrong. Amen. You'll see that you're far too close to him. I am convinced today that when the church believes they're whole, then we will show the world by contrast that they're not. We will see the solutions out of wholeness that I believe they need. And when somebody comes to you, you will see exactly what is wrong. If you want to be able ministers of the New Testament, just not not of the letter, but of the spirit, because it's the spirit that giveth life and out from the spiritual realm. That's your relationship with God. You will bring wholeness to the body of Christ wherever you go. And it's lovely. You don't even have to be conscious of the need of the other person, like seeing it, for instance. Or that person looks a bit droopy. No, I saw it in the meeting. One lady was a very stout lady, stout supporter of the Lord's stout lady, and she was just loving the Lord and having a glorious time and oblivious of it. And this old lady came in and she was miserable. She was a widow, and she was having a hard time, and everything had gone wrong. I found out later on, and she sat there and she stood there. Everybody was worshipping and loving the Lord, and she was so miserable. And this lady all of a sudden gravitated towards her, and she could see her worshipping. And then, oh, she turned like that. You know, when you've got so much in your vessel and you find somebody, an empty vessel around you, you want to go and fill it, don't you? So she started going towards the person and caught hold of this little old lady who disappeared for a few moments and just and just and just prayed for, not prayed for her, just loved her and found her with her eyes closed and loved her. And the little old lady she was praising and loving Lord, crying with the joy of the Lord that spilled over from this person, totally released from the wholeness of another person. When you're in the love of God, your whole personality is whole. You're not in inferiority or whatever, and you're not, you know, suspicious or afraid of people. Folks, when that's what I believe has already been happening here, God has brought us out into trust in the Lord that we cannot afford to allow anything to separate us from his love in any way whatsoever, and our fellowship with each other. Amen. So the love that has brought us together is big enough to keep us together. It's the cement between the stones that God has shaped out and put together in his body. And that's why we're so meant to be together forever. Because love endureth forever. I'm going to pray for you now, and I'm sorry. I have to apologize for being a little late. The late Mr. Greenwood. But I believe. I believe that all I need to do tonight is just to pray for wholeness. And I believe when you come into that circle and you see outside of your sin, outside of you evil, outside of your sickness, outside of you, all those things, you see him outside of you, you will no longer be trying to get free. You'll just respond to the spirit and come out in his righteousness, joy, and his love and his sanctification and his redemption, the whole thing. You'll come out into your experience in it because wholeness starts in your spirit and you give it to your body. Can you can. Is there a lady here that was here many years ago in Auckland that came forward in the meeting of mine, and she came forward and she was miserable. I don't know if any of you were in that meeting. And she was depressed. She'd been depressed for about five months. Oh, she was in a terrible state. And when everybody saw come forward and said, oh, poor Harry, he's got a right one here. And look at the state of that lady. She looked great. She was great. She wore grey. She was everything was hanging and she stood in front of me. Can you imagine? Five months. She's a Christian. She had been filled with the Holy Ghost. What on earth has happened to this one? She's totally depressed. Can you imagine her preaching the gospel? Why don't you become a Christian and be miserable like me? That the devil never bothers you. Why don't you become a Christian? He bothers you all the time. You've never had a nervous breakdown. Why didn't you become a Christian? Sooner or later, you're going to have one. I am on my way for one. Why didn't you become a Christian? You've never been sick before. He should become a Christian. He guaranteed to be sick most of the time. Well, that's all she could preach. The devil was having a heyday, but he. He went just a little too far. So now when I go to minister some to someone, I move back into my relationship with God. That's into the wholeness that I'm in and out from it. I know exactly what's missing in her. It's obvious in the natural. But you can be fooled. You can be fooled. I didn't deal with the spirit or anything else like that. No no no no. I said to her, do you speak in tongues? Yeah. I said, would you speak in tongues? She starts and she starts very softly. Oh dear, oh dear, oh, dear. Peter. And then I knew she's going to connect up sooner or later. And she's got a horse in a solubility story. And then she started to fight and you could see it. She was really mad with the devil. And if you saw the devil leave that meeting, you'd seen him with a pair of black eyes. She she got hold of her, and she was really going. And her spirit. Oh. Talk about the spirit. Help her infirmity. My goodness me. She was being built up like this, and all of a sudden she was released from the whole thing and into worship and praising the Lord. Absolutely free. She was free for five months in a spirit. It's your soul that gets depressed. Not your spirit. He that is joined to the Lord is one spirit. In one Corinthians six seven, he was free all the time. So what did I do? Not a thing. Didn't deal with the enemy? No. She dealt with him herself and she knew exactly what to do the next time. Amen. So when you're attacked, first attack to find out the value of what you've got. And then worship for the victory. Start off with praise. You don't. You don't go out for the victory. You go out in the victory. Amen. I'm trying to finish. I'm doing my best, but I can't. There. There are so many preachers who are led to start and so few are led to finish. But as has been informed many years ago, if you haven't struck oil in the first hour, quit boring. It's really lovely to hear God's children laugh. I really mean that because we have something to laugh about. We do not need protection from the devil. He needs protection from us. Come on, folks, we're on the other side of the cross. The victory side. Amen. So let's just pray together right now. I want you to listen very carefully. Now to the Holy Spirit. God has told me that what I minister on. And I had to fight to minister on this one. What I minister on this is restoration. This is God restoring or putting back into its rightful place everything that he gave to us in Christ Jesus and in its rightful place means in our experience, not in our knowledge only. It's wonderful to know the truth, but is it true in your experience? God wants to bring back into its rightful operation everything that he says that he's given us, which is in Christ Jesus. The communication of our faith might be made effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing that is in you, which is in Christ Jesus in Philemon six. Now, if God has shown you tonight that you have been reaching out for wholeness, not reaching out in it, you've been praying for it and not praising in it, then I think you need very deliberately to take a step of faith tonight and acknowledge that you're in that wholeness that is like our standing with God. We believe our salvation. We are saved. That's from God to us. We call that relationship from from our and our response to that relationship we call fellowship. So we may lose our fellowship, but not our relationship, because our relationship is based on what he's done, and our fellowship is based on what we are doing and the light that we're walking in. So when we sin, we don't lose our relationship, our fellowship. So that's why you have to come and renew your fellowship again. And that's very good to know that so that you're not wondering where you are. Amen.