Sunday Evening | Healing In His Wings | Raymond Woodward

Oh my. God is good to us, isn't he? >> Thank you for being the church that you are. I love uh your first family, every one of them, right down to the littles. There's all kinds of little ones coming along. And I think it's wonderful. And uh but I also love all of you. I've told a couple of you this weekend, it wouldn't be Marville if you weren't here. I recognize the faces and the spirit of the precious saints of God in this local assembly. If you are visiting with us tonight, we're so glad that you are here and you can feel the love from this church family when you walk through the door. And that's not accidental. We're so grateful. And uh so we're going to get right to the word of the Lord. It's such a privilege and a high honor to be here. I have no words. Um and uh Pastor Chad, thank you for the very very gracious and kind introduction. and that feelings multiplied a thousandfold back. Would you lift up your hands and lift up everything you've got? And before we're seated, let's give the Lord a great praise in this room. Oh yes. Oh yes. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. I love you, God. I worship you. I lift you up. I honor you. I lift my voice in the sanctuary and I give you praise. I give you praise. I give you praise. Amen. You can be seated in the presence of the Lord. It is one chapter after Israel has refused to enter into the promised land because of fear and unbelief, nothing else. And God judged that rebellious generation. And now he's preparing a new generation that will obey his commandments during 40 years of wandering in the wilderness. And it is at this very moment in the word of God that the death of one man, a strange and strong penalty. He was gathering sticks on the Sabbath day, ignoring and disregarding and breaking the law of God. And his death caused God in his mercy to bring into effect a commandment. That commandment would affect millions of lives for thousands of years. At this moment, God designed something. He designed something to help his people remember his laws to put a wall between them and sin so he would not have to punish them. Numbers chapter 15 verse 37. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, "Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put on the fringe of the borders a ribbon of blue, and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that you may look upon it." This is the reason that you will look upon it and remember all the commandments of the Lord and do them and that you seek not after your own heart and your own eyes after which you used to go ah whoring that you may remember and do all my commandments and be holy unto your God. Now for anybody that might have a problem with God saying I want you to keep my commandments. Well, here's what gives him the right to say that. I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. I am the Lord your God. I don't have any problem with God's commandments. If it was not for Jesus, I would still be a sinner on my way to a devil's hell. But I am saved, sanctified, and redeemed. Not by any good that I have done, but by his mercy and by his grace. So if God has a commandment for me, I just feel like he's saying that to me. I am the Lord your God. I brought you out of the world. I brought some of you out of alcoholism. I brought others of you out of drug addiction. I brought some of you out of some kind of perversion or destruction. And I brought you into my house. I brought you into my family to be your God. So if God says keep my commandments, that's a no-brainer for me. So this command about the fringes, it's not an accidental or incidental command. God knows that human beings are visual learners. And so he gave the Jews something that today we call a prayer shaw and they still wear them today. You'll see these in the airports. You'll see these little fringes peeking out from under the suit coat of a man walking through an airport. And they had a specific command from God. This is called in the Hebrew tongue a talit. And on the tit the prayer shaw, God said, I want you to put tassels. The tassels are called zitzi. I want four tassels on the corners of this garment. And the corners are called kaf. So the the the the talit, the prayer shaw holds four corners. Kaf. and the four corners, they each hold a zitzi, a fringe. And these are amazing and they're still the same today. It's an amazing object lesson. And so the Jews, you'll see them even today as they pray, they will wrap their fingers in these tassels. And as they pray, you'll see them at the Western Wall. And they're going like this all the time. You know why they're going like that? Because there's constant movement around the throne of God. And so from ancient times, they've learned that they need to move when they pray. It's not accidental that we might want to move a little bit when we worship and when we pray. That's not modern Pentecostal custom. That's ancient worship. And when they wrap their fingers up in these tassels, they're symbolizing something. My life is wrapped up. I am covered by the laws and the commandments of God. And so these are amazing. There are five knots on each tassel. one, two, three, four, five. And they symbolize the five books of the Torah. And if you got five knots, you got four spaces. One, two, three, four. And those symbolize the four letters in the name of God. YHW WH or we would say Yahweh. And so they're literally wrapping themselves in the name of God and in the laws of God. There are 39 windings in each one of these tassels on this garment. And that just happens to be the exact numerical value of a Hebrew phrase. The Lord is one. >> They wear it on their fingers. They wear it in their garments. And Jesus, by the way, he suffered that number of stripes for our healing. 39 stripes. The numerical value of the word zitzi or fringe or tassel. The numerical value of that is 600 in Hebrew. You add to that the five knots and you add to that the eight strings that make up each fringe and you get 613 which just happens to be the exact number of commandments that God gave to Moses in the law. So the sole purpose of the tit the prayer shaw was to hold the zitzi. That that was the whole purpose of it. God said, "I want you to have fringes on the corners of your garment." And when you wore the toite in ancient times, they still do it today, but it's not quite uh as meaningful to them today. But in ancient times, when they wore this garment, they were literally saying, "I am wrapping myself in the laws and the commandments and the promises and the word of God." The Jews today still sometimes call the talit a hug from God. That's how I feel about the commandments of God. I was telling the Lord in the prayer room, I don't resent his commands. I I don't chafe at his commands. I embrace his commands. I love his commands because his commandments are not a burden to me. John said, they are not grievous unto me. His commands, I see them as a wall that gets between me and my family and the world. So this prayer shaw, this talit is used at all major Jewish occasions even today. circumcisions and bar mitzvah and weddings and it's even used as a shroud for burial. It is a tit that protects the scrolls of the Torah when they are moved. And this even inspired the Jewish flag. They stretched the tit out and they put a star of David in the middle and that's basically the Jewish flag. In Bible times, men wore the tit at all times, not just when they prayed. The garment was a constant sign that the person was willingly submitted to and reminded of and wrapped up in God's commands. When the priests entered the tabernacle and they looked up at the ceiling, what they saw was fine twined linen stretched out by cords. They were looking at a huge oversized tip symbolizing that every single thing that was done in the tabernacle or later in the temple, it was under the umbrella of the laws of God. >> It's an amazing thing. Exodus 26. Moreover, thou shalt make the tabernacle with 10 curtains of the twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet with cherubims of cunning work shall you make them. Even today they perform Jewish weddings under a tit. They stretch it out. They tie it to four poles and the couple goes underneath the prayer shaw and they perform their wedding vows under that. It's called a hoopa in Hebrew. And when they get under that, they're symbolizing to everybody, we are making our marriage vows under the provision of the laws of God. We're not independent to God's laws. We want our home to be governed by God's laws. And that dates back all the way to this story that you've heard. Boaz and Ruth. And she said uh uh he said to her in the night, Ruth 3:9, she had come in to where the men were gathered. And he said, "Who are you?" And she answered, "I am Ruth, thine handmmaid. Spread therefore thy skirt, thy canaf, the wing or the skirt or the the corner of your garment. spread it over your handmade for you're a near kinsman. I'm asking you to put me under your law. I'm asking you to put me under your provision. I'm asking you to take me into your family. And when she did that, that's where they get this wedding custom. What Ruth was literally saying to Boaz, because kafh or corner is also rendered wing in the Bible. So this is a kaf, it's a corner or it's a wing. She was saying to Boaz what we still so say, "Please take me under your wing." We still say it today. And for this reason, the corners of the prayer shaw to this day are still referred to as wings. And and and so you see this in scripture. This is amazing. Uh Psalm 91, he that dwelleth in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the almighty. I will say of the Lord, he is my refuge. He is my fortress. He's my God. In him will I trust. Surely he shall deliver thee from the noisome pestilence. He will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler. He will cover thee, here it is, with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust. His truth shall be thy shield and thy buckler. So the commands of God are like the wings of a huge bird that are casting a shadow on the ground below on the offspring below. It's an amazing parallel. And when the priest held out his arms to say the blessing in the tabernacle or the temple, his talit looked exactly like wings. Number six, speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, on this wise shalt thou bless the children of Israel, saying, The Lord bless thee and keep thee. The Lord make his face shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee. The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee and give thee peace. So the wings or the canaf or the corner that shelter us are God's commandments. The blessings of God are found in the commandments of God. And in the throne room of heaven, guess why? The angels were created with wings. Their wings represent the word and the commandments of God, the laws and the principles of God. And so when the angels fly around the throne and flap those wings with every flap of the wings as they circle the throne, they are saying the law of God is the foundation of eternity. The law of God is the foundation of all history. The law of God is the foundation of the scripture and the law of God is the foundation of his church. Isaiah saw it. Isaiah 6. In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord. He was sitting upon a throne. He was high and lifted up. That's why we praise him loud. That's why we lift our hands. We're trying to match something that's already happening in heaven. He's high and he's lifted up. And his train filled the temple. And above that throne stood the saraphims. Each one of them had six wings. With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he did fly. And those angels from time immemorial have been crying to one another and saying, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is filled with his glory." So that's why we can't help ourselves. We get our hands in the air. Some of us, we kind of wave our arms in the presence of God. We're just joining the angels who are already around the throne. And someday we're going to be there and we're not going to be strange to that. We're just going to jump right in the middle and we're going to start saying, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God of hosts." Oh my goodness. I wish you'd get a jump on that tonight for a moment and just wave your hands and say, "Holy, holy, holy, holy, holy." Oh yes, yes, yes. Oh my. Since the fringe of a man's garment represented his obedience to God's commands, to cut off the fringe of his garment was the equivalent of saying he was backsliden. That's exactly what happened in that cave with David and King Saul. But it's also why David's conscience was smitten and why Saul knew in that moment his kingdom would fall and fail. 1st Samuel 24:5. And it came to pass afterward that David's heart smote him because he had cut off Saul's skirt kaf corner the fringe of his garment. Today when a Jewish person dies, one fringe, one zitzi is cut off the corner of their prayer shaw and then they are wrapped in that talit to symbolize with the corner cut off that now that they are dead, they are free from the law's demands. This is what Paul was talking about in the New Testament. If you're dead, you're free from the law's demands. But for that to happen to a living person, to cut off the the fringe of a living person's garment, that's a very serious thing. And that's why David's heart was spent. He knew it wasn't his place to cut off the corner of Saul's garment. It wasn't his place. However, a prophetic word had already been given by somebody who did have a right to give it, the prophet Samuel. 1st Samuel 15 27. And as Samuel turned about to go away, Saul laid hold on the skirt, the corner, the fringe of his garment, his mantle, and it rent. It tore. And the old prophet wheeled around and pointed his finger at backsliden King Saul, and he said, "The Lord, just like you tore my garment, the Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day, and he's given it to a neighbor of thine that is better than thou." Why was David better than Saul? Is it because David was perfect? Hardly. On the worst day of his life, David was a liar, a murderer, and an adulterer all at the very same time. David was not perfect. But I'll tell you what made David better than Saul. He had a heart that cried out after God. As soon as he fell or failed, he got back to the presence of God and prayed prayers and sang songs like this one. Create in me a clean heart, oh God, and renew in me a right spirit. That's what was different about David. And that's why both the Old and the New Testament says that David was a man after God's own heart. Now, in the New Testament, Jesus condemned the Pharisees for making very long zitzy tassels on the corners of their garment because they were just doing it for show. They wanted everybody to think, "Look at our tassels. They represent the laws of God. Look at how spiritual we are. Look at how religious we are." But see, they were breaking his commandments in their heart. So Jesus said in Matthew 23, "All their works they do just to be seen of men. They make broad their felactories and they enlarge the borders, the corner, the canop, the fringe, the zitzy of their garments." And Jesus didn't like that. Now, one of the reasons I'm preaching this tonight is because Beverly and I spy on FAC Mville all the time. Don't you think you can get away with anything? You got people in New Brunswick, Canada watching you. And and this is amazing to me. Talit, the word literally means to cover. And some people they translate talit as a little tent. Every Jewish man had his own little tent or his own little tabernacle where he could meet with God. You see what he would do is he'd pull it up over his head and he form a tent and he could totally focus on God under his prayer shaw under the commandments of God. This is what Jesus was talking about in Matthew 6 and6. They didn't have closet doors like you have in your front hallway with a doorork knob and you open it up on three hinges. That's not what they had. Jesus said this in Matthew 6, "But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when you have shut the door, when you've closed yourself off, and you're alone with me, pray unto the Father which is in secret, and the Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly." So, I was listening to this amazing pastor preach the other Wednesday night on the Bible truth about work >> and he said something that just the Lord just poked me almost and said, "When you get to Marville, you're supposed to speak this. I haven't shared this stuff for several years. I can't remember how long it is, but the Lord poked me because he was talking about remember Aquilla and Priscilla and they were tent makers. So he had that point exactly right that they were working with Paul and they worked with Apollos and it was amazing. But many scholars believe that Paul and Aquilla and Priscilla they were makers of little tents. >> They they were actually making prayer shaws talit talit little tent. And Acts 18:3 the the the verse that pastor taught from because Paul was of the same craft. He abodeed with them and he worked for by their occupation they were tent makers. They were tent makers. So it it could have been a big tent, but just as likely it was a little tent. It was a tit and that's where they worked. When the disciples walked into the tomb of Jesus on Easter Sunday morning, one of the reasons they knew the Romans had not stolen his body is this scripture in John 20. Then come Simon Peter following him and he went into the supplr and he saw the linen clothes lie. Watch the next verse. and the napkin which was about his head. What did they wear on their head? They wore the tit on their head. It was not lying with the linen clothes, but it was wrapped together in a place by itself and then went in also that other disciple John which came first to the suppler and he saw and believed. No Roman guard would know how to properly fold a Jewish talit. So when they saw Jesus to lead that had been wrapped around his head and his body, when they saw it folded and left separately in a little space by itself and it was folded in the manner of the Jews, they knew it wasn't the Romans that took his body. They understood he just left us a sign. I'm coming back. I'm on the way back. This is not the end. I My body is not going to decay in a tomb. I'm glad that Jesus is still alive and he's here tonight by the power of his spirit. >> Oh my. There was even a prophetic word of restoration and revival that was spoken over the Jews by the prophet Zachchariah. And uh Zachchariah let them know. You know how it is apostolic people sometimes people in the world and it certainly happened with the Jews, other cultures, other nations, other people, they looked at them like they were in bondage. The Jews, you have to have those strange laws and you wear those strange fringes on your garments. But the prophet Zachchariah spoke a prophetic word and he let the Jews know one day the laws of God that are symbolized by the zitzi by the fringe. One day they will not be seen as a detriment. They will not be seen as a disadvantage. One day the world around you is going to see them as an advantage. And Zachchariah spoke these words in 8:23. Thus saeth the Lord of hosts, in those days it shall come to pass that 10 men shall take hold out of all languages of the nation, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, "We want to go with you." Why? Because we've heard that God is with you. We don't understand all your weird laws and we don't understand all your weird worship and we don't understand everything that you say your God has demanded, but we want to go with you cuz we can see the blessing of God on you. I say to you in the spirit, we're entering into such a day. When the world gets in trouble, they're not looking for somebody else who's as addicted as they are. They're not looking for some other family that's as bound as their family. There's coming a day when the people of this world are going to say, "We don't get it all, but let us get a hold of that spirit that we feel in your church. Let us get a hold of what that pastor is preaching cuz we can tell." The psalmist said without accident, "Blessed is the people that knows the joyful sound." When you walk in this building on a Sunday night in Miraville, you can hear a joyful sound. It's cuz we know that the laws of God are blessing our families and blessing our lives and blessing this church and blessing this community. >> I'm going to mess with you for a minute and then it'll get good again. Okay? So, >> maybe you're not sure it's got good yet, but it'll get good eventually. Our God has never had a problem demanding that his people be separate from the world around them. In fact, the commandment to make fringes or zitzi on the corners of their garments, it's given to the Jews only one other time outside of numbers. And it's in a passage that deals specifically with distinction, boundaries, and separation. All right. >> Deuteronomy 22:8. When you build a new house, put a battlement for your roof that you bring not blood upon thine house if any man fall from them. If you're going to build a house, make sure you put a railing around the roof because the roofs were flat. And so everybody sayp boundary line. >> Thou shalt not sew thy vineyard with different seeds, lest the fruit of thy seed which thouast sown and the fruit of thy vineyard be defiled. So it's separation. It's distinction. and its boundary. Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together. Distinction, separation, boundary. And here it is. Thou shalt not wear a garment of diverse sorts like wool and lin together. Uh diversity or uh difference and and boundary and distinction and separation. And here the last verse, verse 12, thou shalt make thee fringes in that passage about everything being distinct and separate and you put walls and you put railings. There's this. Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four corners of thy vesture wherein thou coverest thyself. So God has never had a problem asking for his people to be separate from the world. And if you think about it long enough, that only makes sense. Why would God say, "I'm calling you out of the world and then I want you to act just like the world." That's a trap of the enemy for people of God to start acting and thinking and entertaining themselves like the world does. By the way, it is in Deuteronomy chapter 22 where we read a very different command because this command has one word in it that separates it from all of those. See, we don't do that anymore. We don't put railings around our roof and we don't uh watch about, you know, whether we sew a vineyard with different seed and and we don't keep animals uh segregated when we're using them on the farm and all of that. Uh but here's the one that has the word abomination in it because if something's an abomination to God, it matters more. It's not just a Jewish custom that can fade with history. This is eternal. In Deuteronomy 22:5, the woman shall not wear that which pertainth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment, for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God. So, I'm not here to teach a holiness study tonight. I'm just here to tell you that when the Lord gives us commandments of separation, it's an association with the blessing of God, not just the law of God. This represented God's law, but it also represented that we were covered by God's blessing and his provision. When you literally wrap your life in the commandments of God, you will not always receive the commenation of men around you because you will be separate. And I want to stand in this pulpit tonight. Uh your wonderful pastors have given me the liberty of this desk on this platform tonight. And I want to tell all of our wonderful, beautiful, godly, modest, holy, apostolic women that you in particular, more than the men, you carry within your own body ait. >> It is your uncut hair. It is given you for a covering and it becomes a glory to you and your separation and your submission bring power on your head because of the angels. So, I just pushed pause in the middle of a Sunday night message to say all of you apostolic ladies, you bring more power to this church than we can all imagine because you are separated in your covenant of submission. And it brings separation and submission, but it also brings power and blessing. And it resides on your head just the way the Jews stood in the presence of God at the wall and they rocked back and forth. When you walk into this building with your prayer shaw on, if you will, you bring a power of God into this place. I'm not here to cast dispersions against anybody else. I'm just saying we do this unto the Lord. We do this because his word declares it and there's a blessing in it. And you feel the blessing here tonight. >> Oh my. >> Hallelujah. >> What a wonderful heritage Israel had. >> But they wasted it. >> They wasted it. By the end of the Old Testament, they've just recently returned from a 70-year captivity in Babylon. And by the time the Old Testament closes, they've already begun to backslide again. And it seems like there is no hope for a permanent solution. And then Malachi, the last prophet to write, he offers to Israel one final time the choice between destruction or hope. It's in the very last chapter of the Old Testament, Malachi 4. For behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven, and all the proud, yay, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble, and the day that cometh shall burn them up, sayaeth the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. But unto you that fear my name shall the son of righteousness arise with healing in his wings and you shall grow forth and grow up as calves of the stall. So what Malachi just said is if Israel will only fear the name of the Lord. If Israel will only keep his commandments, they will be free. But they did not listen. And so a long barren period called the 400 silent years begins. It's between the Old Testament and the New Testament. For four centuries, no one heard from God. Not a prophet, not a priest, nobody heard from God for 400 long years. Nothing more is heard from Malachi's prophecy for four centuries until three of the gospel writers record the story of one person who puts the puzzle together. It is not a religious scholar. It is not a popular leader. Actually, it's just one little woman who grasps what everybody else has missed for 400 years. Luke chapter 8. And a woman having an issue of blood 12 years, which has spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any. She came behind Jesus and she touched the border of his garment and immediately her issue of blood stanched. Why did that woman touch the zitzi the corner the canav the skirt the border of Jesus garment? Two reasons. First of all she understood that that corner represented the laws and the commandments and the power and the promises of God. But I think there was another reason. Somewhere it echoed in her mind. Someday the son of righteousness will arise with healing in his wings. Jesus will be God manifest in the flesh. And because he's the son of righteousness, even in the wings, even in the corner, even in the border, even of the fringe of his garment, there will be righteousness. There will be healing. There will be power. even in the tassel of his garment. So that little woman did what we sometimes say. She was just hanging on by a thread. But when that thread is attached to Jesus, that was enough to heal a 12year sickness. And I tell you tonight that the name of Jesus is enough to heal a 12 year, 24 year, 36year sickness. There's healing in his wings. There's healing in his name. Oh my goodness. Now, this is amazing to me. I geek out about scripture all the time. All three of the gospel writers that record this miracle immediately record another miracle immediately afterward. You see, when that woman stops Jesus to get her healing, he's actually on his way with Gyrus to heal his little girl who is at the point of death. And that woman holds them up just long enough that as they journey, word comes to Gyrus that his little girl has died. So that woman probably in Gyrus mind, he's thinking, "That woman that kept us for a few moments, she cost my girl her life." But it doesn't even stop Jesus. He doesn't hesitate. He continues to walk to the house. And then he walks right past all the mourers, professional mourers. They are all sorrowing and they are all crying and they're just making a big scene. And Jesus walks right past them into the house. Why are these two miracles recorded together every single time? I would argue it's because of the garment that Jesus was wearing. Because he did wear this. He was a Jewish man. Mark 5:41. And he took the damsel, the dead girl, by the hand, and he said unto her, "Talakumi, which is being interpreted, damsel, I say unto thee, arise." This is one of the places where the Bible translators tried to help us. And he did tell that little girl to get up. But our tradition has called this daughter of Gyrus, we've called her Talitha because of these words. But the word, it's actually a command. Jesus said to her, "Thalit hakumi, little girl that just came under the shadow of my word, that just came under the wings of my covenant, that just came under my promises and my power. I say to you, little girl, get up. All the rules have changed. I know that everything says you're dead. Not anymore. You're under the shadow of my covenant. I know it's impossible. Not right now. You're under the shadow of my word and my power and my promises. Everything changes when you get under the word of the Lord. I wish a bunch of people would lift up your hands and lift up your voice and thank God. I'm not just preaching about something that happened 2,000 years ago. I'm preaching about tonight. You are in the presence of the preached word of God. You are in the presence of the living word of God. Anything can happen. Every rule can be changed. Every sickness can be healed. Oh, somebody rejoice in it. Somebody thank God for it. Oh. That woman with the issue of blood, she really started something when she claimed that 400year-old promise. Matthew 14:35. And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that were diseased. And you know what they asked him when they brought all those sick people? They besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment. and as many as touched him were made perfectly whole. She started a chain reaction when she had enough faith to believe if I can just touch the hem of his garment. Now, we write songs and we sing them and they're beautiful and keep right on. But she was touching more than just a piece of clothing. Here's what she was doing. When she got in touch with something that was touching Jesus, it changed everything for her. Let me tell you where you are right now. I got good news for you. You're in touch with some people in this church family that are in touch with Jesus. And you may have just come because somebody invited you. Or you might have shown up because you saw this great church on YouTube. Let me tell you, when you get in touch with something that's in touch with Jesus, everything can change in your life. That's all she did. She touched this. That's all she had of Jesus. But it was enough to change everything for her. Can you imagine how much power of God is in this room tonight? All around you are people that know how to pray. All around you are people that learn love God and serve him. All around you are people that know how to worship. All around you are people that are in touch with Jesus. I don't even want to wait on this. Would you reach over, grab somebody by the hand, and lift that hand with your hand? Because when you touch them and they're touching Jesus, when they touch you and you're touching Jesus, anything can happen in that moment. Oh, lift up your voice and pray. Faith has just walked into this room. The same faith that that woman had in a 400year-old promise, that same faith has walked into this room right now. You can be healed. You can be delivered. You can receive your miracle. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Oh. While you're praying, everybody stand. While you're praying, everybody stand. While you're praying, everybody stand. The power of God is moving through this room like a freight train. You're in touch with something that's in touch with Jesus right now. And it's this church. Oh, we're going to flood the altar in just a moment. I believe miracles are going to happen tonight. But would you lift up your voice right now? You've lifted up your hands, but lift up your voice. And those of you that are filled with the spirit, pray in the spirit right now. Pray in the spirit right now. The power of God is flowing down every aisle and between every pew. They prayed over every pew again this morning. And God is moving right now. See, when they touched that pew, they were touching Jesus, too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that little woman. The Bible tells us that the crowds were thronging Jesus that day. Literally, the the wording says that it was a suffocating crowd that day. Everybody's pushing up against Jesus. That little woman, she had been sick with an issue of blood. Now, that doesn't mean a lot to us. It's just one more condition. But in that culture, under that law, if she had an issue of blood, especially after 12 years, and everybody knew it, that meant that everybody she brushed up against, they were made unclean until the evening. So, if she happened to accidentally touch you, you had to go through this whole purification ritual because a person with an issue of blood had touched you inadvertently. Can I just tell you nobody wanted her in that crowd that day. Nobody wanted her at church that day. And everybody that she came near, the Bible tells us she came up from behind and touch Jesus. You know why? Cuz if she'd approached him from the front where everybody's attention was, they would have said, "You get out of here." She didn't care what they thought of her. She just said, "If I can just touch the fringe, the tassel, the hem, the border of his garment, I have faith in Jesus that I can be made whole." So, she crawled on her belly. She crawled on her hands and knees. She didn't care who thought what about her. If I can just touch him, if I can just get in touch with something that's touching Jesus. And by her faith, she was made whole. I'm looking at a group of people that I love and I'm asking you right now if you've got a need in your family, in your life, in your body, in your mind, among your children or grandchildren, I'm asking you to leave that pew and I'm asking you to have the determination of that little woman. I don't care who thinks anything. I don't care who else responds or doesn't respond. As for me, I'm just going to get in touch with something that's touching Jesus. I'm just going to get around some people that can pray. I'm just going to get around some people that can reach. I'm just going to get around some people that have faith. Thank you, great church. Those of you that are at the front, if you can tighten up just a little bit, make room for as many as we can. Somebody's going to receive their miracle tonight. Somebody is going to receive their healing tonight. Somebody is going to receive their answer tonight because Jesus is in this room right now. Jesus is in this room right now. Just reach out and touch him. He's already there ready to touch you. He's walking up these aisles. He's walking across this altar by the power of his spirit. Oh, some intercessor, lift your voice and pray in the spirit right now. Some intercessor, lift your voice and pray in the spirit right now. Yes, yes, yes. Oh, yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Oh yes Jesus, right now let your healing virtue flow. Let your delivering power flow. Let the miracle working power that is resident in your name and in your word. Let it flow to that brother over there. And let it flow to that sister back there. Let it flow down this aisle. Let it flow down that aisle. Let it flow to that family over there. Yes, God. Yes, God. If you're watching us online tonight, you can receive a miracle right where you are watching this webcast right now in your home or wherever else you're listening to this. Reach out to Jesus and he can touch you right now. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh yes. Yes. Yes. Jesus. There it comes. There it comes. Don't stop praying. Don't stop praying. Your miracle's on the way. Your miracle's on the way. So yes, all of us Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. I want you to listen to me just for one moment. Just for one moment in that crowd that day, you know, everybody wanted Jesus to come over and personally lay his hand on them >> and personally speak his word to them. Everybody wanted that. >> That little woman said, "I don't need all of that. I just need to touch something that's in touch with Jesus >> and I can get my miracle." You're in the middle of a great host of people that are in touch with Jesus. Apostolic people, I want to tell you something. This church is a powerful praying church becoming more powerful and more prayerful every passing month. You folks have the power of God residing among you and residing upon you. Pastor Carpenter and the other pastors that serve you so well, they don't have to lay your their hand on you. They can. That's good. But you don't have to wait around for that. Every person in this place that is filled with the Holy Ghost. You're a conduit between earth and heaven. And when you lay your hand on them and when you speak prayer over them, it's like lightning coming from heaven and snapping down on earth because they can touch something you that's touching Jesus. It's not about you. Who told you that? It's not about the eloquence of your prayer. Who told you that? It's not about even what you feel right now. It's about the name of Jesus and the promise of his word. Lest we forget. He said, "I am the Lord that health thee." Lest we forget. He said, "I will speak to the north. Keep not back. I speak to the south. Give up. Bring my sons from far and my daughters from the ends of the earth." Or that word to that Philippian jailer. and thou shalt be saved and thy house. So we can speak the word of God over everything in this room. I ask right now for somebody, maybe a family, maybe a couple, maybe a young person, and you need a miracle in your life, and you're not ashamed to say, "My family needs a miracle. I need a health situation turned around." I want you to lift both hands right now. If that's you, look at this. Look at this. So, we are not going to wear out our faithful pastors to get to everybody that just raised both hands. But here's what we're going to do. Turn around. Even if you were one of the ones that raised your hands, turn around and find somebody else. And I speak to this great church that is so powerful in the spirit. Let's get a little bold right now. And I want you to lay your hand on their head or lay your hand on their shoulder, but face them and start praying over them. And God is going to touch them through you right now. Pray, speak it, believe it, and receive it in Jesus name. Yes. Yes. Heat. Heat. We worship you. You are worthy to be praised. Glory. We worship you. You are We worship you. We worship you. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Glory. We worship you. Heat. Heat. You are Lord. You are worthy to be praised. Glory. We worship you our Lord. You are worthy to be praised. We did this at the movement this week and Pastor Carpenter just kind of shut down the music for a moment. The music's here is here. Here is so powerful and so anointed all by itself. But we need to participate just like the singers need to participate. Would you lift up your voice and pray right now? >> I'm not even asking for praise right now. I'm asking for prayer right now. Just like pastors been directing you. There's the power of the apostolic church. It's in prayer. It's in prayer. Cuz when you pray, you're touching Jesus. And Jesus is touching you. And through you, he can touch everybody around you. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. In the name of Jesus. Look at this. All the way back there. People are getting their miracle. People are receiving a healing. People are reaching out to God. Pray church. Yes, God. Yes, God. Yes, God. I call forth the intercessors that are in this great congregation. Some of you have been here for many years. Do not quiet down. Do not settle down. Do not sit back. Do not stand off. We need you right now. I release you. I want called intercessors to lift up your voice right now. It may sound like a groaning that cannot be uttered and that's absolutely okay. Pastors been talking to us about prayer. This is what it feels like. This is where we push forward. Yeah, there we go. Come on, FAC. You got it. This is who you are.