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Hello, friend, chaplain Terry Warner here I'm going to go off the cuff this morning on the podcast and just tell you a little story, a little testimony that happened to me.
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This will be Season 4, episode 47, and I'm just calling it off the cuff and I want to start by I'm going to be focusing on faith and hearing faith and speaking faith and talking about faith.
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I was an assistant pastor in a church and I was volunteering.
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The Lord had called me into the ministry in the fall or close to the winter of 1972.
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I had enrolled in seminary and was taking classes and I went to a retreat, a weekend retreat that the church put out.
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It was a large denomination I'm not going to go naming names or anything and while I was at that the Lord healed my eyes of wearing glasses.
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So I didn't think much about it.
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I mean, I was grateful and thankful, but I was sort of bewildered and didn't think a whole lot about it.
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I wasn't asking for it, I wasn't praying for it, they didn prayed for it, they didn't pray for me.
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The Lord just healed my eyes wearing glasses, I think, if I remember right, this is back in the in 1972.
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It's a long time ago.
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I think I was mowing the yard and the glasses fell off and I stepped on them or ran over them with the mower.
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Anyway, I ruined the glasses and up to that time I'd look over the top of them or whatever.
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Anyway, I went to the eye doctor and got checked out and figured I'd get measured for new glasses.
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When I got to the eye doctor, the eye doctor said you don't need glasses.
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Well, I told him I wasn't wearing glasses.
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So he pulled out his papers and checked the prescriptions and sure enough, I'd been wearing glasses for some years, ever since I was in the about ninth grade, I think.
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So anyway, I took the papers and I mean, I paid the bill and that church and Sunday came up in the church and I told everybody what happened and it wasn't too much said.
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A lot of some said that's nice and uh-huh, everybody sort of seemed to be okay with it.
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Well, a little later on they got together, the church did, and asked us to leave.
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Arlene was teaching Sunday school.
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I was helping as an assistant worship leader.
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I was not salaried, I was a volunteer, but I was enjoying that and I was doing Bible studies and stuff on the side without the church's knowledge of it.
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So anyway, we said okay.
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Well, they said we know God heals, we can see that God heals, we can see that you've done a miracle, but we just can't grasp it.
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It's just not quite for us yet.
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So, to keep from causing division and problems, we left the church.
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We got the left foot of fellowship, as Brother Hagin would say.
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So anyway, anyway, there I started to grow and kept on growing and kept on growing and kept on growing, and through 52 years, over 52 years of walking in the Spirit and speaking in tongues and being Pentecostal, and a lot of people say, well, I don't believe in that stuff.
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Well, that's fine, I really don't care.
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It's your shortcoming, it's you that's missing out, not me.
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I'll pray for you and pray that you come to know Jesus Christ in a close personal relationship.
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But probably one of the things that got to me more than anything was the fact that Jesus was not mad at me.
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God was not mad at me.
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God was not trying to teach me anything other than what his word and being a Christian should be, or something like that.
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I was not being forced to go out knocking on doors although I had done that in the past I was just content to keep on doing what I was doing.
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So I kept my job, my day job, doing commercial refrigeration, and I kept studying the Word and studying the Word and studying the Word.
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And the Lord kept giving me places to preach and places to do Bible study and anointed me with all kinds of gifts and everything else.
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And it went great there for quite a while and we enjoyed it so much.
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But let me tell you a couple of things that really was predominant or dominant in my life.
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First of all, I had a spirit of love and I quit trying to fix everybody else Well, for the most part, some of you still need fixing.
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I quit trying to pray and manipulate and started seeking God and Jesus Christ and what it all meant and what it meant to me and how I could become a better Christian.
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Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.
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Well, we have Christians, we have born-again believers that have very little faith.
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They have the same measure of faith that raised Christ Jesus from the dead, but they have not developed their faith or make it, fertilized it or watered it or nurtured it so that they could do bigger and better things.
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They mainly have sat on the pews for the last umpteen number of years, and I was guilty of doing that.
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I gave my heart to the Lord when I was 12 years old.
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And what did I do Instead of going and sat?
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Instead of going and went, I held back and sat.
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I had my favorite church pew, and I'd get offended sometimes if somebody'd come get my church pew.
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Well then I got to where I wouldn't even go to church at all hardly.
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And so when I met Arlene, my wife, I was not even going to church.
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She was praying for her husband.
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I was just praying for a good time.
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I mean that in a clean way, and I started learning that what I came out of my mouth, what came out of my mouth, was my level of belief.
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What came out of my mouth was what I was thinking about, or what my heart was full of.
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It basically was full of football games and sports and having a good time on the weekends and doing things.
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Now, we did do things together as a family and we really enjoyed that and it really helped.
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But we decided on when we got married.
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Arlene had three children nine, ten and eleven and we decided that we would build this marriage on God's Word we would do what.
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When we saw what God wanted us to do, we'd make sure we did it to the best of our ability.
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We went along pretty good there for about a year or so and then I kept growing and growing, and growing, and growing and growing and then I sort of just plateaued out.
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I just seemed to quit growing per se.
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We wound up moving and we got back interested in the church again, found a full gospel church and they accepted us and we were happy for that and everything and the whole time I've been reading and studying the Bible.
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Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word.
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Now Jesus said in Matthew I'm sorry, in John 6, 63, let me turn here.
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Jesus just talked to them about eating my flesh and drinking my blood and that really turned them off because they were thinking physical.
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But Jesus said does this offend you?
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What if you see the Son of man ascend to where he was before?
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The Spirit gives life.
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The flesh counts for nothing.
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The words I have spoken to you are Spirit and they are life.
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Yet there are some of you who still do not believe.
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You know, we hear things people talk about Christian and we immediately put it in the human standpoint, the flesh standpoint, the sense standpoint, and that's what we base our message on.
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And God doesn't do that anymore.
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From that viewpoint, god never did that.
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All of his words are spirit in their life.
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They bring to life, they bring alive, they make alive.
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Whatever you say to that mountain, be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea.
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That mountain of doubt, that mountain of unbelief, the mountain of sickness, the mountain of finances, the mountain of debt, whatever it is you're talking about, the God's Word will conquer it, but it's done in the spirit realm, it's not done in the natural realm.
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Well, brother Terry, I just don't believe it that way.
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Well, I don't care if you believe it that way or not.
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The Bible says whatsoever things you believe, believe you receive them and you shall have them.
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No qualifications on that.
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Whatever you want to do, if you believe the Lord for it, somehow it'll work around to your good and you'll have them.
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No qualifications on that.
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Whatever you want to do, if you believe the Lord for it, somehow it'll work around to your good and you'll get what you ask for.
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As a matter of fact, you'll never rise above the confession that comes out of your mouth.
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So anyway forward on 52 years.
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I've learned to watch my words a lot closer.
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I've learned to be careful of what I say.
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I've learned to be careful of what I say.
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I've learned to be careful to pray specific prayers and not just scattershot prayers, to pray specifically for a need or specifically for a brother or sister.
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I found that when I pray for others and serve others, I get the most reward out of my faith and obligation to Jesus Christ.
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He loves me, he died for me, he was my substitute.
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He went to hell, so I don't have to.
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He died for me, so I don't have to die.
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I don't have to die for anybody except Jesus Christ, him crucified.
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Nevertheless, he lives inside me and the life that I live now he lives through me.
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The church is being either helped or hindered by your actions and your speech.
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We are the body of Christ, we are the church.
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He's the head, we're the body.
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If the head needs to go to witness somebody downtown, hey, you're the body, you just became the feet.
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You better get with it.
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Hoof it up, brother and hubba hubba.
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Well, what if you're nervous or tense?
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So what, it's not, you Just play and act like Jesus.
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That's all you got to do, play and act like Jesus.
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The more you do, the better you will succeed.
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Well, I sort of went down the rabbit trail to say all this God is love.
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He loves you.
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He loves you so much that if you were the only one alive, he would have died for you, and he did.
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He died for every one of us so that we might be born again, not of corruptible seed, in other words, not of flesh and blood and senses, but of incorruptible seed by the word of God, ready to turn around and live an adventurous, fun and happy life.
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Ready to turn around and live an adventurous, fun and happy life.
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Ready to conquer the world and all the devil and demons and all that junk?
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Then give your heart to Jesus Christ, ask him to come into your life.
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Just say this with me, lord Jesus we're coming down on the end of the year and I just want to ask you to forgive me of my sins, cleanse me of all unrighteousness, set my feet on a rock and establish my goings.
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I give my heart to you and I want to thank you and praise you for coming into my life.
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Your word says if I shall confess you as Lord of my life, I confess Jesus Christ as Lord of my life and believe in my heart that God raised him from the dead.
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I don't know how he did it.
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I don't understand it, but I believe it.
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God would not lie to me.
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I believe it and confess in my mouth Jesus is Lord, and I just did that I shall be saved.
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Now that's sort of a street preacher's way of getting to say give your heart to Jesus Christ, let him take over, fix what needs to be fixed, set your feet on a rock, establish your going and let him bless you, keep you, make his face shine upon you and be gracious unto you.
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And you're rising up and you're lying down.
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Shine upon you and be gracious unto you in your rising up and in your lying down, in your laughter and your joy, in your tears, in your happiness, in your sorrow, in all the things that you do, until he appears again at the second coming and that trumpet sounds and we're raptured out of here.
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You have a blessed day In Jesus' name, amen.
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The Lord bless you and keep you.
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The lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious unto you.
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