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How do Christians deal with Sickness? [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Morning Devo. My sister and my friend.
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Speaker 1: So let's go forward. Today we're talking about sickness. Sickness
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Speaker 1: and the question at hand is how do Christians christ
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Speaker 1: followers deal with sickness? How do we deal with it. Amen,
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Speaker 1: Because I know a lot of people probably think you're Christians,
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Speaker 1: you don't face any challenges in life. You're right. We
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Speaker 1: face sickness, disease, all that stuff that the world because
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Speaker 1: it's broken. The world is falling, right, the world is broken.
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Speaker 1: We are in this world. We're not of this world,
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Speaker 1: so we operate differently, but we're in the same planet.
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Speaker 1: Having you notice that Christians live on the planet Earth,
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Speaker 1: just like people who are not Christians and are from
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Speaker 1: different faiths, different backgrounds, a man, different belief systems. So
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Speaker 1: we are here facing the same challenges everybody else's face,
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Speaker 1: everybody else faces, but we deal with it. According to
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Speaker 1: the scriptures, we have Holy spirited living inside of us,
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Speaker 1: so we operate different we move differently. At least we
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Speaker 1: should be moving differently, right, So how do Christians deal
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Speaker 1: with sickness? So I wrote this down In times of sickness?
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Speaker 1: Christians lean on their faith, trusting in God's love and
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Speaker 1: care and seek his guidance and wisdom. And then we
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Speaker 1: go to the doctor. Heymen, we do what's more powerful.
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Speaker 1: We go to the Lord Jesus. First. I'm not saying,
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Speaker 1: you know, just stay home, pray, don't worry about the doctor.
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Speaker 1: I'm saying where do we go first? We're going to
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Speaker 1: be at James chapter five, versus number fourteen and fifteen.
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Speaker 1: And this is going to seem odd to a lot
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Speaker 1: of people of what we should do or when we
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Speaker 1: find ourselves sick or ill or struck with some kind
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Speaker 1: of disease, how we move is way different and than
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Speaker 1: any other religion, than any belief system out there. We're
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Speaker 1: instructed to do move differently. Amen. I don't want to
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Speaker 1: spoil it. We're going to re read it in James
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Speaker 1: chapter five, verses fourteen and fifteen. So if you have
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Speaker 1: So let's go for it. Amen. Well pray first you
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Speaker 1: this out for like sixty seconds, and then when we
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Speaker 1: come back on the other side of those sixty seconds,
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Speaker 1: we'll try to tackle this question today. How do Christians
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Speaker 1: deal with sickness? Father, I thank you for your healing power.
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Speaker 1: First and foremost, I thank you that you instructed us
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Speaker 1: to do things differently when we are struck with sickness, disease,
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Speaker 1: and illness. I pray Lo God, healing cleansing to our
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Speaker 1: bodies physically, emotionally and spiritually every organ. Lord God, that
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Speaker 1: you would illuminate your light and touch every single organ
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Speaker 1: of our bodies that is aching, that is feeling sick,
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Speaker 1: that is not functioning properly. I pray lo God, your
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Speaker 1: healing power over myself, over every single person that's dealing
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Speaker 1: with the illness and sickness right now. And I thank you,
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Speaker 1: Lor God, for your health, your strength and your protection
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Speaker 1: that you give us. In the holy name of Jesus.
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Speaker 1: I pray, Lord God, I had your protection over every
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Speaker 1: single person, including myself, my wife, and my family, children,
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Speaker 1: our grandchildren, and the name of Jesus, that you would
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Speaker 1: set forth archrey angels to annihilate the tactics of the enemy.
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Speaker 1: That you would give us a clear mind, eye to see,
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Speaker 1: a mouth to speak, and Lord God, that we will
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Speaker 1: walk in righteousness and holiness, and we will walk in
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Speaker 1: the light of Christ, not in the darkness of men.
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Speaker 1: And now in the darkness of our flesh, we would
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Speaker 1: con see the walking the light and seek truth and
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Speaker 1: know that you are the Way, the truth, and the life.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for revealing yourself to us. And thank you,
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Speaker 1: Lord God, that you place holy Spirit, living and breathing
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Speaker 1: inside of every one of your children. And for those
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Speaker 1: Lord God that do not know you yet, I pray
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Speaker 1: Lord God, that your Holy Spirit will touch them today
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Speaker 1: And Jesus name, myfraend is about faith. And all those
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Speaker 1: who agree with this prayer, we say Amen to the
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Speaker 1: How do Christians deal with sickness? And spoiler alert for
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Speaker 1: those who thought Christians never got sick, we do get sick.
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Speaker 1: It's part of the broken system that Genesis chapter three
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Speaker 1: when Adam and Eve disobeyed Holy Father right, and the
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Speaker 1: result of that, and the consequence of that is that
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Speaker 1: now we have to deal with sickness, disease, death, illness
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Speaker 1: and all of that. But while we're dealing with it, Amen,
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Speaker 1: we don't deal with sickness and disease and all that
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Speaker 1: that comes in this world the same way that the
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Speaker 1: world does. Amen. We have a different way of doing
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Speaker 1: this or dealing with this, Amen. And we have a community.
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Speaker 1: We have brothers and sisters in Christ, that we could
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Speaker 1: come alongside and for helping guidance as God works through
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Speaker 1: us for one another. And this is what it says.
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Speaker 1: The apostle James says it the best. He asks the
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Speaker 1: question James Shot five verses fourteen and fifteen, is anyone
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Speaker 1: among you sick? That's a question? And humble yourself if
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Speaker 1: you are amen, I'm humbling myself. Right. He must call
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Speaker 1: for the elders, spiritual leaders of the church, and they
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Speaker 1: are to pray over him first and foremost. We go
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Speaker 1: to the elders of the church. And this is of
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Speaker 1: course based on a holy spirit filled church with leadership
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Speaker 1: that's filled with holy spirit God. I'm not talking about cults.
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Speaker 1: I'm not talking about religion. I'm talking about brothers and
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Speaker 1: sisters who are elders in the church who have a
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Speaker 1: personal relationship with the Living God filled with his spirit.
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Speaker 1: We go to the elders, spiritual leaders of the church,
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Speaker 1: and what's gonna happen. And they are to pray over us,
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Speaker 1: pray over him, pray over her, annoing thing him or
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Speaker 1: her with oil in the name of the Lord. And
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Speaker 1: the prayer of faith will restore the one who is sick.
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Speaker 1: This is faith beyond faith. Right, this is like, we
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Speaker 1: know that the prayer of faith will restore the one
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Speaker 1: who is sick. This is God's word, not my word.
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Speaker 1: And the Lord will raise him up, and if he
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Speaker 1: has committed sins, he or she will be forgiven. Every
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Speaker 1: time I look at the last part of the scriptures,
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Speaker 1: I'm like, so sickness right, and sin seems to be
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Speaker 1: in the sane category. And the Lord will raise him
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Speaker 1: up and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
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Speaker 1: Apostle Paul, I excuse me, Apostle James filled with Holy spirit.
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Speaker 1: God is mentioning that when we go to the church leaders,
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Speaker 1: the spiritual leaders of the church, I pray the anoint
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Speaker 1: us with oil right in the name of the Lord,
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Speaker 1: and the prayer of faith because Jesus is the prayer
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Speaker 1: that we're praying too, and we have faith in the Lord.
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Speaker 1: And it's the Lord who will restore the one who
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Speaker 1: is sick, and the Lord will raise him up and
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Speaker 1: if he has committed sins. So it's like, is there
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Speaker 1: a connection here with sickness and sin? Well, I have news.
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Speaker 1: James comes with good news. You will be forgiven. I
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Speaker 1: will be forgiven you will be forgiven, he or she
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Speaker 1: will be forgiven because we're doing it according to the scriptures.
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Speaker 1: Then well, I'll get to my notes and i'll explain.
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Speaker 1: So I know you're probably asking questions in your mind,
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Speaker 1: but what happens after that? I'm gonna share that right now,
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Speaker 1: ay man, because I looked it up and I was like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: what happens after that? What about the other person that's
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Speaker 1: being prayed for doesn't have faith? Right? So what happens
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Speaker 1: after that? Because I asked the same question when I've
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Speaker 1: read this scripture when I'm preparing for this morning devo,
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Speaker 1: I was like, there has to be more, even though
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Speaker 1: that is more than enough, but practically, let's see. So
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Speaker 1: when we're dealing with sickness as believers, as Christians, we
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Speaker 1: deal with it differently. We have demonstrations of how Jesus
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Speaker 1: himself healed people. I'm just gonna cite the scriptures Matthew,
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Speaker 1: Chapter four, twenty three and twenty four Acts, Chapter three,
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Speaker 1: verses six to eight. God is one hundred percent able
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Speaker 1: to heal in miraculous ways. We already know that God
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Speaker 1: performs signs of miracles and wonders daily. There's no shortage
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Speaker 1: of miracles. When it comes to our Messiah and man
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Speaker 1: he performed signs, miracles and wonders. He's still healing people,
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Speaker 1: still saving people, still delivering people. We know that, but
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Speaker 1: knowing that, we also have to understand that we live
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Speaker 1: in a fallen world. That's why we need miracles. We
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Speaker 1: need miracles because we're in a broken system, a broken world.
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Speaker 1: We need God only you a miracle. We need a
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Speaker 1: miracle from You, Lord. That's why we pray that way
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Speaker 1: because if we were not in a broken system, miracles
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Speaker 1: won't even be asked for, because we'll be experienced in miracles,
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Speaker 1: will be so used to and accustomed to miracles because
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Speaker 1: God is a miracle and he saves us and that's
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Speaker 1: another miracle. Amen. So if you get where I'm going right, So,
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Speaker 1: because we live in a fall and broken world, there's
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Speaker 1: going to be sickness and suffering. Amen. Sickness is suffering,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't exist. And sometimes God allows us to go
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Speaker 1: through these challenges for reasons that if you ask me why,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to tell I don't know. And if I
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Speaker 1: ask you why, you'll probably tell me I don't know.
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Speaker 1: But there's a greater purpose that if God allows and
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Speaker 1: I already had this discussing discussion with my wife, with
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Speaker 1: my family. God allows something sickness to hit me in
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Speaker 1: a way, right, It's going to be for greater purpose,
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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna trust him all the way through it.
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna like it. I'm not gonna feel good obviously,
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Speaker 1: you know. I just don't want people to be hurt.
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Speaker 1: What's sad for me is that when we are struck
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Speaker 1: with sickness or disease or anything like that, the family
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Speaker 1: is hurting. So it's very important, at least on my end,
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Speaker 1: to lead my family to believe in the Lord that's
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Speaker 1: sovereign in control of all sickness disease, and he could,
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Speaker 1: he could work miracles, signs and wonners. But if he doesn't,
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Speaker 1: if he allows us to go through it, it's gonna
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Speaker 1: be for purposes that Honestly, I don't think anybody knows
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Speaker 1: because we don't know that end of it. But God does,
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Speaker 1: so we need to trust him. So although we get sick,
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Speaker 1: we also have this. We find comfort and we find
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Speaker 1: hope in understanding and knowing that God is with us
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Speaker 1: in our suffering. He's not outside of it watching us
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Speaker 1: and saying oh, you know, take a benadryl, take an adavil,
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Speaker 1: or take a Tyler law and call me tomorrow. That's
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Speaker 1: not our God. God is in there with us in
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Speaker 1: the struggle, in the sickness, and he's able to bring
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Speaker 1: about healing in so many different ways. People could testify
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Speaker 1: right now if I ask people, listen, when you were sick,
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Speaker 1: when you had this, when you had that, how did
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Speaker 1: God show up in your life? Everybody will come with
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Speaker 1: different and various ways of how Jesus shows up. Amen.
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Speaker 1: And by the way, he shows up on time. So
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Speaker 1: sometimes he heals miraculously. Sometimes he works through medical professionals. Right,
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Speaker 1: So Christians should not be against going to the doctor,
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Speaker 1: but I think we need to do things in order.
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Speaker 1: Go to the Lord first, go to the elders of
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Speaker 1: the church. Secondly, right, and we're still going in the
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Speaker 1: Lord first and amen, And if you don't get the
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Speaker 1: miraculous healing right there on the spot, you still feel
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Speaker 1: sick illness still hitting us. Then we go to doctors,
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Speaker 1: but go there preyed up. The medical field is a
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Speaker 1: place where a lot of the doctors right are only
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Speaker 1: dealing with what they see, and some of them, or
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Speaker 1: a lot of them, I don't know, are not believers
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Speaker 1: or not. They're so accustomed to seeing what's going on
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Speaker 1: and trying to deal with what they see. We as believers,
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Speaker 1: we don't have to see. Amen. We believe before we see,
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Speaker 1: and we go and we're instructed to go to the
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Speaker 1: elders of the church, and we're instructed to go. I
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Speaker 1: always go to the law first. Any symptom, I go
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Speaker 1: to the Lord and ask them. I know it myself
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Speaker 1: with oil, and I ask the Lord, please show me,
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Speaker 1: give me a understanding, give me wisdom. Amen, how do
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Speaker 1: I deal with this? And of course if I have
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Speaker 1: to go to doctor, I have to go to doctor.
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Speaker 1: It's like my last resort though, I amen me personally,
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Speaker 1: I wait until things just go away. If it doesn't
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Speaker 1: go away, Amen, I already did the first part. I
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Speaker 1: did the second part. Now I'm gonna go to the doctor. Amen.
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying, of course, if it's an emergency, you
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Speaker 1: go to the doctor. But I suggest that you call
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Speaker 1: somebody that believes a man and have them praying for
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Speaker 1: you as you're on your way to the doctor. I
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Speaker 1: just believe that way. I believe it's powerful. That way.
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Speaker 1: God sees everything A man, he doesn't need my help.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't need your help. But something about acknowledging God
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Speaker 1: in the midst of your sickness, it's like next level.
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Speaker 1: He provides comfort, Amen, and he's with you, and you
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Speaker 1: could feel his presence, Amen. Very important to feel his presence.
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Speaker 1: So he works through medical professionals and we could get treatments,
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Speaker 1: we could get medication. And sometimes he provides comfort and
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Speaker 1: strength to endure all the time. Actually, I don't know
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Speaker 1: why I would say sometimes my notes, all the time,
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Speaker 1: he provides comfort and strength to endure. Second Corinthians, chattering
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Speaker 1: up with twelve verse number nine. We were dealt with
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Speaker 1: that the other day, like men Philippians four thirteen. We
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Speaker 1: do all things to Christ, who gives us the strength.
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Speaker 1: So our ultimate healing, though, our ultimate healing, listen to this,
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Speaker 1: comes through our salvation in Christ. And I know it's
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Speaker 1: like I'm bypassing sickness. I'm not. Our ultimate healing comes
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Speaker 1: from our salvation in Christ. As we are forgiven right
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Speaker 1: like James said, we're forgiven, we're cleansed, and we're made
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Speaker 1: new in Him. I think that makes us go further
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Speaker 1: than pretty much anybody else on this planet. That we
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Speaker 1: know who we know is our healer. We know that
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Speaker 1: Jesus is the great physician. He mean, the greatest physician ever.
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Speaker 1: But if he allows us to go through something, to contine,
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Speaker 1: to hold his hand and trust him through it. Man,
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Speaker 1: I'm seeing way too much illness in my family. I'm
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Speaker 1: seeing way too much cancer in the world with friends
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Speaker 1: and everybody, and I, you know, I ask God, just
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Speaker 1: like everybody else is asking why cancer like that thing?
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Speaker 1: That thing is horrible? And then the treatment I don't
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Speaker 1: even you know, I probably get banned for this, but
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Speaker 1: I don't believe in those treatments. Man, it's fun experience
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Speaker 1: of what one of my family members is going through.
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Speaker 1: I don't I don't see the sense and the treatments
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Speaker 1: of cancer. I'm not gonna tell you which treatment it is. Amen.
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Speaker 1: I'm not a doctor, obviously, but I just don't understand it.
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Speaker 1: And praise God if people have been healed through the
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Speaker 1: medical process of cancer treatment. But I'm saying I don't.
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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't buy it. And because I don't
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Speaker 1: buy I'm a stand on my own personal conviction and
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Speaker 1: for whatever reason God, as we travel down that road,
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Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, just pray for your brother
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Speaker 1: a man off that whatever happen, but I'm gonna do
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Speaker 1: it according to I'm gonna go to the I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: go to the Lord first. Amen. I'm always always going
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Speaker 1: to the Lord. So that's pretty much taken care of.
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Speaker 1: That's that's a no brander. And then I'm gonna go
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Speaker 1: to the elders, my spiritual leaders on my church, who
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Speaker 1: all fill with holy spirit. Thank you Jesus that I
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Speaker 1: know elders and spiritual leaders, the men that us fill
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Speaker 1: with holy spirit. God, let them annoint me with oil.
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Speaker 1: Pray to healing prayers, Amen, and I'll be forgiven for
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Speaker 1: whatever sins are connected. I guess to those to that sickness,
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Speaker 1: I believe there's a connection there. Amen. I'm not a theologian,
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Speaker 1: but every time I read those scriptures and James, it
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Speaker 1: looks like there's a connection there. But on both ends
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Speaker 1: were healed and forgiven. God is that good. So in
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Speaker 1: times of sickness, it's important to lean lean heavily on
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Speaker 1: our faith in Christ. Continue to lean on the Lord,
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Speaker 1: continue to ask him for understanding, wisdom, for strength, Amen,
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Speaker 1: and He'll do it. Trust in God's love, Trust in
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Speaker 1: God's care. And seek His guide in some wisdom. An
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Speaker 1: amazing opportunity we have that I don't think anybody else has.
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Speaker 1: If you're not a believer, you don't have this. It's
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Speaker 1: amazing that people are still going on in these years
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Speaker 1: that we're living in, just like disregarding an opportunity to
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Speaker 1: get into a personal relationship with the healer, with the Savior,
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Speaker 1: with the Lord, Amen, the one who has eternal life,
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Speaker 1: the one who can miraculous, miraculously save us through sickness
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Speaker 1: and disease, and can heal us instantaneously. And people just
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Speaker 1: disregard that and they go straight to the medical field, which,
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Speaker 1: like I said, I'll have none against doctors and going
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Speaker 1: to the doctors. But I'm talking to Christians, Amen, how
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Speaker 1: do we deal with sickness? What we do, what God's
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Speaker 1: Word says to do? First of foremost, we could go
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Speaker 1: to all the scriptures. There's so many about being healed
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Speaker 1: from sickness all through the Old Testament and New Testament.
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Speaker 1: How about that meditate on the Word. How about that
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Speaker 1: going to the spiritual leaders of the church. How about
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Speaker 1: that un north and self for oil? How about that? Amen?
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to disregard everything that the word says,
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Speaker 1: when we're dealing with sickness, and then go straight to
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Speaker 1: the doctor hopeless. Amen, even though doctors could provide hope.
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Speaker 1: I've met Christian doctors. They're different. Praise God that we
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Speaker 1: have doctors that are believers. They move differently their fellow
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Speaker 1: doctors and fellow you associates, and they don't like it,
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Speaker 1: but they move differently. It's just who they are in Christ.
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Speaker 1: So not only do they have medical information in their
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Speaker 1: mind and they have education, amen, and they know about
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Speaker 1: the anatomy, also have Holy Spirit guiding them with wisdom
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Speaker 1: a man as well. Amazing. So if you're a Christian doctor,
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Speaker 1: I salute you, Amen. Thank you so much for believing
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Speaker 1: and trusting in God first and then taking care of
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Speaker 1: your patience medically. I know some nurses and doctors that
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Speaker 1: are born again and they move differently, and it's so
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Speaker 1: good to know that they're in the medical field. I
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Speaker 1: know probably where they're at, they probably are told things
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Speaker 1: and they're told not to say things and X y Z,
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Speaker 1: but their life already is flowing into things of God.
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Speaker 1: So when you see them, you know that they're different.
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Speaker 1: So in times of sickness, it's important to lean on
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Speaker 1: your faith, trust in God's love and care, and seek
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Speaker 1: his guidance, guidance and wisdom. Seek the Lord's guidance and
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Speaker 1: wisdom when a Christian is sick. That's what we do, right, Well,
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Speaker 1: that's what we should do. I'm encouraging you to do
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Speaker 1: what the Word said. You can also pray for comfort,
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Speaker 1: also pray for peace and strength for yourself and your
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Speaker 1: loved ones during this time. Because remember, when someone in
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Speaker 1: the family is sick, then our loved ones are hurting
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Speaker 1: as well. They might not feel the same symptoms, but
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Speaker 1: they're hurting, so we pray for them for comfort and
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Speaker 1: peace as well as we go through it. Amen. So
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Speaker 1: I'm out of time here, but man, remember that God
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Speaker 1: is always working for our ultimate good, even in the
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Speaker 1: midst of sickness and suffering. That's important to know, James,
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Speaker 1: chapter number five. Read the whole chapter for yourself. We
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Speaker 1: hung out in verses fourteen and fifteen, and man, let's
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Speaker 1: do it. Let's do it according to the Word, and
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Speaker 1: then watch the Word of God respond, Amen, and perform
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Speaker 1: what the Word is intended to perform in your life
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Speaker 1: and in my life. So that's how Christians deal with sickness.
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Speaker 1: At least I'm skimming the surface. Amen. Is a lot
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Speaker 1: more to it. But this is a morning evil and
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Speaker 1: we keep it right there. So thank you so much
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Speaker 1: for hanging out with me. Amen, pray for me. I
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Speaker 1: can seem to pray for you. Amen. A lot of
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Speaker 1: people are getting sick because of this virus or whatever
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Speaker 1: is happening in our world right now in the atmosphere.
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Speaker 1: But we have a God who heals, God who saves.
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Speaker 1: We have the elders and spiritual leaders in the church
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Speaker 1: that we could go to Amen and anoint thiss with
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Speaker 1: oil and the prayers of faith. Amen. God will work
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Speaker 1: through that, and then what he wants done will happen
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Speaker 1: in Jesus name right. So God bless you all. God
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Speaker 1: keep you all, and remember always that God is Good. Peace.