Our Guest Art Thomas
ART: Just being real with you. Now the another case is when Saul became Paul he’s ministering and there’s this guy out there who after Saul—after Paul preaches the gospel this guy stands up and starts preaching the opposite, opposing the gospel and Paul says you’re going to be blind for a time. In other words this wasn’t even a permanent blindness. It was just to shut the guy down and move him out of the picture so the gospel could take root. So in the New Testament whenever God did something that brought sickness or disease it was always temporary and the clearest picture we have the prescription was healing. The other one was it was to wear off. You see? So don’t be like no, this is my cross to bear. Jesus gave— No, that’s not your cross to bear. It was Jesus” cross to bear and He bore it. Your job is not to carry what He carried. Your job’s not to pay for sin. His job’s to pay for sin. Your job’s not to carry sickness.
His job is. So here’s what we’re going to do. I only have a few minutes left and I want to see some people healed. We started tonight. We saw a gentleman’s knee get healed. That was awesome. And so if there’s anybody here who needs physical healing. Anybody watching you need physical healing. Here’s what we’re going to do. I want you to— if you’re in the studio audience raise your hand just so we can see what we’re working with. All right. Look at this. There’s hands all over the place. Many behind us. The guy whose knee we prayed for he’s got his hands down. I love it! And were going to see Jesus do something here. Now look around you at the people whose hands are up. Okay? Because I’m about to teach you exactly what we do to minister healing. All we do is we lay hands on someone and we say be healed in Jesus name and we have them test it out if they can. Some things can be tested immediately. Like pain in your body or something like that. Vision problems. Hearing problems. Some things you’ve got to go to a doctor. You can put your hands down so you don’t need healing for your shoulder too.
AUDIENCE: (LAUGHTER)
ART: Some things take some time to test. Because maybe it’s diabetes and you got to go to your doctor and get checked out and things like that. That’s great. You just need to test it somehow. If you could test it now test it now. If you can’t test it for two weeks test it in two weeks. All right? We want to see if Jesus did it. I’ve seen people healed of diabetes. I’ve visited a church a year later after visiting it before and a gentleman testified I’ve been diabetes free for a year. So we know Jesus does those ones. It’s just hard to count those in a service. Fair? Okay. So if you’re watching I want you to put your hand wherever the pain is. If you’ve got somebody with you I want to have them lay hands on you. Now here’s something. Sometimes we’re afraid of what if the person next to me isn’t a full strong Christian believer. What if some evil spirit’s going to jump on me or something like that. “Greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.” Okay?
AUDIENCE: Yes! Amen! ART: So if you’re a believer you’re good. You’re safe. All right? Jesus said “the prince of this world is coming. He has no grip on me.” Okay? That’s what’s available to you. So let’s just stand firm on the Word and just believe that all we’re looking for is Jesus. If you ask your Father for a fish He’s not going to give you a snake. Right? So if you’re asking for Jesus to touch you He’s going to expel anything else that doesn’t belong, that’s not from Him. Right? So you’re safe. You’re safe in this environment. Jesus is with you. But before I do this, this is a promise for believers to minister healing. And so if there’s anybody here or anybody watching who has never come to Jesus and said Lord I want You to be my Savior. I want You to wash me clean and make me pure. Set me free 100%. I’m telling you right now Jesus wants to do it. There is no question in my mind that He paid the price for you right here right now. And whether you’re sitting here or watching this film you can be saved. Not just your body but your spirit, your eternal spirit which has ramifications for the rest of eternity far beyond what we could see.
Jesus paid for you. He paid for you because He loves you and because He wants you whole. So right now if that’s you I want you to pray along with me. In fact if you’re in this studio audience and you want to make that bold public confession of faith, I’m not going to ask you to stand up or shout or anything or tell me your story, anything like that but I do want to be able to personally pray for you. I’ll stay right here. I’m won’t jump on you. But if that’s you I’d like you to raise your hand cause Jesus said— Yeah, awesome. Is there anyone else? Praise You Lord. Awesome. Anyone else? Yeah. Praise you Lord. Three. Four. Five, Six. Yeah. Anyone else? Seven. Awesome. Eight. Yeah. Thank You Lord! In Jesus” name right now I speak to every one of you. You are forgiven. You are forgiven. You are forgiven. That’s something He told us to do, to do in His name, to express that to you. You are forgiven in Jesus” name. And so right now I want you to pray with me. Lord Jesus. Would you just say that after me
