Embracing the Healing Power of Emmanuel

"Jesus heals. I was maybe eight years old and so sick, and I had an earache that wouldn't stop. I was standing behind a stove in our dining room on a Wednesday night, and always on Wednesday night, we went to church. But I had this bad earache, and I don't know, Dad just asked me, he says, Robert, do you want to go to church tonight so that we can pray for you? I mean, our family was praying at home as well, but I said yes. So I went with this ear just, I mean, the pain was so bad. After the service was over, we always had altar times of people coming and praying around the altars, and my dad took me up on the platform to our pastor and told our pastor, Robert's got this earache. And I'll never forget it, the anointing of the Spirit of God touched me, and immediately that earache was gone just like that, and I have never had an earache since. And I thank God for his healing." [00:29:41] (87 seconds)


"The power of God's Spirit is in us. And when we open up to the Spirit of God, nothing is impossible for God. God heals tumors in Jesus' name. God heals families in Jesus' name. Brokenness is taken care of because God cares for us. Amen? He knows our needs because He lived our lives. Jesus lived this for 33 and a half years. And we think, well, that's not very long. I've lived 75 years. Done making me feel good. Any difference? Jesus knows the pain. Jesus felt the pain on the cross of Calvary. It wasn't something that wasn't there. Jesus knew, and He knows today everything that's going on in our lives. And He's there to touch us." [00:31:13] (55 seconds)


"Even if you don't get healed right now, keep believing that you are. You are healed in the name of Jesus. If a family is divided, keep believing that that family is going to be healed and restored because God brings them back together. Don't quit putting your faith and trust in the Lord. Amen? He is faithful, and we will see Him work in our lives as long as we're willing to trust Him. Amen? Praise God." [00:32:36] (28 seconds)


"She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus. And it's unusual that the name Jesus would be given to the firstborn in a family at that time. Because Jesus wasn't in the lineage as far as Joseph's family was concerned. So you go back through the lineage and the genealogies, and Jesus' name wasn't there. The same thing happened with John the Baptist, because the name John wasn't in the lineage of John's genealogy either. But God was doing some specific things, speaking specific things in both of those cases, and so God named those two boys. And gave them the names that they were given. So it's important to see that. So she was to call him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins." [00:37:31] (56 seconds)


"Jesus was there for our salvation for everyone, right? Not just for a specific people, but for everyone. He would save his people. I'm his people, amen? I'm his people. I belong to Jesus. And Jesus has bought me with his blood, and I thank him for that today. All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet. The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Emmanuel, which means God with us." [00:38:50] (34 seconds)


"Today in the town of David, a Savior has been born to you. He is the Messiah, the Lord. This will be a sign to you. You will find a baby wrapped in clothes and lying in a manger. Suddenly, a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests. When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, Let's go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about." [00:41:12] (38 seconds)


"Jesus was the Lord who saves. Jesus saves you. Jesus saves you. Jesus saves you. Jesus saves you from a life of destruction, a life of total depravity, a life of total emptiness, a total life of separation from God, and brings you into a relationship with God, the creator of the universe, the creator of you. Amen? He made you, and you live in the presence of the glory of God. So it's important that we understand that this salvation, as it is said here, is for us. It's for us." [00:48:06] (35 seconds)


"God has already given the sign. The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son and will call him Emmanuel. Well, Matthew chapter 1 verse 23 again tells us that Emmanuel means what? God with us. Where is God with us? With us. He's not off in outer space someplace. Well, he is because he's everywhere, right? But God is with us. He's right here today, amen? He's here in this place. He's here in our hearts and our lives because we now have a relationship with him. He's God with us." [00:51:52] (44 seconds)


"Have the same mindset as Christ Jesus. Not like you want to have or some person has with you, but have the mindset of Jesus, knowing that what is important to God is much more important to him than your feelings or your position or what you think is best. God always puts others first. You realize? God puts people first. He cares so much that he cares to work in our lives in a way that will help us understand that he really does care for us." [00:56:57] (52 seconds)


"Jesus, before coming to earth and being born as a baby, was equal with God in heaven eternally, from beginning to end, in which there's no beginning and there's no end. He's always been, always will be. So there was this complete unity of the Father and the Son. But it tells us here that he didn't look at that as being so important or to his advantage, to the place that it was more important than what he did do. Rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness, like you and me." [00:58:21] (42 seconds)


"Have you opened your heart and said, come into my life, Lord? Have you accepted the invitation from him to come into the life of the kingdom of God? Have you chosen to say, I will be obedient to you. I will serve you, Lord, rather than serve myself or anybody else around me. Am I willing to give myself to you? Today, as we get ready to close this service, the Lord is speaking to our hearts about who he is. He is the one who saves us. He is the anointed one who is ruler over all things." [01:00:21] (43 seconds)