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Jesus' Power Over Nature, Demons, and Death (Mk. 3-5)
Mike Bickle

Mike Bickle (1955 - ). American evangelical pastor, author, and founder of the International House of Prayer (IHOPKC), born in Kansas City, Missouri. Converted at 15 after hearing Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach at a 1970 Fellowship of Christian Athletes conference, he pastored several St. Louis churches before founding Kansas City Fellowship in 1982, later Metro Christian Fellowship. In 1999, he launched IHOPKC, pioneering 24/7 prayer and worship, growing to 2,500 staff and including a Bible college until its closure in 2024. Bickle authored books like Passion for Jesus (1994), emphasizing intimacy with God, eschatology, and Israel’s spiritual role. Associated with the Kansas City Prophets in the 1980s, he briefly aligned with John Wimber’s Vineyard movement until 1996. Married to Diane since 1973, they have two sons. His teachings, broadcast globally, focused on prayer and prophecy but faced criticism for controversial prophetic claims. In 2023, Bickle was dismissed from IHOPKC following allegations of misconduct, leading to his withdrawal from public ministry. His influence persists through archived sermons despite ongoing debates about his legacy
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Mike Bickle emphasizes Jesus' authority over nature, demons, and death, highlighting the public rejection He faced from religious leaders and even His own family. Despite this rejection, Jesus performs a series of miracles that reveal His true identity and power, demonstrating that He is more than a prophet and operates in the fullness of the Holy Spirit. Bickle draws parallels between Jesus' experiences and the challenges the end-time church will face, encouraging believers to trust in Jesus' promises and power amidst opposition. The sermon culminates in a call for healing and deliverance, affirming that Jesus is the source of hope and restoration.
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In this session, what we're going to notice, we're going to look at the rejection that Jesus experiences. It goes to another level. The rejection up to now has been more subtle and by innuendo and kind of insults here and there, but now it becomes official and public from the national leadership, the religious leadership of the nation. It's public and it's national and it's official. But at the same time, right after that happens, Mark records four miracles in a row that reveals Jesus' true identity to the disciples. It shows him his identity as a one with power. He's more than a prophet because a prophet wouldn't have the kind of power that Mark is going to set forth here in chapter four and chapter five. He has power over nature, far beyond anything Elijah or Elisha did. He has power over demons. Probably the most severe demonic possession case in the nation is before him and he delivers him and the man comes to sound mind in a very short amount of time. He has power over sickness and he has power over death itself. Now these miracles, they occurred, he's still up in the north in Galilee. And what's important to understand when we read these three chapters, Mark three, four and five, that Jesus is being set forth, not just in his identity, his unique identity as more than a prophet, but he's a model of a person who operates in the Holy Spirit in fullness. I'm going to say that again. He's a picture of a person, a model of one who operates in the Holy Spirit in fullness. And he's a picture of the measure of where the end time church will go when it faces the greatest resistance it will ever face in history. As tremendous, powerful forces of darkness rise up against the church, we're going to find Mark chapter three, four and five, I believe very significant, inspiring, instructive. It's a picture of where the end time church is going. When Jesus said with his own lips, he prophesied in John chapter 14 verse 12, greater works than these shall you do in my name. And though there's been a moment here and there in history where a tremendous work of God, a miracle was released. This prophecy of the greater works than these has not happened on a, any kind of consistent global way. And Mark chapter three, four and five is a snapshot of where this thing is going when Christ has his full way in the church before his return. Now, notice it's not just an issue of miracles. It's also an issue of rejection because Jesus isn't just anointed and powerful. He's insulted by his friends and families and he's officially rejected and he's called demon possessed by the national religious leadership of the, I mean the top leadership of the nation. I mean, some people really get disturbed if somebody puts out something on Facebook that says they're a little off. The top leaders of the nation, the political and spiritual leaders of the nation said he was demon possessed and they sent the word out everywhere. You're going to find in a moment, his own friends and family, they were troubled by his seeming instability that he seemed off to them, but in the same hour he does these dramatic miracles over nature, over the demonic realm, over sickness and over death itself. Let's look at Roman numeral two, his first. Now again, this is public national official rejection by the top spiritual and political leaders of the nation. I mean, you can't quite imagine the magnitude of this tall, the top evangelical leaders of America and the top political leaders got together and wrote a statement against you. Not beware of you that you were demon possessed. You are very dangerous. That's the level of what Jesus encountered. And the reason that's important, a lot of folks, they say, I want to do whatever Jesus did and they're thinking mostly of the miracles. They're not thinking of the rejection and the opposition and even the intensity. We're going to look at the intensity of his lifestyle because once these miracles began, the crowds, the throngs of people that invaded his privacy, the weariness that he encountered, you're going to see here in Mark three, four and five. I mean, it was just selfless. He lives selfless in his miracle ministry. There wasn't the sort of thing where you, the Lord releases that you don't just kind of touch it and then kind of escape for a little while and then pop out whenever you're kind of feeling good and a big conference type thing. Once this happens, a person anointed like this, they're a slave. People are beating down the doors everywhere they go. I know a few, I have a friendship with a few guys that have, the Lord has used in an unusual way in miracles, like right heart bonking a few other guys there, there's four or five of them. And the stories they tell about their private life or the lack of a private life is really like eyeopening and like, really, wow. So you want to do miracles? Yes. Okay. Gird yourself for a lot of criticism and a lot of pressure, not a lot of privacy. Well, it starts here. This story of his rejection begins Mark chapter three, verse 20 and 21 with his family. Now his family's in Nazareth. He's in Capernaum. That's about a 25, 30 mile walk from Nazareth to Capernaum because there's hills and the roads aren't straight as the crow flies. It's about 20 miles. But if he had to walk up and down the hills, it's about 20, 30 miles, about 25, 30 mile walk. His family decided to take this 25 mile walk. They planned an intervention to step into his life and say, listen, things aren't going right. We need to help you. We need to get you on the right path. This is the verse you don't hear preached much about, but verse 20, it begins. The multitudes are gathered together and the throngs are so pressing into him that he could not so much as eat bread. He couldn't get privacy to eat. He couldn't rest everywhere. He went, you'll see later on that when he's in the house, it says a multitude crammed in the house and a multitude outside the house, then he got on a boat and went across the sea of Galilee and there was a crowd that he encountered there. Then we, he came back the next day and the crowd was waiting for him on the, on the, on the shore as well. Well when his family, verse 21, his own people, this is about his family and close relatives and some close friends from Nazareth. They heard about the press of what was happening. They went out, it says, to lay hold of him for they said he is out of his mind. This is his family and his friends from Nazareth. They said, he's gone too far. We're going to walk 25 miles. We're going to intervene. We're going to set him down and we're going to tell him what he's doing. It's something's not right. They were concerned by his emotional or mental stability. They said, he's out of his mind. They're hearing the reports everywhere. They're hearing the statements he's saying about himself, the weariness that's coming on his life and they're going to intervene and actually come and set him straight. I mean, how presumptuous, how insulting that they would presume to have greater insight about him than he had, but they did it nonetheless. So they went out and that means they left Nazareth. They began this, you know, this day long or day or two travel to come visit him. And it says that they're going to lay hold of him and the word there is to seize him. This is the word that's used throughout the gospel of Mark. When they arrested somebody, they seized them or arrested them. This is the word. They're not talking about hugging him. They're talking about taking him away against his will. It's a planned intervention. They walked 25 miles to do it. The press is so intense. He can't eat. He can't rest. He can't get alone. And again, we'll see in a few moments, people are inside the house. They're outside the house. The crowds are everywhere. Paragraph B. So as his family is coming from Nazareth to lay hold of him, to seize him, because they think he's out of his mind, there's another group coming up from Jerusalem. Now you know Jerusalem's down south. They're marching up an official delegation from the top spiritual and political leadership of the nation. A delegation is coming up from Jerusalem. Both groups want to seize him. Both groups want to set him right and stop what he's doing. Verse 22. We're still in Mark chapter 3. The scribes who came down from Jerusalem, again, the political and spiritual capital of the land, the top leaders. Here is their official statement, this delegation. He has Beelzebub, the ruler of the demons, is working in him. He's in league with one of the most powerful demons, Beelzebub. Matter of fact, he's casting out demons in league with a demonic spirit. He's deceiving everyone. That's the official statement from the top leadership of Jerusalem. Now it's clear that the kingdom of darkness has various rank and authority and function of the demonic beings, just like the angelic. There's angels, there's archangels, there's cherubim, there's seraphim. There's different rank and different function of angels, and the angels fell. That's where the demons came. So it is an ordered kingdom that has rank and authority and job descriptions and functions that vary. Beelzebub was a name of one of the top chief leaders in the demonic realm. And they're saying, he's not just got a demon harassing him. He's in league with one of the most powerful demons in the entire kingdom of darkness. Verse 23, of course, Jesus points out the, how illogical that is and how inconsistent this is here in Mark chapter three. By the way, in Matthew 12, I have it on the notes, Matthew 12, the story is told again in Matthew 12 and in Luke eight. So the story is told a Matthew 12, Luke eight, and here in Mark chapter three, Jesus says, how can Satan cast out Satan? That's illogical. The kingdom is divided against itself. The kingdom can't stand. The house is divided against itself. The house can't stand. You know that that's a true principle out of this context in family life, ministry life, business life. Whenever the people that are leading it together are opposing one another, it can't stand. It will collapse. That's obvious. Then Jesus went on and made a, a bigger point. He says, no one can enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods unless he first binds the strong man and then he plunders his house. Now the strong man he's talking about is a demonic power. He says, I am liberating people from demons. I have to bind. I have to have supreme authority over those demon powers, a superior power in order to bind them, to free the people, to liberate the people from their grasp. So he says, I'm not being used by demons. I'm the one that binds the strong man. So I liberate his captives. I have power over those demons. That's his answer. Look at paragraph two at the end of the page, Matthew 12 makes this point. Mark doesn't emphasize this. I love this point that he says, if I cast out demons by the spirit of God, that's the evidence that the kingdom of God is in your midst. The kingdom of God is upon you. In other words, from the lips of Jesus, one of the evidences of the kingdom of God existing on the earth right now is that people have authority to cast out demons. That's why in Mark chapter 16, I don't have the passage here. He said to anyone that believes they'll lay hands on the sick, they'll cast out demons because casting out demons is an evidence that the kingdom of God is being, is operating in the midst of the people. Top of page two, now some people have, you know, a sophisticated, real sophisticated approaches to casting out devils. I don't think it takes 10 classes and 10 sessions of teaching to cast out devils. I think you lay your hands on them, you tell them to break their agreement with the sin and the thought patterns of darkness and say in the name of Jesus, I take authority over this spirit. You've just been trained in how to cast out devils. Okay. Paragraph C. I mean it. Get them to break their agreement in sin. If they're living in sin, close the door. If they're embracing dark thought patterns that are against Jesus's word and his leadership, get them to renounce it and break it and then take authority over the demon. I gave you the class twice. Okay. Paragraph C. Jesus now, he says, now that you brought up the subject that I'm demon possessed, that's what they're saying. If the, one of the top leaders of the demonic hierarchy is in partnership with them and that's how he's operating by that power. That means that Jesus has a demon. Verse 28, he gives them a warning. It says, I say that all sins, first he starts with a promise. All sins will be forgiven. The sons of men and whatever blasphemies they utter, they will be forgiven, but he that blasphemes against the Holy spirit will never be forgiven. But that person is subject to eternal judgment, eternal condemnation. That means the lake of fire. Now here's the key verse, verse 30. He said this because they said he has a demon. He has an unclean spirit, meaning blasphemy of the Holy spirit. The unforgivable sin is when somebody attributes to Satan, the power of God that's operating from Jesus. The reason this is very important. I don't know of one verse that troubles more sincere people over church history than this verse. I've been a pastor 40 years. I have prayed for hundreds, I guess. I mean, the numbers are just so many who imagine they've committed blasphemy, the Holy spirit. They love Jesus. They want to be in his kingdom, but the devil uses this verse and lies about it as in a way. I don't know that he does any of the verse, the evidence that you blaspheme the Holy spirit. There's two evidences. Number one, you are convinced and you are promoting the idea that when the miracle power of Jesus is manifest, it's demonic. That was one, but they were really directly to the person of Jesus. But secondly, the person doesn't want to repent. If you want to repent, that's proof you haven't committed blasphemy, the Holy spirit. Because the outworking of it is the person doesn't care and they don't want to ever repent. They're hardened to such a degree. They do not care. So when a guy comes and says, Oh, I committed blasphemy, it's impossible. You wouldn't be coming for prayer. If you did, you'd be boasting that you did not lamenting that you did. It's a deception. So I take authority over the lying spirit that is tormenting them. They have no more blasphemy in the Holy spirit. And you can be confident when somebody wonders if they have, if they're wondering and they're troubled, they haven't done it. If they're boasting that they've done it, that's quite a bit more disconcerting. Now, I met a person who did that. I remember this. It was the most, it was so troubling. I was young, a young preacher in my twenties and I remember I went to church and afterwards we went to a restaurant and I'm talking to a lady. She saw my Bible there. Lady about 60. I said, how you doing? She said, Oh, I see your Bible. I said, yeah. She goes, so you're a Christian. She goes, I go, yeah, yeah. I said, do you have a relationship with the Lord? She goes, no, I used to, I don't, I don't anymore. And I said, well, you can't just, no, no, no, no, no, no. I don't want it. I've operated miracles. I've cast out devils. I've seen the power of God. I want nothing to do with that man. I know I'm going to hell. I would rather go to hell than be with him. And I'm proud of it. I looked at this lady, this chill, wait, wait, wait, wait. Don't talk like this. She goes, Oh, I know exactly what's going on. I know the Bible better than you do. She goes, I've blasphemed the Holy spirit and I'm not moved about it at all. I looked at her. I said, Oh my God, the fear of God just hit me. I mean, she ought to be in trouble. And I was the one shaking. I, I went in the car and they go, well, what happened? I go, Oh my gosh, I had the weirdest conversation. Weird's not the right word. It was terrifying. I mean the implications. So anybody that's struggling with this, just look them in the eye and tell them it's a lie that they haven't committed it. We're going to pray over people at the end of this, uh, this time anyway, about this, because it's a lie that torments people for years and years. Now notice in verse 28, he says, I say all sins will be forgiven. I love this except for a final, complete hardness against Jesus that doesn't want his forgiveness at all and has no interest in him. That's the one sin and declaring, as it says here in verse 30, that his power is actually demonic and it's evil and it's dark. You're sitting here and go, I can't fathom somebody doing that, but people do. They really do do this. But I have good news to you. Verse 28, all sins will be forgiven. All sins will be forgiven. All of your sins will be forgiven in the name of Jesus. Lord, I ask you to cleanse all the lies in people's minds that they are the one that has a sin that won't be forgiven. The enemy is tormenting some of you with that lie. Look at Roman numeral three. So now Jesus's family back in verse 20, they set out from Nazareth on this 2530 mile walk. Now they've arrived to Capernaum. I want you to get the picture here. Verse 31, his mother and brothers, I'm sure they're a little exhausted. They're standing outside that because Jesus is on the inside of a house. And they sent to him and verse 32 in the house or say, Hey, Jesus, verse 32 in the house, a multitude is sitting with him. Now how many of you would like a multitude sitting in your house with you? That doesn't sound very relaxing. And they said to Jesus, look, meaning they're looking out the window. Your mother and brother are outside. So he's got a press, a throng of people crammed in the inside, pulling on him, wanting prayer, wanting to touch him. And he's got a group on the outside. Verse 33. And he said to them that were sitting around the table. I mean, the multitude in it says in verse 34, they were sitting in a circle around him. Verse 33, he said, I got a question. Who is my mother and my brother? Somebody said they're outside. Look out the window. There they are. He goes, I want to ask you, who are they? This was a very strange question that he would ask. They were looking. What do you mean? Because in the Jewish culture, as you know, they greatly valued family relationships and heritage and bloodlines and inheritances were very, very important. What tribe, what family you were from. Verse 34, he looked around a circle and he looked at them, he goes, here, you guys, you're my brothers and sisters. You're my mother. That's who my, my family is forever. It's you. Then he makes this very great statement. This statement is equal to the one that he said a few moments ago, all sins are forgiven. Here's another big one like this. Verse 35. Whoever, whoever, anybody that wants to, whoever does the will of God, they are in my eternal family forever. That's what he's saying. Anyone that does the will of God, the whosoever. So he defined his eternal family. I mean, his brothers and mother are in it, but he's saying my family is not defined by my natural bloodlines. It's by people who relate to my heavenly father on his terms. And anybody that wants to do the will of my father, they are in my family. Now the real, this is a very important promise because through history, and it's going to happen more before the Lord returns, I believe that many people have been ostracized by their own families because of their loyalty to Jesus. And Jesus is saying here, you may be suffering rejection by your family because you're loyal to me, but I want you, I have good, I have good news for you. You're in my family forever. And that's what he's telling them right there. Jesus wasn't diminishing the value of family relationships, but he's saying, if they ostracize you because of your loyalty to me, no, that you're in my family. Jesus was saying, now we know the family unit is the most important unit in the kingdom of God. And you want to serve your family and be loyal to your family before your loyalty, any mission or ministry or anything loaded, your family's first, but loyalty to Jesus is actually higher than everything. And if your family says, choose us or Jesus, you choose Jesus. Jesus says, well, you're in my larger family forever. And so he was trying to encourage them in that Roman numeral four. Now Jesus is moving on now. He's been rejected, been called a demon by the top leadership in the nation. His family has come to intervene again. How insulting, how demeaning they think he's out of his mind. They think you're working too hard. You're weary. We're hearing some of the statements that you're saying now, of course, Jesus's mother believed, believed them all, but his brothers, it says in John chapter seven, verse five, they don't believe in him till after the resurrection. They think he's lost his way. They really do. He has four brothers that are named and Matthew chapter 13 and, and a several sisters that are not named. And they think that, uh, Jesus has lost his way and they're coming to get ahold of their big brother and get his mind straight. And then the national leadership is attacking on a national level. And that's what it means to walk like Jesus. I mean, the intensity of what he embraced. We kind of sometimes overlook that paragraph Roman numeral four. Now, Mark is wanting to tell the disciples because the disciples are going to face this kind of criticism and stigma and rejection. And most of the apostles died, brutal deaths at the hands of enemies because of their faith. Not all of them, but most of them. So Mark is laying out Jesus's identity. The first starts, he has total power over nature. He's more than a prophet is power over the wind and the seas. And again, that's his unique identity, but it was him. He's the only one that has the right to say, say this. He says the works that I do, you're going to do. And the end time church, I believe is going to operate in all of the miracles of Jesus, the body of Christ globally. And I don't believe we wait until there's this great intense persecution. I believe we should be believing God for manifestations of his miracle power now. But we know there will be an hour where fullness will be released. We're not waiting anything. We want to believe God to do miracles in a dramatic way right now. And he will have some here and there will be surprised. But I can assure you that the Jesus that's pictured in the Bible, he's going to be manifesting that glory through his corporate church before his return. So he's going to show his power over nature. Now it's in this context that he shared the parables right here in Mark chapter four. He's going to rebuke the storm, but he just told all the parables in Mark four earlier. We looked at that last week in our last session, paragraph B. Now verse 35 on the same day. On what day? The day that the delegation from Jerusalem came and said he was demon possessed, he had an unclean spirit. And the day that his family arrived in town and an intervention to set him straight because he was deluded, he was lost his mind. On that same day where he has a crowd on the inside of the house and a crowd on the outside of the house, evening had come. He's been ministering and talking all day long. He said to them at evening time, let's cross over the sea of Galilee and go to the other side. Now the other side, the east side is the capitalists. That's where there's 10 cities. They were predominantly Greek communities. They were not Jewish communities. Jesus says, we're going to go over the sea of Galilee. The sea of Galilee is about 10 miles across. It takes about two to three hours to cross the sea of Galilee in a cell, you know, in an ancient ship with rows and cells, not according to the wind could blow different ways, but just picture two, three hours, you know, four, if it's really intense. And if you've got the wind on your back, maybe a little faster, but two or three hours, he goes, let's cross over. They're thinking, Oh Jesus, you've been talking all day. You got enemies. You've got your family here trying to rescue you. You want to go over to the Greek side of the lake. The sea of Galilee is yeah. Verse 36. So he leaves the west side where Capernaum is. He goes over again, that 10 mile journey across the sea of Galilee verse 36. Now when he had left the multitude, they took him along in a boat. So he's got the multitude on the shore. We're going to see in a minute. He comes back later. I mean, some hours later, I don't know if it's 12 hours later, 24 hours later, but very soon. And the crowd is still waiting for him. After he goes all night, he goes cast the demon out over in that other side of the sea of Galilee. Then he comes back and the crowd is stale, heal us, heal us, touch us, lay hands on us. I look at his lifestyle and I say, you are truly the servant of all. The healing ministry is a bond servant ministry. It appears glorious at a distance and it is because people get relieved from pain and they love Jesus. But the people that are really giving themselves to it, it is a bond servant ministry. People do it because they love people and they love Jesus. Verse 37, a great windstorm arose. Now he was in the stern at the very back of the boat. He was asleep. He's had the longest day he's been working so hard. They won't let him eat at all or rest said all this controversy. So he's sleeping on a pillow at the back of the boat. They awoke him and said, teacher, there's a great windstorm. And the waves were coming into the ship or the boat, better, it wasn't a ship, it was a boat. And they said, kind of a bit of a rebuke to him, to Jesus. You do not care that we're dying? You don't care that we're perishing now, Jesus, verse 39, he arose, he rebuked the wind. He said to the sea, peace be still. Then in verse 40, he turned around to the guys in the boat. Why are you so fearful? In verse 41, then their fear of being harmed now shifts to their fear of God, because when he rebuked the storm and it instantly was at peace, they said, now we're really afraid, but for a very different reason. Who are you anyway? Now when Jesus is asleep on the pillow in verse 37, that emphasizes the peace that he had in a storm, because when there was a storm on the outside, that storm never got on the inside of his emotions ever. That's why he had authority to the outward storm, because that the outward storm didn't create an inward storm. But another point we find out that he's sleeping, not just because he's in perfect peace. He's sleeping because he's exhausted. He was being drawn on and pulled on so much so he couldn't even eat a meal. He had people on the inside and the outside, everywhere he went, of the houses, everywhere there was the press. So he was physically exhausted, and this shows us his humanity. Now the apostles here in verse 38, I mean verse 30, yeah, verse 38, they said something really wrong. They said, teacher, you do not care that we are perishing. Look at paragraph D. They were saying something opposite of what Jesus said, because what Jesus said is let's go to the other side. And we're going to find it in a minute. In Matthew eight, he says, I commend you. We're going to the other side. When Jesus commanded you're going to the other side, there's no demon in hell. There's no storm that could happen that could stop it from taking place. He said, we're going to the other side. I command you to go. We're going together. So Jesus wakes up and says, why are you so afraid? I already told you we're going to the other side. I'm God. Why are you saying that you're perishing? Now, I don't say this. I want to say this in a tender way, Lord, you don't care. We're perishing is a statement that is spoken by believers all over the earth all the time. Today, I've spoken and not those exact words like, oh, God, where are you at? What's going on? It's really saying I'm saying that. And the Lord saying, wait, little guy, I told you that I have a assignment in my heart is with you. My hand is with you. What are you talking about? I know, but it looks so bad. But I told you, why are you allowing the enemy's words to get in your mouth? You should have said, Lord, we're going to the other side. You're in the boat with us. That's what you should have said. What happens is that we allow the wrong. This is really important. It's not small. We speak the enemy's narrative over our own life instead of God's narrative. Their eyes were not on the word of God. He said, we're going to the other side. And he said, I'm in the boat with you. I'm God. I'm in the boat with you. I don't care what kind of storm if I'm in the boat with you, you're okay. And our eyes get on the storm. I've done it many times. You've done it. And the Lord says, I want your eyes on me and my word. And I want in your mouth what I say, not what the circumstances are happening. Say what I say and line your heart up with me. Top of page three. So Jesus, he rebuked the wind, paragraph E. Now remember, he's a model of a person operating in the Holy Spirit in fullness. You'll find that you'll notice this. You've already noticed it. That often we see Jesus rebuking inanimate objects. He rebukes the sea. He doesn't say father, calm the sea, he goes, see, obey. He rebukes the wind. He rebukes the fig tree. When somebody's dead, he commands that person to get up. He doesn't say father, heal the person. I mean, he might pray that way, but you'll see he speaks to blind eyes. He speaks to deaf ears. He speaks to them. He curses. He speaks to the fig tree. You won't bear fruit. And that's, again, it gives us insight on how somebody operating in the Holy Spirit, where he's our model. Paragraph F. He said, why are you so fearful? Let's look at that again. They had no reason to fear because he had told them to cross the sea. Here in Matthew 8, it says it a little different. I like how Matthew says it. He gave a command to them to depart to the other side. It was a command from God. I mean, when Jesus is in the boat with you, you're in good shape. They'd seen his authority over death just in the two sessions ago in Luke chapter seven. He went by the funeral procession of the widow of Nain in Luke seven, and he healed her son, raised him from the dead. They'd seen his power over death. And they're saying, I've given you ample information. Why are you still responding to me as though none of this has happened to you? I know believers that have been in the kingdom 10 years, 20 years, longer. They've seen many things. But when they have a storm, their eyes are only on the storm. And everything they've seen means nothing to them when they're facing the storm. And Jesus says to the apostles, why are you so fearful? Why are you giving over your heart to that other narrative so quickly? You've seen so much in your time with me, draw on it. Say what I say, put your eyes on me. Well, then he rebukes the storm. And again, paragraph G, the dramatic shift. Now they're not fearful of the storm. They're not fear of harm. Now they're fearful of him. They're awestruck. Who are you? And he's saying, I'm wanting you to understand who it is that you're relating to. Beloved, this isn't the Jesus of history only. He's never changed. And not only is he the same God with the same power, we don't admire him at a distance. This is the one we admire now. He's this way now. I love to read revival stories and I've read a number of stories over the years of where storms were rebuked. There's not, I don't know, so many, but there's a handful of them and terrible storms. And it was instantly, the storm was calmed in a different testimonies throughout. I've read over the years and I believe that they're believable places where revival was breaking out in great power in Indonesia and places like that where storms are common. Roman numeral five. So now he moves on to the next thing. He's crossed the sea. So now they've seen he's the Lord of nature. God over all, all of nature, all of creation, he has authority. Now they're going to see he has total 40 over the most fierce demonic opposition. And we're going to need to know this because the most demonic man in human history is about to make his appearance on planet earth. The antichrist, the most demonic, evil, powerful man in human history and his partner, the false prophet, our real man. And they're really going to come to the earth and they're really going to mobilize the nations in darkness with utter disdain and opposition and hatred to Jesus and the kingdom of God. And there will be power over them. Antichrist is far more powerful than the gathering demoniac. This man, the gathering demoniac is the probably most severe demoniac in Bible. It certainly is in Bible record, but there's a man coming more powerful than Jesus as I've given you, I've given you living proof. What I do, what happens when I encounter that, that kind of power. So verse one, chapter five, they came to the other side. It's again, the 10 miles across the sea of Galilee to the country of the gatherings. Verse two. Now, again, you're going to get this most severe demonic possession situation that you could ever imagine. Jesus is unmoved. Now he's been up. I mean, he's really had a long night and a long day. And I mean, I just a picture where he's at, at the exhaustion level, just about now, having been all day and the guys from Jerusalem and his family came and no place to eat. Now he's gone, fell asleep for a little bit on the boat. They woke him up screaming. Ah, you don't love us no more. Guys, I do. I do. Come on, man. We got some big business coming across. Give me a little bit of rest here. Okay. Verse two. I don't think he said that. This man they met, he came out of the tombs. So he's a man that lives in the graveyard. He had an unclean spirit. He was living verse three among the graves, the tombs. Nobody could bind him, get a group of men around him and they put chains on him. Verse four, he broke the chains. He has supernatural power, demonic power. Verse five, always day and night, night and day, day and night, night and day. And the mountains roaming in the mountains, in the graveyards, in the tombs, crying out, cutting himself. There's a lot of that going on. Demonically energized, cutting of people, cutting themselves under a demonic inspiration, whether they know it or not. And the Lord has mercy. And he says, I want to free you. I want to liberate you. Verse seven, they cried out with a loud voice. What do we have to do with you, Jesus? Verse eight, Jesus rebuked the spirit. Come out of a man, you unclean spirit. Now, paragraph one tells us that the Matthew eight version of this, there's two men. And in Mark, he only, he doesn't, it's not a contradiction, but Mark focuses on the most intense situation because it fit his, the story he was telling. But Matthew says there was, there was another guy. There was two of them running around together. But here's the point. In verse 28, they were exceedingly fierce. That's the point I want. They were so fierce, nobody in the area could pass that way or their lives would be endangered. So you can imagine everybody in the region knew about these two guys. They would be like, whoa, howling in the night and screaming and hollering and in fierce strength, breaking chains off of them. Nobody would go near those way. I could just imagine the story around the countryside. Can imagine how the children told the stories. Everyone knew of these guys. Paragraph two, the demons provided them with supernatural strength. Again, the reason this is an important story is not just that Jesus had power. Then we're going to face people that have supernatural strength from a demonic source, but we don't need to be afraid. We have the name of Jesus. He's with us today. And again, the most demonic man in history that's emerging in the days to come on the earth. He'll appear for a moment and then he'll be gone forever, cast into the lake of fire by the lips, the words of Jesus. It says in Thessalonians, he'll stand before the Antichrist and he'll gaze on him and the very brightness of Jesus' countenance will destroy him. You won't even have to speak. That's how much authority the man that we love has. Well, verse 18. I mean, let's go to paragraph B. Verse 9. Then Jesus asked the man. He's actually talking to the demon in the man. What's your name? He said, my name is Legion. So he uses the singular, my name, singular is Legion. For we are many. So he uses the plural. So all the demons that were in him begin to beg, send us to the swine, to the pigs. And the unclean spirits, plural, went out of the man and they entered into the pigs. There were about 2,000 pigs. And the herd ran violently down a steep place. And they all drowned in the sea. I mean, imagine. The next day when the story went out, or later on that day when news went around, a bunch of the people from all the countries came around. There's 2,000 pigs floating, drowned in the sea. That's just a horrible sight. Now a Legion was a unit of about 5,000 Roman soldiers. Sometimes 3,000 or 4,000, but often right about 5,000. And the word Legion was the name that the demon, the leading demon, used. And it spoke of his size, his authority, his power, his organization. But notice in verse 12, the other demons in the man were speaking out as well. It says all of them. Like all? Like what does all mean? 2,000? How does that work? I don't know. But I know it was really intense. Top of page 4. Demons can talk through people that they inhabit. Demons want to inhabit people. And one reason is they find greater expression if they dwell in a human being. In Matthew 12, the parallel passage, Jesus was saying when demons are cast out, they go to the desert places. The waterless places where the desert. And demons don't like it there because there's no expression in the waterless places. The demons don't want to be left out there. They would much rather be in a human. They get far greater expression. They can't be in humans. They can inhabit animals and they can affect the behavior of animals. Now the interesting kind of back story, paragraph 2, is that the law of Moses, as you know, prohibited the Jewish people from eating pork in Leviticus 11. So who has this big pork farm? This big pig farm of 2,000 people. Well, it's a Greek community. And what a one very, I mean, it's often suggested that the owner of this farm is a Jewish family that went over to Decapolis. They went on that side of the lake where the Greeks were so they could go undetected by the Jewish authorities and they could raise a pig farm and make tremendous profits selling it to the Greeks. I mean, can you imagine? You got the biggest pig farm. It's illegal in Israel. It's breaking the law of Moses. I mean, you'd be in big trouble to do that in Israel. But they went on the other side of the lake. Can you imagine? The son of David now comes to visit you. You go, oh, the Messiah. Hi. Oh, my goodness. I don't think they offered him a piece of bacon. And so I believe that, to me, it's believable it was a Jewish family. And Jesus was manifesting the execution of the law against that, saying there's reasons why my heavenly father spoke to Moses in this way in that situation. Paragraph C. Now, Jesus allowed his disciples that were in the boat with him and the Greeks to see the destructive power of demons. You see, 2,000 pigs drowning. Jesus could say, you want to fraternize with demons? This is what demons will do to you if you want them. Look at the man who lived in the tombs. He got liberated. Look at the pigs. The very pigs they wanted to go in, they killed because demons are killers. People want to fraternize with demons, go out there and kind of get on the edge of darkness, and they think that somehow when they're done, the guy goes, you know, I'm kind of done with this season. The demons go, we're not done. A person invites a demon in their life, and then they get tired of the oppression. The demon doesn't go because somebody's tired of them, saying, you know what, I'm moving on. They go, we're not. And there's freedom, but you go back to the place where you open the door, you shut the door, you repent of that sin pattern, and or you repent of that thought pattern, because there's thoughts that open the way for demons, and there's sinful actions, and often they go together. That's when people play around with pornography. I look at them, I go, do you have any idea how dangerous that is? You think you're looking at pictures and that's the end of it? There is a spiritual dimension. That thing will get on you, and it's going to get stronger and stronger and stronger. And if you don't break this thing now, in 10 years, it will have a hold on you. You can't imagine. You just can't decide when you're done with the demon. Until you're willing to break your complete alliance with them. It's not a game. You know, a lot of older, I say young people, but older people too, are playing around on the dark side of the pornography world and experimenting and just playing with it. I go, man, that is, that's opening the door, handing the demon a key, saying, you got me for a while, but I'll get tired of you. But the demon will say, I'm not tired of you though. It's dangerous stuff. You don't want to play with that at all. And if you're ensnared in that, you want to immediately, again, break your unity, your agreement in the patterns of behavior or in the thought patterns and begin to fill yourself with God's ways and God's word. Verse 14, those who fed the pigs, you know, the hired hands, they went, oh my goodness. They saw 2,000 pigs all floating. They ran to town. They told everyone in the city and the country, you can't believe what this guy from, got off the boat, what he did to those Gadarene and Demontiac, those two guys. So then all the people, they went out to see what had happened. So lots of the people from the city and the whole countryside came. Verse 15, when they saw the one that was demon-possessed that broke off all the chains and screamed and hollered and cut himself and ran around naked, crazy, he was clothed and sitting in his mind. Catch this. Then the people were afraid. They were not afraid of the demon. They're afraid of the man in clothed and sound mind. I said, something is really mixed up here. They see him, and they're fearful. They should have been far more fearful when the man had the demon. Verse 17, they begged Jesus to leave. Verse 18, he got in the boat, and the demon-possessed man that just got liberated said, hey, can I go with you? Verse 19, Jesus says, no, no, no, stay here, but go tell your friends what great things God has done. And so the recently, verse 20, liberated man goes and tells everybody, and all marveled. Now, I think, paragraph 2, one of the reasons the Greek community was afraid, this is just a guess, they said if a Jewish man has that much power, I mean that he liberated that man, he has power, we can't control it, he's their Jewish prophet, we're Greeks, because they were lining up with Romans against Israel. The Greeks were. And they're going, you know what? We don't know who you are. You've got power we can't control. You just wrecked our entire economy over here. Just go. We don't know who you are. Just go away, because you terrify us what you might do because of the ability that you have. That's my guess as to why they sent him away. And number four, one of the reasons, you know, Jesus told all of the people he healed most of the time, he goes, don't tell nobody, don't tell nobody. But he tells this gathering demoniac, go tell everybody. He's thinking, well, what's the deal? Now, here's my assumption. He's in the Greek community, not the Jewish community. And so he wants the Greeks to hear the story, because he knows the book of Acts is going to happen. Great revival is going to be coming through the land in the next couple of years. And the story is going to be everywhere. He doesn't want the Jews telling the story, because when he's back on Israel's land, everywhere he turns, there's crowds. He can't even move because of the crowds. In the Greek area, it was a brand new story. And in the Jewish area, the dominoes were going down of the hostility of the leadership that was going to bring him to the cross. And Jesus came to go to the cross, but he didn't want to incite them outside of the timing of God. So he told the Jewish people that got healed, don't talk, I don't want bigger crowds, and I don't want to incite the jealousy of the leadership of Jerusalem, because I don't want things to unfold quicker than they should be unfolding. I'll go to the cross at the perfect time. And when it was time, he marched right into Jerusalem and did the miracles, and they killed him. He could have done it any time. Marched right in there and did the miracles and got killed. He didn't want to, but in the Greek area, it was a different story. Top of page 5. We'll just go over this real quick. Now he's going to show his authority over sickness, and then his authority over death. So verse 21, we'll just do this quickly. When Jesus had crossed, now remember, he starts the day, he can't eat because of the crowds. His family comes to rescue him from himself. The authorities from Jerusalem come to say you're demonized. He gets out, goes across the sea, commands the demon, the whole countryside says, please leave, he goes back across the sea, he's got crowds waiting for him there. Verse 21. Great multitudes were waiting when he got back. I mean, this 72-hour run of miracles and meetings or whatever, how long is, intense. One of the rulers, verse 22, of the synagogue, these were lay leaders, by the way, these are not scribes or Pharisees or priests. These are lay leaders that kind of ran the operations, the building, the facilities, and some of the meetings. One of the rulers, Jairus, came. He fell to his feet, he says, hey, my daughter's dying. Please, please come, I know there's a crowd. Please, she's dying, like literally today she's going to die. Come lay hands on her. Paragraph C. Jesus, he's going, because this man's urgent. He's begging Jesus. He goes, man, I believe in you, I'm with you. Again, he's not a priest or Sadducee or Pharisee. Verse 24, and as he's going, the great multitudes are pressing in him like they were before he crossed the sea. Everywhere he went, he had these crowds. They thronged him. Verse 25, this woman with a flow of blood for 12 years, she spent all of her money on doctors. It was getting worse and worse and worse. She's absolutely incurable and hopeless. Without a miracle, but beloved, I got good news for you. Nobody is hopeless because Jesus is on throne. Nobody is incurable and nobody is hopeless. Nobody. Nobody. And she, verse 27, you know, the story came. This guy's on the Jesus is on the way with gyrus to heal the daughter who's dying any hour. The throngs are stopping him. This lady touches him. Touch this garment. We know the story. Well, she said, verse 28, if I could only touch his garment, I'll be made well. And there's wisdom in that beloved. If we touch him a little bit, our emotions, our mind, our body, our finances, our situation can be shifted by a small touch of him. We don't want to believe the narrative of the storm and give up our reach. We're going to be reaching for fullness in every area of our life. Verse 29, immediately the blood, the fountain of her blood dried up. Verse 30, we know the story. He knew it instantly. Power came out of me. I felt it. Verse 33, she knew instantly she was healed. So she told him and he said, verse 34, he goes, I want you to know your faith played a part in this. Meaning it wasn't just if somebody bumps into me, it's kind of a magic trick. He goes, no, your faith, your actual confidence to go against the tide. All the people are pressing you out. The confidence that you had to come to me and not let go that actually played a part of your deliverance and your healing. There's a lot of folks that say, well, when God's ready, he's got my address. And the Lord says, no, I want you reaching towards me. I don't care how inconvenient it is. I want you reaching. Don't reach to a man. I'm talking about reach to God. Some people get confused by this. And, you know, a man or a woman of God comes to town and they all want to touch them. And no, no, we could touch that man at the right of the Father by the Holy Spirit. And the saints could pray for the saints. We don't need the special person to have them touch us because that man's at the right hand of the Father and the Holy Spirit's in all of us. Top of page 6, verse 35. While he's speaking to that woman, saying, your reach to me made a difference. Your reach towards me made a difference. Somebody came and says, hey, Jairus, too late. Man, it's only a few blocks away. She died. Jairus goes, oh, no, how devastated. She has to stop. Now the storm is hitting Jairus. It's over. No, no, I'm here. Jairus, no. The storm doesn't need to get on the inside of you. I'm here. Look at me. Don't be afraid. Believe. Do what the lady did. Keep reaching. Don't ever stop reaching towards me. Don't ever give up the storyline that I'm God and I love you and my eyes are on you. Never give up that storyline, that truth. So you know the story, paragraph 8. She went to the house. There's this tumult of people. All the professional mourners are wailing and screaming because they paid people to come. I mean, that's just a strange custom. You got a family member who died. You got a bunch of strangers. You pay them money and they scream loud. It's like, ah, lady, man, go down the road and scream. Not right now. I'm hurting. Verse 39. He came in. He said to them, why all the commotion? They go, well, you're belittling this tragic situation. He goes, no, I'm the resurrection. Why all the commotion? I am the resurrection. She's sleeping. They mocked him. Beloved, Paul the apostle, 1 Thessalonians 4. He says all those that are in the graves that believe in Jesus, they're only asleep. It's only a momentary, temporary sleep. We're destined for the resurrection. We're children of the resurrection. But in this case, he was saying, no, I am the resurrection right in front of you. She's sleeping. But again, that's true of all believers. When they leave their body and their spirit goes to be with the Lord in that permanent sense in which they die, it is only temporary because when the Lord comes back, he awakens everybody who's asleep. Verse 40, the worship team, go ahead and come on up. He put them all outside. He took the father and the mother. He entered where the child was lying. He took the child by the hand, little girl, arise. He speaks to the girl again. He speaks to the dead body, the sleeping one, and says, arise. Instantly, verse 42, she awakes. She's 12 years old. The woman with the flow of blood had it for 12 years, and this girl was 12 years. I don't know what the 12 years are. I mean, what that means, but I thought I'd stir you up. Go figure that out. It's 12-something. I mean, they're both 12 years, I mean. The people are overcome with amazement. I believe this is the story of the end-time church. Overcome with amazement and fascination. Again, we don't need to wait till a time of intensity. But I assure you that it will come to fullness, and it will not fall to the ground void. This word. And Jesus commanded them strictly to tell nobody. Don't tell anybody. And I believe why he told them, don't tell anybody, but he told the gathering demoniac, tell everyone. Because, again, he's back over in Israel, and everywhere he goes, there's crowds. He can't move. And now that the miracle power is now raising the dead, the leaders in Jerusalem are more and more angry and jealous and hostile than ever. And I believe that's what's happening. But the problem is, Matthew 9, 26 says, the report went everywhere. You can't stop the story. The story can't be stopped. It is so glorious, it cannot be stopped. Amen and amen. Let's stand before the Lord. First thing I want to do, I want to take authority over people that believe this blasphemy, the Holy Spirit lie. So let's just all just wait on the Lord for a moment. Then I want to ask for Jesus to heal bodies tonight. I want to ask Jesus to liberate people that are being tormented by demons in their body or their minds. Then I want to ask people to repent. If they're involved in pornography or anything that's dark over there, and they're feeding those demons in their life and they don't quite even know yet what they're doing, they're like, okay, okay. I'm not going to embarrass anybody, but I mean in the secrecy of your heart, I want you to go, okay, okay, this is serious. This is not a joke. This is not some pleasure thing. This is really serious. I want to pray Holy Spirit right now all over the room. If you want prayer for this, raise your hand. You don't have to. You might think, I don't really want. But if you would like prayer, if the enemy is tormenting you on this subject of blaspheming the Holy Spirit, you say, I know it's not true, but it hits me. And just like that thought stays there, and you would like prayer, you can raise your hand if you want to. Just look, there's a handful of you raising your hand across the room. Others of you have that. You don't have to pray. If you see someone raise your hand, two or three of you, go lay hands on them if you would. There's probably up there, a couple around the room. In the name of Jesus right now, what I want you to do is I want you to renounce it and say to the Lord, it's a lie. I haven't blasphemed the Holy Spirit. It's a lie. Say, I love Jesus. I want a salvation. I'm not hardened to where I don't care. I do care. It's a lie. Tell Him it's a lie. Say, I break my allegiance with that lie. Say that to the Lord right now, just in your own words. Just whisper that to Him. Because you've got to break your allegiance with a demonic power. Somebody else can't just come and do that for you. You've got to do your part. Now, in the name of Jesus, right now, I take authority over demonic lies. I cancel this assignment of the evil one in lives in this room. Some of you are praying for family members. You know, your brother, sister, parents, whatever, back home, they're struggling with this. Pray for them right now. There's no time and distance in the Spirit. We speak liberty over them. We cancel this assignment. In the name of Jesus, we take authority over tormenting spirits right now. We break the power. We break the power of tormenting spirits and lies. Spirit of error, lying, deception. I break your power now. I speak the name of Jesus over you, even now. In the name of Jesus, we take authority. Right now, be free. Right now, in the name of Jesus. Right now, in the name of Jesus. We speak freedom in the name. Oh, sickness bows to Jesus. I want to pray for people. I want you to stay with this one. But if the enemy is tormenting you in any way, you say, no, I know it's an assignment. I love Jesus, but he's tormenting me. In any way, you would like prayer. You don't have to say what it is to someone else. In any way, you would pray. I want to invite you to come up here right now. In any way, the enemy is lying about this, or he's tormenting, or a fear, or a night, or nightmares, or just anything. You would like prayer. Come on up. Can we cancel the assignment on the enemy? We speak the name of Jesus over you. We speak freedom. We speak the name of Jesus. Now speak to the Lord. You're breaking your agreement with that behavior or with that pattern of thought. You say, I know it's a lie. I know it. I got nightmares in the night, or I got a phobia. I go into a situation, and panic hits me. And it's, I don't believe it. It's not even real, but it hits me. I know it's not based in truth. Lord, I ask you for liberty. I speak liberty. I rebuke the spirit of fear and the spirit of torment right now in Jesus' name. In the name of Jesus. Spirit of heaviness. In the name of Jesus. Spirit of torment. In the name of Jesus. Spirit of deception. In the name of Jesus. I take authority over your torment. In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus over you. In the name of Jesus. It's his name. It's not clever words, not the sound of a loud voice, it's His name that's what does it. We break our agreement with the enemy right now. I release the spirit of glory on your mind right now. I break torment now, I break it in Jesus' name. Light, light is the spirit of glory, the spirit of glory. Tormenting spirit, addicting spirit, fear, I break the power of it. You're a liar, be gone in the name of Jesus. Light, light, light, in the name of Jesus. Light, light, light, in the name of Jesus. I speak freedom over your mind. Demon, go in the name of Jesus. Whether there's one or a host, go, go in the name of Jesus. Come out of this one now in Jesus' name. Release this one now in Jesus' name. Every lie is broken, oh heaviness is broken right now. He's speaking freedom, He's breaking the bondage right now. I can hear the chains falling off, I can hear the chains falling off. We break the chains right now. Freedom in the name of Jesus. I speak the spirit of glory right now over your mind and your heart. Spirit of glory, come rest in this place. Rest on every mind, every heart, every body. I take authority over demonic powers against your finances, against your dreams and your sleep at night, against your appetites. I take authority over every tormenting agenda of darkness now. In the name of Jesus. Finances, I mean more than just bad decisions. Sometimes there's a demonic attack against finances. And we push back, push back, resist the enemy. We push back, push back, resist the enemy and he will flee. We break the power of fear, torment, sickness right now in Jesus' name. We break the power of the enemy in Jesus with your leadership. We agree with your leadership, Father. I speak liberty, let's just speak over them now. I release liberty over them. Liberty now, it's freedom now. Liberty, liberty, we speak freedom. We speak freedom. All over the room, Lord, healing. I speak healing all over the room. All over the room where there's sickness in this room. Release the spirit of glory, Lord, in this room we ask. There's liberty. With the spirit of the Lord in this room. There's liberty. Peace, be still to the storm. I rebuke the storm around your life. The storm on your heart. I rebuke it. Peace, be still. Peace, peace, peace, be still. In the name of Jesus. Speaking to us right now. Speaking to our hearts. Speaking to our lives. Peace, peace, peace. The storm of darkness around your mind, your heart, your body. I rebuke it now. We silence the enemy. He no longer has a voice. We silence the enemy. He no longer gets a voice. We silence the enemy. He no longer gets a voice. We silence the enemy. He no longer has a voice. Peace, peace, peace, be still. To the spirit of anxiety and panic attacks. We say peace, peace, peace, be still. We take authority over panic attacks. Peace, peace, peace, be still. We pray freedom for everyone that has panic attacks in any way. Peace, peace, peace, be still. Sleeplessness in the night. We take authority. Torment in the night. Overtones in the night. Torment in the night. And we speak peace in the night. Peace in the night. Peace, peace, peace, and freedom. Peace, peace, peace, and freedom. Peace, peace, peace, and freedom Peace, peace, peace, and freedom Peace, peace, peace, and freedom Peace, peace, oh God Glory, glory, glory Lord release your glory in this room, all over this room Release the light of your glory all over this room now We believe you Abba Light, go forth now in Jesus name Glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory. I want to focus on that for just a moment. People around me, just go ahead and just lay a hand on that. Just go ahead and move around the aisles. It's okay if you take a few steps to the right or left. In the name of Jesus, Lord, I speak healing for back problems, chronic back problems, back injuries, any kind of pain, in Jesus' name, I speak healing right now in backs. In the name of Jesus, Lord, release the fire of the Holy Spirit, healing on backs, muscles, ligaments, any kind of realignment, any injuries, in Jesus' name, I speak healing. In the name of Jesus, we speak. In the name of Jesus, we take authority over the bodies. In the name of Jesus, realignment. In the name of Jesus, realignment. Lord, I ask for realignment now in Jesus' name. The way you were intended to be designed. Healing, release fire on the back. How glory on the backs. I speak to the pain, I command it to leave now. Now, Lord. I speak to backs, be healed. Pain, go. Realignment, muscles, ligaments, bone structures, healing now, now in the neck, in the back. As they're praying for you to do something you couldn't do, just step out and just move in a certain way. Often the Lord will touch you just when you step out and do something you couldn't do a few moments ago. Fire, now, present, healing. Right now. Right now. Hold the fire of your presence. Right now. Right now. Like fire, come out with it now, Lord. Right now. Right now. Hold the fire of your presence. I want to ask the Lord to touch you right now. Lord, I ask you to touch them and their internal systems and organs now in Jesus name. Lord, I speak to the internal systems right now. Healing. Hold us. Hold us now. Healing now. We say healing now, Lord. Digestive problems. Any kind of stomach or digestive problems. Healing now. Power. Release your fire now. Healing now. Healing now. Lord, release your glory. Would you know? Would you heal again? Over sickness and death. Storms and demons. Release faith. Release faith. You're the God who heals. Because you'll never change. It's who you are. We speak to digestive systems now. Be healed. Stomach problems. All these internal systems and problems. Healing now in Jesus name. Kidneys and internal organs. Hope for restoration. Oh, we speak to chronic headaches. Be gone in the name of Jesus. Oh, pain be gone right now. Migraines be gone right now in the name of Jesus. Jesus paid it all. Jesus paid it all. You paid for our healing. Jesus paid it all. Jesus paid it all. You paid for our healing. Jesus paid it all. Zion strives. We are healed. Jesus paid it all. Zion strives. We are healed. Jesus paid it all. I just receive it. I just receive it. Jesus paid it all. I reach down and grab it. Jesus paid it all. Jesus paid it all. I hold out my hand. Jesus paid it all. Jesus paid it all.
Jesus' Power Over Nature, Demons, and Death (Mk. 3-5)
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Mike Bickle (1955 - ). American evangelical pastor, author, and founder of the International House of Prayer (IHOPKC), born in Kansas City, Missouri. Converted at 15 after hearing Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach at a 1970 Fellowship of Christian Athletes conference, he pastored several St. Louis churches before founding Kansas City Fellowship in 1982, later Metro Christian Fellowship. In 1999, he launched IHOPKC, pioneering 24/7 prayer and worship, growing to 2,500 staff and including a Bible college until its closure in 2024. Bickle authored books like Passion for Jesus (1994), emphasizing intimacy with God, eschatology, and Israel’s spiritual role. Associated with the Kansas City Prophets in the 1980s, he briefly aligned with John Wimber’s Vineyard movement until 1996. Married to Diane since 1973, they have two sons. His teachings, broadcast globally, focused on prayer and prophecy but faced criticism for controversial prophetic claims. In 2023, Bickle was dismissed from IHOPKC following allegations of misconduct, leading to his withdrawal from public ministry. His influence persists through archived sermons despite ongoing debates about his legacy