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We do have to have faith and believe in God. And right now we have faith in God that heals. Anybody that is listening to this program that has cancer, in the name of Jesus, just like Vicki got her diagnosis turned around, in Jesus’ name we speak to outlaw cells. And we command those outlaw cells to wither and die and healthy cells to take over your body, for a healing and a cure, in Jesus’ name.
And I believe God for that. I believe God for healing. I am a miracle myself. And people think, “You don’t . . .” Oh, yeah, I do. I can tell you stories that—you know how they say “will make your head spin.” Well, I don’t want your head to spin, but I’ll tell you what, my father died of cancer when I was 12 years old. My mom had an evil diagnosis shortly thereafter and several that followed it.
And then it turned around at 18, I started getting diagnosis—at 18! And then by 23 and 24, and then I married Richard and then I had a tumor the size of a grapefruit. And then and then and then. I’ve had a tumor on my breast. I’ve had an ovarian tumor. I was in the hospital, in surgery for a hysterectomy, and God healed me in the middle of that surgery in front of all the surgeons.
I am living proof that God still heals today. Well, how do we know that? We know that by the word of people’s testimony. And just like Vicki gave her testimony, if you have a testimony and you want to give it and share it with us, please call the Abundant Life Prayer Group, 918-495-7777. Have our Abundant Life prayer partners pray for you, but also give us your testimony because we’d love to share it with other people.
And one thing I want to share with you—and I’ve got lots of requests for it. I’m trying to organize this. I’ve got calls on my calls on my calls. But I want to do this before I forget. I believe in sowing seed. When I couldn’t have children, the hardest thing I ever faced was not being able to have children, two miscarriages, like I said, in surgery for a hysterectomy, many other surgeries that I don’t even want to go into. And then I had a son that lived 36 hours and died.
I’m telling you, I understand what it’s like. And in the middle of all that, the Lord spoke to me and said, “Give baby showers.” And I’m like, “That’s ridiculous!” And the Lord said, “No, you need to sow in famine to reap a hundredfold, to reap in joy.”
And I thought, Okay, what’s the hardest thing I could possibly sow? That baby shower. I would call people I knew that were having babies, and I would give baby showers and baby gifts. In the meantime, I’d be having miscarriages, and in the meantime I’d be having dead babies and funeral services. And yet I believed God that if I sowed in the very field I needed to reap in, God would honor me.
Now once I did that and sowed my seed—and sometimes I can tell you the honest truth—I have an upstairs in my house. And I’d have the party downstairs and little baby flowers and everything, and I’m having miscarriages. And I would run upstairs and I would throw up all over the bathroom, wipe off my face, come back downstairs and smile and say, “Oh now, aren’t we having fun? Isn’t this exciting?”
We prayed for those little babies, and in my heart I was absolutely breaking. But God told me that I had to give out of my need. I had to give out of the very field that I wanted to reap from. And as I did that, you all know my story—Jordan, Olivia, and Chloe later—three amazing, amazing daughters later. God multiplied my seed into a harvest.
I believe I need to sow seed this week, and I want to give you this. Now they’re helping me with the telephone number because I can’t see it over there—866—that’s a toll-free number—866 means it’s a free call—866-870-6932, 866-870-6932. Or you can go to makeyourdaycount.com and go on-line.
Now when you see this book, the stress book, it has a price tag attached to it. That’s going away today because I want to give it to you. Don’t pay any attention to it. Our prayer partners know the people at this number, 866-870-6932, know that when you call and order this book, this is a gift to you. There is no charge. It’s my Seed-Faith gift to you.
I believe in sowing seeds. Am I a little stressed out lately? You could say that. So you know what? I’m sowing my stress book into you, believing that as you read the book and God ministers healing to you, God’s going to multiply that seed back to me. So 866-870-6932.
Are you pressured? Sometimes. Stressed? Yes. Frustrated? Well, yes. Overcoming Stress, take charge of the negative situations that come to attack you. Overcome them with the Word of God. So please call that telephone number, and please allow me the privilege of sowing seed into your life.
Now I want to tell you about a goofy phone call that I had from a very sweet lady. She is a lady that is one of the hosts on QVC. Now I had never met her, had not talked to her, didn’t know anything about her until she started contacting our ministry.
And as she contacted our ministry, she began preaching to us. She began preaching Oral’s Seed-Faith message to us. And today she called me, and she said, “Lindsay, I want you to know what I’m doing right now.” And I said, “Okay.”
She said, “I am putting a check”—and it was a very sizable check—“into an envelope.” And she said, “I am licking it right now, and I am walking to the mailbox.”
And I said, “Why are you doing that?” And she said, “I want you to know that I have to sow seed into good ground.” She said, “God doesn’t need my money.” And I thought, Well, okay. He walks on streets of gold, walls made out of jasper, gates made out of pearl. I bet He doesn’t need our money.
But she said, “I have a need to sow it.” She said, “There’s areas in my life where my needs are not being met, and I believe Malachi, that God will open me the windows of heaven, pour out a blessing where there’s not room enough to receive it, and rebuke the devourer for our sake.”
And I said, “Have you been listening to me on Make Your Day Count?” She said, no, actually she works during that time. And I said, “I want you to go on-line, and I want you to listen to what I have to say today because that is exactly what I have my Bible open to is the book of Malachi.”
And I want to show you something. Malachi 3:10 and 11, and I know I’ve kind of been on this scripture a lot. But, you know, until we get the revelation of it, let’s stick with something until it gets in us.
It says, “Bring tithe and offering into the storehouse,” or where you’re being fed spiritually. If it’s this program, if it’s something where you are being fed, you’re to bring tithe and offering into that storehouse—“that there may be meat,” or resources, “in that storehouse.”
Now this is the only time in the entire Bible, Genesis to Revelation, where this word is going to appear. And I’m going to read it to you. It says, “Prove me.” The only time in the entire Bible, all 66 books of the Bible, where God uses this word and says, “Prove me,” is right there, proving tithe and offering and opening the windows of heaven and rebuking the devourer. That’s the only place He said, “Put me to the test.”
And it says it’s not like, “I dare you,” but it’s sort of like that in saying, “I want you to test this thing. I want you to see how it operates.”
What I think God was telling us is that He wants to see in us, in our situation, He wants us to understand the system. If you want God’s answers, then you’ve got to do it on God’s system. If you want spiritual answers, miraculous answers, you have to do it in God’s miraculous way.
“Bring all the tithe and offering into the storehouse, that there may be meat,” or resources, “in my house. And prove me now, says the Lord of hosts, and see”—prove Him now. That’s a good one—“see if I will not open you the windows of heaven, pour you out a blessing where there’s not room enough to even receive it all, and rebuke the devourer for your sakes.
“He shall not destroy the fruits of your ground. Your vine shall not cast her fruit before the time in the field, says the Lord of hosts. And all nations shall call you blessed, and you will be a delightsome land.”
Well, when’s the last time all nations called you blessed and you were a delightsome land? Okay, when’s the last time the devourer was rebuked for your sake? If you’re being devoured in some area, there is a tie, like a connector, into God’s system.
If you want God’s answers and you want God’s miracles, what is that connector to rebuking the devourer and getting that answer? He said, “Bring tithe and offering into the storehouse.”
So I want to read you what’s been happening around here. Vivian called in—I’ve got such a stack. I’m sorry, they’re kind of messy—Vivian called in, and she is in Canada. And she said she has been sowing monthly seeds into Richard and Lindsay’s ministry.
But she said, “I want to report to you that I have received”—and she said the amount. Her husband came home with a very large raise, as well as a very large Christmas bonus on the way. She said, “I can only attribute this blessing to being a faithful seed sower into the ministry.” And she said, “Praise God.”
This lady called in—actually it’s a husband and wife. And the husband called in. Bless his little heart. This was just really precious to me. And he said he was sowing a $25 seed because his wife has just been diagnosed with cysts on her ovaries. And he said he is sowing his seed, believing for his precious wife to receive healing.
And like I said, you can’t buy a miracle, but there is some way that it is intricately tied together, that God said in Malachi 3, “Bring the tithe in, and I’ll rebuke the devourer for your sake.” I’m not sure why He said it that way. All I know is, He said it, and I’m obligated to believe it and act on it and do what He said.
Now this husband called in and said he really needs encouragement, sent a $50 seed. This precious mama called in, believing for her daughter and her granddaughter, for her grandchildren to be healed, a $1,000 seed.
North Carolina, a lady called in, a $50 seed. Lorie in Michigan called in and sowed a $20 seed. Another Lorie called in from Colorado, “Believing God for wisdom,” sowed a $20 seed. “Believing for salvation for a nephew,” a lady called in from Ontario and sowed a $25 seed. A hundred dollar seed—Jane called in, believing God for her husband to know the will of God.
When you sow your seed, God promised He would open the windows of heaven, pour out a blessing, and rebuke the devourer. That is good news.
This one I have to read, just because it’s from my hometown, Flint, Michigan, a $25 seed. A woman called in, believing for healing and believing for wisdom. The husband and wife called in. And I’m in agreement with that.
In fact, there’s lots of seeds. But right now in the name of Jesus, Luke 6:38 says, “Give, and it shall be given unto you, good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over shall men give unto your bosom. For with what measure you give, it shall be given unto you again.”
We pray for supernatural multiplication of seed, in Jesus’ name. I believe that’s God’s system. That way I believe the system works, and I really do believe what God says. He’s obligated to watch over His Word to perform it. Stay tuned. We’ve got a message for you, and we’re going to be right back and talk a little bit more.