[Music] hey everybody welcome to the opening night of the identity conference it is so great having you here thank you for joining us around the world wherever you are joining us from i'm telling you this is going to be a great great conference encourage your friends to join online those of you who are there by yourself go get some friends and and some family maybe some not so friends and have them join you because this conference is going to be absolutely life-changing how many glad you're here in the auditorium tonight come on so are we we're going to worship let's do it amen [Music] excellent god has given me and i know who i am [Music] god has given me [Music] [Applause] [Music] where he says i he am [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] i know who i am [Music] i know who i am [Music] god has given me i [Music] is god has given [Music] i know me i am i know who i am [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] i oh [Music] i am so rich i am beautiful [Music] [Music] right i am cause i know who i am [Music] it doesn't matter what you see now can you see his glory cause i know who i am [Music] foreign i know who i am [Applause] [Music] i know who i am know who i am [Music] until he called my [Music] i'm so glad now a new creation [Music] [Applause] yes [Applause] [Music] [Applause] yes [Music] he changed [Music] [Music] [Music] down [Music] [Music] [Applause] i am who i am because the i am tells me who i am i am who i am because the i am tells me who i am i am who i am because the i am tells me who i am i am who i am because the i am tells me who i am i am who i am i [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] is mine [Music] jesus is [Applause] [Music] is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] jesus [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you jesus [Applause] we love you jesus [Music] are never enough and you came along and you put me back together and every desire is nothing that's better than you there's nothing that's better than you there's nothing and nothing is better i know it's true and i'm not afraid to show you my weakness [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] there's is that is [Music] you're the only [Music] [Music] you get beauty [Music] you're the only oh there's nothing that's better than you there's nothing that's better than you lord there's nothing and nothing is [Music] oh there's nothing that's better than you there's nothing that's better [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] you're the only one [Music] highway [Music] [Music] dancing [Music] you're the only one who cares one who cares yes you [Music] yes you are yes you are come on over this place all over the world wherever you're joining us from let's just lift up our hands and bless the god of the impossible the god who says nothing is impossible to the one who believes lord we lift up holy hands without wrath and without doubting and we bless you tonight because you are the unchanging god the great i am not the great i was or the great i hope so but the always present one the i am lord with the heart of thanksgiving we bless you tonight thank you for every victory thank you that you have triumphed and you give us you give us freely by your life oh come on just tell them thank you tonight with your own words from your own heart whatever you're thankful for tonight just express that out of the abundance of our hearts the bible says our mouth speaks [Music] lord we speak our thanks we speak our praise and we declare that you are good [Music] thank you lord thank you jesus [Music] i'll fight is with weapons unseen your enemies crash to their knees as we rise up and [Music] and when trials unleashed like a flood the battle belongs to our god as we cry out in worship [Music] the victory is yours [Music] your name is [Music] [Music] as i cry out in worship to say the victory is yours [Music] your name is [Music] your name is [Music] is [Music] all power in the name of jesus [Music] [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] oh [Applause] oh [Music] is [Music] [Applause] is [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] the victories you're riding on the storm your name isn't failing though kingdoms rise [Music] your name isn't shaken unshaken your name the name of jesus [Music] name above all names [Music] [Music] [Music] i [Music] and i'm not gonna be afraid cause these waves are only no i'm not gonna be afraid i'm not gonna be [Music] afraid come on [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you are here [Music] [Applause] peace [Applause] [Music] this is my favorite part because in this part you don't have to ask the father to let faith rise up you're telling your heart listen here faith rise up heart you will believe amen come on rise up [Music] rise up in me oh aren't you glad you're [Music] here [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] see [Music] [Music] i will trust the voices [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] peace [Music] speaks god we're so grateful tonight that you are here that our bodies have become the very temples of the holy spirit and in this place you chose to show amazing and abundant grace and lord by faith tonight we receive what you have given to us through that amazing grace we're so grateful god thank you for this conference thank you for every speaker thank you for the great and supernatural things that you are going to do lord we give you all thanks in all praise and come on all together everybody said come on let's give god a shout of our praise tonight and thank him for who he is he's a great god he's a great god lord we praise you you are worthy you are worthy declare your name above every day [Music] hallelujah praise the lord well you can be seated if you can we're going to break away to a video and we'll be right back [Music] welcome to the identity in christ conference it's not by mistake that you're here today whether you're watching in person or tuning in online we are so happy you've chosen to join us in the next couple of days we will dive deep into god's word to unveil who you really are in christ you will see your true nature and purpose through our loving father's eyes knowing your true identity changes everything andrew and pastor dwayne are excited to show you god in a way you haven't seen him before sketching an image in your heart of what it looks like to be made after the likeness of god during anointed worship or prayer ministry you can personally engage with the same god that designed you to walk out your life in victory and freedom for those of you who are attending in person we invite you to enjoy all the pikes peak region has to offer and visit the local dining when we're not in session for those online leave your questions in the comment box and please take advantage of andrew's free teachings on awmi.net if you need prayer or ministry please call one of our phone ministers today we would be so happy to pray and agree with you that number is 719-635-1111 we are confident that you will leave this conference refreshed and energized to see and experience god deeper than ever before knowing that god is on your side will enable you to move forward in victory and boldness in every area of your life on behalf of andrew and jamie womack along with our guest speaker dwayne sheriff welcome to the identity in christ conference [Music] and now j316 news with your lead anchors emily jacobs and brian nutman hello everyone and thank you for joining us for today's broadcast i'm very excited to welcome the newest member to our news team brian nutman brian thank you for joining us and we're glad to have you on board thank you for your warm welcome emily it's truly a pleasure to be here my that is a lovely accent where are you from brian thank you emily i'm from childress texas you're from texas that's right born and raised go longhorns okay i did not see that coming let's get into today's top story shall we absolutely carrick's bible college in woodland colorado has taken measures to ensure their campus is a no smoking environment so if you see anyone smoking do them a favor and let them know to stop immediately now let's go to our investigative journalist chris miller whom will be talking to us about altitude sickness and the effects of dehydration thanks brian headaches fatigue and nausea are all common when experiencing altitude sickness in colorado most people get altitude sickness while skiing or hiking however when staying in a mountain town like woodland park that has an altitude of more than 8 000 feet you may get sick just walking around the area drink lots of water and you can purchase bottled water at the cafe and obviously brian and emily if you have a water bottle of your own or simply just thirsty there are usually water fountains located near restrooms and the locals encourage you to take advantage of them should you need them back to you guys well thank you for that very educational message and now in consumer news carris bible college has a bookstore that's offering more than just books the on-site retailer is offering everything from audio and video teachings to apparel for visitors students and alumni that's right brian karis bible college is also offering self-guided tours of their breathtaking campus simply go to the guest services counter to acquire the resources for your very own self-guided tour in other news the keras bible college parking garage was recently completed and the school wants anyone using parking garage to pay attention to the parking attendants and to follow their instructions regarding where to park and the best methods to enter and exit the facilities so in summation of today's broadcast no smoking be sure to drink lots of water karis bible college has shopping opportunities and self-guided tools available on-site and be sure to follow the parking attendant's instructions when using the parking garage for j316 news i'm brian nutzman and i'm emily jacobs we hope you have a great time this has been a j316 news presentation praise god man we're glad that you're with us tonight what a blessing man i'm excited about this i've been looking forward to this for uh nearly two years and we weren't about to let it go so thank you for coming amidst all of the things that are going on and man isn't it great to just worship the lord and focus on what he's doing instead of all of the negative stuff that's going on today so man what a blessing so we're glad that you're here uh let me just mention that we do have products brian mentioned this earlier but we have a bookstore this is a brand new dvd out grace encounters volume two and this has some powerful testimonies i hadn't got time to go through all of it but johan and brenda teat i think is the way they name say their name or toot or something they're from uh the netherlands and he was a drug dealer been miraculously saved and healed of yellow fever and uh he was on our healing is here thing that we held uh back in august and i tell you this is powerful so this is brand new the grace encounters and then i've got a brand new book out entitled more grace more favor and what this really is is a teaching on humility my publisher didn't like humility said nobody will get a book on humility so we entitled it more grace more favor because the bible says that if you will humble yourself god will give you more grace so it's a deceptive title but it's awesome you need this teaching on humility i'll let uh matt here give these away to somebody and then this is a brand new cd that i put out a cd set that i put out on are you satisfied with jesus did any of you hear me teach on this on television i thought this was excellent i was studying this not too long ago it was during this pandemic thing and uh the lord just really spoke to me and i sat down and in about three or four hours i wrote a little pamphlet and we have the pamphlet uh that we're giving out but this is the audio teaching of it and it sounds like everybody would say of course i'm satisfied with jesus but the truth is most of the time we're looking for something more what god said his word isn't sufficient we have to have something physical tangible this is really a faith builder that'll help you so i'll let matt give that to somebody that looks like you're dissatisfied praise god so welcome to all of you and welcome to all of our live stream people i heard that we have over 3 000 people watching live stream already and so thank you for uh being with us if you're a first-time visitor we have a first-time visitors booth out there and you'll get a free gift also uh we have information about our carius bible college and i'd encourage you to go take advantage of that i tell you charis bible college is one of the best kept secrets that there is we aren't trying to make it a secret but it's amazing how few people really understand if you come here you would love it so we want you to check that out amen uh we've got restrooms on either side of the auditorium underneath these stairs there's restrooms i actually have 110 women's toilets in this one building alone but because of the virus thing we're trying to direct you to these restrooms because we have school and anyway we're trying to comply with a lot of their things as you leave tonight make sure that you remember that there's two left turn lanes not when you first leave my property but when you get out on the road before you turn at that light there's two left turn lanes that'll speed up the exit if you'll do that we've got biblical world view out now how many of you have gotten any of our biblical worldview stuff anybody a few of you we just start let's see have i taught this on television yet i think i have all right so anyway we have an advertisement in here on this too this has a little map about our facilities here and how you can get around it announces some of our meetings coming up but it also talks about our biblical world view uh and our healing university and i'd encourage you to get these the biblical worldview is something that god spoke to me years ago about doing and i tried to do one of these powerpoint presentations and i just can't do it it was a disaster and it was one of the worst ministries i've ever had and so i just determined that i was going to do it somehow so what i wound up doing was just teaching it and having my television media department go and illustrate everything and we've got pictures of people quotes we've got statistics it's a different type of ministry than what i typically do but i really believe that this is essential and you know one of the reasons we're seeing the problems that we have today is because of people's worldview and there are people that are trying to redefine the worldview and say that america has always been an evil place and stuff and that is not true they're trying to say all kinds of things and i tell you we need a biblical world view not one that's influenced by just the world so that teaching is really important i encourage you to get that you would be blessed now also we have cds dvds or usb of these meetings that will be available we're going to be giving away four prizes a package and the way you get those if you're watching this on live stream you use the hashtag identity and christ conference and mention something about andrew womack ministries and we're going to give this away so we're giving these away not only to internet people people here you can do this right all right so we're going to be giving away four prizes there will be two to the people that are here as well as two to the people that are watching live streams so do something take a selfie or something that doesn't even sound godly you need to get my teaching on more grace more favor on humility if you take a selfie praise god anyway we're going to be giving those away and it will be a blessing let me just mention real quickly that you know how many of you are from outside of colorado you came to this meeting from someplace else wow is there anybody from colorado you're outnumbered we got more people from outside but anyway i just wanted to let you know that in colorado the governor has mandated face masks my staff is going to be using them we've got prayer ministers that'll be up here and we're going to be seeking to comply with this we're encouraging these things we are not going to police you but uh we have broken one of their major things tonight by having 175 people that's all that they will allow and i've just decided that you know there's some things more important and so uh we're doing this but you know i encourage you to comply on on these things as much as you can because we'll we'll be having to deal with this i had one of my employees say that man if andrew's willing to get in trouble for doing this meeting you ought to at least be willing to wear a mask so we are encouraging it that is what the governor is saying but anyway i'll have more to say about this tomorrow uh we will definitely say something tomorrow but anyway uh it's it's going to be great and like i said i am really excited pastor dewayne is one of my best friends he's on my board of directors uh pastor duane and i even though we didn't know each other for probably 20 or 30 years of ministry it's amazing how alike we are and i think that a lot of it came because both of us this teaching on identity in christ who you are in christ is really the core of everything that we believe every i can tell you that everything i teach comes out of this revelation this is what totally transformed my life and so because we are coming from the same place like that it's amazing how alike we are it's scary we were actually in cancun mexico and we were going to play golf and dwayne was embarrassed because he thought andrew's not going to like me playing with these yellow green yellow green golf balls and when he got there that's what i use we're both alike in just more ways the only thing is i'm better looking the only difference that there is to the whole thing but duane and i are so much alike that this is something i have wanted to do for really a long time is to just take the exact same topic we're probably going to be using a lot of the same scriptures we will probably say a lot of the same things but i can guarantee you that we will come out differently uh through each one of us and i believe that between the two of us this is going to make a huge impact on your life so that's what i'm believing for i believe that this will change and like i said i'm sure pastor dwayne will reinforce this when he gets up but uh this is what changed my life and if you get hold of the revelation that i'll be sharing and pastor dwayne will be sharing i can promise you it will revolutionize your life god is no respecter of persons if this has done this for me and dwayne it'll do it for you and i know that this is probably the number one need or one of the greatest needs in the body of christ is we just don't know who we are man it was great singing these songs tonight about i know who i am and all of these things the truth is most people just really don't know who they are so praise god we're going to be sharing with you and helping you to find out who you are and to get a brand new perspective on everything it's going to be awesome you all agree all of you are ready to get a revelation and let me just say this too that i have heard uh through many many people ministering to them over 50 something years that this is not the kind of thing i can just make you understand it takes a revelation from the holy spirit to get this because it's counter to the way all of us are brought up most of us are taught just to go by what we see taste tear smell and feel and you're going to have to believe things that you can't see you're going to have to believe things that the word of god says and so you need to just get a revelation of this so i pray for you right now also all of you watching that god just opens up our heart and gives you a supernatural revelation of this and if that happens i promise you you're never going to be the same i want to receive an offer and give you an opportunity to give and be a part of this tonight let me turn over to second corinthians uh chapter chapter eight uh normally i go to second corinthians chapter nine but i just wanna share with you that chapter eight and chapter 9 every verse in these passages are talking about finances and often we take individual scriptures out and apply them and it's not 100 wrong but you need to take everything in its context i've been saying this lately that if you take the text away from the context then all you got left is a con so you need to know the context of everything and these verses are all talking about money in the first few verses paul is talking about how that the uh the churches here had abounded through their deep poverty to great generosity that doesn't even seem to go together but he's but it shows that you don't have to have a lot of money to be generous to have a generous heart and to give god says it's accepted according to that you have and not according to that you don't have and i just wanted to jump down to verse 9 and show this to you in verse 9 it says for you know the grace of our lord jesus christ that though he was rich yet for your sakes he became poor that you through his poverty might be rich and you know people often take this again out of context and say well this isn't talking about that all of us can prosper financially this is talking about that god became poor emotionally he left all of the splendor that he had in heaven and he came down here and suffered and so he was he he made it so that we could be rich emotionally so that we could have a fulfilled life and things like that and all of those things are true it's not limited to finances but if you take it in its context every verse in front of this after it even into the ninth chapter is talking about money jesus became poor financially so that you might be made rich the same as he became sin so that we could be made the righteousness of god he became sick so that we could be well this is a great exchange and this is literally talking about that jesus became poor so that you might be rich financially did you know that prosperity is a part of the atonement jesus became poor for your sake not for his sake he did it so that you wouldn't have to be poor he became sin so that you wouldn't have to sin he became sick so that you wouldn't have to be sick and if you aren't receiving this prosperity i guarantee you you're missing out on part of what jesus provided for you in psalms chapter 5 verse 27 the scripture says let all those who favor my righteous cause say continually let god be magnified which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant god is pleased when you prosper god is not pleased when you don't prosper he's not displeased with you but he wants you to experience this abundance it says in 3rd john chapter 1 verse 2 says i wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health even as thy soul prospers and on and on i could go the scripture talks about that jesus wants you to prosper but it comes by faith it's not automatic it's not something that happens without your cooperation you have to believe to receive if you doubt you do without sad to say we got a lot of religious people today teaching that it's god's will for you to be poor and that's not right and and there's a lot of christians that honestly believe god's just going to help you to get by he'll supply your need but he won't supply anything above just bare necessities man that is not what the word of god teaches so anyway the point i wanted to get across is he wants you to prosper but in order for you to prosper jesus said luke 6 38 give and it shall be given unto you you've got to believe to receive and it's one thing to say oh i believe i'm ready to receive faith without works is dead do something give sow into the kingdom amen and you know during this time that we've had uh boy i mean our economy has gone down many people are suffering did you know that the number one way that the barna survey shows that christians are responding and coping with the downturn is to decrease their giving that's what the average person does praise god that's probably not true of everybody in here you guys are the fanatics amen you know our partners they're awesome our income has actually gone up during all of this time which is a praise the lord it's it's been awesome but if you're one of those that you know feels like man i don't have as much to give i can't give you need to go ahead and give you need to be sowing this is the way you it's your faith in the lord that causes everything to work so tonight we're giving you an opportunity to give into this meeting to help us with the expenses of the ministry to sow into pastor dwayne's ministry and into mine and i tell you what it'll come back to you a hundred fold in this life amen so right before i take this uh offering we've got a little video that my media department just put together about partnership that is really powerful so i'd like to ask you to watch this then we'll receive this offering so watch this little video about partnership you say in the name of jesus i'm not going by what i see i go by what the word of god says there's more than just this physical realm there's also a spiritual realm i don't care what this looks like i know what god's word says i was told that my life would be one of pain and isolation and that freedom wasn't even to be hoped for i was told i was always going to be in a wheelchair i was given three months to live before total heart failure hi i'm julianne hartman from los angeles california and i was told that i would never recover from fibromyalgia i was in and out of emergency rooms and spent over three hundred thousand dollars searching for a cure to no avail i was just about to give up when i discovered andrew wommack on television and andrew showed me for the first time that by the stripes of jesus i was already healed in a matter of weeks i received my healing after listening to all of the teachings made available online and today 10 years later i'm still walking in my healing and i'm not alone i was healed of fibromyalgia and environmental illness i was healed of lyme disease i was healed of lupus and heart failure because people like you partnered with andrew wommack ministries we've all been given our lives back we cannot thank you enough for your generosity but there are still millions more out there seeking the truth that set us free will you help us bring this message to them you can reach people like me who are trapped in their home and not aware of the fullness of what the gospel says that we can be free from everything the enemy tried to put on us i would not be here if it wasn't for this ministry and i just really encourage you to become a partner today why wouldn't you want to partner with andrew womack ministries become a partner today i agree with raquel why wouldn't you want to be a part of this ministry that is changing people's lives you've just seen just a few testimonies but god is changing people and you know if you help us reach out and touch these lives then you become a part of everything that's happening in heaven people are going to come by your mansion and thank you for the way that you've invested so become a part of andrew wommack ministries today amen why wouldn't you want to be a part of this amen so what we're going to do i think they're going to put buckets down here at the front is that correct we're adjusting all right so they're going to put buckets down here at the front i'm going to ask you if you would to get up and come down here rather than pass the buckets around and we've got a little uh video that we are going to play and this is actually a selection from our david musical it's a song that uh the young david the middle age and the older david singh it's actually a song that elizabeth muran wrote and said that she felt like this was my heart and it is 100 so it's going to be great but as we give as we show this video uh please come down here and put your offerings in here and praise god then i'll come back and share the word if you're making out a check you can make it out to andrew wommack ministries amen and that'll be good that i may see you in the light of your words [Music] that i may hear you above all other voices [Music] teach me how to [Music] please [Music] oh god to the place show me all the wondrous treasures beauty that can't be measured in your glorious word help me rediscover the truth lord every day choosing your law above all other laws in this world guide me let your word be my lighthouse that i may live to follow through the raging stars with your spirit of truth and faith that i may rise above give me strength to stand on your promise to never let fear crunch the peace in my soul [Music] teach me grace help me love like your love lord unconditional everlasting [Applause] let it grow to the end of my days you are the one in my heart [Music] praise the lord man that's awesome that is a part of our musical entitled david of course that's like a music video we don't have the guys wearing their suits in the david musical but uh anyway it is powerful that will be out i'm not sure the exact timing but it'll be before christmas or before christmas we will have this dvd done uh we've got a brand new musical that we did this summer entitled in god we trust and it is a total patriotic thing i just wrote a letter about this a couple of days ago and i just saw the final edited version of this i think it was last friday or something like that and i tell you it brought tears to my eyes it's one of the most powerful things we've ever done but it's different in this sense that it's patriotic we have the entire martin luther king speech in there the gettysburg address we have a scene about the bombing of fort mchenry uh in the war of 1812 where francis scott key wrote the national anthem and i tell you it is powerful and it's the focus is patriotic but of course you can't talk about the history of this country without talking about god so the gospel is in there but there are people that would watch this that would never watch a biblical movie or something so when i saw this i wrote this letter and i'm asking people to get this not only for themselves but to get extra copies we're making them i think at half price or discounted price and encourage people to get it and i'm going to start sending it to senators we're going to send it to military people i've got people that have access to the white house and to all of these places and i think that this has a reach that we've never had before and so this will be available i think it's on the 4th of october is when we plan on having that done and so we don't have it available right now but i want to encourage you to please get that we now have a total counting the david musical this will make four musicals that we've already produced and it's going to be powerful dwayne would you mind coming up here for just a second and talking a little i for how many of you don't know pastor dwayne's sheriff you have not heard him minister could you raise your hand and those of you by internet i have no way of knowing but i bet you there's people that don't know you but when once they get past this hair you'll love this man i tell you this guy is anointed and blessed and your revelation on identity matter of faith you got a book on that title i'm sure you'll be promoting that but this is really what changed both of us i want you to just share for a second before i get up to minister about what you're going to be doing well i'm tremendously excited about this time together with andrew this is the message that brought us together and forged such a i believe tremendous friendship and i admire so much what god has done in his ministry and in his life and it all began for me in an open vision in 1980 i had met the lord in 1965 and lived a totally defeated life as a christian and in 1980 i share this vision in my first book identity theft on how i had an open vision of the cross and in that vision i saw my identification supernaturally with jesus i saw jesus on the cross but i saw myself inside of him and i had never heard such a thing and i saw when he died i died when he was buried i was buried but when he was raised from the dead i saw myself in him but that wasn't the old me that i saw on the cross it was a new me it was a better me it was an improved me it was the me god ordained me to be before the foundations of the world that christ brought to flourishing in his death burial and resurrection and then i supernaturally saw me raised together from the dead with him and seated in heavenly places and that's when he lovingly told me we would rule and reign together throughout eternity and so those are the things i'm going to be sharing and i promise they're going to be a blessing to you there's nothing more near and dear to to me than my identity with jesus and listen it's not a one-time revelation i don't want to mess up my message or take too much of his time but one of the problems we have over this message is everybody thinks you just hear it one time you get it you've got it and that's it this is your relationship with the lord we're talking about and it's a progressive revelation even what you think you know there's more to know about what you know because god is inexhaustible amen so i just hope you make it back those of you that are watching you you need to go get some friends and family andrew's going to go first and i know it's going to be down the same line we haven't talked together but then i get to share tomorrow and i'm going to fix everything he messes up amen amen you know i've actually had people in our bible school we have a course in the second year that i teach about public speaking and they listen to me talk about how you minister to people and stuff but then we have them do 10-minute talks and when i when we started the school i did all of this myself now we have interns uh that listen to the 10 minute talks but anyway i was amazed because for four or five years i'd listen to all of our students give these 10 minute talks and i remember a couple of them that took my teaching and used my examples they even talked about when i was in vietnam they used my stories and they were saying my stuff and yet it would come from their heart what god had spoken to them and i actually was sitting down taking notes on people that were quoting me 90 of the time and i was getting revelation like i've never seen it that way and so i have always felt like that it would be wonderful to take two people that have the same revelation but just with the differences of our own experience and stuff saying the same thing from different ways of looking at it i think it'll help people to be able to get it so this is something i've wanted to do for a very long time and i'm really looking forward uh to hearing dwayne fix all of this stuff that i'm gonna say so it'll be really really good and so let me just start by saying that dwayne came to this by an open revelation and things like that i came at it a little bit differently but the point is that there once you get this revelation of who you are in christ and what he's done it's not just something that uh you know comes and you don't know when you got it or something it is a dramatic life-changing event once you begin to see yourself in christ now there is a growth in it and yes it is a process but i'm telling you that if you can't look and see something significant where this just exploded on the inside of you then you need a revelation and i believe that that's going to come to you during this conference because uh it is life transforming and so many people who come to me and ask me questions i don't always have time to tell them this but i can guarantee i know that these people do not understand their identity in christ or they would not be asking the questions that they do they wouldn't be struggling the way that they are now that doesn't mean you'll never have a problem but you approach everything differently when you see yourself in christ and have a revelation of who you are so again i just want to say that i i believe this is a life transforming week and it's going to make a big big difference so let me go into what i'm going to share here uh i call my teaching on this spirit soul and body and after i explain a few things you'll understand why i term at that dwayne calls it identity in christ it's the same thing some people will call it uh you know the completed work of christ uh they're just all kinds of uh ways of referring to it but it's just talking about who you are in christ in the spirit realm and not in your flesh and the way i came to this without me going into a long explanation but i think it's important for you to see where i'm coming from i was born again when i was eight but i became religious i didn't mean to but i went to church and it just made me religious and i got to thinking that god owed me something because i lived holy and because i was doing all of these things i was an introvert and yet i would go out and do visitation i'd make 10 or 15 visits a week knocking on doors and forcing myself against my uh insecurities to talk to people and try and lead them to the lord and every week i'd come back with 10 or 15 people that i'd quote unquote led to the lord back when i was a teenager and i thought that by doing this that that would gain me something with god and so i was always performing trying to earn something from god and yet it never worked and i just the way i responded was well i've just got to do more i've got to do it harder i've got to do even more instead of reading two hours i got to read three hours and i was always trying to do more and it led me into being a a modern-day pharisee where i was trusting in my goodness and looking down my nose at anybody who wasn't living the way that i was and long story short i had an encounter with the lord on march the 23rd 1968 where god showed up and anyway i'm trying not to spend my whole time talking about this but it was dramatic and god showed me i was a religious hypocrite he showed me that relative to him that all of my righteousness was his filthy rags and the doctrine that i had at that time told me that god was the one who killed people i was i was told that god's one that killed my dad when i was 12 years old that god's one that killed my grandmother when i was eight she's the one that raised me up until that time and i was told that god was the one who did all of these things and because of that theology when i saw how ungodly i was and how hypocritical i was i honestly thought god was going to kill me so before he killed me i just was going to confess everything i could think of and in front of the pastor the leaders all of my best friends of the church i was in a prayer meeting now on saturday night at 10 o'clock and in front of everybody i spent an hour and a half just confessing everything i'd ever done or ever thought of doing and i hadn't done that much relative to other people i hadn't gone out and committed the acts but jesus said if you've thought it in your heart you're guilty so i started confessing lust and naming names and i started talking about people that i was mad at and things and whatever reputation i had i ruined it but i was just thinking that before god killed me i was going to get everything i could think i've confessed so that hopefully i wouldn't go to hell and after i'd said everything i could ever i mean i confessed everything i would ever do and after i got through i was just uh laying on the floor in a puddle of tears waiting to see what god's response was and to my surprise instead of rejection or wrath i had a tangible supernatural love come over me and it was phenomenal it was a feeling it was an emotion um i don't have the words to describe that but for four and a half months i was caught up in the presence of god never slept more than an hour at a time because i was so excited i never sat down and ate a meal i did eat but i just grabbed something and go i couldn't do anything except just be focused on how much god loved me and it was wonderful but it didn't last and it'll never last there's some people hear me talk about this and they're thinking oh would you pray that god would do that for me no it'll ruin you and i've talked to a number of people that have had a similar type of encounter and you know what tends to happen you become addicted to that feeling to the emotion and most people it ruins their life i've had a bunch of people after i've taught on this very thing come up and tell me that man this is exactly where they are and i i experienced this love but it became so addictive that after the emotion left and i could spend a whole message talking about why that happened there are reasons about why you don't sometimes perceive the love of god but it god doesn't want you to live on just an emotional level god says without faith it's impossible to please him you have to relate to god by faith not based on just a goosebump a feeling or something so after the feeling left one of the best things that happened to me i got drafted and sent to vietnam and it was wonderful because i was completely separated from all christian fellowship the only believers that i met in vietnam with the exception maybe one or two people but it was all people that i led to the lord i had no christian fellowship and the temptation over there was strong and so the only way i could survive was just to stick my nose in the bible and i started reading the bible anywhere from 10 to 15 hours a day and i spent 13 months in vietnam asking god to touch me again seeking another experience wanting a feeling but as i begin to read the word i begin to learn things through the word of god that the revelation of the word began to start doing for me what that emotional experience had done and the difference is you can't hold on to emotion that's like trying to hold air or something in your hand you just can't find a handle on it but the word of god it will do the exact same thing for you and it's actually better because you you can control it knowledge let me just share i'm working towards second corinthians if you don't know where that is you might start looking for it but over here in second peter let me just share this verse with you second peter chapter one he says simon peter a servant and an apostle of jesus christ to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of god and of our savior jesus christ i'm not going to preach on that verse but that verse but it exploded on the inside of me once i understood who i was in christ that is a powerful verse and then in verse 2 it says grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of god and of jesus our lord and then verse 3 according as his divine power hath given unto us all things in the greek language that means all things he's given us all things that pertains to healing prosperity joy peace uh vision hearing the voice of god anything that you need all things that pertain unto life and godliness come through the knowledge of him who have called us to glory and virtue and then verse 4 says whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises that by these we might be a partaker of the divine nature having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust the way you partake of everything is through the knowledge the knowledge gave us these promises and so this these verses say that everything that you need is related to knowledge if you are sick you've got a knowledge problem some people will say oh no it's the virus that's going out round you know we've got promises that no plague will come now our dwelling that he's healed us of all sickness and all disease i'm not criticizing anybody who is sick i'm not saying that it's not real but i am saying that what god has provided is more than what we need the supply is greater than the need and if you are sick not only with a virus but if you've got anything wrong with you these testimonies that you hurt it's because you don't have the knowledge or maybe it's just intellectual knowledge it hasn't been applied and fully uh appropriated in your life but if you're sick you got a knowledge problem if you're poor you got a knowledge problem if you're depressed and discouraged you've got a knowledge problem all of the things that god gives us comes back to knowledge so again my testimony was that i had this experience that showed me that there was so much more than what i was experiencing i got hungry for it i was begging and pleading with god for it and i spent 13 months in vietnam asking god to either touch me and give me another experience like that or to kill me and to take me to heaven some of you may think i'm exaggerating but i prayed that prayer many times and then i nearly got killed twice in one day in vietnam and decided i wasn't really as excited about that as i thought i was and uh so anyway as i was studying and just reading these scriptures god began to open up to me the knowledge of who i am and what he's done and i never heard anybody else say this i know that there was other people preaching i know that dwayne taught it but i didn't know him back at that time i'm sure there was many people that taught it but it didn't come through a person it came through the holy spirit speaking directly to me and once i begin to get this revelation of who i was in christ i mean it's just like somebody stuck a key in my brain and unlocked it the word of god exploded it got to where i couldn't open it and read it without getting supernatural revelation and god speaking to me healings began to come vision began to come everything everything that god has done in my life is based on these revelations i've got four messages i'm going to be teaching dwayne will be teaching for and we are just going to be sharing with you the best that we can what god shared with us and i promise you if you will open your heart and receive if it does anything for you like it's done for me this will be a life transforming time for you it's got that potential and so if it doesn't impact you that way it's not me that didn't do it it's you that didn't receive it that's the way i'm gonna look at it so let me turn over here to second corinthians chapter five and these are the verses that the lord used to open my eyes back into chapter four he was talking about that he just had a light affliction man i've got hours of teaching on this but the reason he considered it light was because he said i'm not looking at the things that can be seen i'm looking at the things that can't be seen and when i get into this i'll spend more time on it but this is the reason that people can't understand and live out of who they are in christ is because they're carnal carnal is an offensive term to a lot of people and they think well that means you're saying that i'm a terrible sinner that i'm a bad person no the word carnal means of the five senses now people who are evil are carnal and of the five senses but there are good people there are moral people you could love god with all your art and be totally carnal just controlled by what you see taste ear smell and feel and when we're talking about who you are in christ it's not talking about your body it's not talking about just your mental emotional part but in the spirit is the part of you that's changed and so this is a key paul is saying the reason that he could rejoice in the midst of all of his troubles was because he wasn't looking at things that were seen he was looking at things that can't be seen and people think well how can you see it if you can't see it you have to see with your heart and i'm going to be talking about this i know dwayne will then in chapter 5 he begins to start saying this is why we are confident that if something was to happen to this physical body and we die it's no problem because we know that we have another body we know that god has prepared eternity for us you know i had david barton on one of my broadcasts and we were talking about this pandemic and i was asking his input because you know he's a great historian and he knows uh american history and one of the things that david barton pointed out that i just thought was really good he said that when the spanish flu hit in 1917 and 1918 i forget the exact figures but i mean we're talking millions of people not hundreds of thousands millions of people and i forget the exact percentages but it was well over 50 or something if the people who got it died from it it was a true pandemic relative to what we're talking about but he brought this out and i thought this was really significant he said they didn't close down the economy they didn't operate in total fear their reaction to it was completely different than ours and here's the thing he said that really got me he said because there was a biblical worldview even among the non-believers that they believed that there was a god and they believed that there was an afterlife and they weren't petrified and afraid of death the same as humanistic people like what we see today that this life is all they have one of the reasons that people are so shocked over this is because they don't believe that there's an afterlife or they don't have any assurance and confidence about it because the word of god is not having the same influence in our society today as it did back a hundred years ago i thought that was really significant people were paralyzed by fear hebrews chapter 2 i believe it's verse 14 says that jesus came to deliver those who through fear of death were all their lifetimes subject to bondage and i tell you this is what's going on there are people that are paranoid today because honestly they are afraid of death that is a totally unbiblical ungodly concept paul was talking about this in chapter five he says if our earthly body is destroyed no problem because we have a body from heaven and then he says this down in chapter 5 and in verse 6 therefore we are always confident knowing that whilst we are at home in this body we are absent from the lord for we walk by faith and not by sight we are confident i say and willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the lord and then he goes on and talks about in verse 16 he says we don't know any man after the flesh he wasn't walking by sight he was dealing with people heart to heart did you know if people dealt with things from a spiritual perspective there would be no such thing as race prejudice gender prejudice uh economic prejudice knowledge but those are all external things and sad to say there's too many people that are dividing people based on how they look or something else if you did what paul talked about and we don't know any man after the flesh that didn't solve a lot of problems but people are just carnal they're going by what they see they're dealing with the virus they're dealing with the economy only based on what the natural realm says and then after he said all of those things see the reason i quoted this is to lead up to this verse i was reading this verse in vietnam and it says therefore in verse 17 if any man be in christ he is a new creature old things are passed away behold all things are become new and all things are of god who hath reconciled us unto christ and i remember reading this and you've got to remember that i had had this experience i had experienced god in a tangible way and i was trying to get back the feeling i was trying to get back into this place and i was looking at what i didn't have i don't know how many of you were seeking the lord back in the 60s and the 70s but there was a real pop you know that's when we used to sing choruses and we would sing scripture songs just put scripture to music and we had a chorus that when i've got joy like a fountain peace like a river love like the ocean in my soul and that was real popular but did you know what i'd never seen that because i said god i may be a lot of things but i'm not a hypocrite i'm not going to say i've got it when i don't have it i don't have peace i don't have joy i don't have love i thought i was being real spiritual i was being real stupid is what i was being but at the time i thought that that was the right thing to do and i would never sing that psalm because i said god the truth is i'm just i don't feel any of these things that's just carnal in my spirit i had every one of those things i could have been enjoying it but i was only trying to touch god and relate to god in the natural realm and when i read this verse that if you are in christ you are a new creature i remember thinking god i know i'm in you i know i'm born again i had zero doubt that if i was to die i would go to be with the lord i said i know i'm saved and yet i don't have old things passed away all things become new so i was looking at my experience my fears my insecurity my worry on and on you could go with all the problems that i had and i said this says that old things have passed away it didn't say old things are passing away old things can pass away it says they are passed away they're gone and i saw what the word says but then i saw my experience and i said god i don't doubt you but i said i don't understand this i know i'm saved and yet i can't see it if i was arrested for being a christian there wouldn't have been enough evidence to convict me and i was thinking god what's the answer to this and while i was pondering that let me show you this verse with you out of first thessalonians chapter 5 and in verse 23 first thessalonians 5 23 he's praying a prayer and he says and the very god of peace sanctify you wholly as completely not h-o-l-y but w-h-o-l-l-y and i pray god your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our lord jesus christ and when i read that it just dawned on me that there are three parts to us and functionally i only recognized two parts i knew i had a body that's evident you can feel your body you can see bodies you can touch your body you know that you have an inner part which most of us call our personality part is what the bible calls the soul it's your mental and emotional part of you and every one of us recognize your physical body and then your mental emotional part every you you deal with your body all the time like right now if i said are you hot or are you cold you wouldn't have to say well let me pray about it and i'll come back tomorrow and i'll tell you how i am you just know whether you're hot or cold you know if you're tired you know if you're uh you know if you have any pain in your body you're in touch with your physical body you know it and if i was to ask are you encouraged or discouraged are you excited or you know if i was to ask you something about your emotional personality part you don't have to say well let me pray about i'll come back tomorrow and tell you whether i'm encouraged or discouraged or whether i'm sad or glad you are constantly 24 hours a day monitoring your physical body and your soulish realm but most people functionally don't recognize that there's a third part to them people will use the term soul in spirit interchangeably matter of fact if you look the greek word for spirit up pneuma in the new testament strong's defines the spirit as the immortal soul it uses soul and spirit interchangeably and this is how most people view it but this verse right here he's praying that your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless until the coming of our lord jesus christ and it just dawned on me that there is a third part to me that i didn't know anything about and this is what began to change my life that's the reason i call my teaching spirit soul and body it's just based on my personal experience but it's talking about my new identity in christ who i am and when i began to recognize that there was another part of me that i didn't even know existed and i began to start learning about it i found out i'm going to make some statements here that i'll have to spend time during the rest of this conference explaining so if i say something that seems radical don't throw it out give me time to explain it but did you know your spirits as saved as it will ever be but your soul is not saved we use the terminology all the time man about being a soul winner and i came to see a soul say and there's twice in scripture that i can think of that it talks about soul salvation so there is a soul salvation when you've been discouraged depressed fearful and you get hold of the word of god and all of a sudden you change your soul the way you think and you begin to start operating in faith that's soul salvation but that's not the born-again experience the born-again experience it's your spirit that gets saved not your soul your soul is not saved the scripture says in first corinthians chapter 13 that this now we know in part and we prophesy in part but there's coming a time that we will know all things even is also we are known that's talking about one of the functions of your soul your mental emotional part right now with your little peanut-sized brain you do not know everything you can prove it you can't even find your glasses when they're on top of your head i just lost a set of keys and we've looked everywhere for them and i have no clue where they are and stuff you know what i don't know everything with my brain but my spirit knows all things first john chapter 2 verse 20 you have an unction from the holy one and you know all things first corinthians 2 16 you have the mind of christ colossians 3 10 you are renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created you see if you don't understand what we're talking about and if you're trying to figure out the bible says i got an action and i know all things and then you go look at your last test results you go look at something and you say well man here's what the bible says here's what i've experienced the bible is just so hard to understand it's because it's not talking about your brain you don't know everything with your brain but in your spirit man your spirit knows everything i keep pointing to my belly because jesus said in john chapter 7 out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water and then the next verse says and this spake about the spirit which they that believed upon him would receive so the bible implies that your spirit's in your belly some of us look like we got more of the spirit than other people but it's not true but anyway i keep pointing to my belly because in my spirit i know all things all things not some things and yet see the church as a whole doesn't know this and that's why we sing songs about further along we'll know all about it further along we'll understand why cheer up my brother and we just sing these songs about how hard it is and how we don't understand that's only talking about your brain with your spirit man you know all things you've got an answer for anything that comes your way you have the mind of christ you know everything that jesus knows some of you think what good does it do if it's in my spirit i need it out here where i can function well i'll be talking about how you get that out but 90 of the battle is first of all recognizing what you've got walking in it is another thing but the first step is it says in uh philemon chapter 1 verse 6 he prayed a prayer for his friend philemon and he says i pray that the communication of your faith would become effectual that means begin to work by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in christ jesus before you can release it you've got to first of all believe you've got it and the body of christ basically doesn't know what they have they're saying oh god give me more faith oh god please touch me oh god move oh god touch me reveal your love the truth is in your spirit your spirit's already complete your spirit is right this moment the way it will be in eternity you didn't get a little baby spirit that is in the process of growing your spirit is complete it's mature it's perfect you don't have a baby spirit and i know some of the things i'm singing are rubbing y'all some of you the wrong way oh no we gotta grow we gotta as babes desire the sincere milk of the word that we may grow yes there's growth it's in the soulish realm it's the renewing of your mind but it's not your spirit people say i've got to get the word down into my spirit your spirit knows all things your spirit has the anointing of god already in it second corinthians chapter one that he that hath anointed this is god you've already got everything in your spirit your spirit's perfect you don't need anything else everything that you need is right here between your ears it's the renewing of your mind it's cha it's your mind that's growing in understanding i'm not trying to get the word into your spirit i'm trying to get it into your brain now the bible will talk about things getting into your heart and this is another thing i don't know if i can talk quick enough if i'll get into it but your heart is not just your spirit your heart is your soul and spirit combined that's the reason the bible says you have to believe with all of your heart because your spirit is always believing it has no unbelief no fear no anything in it but your soulish realm does and you're divided in your heart when you're in your spirit you're perfect but over here you're fearing and you're operating in fear and unbelief that'll negate your faith you've got to get to where you believe with all of your heart and that happens through the renewing of your mind so anyway i've said a lot of things right there but your spirit when i began to recognize that there's a spirit on the inside of me i thought well god what's my spirit like you know if i want to know what my body's like it's really simple i can either look at it or i can go look in a mirror and i can see you know right now i hope my hair is gone but i have no way of knowing you i can't tell if my hair is combed by feeling i can't see my ear i know that these are really simple things and some of you are thinking boy this is elementary but it makes a point if you'll follow what i'm saying did you know that i was uh doing something on tv this week i forgot now what i it was one of my tuesday night bible study and i was doing something and um i think it was it was uh my earpiece or something that i was using to listen to the person who was zooming in and anyway in on the television set when you see something in in the person's uh right ear it's your left ear in a mirror but in tv it's your right ear that may not have communicated when you look in a mirror and you hold this hand up did you know the person this is my right hand but when the person in the mirror holds up their left hand it's a mirror image and we've gotten to where we adjust to that and we see it so much that we respond but when you're on television it's really confusing they'll say you got something over here on your shoulder it's on your right shoulder and it's opposite on television and you have we've got to where we say stage right stage left because it's different anyway my point is that when you see yourself in the mirror did you know you aren't really seeing yourself you're seeing a reflection of yourself how do you know that that reflection is right have you ever stood in front of a mirror that makes you tall and skinny or short and fat how do you know that what you're seeing in the mirror is correct here's another way of saying it did you know you've never seen your face some of you say oh yes i have well you've seen a reflection of it or you've seen a picture of it or you've seen a drawing of it but you have never with your eyes looked at your face you trust some image to tell you what you look like when you comb your hair when you put on makeup you are looking at not at yourself you're looking at a reflection of yourself i'm not trying to get you to doubt it but what i'm trying to say is you know what you are taking action based on not what you are physically seeing with your eyes but a reflection and the bible says in james chapter 1 that whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty is like a man that beholds his natural face in a mirror and the word of god is like a spiritual mirror this is what you know i started asking the lord god i now know that there's a spirit part of me but i i don't know how to tell the spirit if i want to see if my hair's come i can go look in the mirror and tell if i want to know am i encouraged or discouraged i can just go by how i feel but how do you know what you are in the spirit you can't see the spirit jesus said in john chapter 3 talking to nicodemus he says that which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the spirit is spirit that's just a way of saying that spirit is spirit flesh is flesh they're in different realms you can't feel the spirit now that's another statement that may shock some of you because we talk about feeling the spirit actually what you feel is the anointing which is the manifest presence of the spirit and you can feel that the anointing is tangible you can put it into a cloth and send it to somebody acts chapter 19. the anointing is tangible and there are times that god manifests himself in a tangible way but you can't feel the spirit technically that which is spirit is spirit that which is flesh is flesh and so since you can't feel the spirit well then how do you know what what's true jesus said in john 6 63 jesus was speaking and he says the flesh profits nothing the words that i speak unto you they are spirit and they are life this word is spirit and it's life it's a spiritual mirror and so when somebody asks you how you are instead of feeling oh i've got a pain or instead of searching your emotions oh man i'm really discouraged see that's all carnal that's flesh and that's where most people live and they think that that's all that there is to them but what you should be doing is walking in the spirit galatians chapter 5 walk in the spirit and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh we should be in the spirit our identity should be in who we are in christ and when somebody says how are you you ought to say well let me see and you just open it up and say well right here i'm blessed with all spiritual blessings i'm above only and not beneath i'm the head and not the tail i have people ask me all the time how i am and i'm constantly saying i'm blessed i'll say it a hundred times a day and i've had people come up when they know something bad has happened they know i'm facing a problem or something unless they've been i want to know how you really are and i say i'm really blessed and they said but i want to know how you feel i don't care how i feel i don't ignore how i feel i'm not insensitive to how i feel if i feel bad i've i don't know that i'll have time to go into all this but there's reasons why sometimes you don't feel good sometimes you feel fear sometimes you feel depression it's like if you were to have a stove and you put your hand on it man you can feel that and there's a purpose to those feelings you might not like that feeling of pain but there's a purpose to it there is a purpose to depression and discouragement because it's just like all of a sudden i touch something man that hurts him before i even have time to think about it i withdraw my hand once you start feeling discouragement or depression it's a warning to you that you are doing something wrong and so i don't ignore it if i start feeling fear worry anxiety i don't deny that it's there but i know what causes it and i know how to fix it and i know how to get back into the spirit where all i have is love joy and peace galatians chapter 5 verse 22 so i'm not denying feelings i don't deny that they exist but i do now i deny that that's that's not all there is there's another part of me there's a spirit part of me that never is discouraged never is depressed never is sick never is afraid i am as jesus is i probably don't have time tonight to get into all that all that but sometime tomorrow i'll get into all of these verses that just start showing you who you are in christ but see this changed my whole approach towards everything i began to start realizing when the word says i can lay hands on the sick and they shall recover i didn't feel like that i'd never seen it done at the time i didn't have any tingling in my hands and see this is what so many people are working there's oh god please give me an anointing give me some feeling they'll get up oh i feel the anointing god loves us and god knows that none of us are complete and perfect in our flesh and so he will deal with us where we are but i'm telling you that's inferior uh man i hadn't got time to go through this but matthew chapter 8 contrasted with john chapter 20 shows a man who believed because of the word only and another one who says i won't believe unless i can touch it unless i can feel and jesus said the one who wouldn't believe until he could feel something he says there's a greater blessing than this and that's those who take the word and go by what the word says this is your spiritual mirror and you have to get to where you start saying this is who i am and this is how i feel and you get to where i don't care how i feel how i feel is immaterial it's who i am you live your life based on facts on reality of who you are you know if people could understand this it had solved the whole transgender uh lgbtqrs tuv problem it had solved the whole thing if people just knew i don't care how you feel what's your plumbing like how are you born that's who you are amen did you know every cell in your body is either two x chromosomes or an x and a y chromosome and if they if you died and they dug you up a hundred years from now they could check your bones and tell whether you're a man or a woman i don't care how you dressed i don't care what kind of operation you got and so it doesn't matter how well i feel like a woman well then you're wrong unless you're a woman but i feel like a man today it just depends on you need to deal with who you are not what you feel like our whole world is totally out of whack and this is man i just it's one of the things that really ticks me off because this is where i was and i was missing out on the abundant life that jesus wanted me to have because i didn't feel it i wouldn't sing i've got love like a fountain like love like the ocean joy like a fountain peace like her i wouldn't sing that because i didn't feel it and the whole time when i finally understood this i thought you know i had joy in my heart i could have been rejoicing the entire time and that was just my old carnality that was making me go by what i felt and i didn't enjoy the blessing and the benefit of who i was every one of you whatever it is that you're seeking from god you've already got it if you need healing you've already got the same power on the inside of you that raised jesus christ from the dead ephesians chapter 1 verses 19 through 23 you've already got it it's not out there you don't need to pray it down and get past the demons that are blocking your prayers getting up to heaven for the religious doctrines that we have they all come because they don't understand their identity in christ who they are they think that god is out there and healing is out there and anointing is out there and love is out there and oh god would you stretch forth your hand and just touch me he's already put the same power on the inside of you that raised jesus christ from the dead you hadn't heaven's got nothing else to give you you've got christ living on the inside of you you can't get more than that people will have a double portion night where you come and we're going to do what elijah and elisha did and we're going to pray for a double portion of the holy spirit and ask for twice as much and they'll have people anoint you with oil from israel or water from the jordan river and do something that praise god you're going to get twice as much as you had before elisha could do that because they didn't have the fullness of the godhead dwelling in them bodily but colossians chapter 2 verses 9 and 10. we have the fullness of the godhead dwelling in us bodily john chapter 1 verse 16 and of his grace have all we received and uh grace upon grace we've got you don't you can't get any more of god now you can get more of god out as you renew your mind and learn how to do this and this is what this whole conference is about but you are loaded you've got everything on the inside of you that you will ever have in eternity your spirit's not going to be cleaned uh washed off dusted off injected with more power when you get to heaven all of a sudden miraculously mature and grow up you are complete in christ in your spirit right this minute and the only thing that's keeping that completeness from dominating your emotions and your physical body is this unrenewed mind stinking thinking proverbs 23 7 as a man thinks in his heart so is he the way you think determines what you experience you can think like a lost man you can think like a natural man that says but i'm only human god i'm only human i'm just an old sinner saved by grace you can think that way or you can think like a person who was an old sinner but you got saved by grace and now you are a new creature in christ old things are passed away behold all things all things are become new and it's not in the process of happening it's in the process of being appropriated and released through your flesh but in your spirit it's already complete and once you begin to understand this man this just opened up my whole life i quit begging god for something i didn't have and started exploring what i already had what i had in christ i used to spend time when i first got back from vietnam this was it i i saw this but it took me a while to start applying it to all of the different areas of my life and we are a product of how we've been taught and so i was taught about intercession and when i got turned on to the lord i started hanging around people that were you know binding the devil finding out that a lot of sickness is demonic it's not just natural it's not just organic that's the reason lots of times the doctors can't find what's wrong something's wrong but they can't find it because it's not physical it's spiritual jesus cast demons out of people as often as he prayed for people to be healed oral roberts eyes with him just a few weeks before he died and he said the greatest miracles he ever saw was when he cast demons out he says other things he would lay hands on people and they would just recover when it was only a natural thing but when he cast demons out people would instantly like that have limbs grow back and things and so anyway a lot of stuff is demonic and when i began to realize this man i started rebuking and binding everything that there was and we started i i i started spending huge amounts of time rebuking the devil and then i started begging for revival i was really caught up in that and i did a lot of all-night prayer meetings that i started and i think the latest we ever lasted was one o'clock everybody else would just go home and i'd be left there by myself but we tried to do all night prayer meetings and 24 hour a day prayers thing begging god to pour out his spirit not realizing he had already done it the way revival comes isn't by asking god to just somehow or another run the heavens and come down people will quote that scripture from isaiah chapter 64 and say rem the heavens and come down what they miss is he rent the heavens he came down in jesus and now jesus lives in us and we have the fullness of the godhead in us and you don't beg for revival to come from heaven what you do is find out who you are and you release heaven you go see somebody raised from the dead and you'll have all the revival you can handle but you just beg oh god please come and do this man that's those things really bother me because this is where i was i spent so much time wasted so many years begging for things that were already mine and when i began to understand that i already had all of jesus in me that you can get now i haven't released all of jesus yet but i have it in here and when i acknowledge it that's when my faith begins to work and when i begin to see this it changed my whole perspective i quit begging god for things pleading with god to move and do things and i started discovering what god had already done i'm not headed towards victory and if i could just believe harder and do more and stuff someday i'll obtain victory no i'm heading from a victory 2000 years ago i got everything through jesus that i'll ever need he supplied my need before i even had it and it's now in christ and the rest of it is me learning how to release and appropriate what god has already put on the inside of me it totally changed my whole focus it changed the whole direction of my life and now if i recognize a deficiency in myself i know that it's because i'm in the flesh in the spirit there is no deficiency i'm not missing anything i've got love joy and peace if i'm not walking in love joy and pieces because i'm not keeping my mind stayed upon the lord isaiah 26 3 the lord will keep you in perfect peace whose mind is stayed upon him because he trusts in him if i if i've got a lack of peace it's because i'm not walking in the spirit i'm not focused on him i'm going by the natural realm just looking at things in the natural realm man this has totally changed my life and as a result i'm not the perfect example i don't mean to present that i hadn't arrived but praise god i've left i'm at least moving in this direction but did you know as a result it's been it was 53 years ago when the lord touched my life is probably about 40 maybe 48 years ago when i really began to get hold of this revelation and stuff and it's been over 40 years since i've been depressed or discouraged i don't get depressed i don't get discouraged i don't worry about stuff because i've learned these things i've learned who i am in christ and i'm telling you you can live that way i also don't get sick i don't believe in being sick because inside i've got the same power that raised christ from the dead so anyway these are the things that we're going to be talking about this is my introduction and i'm sure that dwayne will straighten everything out tomorrow but really this this is what has transformed my life i haven't got the words to explain to you how important this is to me i'm going to start going into a lot more detail and say this in so many ways you can't miss it and then i'm really excited i believe that dwayne coming along and sharing the same truths but just sharing it from his perspective and from his story it's like looking at something instead of just in 2d you're looking at it in 3d you're going to look around and you will get a dimension to it that you wouldn't get by just hearing one person so i'm excited i believe that this has got the potential of changing people's lives so father i pray for every person in here i i pray that these things that you've shown me and that i've tried to share here tonight father i'm asking for the holy spirit just to open up the eyes of our understanding chapter 1 verse 18 that you would open up the eyes of our understanding so that we could see these things see the exceeding greatness of your power towards us in christ jesus the same power that you used when you raised him from the dead father give us a heart to understand give us eyes to see like this song eyes to see ears to hear father we just pray for the holy spirit to quicken these things to us we believe that that's why you sent the holy spirit which to lead us into all truth to teach us all things and to bring to our remembrance all things that you have spoken to us and so holy spirit we welcome this for not only for the people that are in this auditorium but father every person watching on the internet i'm asking that even there that you would speak to them and that this would just begin to start being revelation to them that it would go beyond a person beyond just words that it would be a supernatural revelation from the holy spirit father we thank you for that we agree and we receive it and thank you for it in jesus name amen you know i'm going to ask our prayer ministers to come down here and they're going to minister to you but let me say this especially to those of you watching that this also explains why it's not enough just to believe that there is a god not enough to just believe that god exists the bible says in james chapter 2 verse 19 you believe that there's one god you do well the devils also believe and tremble but won't you know o vain man that faith without works is dead that's one of the most sarcastic statements in the entire bible you believe that there's one god you hadn't done anything the devil hasn't done you've got to be born again it's not just a mental ascent an acknowledgement of something it is being changed you become a new creature there is something that literally changes on the inside of you when you make jesus christ your lord and so there may be somebody here in this auditorium there might be somebody watching that you have acknowledged that god exists and you may know that he's around you may even pray every once in a while and ask for something but have you been changed have you become a new creature everything i'm going to be teaching is based on you receiving a born-again spirit and so you have to receive that if you've never done that i want to give you an opportunity to receive right now and i'm just going to pray basically what romans chapter 10 verse 9 says that if you will confess with your mouth the lord jesus and believe in your heart that god raised him from the dead you shall be saved god's already done it he's already paid for your sins but it depends on whether you reach out and take it and the way you do it is to say jesus i make you my lord i believe in my heart that you were raised from the dead and that you've paid for my sins and when you do that praise god you have the promise that you shall be saved and he goes on to say in verse 13 whoever does this whoever calls on the name of the lord shall be saved so father i pray for any person in this auditorium or watching on the internet tonight if they haven't experienced this being born again and having you take out of them the spirit that was separated dead in trespasses and sins and if they've never received this new born-again spirit father i'm praying that they would just do that right now that they would confess you as their lord scripture says with your mouth you have to confess so if you haven't done that just say jesus i make you my lord i believe that you are risen from the dead that i am forgiven that you now live in me i am saved in jesus name and if you mean that with your heart you can be born again for those of you watching on the internet we have people standing by at our phones 24 hours a day five days a week and you can call 719-635-1111 and they will pray with you they will give you a book if there's anybody in here who just made jesus your lord you can come and receive you can tell these people and we will make sure that you get a book entitled the new you slash holy spirit and i'm not going to take the time to go through it right now but if you don't have the baptism of the holy spirit and speak in tongues man you need that too i tell you what you can't understand the things we're talking about without the holy spirit because you can't see it your carnal is what the bible says you're controlled and dominated by your senses what you see taste tear smell and feel until you receive the holy spirit the bible says first corinthians 2 14 that the natural man this is not about a person just with your own intellect and ability cannot understand the things of the spirit of god because their foolishness unto him neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned you need the holy spirit to open up the eyes of your heart and enable you to see so if you don't have the baptism of the holy spirit and speak in tongues again i encourage you to please come and let someone pray with you if you're watching on the internet you can call 719-635-1111 and i guarantee you there's people who will pray with you and we want to see you receive the salvation and the baptism of the holy spirit also we're going to open this up all of these people are here to pray for you if you need healing in your body maybe some of you now realize that healing isn't out there someplace it's in you it's a matter of releasing it and how do you do that there's many things involved but one of them is if any two of you agree on earth as touching anything it shall be done the bible says you lay hands on the sick and they shall recover we are here to pray with you and to help you and praise god i believe that this is going to be a blessing so father i just pray right now for the people watching and the people that are here whatever the needs are we are here to minister to them i pray that father this revelation releases this power of god in their life and father we agree and we receive that in the name of jesus amen praise god if you need prayer for anything please come and let someone pray with you the rest of you we'll be back tomorrow morning at 9. we start at nine the doors open at 7 30. remember as you leave that we got two left turn lanes when you get down to the light that'll speed up everybody getting out remember we've got our bookstore and all the materials dwayne has materials out there please take advantage of it and typically i'm all visiting with people hugging and doing everything but this week i'm going to say good night goodbye i love you from a distance amen and we'll see you tomorrow you're dismissed you