*[Numbers 21:4: Then they journeyed from Mount Hor by the Way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the soul of the people BECAME VERY DISCOURAGED ON THE WAY.]*

As the children of Israel journeyed to the promised land, our opening verse reveals they were discouraged because of the way. As you labor for the kingdom winning souls and discipling them, sometimes difficult seasons will come. When this happens, don’t be discouraged. Remain steadfast in the Lord. Hold on to God’s Word, keep believing, keep winning souls and strengthening others. For surely that difficult season will come and go. And you will be ushered into a season of peace and prosperity glory to God.

[Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.”]

Before a mother gives birth to a child, they plan & prepare for the child – buying clothes, showls, and everything the child would need. As a child of God, everything you need to fulfill your God-given purpose was prepared before you were born. God told Jeremiah in our opening verse that long before He formed Jeremiah in his mother’s womb, He knew him and already planned out His life.

He planned Jeremiah’s ordination, He planned Jeremiah’s life of consecration, He planned Jeremiah’s career – before Jeremiah was born. This applies to you and I. Before we were born, God planned out our lives. He planned every small detail of our life. We are not trying to make things work. We are just walking in the preordained pathways already prepared by God. The problem is we are born into a world of struggles. People are struggling trying to make sense of their lives. So it’s easy to find ourselves in that struggle. Not knowing that your life is different.

Understand people struggle in the world because they have never accepted God’s plans and purposes for their lives. As a born again child of God, you are absolutely submitted to God’s plans. So your life is different. Refuse to struggle. Everyday, submit to God’s Word and the Word Willl be a lamp to your feet, directing you to your destiny in Christ.

[Ephesians 2:22 In whom ye also are builded together for an HABITATION OF GOD THROUGH THE SPIRIT.]

God’s plan right from the beginning is to dwell in man through the Holy Spirit. As believers, we are build or designed to be the habitation of God through the Spirit. This was David’s dream- to host God. He said prophetically in Psalm 132:3-5 that he was not going to bed, or give sleep to his eyes, until he had built a habitation for God. The man was so desperate to host God. David’s desire was fulfilled through our lives on the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit violently came down to indwell every believer. From that day when someone receives Jesus as Lord, the Holy Spirit comes to dwell in them. So a believer, the Holy Spirit of God dwells in you fulfilling Scripture that now you are a habitation for God. Be conscious of this reality that you are God’s dwelling place, you are God’s tabernacle, He dwells in you through the Holy Spirit. This makes you supernatural. The outcome is – nothing can destroy you for 1 Corinthians 3:17 says *”If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is sacred, and you are that temple.”* Hallelujah!!

[Acts 4:12:Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”](NIV)

Many believers have been deceived to think divine healing is optional, they think there is an alternative to divine healing. So when sickness attacks their bodies, they ignore divine healing until the doctor says, “this is incurable” that is when they begin to seek God for divine healing. By then, the condition has already established dominion over the lives, their faith has been shattered and since we are in a fight of faith, they lose the battle.

Remember, In our Full Life Healing School, we define divine healing as receiving healing through the power of God and therefore is not limited to the wisdom of men(Luke 5:17, Acts 10:38). Today, the church seems to be making a big mistake – abandoning divine healing. Understand this, divine healing has no alternative. It is not that when someone is sick they can either go to the doctor for healing or go to God for healing. Going to the doctor, as much it is not a sin, it is not an alternative to seeking the healing power of God. If God does not heal us, it doesn’t matter where someone goes, they will not be healed. Dr. Hess in the Book Daughter of Destiny, By Jamie Buckingham says “A doctor can diagnose, he can give medication. He can give his patient the best that medical science has given to him and to the world—but in the final analysis, it is the Divine power of God that heals.”

Our opening verse reveals there is absolutely no alternative to the healing power of God. It says *“Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”* (Acts 4:12). Receiving healing is being saved or delivered from sickness. There is no other way to be saved from sickness other than through Jesus Christ. We have confined this scripture to mean only salvation of our soul which is not true. Peter was responding to the religious leaders who were demanding an explanation how the paralyzed crippled man was healed. So Peter told them there is no other name by which mankind can be saved or delivered from sickness, other than through the name of Jesus Christ. Salvation is not just deliverance of our soul, it includes deliverance of our bodies from sickness. There is no other way of deliverance from sickness apart from through the name of Jesus. This reveals why the church seems to be loosing the battle to sickness. It is because we have been made to think there is an alternative to divine healing whereas God is clearly telling us there is NONE. If sickness ever attacks your body, pursue divine healing with all your strength, knowing there is no other alternative. Don’t wait until it is too late. Don’t wait until the condition has become a giant and now you are finding it difficult to believe. For neither is there salvation of our bodies “found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”

[Galatians 1:15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace,]

The Apostle Paul in our opening verse is giving an overview of his life and walk with the Lord. He makes a very astonishing statement – that God separated him from the mother’s womb and called him by His grace! Are you aware the same applies to you? Maybe you are wondering why is my life so different? Why do I find myself going a different direction when everyone else seems to be going in a different way? Why do you find yourself hating evil when many seems to be embracing the wrong things? Why is it you can’t talk in a certain way, dress in a certain way, go to clubbing like everyone else? It’s because God separated you from your mother’s womb. In every generation, God sets apart certain individuals for the purpose of using them to fulfill His purposes. In John 15:16, Jesus says *”You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit..”* So God has chosen you & separated you for His own purposes, that you should bear fruits in every area of your life. So stop comparing yourself with the multitudes, don’t compete with anyone, for your pathway is different. For God has chosen you and separated you for His own purposes. Like Paul, be conscious of this reality and always affirm it and you will always be at peace. Glory to God.

[John 6:63 “… The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.]

In our opening verse, Jesus said His Words are Spirit and life. This means the Word of God has spiritual power to produce what it talks about. In every situation, God expects us to use the Word to determine the outcome. In Mark 4:35-41, the disciples were sailing across the sea while Jesus was sleeping at the back of the boat. Then they encountered a dangerous storm that the boat was almost sinking. So the disciples in panic woke up Jesus and He simply spoke this words to the storm “Peace, be still!” and the storm responded – the storm ceased! How, the Word He spoke carried spiritual power to what He said. However, this is not limited to Jesus. After He spoke to the storm and the storm ceased, He asked the disciples “where is your faith?” This means Jesus expected them to do what He did – speak to the storm just as He did. This means just as the Words Jesus speaks carries spiritual power, when we speak the Word which is His Word, the same Word carries spiritual power to change every circumstance of life. So no matter the situation that is confronting you, begin to speak the Word of God to that situation, believe what you say and Mark 11:23 says “you will have what you say.” The Word will produce what you say for the Word of God is spirit and life.

[Genesis 2:7 Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath or spirit of life, and man became a living being.]

Without the Holy Spirit, there is a void of emptiness in our heart that we long to be filled. Some try to fill this emptiness with alcohol, pleasure, sin, music, addictions, money and material wealth etc only to discover they are still empty. Only the Holy Spirit can give mankind satisfaction and contentment. From the above verse, we understand God formed man from the dust of the ground but man could not move or do anything, until God breathed the Spirit into His nostrils and man become a living soul. So it is the Spirit of God that made man to become a living soul. So without the Spirit, we are absolutely empty. We keep searching for fulfillment in things. You want a fulfilling life? GOD instructs us to seek to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Without being filled with the Holy Spirit, we keep searching and never find. Be filled with the Holy Spirit and you will be filled with the fullness of God and will have no room for emptiness, depression, addictions etc.

[Matthew 9:20-21 And suddenly, a woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years came from behind and touched the hem of His garment. 21For she said to herself, “If only I may touch His garment, I shall be made well.”]

Receiving healing from God is a decision. It is a decision we have to make. This woman was healed from a 12 year incurable blood condition because she made a decision. She made a decision to go and touch Jesus clothes, she made a decision what will be the outcome – she will be healed. You have to make a decision to come for this Full Life Healing Conference. “But God can heal me of he wants to where I am!” That is the voice of the enemy who will do everything to make sure you are not healed. If this woman could have stayed at home, she will NOT have been healed. Anyone who was healed in the Ministry of Jesus they had to make a decision to come to Jesus. Naman had to make a decision to travel from Syria to Israel to receive healing. Jesus said in Luke 4:27 there were *”.. many lepers.. in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was healed except Naaman the Syrian.”* Why? Because Naman made a decision to travel from Syria to Israel to receive healing. Many were in Israel yet they were never healed because they never decided to go for their healing. Healing is your decision. The enemy will give you so many excuses not to come.. “you don’t know Pastor Mike, you can’t go!” If you want to know this is the enemy at work, to those who know Pastor Mike, the enemy says “You know Pastor Mike, what can he do?” Your coming has nothing to do with Pastor Mike, it’s an act of faith in response to God who has commanded us to organize for this Healing Conference. God knows those coming they are not coming to a man, they’re coming to God. When you want Satan to “help” you you go to a witch doctor, when you want God to help you, you go to a man of God. This morning we are praying breaking every lie and voices of the enemy that may hinder all who will hear about this Conference, the enemy will not hinder them from coming in Jesus Name!