David Hogan 2

Transcript of David Hogan
“Faith to Raise the Dead” Tape 2
Underlined words were in dialect, or using idioms, and are now correct English. Words in parenthesis ( ) are to show context, or audience response, they are not part of his speech.

(Starting at the beginning of his talk.)

Have you all been having a good day? Me too. Jesus. So, did you all do your homework? Me too. There’s only about six or seven directions we can go, but we’re going to start in Matthew chapter 21. Is it alright if I pray with you all for a moment? 

Lord Jesus, thank you for the opportunity to stand here again and I ask you that every ounce of anointing that’s in your word would come on us. I ask you for the name of Jesus to be glorified. I ask you that every power of darkness, every principality and witchcraft and spirits of hell be destroyed by the blood of Jesus. I curse the devil and I challenge the covens (organized groups of witches) and witches, and I rebuke them in Jesus’ name. I stand before the presence and glory of God in Jesus’ holy name. Thank you. Amen.

Matthew 21. There’s a verse here I’d really like to share with you all. Some people don’t know it, evidently. Matthew 21:22. It’s an important verse. It says “All things whatsoever you ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive them.” That’s an amazing verse, isn’t it? Isn’t that nice? That’s a nice verse. 

We are asked by the Holy Ghost, sometimes, to do things that nobody else has ever done - ever. Quite regularly we get asked to go into places and to fight with warlocks and to fight with principalities, and to fight against religious demon spirits, and to war against them. They are very powerful, they are very big, they have no limit to their amount of money, political power, or prestige. There is no possible way to win. But Jesus still asks us to go in and take it anyway. We are limited in our understanding, we are overpowered, we are under-staffed, but we always win. It’s not possible, but we always win. And it is because that everything you do, regardless of how insignificant it is, must be bathed with prayer; must be anointed with fasting; must be sought after diligently from the Lord. Ok?

It may seem like it’s not important, but it is important. I was asked by one of the men with me to share something with you­ and I decided to do that. It is a very valuable thing: I was a new missionary in the field; I didn’t have any money; I was given a new truck and that was a blessing. I had a couple of hundred dollars per month coming in. I had my wife, my self, and two children, and it’s not enough money - just a couple hundred dollars. There wasn’t enough to get food with, much less do any ministry with. But I was doing it anyway. I don’t suppose you can find anywhere in the Bible where the house of God was outnumbering its enemies. We are always the underdog (the one in an unfavorable condition). Always. We are not used to that, being Americans. We are used to being the powerful ones. We are used to being the one that always wins. We’ve always got the money, we’ve always got the technology, we’ve always got the armies, we’ve always got the bullets, we’ve always got whatever we need to win. We’ve got it and we’ve always had it. But now we are in a different army. 

There is a word in Spanish that we don’t have in English, “provier”. We have the word “provide”. But it doesn’t mean the same thing. At the end of Hebrews 13, it says God will “provier” His army (in Spanish “su ejército”). And that word means a constant, continuous supply of technology, weaponry, manpower, and finances without limit. Isn’t that amazing? That is really good. Especially when you go out into the field like I do and the men who work with me. We’ve been out there forever and forever on the sides of these mountains, and we are always alone. But I have to be able to relate to you the need to have a God that is more than enough when you’re not in Brownsville Assembly of God. Or when you’re not in Toronto. When it is you, and Jesus, and the devil, and the devil has the territory, the devil has the army, the devil has every opportunity and option and you have nothing but Jesus. Guess what He is? He is still Lord. 

I have personally been caught by terrorists a few times. They are sissies and chickens (they act strong and tough, but are really not). They always have the advantage, they always have the best weapons, and beat you up and they think they are tough, but they are really sissies and chickens. One particular time I was in Guatemala and was caught, and it was not fun. They were beating on me and I don’t like it when people beat on me. I was in this situation, and it was super tense. My opportunities are zero; nobody knows where I am, except Jesus. And the Holy Spirit sent me an angel. This man walked out of the darkness; no weapons; a little tiny guy; the most unimpressive looking man I’ve ever met in my life. He came right up to me in the middle - I mean we are standing there with the guns on me, I’m a dead mean - and this white guy walks right up to me and taps me on the shoulder. And I’m feeling very hostile. I’m sure you would have done a better job; the only problem is that you were not there. And that is a problem, right? But we are going to remedy that, right? That’s what we are doing - we are learning; we are training for war; we are training for battle. And this guy was irritating me beyond limit. He was a little tiny man with no weapons, and I couldn’t understand why he was bothering me, because all these big guys with guns were all around me and were beating on me. I didn’t like it. I was not thinking Holy Ghost and Jesus, I was thinking: survival. My mindset of survival is probably different than yours, and we won’t go into that. 

So this man is tapping on me and I finally turn to him and ask “What do you want?” He said, “Are you the man that is going around through these villages and preaching Jesus, and you touch people with your hand and they get healed?” I looked at him and I said, “It’s true that I touch people, but Jesus does the healing.” And then I went back to my intensity and the problem. It didn’t get through this thick skull yet what was happening here. He had even mentioned the name of Jesus and healing and it still didn’t get to me. Because things had escalated (became extremely dangerous and emotional) beyond measure, I promise. So he begins tapping me on the shoulder again, and I really don’t like that. It was worse for his to be tapping me on the shoulder than for those others to “tap” me in the face. It is worse. So I finally ask him, “Yes sir, what do you want NOW?”  He said, “Are you also the guy that brings the films about the life of the Lord Jesus, and gives them to us for free, and carries that equipment up into the mountains?”  And I said, “That is correct. I am the guy that does that. I carry that projector, it weighs about 14 kilograms and those mountains are tall, and I don’t like to do that but I have to anyway. Yes, I am responsible for that.” 

He turned right to the captain - and we are talking about a hostile environment, as bad as it can get in the world, anywhere, anytime. We are talking about men that have decided what they are going to do with me. We are talking about a volatile situation that is completely out of control and there is no possible way for it to calm down, there is no possible way for me to get help in this situation, it is not possible. I have settled it in my heart and mind “I’m going to die. Let’s make it good.” - And so this guy turns to the captain and says “Let him go, he is a good man.” I mean, here is this little man with no weapons and who is not impressive at all. And the captain never said a word. So the little man said “I really think you ought to let this man go. He is helping our people. He takes nothing from them, but he gives to them. They come in and preach out of a book and people are healed; Lives are changed; Families are reunited; and he asks for nothing in return.”  The captain said to me “Tenga un buen viaje” “Have a nice trip.” Isn’t that amazing? That’s very interesting.  But that’s not all he said. Will somebody interpret what I’m about to say? Who will? (Speaking to man in audience) Stand up please. He said… (man begins to translate into Spanish and David reacts) No!, that isn’t what I want you to do. He spoke to me in Spanish and I want you to translate into English, is that all right? Ok. He said, “Senior David, la próxima vez que usted viene a mi país, (Mister David, the next time you come to my country) por favor a traes (please bring with you), esta Senior Jesu Christu (this Lord Jesus Christ), a mi gente (to my people)”. 

Isn’t that amazing? “Whatsoever things you ask for in prayer believing, you shall have them.” Before that will work for you, you’ve got to come out of immature thinking, and lustful thinking. You’ve got to begin to think for the Kingdom of God, and the prosperity of God’s house; because if God’s house prospers, you will prosper. It is called “trusting heaven”. That’s what it is called. 

Simple things - in the beginning I had a baby and I didn’t have enough money to buy a gallon of milk. Simple things like 2 dollars for a gallon (7.5 liters) of milk. It’s not possible; it’s not there. I went to the mailbox, like many of us do sometimes. We worship that little square; money comes out of that hole sometimes. “Come to me!”  But this particular day it didn’t cough up (give) a thing, except one letter from a little grandma. So I went home and threw my stuff down. My wife said, “I need a bottle for the baby.” I said, “I’m aware of that.”  My wife is not my enemy; the devil is my enemy. I’m not her enemy; the devil is her enemy. Sometimes that gets kind of blurry. You want the truth, right? Ok.

So I sat down and she was cooking me a meal. We had one meal left for us, and no bottle for the baby. We had already sold all of our Coca Cola bottles and already spent the money we got from them. We didn’t have anything left. We didn’t know anybody down in that part of the world where we live. In that letter, that little old grandma said “I am so sorry that I can’t help you more, but just maybe with this two dollars you can buy a gallon of milk.”  Wow. That’s pretty nice. (16:46)

I’ve got to do this. Here we go! We are going to Matthew chapter 10, is that alright? I’m going to do this. I believe this is right to do and I hope I’m right. Because your wood is about to be lit on fire. It doesn’t matter how old it is, how young it is, soggy, or saturated with demons, it will light today.

My family and I fast every other day of our lives. We fast six months every year. Unless there is a special reason, and then we fast more, but never less. We seek heaven in a way that is unprecedented. I don’t know a lot of other people that do this particular way. We believe it is right to “go for” (seek) Heaven, get a hold on Heaven and hang on to it. Every day for the past 20 years, when I’m home, I get up between 4:15 and 5:30, and I sit down with my kids. Everyone of them, since they were newborn, get up with me. We sit together for 1 ½ to 2 ½ hours, then they start their day, do their school, do their workouts, so do I. I usually fix my truck and then go to church. Every day, 7 days a week we do that. No days off. We seek Jesus together as a family. They are not here so I can brag about them a little bit. They are awesome people, my kids are and my wife too. When I’m in Mexico, my wife fasts 21 days every month. She’s an amazing person; I can’t do it. She’s amazing, I don’t know how she can do that, but she does it. We seek Heaven, do you understand what we do? We seek Heaven together as a family. All of my children, my smallest is 8 years old, a little boy from Guatemala who was discarded in the trash and we picked him up and he became our son. He’s a good little boy; I wish he were here. He has his little handkerchief, just like I do, and it hangs out of the same pocket. He calls it a “fuego”. He doesn’t know it’s a handkerchief. To him it’s a “fuego”, fuego is fire (in Spanish). He pulls that little handkerchief out and rolls it, just like I do, and he looks at you just like I do. When he flips that thing at you and says fuego, you are flying through the air like you were shot with a gun. A little 8 year-old boy; it’s amazing. He seeks Heaven with me. Heaven has come on him and anointed him. 8 years old; good boy. 

Jesus. Jesus. I don’t receive any credit for what I do; it’s Jesus that does everything. I’m just learning how to submit to him, that’s all. And it’s not through conventional means. It’s not through what somebody else thinks is right. It’s through what my king Jesus did when He came here. He didn’t even start ministry until he had gone into the desert and fasted for forty days, and fought with the devil, and had angels minister to him. Isn’t that amazing? That’s amazing to me. (21:28)

Ok, I’m going to “go for it” (do what I know has to be done). I just want to be right, that’s all. Do you hear the quiet in here? That doesn’t bother me at all. What bothers me is if I do wrong. Right is better than wrong. Matthew, chapter 10. I’m going to use two verses and then really burn things up in a few minutes. Verse 7. I enjoy preaching out of here probably as much as anywhere else, verses 7 and 8. This is fun for me to preach this, because that list in verse 8 there, I can hold you here for weeks talking about the miracles. Thousands of people! Every part of the human body healed or recreated. What is the first phrase in verse 7? As you do what? Go. I think Jesus just put that phrase in there. (Speaking to one of his men) Brother Jeff, what is the name of that village up above “los ornos” (name of a village)? Chalaweete (name of another village).  The youngest member of that family is about 90 or 80. 

Do you know what problem we are having with these mountain villages, when we go in where no one has every preached Jesus before? This happens to us all the time. One of the reasons we are so intense, one of the reasons we are not intimidated, one of the reasons we are so aggressive, me personally and all of us, is whenever a person who is born-again, who loves Jesus, who is excited, who has been healed, you feel good because you are doing right. And then they say, “Come with me.” And they take you too the town graveyard, and they show you their “antepasados”, their relatives who died before them, aunts, uncles, grandpas, grandmas, daddies, for several generations. And their question is this: “Where have you been?!”  And all you can do is cry and say “I’m sorry. But I’m here now and I will die for you.” It is the result of sin (Christians not sharing the gospel with the poor), and it happens to us all the time. Generations are laying there, and they say “What about them?” Let me tell you one thing, I will not die with that guilt on my head. You can take it; be responsible for it; misuse the anointing from God, not understand or redeem the times that are happening to you right now. That is your business, but I won’t have blood on my hands when I stand before the King. I told you yesterday, He is going to say to me and those Indians “You boys did good! Come in here.” You better get responsible. You better get some commitment; you better get a grip on some sincerity; you better understand what’s happening around the world. NOTHING is happening around the world. It is the greatest time to be alive ever, and there are more people leaving the missions field than are going to it. Horrible! It’s sin! Sin! (Makes angry sound). I’m not leaving. (26:30)

I apologize, but it doesn’t say “As you sit comfortably in your nice little benches here.” If it did, I would enjoy it and sit down right beside you and say “Thank God for this! This is good.” But since it doesn’t say that, you sit there - I’m going. “As you go”, comma, what are you going to do when you get there? What are your going to preach? You are going to preach “The Kingdom of God is near”. Do you hear me? Hello?  You’re not going to preach America. You’re not going to go there with goofy, traditional, stupid religion. You’re not going to go there to show the ignorant people of a third-world country how stupid they are, and that they need more technology…that’s not what they need! They need Jesus! They’re not ignorant. When all the stock markets in the world crash, do you know who is going to be eating and who is going to be starving? They’re going to be eating and you are going hungry. They may not know trigonometry, but they can look outside and say “It’s time to plant”. I look and say, “How did you know that?” Then they go and cut off a piece of the jungle plants and they burn it, they put a few seeds in the ground and then the rains come. How did they know that? They just know. Just like you know when your car is out of gas and you have to go put some more in there. They don’t know when my truck runs out of diesel; they wonder why I stop at those things anyway. They don’t know that, and I’m not teaching them that. I am not sent to teach them how a Ford truck runs. I am sent to teach them “The Kingdom of Heaven is near.” Yahoo! Ok.

“As you go, preach, saying The Kingdom of Heaven is near.” Now, we are going into some command form words here. I didn’t know all this stuff until I learned some different languages. Look at this next verse. Jesus is not telling you that if you are not sick you can do it. He isn’t saying that if it feels good to you, or if your emotions are in agreement, if the circumstances are in agreement - He said “Heal the sick!” That is what my Bible says. It says in my Bible, “Cleanse lepers!”  It says in my Bible, here we go, “Raise the dead!” Same command form. How do you know it is the will of God to pray for somebody that has a headache? You stupid man, it just is. Well, I’m going to turn that “stupid” back on you now. It is the will of God to pray for people that are dead, no matter what you feel. Yahoo. “You can’t talk to me like that!” Oh yes I can. Because the Bible says, third verse down, “Raise the dead!”, just like it said, “Heal the sick!” Just like it says “Cleanse lepers!” and just like it says “Cast out devils!”  You’ll pray for someone who is sick, may, and every now and then you may grab a hold on a devil, very cautiously. But you’ll run from those dead people. What’s the matter with you? What are you losing? “But, what if….” “What ifs” are devils and we won’t discuss that. It’s not your responsibility to do the actual healing. It’s your responsibility to go, it is your responsibility to preach the Kingdom of Heaven, and it’s your responsibility to put your hand on that sick person, that dead person, that leper, or that demon-possessed person. It’s God’s job by the Holy Ghost to do the rest. Ok? We’ve had a couple of hundred people get up from the dead. We’ve prayed for several thousand that haven’t. “How can you keep going?” Because it says to keep going. It doesn’t say whether your percentage is good or bad, it just says do it. Ok? It doesn’t matter if you don’t know anybody that has ever done it before. I felt bad the first few times I did it because I’d never met anybody that had ever done that before. 

I came up here to the United States and started talking about it and church people back away from me in unbelief. So I didn’t talk about it one time when I cam up here. Then I got mad at you all. I didn’t come back for several years. That was the best thing that ever happened to me. I’m serious. I stayed in those mountains for 3 or 4 years. I only came back to the border to get new papers and went back in. I wouldn’t even go see family. I was angry. But then the work grew beyond what I could do. “Now what am I going to do?”  But then I found the verse in Proverbs 14:4 that says “Where no oxen are, the barn is clean: but there is much increase is by the strength of the ox.” So, buy a shovel and shut up. Clean that stall, but keep those oxen moving. So I changed. I repented. I came back and said that I needed help, and the work grew quickly. 

Ok. As you do what? (Go!) What are you going to do when you get there? (Preach!) What are you going to preach? (The Kingdom of God is near.) And after you are completely in the will of God, what are you going to do next in verse 8? (Heal the sick!) After you heal the sick, what else are you going to look for? (Raise the dead!) After you raise the dead or cleanse lepers, what are you going to do? (Cast out demons!) Why?! Because freely you have received, now give it to others! That’s what it says. So that is what we are going to do. 

How many of you have ever been in a village where you walk into a small stick house, you can’t see indoors even in the daytime because there is no electricity, and you walk in because there is supposed to be somebody here for me to pray for, there was a bunch of us, and you can’t see the person because your eyes are accustomed to the light outside, and you are looking around and there is nobody there. You think “I wonder why they sent me in here?” Then someone grabs you on the pant leg. I looked down and there beside me was the littlest tiny woman I had ever seen in my life. She was only as tall as my knee. But she wasn’t truly tiny, because for 15 years her legs have been frozen straight out to either side of her body, and curled backwards. For 15 years she has been at half her normal height. When I looked at her, she smiled up at me with teeth missing - it is one of the most awesome beautiful sights you’ll ever see. She just smiled at me. She wasn’t mad, she was glad because she said “They told me that if you’ll put your hand on my head, that I could walk again.” I said to her “They told you correctly. But it’s not me, it’s Jesus!” She said “How do I get to know that man?” I said, “It’s very simple.” So I took my Bible and I did what I am commanded to do. Do you agree that I had gone, that I’m scriptural? So now I have to do the next step, I have to preach. So I told her, “You are very lucky, because today the Kingdom of God has come to your house.” She said, “Where is it?” I said, “You are looking at it!” I am an ambassador from the greatest King that ever lived. And He sent me here to tell you that if you will bow to Him, He will heal you.” She said, “Ok.” When you see a few of these things, it makes you like me! (as he hops around on the stage). So that little old lady - it was wonderful to lead her to Jesus. She never heard of him before. She met him only 10 minutes ago. How much can you tell a person in 10 minutes? Not very much. It isn’t the amount that matters. It isn’t even the greatness of your speech. It has nothing to do with your fancy big words. It has to do with the Man of the words being with you. - This is wonderful the things I get to do. You reach over like this and you touch little grandma on the head and then everybody steps back and their eyes start getting big. Do you know why? Those two legs begin to move by themselves. Those 15 year frozen legs moved around and came up under grandma and she stood up right in front of me. (38:33)

You should see that! You really should. We’ve seen it quite a bit. It’s fun!  You have fancy names for the things we do; we just believe that it says “Heal the sick!” Ok. Don’t cloud it. Don’t complicate it. Don’t! You’ll stay confused your whole life and won’t do anything. It is just this simple: He said go, so let’s go, get in the truck, let’s do it! And so you go. Your pastor is correct when he said that when I’m here, I am submitted to him. But there in Mexico it’s different. If you get to come to our work, when you get up in my truck, it has an extended cabin, I could not care less what you have to say. The thing that is important to me is that my stereo is loud enough to where I don’t have to listen to you talk. So I can worship Jesus on the way to church, and I don’t have to hear garbage. I don’t want to hear it. I do care about you! I honestly do. But the filth…that America thinks it is in control of everything, and the stupid things you have to say. It is almost like you think God requires you to say these things. But the only important thing is Jesus. God’s mercy and grace, through our obedience and submission with prayer and fasting, and He said “I will be with you until the end of the Earth.” 

So, it does feel good to be here, and I like it. I like to be around people that love Jesus and are radical, ooh it feels good! But if you are out there in Mexico on your motorcycle, and you get stopped by devils, and they want to kill you - it doesn’t make any difference! He is still with me. What has changed? Geography? Circumstances? Has Jesus fallen off the throne, or is He still in control here? Answer me! It is either right or wrong. And it is right. (41:37)

Verse 7 says a pretty profound thing. Do you want to read it with me? Matthew chapter 10. It says as you what? (Go!) What are you going to do? (Preach!) What are you going to preach? (The Kingdom of God is near.) And then what are you going to do? (Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons), Wow, the list goes on and on. (Freely you have received, freely give). 

You are all a lot prettier than I am. You all are a lot smarter than I am. But that doesn’t matter at all. What matters is Jesus. What matters is obedience to Jesus, regardless of the circumstance (situation). One of the things that got me so…I’ll be gentle with you…excited and angry at the devil, was my little boy. He is now 25, but back then he was 4 or 5. The reason he like me is because of what I am about to tell you. Every time the demon comes, we win. It may not look pretty, but we still win. I was washing my 4-wheel drive truck. I was happy to be able to use it to go through the mud to get to church in the mountains, but now I was back home. My little boy was over there playing with his toy truck like he was going to church just like his papa. That feels good to a young father. I’m washing my truck and he is over there picking up Indians and going to church in his little toy truck. But suddenly he began screaming in terrible extreme pain and he was grabbing his side. I ripped his shirt off and there is a hand-print on my boy’s side pulling his side and intestines out of him. And the hand was invisible. All I could see was  what the hand was doing to my boy as it pulled him in two pieces. I tried to feel for a hand, but couldn’t feel anything. My boy is screaming, and my wife came out and we are praying in tounges, and doing all the things that people say you are supposed to do to win, and they never work. So it was a very intense situation and we were praying in Jesus’ name, in Jesus’ name… Praying in tounges didn’t work, the name of Jesus, we quoted some scripture, it kept on going. He was burning because the demon’s hand was apparently on fire and it was both pulling him apart and burning him - it was rough! Finally, it stopped and I lay down on the concrete and relaxed. I told my son, look the demon came but Jesus helped us. We didn’t get 5 minutes of rest before it came back and got a hold of his arm. It was pulling it off! I was holding him. A little tiny boy, a toddler. I had never seen anything like this before ever! This was extremely strange. After a while it went away again. But I kept watching him to see if it would come back. It came back and got him on the face. It was pulling my little boys face OFF! And there was no thing I could do to help my little boy. That is a bad feeling for a good daddy. That is a bad feeling. I didn’t like it. This incident really made us nervous but stopped for a few days. We started coming home at night, and we only had a couple of churches started, and I was very inexperienced and didn’t know what I was doing. I didn’t know that I had walked into uncharted lands and annoyed some of the bigger demons that surround the world. I didn’t know that. And they decided “Stop him now!” I didn’t know that either. I was just like you; I was naïve (simply ignorant and assumed things would be different). I used to be. 


I came home from church a couple of times, and we had this nice little house, and all I wanted in Mexico was for a few people to get saved. I’d come home and all of the doors would be standing wide-open and still locked. All the lights were on in the house, but nothing was missing. That happened several times. I looked at my wife and we didn’t understand what was happening. We had never fought with a principality (ruling class of demon) before, so we didn’t understand it. So I would go through the house with a baseball bat looking for somebody in the house, but there was never anybody there. So I would turn off the lights, get the family in and close the doors. There were different animals that we would find inside, I’m not going to tell you what kind they were because you silly Americans will create a doctrine out of it and think it is important and start preaching it. So I would get the animals out of the house. Then one day - now I believe the way the Bible says to raise a family, not like liberal demons believe - so my little son was walking through the room and I called to him and he kept going, like he was ignoring me. That isn’t godly behavior. I called him again and he kept walking. So I grabbed him by the shoulders and turned him around. He had gone deaf in both ears. 

Now my boy has lost his hearing! Oh no. I’m praying, I’m crying, I’m rolling on the floor; I don’t know what is going on here. Oh my God! Oh my God! I looked at my wife and started naming all of the things that had been happening to us in the past couple of weeks, because it was getting so out of control. I said to her, “Ok. I don’t even know what is happening. But I’m going to go into that little upstairs office I have, and I’ll see you all later. Have a nice life. Because I am going to sit in that chair until Heaven tells me what the reason is for all these problems. I’m not eating, I’m not drinking, I’m not seeing anyone, I’m not talking to anyone but Jesus. So I go into the office and sit in the chair and a whole day and a whole night goes by. Hmmm. Then another day and a whole night. Then another and another until five went by, and then Jesus spoke to me and said there is a “black magic warlock” who lives across the street and is dedicated to destroying us. Oh, I became hostile! I stood up and walked across the roof and I was going to attack this devil. The problem was that when I got the edge of the roof, the warlock was already in the street waiting for me. They are so far ahead of you (more ready to fight than you). You get excited about watching your friends shake in the presence of God; they get excited about destroying the universe. There is a difference! Can you understand that? They like to kill churches and pastors and elders and people, and making people mad at the gospel. That is what they enjoy. And I stood there, and I had never spoken like this to another human being before in my life. I said, “I adjure you (command you) by the powers of the Living God, you will let my family go, and you will NEVER come back! I curse you by the blood and power of the cross, in the name of JESUS!” That woman took off running and my boy’s ears were instantly opened. (51:06)

So I want to strongly and seriously speak to you, and command you. “As you…” (Go!) What are you going to do? (Preach!) What are you going to preach? (The Kingdom of God is near!) And then what are you going to do to the people that need you? (Heal the sick!) That’s right! That is what we are going to do. You’re not going to be intimidated; you’re not going to turn your back and run; you are not! You are going to stand! And you are going to keep standing, like you are commanded to do, in the full armor of God. Don’t go with a lopsided (out of balance) message. Don’t go with only the helmet of salvation. Don’t go with only the shield of faith. You will be destroyed if you do those things. You take the time to clothe yourself in the armor of God. Then you confront your enemy, the enemy of God, and you do not back off from him. Ok? 

There are people that need you. People need you. According to Romans, chapter 4, our father Abraham had nations in him. You are of that seed. You have nations in you. Do you know that I have nations in me? Do you know that I am valuable to the Kingdom of God? Do you know that I believe that? Do you know that I know that the power is Jesus and not me? It’s Jesus. 

I went to church one afternoon. Am I scriptural? “As you …” (Go!) I preached. What did I preach? (The Kingdom of God is near!) Then I started to heal the sick. I prayed for the sick and did my duty. I am completely scriptural. I go out from the service and I’m loading up my truck, in a place called Texacoal (not sure about the spelling). I was watching the Indians get into my truck; there were several trucks there. In the back of the truck I have a wooden toolbox, and that is the best place to sit during the ride home. So they always hurry to get into my truck to get the best place. This lady was climbing up the side of my truck, which is as tall as I am, with big mud tires and special lifters to make it higher off the ground, but she didn’t realize one thing: the evening dew had condensed on the surface of the truck. So the truck and the tires were now wet and she was climbing on them. She grabbed onto the roll bar, and her feet slipped off the side of the truck. That wasn’t so bad, except that the truck was parked next to a ditch. That made her fall almost 3 meters. That’s not so bad except that she had a baby strapped to her back. And like any good mother would do - well, except here in the USA. Here you all sell them, give them up and kill them. - but good mothers try to protect their children. So she turned in the air and put her hand down. Compound fracture in her arm. Both bones broke and came through the flesh. I heard the pain; I heard the snap. I pushed my way through the Indians, and I had my flashlight like a lot of my men do, I got there to see a hand down, bones everywhere, and blood. Somebody took her baby, and she is from a village called Otlacita (not sure of the spelling). I had never been in that situation and had never been taught what to do, but I have experience now and I’m going to teach you what to do. It’s very simple. “As you go…” (Preach!) What are you going to preach? (The Kingdom of God is near!) Then you’re going to heal the sick. Is that lady now sick? To fix this it would take a creative miracle. Wow, does that happen anymore? You’ll have to ask this guy (meaning their pastor), because he’s the theologian. You take that bloody arm and you lay it in the palm of your hand, like this. Blood is oozing out running all over my hand dripping down and getting on my shoes and my shirt. I don’t like that. Lay your hand on that compound fracture, and let me tell you what works - “In Jesus’ name!” And right before about 150 people’s eyes, in my hands, all of the flashlights are on us in the ditch; we saw that arm go back together. Healed, by the blood of Jesus the Righteous. I was left with the only reminder - a bloody shirt and a bloody hand, because that woman’s hand was fine. I said, “You all move out of the way and let her have that seat on the toolbox.” She went right up that truck like a cat-squirrel, just smiling at me. And I’m looking at the blood on me and then at her, thinking “Wait a minute, that doesn’t happen.” Something happened late, my intelligence, which was a good thing. Intelligence kicked in late; faith happened first; thank you Jesus! (57:56)

Are you all bored yet? “As you…” (Go!) What are you going to do? (Preach!) What are you going to preach? (The Kingdom of God is near!) And then we are going to heal the sick. I don’t even know what to talk about next, oh here’s one. I don’t know what part of the human body you would like to hear about, but this will be fine probably. I was in a service in a place called Oahuaxo (not sure about the spelling). That means red-headed woodpecker (a kind of bird). So we are sitting there - have you ever heard of a thing called the “press”? (when a crowd of people are all trying to touch you) Jesus was in the press. There is such a thing. When the Spirit of God is upon you and your hands are filled with the healing balm of God, people will press you, to just touch you like they did to Jesus. This lady cam when I was in a press up against a wall. I can’t move because the people are pressed against me. There were all kinds of diseases there, and this little grandma comes fighting through the crowd. She got up to me, grabbed my hand, and placed it on her chest, and says “I need a new heart.” I said, “Ok. In the name of Jesus, be healed.” So she turned around and fights her way out. I’m still there praying for people like I’m supposed to, like a good boy, healing the sick, like the Bible says. In a few minutes, she starts yelling “Ohh, wooo, yaaa” I can see over the people because they are all small compared to me. I look over at her and she is hopping around and yelling. So I fought my way through the people, and we were both hopping and yelling. I said to her, “This is great! What happened to you? Did you get your new heart?” She said, “Oh no.”  Well, here we go back to theology class. She said, “Oh no, Brother David, I was blind for 18 years in both eyes and now I can see!” I like it! Then I found out a few days later that she did get her new heart and she is healed completely. Wow! So for all you people who are so technical - oops! Take it up with the King. It wasn’t me that healed them; it was Jesus. 

We better get off this healing the sick and get to something else, I guess. “As you…” (Go!) What are you going to do? (Preach!) What are you going to preach? (The Kingdom of God is near!) You’re going to heal the sick and then, comma, there is something else. We’re going to use my translation, that’s what we are going to do. It says cleanse the lepers, because I just have to tell you - oops, I just thought of another healing thing. Nah! (People begin yelling for him to tell) It doesn’t do any good to yell at me. I don’t respond to that behavior. Yelling and crying doesn’t help at all. Right here in my Bible, it says “Cleanse the lepers!” I went to a village. Do you understand how scriptural I am? It is important for you to understand. You say. “This thing is so simple!” It may be simple to you, but to the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of the devil, it isn’t simple. I am obedient! I am a threat to the devil wherever I go. He fears me because I am so simple and I know how to obey. That’s my main battle point. It’s because I will not, once I’ve taken the step, we don’t go back - ever, for any reason. There is no reason good enough, and there isn’t a devil big enough to push me back. Thanks be to God forevermore.

I went to a village. I’m scriptural. I had my Bible in my hand and my full intent was to preach the gospel. It is not to go there to take their women or their drugs or anything else. I don’t want to sell their babies on the black market. I couldn’t care less about the black market. Mafia devils can go straight to hell, that’s where they are going, unless they repent in the name of Jesus. I went to this church that is in the jungle, and the smell of the jungle was there, the green plants and the parrots - I like it!  I know you don’t. I haven’t ever seen you there. I’m following a group of Indians through the jungle. This is the very old Indian tribe called the Aztecs that used to rule almost this whole half of the world. They were very powerful at one time, but their submission to witchcraft is why they lost. So, I’m following these people that never had a chance to hear about the Kingdom of God. I enjoy watching them move through the jungle. You can’t hear them; it doesn’t matter how wet or how muddy, they don’t get dirty. I don’t understand how they are so “one” with nature, but I’m learning how. But they are very far ahead of me. We get to the church, and I’m looking around and thinking “Thank you Jesus! I appreciate you letting me come here. Thanks for letting me come and preach your gospel to a people that have never heard your holy name. You are awesome to allow me to do that. Thank you!” I standing there enjoying it, when suddenly this horrible odor crosses my nose. I couldn’t get away from it. I went outside the church and somehow I had missed it coming in. I was so far into enjoying myself, but then reality grips you and it stinks. I smelled dead human flesh. It’s difficult to tolerate. The pastor came out and I’m standing there trying to be nice. Finally, I said to him, “What is that smell?” I missed this also when I came in, and I am usually more alert, but he just pointed like this. And I turned and saw something. Sitting over there was a pile of rags. Ok? And I’m a very inquisitive guy (likes to figure things out). I wondered what they had over there in those rags that stinks so bad. (Runs over to the rags and picks them up, gets scared and throws them back). There was a thing under there, that kind of looks like a  human. But it didn’t have a nose. It didn’t have any ears. It didn’t have any fingers, and it didn’t have any toes. So I grabbed the rags threw them back over it and ran away. And I realize that you would have been a lot more tactful and a lot more spiritual, but you weren’t there, like I have been saying. You would have been so much more “politically correct”. But the thing stank and it scared me so I ran from it. It was a man, a human man, with leprosy. Leprosy. Few people see it in the United States because they keep everyone hidden in these little “colonies”, so that you don’t have to tolerate the stench and the ugly sight of parts falling off of people, and dripping. So I looked at the pastor and said “What is wrong with that guy? My Lord!” And he said, “He’s a leper! And he heard that if you put your hand on him, he can be healed.” That’s when it would have been better for you to have been there. But you weren’t. Ok. I’m really pestering you all aren’t I? What time is it? 

So we are sitting there, and I have to decide “What would Jesus do here?” So all these scriptures begin to run through my mind, but I reacted “No, no, no. That’s not what we want to do.” But I walked over to him and moved the rags out of the way, and I say to him “I’ve come to represent Jesus. You have a devil. Now here is what we are going to do. You are getting born-again, or I’m not going to touch you.” He said, “That’s fine. What does ‘born-again’ mean?”  So I went to my Bible and began to use the most harsh scriptures I could find. Now the man is completely torn up. His mind is destroyed because of the pain, his body is in bad shape, and now his spirit is totally chopped up. But he still looked at me and said, “What must I do to be saved?” That was all it took to soften me. I told him what to do, and I led him to Jesus myself. I prayed for him to be born-again, and I was glad that he got born-again. But now we had another problem. Now he’s not a devil anymore. Now he’s my brother in the Lord. Ohhhh. So, here we go. Ok? (Puts his hand into the man’s gooey body up to his arm) Up to there. Don’t ever think it isn’t possible, because it happened. I lost my hand in the goo (the soupy rotten flesh). Yahoo. (Jumps around). I still have my hand. And I don’t have leprosy, I have Jesus. The devil immediately spoke to me, “You’ve got leprosy now! Now I’ve got you!” I heard him, but I ignored him and kept praying. Oh, I think you are going to like what happened. Some of you will. Some of you will get angry because it happened, but it’s not my fault. I promise you that it is Jesus’ fault. If you have trouble with it, talk to Him about it. I’m not going to take responsibility for it. I’m just going to stay free and worship my King. If I run across somebody that is sick, I’m going to touch them, and then what He does is His business. My business is to worship the great King. My business is to go; my business is to preach; my business is to preach that the Kingdom of God is near. My business is to lay hands on the sick; my business is to cleanse lepers. And then He has to do the rest, right? So that frees my mind from lots of trash and bondage and problems and condemnation, and all kinds of things. This attitude lets me keep dancing. It really does. 

So I put his rags back over him. No apparent change. I went straight over to the pastor and said, “Get me a bucket of water now, and some lye soap. (Cleanses his hands). I was a little bit out of order here, because after I did that I had to preach in the stench. I had to pray for him because he was in so much pain and he was so sick that he could die any minute. So we decided that it was ok to cleanse the leper, even though it was a little bit out of order. We can preach in a minute, cleanse the leper first, I doubt that Heaven would get too angry about that. 

I enjoy bothering you. It’s fun. It really is, especially because of the results. So I went away and came back to the same village a few weeks later, like a good boy. I went back inside the church and had forgotten about the stench. All I saw was the jungle, the Indians, and was enjoying myself. I got to the church and everything was fine, except for one problem. There are people “bouncing”. They would look at me and smile and run away. I thought to myself, “What kind of Indian is that that would be happy? They are supposed to be stoic, non-emotional people. What is he doing jumping up and down and smiling at me? Who is he? What is he doing? Act like an Indian please.” In a minute or so, the pastor came in and he is bouncing and is looking at me. I looked at him and started bouncing with him. He said to me, “Have you met this man?” I looked over and there was a new guy sitting there on the bench. I said, “I don’t know him.” He said, “Yes, you do.” “No, I don’t.” So I walked over to him and said “Who are you?” He said, “I know you Brother David.” He was a nice looking man, pretty! Young Indian man just sitting there. I’d never seen him before in my life. He said to me…(crowd begins to react) 

Jesus!  I come from a state called Louisiana, and over in the state of Louisiana, we say “Come on Jesus!” I’d better read this to you. This is important. I’ve got a new verse I want to read to you. Are you ready? Matthew chapter 10, verse 7. It’s a valuable verse for you. It’s new! It’s fresh every day! It’s new! It must have just been put in there. It’s awesome! I mean it; it’s awesome. Do you know what it says? “As you go” What are you going to do? (Preach!) What are you going to preach? (The Kingdom of God is near!) What are you going to do? (Heal the sick! Raise the dead! Cleanse lepers!) That right! We have to cleanse a leper. Hold on. 

That man looked me straight in the eye. He said, “You know me Brother David. You led me to the Lord yourself.” I said, “Wait a minute! I don’t remember…I’m not very good remembering names, but I’m very good at remembering faces. I’ve NEVER seen you in my lifetime.” He said, “Yes sir!”  “No, I haven’t” He said, “Yes you have!” I said, “Who are you?”  He said, “I am the man who used to be the leper!” (David reacts) I said, “I know you!” He said, “I told you so!” 

Guess what Jesus had the nerve (audacity) to do? He never asked my permission either. I mean, I had said to him “Be cleansed in the name of Jesus.” That is one thing, but Jesus went much farther than that. He restored him! The man had a new two-week old nose! So I grabbed it. Wow! A new nose! He had two new ears, so I grabbed those ears. He had ten new fingers, so I grabbed those fingers. He had ten new toes, so I grabbed all those toes. Jesus had created a new man. Jesus had thumped leprosy and had given the man new skin and new fingers and toes. Now, I’m going to ask you a serious question. Do you see what is wrong with me now? Do you understand a little better? The thing that is wrong with me is that my Friend is serious, and He is real, and His name is Jesus. And He is intent on accomplishing his work. Get serious like Him. He doesn’t mind how much you play. See me play? I like to play. I enjoy Heaven; I enjoy worshipping God. I am not ashamed of the gospel, in any language. He likes that. Jesus likes that. You should see it. I’m telling you that you should see it. It does something to you. You are forever marked. It’s not my fault. I didn’t do it. Jesus did it. He is the one who cured the leper. But He didn’t only cure him; He made him whole. Ohh, that is pretty good! I didn’t heal the paralyzed lady. I didn’t heal the blind lady. I was just obedient to a couple of small scriptures, that seem to be unimportant. But they are very valuable to the Kingdom of God. Ok?

I’m not making it very far with this stuff. I’m going to tell you something, is that ok? (A woman and her husband approach David as he is speaking. David turns to the pastor to see if he approves or not. He does, so David speaks with her. She has a health problem and someone prophesied that she would be healed soon, so she is asking for healing.) Jesus’ name. Is this your wife? Come right over here. See you thought I wasn’t paying attention. I saw you get up didn’t I? It’s hard to sneak up on an old jungle boy like me. Jesus! Jesus. See, there was a man who was very wealthy. He had leprosy. Lost both of his legs up to his knees. One of our littlest lowest of servant ladies goes in to him and tells him, I know how you can get those legs back. He said, “I’ve been to the United States, I’ve been to Europe, I’ve been everywhere.” She said, “But you haven’t been to Jesus.”  He said, “Who is this Jesus?”  She said, “He is my king.” He threw her out. He had his servants throw her out of the house. Then his heart smote him (he felt very bad about his actions) and he sent his servant to find her. She was in the market, weeping. The servant told her to come back. She ran and got her pastor who was also at the market. They went and explained Jesus to this man. He got born-again. We went by several times and prayed for him, and had the great privilege to watch as Jesus grew him new bones, new ligaments, new muscles, and new feet. Amazing, no? In the name of Jesus, be healed. The fire of Heaven come in this house. In Jesus’ name. Let’s pray guys. Heaven in this house. Fire of God! Be healed. Fire! Fire of God! Jesus’ name. Be healed. Great and mighty powerful God, we call on your great powers, and we thank you for the Holy Ghost. In the name of Jesus, be healed. Fire of God! Fire of Heaven! Fire release in the name of Jesus. Holy Ghost! In Jesus’ name. Continue to pray for her, you all. Let me tell you all a story. There is a village…You ladies come and touch her, and you love her and you give her Jesus. 

There is a village named Chiconamel (not sure of the spelling). Chiconamel is a place that has never heard the name of Jesus. We go in regardless of the terrorists, regardless of the witchcraft, regardless of the religious oppression and political demons. Jesus! We held a 5 day campaign. 80 people got born-again and a church was birthed. There was a multi-millionaire lady standing there watching me for several days. She spoke to me as I was loading my truck. I was tired because I had been there for a week and had spent enough time in the jungle and I was ready to go home. She said, “I’ve been watching you all week. I think you believe what you preach.”  I said, “Yes ma’am, you think right.”  She said, “I’ve got a grandbaby that was born to us, I have carried her to Europe, South America, the United States of America, I have had every kind of operation done. She cannot be healed.”  I said, “Oh no! You are wrong! I know a King of a Kingdom where you haven’t carried her. His name is Jesus!” I took my Bible and threw it down and said, “If he doesn’t heal her, I won’t preach it again.” And she said, “That is a deal.” She said “What must I do to be saved.”  I said, “I’m so glad you asked.” So I knelt down in the dirt with this multi-millionaire, by our American standards, lady. And I led her in a sinner’s prayer to the cross of Calvary. I introduced her to the great royalty of Heaven. She got born-again. She said to me, “My grandbaby has been 4 years in severe pain, 4 years dysentery (stomach and intestines sickness), 4 years fever. No one can heal her. I picked my Bible up and threw it back on the ground. “If God can raise the Lord Jesus Christ from the dead, he can heal your grandbaby.” She said to me, “Brother David, there’s something else wrong with her besides the dysentery and the fever.”  I said, “I have had enough of you! It doesn’t matter what is wrong with her. She will be healed because Jesus is Lord!” 

Jesus is Lord! I went through a couple of more scriptures with her on healing and laid my hands on the top of her head. I said, “You take this with you. You lay your hands on top of that grandbaby of yours, and you say these words: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom I now serve with a whole heart, be healed!” So she went home and walked through the door. Yahoo. And the little girl said “Abuelita! Por favor, frijoles y tortillas.” “Grandma! Please give me some beans and tortillas.” Grandma went and got her the beans and tortillas, and 4 year-old Nancy for the first time in her life ate a solid meal and kept it down. The fever and the dysentery ran away! Jesus! So about 17 days later, I was preaching in another village close to hers, about 2 ½ hour walk from Nancy’s village. I walked up in there to find the church completely filled with Indians that are happy and jumping and smiling. So I just started jumping and smiling with them. The pastor walks over to me and says, “Have you heard the good news?”  I said, “Yes! Jesus is Lord!”  He said, “Have you heard the good news about Nancy?”  I said, I don’t even know if there is such a person named Nancy.” He said, “Nancy - Don’t you remember a few weeks ago in Chiconamel, the grandma that you prayed for?” Then I remembered. He said. “Jesus healed her.” I said, “Great, dysentery and fever. Hallelujah!”  He said, “Oh no! Don’t you remember telling her to be quiet so we could pray?” I remembered. The third day after we had prayed, Nancy was eating ferociously. The third morning, grandma was laying in bed, and Nancy taps her on the shoulder, and says “Abuelita, tengo hambre.” “Grandma, I’m hungry!” Grandma was in deep sleep and it took her a few seconds to realize who was speaking to her. Nancy! For the very first time in her life, Nancy walked in because she was born without bones in both of her legs from the hips down. And Jesus healed Nancy!  

Please don’t take what I am saying and doing lightly (as though he is joking). Would you please search your heart? We are going to pray now. Heaven is going to touch some of you all to go to different countries in the world. Different ministries will be birthed here right now. Some of you will be endowed with different gifts and specialties from Heaven. Use them wisely. Do not be bought by men. Walk with Heaven. Walk with Heaven. Enjoy Jesus! Don’t let men buy you. I’m not for sale. I’ve already been bought by the blood of Jesus.