JOHN: I want you to go and stand with her. Stay with her. Shirlene, come here. Hold her. Hold on to her, mate. You hold the other side cause the power of God is all over her! You just hang on. You come around here. Just hang on. Come over here. Now Shirlene.

WOMAN #6: Michelle.

JOHN: Michelle. Sorry! Where’s my Shirlene? Shirlene!

AUDIENCE: [Laughter]

JOHN: Excuse me. I’m sorry! Shooh!

AUDIENCE: [Laughter]

JOHN: Hey lady! Get up and run! Come on! And hang on to her because the power of God is on her! Run! Run! Run! Run around here. Run! Run! Run! Run! Wow! Stop! Stop! How is that feeling?

WOMAN #6: It’s feeling better! It’s feeling better!

JOHN: You did it, mate! You’re running?

WOMAN #6: Yeah, I’m running!

JOHN: How long has it been since you could run?

WOMAN #6: It’s been a long time!

JOHN: How many years?  

WOMAN #6: I can’t remember. It’s so long.

JOHN: Let me shake your hand! Choooh! Shssh! Get it right now! The power is present to heal here right now! Right now I’m going to pray over you the same power for her right now can touch you in your seats! You know it’s by simple faith in Christ! He took this on the cross! You know this is normal Christianity! Normal! And you know when I pray for you the power of God is going to begin to heal you! But as an act of faith put your hand on the part of your body where you need a miracle. Now I know some of you might not have enough hands!

AUDIENCE: [Laughter] 

JOHN: But you know Jesus knows what you need! Cause He knows what you need! Now here’s another secret. You know Paul talked about the cross. The simplicity of the message that Jesus died on the cross! He rose again from the dead! He is alive! He sent His Holy Spirit and you know I tell you this is real! And when I pray right now, God is going to heal many of you right now! Come on! Are you ready for a miracle? Put your hand where you need a miracle and the same power flowing here is going to touch you right now! You ready? Just relax and like a little child and just receive! Lord Jesus right now! We give You all the glory that You are our Healer! And we thank You, Lord, for an open heaven over this place! In Your name, Jesus, I break every curse! I decree healing right now for every person! I command pain to go right now! Arthritis! Lupus! Nerve pain! Be healed right now! God, release shoulders right now! Release legs right now! Release hips right now! A miracle! Heal muscles right now! Heal nerves right now! I break every nerve disease right now! Be healed cancer! I break cancer right now! Be healed! Depression I break right now! I command that heaviness go in Jesus’ name! I break addiction right now! I break fear, anxiety and torment! Be healed in the name of Jesus! God, right now heal stomachs and abdomens and kidneys and livers and prostates! Every organ right now healing! Tendonitis.

JOHN: You know the most exact beautiful message perfect in every way. But he chose one thing! To preach the cross! Because Paul understood that’s where the power is! The power is what Christ has already done for us! And some people say, “John, this just seems too simple! I want something more complex!” Well Paul knew the secret is in the simplicity of the power of the cross! In fact Paul goes on in verse 3. He says: “I was with you in weakness, in fear and in much trembling.” You know what I say? Well here’s Paul. Paul is one of the bravest men you could ever meet! Paul wasn’t even scared of death! Why would Paul talk about weakness and fear and trembling? And this is my take on it. I believe this. He was so concerned that people would see him as a great orator, as a great preacher, as a great wordsmith. He was concerned meant “I don’t want them to see me. I want them to see Jesus!”

AUDIENCE: Yes!

JOHN: “All I want is them to see Christ crucified in me! Not fancy words. Not my preaching!”

AUDIENCE: [Clapping]

JOHN: Because he goes on and says this. He says in verse 4: “And my speech and my peaching was not with persuasive words of human wisdom but in the demonstration of the Spirit and power.”

AUDIENCE: Whooo! [Clapping]

JOHN: God’s Word has power! And you know each time I have a healing seminar I always give demonstrations of miracles because people need to see that He is alive! And you know what? And then it says that: “Your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.”

AUDIENCE: Yes.

JOHN: There’s power in that name of Jesus! Something happens as we lay hands on the sick by simple childlike faith! Something happens! And though Paul was a great speaker, a great orator, he knew this very simple thing that Jesus said. We see Jesus said this in Matthew 19:14. And Jesus said: “Let the little children come to me and do not forbid them for such is the kingdom of heaven.” Cause his disciples were trying to stop the children coming to Jesus! I mean He’s the Messiah! I mean He’s a great teacher. Messiah. But Jesus said don’t stop the children because the kingdom of god is in the simplicity! Simplicity! And you know what? It’s so simple that you as a believer can lay hands on the sick. But what often stops us is what’s between our ears! You know your mind speaks to you all the time. “Oh, well that can’t happen? How can God use me? Or I don’t feel the anointing.” It’s not about what you feel! You know there’s no verse that says that faith comes by feeling! It comes by a decision to believe Jesus!

AUDIENCE: Amen!

JOHN: And we see here, we also see in Corinthians. We see also in the Word of God in 1st Corinthians 2 and 14. It says that: “But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God. They are foolishness to him.” You know to the natural mind miracles is crazy! You know to the natural mind, miracles is foolish! But to the spirit man, the spirit man moving in the spirit of God, miracles are normal! You know miracles are normal? In fact the absence of miracles is abnormal Christianity! AUDIENCE: Amen!

SID: Joshua it is increasing,

JOSHUA: Thank You, Jesus!

SID: It is increasing as you’re speaking.

JOSHUA: Thank You, Jesus. Thank You.

SID: The glory realm is increasing. Pray!

JOSHUA: I can feel it right now. Father, right now I thank You that You are releasing divine peace. Lord, I thank You that You are releasing divine miracles. Lord, I thank You that even right now in the midst of every situation You are bringing supernatural breakthrough as the atmosphere of heaven is being released for those who are listening. In Jesus’ mighty name! Amen.

SID: What about sickness? When the atmosphere of heaven is there explain atmosphere and maybe give me a testimony of someone that God healed.

JOSHUA: You know what, Sid? Very recently just a few weeks ago I met a woman named Mary Jo Davis who had one of the most interesting things happen to her. She had gone into work one day. Was getting really dizzy. The next thing she knows she’s in an ambulance being carried to the hospital. She gets to the hospital. They want to do a scan. They put her through the machine and they tell her that she has a tumor in the back of her head that she didn’t know about. They said it would be a pretty routine surgery to remove it, not something that would be life-threatening in any way and they should be able to take it out. And they sent her immediately into the surgery. As she going through the surgery they cut an artery

SID: Oh!

JOSHUA: and she began bleeding and all of a sudden this changed everything completely and instead of it being just a routine surgery now it became something a bit more complicated. Mary Jo ended up in a coma. The doctors said that they weren’t sure she was going to pull out of it very easily. If she did she would most likely be paralyzed within her body. She would never speak the way she had spoken before. She wouldn’t be able to walk. And the doctor suggested that her sisters were called in, her family was called to attend to her bedside because they really weren’t sure she was going to make it. After two days the doctors suggested pulling her off of life support because they really didn’t give Mary Jo any more hope. And thank God her sister had come up from Texas with one of my CD’s and actually felt prompted of the Lord to play that CD just over and over in Mary Jo’s ears all night long. And you know what happened? The very next day Mary Jo came out of that coma and actually touched the doctor’s hand with a finger. That evening she began speaking normally.

SID: Hmm!

JOSHUA: The very next day she was moving around. Everything changed completely for Mary Jo. I met her a few weeks ago. You would never know that she had gone through this trauma last Fall. You would never know that there was anything that was wrong with her. You don’t see any scarring on her body from the surgery that had been done. And she is a living, walking, talking miracle and it’s because her sister had enough sense to create an atmosphere of healing for her sister right there in the hospital and play that healing CD for her. And so I am so thankful for people that discern atmospheres, understand atmospheres and know that God can work with atmospheres to release His glory.