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JERRY: Thank you for joining me today. I'm Jerry
Savelle, and we have a great program for you to today. I
believe is going to bless you, minister to you, and is going to
encourage you in your faith. We're talking about the path to
a lifestyle of flourishing. God told me coming into 2017 that
beginning this year, the faithful shall flourish, and it
shall be like days of Heaven on Earth. God wants you to
flourish. God wants you to win in every area of your life. God
wants you to live the abundant life. That's what we're going to
be talking about. I was preaching this during one of our
Chariots of Light Christian Biker Tours in the Ozarks, and
we ended up at Keith Moore's church in Branson, Missouri, and
I'm telling you, we had a great service. We're going to take you
into that service in just a few moments. But first of all, I
want to share with you some of the testimonies that have come
in from some of our viewers just like you. We love hearing from
you, so please share with us how that this broadcast and this
ministry is touching your life. This letter comes from Margaret.
She says, "Praise the Lord. I've been cancer-free for one year
now." Someone else said, Dwayne, "Praise the Lord. I called in,
and someone there prayed for me to get a job. I started the
following Monday. Thank you for being there for us." Then Jeff
said, "I declared the favor of God, and I saved $93 on a new
pair of glasses." That's favor. Debra, she says, "After years
and years of believing God for a new job, it was finally granted
to me by the Lord. Thank you for praying for me." Then Beverly
writes and says, "Thank you for standing in agreement with us.
We prayed for healing while a friend was in the hospital, and
upon release, he went right back to work. Praise God. Thank you
for praying and standing with us." Here's one from Anne, "I
asked your ministry to pray for me over a difficult time at
work, and even though I wanted to leave, the Holy Spirit
instructed me to stay. I ended up with a $14,000 bonus, so God
is faithful." Yes He is. Finally, from Diane Stockings,
"Healing of rheumatoid arthritis, knots on my fingers
and joints have gone." Praise God for those
testimonies. Now, let's get right in to this service
where we're talking about the path to a
flourishing lifestyle. You're going to enjoy this.
JERRY: The Word says in Psalm 119 verse
105, "Thy Word is a lamp under my feet
and a light unto my path." Now notice, it takes
the Word to stay on this path. The Word is your guide. In other
words, you have to become a doer and not a hearer only in order
to stay on the path. James said, "Be ye doers of the Word and not
hearers only deceiving your own selves." He goes on to say in
James 1:25 that the doer of the Word, this man shall be blessed
in his deed. If you are a doer of the Word, this path is full
of blessings praise God. It'll lead to blessings. In fact,
it'll get to a place to where you won't have to pursue the
blessings, they'll come on you and overtake you praise God.
They'll chase you down and come on you. It's wonderful living on
this path because on this path you're not self centered. It's
not all about you. It's not, "My name Jimmy. Lord, gimme, gimme."
It's about blessing. Blessed to be a blessing. Unselfishness.
Your prayer is, "Lord, give me more seed to sow." Amen. I know
I'm promised a return but I don't have any debts, I own my
homes, I own my cars, I own my motorcycles. My ministry's debt
free. I don't have any debts so my main outgo is my giving. I'm
blessed to be a blessing, hallelujah. That's better life
than you could ever dream. Can you say amen? CONGREGATION:
Amen. JERRY: Amen. That's available to every person in
this building and every person in the church in Sarasota praise
God. Can you say amen? CONGREGATION: Amen. JERRY: Oh,
come on. Give the Lord another shout of praise. Amen. The doer
of the Word is blessed in his deed. What does it mean to be
blessed? It means empowered to prosper. It means empowered to
increase, it means empowered to flourish. That's the kind of
life that God has created for us. All of that is on this path.
It's not on the path to the world, that the world's on. All
of that that comes from the world's path is temporary. It's
not lasting. Particularly, when the economy's bad and things are
shaky like it is today, things that are going on around us that
people that live on that path that the world created, they
don't know where to turn, they're pulling their hair out.
Nothing is stable anymore but those that are on the path,
God's path no matter what's going on in the world, our path
says the grass withers, the flower fades but the Word of our
God will stand forever hallelujah. On this path, you
have no worries. On this path, you have no fear. On this path,
you know that God has promised I will supply all your need
according to my riches and glory by Christ Jesus. You wake up
every morning and expect praise God, God to show up and manifest
in unusual ways hallelujah. He's the God of surprises, glory to
God. Can you say amen? CONGREGATION: Amen. JERRY: I go
to bed at night and the last thing I say is, "Lord, I know
you neither sleep nor slumber. I'm human. I've got to have some
sleep so while I'm asleep since you're going to be up all night
just think of more ways to bless me and we'll talk about it in
the morning when I wake up, hallelujah." Glory to God. What
a way to live, hallelujah. Amen. CONGREGATION: Amen. JERRY: Come
on, nudge somebody and say, "You ought to be shouting better than
that." Amen. We're empowered to prosper, empowered to increase,
empowered to flourish. God has a path that leads to flourishing.
Amen. The way you get on that path once again, the beginning
is to make Jesus Lord of your life and then once you do, then
make God's Word first place and final authority. That's what
keeps you on the path. Proverbs chapter one verse 10 and down
through verse 15. I won't read it all but it says, "My son, if
sinners entice thee, consent thou not. Walk thou not in the
way with them. Refrain thy foot from their path." Notice, God
says, "Don't get on the same path that the sinner's on. Don't
get on the same path that the world is on." In other words,
don't let the world determine your path. Amen? Don't let the
world determine your path. You stick to the Word. You can
expect God's blessing when you do things God's way. When you're
on the world's path doing things their way, you can expect the
blessings of God to come on you and over take you. In Psalm one,
these are all familiar verses to you. Psalm one. It says,
"Blessed is the man that walketh not in the council of the
ungodly not stand in the way of sinners not sit in the seat of
the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord and in
his law doth he meditate day and night. He shall be like a tree
planted by the rivers of water that bring forth his fruit in
his season, his leaf shall not wither and whatsoever he doeth
shall prosper." That's on God's path. Amen. You don't go the way
of the world. You get on God's path and he promises that
eventually everything you do will prosper. What a promise.
That's better life than you ever dreamed. Can you say amen?
CONGREGATION: Amen. JERRY: That sounds like flourishing to me.
How about you? Notice the word scornful. You don't sit with the
scornful. What does that mean? It means people that have no
respect for the Word of God. People that have contempt for
God's Word. Amen. People that don't believe it, people that
don't think it's final authority. People that don't see
any way that it could possibly come to pass. The sad thing is
you're not only find people like that in the world, you find them
in church. Amen. Like I said when I first started, I didn't
get a whole lot of encouragement from people that I thought I'd
get encouragement from. They'd say, "Be careful for that faith
stuff." One guy, one preacher, associate pastor at the church
there where we were going, he said, "Why are you listening to
that Kenneth Copeland?" I said, "Because I like what he says and
it works." He said, "Well, he's an extremest." The next time I
saw that preacher I said, "You're too late. I'm an
extremist." He said, "I knew that was going to happen to you"
Amen. No, I didn't get a whole lot of encouragement. I won't
take a long time to tell this testimony. Many of you have
heard it before but we were sitting in a meeting with
brother Copeland in that church and my daughter Terri, she was
just about maybe 13 months old and her fingers were cut off,
two fingers were cut off in the nursery right here behind the
first nail. I mean, right behind the nails. Brother Copeland was
preaching out of Mark chapter four, once the Word is sown,
Satan cometh immediately to take the Word. Boy, he did. The
nursery attendant was a heavyset woman, Terri was crawling around
on the floor and this nursery attendant was in a rocking chair
rocking a younger baby and when Terri got her fingers under that
rocking chair and it cut them off. These two fingers right
here. Right behind the nails. The nursery attendant came
running into the auditorium. Brother Copeland was preaching
and she shouted, "Brother Jerry, Brother Jerry." She had my
daughter in her arms, blood all over this woman's dress. Terri's
screaming at the top of her voice and I don't know what's
happened but I stood up and I went toward the lady to take my
baby and I still don't know what's happening but Terri is
screaming obviously her fingers have been cut off, it's painful.
I tuned to see how Kenneth Copeland was going to respond.
He'd been preaching all this faith stuff for a week now.
We're going to find out if he really believes it. I turned to
him to see what he was going to do. Back in those days we wore
those lavalier mics with a cord on them. He could
just come so far. He took that mic off and he walked up there
and he laid his hands on Terri's fingers just like this and about
this tone of voice. In the name of Jesus, I command the pain to
stop and the bleeding to cease. Amen. Terri quit crying, she
laid her head on my shoulder. The bleeding stopped
immediately. Then he walked back, put that mic on. He said,
"Now, pay attention to me. I'm not through talking." I walked
out to go clean the blood off of me and off of her and when I
went into the men's restroom that's when I saw what had
happened. I'm looking at bone. I'm looking at nail root. This
is my baby. Then the nursery attendant comes and she said,
"Brother Jerry I didn't know what to do with these. I found
them in the floor." She takes two little fingertips from a 13
month old child and places them in the palm of my hand. I looked
down at those little fingertips with the nails on them and I'd
have rather somebody cut my right arm off than what I was
looking at. I felt fear trying to grip me. I just read a
scripture earlier that day and it said, "Praying in the Holy
Ghost, building up your most holy faith." Jude 20. I just
started praying in the Holy Ghost and immediately fear left
and faith came. I held up Terri and I said, "Lord, I have a
covenant with you. Your covenant says, 'Blessed is the fruit of
my body.' This little girl is the fruit of my body and I am
not going to have her going the rest of her life missing two
fingers. You will restore my baby's fingers." I walked back
in the service. It's not the time to run from God, it's time
to run to God. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word.
I'm not going to run home now. I'm going to go in there and
finish hearing that sermon. Faith commeth. Immediately after
the service, Brother Copeland came over to me and he said,
"What are you believing?" I told him what I prayed. I said, "I
believe God's going to restore my baby's fingers." He said, "I
set myself an agreement with you," and he prayed in
agreement. Then he said, "You can't leave those fingers
exposed like that. You take her to the doctor, let him dress
them so that you just can't keep them exposed that way." We went
to the doctor and they called in the top plastic surgeon in the
state of Louisiana at that time. His name was Doctor Simon Wall
He was a man originally from one of the Asian
nations. We walked in his office and he examined her and he said,
"I can't do anything with these fingertips." I watched that
doctor throw my baby's fingertips in a trash can. I
wanted to slap him. He said, "There's nothing I can do. I
can't reattach them. The nerve's dead. It got part of the bone."
He said, "All I can do is take a piece of skin from her hip and
do a skin graft. They'll never be normal, they'll be little
nubs." I said, "Sir, I see that you have Buddha statues in your
office and I understand why you think nothing can be done.
Buddha can't do what the God I serve can." I said, "My God will
restore my baby's fingers." He said, "That's medically
impossible." I said, "It may be but not with the God I serve."
He walked over to my wife. He said, "Your husband's in shock."
She said, "No sir. We're in faith." He said, "All I can do
is take a skin graft." I said, "You do that, God will take care
of the rest." He did the skin graft, told her to keep her
overnight. Brother Copeland had one more service. I told
Carolyn, "I'm going to go listen to Brother Copeland preach. As
soon as it's over with I'll come right back to the hospital, I'll
preach everything he said word for word to you so that our
faith is together, in agreement." So we did. The
doctor came in and said, "Bring her back in six weeks." Well,
for the next six weeks see we're on this path. We're on this path
and we know on this path there's healing. We know on this path
there's miracles. We know on this path, praise God it's
breakthroughs that the world can't produce. And
we are on this path. For the next six weeks,
we didn't turn on the television set, we didn't pick
up a newspaper, and we didn't let any unbelieving believers in
our house. Some of them tried to come. I'd run them off. Tried to
tell me that God cut my baby's fingers off. I said, "There's
the door. You better get to it real quick because I ain't
totally sanctified. I'm going to do something to you that I'll
have to ask God to forgive me over. Now get out of my house.
If you're going to come in here preaching God took my baby's
fingers, any God that would do that needs to be jailed. That's
child abuse. That's not my God." I made them mad but see, I'm on
this path. I'm on this path and I'm not going to let the world's
philosophies pull me off the path. Amen. That doctor, he
meant well. He's not trying to hurt me in any way. He's
dedicated to his field and he's doing all he knows to do. He has
limitations but my God is El Shaddai, the God in whom nothing
is impossible. I'm on his path, praise God. For six weeks we did
nothing but speak the word over our baby. The last night before
we had to take her to the doctor, we got a little card in
the mail that Kenneth Hagin was going to be in Tyler,
Texas about 100 miles from our house. I told Carolyn,
I said, "We need to be in that meeting tonight. Faith cometh by
hearing, hearing by the Word of God." We went to that meeting,
Brother Hagin preached on Mark 11:22, 23, 24 and have faith in
God and whosoever shall say unto this mountian and all
those great verses. When he got through with us that night, we
didn't even need a car to get home. Our faith was higher than
a Georgia pine tree praise God. We knew that we knew that we
knew when we went to that doctor the next day, we were going to
see a miracle that had taken place. When we got to the doctor
that next day, he cut the bandages off and he screamed,
"My God!" I said, "What is it doctor?" He said, "This is
impossible." I said, "What?" He said, "Look." The fingers were
normal, nails back. You couldn't even tell they'd ever been cut
off, hallelujah. I said to him, "No sir, not your God, my God,
hallelujah." He shared that testimony with his wife, she got
born again that night praise God. Later, he gave his life to
God all over a miracle and because we didn't get off the
path, hallelujah. Amen. CONGREGATION: Amen. JERRY: To
this day that little girl is in her middle 40s now and she's
preaching all over the world and every once in a while if the
devil says impossible, I'll just walk over and say, "Terri, could
I borrow your fingers for a moment?" She said, "Dad, is the
devil trying to tell you impossible?" I said, "Yeah, but
I'll run him off here real quick praise God." Satan, look. No,
don't run off yet. I'm not through. Look at what God did.
Amen. You get on this path and you're never disappointed. You
get on this path, God does the miraculous. You get on this
path, and you'll see blessings beyond anything you ever dreamed
of. Give the Lord your best shout tonight. Can you say amen?
Don't sit with the scornful. Look to your neighbor and say,
"Don't sit with the scornful." CONGREGATION: Don't sit with the
scornful. JERRY: That's all those people that think it
doesn't work. They have no respect for the Word of God.
I'll wrap it up with a couple more verses here. Hebrews
chapter six and verse 12. That you be followers of those who
through faith and patience inherit the promises. Where do
you find people like that? On this path. Amen? They're on this
path. Sometimes it may be hard to find them but there are
plenty of them there. You just stay on the path and God will
bring into contact with them hallelujah. I thank God, like I
said earlier, God bringing Kenneth Copeland into my life. I
thank God to Kenneth Hagin was brought into my life. I thank
God that Oral Roberts was brought into my life.
T.L. Osborn was brought into my life. I've had the
privilege of preaching with what I consider to be the greatest
men and women of our generation. God's given me relationship with
them all and I've been on this path with them and not one time
have I ever heard any of them say, "Jerry Savelle, you're
wasting your time." That will never happen. We tried that and
it didn't work. No, these people are on the path, they're people
of faith, they're people of patience, they're people of
consistency, they're people that don't compromise and they're
people that are inheriting the promises. Can you say amen?
CONGREGATION: Amen. JERRY: Isn't that the path you want to be on?
I said, "Isn't that the path that you'd like to be on?" It
leads to abundance. It leads to flourishing praise God. The
Bible says in Proverbs 13:20, "He that walketh with wise men
shall be wise." The Lord taught me many years ago, he said, "You
start calling that the law of increase by association." You
walk with wise men, you'll be wise. You walk with anointed
men, you'll increase in the anointing. The Message
translation says, "Hang out with fools and watch your life fall
to pieces." Amen. You walk with wise men, you'll be wise. King
James goes on to say, "But a companion of fools shall be
destroyed." The Message says, "Hang out with fools and watch
your life fall to pieces." Amen. Don't run with the people that
get off the path. Stay with the people that stay on the path,
hallelujah. Can you say amen? CONGREGATION: Amen. JERRY: Amen.
You remember what the New International Version said for
Psalm 65:11? It said, "That path overflows with abundance." It
overflows with abundance. Praise God. That's the path I'm on.
That's the story of my life, abundance. Hallelujah. God did
it. God did it, hallelujah. I give him all the glory. Amen.
There wasn't anything I did other than the fact that I chose
to get on the path and I made a quality decision I'm not getting
off the path and God has honored his Word all the way praise God
and I keep hearing in my spirit, "Son, you haven't seen anything
yet." Amen. Oh, there's much more on that path. Bible says,
"Eyes have not seen, ears have not heard. Neither have entered
into the heart of man the things that God has prepared for those
that love him." Oh, they're all on this path folks. They're not
out there. They're on this path. Your eyes haven't seen it all
yet. Your ears haven't even heard about it all yet, your
heart hadn't even conceived it all yet but praise God stay on
the path and you're headed for life beyond anything you ever
dreamed possible, hallelujah. Give the Lord one more shout of
praise. I think you can shout better than
that. Give the Lord a good shout of praise.
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JERRY: Praise the Lord. Listen, don't forget now those
of you that like to join a Chariots of Light
tour, our next tour is October the 18th through the 22nd
in California. If you'd like more information, log onto
our website. Check out the Chariots of Light and if you
want to join us we would be happy to have you and I know it
will be a great time in your life. The comradery between the
Chariots of Light members is absolutely awesome and it's a
great time of fellowship and a great time of soul winning. Also
if you're just interested in maybe hooking up with Chariots
of Light. Becoming a member, log onto the website and we'll tell
you how that you can join this unbelievable, well it is
believable, praise God. It is an awesome motorcycle ministry.
God's blessing it. Thousands and thousands of people are coming
to Christ each and every year through this outreach. Don't
forget our special resources this week. My book entitled,
Every Day a Blessing Day. Did you know that God wants to bless
you each and every day of your life? Yes he does. He wants you
to walk in his blessings, he wants you to enjoy experiencing
the blessings of God every day of your life. The Bible says
that the blessings can come on you and overtake you. I'm
telling you, it's an exciting book, an exciting study and will
teach you how to position yourself to experience the
blessings every day. Then right along with it two CDs entitled
Positioning Yourself to Experience God's Continual
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couple of times. He wants to bless you each and every day.
Order today. Don't delay. You won't be able to put these
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blessing, they themselves will bless you abundantly.
Thank you for joining me today. I look forward to
sharing with you again next week and until then
remember, your faith will overcome the world.
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