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JERRY: Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining me today.
I appreciate you watching our broadcast. I have a special
guest with me on this program, and his name is Justin Bridges.
He's the pastor of Heritage of Faith Christian Center. Justin
has been with this ministry for many, many years. Justin,
welcome to the broadcast. JUSTIN: It's so good to be here,
Dr. Savelle, and I'm so grateful for you and Miss Carolyn in
giving me this great opportunity to be on here with you. After
all, you're my father in the faith. You deposited so many
great things in my life. Like I said, it's truly an honor, so
thank you for letting me be a part of this. JERRY: I'm glad
you're here. This is the first time you've actually done
television with me. You've done some other things with me that
have been live and so forth, but first time to do the television
broadcast. I want to talk to you about your testimony a little
bit before we get into today's lesson. What I want you to tell
the audience is, because I know your testimony will be a great
strength or a great source of strength and hope for many that
have possibly been through what you went through before you came
to the Lord. Let's start off with your testimony. JUSTIN:
Amen. Dr. Savelle, it's hard to describe because it's something
that happened to me that no one else could take away from me, no
one else could deny that it happened because I was there and
God did something supernatural in my life. It all started with
me with an experience with God. It was in 1993 and I was in my
sister's living room. At that time, I was working at a liquor
store. My life was going- JERRY: A liquor store? JUSTIN: Yeah. I
was working at a liquor store. Definitely wasn't in ministry at
the time. At that time, I was also experiencing some physical
battles. I had a breathing problem where the doctor said as
this progressed, I possibly might be on oxygen every day for
the rest of my life. At that time, I just didn't know. I
tried to go in the military. I couldn't go in the military
because of my health and so forth. As I continued to walk
through this battle I was going through and really running from
God, really running from God because I knew there was a call
of God of my life, but I didn't know. Really, I didn't know God
was real. I didn't know He was real. I didn't know that He
really wanted to engage my life. I remember on a Sunday evening
in 1993 how I had a high fever. I couldn't breathe, just gasping
for air, and I remember crying out to God. I said, "God, if
you're real, I need you. God, if you're real, I've been to ...
I've been going to church. If you're real like they say you're
real and you really desire to change my life, I need you." All
of a sudden, I heard this voice say, "Tell me you love me." I
sat there for a minute and was like, "What?" I started saying,
"I love you. I love you. I love you." Then, all of a sudden, I
kind of just pushed it to the side and I was like,
"Man, now I'm talking to myself. This is ... This
is crazy." I laid there longer. All of a sudden,
I'm just desperate. I was like, "I need something. I
need something. Be-" All of a sudden, I cried out again. "And
God, if you're real, I need you." I remember the same thing
happened again. I heard a voice that said, "Turn away from the
television and tell me you love me and don't stop." I started
saying, "I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love
you." Then I went to, "I love you, Lord. I love you, Lord. I
love you, Lord." I don't know how long I did it, Dr. Savelle,
but all of a sudden, something came over me from the top of my
head to the soles of my feet, and I was totally healed. I was
totally healed. JERRY: Praise God. JUSTIN: I went back. I
didn't even tell my mom anything because, of course, my mom had
been praying for years and she finally was like- JERRY: Your
mom and dad had been partners with our ministry, aren't they?
JUSTIN: Yeah, yeah. She got to a place where the Lord said, "I
want you to stop praying for him and I just want ... I just want
you to rejoice every time you think about him." It was six
months later I had that experience. I'm telling you,
it's something that just totally revolutionized my life. No one
can take it from me. God healed me. JERRY: Made you whole.
JUSTIN: Made me whole, and I was working at a liquor store. All I
did was cry out to Him and He showed up in my life. From
there, I got into a good church. I got into the Word, and I saw
what God's plan was for my life. Right after that, I had the
understanding that, you know what, God's done great things
for me. I've seen great things in His Word, now I need to
release it and engage myself to influence someone else's life.
That's really been my journey in a nutshell is all about this
pursuit that happened with that experience that God wanted to
make me whole. JERRY: We first met in 1998, correct? JUSTIN:
Yeah. November of 1998. JERRY: I was up in Maryland where you
were from, and I was to perform the wedding of a friend of mine
and a young lady that you grew up with I believe. That's when
we met. You were actually my driver. You picked me up at the
airport and drove me to the church. Then I think you heard
about our Bible school that was starting up and you enrolled in
that. You came in 1999. JUSTIN: It was less than a year later I
was in Texas and had no idea. That was the first time I had
met you and I'd heard you preaching on VHS tapes and
things like that, but had never heard you minister in person. I
came and visited in 1999 and was here nine months later. JERRY:
You went one or two years? JUSTIN: I went to two years.
JERRY: Two years. At the same time, you're working part time
or volunteering. JUSTIN: Volunteering for about a year.
JERRY: To work at the ministry. JUSTIN: Volunteering for a year.
JERRY: Look at you now. Pastor of the Heritage of Faith
Christian Center. I might say a great pastor. JUSTIN: Thank you.
JERRY: Not just a pastor, but a great pastor. I founded the
church, but I'm the worst attending member there because
I'm gone all the time. JUSTIN: We understand. JERRY: It's a
wonderful thing to know that it's in good hands while I'm
traveling around the world. I get reports all the time about
how great your messages are. In fact, my wife is one of your
biggest fans. She says, "Justin is amazing." She says, "He's
like you." She's one of your biggest fans. She just thanks
God every time she hears you. The growth you've experienced
and the anointing of God that's on your life, and I just thank
God enough for bringing you into our life and into this ministry.
Thank you, Justin. We're proud of you. Praise God. JUSTIN: I'm
so thankful and I'm so grateful and honored for the opportunity.
JERRY: Today, we want to talk about keys to the lifestyle of
flourishing or a flourishing lifestyle. You remember the
Spirit of the Lord said to me in November of 2016, he said, "In
beginning in 2017, the faithful shall flourish and it shall be
like days of Heaven on Earth." Immediately, I began preaching
that at the church. I preached about three services on that
subject. Since then, I have been around the world a few times and
I preached it everywhere I've gone, every nation I've been in,
and I'm telling you God is doing some exciting things and
faithfulness is something that God is always looking for in His
people. I like to say it this way. God is faithful. How about
you? I can always depend on God. It's people I'm not too ... I
can't trust from time to time. A lot of people have said over the
years, "You know, I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna do that. Uh,
we're, we're gonna partner with your ministry. We're gonna sow
into your ministry," and I'm still waiting on that, but on
the other hand, there are many, many faithful people. We have a
great number of faithful partners in this ministry, but
faithfulness is something that I've begun to pursue or it
became a quest of mine the day that I made Jesus the Lord of my
life, February 1969. I could see in the Word. I didn't know
anything about the Word at that time, but as I began to study
the Word, I could see promises that God made for faithful
people. One of them, in Proverbs chapter 20, it says that the
faithful shall abound with blessings. I had the Lord say to
me, "If you ever see anybody that's abounding in the
blessings of God," and abounding also means flourishing, "If you
ever see anybody that is flourishing in the blessings of
God, now you know why. It's because they're faithful."
Faithfulness pays off. Faithfulness is not something
that is proven over a matter of a few days or a few weeks or
even a few months. God's looking for faithfulness in your life
for the rest of your life. In fact, in the book of
Revelations, it says, "Be thou faithful unto death." That's a
long time. I've been at it now for 48 years. I've been living
this way for 48 years, and I've endeavored to prove to God that
I'm faithful, and I believe that's why I'm extremely blessed
and highly favored- JUSTIN: Amen. JERRY: Is because I found
out in Proverbs that a faithful man shall abound in blessings.
I didn't begin pursuing the blessings. JUSTIN: That's it.
JERRY: My number one pursuit was how do you become faithful. Once
I discovered God's plan and God's design for faithfulness,
then that became my pursuit, and as a result of it, the blessings
began pursuing me. It says, "These blessings will come on
you and overtake you." It didn't say, "You'll come on them and
overtake them." If you're doing what God wants you to do, if
you're faithful at it, then the- then the blessings will hunt you
down and they'll come on you, they'll overtake you and you
will flourish in the blessings. I want to spend the next few
weeks talking about keys to a flourishing lifestyle. Let's
begin in 1 Thessalonians chapter 5. If you have your Bibles with
you I invite you to open them and beginning in verse 23, the
apostle Paul makes this statement, "And the very God of
peace sanctify you wholly." Now that's W-H-O-L-L-Y, not H-O-L-Y.
"I pray God, your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved
blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." Now notice
Paul is talking about the whole man, spirit, soul and body. You
are a spirit, you have a soul and you live in a body. Notice
he says that your entire spirit, soul and body be preserved
blameless. The Message translation says, "I pray that
the very God of peace will keep you fit for the coming of our
Master Jesus Christ." The word fit implies to be furnished with
things that are proper or things that are necessary or suitable.
God is saying through the apostle Paul, I want your entire
spirit, your entire soul and your entire body. We'll also
find out that it also includes financial well being, that's the
whole part of man, spirit, soul, body, financial. That God wants
you to flourish in every area of your life. Spirit, soul, body
and financially. What do you say about that? JUSTIN: You know I
totally believe that, that God cares about all of us. He cares
about every part of us. Our spirit, our soul, our body, our
finances. You know He says I wish above all things that you
would prosper and that you would be in health even as your soul
prospers. Meaning, He's concerned about every part of
your life. In 2 Corinthians chapter 9:8 it says, "God is
able to make all grace abound towards you that you having all
sufficiency in all things may abound to every good work." That
means He wants you abound in every good work. JERRY: Yeah.
JUSTIN: He wants you abound in every ... JERRY: Having all
sufficiency. JUSTIN: In all things. JERRY: Yeah.
Everything. JUSTIN: Yeah. JERRY: Every area of our
life. Sufficiency in every area. How do you read
poverty into that? How do you read lack and want
into that? I don't know how you get poverty, lack or want in
that verse and the verse you mentioned in 3 John verse 2, "I
wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health."
Now that's John writing but the Bible says all Scripture is
given by the inspiration of God. JUSTIN: Right. JERRY: God is
inspiring John to write those words. When it says "I wish
above all things" and a better rendering would be, "I desire
above all things that you may prosper and be in health even as
your soul prospers." That is God's will. That is God's
desire, not just the apostle John's. It's God's desire that
we may prosper, that we might be in health even as our soul
prospers. I remember years ago I was preaching in Southern
California. Buddy Harrison, Happy Caldwell, Ed Dufresne and
myself were all doing a meeting together in Torrence,
California. The Lord instructed me going into that meeting to
preach from 3 John 2 about once again, "Beloved I wish above all
things that you may prosper, be in health, even as your soul
prospers." That phrase, even as your soul prospers, it just kind
of stuck in my thinking. I kept asking the Lord, what do You
mean by even as my soul prospers? Then He said this, He
said, another way of saying that would be this, in direct
proportion to the prosperity of your soul. You will prosper and
you will be in health in direct proportion to the prosperity of
your soul. Now if your soul is not prospering it's not likely
you're going to prosper financially, it's not likely
you're going to prosper in the blessings of the Lord, it's not
likely that you're going to enjoy divine health. Notice it's
all in direct proportion to the prosperity of your soul. I ask
the Lord, well what is the soul? I remembered Kenneth Hagin's
teaching many years ago that he said the soul is made up of the
mind, the will and the emotions so I began to pray about that. I
said, Lord, if the soul is made up of the mind, the will and the
emotions then what is a prosperous soul? He said this,
it is a mind that is being renewed by the Word of God.
JUSTIN: That's so good ... JERRY: It is a will that is
being conformed to My will. JUSTIN: Yeah. JERRY: It is
emotions that are under the control of My Word. JUSTIN:
Right. JERRY: A prosperous soul is a mind that's being renewed,
a will that's being conformed to the will of God and emotions
that are under the control of the Word of God. Now if you
begin a pursuit of prospering your soul then prosperity,
financially and prosperity are increasing in the blessings of
God will follow because it's in direct proportion to the
prosperity of your soul. The first thing I began to do back
there in 1969 I said okay Lord, I see in Romans chapter 12 that
I am to renew my mind. You see, when I got born again my mind
didn't get born again. It was my spirit. JUSTIN: Right. JERRY: I
became a new creation but my mind has to be renewed and that
is a process. It is a daily process. But you got to start
one day. You renew your mind, that's almost like taking a
computer and reprogramming it because the way we were brought
up, the way we were taught by and large does not line up with
the Word of God. JUSTIN: Yeah. JERRY: We have to take the Word
of God and renew our minds or reprogram our thinking. I began
that pursuit. I mean day one after I came to the Lord I began
to study the Word and you have to understand Justin, I didn't
know anything about the Word. I mean I was like Brother Copeland
used to say, I was scripturally illiterate. I knew nothing about
the Word but I had a desire, I had a hunger. I wanted to know
God, I wanted to know His Word and I could see certain promises
and I wanted those promises to work in my life. I began this
pursuit of the renewing of the mind. It was not an easy process
but you had to start it. Once I began it, it became an exciting
journey and I've been renewing my mind now for 48 years and I'm
still renewing my mind. Of course I don't think like I did
48 years ago, I've increased tremendously. But the pursuing
of the renewing of the mind is a life long pursuit. You're going
to continue doing this until the day you go to heaven. Once
again, you will prosper or you will flourish in direct
proportion to the prosperity of your soul. The renewing of your
mind, the conforming of your will and the bringing of your
emotions or another word for emotions is feelings under the
control of the Word of God. You cannot let your feelings control
you, you have to control them by the Word of God. JUSTIN: Amen.
You know for me in my life I needed to know what God's
thoughts were about me so I could have a whole soul. JERRY:
Right. JUSTIN: I could have a whole body, a whole spirit, soul
and body and finances. You know in the scripture it looks great
on coffee mugs and it's the scripture, "For I know the
thoughts and plans that I have for you says the Lord. Thoughts
of plans of peace and not evil, to give you hope in your final
outcome." You know I got a hold of that scripture but the Lord
said, Justin I want you to realize there's something more
there. He said, it's more than just a slogan, it's more than
something you put on a binder or a coffee mug. Read why that was
written. He told me this He said, go back, what was going in
their time? He was talking to them about having Jeremiah
saying I want you to write a letter to these people because
they think they're going to be in bondage forever because they
didn't have what God's will was all about. He said, now write
this to them and I want you to tell them this. He tells them,
"I want you to build houses and I want you to dwell in them. I
want you to plant gardens and eat the fruit of them. I want
you to take wives and have sons and daughters, take wives for
your sons and give your daughters in marriage that they
may bear sons and daughters and multiple there and He says and
do not be diminished." The thing is is God's plan for us is for
us not to be diminished in any area of our life but it comes
back to knowing His Word so our will, our soul and our emotions
can become perfected and made whole as God desires them to be.
JERRY: Amen. Praise God. You know our time has slipped away
but we're going to continue this for the next few weeks. I want
to encourage all of you to make your plans to join with us.
We're going to be talking about how that you can flourish
spiritually, physically, mentally and financially. You
don't want to miss this. I want you to watch as our announcer
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JEREMIAH: Hi, I am Jeremiah Emmanuel. This is my partner
story. In the back of my Bible, there are sermons back there,
and one of those sermons was from Dr. Jerry Savelle and it
was titled The Authority Of The Believer. After studying through
that sermon and realizing the power I had in God, I felt led
to search the internet for anything I could find from Dr.
Savelle. From there I found Heritage Of Faith Christian
Center, and while I was watching one of their online services,
the Lord had told me in my heart, "Go to Crowley and you
would be blessed." So we came down here in June just for a
church visit. My wife and I didn't quite understand why we
were coming down, but we were just wanting to follow what God
told us to do. During an amazing church service there, we felt
the leading of the Lord to make this our church home. So
we didn't know what we were going to do. We were totally
intimidated by the fact of moving all the way from Tulsa to
Texas in three weeks. But we knew that if God was asking us
to do this, he would supply us with everything we needed to be
successful. One morning while I was serving at the church, an
opportunity opened up, when someone came by the church and
let me know that there was an opening here at Jerry Savelle
Ministries International in their shipping department. Now,
I'm completely used to working in call centers and customer
service jobs and things like that, so working in a shipping
department was totally different for me, but I felt God telling
me to take this opportunity, to seize the provision he put
forth. So I went ahead and came to the ministry to ask about
this open job. I did receive the job, and I started in October of
2015. It's a totally different job than anything I was ever
used to, but I knew that as I was here, God was working on
restoring my life in bigger and better ways than I could have
ever tried to. Only a few months after I started working in the
shipping department, an opportunity opened up to manage
the prayer and partner arm of this ministry, where we deal one
on one with partners doing the things that I used to do in
those call center jobs I did before, it was absolutely
perfect the way God used that old knowledge to supply a gift
to be used at this ministry. As I've gone on serving this
ministry in each of the areas that I've worked in, I keep
going by keeping myself grounded in the Word and in all the
teachings from Dr. Savelle, everything that he puts out, all
the information he gives us, it just provides so much knowledge
for us to be able to live the life of faith God has called all
of us to live. I am eternally thankful to Jerry Savelle
Ministries and the partners of the ministry that help to make
all these materials available to people hungry for the Word, so
that way they can have that one piece of information to
get their life back on track in the right way. I
am Jeremiah Emmanuel. This is my partner story.
JERRY: Thank-you, partners, for sharing your testimony
with us. We love praying for our partners, and
we love hearing your testimonies. Please
continue to share them with us. Listen, we also
encourage you to send us your prayer request. We had our
prayer department, or actually our partner services, to type a
list of all the prayer requests we've received recently. Instead
of bringing all those letters in, just had them typed up so
that I can read them to you. I'm going to have Justin to join
with me. We're just going to believe God for some miracles
here on this broadcast today. Angela says she needs prayer for
family, home, finances, her ministry, and her health. In
other words, she needs a complete overhaul I think. Linda
says, "I need deliverance for my daughters from pain medication".
Ramona said she needs a healing in relationships. Protection.
Her family. Her home. Her vehicle. Her job. Her health.
Her prosperity. Her business. She needs favor. She also want
to lose weight, praise God. Then Michael said he needs healing
and guidance from the Holy Spirit. Jane, restoration from
house property, debt freedom, family and business success.
Then Terry for healing of a baby born with holes in its lungs.
Then Ruth, healing and restoration for her family.
Justin, let's lay hands on these. I'm going to ask you to
just present them to the Lord. Let's believe God for miracles.
JUSTIN: Amen. JERRY: Thank-you, Father. JUSTIN: Well Father God,
we thank you for your goodness and your faithfulness. Doctor
Savelle and I right now, we release our faith over these
prayer requests. We thank you for your Word that has come to
heal us and deliver us from all destruction. We thank you for
your grace and peace surrounding them. JERRY: Yes Lord. JUSTIN:
We thank you that the anointing of God is working in destroying
and removing every yolk, or removing every burden. We
thank you for the Holy Spirit surrounding about every single
person represented here. JERRY: Thank-you, Father. JUSTIN:
Giving them wisdom, comfort, grace, and hope. Father, we
thank you for your will, and you manifesting your goodness, your
faithfulness, your glory, and your power in their lives. We
thank you that the God of the breakthrough was manifesting
them, and we thank you that they are flourishing. They're
thriving. They're expanding in every area of their lives. We
thank you for your goodness and your faithfulness in Jesus'
name. JERRY: Amen. Praise God. If you recognized your prayer
request, your name, and as soon as that prayer is answered, now
I'm expecting it to be answered, you write and tell us about it.
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We're going to continue this study. Justin, thank-you for
being with me today. I look forward to being with you again
next week. Once again, we're going to continue this study
next week, so make your plans to join with us. Don't forget, this
is your year. God is saying to you that he wants you to
flourish in every area of your life. JUSTIN: Amen. JERRY:
Spirit. Soul. Body. Mentally. Financially. In every area. This
is your time. This is your season. Dare to believe God for
it. Don't you ever forget, your faith will overcome the world.
ANNOUNCER: Next week. JERRY: The Bible says in the book of
Hebrews, chapter seven and chapter eight, that we have a
better covenant ... JUSTIN: That's it. JERRY: Founded upon
better promises. And if God blessed Abraham and prospered
him, and caused him to flourish, then how much
more does he want that happening in our lives?
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