Your best Pathway to Health 2016: His Transforming Love

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Your best Pathway to Health

Mark Finley

Healing Like Jesus Healed

I can remember 1 time I was in an evangelistic meeting, and it was in Boston, Massachusetts, actually in Stoneham outside of Boston, and somebody rang the fire alarm about the first 10 minutes into my sermon.

And I didn't want to lose my audience and I knew that if I stood and looked at the audience and smiled, it was likely they would stay there.

And so I stood with my hands folded and smiled at my audience for about 25 minutes until we got that fire alarm off and then made it appeal and about 40 people came to Jesus.

So this is my third Your Best Pathway to Health.

We were in San Antonio, Spokane and now my wife, Tina, and I are here in Los Angeles.

And every time there are unique experiences, experiences where you see you know God worked.

I, most likely you'll see me working the lines, interfacing with department heads, leading people to their various places.

Today, I was in dentistry and learned just an amazing story.

Some of you know that in dentistry today, we had a little hiccup, a little difficulty in getting started on time.

Some of our compressors were not working adequately and that meant that the suction didn't work and there were other few other little things.

The company that supplied the compressors also supplies a rep that comes to be sure they're functioning properly.

He was scheduled to come tomorrow, but he woke up this morning, early in the morning, and he felt this overwhelming conviction.

I really need to go to the Los Angeles Convention Center.

I really need to check on that equipment.

But then he said, well, you know, I'm not scheduled to go tomorrow till tomorrow.

When he got here today, he found the dilemma that we were in and with some ingenuity of our folk that were in dental, they had that repaired and up so we could see our patients.

This was the providence of God where even God works upon the heart.

You know, the Bible says the heart of the Pharaoh is in the hand of the Lord.

And so God works on the hearts of people to accomplish his ultimate objective.

People have come from far and near to be here.

I met a lady today from San Antonio, Texas.

She had gone, she had seen your Best Pathway to Health when it was there, did not actually go, but knew about it.

Heard word that it was going to be in Los Angeles, bought an air ticket, flew here to get dental services.

His story, quite remarkable, really an amazing story.

He was destitute and homeless in Idaho, and 1 night in the wintertime in February of this last year, there was a major snowstorm in Idaho.

He didn't have much money, but he knew that if he stayed outside, he would freeze to death.

So he decided to take all the money he had and get a cheap hotel and rent it, which he did.

He never watched television at all because he didn't have a TV because he was homeless and destitute.

But in that hotel room, he turned on television and he saw on TV 3 Angels Broadcasting.

Lewis was interviewed on Your Best Pathway to Hell.

He watched it and he heard that Your Best Pathway was coming to Los Angeles.

Saved all of his money, took a Greyhound bus down here, was here today, and he said, I found such peace, such joy, such meaning, such purpose, I know that God has led me here.

A destitute man uses his last few dollars to get a hotel room in a snowstorm and God leads him to Adventist television and leads him to your best pathway to health, to be served and ministered by Jesus.

You and I are the hands of Christ, the eyes of Christ, the voice of Christ as we minister to others.

Well, let's pray as we open God's Word today.

Father in heaven, we thank you that in a small, humble way we can be the hands and the feet and the mouth and the eyes and the heart of Jesus.

Thank you, Father, that in the midst of multitudes, thousands coming through these doors and up these escalators and in the midst of what sometimes is like organized chaos.

In the midst of all that, your spirit works.

And in some mysterious way, they see the love of God in us.

Father help us as we serve, as we minister, as we bless, as we touch to reveal you in Christ's name.

Well it had been a long day of arduous meetings at the General Conference the 7th day Adventist.

In the morning and they finished at 9 p.m.

We listened to the detailed biblical analysis of the topic.

We heard arguments and then we heard counter arguments.

We prayed and we searched the word of God.

And while we discussed and discussed and discussed, the snow felt gently outside all day, not seeming to care about our discussions at all.

It was about 09:00 at night, and I knew I needed to get a breath of fresh air.

I knew I needed to go out and do some clear thinking after a long day.

And so I bundled up, put on my winter coat, and pulled down my woolen hat and put on my gloves.

And our meetings were not actually held at the General Conference.

They were held at a hotel not far from Baltimore.

So I went out about 9 o'clock, 9.30 at night, walking in the snow.

And by this time the snow was falling rapidly and the wind was blowing in my face and the snowflakes were stinging my face.

The restaurants along the lakefront where I was walking were shut.

Nobody would be crazy enough to be out on those streets that night, except a weary preacher that wanted to get some exercise and needed to clear his brain.

But as I was walking along, I looked toward the lake and I saw 2 men standing there.

And I wondered who they might be, and then I thought I recognized them.

And I said, maybe I don't know these people at all.

I better walk on quickly." But that man kept pointing and I began walking faster and faster and faster.

My heart was racing a little bit because who would be out on a cold night so strange standing by the lake looking at me?

Those men that I yelled to, those men that never turned to look any further at me, but just kept staring.

And that 1 man who kept pointing, I wondered who they were.

The moon was shining, the stars were twinkling, And I walked down by the lake again.

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