"Raising the Right Arm" Prophecy & Medical Ministry Camp Meeting

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Uchee Pines Institute

Plenaries with Dwayne Lemon

Dwayne Lemon

The Prophetic Relevance of the Medical Missionary Work

The Sacredness of the Laws of Health

What is the Medical Missionary Work and What It Is Not

The First Work in Medical Missionary Lines

Purify Our Motives

Father in heaven, I just want to thank you for the privilege to come with my brothers and my sisters, your sons and your daughters, and we all together as a family can study to show ourselves approved unto you.

Be in work, men, that need not be ashamed, for we have rightly divided your words of truth.

Lord, we humble ourselves in your sight upon our knees and we ask you for the forgiveness of our sins.

We pray for the presence of your Holy Spirit, Lord.

And Father, I just ask that you'll do something special with this clay.

You know the nervousness in my heart that I always have coming before thy people.

But Lord, I know that you can take control of the mind and the mouth and just give what you want to be given.

And I pray that not only would you bless everybody else, I am asking that you'll do something special for my own heart.

I'm praying that while you are truly blessing others, don't pass me by.

Help all of us to leave here refreshed and edified as a result of coming in contact with Jesus is our prayer that we ask today in Jesus' name, amen.

There are a few things that I wanted to say.

It is amazing how often when Jesus would teach and preach that he was misunderstood.

It was not because what Jesus said was confusing, but it's because sometimes we're thinking and listening at the same time.

And sometimes it causes us maybe not to hear things clearly.

And it kept coming in my mind, make this point of clarification.

So because it kept coming in my mind, I said, well, let me go ahead and do that.

I stand before you unflinchingly convinced that there is more that God wants to do into and through his people.

I have been part of this movement for 25 years, and I've seen in my own life, as well as in the lives of many, far more talk than power.

And God is not desirous that we stay in that condition.

We are very smart people, for those of us who study a lot.

I've sat with some of the most brilliant minds in Adventism, those who are popular and in the mainstream preaching circuit, as well as many who people do not know about, but they are some of God's shining stars that we will see them best when midnight comes.

And I know that there's a large amount of intellect that we have in our movement, but I've also seen amongst some of the high-level intellectuals, I've seen character qualities that I know are character qualities of Satan.

In fact, these character qualities were even in my own heart.

It amazes me how we can know so much gospel truth.

I'll give you something so incredibly simple.

How is it that a man and that a woman can know so much of the Bible, know so much of the spirit of prophecy, yet if they have difference with a brother, they talk to other people about it rather than the brother?

I mean, that's like ABC Bible, Matthew 18, 15 through 18.

You got an issue with your brother, do not go around talking and gossiping with other fellow workers, fellow Christians, fellow whatever, go to the brother and go solve the issue.

And when you read Heavenly Places, page 292, Ellen White says she marveled at how God's people have neglected to follow the simple teachings of Matthew 18.

She said, many will say, oh no, it's nothing personal.

And they use that as a means of why they don't go to the brother.

And Ellen White says, the words of God are explicitly stated in Matthew 18, that you are still to go to your brother.

You know, and that's just 1 of literally 1, 000 examples.

And so what I believe is that we need more power.

Now, I have learned to appreciate the simplicity of the gospel, the simplicity of the gospel.

There was a picture that was shown to me, and it was on Facebook.

I believe that this picture beautifully represents what Christ wants to do with his people.

And Jesus has, Jesus is talking to a little girl.

Some of you might have seen this picture.

And when Jesus is talking to the little girl, Jesus has 1 hand like this.

The hand that is like this is suggesting, give me what you have.

So the cartoon, the little girl is holding onto the, and you know, she's holding onto the teddy bear with reluctancy, You know, like, I don't really want to give this to Jesus.

Even though Jesus, with perfect smile, lovely countenance, is saying, give me your bear.

But what she did not see was the teddy bear that was at least 5 times the size of her little teddy bear that she cherished so much.

And it was to make a very simple point that when God calls us from something or God calls us to something, He always has something better in store for us than what we presently have or the present position we're in.

God wants to do exceedingly and abundantly more than we can ask or think.

That is the real key point that I want to get across.

This is the point that I want to bring clarification just in the event that somebody might have had a point of confusion.

And I talked about how, how is it, and I still marvel at this, How is it that Peter could say a prayer to tell Tabitha to get up and he never asked God, Lord if it's your will let this happen, he already knew it was God's will.

How is it that Peter can go to a man and John and They go to a man at the gate called Beautiful, and they literally know how to say to that brother, listen, I don't have money, but I do have something.

There's nothing wrong when a gospel worker understands these are the gifts God has given to me.

And then what he wants you to do is he wants you to intellectually and intelligently, he wants you practically to cultivate that gift.

And so it is, they said, look, I know what I don't have, but I know what I do have.

And so he said, in the name of Jesus, get up and start walking.

Again, they knew that God was in agreement with their statement.

I do not see that in medical missionary work.

I do not see that in a broad sweeping manner in medical missionary work.

What I was not seeing yesterday was that we need to start seeing a whole bunch of miraculous healing.

You heard me say yesterday that I said using the modalities, using herbs and poultices, etc.

My thing is, is how many of us have confidence when we apply the poultice, do the hydrotherapy treatment, or whatever the treatment is, How many of us have the kind of confidence that Peter had?

That we know this individual is gonna leave UT Pines healed.

How many of us have that kind of confidence because our minds are so in tune with Christ in the most holy place?

It's not about just seeing a whole bunch of miraculous healing.

I firmly believe God does still do miraculous healing.

But God, and by the way, it's a miracle you woke up this morning.

If we understood, as the prophet tells us, of the war that takes place when we're asleep, and how those demons want to do everything possible to make sure that we do not rise.

But thank God for angels that excel in strength.

And that's why you're up breathing and listening to me even right now.

So I know for a fact God still wants to do plenty, plenty, plenty miracles.

And if he chooses to do it without an assisting agency or with an assisting agency, it's still a miracle.

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