Hello neighbor, what a weekend! We prayed for the sick Sunday afternoon and we have you on our Holy Ghost radar as well. A wonderful blanket of healing came over us at the end of the service and his presence permeated us in a beautiful way. I have learned there is immediate healing and there is mediate healing, where people like the blind man Jesus prayed for was healed as he went.
MEDIATE HEALING = A PROGRESSIVE HEALING THAT TAKES PLACE GRADUALLY
Our 21 days of corporate fasting and prayer are over and as we face the year of our Lord 2026, we need to take heed to the scripture which admonishes us to "DWELL DEEP" and I am sure that I am not sharing something with you that you are not already aware of. As I was studying this morning I felt as though it would be a good thing to do a brief character study of someone who that Holy Spirit spot lights in regard to his character. There are two Old Testament Books named after him because His character is spoken of before his gifting. His name of course is Samuel the prophet. The Holy Spirit gives us a peek into his life as what would have been a good eulogy for any of us, at the end of our life lived for God:
In Samuel's Farewell Address he mentions the Great Name of the Lord who will not abandon His people. Paul mentioned this same thing, Behold:
1 Samuel 12:22-24
Indeed, for the sake of His great name, the LORD will not abandon His people, because He was pleased to make you His own. As for me, far be it from me that I should sin, against the LORD by ceasing to pray for you. And I will continue to teach you the good and right way. Above all, fear the LORD and serve Him faithfully with all your heart; consider what great things He has done for you...
This is key to all the great men who God chose as an example of those who became leaders in diary of His Word.
1 Samuel 12:23
Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way.
WE CAN ALL LEARN LESSONS FROM SAMUEL, "GOD FORBID":
Acts 12:5
Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.
Romans 1:9
For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;
Colossians 1:9
For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
It has always been our desire for Heritage to be a House of Prayer, knowing that is Christ desire. "My house shall be a house of prayer. Built Word of God."
How often have you heard me say through the years, "The study of God's Word is the secret discipline which has formed the greatest of characters."
Now let's take a look at Samuel, one of the greatest of Bible characters. Remembering his birth is fascinating to me, because you cannot justly read about him without mentioning his barren mother, Hanna. God was wanting someone like her to demonstrate the power of an answered prayer.
In 1 Samuel 1:22-28, Hanna dedicates Samuel to the Lord and it is not without drama.
But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, "I will not go up until the child is weaned; then I will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD and stay there forever." Elkanah her husband said to her, "Do what seems best to you. Remain until you have weaned him; only may the LORD confirm His word." So the woman remained and nursed her son until she weaned him. Now when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with a three-year-old bull and one ephah of flour and a jug of wine, and brought him to the house of the LORD in Shiloh, although the child was young. Then they slaughtered the bull, and brought the boy to Eli. She said, "Oh, my lord! As your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you, praying to the LORD. "For this boy I prayed, and the LORD has given me my petition which I asked of Him. "So I have also dedicated him to the LORD; as long as he lives he is dedicated to the LORD." And he worshiped the LORD there.
Please make a note that Hanna got what she wanted, a son named Samuel and God got what he wanted, a child named Samuel.
What a story, if you ask God for what he wants then you will get what you want as well. He may be waiting on you to ask Him for what He wants. Have you ever received an answer to prayer wherein God received what He wanted? God's Word speaks about selfishness in our prayers in the last days. James lived with the prototype of unselfishness; his brother Jesus.
James 4:3
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
DO YOU THINK WE COULD BE LIVING IN A DAY LIKE THIS?
2 Timothy 4:3
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
2 Peter 3:3
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts.
PART ONE OF TWO
Pastor Cleddie Keith
MEDIATE HEALING = A PROGRESSIVE HEALING THAT TAKES PLACE GRADUALLY
Our 21 days of corporate fasting and prayer are over and as we face the year of our Lord 2026, we need to take heed to the scripture which admonishes us to "DWELL DEEP" and I am sure that I am not sharing something with you that you are not already aware of. As I was studying this morning I felt as though it would be a good thing to do a brief character study of someone who that Holy Spirit spot lights in regard to his character. There are two Old Testament Books named after him because His character is spoken of before his gifting. His name of course is Samuel the prophet. The Holy Spirit gives us a peek into his life as what would have been a good eulogy for any of us, at the end of our life lived for God:
In Samuel's Farewell Address he mentions the Great Name of the Lord who will not abandon His people. Paul mentioned this same thing, Behold:
1 Samuel 12:22-24
Indeed, for the sake of His great name, the LORD will not abandon His people, because He was pleased to make you His own. As for me, far be it from me that I should sin, against the LORD by ceasing to pray for you. And I will continue to teach you the good and right way. Above all, fear the LORD and serve Him faithfully with all your heart; consider what great things He has done for you...
This is key to all the great men who God chose as an example of those who became leaders in diary of His Word.
1 Samuel 12:23
Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way.
WE CAN ALL LEARN LESSONS FROM SAMUEL, "GOD FORBID":
Acts 12:5
Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.
Romans 1:9
For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;
Colossians 1:9
For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
It has always been our desire for Heritage to be a House of Prayer, knowing that is Christ desire. "My house shall be a house of prayer. Built Word of God."
How often have you heard me say through the years, "The study of God's Word is the secret discipline which has formed the greatest of characters."
Now let's take a look at Samuel, one of the greatest of Bible characters. Remembering his birth is fascinating to me, because you cannot justly read about him without mentioning his barren mother, Hanna. God was wanting someone like her to demonstrate the power of an answered prayer.
In 1 Samuel 1:22-28, Hanna dedicates Samuel to the Lord and it is not without drama.
But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, "I will not go up until the child is weaned; then I will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD and stay there forever." Elkanah her husband said to her, "Do what seems best to you. Remain until you have weaned him; only may the LORD confirm His word." So the woman remained and nursed her son until she weaned him. Now when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with a three-year-old bull and one ephah of flour and a jug of wine, and brought him to the house of the LORD in Shiloh, although the child was young. Then they slaughtered the bull, and brought the boy to Eli. She said, "Oh, my lord! As your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you, praying to the LORD. "For this boy I prayed, and the LORD has given me my petition which I asked of Him. "So I have also dedicated him to the LORD; as long as he lives he is dedicated to the LORD." And he worshiped the LORD there.
Please make a note that Hanna got what she wanted, a son named Samuel and God got what he wanted, a child named Samuel.
What a story, if you ask God for what he wants then you will get what you want as well. He may be waiting on you to ask Him for what He wants. Have you ever received an answer to prayer wherein God received what He wanted? God's Word speaks about selfishness in our prayers in the last days. James lived with the prototype of unselfishness; his brother Jesus.
James 4:3
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
DO YOU THINK WE COULD BE LIVING IN A DAY LIKE THIS?
2 Timothy 4:3
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
2 Peter 3:3
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts.
PART ONE OF TWO
Pastor Cleddie Keith