Date:17/05/2026
Jim Swanson: I would like to preface a few remarks this morning on the importance of spoken and written words. Not from the scriptural standpoint, but what happens in the world.
You don't think words are important. Let me give you some background about how important words are. And when you testify or you are a testimony by your life, you don't probably realize the impact it has on things in the natural realm. How many sisters here know that when you plant a garden and you talk to your plants, they thrive? Doesn't anybody have that experience? I experience that.
Let me prove it to you from the Word. Let there be... When God said in Genesis.
But you speak good things, what happens? It continues to be responsive to your life and words because you say,"I love you."
So if you go by the plants, do the same thing. Say, " Oh, I wish you weren't even in the garden." It won't be very long. It'll just kind of curl up and die.
Do you see how important are expressions of inspiration when the right music. I'm not teaching you a lesson. I'm just going heading into something here. The inspiration that was behind those beautiful songs is proven by what life it creates or maintains.
And a well, you say, "But brother Jim, this isn't even hardly normal." No, I know it's not normal. I'm not normal.
Oh, how can you pray for water? Well, if the Holy Spirit types the water, that's what you want to pray for is you want to be filled with the Holy Ghost, don't you?
I know it's in type, but we need types sometimes to just bring it. I told brother just down to the simplest terms we can use. Water is an entity that can be affected by words.
Acidic water in your system causes suffering, cancer and arthritis. That's right. Does anybody agree with that? If you do any research at all, I love to delve into things because I know it's a type and shadow of what God did. But alkali water brings strength, healing, and wellness.
There's nourishment through the written word. You say, "Brother Jim, this word is written." But it was spoken first. Amen. So when it was spoken, it was spoken by inspiration.
You can't tell your heavenly Father, why did you, why did you speak it? Because even though nobody was there to hear it, it was still inspired word that he spoke. You know why? It was him speaking. And so this became him. It's not just a book that we have. It's a recording of His very thoughts and intents. This is God's word. You're God's words. Amen. Do you realize the power that you have in your being? If you are born again by the spirit of God, you are not your own. You're His. And everything you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus. And it will affect something. That's right. So in that phrase, in that terminology, there has to be an intent. Right. Amen.
The intent of writing those words on the glass, "I hate you." Like you spoke to it and "I hate you." Those words were written because the intent of the one that wrote it was wrong. Amen.
It's pulpit in the land. They're only touching the outside. In other words, and included in that is we always just kind of zero in one attribute. You know, our Father is full of attributes, isn't he? Amen. But if we just grab one attribute and said that's good for me and leave the rest, we're not even close to our heavenly Father. We don't know what his will is because we're only hanging on to one attribute. God is all encompassing attributes at whatever we have needed. He'll never ever ever leave His Word because it will not, remember, return unto him void. What's void mean? It won't accomplish anything. But I'm here to tell you the Word that was inspired at the beginning has a journey and it's to you to and then turn around because you believe it and you speak the word, it comes back to Him full. It's not void.
God can't be blessed with void believers. That's right. That's right. Or if you keep it quiet. Amen. I'm getting ahead of myself. So, let's just lay that aside for just a minute. And I want to... It's hard. Oh boy, is it ever hard.
Just don't look at the man. Just look at the Word that I'm speaking. It's send that word to their souls, to where they're just something inside that's inspiring them. What do you think when Beethoven couldn't hear the music? AII he had is a vibration. And so he gets his ear down on the floor and hits those keys up a vibration. And I hope this morning the vibration of the Holy Ghost through the inspiration of His Word speaks to your heart. Amen. That's what we're here for folk. Is the inspiration of God. We didn't come to hear a sermon. We came to hear revelation. And it only comes from the Father.
Let me read these things if you would let me. The Word was meant to be spoken. Yes, sir. What do you think the ten commandments were written down for? It had to be spoken and then written. Yeah. And they put them in the ark. there in the Holiest of Holies. Why? To hold on to the written word. What do you think God sent a prophet for? To take the Word and make it alive. Yes, sir. And we've got it in print now because it's God's word. I'm not saying it's greater than this Bible right here, but it is the Bible. Yes, sir.
The spoken word is the original seed. It is the Bible. Listen, every time you speak the Word, listen to these words. The Lord gave these to me. Every time you speak the Word, every time there is an effect somewhere around you.
Every time you speak the Word, something happens.
You know why? There's inspiration behind the word. It's not you speaking. Yes, it is you by the Holy Ghost. Oh, I want to go into Hanny, right? But I just hold on. If I forget you, raise your hand and say, "Hattie." Her desire was to agree. And she didn't really even plan on it, did she? She's sitting in the back there with ...
Every word that you speak, you plant a seed. Where?
In the soil of your heart. Did you hear what I said? But you have to speak it.
It's not enough to think it.
It's not enough to read it, but you have to speak it.
Because speaking is the original spoken word. Is the original seed. So once you speak the Word , that power of that word goes into the soil of your heart and it's planted.
You are not only to say it once. But saying it dear until your body aligns with the Word. Praise God.
I said, "You keep saying it, but Brother Jim, nothing happened."I don't care if it happened or not. That's not even the point. He didn't say if you feel it. He said, "Say the word. Speak the word." There's something in the word. It's powerful. It's right there for you.
Now, I've never preached this before, but I'm going to tell you something. God is here this morning to quicken that spoken word that was inspired when it was wrote to your soul. And you'll never be the same when you walk out. But if you absorb what God is saying in His Word, not what I'm saying, but what the Holy Ghost is telling you now.
You know what? We can call it a fact if we want to. You are not making a wish, when you are saying this scripture, by his stripes we are healed. That's right, brother . That's exactly what the scripture said. You're not making a wish.
I wish I could apply that to my life. I'm going to get real straight here. You are not supposed to make scripture a wish. It's a fact. No, it's deeper than a fact. It's a truth. You shall know the what? Truth. The truth shall set you free.
Hallelujah. Faith does not come by silent agreement. Faith doesn't come by you sitting in church and agreeing what he's saying.
It's not enough. Sure you agree. But faith doesn't come by silent agreement. It is released from the believer's mouth.
Why do you think had he right? "That ain't nothing but the truth. "
She could have sat there and thought about it and thought about it and thought about it. But when she said, "that ain't nothing but the truth," the Holy Ghost came right there in the room. Why? Because it was spoken from the mouth. Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speak.
Amen. We can say whatever we want about believing and everything, but how about speaking it? And you can't speak it until it's revelation. And inspiration that comes by revelation. Brother, too many believers are waiting for a sign of change before opening their mouth and declaring it.
You know, I'm preaching to this boy right here. Too many believers are waiting for a sign of change in themselves or their body, before opening their mouths and declaring it. What are you saying? If God is really quicken in the Word to you, you may not understand it all, but you declare it as truth. Works is faith expressed. Yes, sir.
That's something you do. Yeah, Don't do it if you don't have the revelation and inspiration here. But that's why you come to church to hear the preaching so the Word becomes alive to you.
Don't worry about what's written on your life. This, this, or this, and whatever. It'll discourage you every time. Only just remember what he wrote on the tables of your heart. And that's this precious word right here. And I see some folks back there raising their hand. I agree. And I hope you agree with what I'm saying because it's the truth. It's because brother Jim said it. It is because I'm good 85 and oh milestone whatever that means. And I couldn't care less about age or whatever. I could be 185 for all I'm concerned about because I know one thing. My redeemer lives. And one of these days all the funerals or whatever is going to go on. I don't have to worry about that because I'm already in Him. Amen. Let me hurry here.
Faith doesn't wait for physical evidence. Amen.
It creates it.
I know these are simple, but we got to we got I said, "Brother, it's got to be a simple gospel." Amen. I don't even know if the young boys and the young kids change. Amen. It creates a physical change. So, you are already raptured.
Your body's already ready to leave. Oh, help us, Lord.
Jesus didn't say first feel that you're healed then you will be. No, he said speak or say to this mountain and it shall be removed. And the mountain won't move until faith speaks to it with authority. Amen. That mountain will always be there. But faith can move that mountain there. But faith can move that mountain because there's authority in faith.
It isn't you saying it and yet it is you saying it. That's right. What a simple thought. Mountain say. So you're speaking the very words of life. He said, "Let there be. Let there be." In the book of Genesis, and and I believe it's Genesis 2:7. I'm not positive, but I think it is where he said, "And he breathed in him the breath of life, and man became a living soul." You know what the word breath means? Inspiration because you're either inspired or expired.
You're either alive or you're not alive.
And when you're dead to yourself, somebody can poke and hurt you all you want. You don't care. It's like a drunk man. He doesn't care. He loves anybody ever. And the Holy Ghost makes you drunk on the wine of the word. And it doesn't matter what they say to you. It doesn't matter what you have to go through. But if you're expired, you're not alive.
So, if you're looking for a change, you better just believe that faith will bring that change in your life. Okay? Faith is not weak. It is alive!
They prayed and then brother Branham said and then they stopped and they said, "wait a minute, the Word is the only thing that's going to heal this man", anyway because we as human beings tend to say oh this poor brother look what he's going to leave his family, his children and everything. No, that's not faith talking. You know where faith comes, God, he's a giver of faith. Because He is faith. God is faith. You cannot separate faith from His Spoken Word or Written Word. It's right here. Faith cometh by hearing the Word. So what happened? Instead of making long prayers for this brother, Amen,They just started speaking the word Jesus. JESUS. They did it over and over and over until finally the clouds of despair and impending death started to move away. Didn't have to pray for him anymore. The Bible doesn't say if you pray to this mountain, if you speak, say to this mountain, look how important words are. I just told you how important they were on a glass of water and rice. What about from the heart?
What about when you speak it. Faith is not weak. It's alive and sharper than any two-edged sword. Does it say the word of God? And what discerns the thoughts? Amen. But it goes deeper than that. Intent. Amen. That's right. What's your intent for asking God to heal you ? "Oh, I'm really important". You're nothing. Your intent better be pure before your heavenly Father. And if it isn't, why would you even say such a thing? Because you're not in a category or a place to receive what God's got for you until you humble yourself and say,"Lord, it isn't even important that I get healed of this disease. I just want to worship you." But we don't spend enough time worshiping Him. We just keep asking him questions. Why? God wants us to worship Him. And the word tells us to worship Him and we want to worship Him. But if we've got an agenda and always thinking, well, for me, for me, for me, for me, and you and you forget the most important thing, and that is to worship your heavenly Father for all the good He has done. Amazing grace. Yes, sir, amazing grace has taught my heart to fear.
I didn't know I was lost. Did you know you were lost? Something was hungering in your heart, but you didn't know. Like brother said, you didn't go searching for God. But if there's a quickening power of the Holy Ghost in your soul , there has to be an answer to that. And you will reveal that somewhere somehow down you in your life because it's a word that changes you. Things begin to shift when we enter the unseen realm. Faith is in another realm. Yeah, that's right. Okay. And things in that other realm begin to shift from what we are experiencing in the natural realm. And yet faith is given to affect us in this natural realm, isn't it? Without faith, it's impossible to please God
But you're going to have to receive faith in this realm. Don't wait till we get on the other side. We may not even get on the other side if you don't know what faith is for a toothache. He said, "Okay, things begin to shift. Angels are activating your body right now." Amen. Praise God. He had to constantly go back and he said,"Well, the angel appeared to me and said, you'll have a ministry and if you can get the people to believe." So he always went back to that angel of the covenant knowing that that angel is the one that said you'll have a ministry to what it really was the angels activate your body and it begins to respond to the word. So the angels are causing a response in your life to the word and you just sit there in church and wonder what what is it that something's happening when I hear the word preach? I can't even put it into words. Of course you can. It's from another realm. You don't have even the words to speak it. But if you're sitting there today and receiving it, God is actually speaking to your soul.
Demonic oppression when the angels are present starts to break your oppression then allows your mouth to speak God's truth. That's the only thing that's going to break demonic oppression is God's truth.
It isn't the doctors and philosophers and psychoanalysts and all. That doesn't break depression. That's right. God's truth breaks it. That's right. But brother Jim, we don't have demonic oppression. Oh, really? He's so subtle. He just changed one word to doubt. And guess what? She came under demonic obsession. Amen. Amen. Didn't she? That's right. She plunged the whole world into chaos by one word change. Oh, but he can quote the word, brother Jim. And the services are so good and everything and the pastors got a burden because the people need to be changed. Amen. I have to say this. When Lazarus was in the grave rotted, oh Lord, he stinks. I wrote down here,"What difference does that make?" Amen. I don't care if he stinks. I am the resurrection and the life. So what happens is when he speaks the word the rotten smelly oh the rotten smelly body that they did the best to put all spices and wrapped them all up and everything had to leave instantly for he had a body change. You talk about a body change in and I think it's 1 Corinthians 15. We shall all change in a moment in the twinkling of an eye. That's what Lazarus had. It was a body change in a twinkling of an eye. Do you think Jesus sat there and said,"I wonder if he's going to come out of the grave." No. It's quickening power. He's the giver of quickening power. So a dead Lazarus sitting there had no problem there at all as far as Jesus was concerned.
And three is what? Perfection.
Amen. I never thought of that before, but he must have been, brother. He must have been in the upper room cuz right around that time you think he said, "Oh, no. I don't want to get involved in that." He was already a new person. He doesn't remember the sin you and the blood vessels
Because the creator was standing right there and all he had to do is speak the word, Lazarus. And when he speaks your name, there's something that changes in you and you'll never be the same once.
Well, I'm going to read it to you. Fact is you might be sick. That's a fact. But the truth is you are healed by His stripes. I know that you're with me on this one. I know you are. Fact it might be that you are in pain but the truth is if that same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead is in you quickened your mortal body. Who cares, facts change, truth never changes. The word is truth and when You speak truth consistently. The facts have to bow their knee to the truth. Amen. Your body listens. Oh, I've got some quotes here. Your body listens to your words. That's right. The power is in the tongue. A silent believer is a powerless believer. What am I saying? Speak it out, folks. What's your need? Say to this mountain. All right, you mean to tell me when Jesus cursed that fig tree, that fig tree had to hear that voice?" Yes, sir. How could a tree curl up and die by the roots if it didn't hear a voice? Jesus didn't take a machete or cut it down or drill and put poison in it. He just spoke the word. That's right. What do we talk about?
And you're going to receive the word this morning and it's how it's spoken. But it's not just spoken, it's how you receive it.
So when the scripture says in I think it's Mark 11 where he cursed the fig tree, the cursing was you're not going to produce fruit anymore. And because he created the fig tree, I guess he can curse it when it doesn't produce. So, we've got got an issue here The fig tree had to hear the voice of the creator, right? Didn't it? Yeah. Because it dried up from the roots. That means it heard the voice. Yeah. Now, he moves right in to say going to respond to my voice?
It has to have the capacity, like I said before, it has to have the ability or capacity to hear your voice."
The reason Moses was treated like he was, he couldn't go in the promised land, is because he didn't speak to the rock. God told him to speak to the rock, He struck the rock That's a second crucifixion right there. So when when Jesus said to his disciples, "Speak to the mountain. Be moved." He didn't say he destroyed the mountain. He said,"Speak to the mountain." So that means and if you don't praise me, the rocks will cry out. Well, wait a minute. Rocks don't have a voice. Or do they not?
I'm going to ask you the question this morning. What do you want honestly from your soul? What do you want, brother Paul? Change the body. Well, I think that's probably evident there to everyone here. We want a change in body, right?
So anyway, when we received the truth, it wasn't accepted by everybody. But that's what we had to go through in order to prove what we were predestinated to. So the whole circle of events brought the word back because we spoke the word back through our believing.
"That ain't nothing." Well, Sister Hattie, if she was here, what do you mean by that? She interpreted or defined it or explained it, "but the truth."
So, what she did, she voided everything else out in her thinking. She wiped the slate completely clean and she said "that ain't nothing." In other words, whatever there was that might disagree, kicked it out of her thinking. But it wasn't just there in the head. It was here in the heart. And the eternal God of the heavens was there to quicken that statement from that little sister. She was not the same after she quoted, but she had to speak it out.
The truth.
The truth put her in a position to receive by the heavenly Father anything she wanted. That's right.
You think she's unique in that way? Or do you think you can do the same thing? Of course you can. If it's quickened to your soul, it's by inspiration. Hi, say brother Jim, I don't know I'm different. I know I'll realize that, but I'm trying to get something home here. I'm trying to hold myself down from something here, but let me just visiting another realm. All right. One of them is under direction of an angelic being by a gift and the other one is the inspiration of the Holy Spirit speaking the words of the written word. Praise God. That's a deep thought.
So I just have a little he called it a sermon each night but it's more than a sermonet because we've heard each night or at least a portion which I know that the people of the audience will receive some eternal truth as long as God's word is read.
Amen.
Shall we pray? Heavenly Father tonight get glory, Heavenly Father, out of our efforts that we're trying to put forth for your glory. Now, here lays the word here on the pulpit opened up. But who can understand it when it's written by inspiration promised that it was hid from the eyes of the wise and prudent and would be reveal revealed to babes such as would learn. We pray that you'll let us consider ourselves babes not knowing anything. That we might learn some things through the revelation of the Holy Spirit.
May he take the word I just when I read this. May he take the word of God now, the Holy Spirit, God himself take together on every word in the Bible. It's the most wonderful book that was ever written. There's never been a piece of literature ever written like the Bible. It's the only book in existence to tell you where you came from, who you are, and where you're going. Amen. We got libraries, he said, full of different books, but none of them gives you eternal salvation. Neither one of them, it can be man's ideas. And I don't want man's ideas this morning. I want you to receive what God has got for you, cuz your heart is different than his heart or her heart. But we all have the same desire. We want more of God or should. Amen. Amen. Oh, Lord. Got to say some more here. Just hang on.
She said that same, this is 1959, my new ministry, the same Jehovah Jireh trying to get his promise over to me in my thickness and dullness of mind, he could speak my need into existence, the same as he could speak Abraham's need into existence.
