I didn't figure a distant God would have much to say to a heathen like me. I wanted more than just a God who wouldn't strike me dead. I wanted a God I could talk to. One of the greatest passages of scripture in the Bible is found in Matthew: Now the birth of Jesus...

Healing has been a part of my life for a long time. Once I got the revelation on walking in health, I've been free from sickness ever since. I've had some great opportunities to get sick, but I've resisted every one of them. I remember this one time especially....

Women are phenomenal people. They really are. That's not to say that I really ever understood one of them, but they are phenomenal people. But I'll tell you one thing - they sure don't have the same nature as a man. Take a man noticing another man, for instance. If...

When I first started going to church as a boy, I couldn't find God there. I went to the place where He was supposed to be, and He wasn't there. In fact, church was the place where I learned to wind my watch. That's simply the truth. I didn't get anything out of...

It's fun being saved. But sometimes God will put you in funny situations because you are saved. For example, I was in Denver, Colorado, once waiting for a plane after preaching. I had just been to Montana, where I had preached at a college in Missoula. After that I...

You know how I got filled with the Holy Ghost? I got filled with the Holy Ghost by a cross-eyed preacher. He was as cross-eyed as a bat, son. This guy could be looking directly at you, and you couldn't tell it. This boy was cross-eyed! He was not only cross-eyed,...

I was preaching at a meeting once, when afterward this lady came up to me and said, "Brother Jesse, I'm going to cook you the best gumbo you'll ever eat in your life." Now, I very seldom ever go to people's homes and eat. It's not that I'm unfriendly; I'm a very...

Now, I want you to know that I don't ordinarily look at other women. I'm not the kind of guy who notices them. In fact, I don't notice much of anything around me unless it's really in my face. For me to notice something, it's really got to be right up in my face. I...

Let me tell you something. Before I was saved, I couldn't sin without God telling my mamma about it. Mamma had made Jesus her future so much that God would tell her when I was sinning. That aggravated the socks off me. I could be 700 miles away from Mamma, and she...

We all love babies, don't we? Babies are so wonderful when they're born. I'll never forget the day my own daughter was born. Jodi was born a Texan at Arlington Memorial Hospital. Everyone else in our family was born a Cajun in New Orleans, but my daughter is a...

One day a lady stopped by my office while I was working. Now, usually I'm never in my office, but I happened to be there when this lady dropped by. When she came through the main doors, she saw me and said, "Oh, Brother Jesse!" to get my attention. I had never seen...