And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:7). The peace of God is beyond understanding.

But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel (Acts 2:16). With great boldness, Peter stood up before the crowd that so recently had crucified Jesus. Reaching back into the Old Testament, he identified the power that was falling at Pentecost, saying this is that! This is the power Joel told us about.

The Lord has, in this last and final hour, sent me to identify this that is falling in our midst to be that which Peter spoke of around two thousand years ago. That which Joel described is this that is falling today. That is this, the same power that fell at Pentecost, the same Jesus, the same healer, the same greatness of God, the same, the same.

Nothing could be as great as what we have now. We won’t let it go because we know this is really that. Settle it in your mind; we can have what the first Christians had in the Early Church. In fact, we declare that we already have it. It’s here. With all our souls, minds and bodies we say, “If this isn’t that, then we’re going to keep this until that gets here. We want all of God in this last hour.”

A Double Portion of the Spirit

Seeing the greatness of God in the obedient lives of those in Old Testament days illustrates what is available to us. The Old Testament is filled with types and shadows of living realities to come.

Elijah is a type of Jesus ascending back into Heaven as well as a type of the Bride. On his way to that catching-away ground, Elijah took his mantle, wrapped it together and struck the waters of the River Jordan. The waters divided, and Elijah and Elisha crossed Jordan on dry ground. Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me. And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so (II Kings 2:9,10). Elijah’s mantle would fall to Elisha—a double portion of power—if Elisha saw him when he went away.

Did Elisha receive the double portion he asked for? Yes. He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan; And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the LORD God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over (II Kings 2:13,14).

Elisha cried for the Lord God of Elijah with all the faith of Abraham, Moses, Noah and the rest. Heaven heard, and the waters began to separate to the left and the right.

As Elisha saw Elijah taken up into Heaven, the disciples saw Jesus when He went away. Jesus told the disciples that after He went away, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father (John 14:12). Believing all He taught, the disciples received the mantle of power and went to work for Him.

Now the mantle of Jesus has fallen upon the Bride of Christ in this her final hour, bringing with it the power to evangelize the whole earth. No one single church or denomination makes up this Bride but true believers throughout the whole world. The Bride has picked up the Master’s mantle—the Jesus mantle, the Jesus power and authority—and she’s striking the waters, crying with all faith and love: Where is the Lord God of Elijah! Her heart answers, He is right here! Watch Him work; watch Him manifest Himself! Watch Him open blinded eyes and unstop deaf ears. Watch Him make the crippled to walk. Watch, watch, He is here, the Lord God of Elijah! Thank God!

Study the miracles that God performed through Elisha. We thought Elijah was wonderful, but Elisha received a double portion of his Spirit. Note what that double portion did. It was glorious to behold.

Chariots of Fire Filled the Mountain

The king of Syria warred against Israel, but again and again Israel avoided his army. Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye not shew me which of us is for the king of Israel? And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber (II Kings 6:11,12).

The king of Syria thought surely there was a traitor among his people, but the Lord was the one telling Elisha the king’s plans. The king then sent a great army to surround the city Elisha was in—a whole army went after one prophet of God. Even the heathen recognize God when He begins to manifest Himself. He is Lord God Almighty.

The servant of Elisha was in despair on seeing the host of the enemy surrounding them. Alas, my master! how shall we do? And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha (II Kings 6:15-17). All the servant could see was the enemy; he didn’t have the double portion of Elisha. Without the double portion from God, you will see only the enemy and not God’s protecting hand.

Smitten with Blindness

When the army came for Elisha, he prayed unto the LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha. And Elisha said unto them, This is not the way, neither is this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. But he led them to Samaria. And it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha said, LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see. And the LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and, behold, they were in the midst of Samaria (II Kings 6:18-20).

The king of Israel thought it would be the ideal time to smite the Syrian army, but Elisha had others plans. Feed them, and let them go. And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel (II Kings 6:23).

All Heaven Is Connected to the Church

Miracle power, miracle wisdom were Elisha’s; and we must have that miracle know-how in this final hour. The greatness that Elisha had is this that the Bride has today. What greatness was with Elisha!

Elisha is a type of the Church. The spirit of discerning, the spirit of knowledge available to the Church will be wonderful in this marvelous hour. All the greatness of God, all of Heaven is connected with the Church to bring in the world harvest of souls. God will do anything for the true Church, the Bride of His Son Jesus, in this last hour. We are expecting all kinds of fantastic, unbelievable things as God shows His miraculous power.

The Dead Were Raised

In Elijah and Elisha’s day, in Jesus’ day, and in the Early Church, even the dead were raised. All we have to do is go back to that, for this is that. We rejoice knowing that God will do anything and everything great and wonderful to show His miraculous power in this final hour.

It was a simple act of power that raised Lazarus from the dead. With a loud voice Jesus cried, Lazarus, come forth. And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave clothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go (John 11:43,44).

When Peter raised a woman from the dead, again it was by a simple act of power. Tabitha, a woman full of good works, died and was laid in an upper chamber. But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled down, and prayed; and turning him to the body said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes: and when she saw Peter, she sat up. And he gave her his hand, and lifted her up, and when he had called the saints and widows, presented her alive (Acts 9:40,41).

The Acts of the Apostles is the standard for Christian living. It’s for us today—this is that and that is this. It’s ours. It belongs to us. Acts teaches us to be nothing less than Christ like. The Bible does not present a double standard to live by, only one standard—His.

One Mind, One Accord

The refuge of the Early Church was in their coming together in the unity of the Spirit where God’s Spirit was flowing. Their happiness, their joy and contentment, their pleasure was in God’s presence. In one mind and one accord, they enjoyed God’s presence in each other.

When people are in one mind and one accord with the Lord, they want to dine with Him, a banquet, a full course. Their hearts cry for more of Heaven’s food, heavenly manna, served from On High; angel food is glorious indeed. The Lord is filling the Bride with all kinds of wonderful things that will strengthen and give her power over all problems. Deliverance, freedom, liberty—Jesus breaks every fetter and He sets people free. Recognize the freedom in Him that comes when all sin is gone.

The apostles became like Jesus. They thought like Him, talked like Him, took on His mind. They were so much like Jesus that they did greater works, greater in number, more of what He had done when He was here on Earth. Jesus had told them they would.

Signs and Wonders: The Evidence of Belief

Today, many have gone as far away from the Word as they can, deciding the Book of the Acts of the Apostles is unsound. As long as they look on the baptism in the Holy Ghost as fanaticism, they will not have it. As long as they consider signs, wonders, miracles and healings to be false doctrine, they won’t receive them.

Signs and wonders belong to believers; your production in this final hour, saith the Lord, will be the evidence of your believing. Signs and wonders will be the evidence of belief.

To be part of the mighty greatness of God, we must keep moving with Him. He is taking His children on into His greatness, conditioning minds and spirits to receive it all. And these signs shall follow them that believe (Mark 16:17).

We can’t be hopers, critics; we must be believers. Thinking God might perform a miracle is not good enough: We must know it and believe it. Jesus said, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth (Mark 9:23).

There are those who have said they believed and nothing happened. It isn’t to be like that in this final hour. God will honor faith, but it must be real faith with the life of God in it, not just faith “from the tongue out.” God’s faith works.

Faith isn’t a kind of hyper-talk, an empty shout that brings no results. Some people have said they had faith, but that faith was always for some time in the far distant future. Why not believe God will move for you now? Why not step out in God’s faith and stand on His promises in the manner of the Early Church who put their lives on the line believing His Word?

The Acts of the Apostles covers about thirty-three years of the Early Church period, glorious years in which God moved and miracles took place. But in this last hour we can have more than they had in all those thirty-three years of the early rain of the Spirit. We live in the time of the latter rain. The Bible said that the latter rain of the Holy Spirit would be greater than the early rain. Greater works, many more multitudes of miracles, millions of deliverances will take place in this the last hour. Our eyes will behold His glory.

I’ve been with the Lord; I’ve traveled with Him and seen His glory, and now He is letting us know we have entered into His greatness. As I evangelize from place to place, I see it. How exciting to go into different areas and find people ready to receive miracles from God! They come on business to meet God, not me, to meet my Lord and Master. They know that although I can’t heal them, I represent the One who can.

Pray Instead of Play

The ministry as a whole, many times becoming more involved in social functions than in the Word of God, has omitted the Word. When the apostles were confronted with duties that distracted them from preaching the Word they said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables (Acts 6:2).

But the apostles knew feeding the widows was a worthy thing, so they appointed men to take care of that business. Unlike the social-gospel ministers of today, they recognized their responsibility was to serve the Word of God. The Word must go forth.

Live in the Word; pray instead of play; fast instead of feast; and God will answer from Heaven. Ministers who preach current events, sports, rather than the Word have the frown of God.

The Early Church believed the Word; they preached it with the anointing of the Holy Ghost, with power. We will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word (Acts 6:4). They prayed, prayed, prayed and ministered the Word. Everywhere Paul went, he preached the Word.

Scattered in All Directions

At the death of the first martyr, Stephen, the Early Church was scattered in all directions. Through persecution they were scattered, but they did not take a spirit of fear with them; they took the Word, the message of the miraculous Jesus, of His divinity. This is that and that is this.

We have it, too; we have the message of Jesus, His crucifixion, resurrection and the Comforter He sent. We’re fasting, continually in prayer before God. The Word—we are never finished with it, dining, dining on it. Glory be to God! In the early morning hours, late at night, we turn the Word over and over in our minds, spirits and hearts. The Word of the living God, the voice of the Lord, falls on the eager ears of the Bride of Christ. The Spirit brings to her what God has said. God’s Word lives; the Holy Spirit gives it life in us. In Jesus is living reality.

People who have educated their minds but neglected their souls are starved for reality in the Lord, hungering for a simple message of salvation. Men have made God’s Word complicated, mixing in so much humanism that it has no strength, no power to deliver. Doubters render the Word helpless and hopeless, make God look like a disgrace to many people. God will not have it in this final hour. He will brush aside those who have hindered, lifting His Word high before a lost and dying world and setting it into action. We will behold His glory, behold “Thus saith the Lord!” We will behold the arm of the Lord moving with great power to perform miracles as we tell the nations of His might in this last hour, of His great salvation and deliverance. Glory be to God!

Authority to Use the Name of Jesus

When the Lord said, I am the Lord that healeth thee (Exodus 15:26), He made a promise for today. God sent Jesus; He is our healer just as He was the healer when He walked the shores of Galilee. The same Christ ministering with nail-riven hands, He is the Son of the living God.

The power of Jesus was recognized in the beginning by the Early Church. They had been given the authority to use His name, and they used it. Power from On High came through the Holy Ghost. In my name, Jesus said, shall they cast out devils…they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover (Mark 16:17,18). Different ones in the Early Church gave their lives for their testimony, while many religious leaders of the day denied the authority in Jesus’ name.

How much are you willing to give? Some are willing to give all just as the Early Church was. That’s the reason God is moving and will move greater and greater. We can depend on it. This is the hour of greatness, the hour of victory, the hour to go all the way with God.

Rooted and Grounded

Faith doesn’t operate in the wisdom of man but in the power of God. Rooted and grounded in the power of the living God, your faith will be alive, in action on planet Earth today. The Almighty God who spoke the universe into existence, the one who made the first man out of the dust of the earth, who took a rib and made a helpmate for him, still creates and re-creates, saves, heals and delivers. He spoke the earth into existence and hung the earth upon nothing (Job 26:7).

Perhaps you are so ill the doctors have given up; but nothing, no disease, no affliction, is too hard for God. You may have spent much time waiting for man to take care of you, so why be impatient with God? Wait upon God in the prayer chamber for your decisions.

Rooted and grounded in thus saith the Lord, you can claim the promise of healing, the promise of the cure. The Lord is saying to you, Wilt thou be made well? Wilt thou be delivered? I am the Lord that healeth thee; I am the Lord that delivereth thee. I am the Lord that sets you free. I am God, the healing God, the Creator. Look upon Him! Look upon Him and separate Him from all mankind. He is the Almighty, and He stands before you in His greatness to serve you with His greatness. You can have His power if you really want it, if you bow completely to His divine will in using it.

Paul Looked Only to Jesus

For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God (I Corinthians 2:2-5).

Paul, a man educated at the feet of the greatest teachers of his day, recognized Jesus Christ as his source of wisdom. He looked only to Jesus for his knowledge, but many religious leaders today have neglected that divine source in favor of man’s ideas and opinions.

Know Jesus Christ above all, the crucified Jesus. Know His redemption, the spirit of redemption, it’s power and greatness. Heaven’s redemption for Earth people, the great price Heaven paid for it, should be living reality in your heart. If you don’t know the Crucifixion, then you don’t know the value that was paid for redemption. Paul didn’t say he was strong all the time, but that he was in weakness, fear and trembling. Strength came when he held onto God. His speech, lacking enticing words of man’s wisdom, demonstrated the power of the Spirit.

In this last hour, our speech must also demonstrate the Holy Spirit and power of God. Nothing less will get the job done. Many religious leaders today influence people with man’s wisdom and personality. Paul’s speech was in demonstration of the Holy Spirit and of power so that people’s faith would not stand in the wisdom of man but in the power of God. Because people don’t reach to receive the greatness from God, no miracles, no healings, no manifestations of the Holy Spirit are seen in many churches. Man’s wisdom produces dead churches, congregations that don’t know the power and the Spirit of the Almighty.

The Spoken Word, the Written Word, the Word Made Flesh

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth (John 1:14). The incarnate Word, Jesus, came to Earth with His glory.

In Acts we read of the spoken Word. The apostles spake the word of God with boldness (Acts 4:31).

The Epistles were written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart (II Corinthians 3:3). Man had no control over the Epistles; they were written with the Spirit of God, given in pure form.

For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass (Ezekiel 12:25). The Word of God, His promises, can never die; they’re like God Himself. Every promise God has made is backed up by every particle of Him. We can believe, stand on any promise of God.

We have the incarnate Word, the spoken Word and the written Word. How wonderful that God has given us this opportunity to know and give forth His Word!

See God through His Word

See God through His Word. You will not see the true God unless you see Him through the Word. Without the Word, you have only man’s wisdom and knowledge. The Word has been taken out of our schools, out of many hearts. Satan is seeking desperately to destroy the Word. It’s the Word you need. Study the Word, dine on it and become a candidate for a miracle, listening to instructions for that miracle from the Word, the breath and the Spirit of the living God. Let the Word condition you for His miracles. Get ready to meet God and receive that miracle you need. Live in His divine presence, hungering and thirsting after Him more than after food. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled (Matthew 5:6).

You can’t separate God from His Word; and, I say again, only through His Word can you see Him. You must see Him through His Word. People who have no reality of Him are not seeing Him through His Word.

God’s Word Hasn’t Changed

Various Bible translations today omit part of the Word of God. But the Bible says if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life (Revelation 22:19). Be careful what you accept as the Word of God. God hasn’t changed what He said, and you need to make sure man hasn’t changed it for you either. Jesus said, Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away (Luke 21:33). God’s Word will endure forever.

Some feel free to quote people but not the Word of God. Their trust is in people. God tells them the truth through His Word, and they struggle for years trying to believe it. The great, wonderful God of the universe in whom is no fault is all too often not believed.

Instead of using the Word, there are those who grumble, complain like the Israelites of old whom God let wander in the wilderness until they fell over dead before He performed the miracle of taking the others into the land of Canaan. Oh, God, help us accept all the Word of the living God and to declare that this is that and that is this! Thank God for that! Thank God for this! Thank God that is this; we have this and know it to be that.

It’s time to stand in righteous indignation against those who would presume to change any of the Word of God. Don’t buy their books; don’t accept their excuse that the King James version is too hard to understand. If you have the Holy Spirit, you can understand it. The Holy Spirit is the teacher.

Cold to God, many in the religious world today don’t allow His Spirit to write the Word in their hearts, and that’s the reason they have the audacity to deny it. Groups come together to decide what Jesus said or didn’t say. They don’t even know Jesus—how would they know what He would say? He’s the stranger of Galilee in their lives and spirits.

The devil seeks to butcher, to destroy the Word of God, and people give over to his reasoning, become his instruments. Men, women, boys and girls are destroyed because of them. No wonder our nation is in moral decay. It will get worse.

People who don’t believe what God has said try to change His words. We must have the Word of God just the way God spoke it, not after it has been tampered with by unbelieving minds. Make sure you have the real Word of the living God in all of its fullness; let the Word of God be alive for you as you open up your heart to it.

How tragic that humanism has taken over so many as they gather together to rob our Christ of His power, authority and glory. Explaining miracles through natural reasoning, they try to convince people that the Lord didn’t say what the Bible says He did, that He meant something other than what is written, that miracles have a natural explanation. Jesus said, But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men (Matthew 15:9).

Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils (I Timothy 4:1). The doctrines of devils do everything they can to butcher the Word of God, saying it’s not all divinely inspired. But the Bible tells us that the Epistles were written with the Spirit of the living God, that the Scripture came as holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost (II Peter 1:21).

Creative Power of the Word

The Word of God destroys doubt, fear, frustration, unbelief. It’s like God Himself with the same strength. The Word is a weapon that conquers anything unlike God. Mighty indeed, great and wonderful is the Word of God! The Word has the same creative power it had when God spoke the universe into existence, when He said Let it be, and it was.

God is still saying, Let it be. Let that one be healed. Let that one be cured. Let that one be delivered from demons. Let that one be set free from demonic powers! God is speaking, and life is flowing, the same life which flowed into that form of clay in Eden. Nothing in Eden was worthwhile until the life of God quickened it—no intelligence, no wisdom or knowledge, no movement or life. When God breathed into a lifeless form He was saying, Let it be! Let this form be a living man with intelligence, with a mind that can make decisions, can think like my mind.

This is that and that is this, and no one can take it away from us. If this is not that, we’re going to hold onto this because this is so great and mighty nothing on Earth can compare to this greatness of God, this wisdom, this knowledge, this demonstration of His power.

Act On the Word

I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ (Philippians 3:8). How many have that kind of vision today? How many count the things of the world valuable and the things of Jesus as nothing? All too many.

Paul counted all things as loss for the knowledge of Jesus Christ. He treasured Christ’s wisdom, power, knowledge, thoughts, love, faith.

When the things of God are counted as nothing, God is made to look less powerful than a man. Degraded, sinful, ungodly minds today are like those in the days of Noah and Sodom and Gomorrah. Those who give their minds over to evil betray the God who made them.

Overriding His critics, Jesus taught in Mark 9:23, All things are possible to him that believeth. All things are possible for Bible believers. Are you a believer? Do you really believe all that God has said? Do you believe enough to act out His Word, enough to stand on it, to breathe through it and place your life in the midst of it, to trust your life with it completely?

The Early Church preached the Word with all the power and greatness that God had given it. The Word went forth with the same assurance, the same faith, love and power—and effect—it had when Jesus spoke it here on Earth. As though Jesus had come back to speak in an audible voice, the miracles happened.

God’s greatness is the same in this hour. We can speak, and it will be the same as Jesus speaking; and when Jesus speaks it’s the same as God speaking. When God speaks, it’s done.

Bathe your minds not in people’s opinions. Elijah asked, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him (I Kings 18:21). Bathe your mind in God’s opinion only. The God that answereth by fire, let him be God (verse 24). The miracle-working God of Elijah is our God today. This is that and that is this. If this is not that, then we’ll hold to this until that comes. But we know that this is that.

The Word Prevailed and Increased

So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed (Acts 19:20). The Word of the living God is all too often overlooked. Many do not believe the Word prevails over everything, over all sin. If the Word doesn’t prevail over all sin, then it wouldn’t be the Word of God.

In the Early Church, the Word prevailed until the shackles fell from those bound in sin. The Word prevailed until it brought light to those in darkness.

The Word of God prevailed until it cast down all manner of sicknesses and diseases. The Word prevailed until it shook whole cities. The Word prevailed and went into the hearts of more and more people, and therefore the number of disciples was multiplied. The more the Word worked, the more it prevailed in the minds of people. The Word prevailed until imaginations were crushed to Earth, and the reality of Jesus filled minds and hearts, the reality of Calvary, all the greatness of the finished work on the Cross.

The Word grows and prevails when it lives in hearts, when it leaps up with all the life of God. Ink on paper doesn’t prevail; it’s the Word like a fire shut up in the bones that destroys unrighteousness, unholiness.

And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly (Acts 6:7). What power, what greatness increased in the Early Church; and thank God, we have it again today. We have the finished work of Calvary that delivered us from all sin, all demonic spirits. We’re free because the Son has set us free through His shed blood on Calvary.

Let the Word increase in your life, in your spirit, in your mind. As it increases, problems that have troubled you, made you weak, battled your mind, will be destroyed.

Thinking on the things of the Word will help the Word increase in your life. Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things (Philippians 4:8). The Holy Ghost gave this knowledge to Paul. The Pauline Epistles were not written with ink alone but by the Spirit of the living God. As long as you look on them as just written in ink, they won’t have power for you.

Searchers for God’s Reality

Jesus said our day would be like the days of Noah. But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be (Matthew 24:37-39). We see the same kind of minds today that caused people in Noah’s day to think evil continually. Having a form of godliness, many people—even so called Christians—deny God’s power. Where is the power of God in the churches? Where are the praises? Where is love for God? Sincere people looking for Jesus go from church to church, trying to find Him in His reality. They have read about the true Jesus, and they’re in search of Him. Don’t you hear the tramping feet of those searching in America and in other nations, hear their hearts’ cry? I’m looking for Jesus. I see the steeple, but where is Jesus? I see the pews, the pulpit, but where is Jesus? Show me Jesus! Do you represent Him? Why don’t I see miracles? Why don’t I see His manifestations? I see none of His power and greatness. You don’t have Him here; I’m going somewhere else. On they go, ever searching.

People will not find Jesus unless we show them through the Word of God. We must get them to look through His Word so they can believe to see Him in His great power. His manifestations must be in the midst of us to show the searchers that Jesus is here, that He’s the live Christ. He lives, He lives, He lives!

God, we honor you; we treasure your living Word. No wonder Stephen died for it! No wonder he freely gave himself for it! Who would die for a dead book, a dead Christ? Stephen knew Jesus was alive. Facing death, Stephen, full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God (Acts 7:55,56). He wouldn’t have seen Jesus had he not first seen Him through the Word and learned about Him through the Word.

God Confirms His Word

You found you could either trust or distrust your parents through what they said; you knew them by their promises. Never did my parents tell me an untruth. I learned to trust them by what they said—how much more can we trust God by what He says in His Word! He speaks, and He confirms His Words. You can’t separate God from His Word—they didn’t in the Early Church. They proclaimed the Word, declared it, preached it; and God confirmed it. They expected it to be confirmed.

In the religious world today, however, it seems that few expect the Word to be confirmed. Not enough divine truth is preached for God to confirm. When the Word is preached—preached in all its power, in all of thus saith the Lord and none of the wisdom of man—God confirms it. God will not confirm man’s opinions, only what He says. We can talk after God.

For of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh (Luke 6:45). From the abundance of God’s heart come words of life. The Bible is either a Book of Life for you or just ink and paper. When you hold the Bible, you are holding God.

I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day (II Timothy 1:12). When you have committed everything into His hands, He is the keeper of it all. Then you have nothing to worry about, nothing to fret over. The Bride is on her way to take Jesus to the world and then to go home. This is that and that is this, and if that is not this, then we’re holding onto this until that comes. Believe what God has to say; believe all His Word.

Come to Jesus

Thank God, Sinner, that Jesus died for you. I declare to you that the Lord will save your soul, wash away your sins if you want Him to. No matter how many sins you have committed, salvation is promised in His Word. You can trust Him and His Word for all time and eternity. His Word will never fail. Trust Him right now. Sinner, come to Jesus while you yet have time, while the Holy Spirit is striving with you. One day He will strive no longer. Come to Jesus while He is knocking at your door. One day He won’t knock. Come to Him while He is pleading. One day He won’t plead or cry over you anymore. When God wipes away all His tears never to cry for another sinner, no more will be redeemed.

If you think God will cry over those who die and are cast into hell for all eternity, you are badly mistaken. God will shut you off, seal you into forgetfulness, just like He casts sins into the sea of forgetfulness to never remember them again. And He’ll never remember you. Is that what you want? If not, come to Jesus now. Pray the sinners’ prayer with me: Oh, God, save my soul! Forgive me of my sins. I’m so sorry I sinned against you, but I have come home; and I’m going to serve you, Lord, the rest of my life. I believe the blood of Jesus washes away all of my sins, all of my sins. Come on in, Jesus, come on in. Hallelujah He has come; hallelujah, He is mine!

It’s wonderful to welcome Him into your life, the experience of all experiences. Nothing is quite so great as having Jesus walk in and take over one’s life. Cleansing the life, He makes it brand new, a vessel of honor. We love you, dear Jesus!

God Is Your Healer

When, in my early twenties, I was gravely ill, the Lord came to me and spoke. It didn’t matter how many afflictions were in my body at that time; it didn’t matter about my heart and lungs; it didn’t matter about the ulcer that had about taken my life from me. The heart, lungs and stomach would be all right. The Lord let me know I was going to be well all over, and I trusted in Him. Although death was right there, it couldn’t take me. I was at the edge of the grave that night the Lord backed death off as though it were nothing. Jesus stood there and made me well all over.

That wonderful Jesus with the nail-riven hands took me by my hand and led me out of the bondage of sickness and death. He is so precious! As he led me out, He breathed His life into my body just as He had breathed His life into my soul when I was eighteen years old.

I had suffered much, and I listened to what He was saying. “Later, you will go on a long fast; and when you come out of that fast, you will have my power for the healing of the people.” It had been more than enough to have said, “I am making you well,” but He said He would give me His power for others. I’ve seen Jesus make many people well since that night. He has given me His power for the healing of the people just as He said. I have much compassion for the sick. The same healing Lord that healed me, the same Jesus, not another, can heal you. He is where you are.

You who are sick and afflicted, do you believe God? Do you believe in miracles? If you don’t believe in miracles today, you don’t believe in God. It’s just that way. Everything about our God is miraculous. His works are miraculous. Multitudes have been healed through His power. Skeptics mock, but they don’t receive. Those who receive are those who accept God’s way for man. God made His ways for man in great simplicity so that man could walk and talk with Him, work for and with Him.

If you are sick or afflicted, pray this prayer with me now: Here they are, Lord. I bring the sick and afflicted to you. Lay a healing hand on the sick and afflicted today. From your supernatural gift of miracles, from your supernatural gifts of healing it comes in the name of your Son Jesus. Heal! in the name of the Lord. Heal! in the all-powerful name of Jesus.

It is happening, the healing power is flowing, flowing into the bodies of you who accept it. Keep it there by not doubting. Make up your mind with God’s mind that you are going to be all right. Now get well.

God bless you. Write and tell me what happened as you prayed with me, and I will rejoice with you. We know, we know without a doubt that this is that that Joel the prophet and Simon Peter told about. Bible days are here again. Open your heart and receive the great outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

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