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Brother Mike
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Miracles move people to God, and stir things up. Time for us to step up
By Brother Mike
We live in a perverse generation, a time where people have shut the Mighty God of Israel, our Father out of any thought in their own lives. It's going to take more than just preaching the Word to get these folks attention. It's going to take a combination of the Love of the Lord Jesus, and His ability, Plus preaching the Word. A lot of the Church body today is trying to get people saved with one hand tied behind their backs. They preach the Love of Jesus to people concerning salvation, but unlike the early church, there is no help from Jesus to these people to make things right in their life.
Now I am not trying to come off as someone who is practicing what I am preaching. In fact, the last several years I have been just content going to Church and learning. The Lord though has gotten my attention, and Chastisement is not pleasant, but better than the outcome if you don't accept correction. I have no excuse, I know more and had been given more, but not using it. The good news is you can grow in the More, and get even more, but you have to start believing, and get knowledge of the Love of God.
The power of God, reaches people that could not be reached with just Words. Even those that reject, will still believe, but to their own hurt.
Religious leaders believed, but that did not seem to help them.
Act 4:14 And beholding the man which was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.
Act 4:18 And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
Peter healing the man at Gate beautiful brought a whole bunch of trouble. For one, Not even people with a hard heart could deny the man was not healed. For others it brought hope, because this Jesus they preached was real.
Being threatened, the Apostles prayed.
And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word, By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus. And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness. And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common. And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.
(Act 4:29-33)
There were two parts to this witness of the Lord Jesus. Speaking the Word in boldness, and signs and wonders. They both have to be working together to be a effective witness.
I have seen folks just call on the Holy Spirit and wanting to jump into the healing and miracles. No Word, just a wanting for God to move and heal.
I have seen folks just preach the Word, and no power to back what they preached.
Folks, it ought not to be. We need to speak boldly the Word, and step out to the sick, and those that need things from God. The Lord will Confirm that, what we say is true, by performing his Word around us.
What we preach, needs to meet people's needs with the truth of the Gospel and demonstration of power.
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.
(1Co 2:4-5)
Most of us just trying to talk people out of Hell and into accepting the Lord Jesus by presenting arguments that Jesus is a better way to go. That is only going to be effective with a few people. A demonstration of the power of the Spoken Word will get everyone's attention.
One example in my life:
I was working in a Kitchen, and we had a pan steamer that boiled veggies in big flat pans. I had about 4 people around me and as I was trying to get the top pan out it caught something and boiling water went all over my arm. The whole arm.
Next thing I know, I have folks scrambling to get me to a sink, it was not the first burn they have seen from these steam pans. One person was say I could go into shock, and I have all these people grabbing on me telling me what to do. They saw the boiling water and green beans go over my whole arm.
I had to yell, stop guys, watch. I said, "In the name of Jesus devil, you can't burn me, I don't accept any burns."
I then held out my arm and told everyone to look. It was red slightly but no burns, no skin peeling off, and I said, "This is the Jesus I tell you guys about."
Now the questions start coming in, the Lord has everyone's attention. I can't honestly remember anyone getting saved that day, but I had a couple Wicca folks there who just questioned me all day about the Lord. Others would come by and said if I not seen it, I would not have believed it.
Now, I would rather the Lord help someone in a awesome way instead of dumping boiling water on myself. In fact at first it was extremely painful, so not my preferred method of showing the love and goodness of God. The effect was the same though, the spoken word was backed by the Lord with me.
Weight Loss: (last night)
Now, I was just browsing youtube and ran across this.
I need to loose weight, and thought why not. I always thought being overweight was just disobedience and you deserve what you get. My thinking on it was wrong. So I weighed myself a few times to get an accurate weight, then I just did what Thomas did in the video.
I have a witness, 5 pounds gone in just minutes. It's not so much the Miracle that got my attention, but the Love of God and our belief on his Love. Just how good is God?
It's not really about learning all the healing scriptures (though it would not hurt) it's about your understanding of God's Love, and does God love people enough to help them loose weight, heal them, and set them free?
It's your knowledge of this Love that will cause you to reach out to people, and say, "My God wants you free, be healed in the name of Jesus, Satan!!! Let them go now!!!"
Edit: 7 pounds now this morning. I do have a witness and triple weigh to make sure.
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