good morning my friends i'm pastor
stephen brooks
welcome today to our online internet
around the world
church service i'm so happy that you're
here today
because i'm convinced that as you hear
the word of god
and as it goes into your heart as a seed
sown
i'm convinced it's going to bring forth
the 100-fold return
of a life that you enjoy of
righteousness peace and joy
in the holy spirit a very blessed and
contented
life praise god let's take our bibles
and go to
the first book in the bible which is the
book of genesis
we're going to go to chapter 8 and i
want to talk just for a moment as we're
going to bring in
the tithes and the offerings into the
storehouse
i want to mention to you about the
subject of
dream seeds praise god
genesis chapter 8 verse 22 tells us
while the earth remains and let me just
insert
that despite many of the movies that are
out there
science fiction movies or action
adventure movies many of which i never
watched today because they're all
so full of violence and profanity but
they
seem to have a fascination at the end of
the movie
they have to blow up the planet
[Laughter]
either they're going to blow up a city
blow up a bridge blow
up something but they like to blow
everything up and some of them even like
to endeavor to blow up the planet earth
but it says in ecclesiastes chapter 1
verse 4
that the earth abides forever
so the earth is not going anywhere while
the earth remains
okay so here are laws that are going to
function
throughout eternity while the earth
remains
seedtime and harvest cold and heat
winter and summer and day and night
shall not cease these laws
which is what they are they are natural
laws they also have
spiritual parallels they're never going
to
go into some kind of a state where they
they're suspended or they don't work
anymore
my friends are going to work every day
all day long
all night long whoo praise god for
all of eternity now notice here that it
says
seedtime and harvest shall not cease
seedtime and harvest
shall not cease i would like to tell you
today that
the dreams that you have and
particularly the one dream that has
really
captured your imagination it's a dream
that god has placed within your heart
something that you want to see come to
pass
nothing is out of reach of a seed
when that seed is sown and then
multiplied
and you enjoy your multiplied harvest
nothing is out of reach of a seed so
it's very important
that we sow what i would call from time
to time
so what i would call dream seeds
praise god you have a dream you can't
reach it in the natural
ah but you can reach it by sowing seed
because god can take the seed
and multiply it and bring that thing
into
your life and i would even encourage you
to
name your dream seed
and i think there used to be some
conversation about 15 years back
maybe about 20 years ago in the body of
christ where some
were not quite sure about naming a seed
but the truth is my friends we name all
kinds of seeds all
all of the time and if you go to the
grocery store
you don't have to go to the grocery
store you can go to a farmer's market
you can go to
lowe's you get a home improvement store
you can go to home depot
and you're going to see the lawn garden
area
and they have these displays during
spring and summer
uh and of course also in the fall when
they go on clearance sale
of all the seed packets and you can buy
fruit seeds vegetable seeds you can buy
cantaloupe seeds bell pepper seeds uh
cherry tree seeds and on and on and on
it goes
but my friends those seed packets are
the are seeds that are
named why so that you can know
what you're sowing for and you can
anticipate
the harvest that you desire by sowing
a specific seed for a specific harvest
so we name seed all the time so don't
let that throw you my friends of course
we do
and the truth of the matter is if we dig
into it deeper you and i
we're all here because of a seed the
seed of
your father the seed of my father
connecting with in my mother's womb
producing me and here i am and there you
are
and what do we do with this outcome of a
seed we named it
they named me stephen praise god they
gave you your name
so everything is named it all is
originating from seed form
praise god and so we need to work these
timeless
principles thank you lord jesus can you
imagine
can you imagine a person that you go up
and you talk to them
and they tell you all about their dream
how they're believing god for this
certain thing and you ask them well
that's wonderful god can do it for you
have you sown a seed for your dream
and they look at you like you're crazy
but the whole time the truth is that
they're crazy because what kind of look
you don't even have to be a farmer
doing this for full-time living but what
kind of a person even if you're a normal
person
that uh has maybe like a traditional
eight to five type job and maybe you
even work in an office all day you're
not even an outdoors person
but yet you want your own uh tomatoes
and so you go to the store and you get
the little tomato seeds and you
raise them in the kitchenette of your
home
praise god well my friends uh a person
could say
well uh i'm i'm believing god for
uh tomatoes well you would say well did
you plant tomato seeds
uh if they say no well then you know
you're talking to somebody
that probably has never read genesis
chapter 8 verse 22
but my friends you can sow dream seeds
and god can touch that seed
multiply it turn it into a harvest and
what was
out of reach for you is never out of
reach for god
when you work with him on that seedtime
and harvest
format that he has established now
let me say that the tithe which is ten
percent
of all of your increase the tithe is
holy it
already belongs to god so your tithe is
not
a seed the tithe is simply a tithe
and it belongs to the lord and we honor
the lord with the tithe
but the seed the the offering
is what you sow above the tithe praise
the lord
somebody's getting delivered from tight
fistedness hallelujah praise god
they think they're a financial champion
of giving when they tithe but the tithe
is just
the elementary beginning it's elementary
faith praise god and you can go on from
there and you know the tithe is all the
lord asks for
unless there are also special occasions
when the holy spirit can even move upon
your heart
can even at times instruct you to sow a
seed
i remember a friend of mine that i was
trying to minister to
about about the baptism in the holy
spirit i was trying to minister to him
about
uh the lord's principles and the lord's
kingdom system and he was like a rebel
he loved the lord he'd gotten filled
with the holy spirit but he still had a
rebel edge to him
so it was almost like anything that was
established
truth within the church he would maybe
challenge it or
not really go for it and
so he was always like that but i would
always try to encourage him and give him
scripture
to convince him not opinions or theories
but give him chapter and verse
[Laughter]
and so um he told me one time and this
is after i'd
encouraged him to obey the lord in these
principles
he said one time he was in a meeting
and there was a minister and the
minister did something that he said he
had never done before but the minister
said
there are some here in this in this
meeting
the holy spirit is impressive upon your
heart to sow a thousand dollar seed
and by the way i'm not trying to raise
an offering today okay that's that's not
the purpose
i'm teaching so that when the holy
spirit moves on your heart
you you have foundation okay so
he said that he thought that was silly
but at the same time he had a financial
need he was a businessman
but he was having some setbacks and this
minister said
i believe there's many in here right now
the holy spirit is really speaking to
you
to sow a 1 000 seed he said i've never
said this before i've never done this
before
but this is what i'm getting from the
holy spirit and if you'll do this
god will do a financial recovery in your
life he'll really
give you a breakthrough where you need
it and of all things
that that friend of mine he said he said
stephen i did it
he said i sold a thousand dollars and he
said god
blessed me and pulled me out of a
uh a business sticky situation a mess
really financially that i had gotten in
and he said i've recovered now and i
said well that's
that's wonderful so i'm just saying my
friends that the tithe belongs to the
lord
and the harvest excuse me the the the
offerings that we give in
anticipation of the harvest those are
just things we sow
we give as love offerings praise god but
you can sow dream seeds
as love offerings and say god lord you
know how much money i make this is like
my annual income or whatever you know
you could run that out on the paper and
calculate those numbers but maybe
there's something beyond that
and it would take god to reach it and
bring it into your life
that's why you can sow seed because
nothing is out of reach for
a seed so my friends not only does the
tithe belong to the lord and
that's what we need to do but we need to
be people that have generous hearts
and uh we need to look for those golden
opportunities
when the holy spirit makes it available
and the anointing is there
to sow into good opportunities so that
we can sow seed and
reap wonderful harvest praise god
i'm honored to be able to teach
the word of god and also to teach the
principles
of giving of tithing because
it allows many people that watch this
program
it allows them the opportunity to sow
it gives them the privilege to sow so
that they could have
a blessed harvest whoa praise god
so my friends always have a giving
spirit
and remember that god's word is a seed
it is word in a it is seed in a word
format
and when you take it and you receive it
into the soil of your heart
it is producing it is producing the life
that god has intended for you to live
so there's a lot of people out there
that don't understand
kingdom principles they laugh at things
like this
but you know what they may laugh but for
those that apply it
it keeps on working it keeps on working
irrespective of what's going on in the
economy
and this this covenant based upon
tithing and sea time of harvest
it'll keep on working it doesn't matter
what the weather is going to do
because you're going to always have
different types of weather
you're going to have winter and summer
you're going to have cold and heat
and these various changes you'll even
have day and night
my friends but you tie into god's
principles
and you'll become established and of
course the tithe
brings a divine protection into your
life
where the devourer is rebuked
and there is a supernatural spiritual
force shield that's put around your
protection
and blessing as well as the flow of the
reign of ideas
touching your mind with creative wealth
generating ideas praise the lord so my
friends
i just wanted to say today look for
opportunity to sow
dream seeds for me
it's not just a one-time event for me
and my wife we
we just yes we always give the lord the
tithe but we look for those special
opportunities to sow
why because we're believing god for
great things and i know you are too
and god's going to do it for you let me
pray for you right now
heavenly father as your people walk in
the principles of your word
which will always be functioning
just as the earth is remaining it's
going to be here
we thank you father god for the proper
understanding
of seedtime and harvest and that it is
never ever going to cease
this principle will never grow old and
be put on a shelf
father god it is timeless and we
operate by your principles now father we
thank you for the privilege
of being able to sow even dream seeds
we give you praise because you want us
to walk
in the fullness of the promised
inheritance
that you have made available for all of
us we give you praise
we thank you father god that the tithe
secures
anchors the covenant and that seedtime
and harvest
father god allows you to become actively
involved in fulfilling the promises
that have been spoken over our lives now
father bless your people
i thank you that your holy spirit leads
them and
guides them and shows them the proper
soil to sow
dream seeds in jesus name
amen and amen now for those of you that
are bringing the tithe
and the offering into the storehouse of
the lord if you prefer to mail it in
you can send it to stephen brooks
international
p.o box 717
po box 717 moravian falls north carolina
our zip code 28654 now if you
prefer to bring the tithe and offering
in online
you can do so anytime day or night from
any place in the world please
visit the ministry website
stevenbrooks.org
there's a link on the home page that
says give as a red heart
you can click that you'll see the box
where you can bring
your tithes in and you also see a couple
of projects
various projects that we're focused on
here at the ministry and if you would
like to sow into those
one of those you could sow like a dream
seed if you wanted to as you're
believing god for your harvest
[Music]
and name your seed name your seed praise
god
hallelujah hallelujah father bless your
people
bless your people as they sow dream
seeds let them
receive their dream harvest father we
give you praise
we give you praise in jesus name
amen praise god
now let's take our bibles and we're
going to go today to the book of
ephesians chapter 4
and i want to discuss that there are two
proven paths to victory two
praise god and we are going to talk
about these two proven paths
and you can take either one
or you could take some of both they're
both uh
delicious praise god but i want to
unveil to you one path that is proven
highly effective
then i want to show you another one that
you must
be aware of we're going to be today in
the excuse
me the book of ephesians chapter 4.
we're going to start in verse 7 and
let's pray
heavenly father as we go into your word
we thank you that your word is a seed
and as we are receiving the seed
of your mighty word
we thank you that it is producing the
100-fold return
in our lives we give you praise father
god
we give you praise o god because you are
a miracle working god
and we are ready to receive a miracle
thank you in jesus name amen praise the
lord
now verse 7
but to each one of us grace was given
according to the measure of christ's
gift
therefore he says when he in reference
to christ
when he ascended on high he led
captivity
captive and gave gifts to men
praise the lord well there's a couple of
ways
of looking at this phrase he led
captivity captive
one of the ways to look at this would be
that
when christ died on the cross
he went down into the area
within the center of the earth where
there is a spiritual
area where the
saints were kept at from old testament
times
they were kept in a spiritual realm that
was known as
abraham's bosom and outside of that
area that paradise type holding place
area known as abraham's bosom there was
a chasm
and on the other side of this massive
deep
impassable chasm on the other side was
the place of torment
and torture that we would know as hell
and many theologians believe that when
christ
went down into this place of abraham's
bosom
he gathered up all of the old testament
saints
and said come on i'm getting you out of
here
i'm taking you to heaven with me
so in a sense as he ascended he took
captivity
that all those who were held captive in
that temporary holding place
he took them with him to heaven and
that's
that's one view and i could understand
that because
when jesus was on the mount of
transfiguration he had conversation
in the spirit realm with moses and
elijah
and we are told that the convict
conversation
centered around the lord's
uh upcoming death and
what was exactly said we're not real
sure but
i'm sure it was probably something along
this line
where moses and elijah said
you know um jesus
what you're about to do you're the only
one
that can get it done and jesus
all of our sins have been covered by
animal blood
from the old testament you know
dispensation
but jesus you're the only one that can
pay that
that that massive debt off because the
sins have been covered
but they're still there they're just
covered they're atoned for
but they were saying jesus you're almost
there
you've got to stick with it you've got
to get this done you're the only one
that can get us out of this place so
that is one viewpoint
is that when he ascended he took
captivity captive and on his way up
he released gifts ministry gifts to men
now another view of this would be that
when jesus went down when he descended
upon his death
he took the keys of death and hell
and he took that authority or that
ability
of the enemy to hold captive
not only god's people by afflicting them
but also
what had been inflicted upon the human
race that ability to
capture people and really to enslave the
souls of men and women
and so he took that captivity or that
that authority to to
imprison people through evil
authority he took that and when he went
up
he took all of that authority back he
had it all now
everything that adam lost jesus has now
won back so he stripped completely
all of the power of darkness all of
their authority
and now for the believer now not those
that are lost that are in the world that
don't know christ
but for the believer satan now has no
authority over the believer now yes he's
still going to endeavor to tempt
he's going to endeavor to do certain
things
to you know induce sin
but but he cannot force somebody to do
that
so we can resist which is what we do and
when we resist the devil
he flees from us praise the lord
so i think in some ways there can be
some truths
from both of these theological
viewpoints
but one thing's for sure he had gone
down but
he didn't stay there he ascended he went
up he led captivity captive
and during that time when he was
ascending he gave gifts
to men now he is going to list what
those
gifts are they are ministry offices
verse 9. now this he ascended what does
it mean but that he
also first descended into the lower
parts of the earth
he who descended is also the one who
ascended far above all the heavens that
he might fill all things
and he himself gave some
now not all in the church are given
these
ministry gifts but some are and he
himself
gave some to be apostles some
prophets some evangelists and some
pastors and teachers
so there's five ministry offices these
ministry offices
are called ministry gifts so they are
the fivefold ministry gift office so
i think it's important to realize that
because if you didn't have
the church leadership if you took away
the apostle
prophet evangelist pastor and teacher
i mean what are you going to have left
and so
i you wouldn't have much to uh
who's going to teach how are we ever
going to learn anything it's it's like
we would be stuck in a perpetual dark
ages
that never ended but thank god we have
the five ministry offices
verse 12 tells us what they're for for
the equipping of the saints for the work
of ministry
so it's to equip saints for the edifying
of the body of christ okay so to
strengthen and build up god's people
till so there's a time frame till we all
come to the unity of the faith
now you have some teach that we no
longer have the ministry office of the
apostle or prophet that's not true all
five of them
are till we all come to the unity of the
faith
so if you don't have those two you don't
have the other three either if you don't
have apostle prophet then you don't also
have teacher pastor evangelist it's
either all or none
praise god till we all come to the unity
of the faith
and so there's going to be unity that's
brought by the fightful ministry
and of the knowledge of the son of god
to a perfect man
now that that phrase perfect man means
somebody that's very mature
that's what the fivefold ministry is for
is to bring the saints into
maturity to the measure of the stature
of the fullness
of christ that we no longer be children
so the fightful ministry brings young
believers out of the state of infancy
disciples them trains them equips them
builds them up strengthens them and
helps them to walk into
maturity that we should no longer be
children tossed to and fro
carried about with every wind of
doctrine by the trickery of men in the
cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting
but speaking the truth in love may grow
up in
all things into him who is the head
christ so really the five-fold ministry
is a is the work of the lord
the work of the lord to bring the body
into maturity
where we see the image of christ within
god's
people that mature image of christ
hallelujah praise god
and that is very very exciting now
the five ministry offices of apostle
prophet evangelist pastor and teacher
are all active and functioning in the
church
today all around the world
now there was a season where some of the
ministry offices were very much
belittled or in some ways
you could almost call it they were like
a book put on the shelf
and not used for a long time but now all
five
are restored and really functioning
strong in the church
you know it wasn't until the the 70s
mainly
going into the early 70s where we had a
teaching movement
here in the western world uh in the
western church and it swept
all around the world and it really began
to
bring forth the reality that the
teaching office
is vital within the body of christ
because before that
we had a lot of you know evangelistic
ministry and things like that and who
who would have ever thought that people
would sit and listen to somebody
just teach the word wow
my friends today uh there's you know
teaching
digital downloads there's teaching cds
there's teaching books and there's
materials and materials why
to teach teach teach god's people and
there was
what we would call a teaching movement
to restore
the teaching office back into the church
and much of that
would be in a sense through the move of
the spirit that we would call the word
of faith movement
where when that was at its height i mean
it was just teaching teaching teaching
teaching
but it was vibrant revelatory teaching
and of course
we still operate in those truths today
but thank god we have all five
ministry offices functioning in miracles
and signs
and wonders praise the lord now let us
also be mindful that jesus
stood in all five ministry offices
as a singular individual he still
operated as
the apostle the prophet the evangelist
pastor
and teacher etc so
he could wear multiple hats all at the
same time
and of course jesus was highly anointed
in these ministry offices
and today jesus as the head of the
church
is the one who still dispenses ministry
gifts and he chooses some to be an
apostle chooses some to be a prophet and
a teacher or pastor whatever the case
might be that's the lord's
sovereign choosing praise the lord now
i want you to see something very
interesting
in luke chapter five please turn there
with me luke chapter 5
praise the lord and i'm talking about
two
proven paths to victory and i want to
share
the first path to victory with you
that can be attained through the
blessing
of the fivefold ministry office of these
ministry gifts
that christ has given to the church you
can
receive victory through god's anointed
ministers praise the lord now
luke chapter 5
and let's go to verse 17
praise god now it happened on a certain
day as he was teaching
this would be jesus that there were
pharisees and
teachers of the law sitting by who had
come out of every town of galilee
judea and jerusalem so you have
basically the foremost torah teachers
on the face of the earth here in this
meeting with jesus
and the power of the lord was present
to heal them the power
of the lord was present to heal them
and all of those men that were there
that had certain conditions or certain
issues
because sometimes people just have
certain things they need a healing
for that power was there to heal them
all
but only one person got healed and that
my friends was
a paralyzed man now
in the meetings of the lord jesus christ
so often anybody that was sick
was healed and in other cases so often
anybody that was demon-possessed
and the lord's meetings you could get
delivered from that
demonic oppression and let me just share
that with you from a couple of verses
and then i'm going to loop back to what
i just read to you but i would first
like to share
matthew chapter 8 verse 16. when evening
had come
they brought to him many who were
demon-possessed
and he cast out the spirits with the
word
and healed all all all
who were sick matthew 14 verse 14
and when jesus went out he saw a great
multitude
and he was moved with compassion for
them and healed
their sick matthew 19 verse 2
and great multitudes followed him and he
healed
them there matthew 21 verse 14
then the blind and the lame came to him
in the temple
and he healed them matthew chapter 12
verse 15
but when jesus knew it he withdrew from
there and great multitudes followed him
and he healed them all now
by looking at these verses you would
think that in every single meeting
every single person was healed all the
time
and in these particular meetings they
were
in these particular meetings they were
praise god here's another one
mark chapter 6 verse 56.
wherever he entered into villages
cities or the country they laid the sick
in the marketplaces and
begged him that they might just touch
the hem of his garment
and as many as touched him were made
whole
just touch that garment boom power
flowing out of it boom
just like that totally healed wow no
doctors bills
don't have to pay for the doctor or
anything like that
mark chapter 3 verse 10 for he healed
many so that as many as had afflictions
pressed about him to touch him
one more luke chapter 4 verse 44
verse 40 luke 4 40. when the sun was
setting all those who had any
that were sick with various diseases
brought them to him and he laid his
hands on every one of them
and healed them wow
wow now
let's dig deeper i'm talking about there
are two paths
to victory the first path is the path
of working with the fivefold ministry
offices
that christ has established within the
church
now again verse 17 it tells us that the
power of the lord was present to heal
them everybody in that meeting could
have got
could have got healed could have
connected with that power but only
one person did that was the paralyzed
man he got healed
why did the others not get healed well
they were stubborn
they were rebellious they did not
receive
the ministry of jesus they felt the
religious leaders felt threatened by him
because they not only had a religious
system that they were operating but
there was also
a lot of political structure that's
probably an understatement
uh but especially when the when the
romans are telling you who the high
priest
is going to be and it has nothing to do
uh anymore with the
you know with the descent from aaron
it's now a political position
that could be bought paid for or a man
just stuck in by a roman authority
and so you had them look at jesus and
he's now a threat
to their political system which means
it's also a threat to their finances
and so it doesn't matter if he's telling
the truth they're not going to receive
him nor his teaching and because of that
neither did they receive the healing
anointing the miracle working power
that was upon his life
wow so there was a disconnect
where even christ himself the great
healer could
not get that healing anointing over to
them
because they wouldn't take it they
wouldn't receive it
by the way here we see that only one man
was healed the paralyzed man
but then again also in john chapter 5
verse 2
when we have the story of the pool of
bethesda
only one person got healed
there and remember remember the pool
had hundreds of sick people if not
if not potentially maybe even a couple
of thousand
people and they were all sick the remote
the scripture says there were multitudes
of sick
how many is a multitude not 20 or 30.
there were
sick people everywhere
well now pastor stephen if jesus uh
if jesus were here today he wouldn't he
wouldn't do miracles because when he
came
he proved then that he was god's son by
doing miracles
that's why today there's no longer any
healing
uh well that can't be a good argument
that doesn't even make any sense
because if jesus proved that he was god
by healing people well then how come he
didn't just heal
every single person there at the pool of
bethesda why did he just go into the
local hospital and just heal them all
and say see there i'm the son of god
that proves it now that that's been
proved now there's no longer any more
need for divine healing
no that's that doesn't make any sense
does it no
the reason only one person got healed at
the pool of bethesda
is because that is the only person that
was on the holy spirit's agenda
to be healed that day in the eyes of god
and that one person
got it praise god what about all the
others
that's between them and the lord but the
lord went there to heal one person
found him and through the power of the
holy spirit got him healed praise god
so that's the thing with the ministry
office
you can go into a meeting maybe even
with jesus
maybe with jesus and you have you could
have a need but you know what on that
day only one person got it
and on another day only one person got
it well pastor steven i thought
everybody got it all the time
obviously not obviously not
we see that already here are a couple of
examples but what about
probably the classic example of mark
chapter six
verse five let's take a look at that
just for a moment
mark chapter six verse five
it says concerning jesus now he that
would be jesus
could do no mighty work
there there his hometown nazareth now
notice it doesn't
say he wouldn't do any mighty work there
it doesn't say that
it says he could do
no mighty work there well now hold on
pastor stephen jesus is god
he can do whatever he wants no he can't
no he can't
he couldn't do any mighty work there if
he could have
he would have but he could not he could
do nobody work there
except that he laid his hands on a few
sick people and healed them just small
stuff
a little back pain maybe somebody a
little arthritis in their elbow or ankle
but nothing major no blind eyes opening
no no big stuff nothing like that going
on at all
and he marveled because of their
unbelief
that's why because of their unbelief
their disrespect towards him
and his ministry and as you shut the
anointing off
shut the anointing off it is because of
their unbelief and it cut that flow of
god's mighty power
from coming into their lives praise the
lord
so while jesus the head
of of the ministry the head of the
church
while he does work through his
ministers and even he works himself
you have to understand that in certain
certain situations even the minister
can be limited by a person's unbelief
the minister can be limited by the
environment
or the atmosphere now the thing with
jesus
is that he was filled with the spirit
without measure so
he's loaded i mean it doesn't matter if
you need something that a prophet has
he's got that doesn't matter if you need
something that a teacher has
he's got that he's got it all he's he's
highly anointed
doesn't mean it doesn't matter if you
need a prophecy he can do that doesn't
matter if you're blind he can do that
it doesn't matter if you've got to if
you if you have leprosy and you've got
fingers missing
he can take care of all of that he is
super anointed
without measure praise god
and potentially potentially a servant of
the lord
can also come into that place of that
mighty empowerment of the holy spirit
yes they can but it is very difficult to
maintain that
it is very difficult to hold that and
you also
you also sometimes have other factors
that are coming involved
that are in play in creating a
faith-charged atmosphere like that you
have to understand when jesus
is in these meetings and everybody's
getting healed
that in a sense is almost like what we
would call a modern day full-blown
all-out revival
and if you've ever been in a meeting
like that
faith just goes to the roof there's a
corporate faith that just explodes and
suddenly
nothing's impossible with god and when
that's rolling
and you're rolling with it i mean it's
it's literally like you've got one foot
on the earth and one foot in heaven
and miracles are happening and uh i mean
it's all it's on it's awesome praise god
but my friends there are various
dynamics that are involved because
you can have that atmosphere but they
didn't want that atmosphere in nazareth
and even though jesus comes full of
power
mightily anointed of the spirit he goes
back to minister in his hometown they're
like oh man we know who you are you're
the carpenter's son we knew your dad
we know your mom i mean hey i mean we've
heard the reports about you and stuff
like that but then
they just they ended up even getting
offended at him
offended at him and couldn't do much
there
and if there was any place probably that
he would like to really
release the blessing release the power
it would have been there because he
loved those people
but you know what it didn't happen so
with the fifo ministry
you have different variables that are
involved
that can it can
affect the way that the outcome will be
now jesus never makes a mistake
he gave the fivefold ministry office to
the church
and we read about all the purposes all
the reasons
uh for the five ministry offices to
build up to equip to bring into maturity
and so forth to bring into the fullness
of the stature of christ
etc etc and the church was never going
to get there without them if you think
you can get there
uh it's you're going to need you're
going to need the apostle prophet
evangelist pastor teacher
by the way god never designed you to
live on just one of them
well my pastor i don't need anything but
my pastor he's all i need
mmm you're gonna need more than just
pastoral anointing
and while yes you thank god for the
shepherd that the lord has put in your
life
you're gonna need a prophetic anointing
to touch your life sometime
you're gonna need to be touched sometime
with some apostolic power praise god
you're gonna need the ministry office of
the teacher to come in and bring some
fresh
revelatory teaching that's what you need
you need that exposure praise god to be
developed
fully jesus knew exactly what he was
doing when he gave five
ministry offices to the church for our
maturing into the fullness of his image
praise god
but my friends i want to say also that
even
as effective as the fivefold ministry
office
is there are variables that are in play
when it comes to receiving what god
wants you to receive
let me give you another example i'm
going somewhere with this
let's talk just for a moment about
the 1950s healing revival that took
place here in america
and you had about it grew to about 120
ministers
all pentecostal all spirit filled this
was before the charismatic outpouring
that
began to happen in the late 60s early
70s so this was all
what we would call full gospel
pentecostal
moving of the spirit where you had some
of the leaders like oral roberts and you
then you had um
uh you know he had william branham
really standing at the forefront of the
prophet's ministry
also operating in gifts of healing and
so forth and you had mighty miracles
going on i mean
if you got in those meetings where that
power of god was really strong and it is
a move
it is a move certified and authenticated
by god
in heaven to the earth and it is going
and you got in some of those meetings
and they're running full power
and you're sick yeah you're in the right
place you are
in the right place to get a miracle why
because
it's there i mean healing's there and i
remember kenneth hagin said that
he knew a couple that were just brand
new in ministry
didn't really know anything about
ministry they were just husband and wife
they're brand new in ministry
and they went to a meeting and there was
a person that they prayed for
during the heat they're in the height of
the healing revival and they prayed for
a person that was totally blind
and i'm not talking about a person that
had you know like impaired vision where
he could still see a little bit no
blind from birth the man was completely
blind
and this couple having never prayed for
anybody sick or anything like that
before
prayed for him in the name of jesus and
boom the man's eyes
popped open he could see perfectly and
the blind
man saw with perfect vision and he
he enjoyed his eyesight for the rest of
his life and it shocked
the couple but it's like kenneth hagin
said he said it was like
healing was in the air i mean it's just
it's just
it's here i mean if you're sick and you
get healed you get into those meetings
with those
servants of god those ministers are
ministering in that annoying team
yeah most likely you're going to get
healed you're going to get healed
now not always because there were as
always
different variables that might be
involved where you know
it might may not have been your night so
to speak or maybe your faith wasn't
quite developed or maybe the minister
had an off night maybe
stayed up late the night before didn't
get enough sleep and if you're tired or
certain things are going on that can
pull you out of the anointing so you've
got all this stuff that you've got
that you're working with but you keep on
going because god's anointed
god has ordained that platform of
ministers
ministering to his people and many
multitudes
are touched and healed and blessed
through these god-ordained
gifts let's talk about one here in the
bible
through the apostle peter acts chapter 5
verse 12. i'm talking about two proven
paths
to victory we're talking about the first
path right now
which is receiving from and working with
god's
fifo ministry office gifts
praise god now watch this verse 12
and through the hands of the apostles
many signs and wonders were done among
the people and they were all with one
accord in solomon's porch
yet none of the rest dared join them
well i imagine so after ananias and
sapphira had dropped dead in the meeting
that kind of seems to wake people up a
little bit but the people esteemed them
highly verse 14
and believers were increasingly added to
the lord multitudes of both men and
women
here we go so that they brought the sick
out into the streets
and laid them on beds and couches that
at least
the shadow of peter passing by might
fall on some of them
also a multitude gathered from the
surrounding cities to jerusalem
bringing sick people and those who were
tormented by unclean spirits and they
were all
healed what's going on here a full-blown
pentecostal outpouring of the holy
spirit
but i want to ask you a question while
peter
an apostle one of the original twelve
one of the apostles of the lamb
and there only be twelve of those never
any more than that there will be other
apostles of course
but no more apostles of the of the lamb
as the original 12
12 were now while peter here is
operating
under an anointing that is so
strong that if you're sick now watch
this
if you're sick if you just get close
enough to him while you're laying on
your bed
close enough just for his shadow to go
past you
you're totally healed is that not a wild
anointing is that not a powerful
anointing
he's walking in a place of being just
saturated with the holy spirit
saturated with the holy spirit and it
doesn't matter what your sickness is
even if today modern day aids or cancer
or something like that or whatever it
was or lupus or heart disease
if you're there and you're crying out to
god
you're crying out to god you've repented
of your sins and you're crying out to
god
and that shadow passed by you you got up
healed
and you had faith yeah you gotta feel
but see this is revival outpouring
this is mighty outpouring of the holy
spirit and sometimes
i'm speaking from being a student of
church history
sometimes usually when you have these
mighty outpourings like this guess what
comes next
massive persecution intense persecution
against the body of christ wow
and that amazing and that's exactly what
happened intense persecution is going to
come
and that's going to scatter the jewish
christians
all over the gentile world and the
gospel
is going to begin to go international
praise god
which was god's intent now i want to ask
you a question
here we see peter moving in mighty power
i mean you get next to that saddle man
you're healed he's walking in mighty
power
but if you were sick
let's say five years later you're sick
and
you needed you needed a miracle you
needed healing
could you still go to peter and say
peter i'm over here i'm in my wheelchair
peter
i've heard about you years back i heard
about you in that jerusalem revival
meeting
peter just walk over here you don't have
to you put your hands on me just get
close enough for your shadow to get me
come on peter walk over here would that
anointing
still be riding at that high level of
power
i don't know i don't know my
understanding
is that when that anointing is like that
it takes it takes everything for a
minister to walk in that
walk and maintain that it's very very
demanding it's almost like an olympic
athlete
gold level you it's very
challenging to sustain that level why
it's it's
so demanding it takes everything to get
there it takes total complete surrender
of your life
and then when you're in that zone to
really walk in that and
just stay in it it takes a phenomenal
focus
and a very very uh dedicated life to
christ
i mean matter of fact if if we were to
meet up with peter
let's say some years later and you
really needed that healing touch
you needed that shadow to pass your way
well what if you caught him at the wrong
time
what if you caught him over in uh in
antioch
after he had a little run-in with paul
and paul
stood up in front of everybody there at
the antioch church and said peter
you're playing the hypocrite peter
we know who you are the right you are
the right hand servant of jesus
his choice apostle but peter you're
acting like an absolute complete
hypocrite and he he had to address the
issue was so
the hypocrisy was so bad it even had
swept
barnabas into this silly
deception and so paul had to stand up
and correct peter well let's say peter's
walking out of that meeting he's
probably
woo he probably didn't want to talk to
anybody probably just wants to go
somewhere to sit down and go oh god
and what if you're in your wheelchair
hey peter hey over here peter
come over here and put your hands on me
i would just suggest
not much is going to happen in a time
like that now do you see
there's dynamics involved for the power
of the flow
do you see there's other logistics that
are going on
that create atmosphere that that create
uh the moving of the spirit
with unhindered power a lot of things
have to line up just right
praise god and and god so often
allows these things to line up the holy
spirit is working the holy spirit is
moving boom
and there's an outpouring and god's
people are blessed
many are healed and this is a proven
path to victory
it's in the bible it's biblical
thank you lord jesus let's go further
let's go further what about
today right here right now today
let's say let's let's see if we can
think of a good example
how about this one nah that's too hard
that's too hard how about this let's go
an easier one
let's take a person let's go find a
person
that is a full-grown man maybe age 35 or
40
who is blind and has been completely
blind
since the day they were born there's no
hope
naturally from uh
from a physician's diagnosed
you know determination that this
person's ever going to see
it's medically impossible i would like
to ask you a question
concerning a person like this a blind
man
is there a five-fold ministry gift
is there an apostle prophet evangelist
pastor teacher
in your town or your city that you could
take that person to
today with a 100 assurance that if that
man
or that woman lays hands on that blind
man i'll tell you what i'm gonna be
driving home a person that can see i
just might let them drive home
is there somebody in your town or your
pastor that you could take the blind man
to
and say here he is now do your thing man
of god go
do it
well you might think well uh pastor
stephen
my my pastor don't even believe in that
okay so we're gonna have to check him or
her off the list
well pastor stephen i our denomination
believe that they believe that stuff
doesn't happen anymore
you're gonna have to check that off the
list you might have to
expand your radius expand your radius
okay let's get out of the town get out
of the city
what about in your state is there
somewhere that you could drive the blind
man put him in a car
and drive him to a meeting somewhere in
your state where you know
if you get him into that meeting he's
going to walk out of that meeting scene
well you might be thinking well pastor
stephen um
maybe but i certainly couldn't guarantee
it
all right what about in america is there
somewhere in
in america that you could take that
blind man and say look this is going to
be a long drive or i'm going to have to
put you on a plane i'll help you you
know and stuff like that
but trust me it'll be worth it because
if i can just get you to this one
meeting here in america
you're going to be healed could you
could you do that hmm
there's things to think about hmm okay
all right look if that was going on in
jerusalem
and he let's say we get in a time
machine and we could set the time
machine
to that year to that very day when
peter's ministering there in jerusalem
that if we could get that we could get
you and the blind man
get in the time machine pop out in that
year in that arab
and you're there in jerusalem and you
find out oh yeah peter's coming look
you're getting close to peter because
you know peter's going to pass by
you know under that anointing and in a
meeting like that
you know if that shadow goes by that
dude's getting healed
he's gonna jump and shout whoa i can see
praise god
amen is there somewhere today
not only perhaps in america is there
somewhere today on the planet
that you could take that man to and know
if i can just get him there he's going
to get healed
these are things we have to think about
and i want you to think
about this why you need to know about
two paths
not just one path now there is one path
to victory
which god works so often through the
fivefold ministry office
and millions over the years have been
healed
billions have been saved what would we
do without the office of the evangelist
praise god but my friends there's also
another path
i want to talk about that in just a
moment but remember the path i'm talking
to you about is a god-ordained path
established by christ
in the church he gave these gifts unto
men as he was ascending
wait what if we could get in the time
machine
and get back to azusa street yeah
los angeles 312 azusa street
when william seymour was ministering at
the height of the
azusa street revival a revival that ran
from 1906 to 1909
where it ran all day long and usually
ran
all night long where oftentimes you had
1500 people
crowded into a little bitty 2 400 square
foot building that used to be a horse
stable
and so they always struggled with the
flies that still thought it was a horse
stable even though they had cleaned it
up really well
but yet people were coming literally
from all over america
all over the world why why they knew
god's power was in that meeting in
unprecedented ways
now not unprecedented in church history
but unprecedented from anything they'd
seen in a long long time
if not in entire lifetimes or
generations
that could be a good place to take the
blind person to problem is we don't have
a time machine do we
but it was in meetings like that where
hundreds
witnessed the mighty power of the spirit
that would just
break forth in those meetings such as
the time william seymour grabbed a man's
arm that was a shortened arm
only hanging down about four inches he
grabbed that arm and in the name of
jesus
yanked it out to a full-length full-size
arm is there
a church today is there a man of god
today that you could take a person
with a dangling four-inch arm to and say
come with me
you're going to get your miracle today
what about the time there was a man with
one leg
in the azusa street revival and seymour
grabbed
the stub and yanked it out and pulled a
whole new leg out
in front of everybody under the
anointing through the gift of working of
miracles and special faith
as mentioned in first corinthians
chapter 12.
praise god is there some way today
somewhere today that we can take a man
with only one leg
who really wants god to do a miracle uh
so that somebody can lay hands on him
and give him another leg and have that
leg come out
well i would say this i would say this
there are many good ministers that would
be happy to pray for it and just go for
it
right yeah sure we'll pray we're going
to trust god
we're going to trust god and we'll just
we're going to pray we're going to go
for it i'd go for it i pray for all
kinds of things amen
the miracle doesn't always happen then
that's why i always going to go for it
because
i've seen the miracle happen the next
morning where it manifests the anointing
goes in
it happens the next day or happens three
days later or something like that
sometimes it happens right then so i i'm
in that crazy realm of
faith i'm yeah i'll go for it you want
god to give you a new leg yeah i'll pray
for you i'll do it right now
and if you want put put the camera on me
i don't care
well i'm cause i'm gonna pray for you
i'm just going to do what the word says
to do
you shall lay hands on the sick and they
shall recover
praise god but you have to understand to
see that type of a miracle manifestation
that that necessarily that type of a
miracle like a leg coming out
that's not a gift of healing that my
friends and technically in the greek
it's gifts
it's plural gifts of healings okay
but that's not even technically what
that is that requires
something different what does that
require the gift of working of miracles
and i'll give you an example i was
i was in a conference one time there was
a bunch of ministers
and uh the host minister saw a sick
person
uh he technically wasn't sick he had a
major
medical situation but that host minister
was all excited
he said there's enough power in here
there's enough power for that man to be
healed
come on up here and they brought him up
there
and uh and the host said now all of you
are the ministers come up here
we're going to pray for this man god's
going to heal him and i
thought i don't want to go up there
because why because nothing's going to
happen
nothing's going to happen but oh no
we're all going to lay hands on him and
god's going to do it
and i just out of being nice you know
i just kind of went up there but i
wasn't like praying and all that i just
kind of went up there and stood there
while the host and all the others were
really praying oh god
do it do it now do it now take it take
it brother take it
and in front of thousands of people
absolutely nothing happened
why pastor stephen when god says that
you shall lay hands on the sick they'll
recover and all this and all that
because what the guy didn't need was a
healing the guy needed a miracle
and if there's not a manifestation of
the holy spirit
of working of miracles and special faith
ain't nothing going to happen
praise god now i can sense when that
anointing does start coming
in and then yeah if that if that
empowerment there
then yeah then you ride that anointing
you go for it and that's that's what was
going on in azusa street
that's what was going on in acts chapter
five
and when the goings go good you jump in
and you jump in the water and you swim
you get what you need and you have fun
glory to god thank you jesus
oh oh wait wait pastor stephen i know
i know or i would send a person i would
send them to the kathryn kuhlman meeting
that's what i would do
well she she died long time ago oh well
okay that's true we can't
we can't send her to her meeting either
she had
she had some wild meetings not just some
really good healings
she actually had some very spectacular
miracles
where just the power of god would erupt
that's beautiful
praise god glory to god
so what do we do what do we do when
jesus gives the fivefold ministry office
gifts
and when the anointing's there powerful
beautiful things happen
but then also we have moves of the
spirit where great power is released
but then it's like the ocean the tide
comes in and the tide goes out
it reminds me of azusa street after it
was over about 20 years after it was
over
trust me when it was over it was over
about 20 years after it was over
there was a man that said we've got to
get back to that original anointing
we have got to get back to the power of
pentecostal power of god
that was released in azusa street and
he lived his life out and died and never
got back into it
and i remember when we rolled around to
the 100 year anniversary
yes this is it god is going to release
the power again
everybody get ready and i uh no it
didn't happen
because you can't push a button and make
the holy spirit just start jumping and
doing it
it doesn't work like that it doesn't
work like that obviously it didn't
because it's not it didn't happen
praise the lord
[Laughter]
hallelujah now now before we explore
path number two
and trust me it won't take as long as
path number one
before we do that i want you to know
that
god is going to send
mighty outpouring of the holy spirit and
yeah
you are going to be in these full-blown
meetings of god
where the power is just vibrating
through you
to a point you're going to probably feel
like you're about to explode
for every sickness well if it's still
there will be
driven out of your body where the glory
will be so intense
you might sit there and vibrate the
whole time praise god
mm-hmm you're going to have that you're
going to have that and the glory is
going to come
pray it is it'll be a very mighty global
moving of the holy spirit
global moving of the holy spirit praise
god and yes
i'm looking forward to that and god once
again will be working through
the five-fold ministry offices and he's
still working today i mean i'm standing
in one here ministering to you doing my
thing
praise god hallelujah but what
what do we do when maybe we catch peter
at a low time
and paul has reprimanded him and has
spoken the truth to him in love but
peter's not really wanting to throw a
shadow over on
anybody right now just wants to go sit
down and maybe disappear for a couple of
weeks
what do we do when the azusa street
revival is
not raging what do we do when the 50s
healing revival is long gone
and everybody that was in it is now
and in their heavenly reward what do we
do
when some of the great saints who
displayed mighty signs and wonders
sometimes almost accidentally it seemed
like such as people like
saint padre pio and many others what do
we do when they're not on the scene
what do you do when you can't grab the
blind person and say i'll take you here
i'll take you to this meeting i'll take
you to this man or woman of god
and i preface that with saying we're
always still here to pray for you
and yes there is an anointing and i've
seen great great anointings
i've seen god do great things but can i
say we're in a high-water moment
all-out move of god right now no i can't
say that
and you know and you know we're not
there praise god hallelujah
i will say this when it does come uh
all the brass that's in the church today
all the huff and puff
and all of the uh silly entertainment
and all of the things that have been
done
as a artificial replacement for the
glory
that stuff is going to look so cheap and
so stupid
that um people are actually going to be
mad at themselves for having been duped
and sold such junk food
in light of the true heavenly
outpouring praise god
thank you jesus now that's why i'm
always going to be a pentecostal
full gospel bible believing tongue
talking
demon casting outing laying hands on the
sick
preacher praise god hallelujah
but what do you do if you can't get to
the man of god
or you can't bring a person there or
maybe
maybe in a global corporate sense the
tide has gone out
and there's like an interim
can i show you path number two because
path number one
is ordained by god and many have
received from god
that way many but then again you
we looked at examples where a lot of
other people didn't get it while some
did
others didn't and while people got
healed in that meeting with peter on
that day
i don't know if you'd have got some
other meetings if it had been that high
that i don't know if
the anointing would have been that high
what do you do what do you do pastor
stephen is there any other way
yes there is yes there is
and that's what i'm here to teach you
about now
standing in a fightful ministry office i
would like to teach you that there
are two paths to victory one is by
receiving the blessing
that christ has established through the
five ministry offices
and if you don't have that in your life
there will be something
grotesquely deformed in your life
without the fivefold ministry
your soul will be extremely distorted
and warped
you need the apostle prophet evangelist
pastor
and teacher now in the interim
should there be something that you need
from god
that perhaps it's not really popping in
the church
let's say you let's say you had a leg
that was cut off
you went to the sawmill you're having a
nice day and you push
the the pieces of wood through but
somehow you
you didn't wear the proper clothing and
it snagged your pants and the machine
pulled you
into and before you could stop it the
saul took
one of your legs off what do you do
can you go to your pastor and say pray
that god put this back on
in a certain kind of meeting yeah you
could when the glory is real high
and it's just and there's a powerful
corporate faith and the spirits being
poured out yeah
yes you could absolutely get that person
there
get that person into that meeting
but in everyday type function you might
not be able to find
a place where that particular need
how can i say an impossible need can be
met like that
through that normal mode that
you know operates daily so this is what
i would say
you can still get god to do for you
anything you want if you'll steal
one on one just you and god if you'll go
before him and worship him
and take him at his word and just bless
him
and worship him and praise him and
worship him
and stand on that word he'll put a new
leg
back on your body he'll put he'll put
eyes eyes in an empty socket
he'll put new eardrums into ears that
had the eardrums
blown out hallelujah he'll put a new
kidney
into your body if the current one is not
working and not filtering properly
he'll give you a new heart if your heart
is defective or something is wrong with
with it
but this is for example let's say you
need
you need something like that for your
body this is how you would do it
now i'm talking about path number two
and it doesn't take me nearly as long to
explain it
but the price tag on this one
is something that you as an individual
pay
and the price is
that of your steadfastness
and your willingness to do it every day
now for example
let's go to first peter chapter 2 verse
24.
let's say there's something wrong with
your body you take verse 24
referring to jesus it says who himself
bore
our sins in his own body on the tree
so we know that on the cross jesus paid
the penalty for our sins
and when you receive christ as lord and
savior you now have
forgiveness of sins and now you have a
walk with god
where that blood will cleanse you of all
of your sins if you blow it mess up just
ask god to forgive you
and you know on you go because it'll
wash it away
who himself bore our sins in his own
body on the tree that we
having died to sins might live for
righteousness
by whose stripes you
were healed and let's say that you need
a miracle in your body you can take
first peter chapter 2
verse 24 and you could say lord
i i need a miracle and i'm going to
dedicate
i'm going to dedicate maybe an hour two
hours
every night when i come home from work
and after the kids are put in bed
i'm going to take two hours and i'm not
going to watch the news or do that
other stuff i'm going to take two hours
and i'm going to worship you
and i'm going to praise you and i'm
going to stand on your word
and i'm going to believe your word and
i'm just going to walk around
you could have like maybe a coffee table
or maybe just something in the middle of
your room
and just say lord i'm going to walk
around for two hours i'm going to do
nothing but praise you
and worship you for example let's say
this is like
your room and you can say lord out for
two hours i'm gonna do this
every day until this is manifested in my
life
and you just say jesus i thank you that
by your stripes
that you took from me when they whipped
your back and plowed your back open
that in those stripes my sickness was
placed in there
cancer was my cancer was placed in those
stripes
and because you bore it for me i don't
have to have it and by your stripes i
was healed so i take you at your word i
stand on the finished work of what you
carried out for me
and i receive it and i thank you that
cancer cannot
stay in my body cancer get out of my
body in the name of jesus
get out of my body in the name of jesus
jesus i praise you that you have healed
me from cancer jesus by your stripes i'm
healed then you just do that
let's say you do it for like two hours
or an hour or two hours
and you do it every night jesus i'm back
just to worship you again the next night
jesus i'm back and jesus i just thank
you that you told your people under the
old covenant
that if they would worship you and keep
your commandments that you would take
sickness and disease away from their
midst and they would walk in health
and i thank you jesus that health and
healing are also in the new covenant
and it belongs to me and this sickness
can't stay on me
this infirmity cannot stand my body get
out of me
in the name of jesus you foul sickness
i'm healed by the stripes of jesus
lord i praise you and you just keep on
doing that for about an hour and another
hour 50 minutes jesus i praise you
i worship you you're my healer you're my
healer jesus right here in this room you
can cause this leg to grow back out
jesus right here in this room you can
cause my foot to come back out
praise god
and you can get your miracle even if you
can never get to the man of god
oh oh but wait wait pastor stephen
if we could just get that person to
smith wigglesworth
they would be healed and it is true
true story there is a man in smith
wigglesworth's meeting
no feet no feet
nothing from the ankle down no feet
no feet at all smith wigglesworth
said what do you want he said i want two
feet
i want two feet wigglesworth prayed for
him
he prayed for those stubs that ended at
the end
down there at the bottom by the ankle
laid hands and prayed over those stubs
and said in the name of jesus i command
two feet to come out
and he looked at the young man the man
said i believe i receive it.
willesworth basically said good he said
go buy a pair of shoes
um so the guy gets in his wheelchair
goes down to uh like a men's shoe store
rolls into the place in his wheelchair
and uh the salesman looked at him and
said what do you what would you like
and you know they both kind of looked
down at the same time at the stubs
the man said i'd like a pair of dress
shoes
and the salesman said looking at the you
know no feet the salesman said
what color
the man in the wheelchair wheelchair
said black
size 10 and a half the guy goes to the
back brings out a box
black dress shoes size 10 and a half
opens the box
kneels down and boom two feet
pop out completely fully formed
yes pastor stephen we've got to get that
person in the smith wiggles worst
meeting
he's a ministry office gift of the
apostle
yep and he died a long time ago
well pastored that path is closed that
path is closed
no there's still very anointed vessels
in the earth today
hallelujah and i'm happy to pray for
anything i'll go for it doesn't matter
what it is i'll pray for anything
especially when anointing's there
but my friends what if you're on your
own
what if what if you're in a city or town
and you i mean it's just it's nowhere
around
it's nowhere around no what if no church
in your area even believes in that or
thinks it's silly
what are you going to do are you
abandoned by god
of course not you take the second path
the second path also is a proven path to
victory jesus i worship you
jesus i worship you jesus i praise you i
thank you jesus that the devil can't
kill me
by your stripes i have been
healed i shall not die but i shall live
and declare the glory of god
and you do it every night every night
every night jesus i'm here to worship
you you're my healer
even with symptoms raging you do it
every night well pastor stephen what if
you don't have a leg
you get in your wheelchair and you push
that wheelchair and you roll your
wheelchair
while roll yourself around that table
jesus i praise you
you're giving me a new leg i receive my
new leg
jesus i thank you for my new leg glory
to god hallelujah
i'm going to dance in church praise god
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and if you do that and you stand on the
word and you do that
and you stand on the word and you
worship god worship god and pour it on
and pour it on
and you obey those principles of luke
chapter 18 where
you don't faint you don't quit you keep
on going
and you you show up every time show up
every time
i don't know when maybe six months
maybe 18 months i don't know usually
doesn't take that long
but there will come a point where god
will come in
and he will do whatever you want him to
do
whoa think about that
think about that think about that
god has a building in heaven
that's bigger than every amazon
warehouse
on earth it's bigger than every amazon
warehouse it's bigger than every uh
ups fedex building take them all put
them all together it's bigger than every
one of them bigger than the pentagon
bigger than all that stuff
the building is so big
that it has backup reserved
genuine authentic certified body parts
for every single person on the planet so
that if you have one damaged or tore up
or messed up or cut off
or ripped off or whatever
god's got one for you in that heavenly
warehouse and he's happy to have an
angel send you one
if you'll show up
lord i praise you it doesn't matter when
you do it maybe eight o'clock to ten
o'clock at night
maybe three o'clock to five o'clock in
the morning jesus i thank you for my new
leg
lord jesus i thank you for a new hearing
ear or jesus
i'm blind but i thank you lord for my
eyes
that's where you take the blind man to
you take him to the word
and say look hey maybe the tide's out
right now we're not in epic revival
but that doesn't mean that you're
stranded god will do a miracle for you
right where you're at if you'll just
believe him
well i want somebody else to do it for
me
okay let's wait another hundred years
for azusa street
well i'm gonna be dead by then yep you
sure will
so why not go with this proven method
you'll never you'll never be in a place
where
god can't get to you amen and if god has
to
i mean he's still got his elijah's his
elishas
you know he got naming with leprosy and
eating up body parts and
you know horrible looking skin
disfigurement
and he leaves he leaves from having an
encounter with god's prophet
as an old man he leaves with brand new
skin like a child
god will do anything you want him to do
if you'll just
worship him he can do it through the
prophet
apostle evangelist pastor teacher
he could also do it right there in your
room just you and him
worshiping the lord jesus i praise you
jesus i praise you well pastor
i do that for an hour and a half that
means i'm going to end up walking around
this thing probably about
about 500 times yep probably about 573
times
if you're to count yeah that's you
or roll it in your wheelchair whatever
it's just matter if you really want it
praise god but if you'll cry out day and
night
cry out day and night god you're my
healer you're my miracle worker you're
giving me a leg lord
you've got a leg for me in heaven and
that leg is coming down the angels are
bringing my leg hallelujah praise god
and i'm going to kick the devil with it
whoa as soon as it pops out
i'll slap him for now hallelujah
don't let the devil rob you of your
inheritance and your blessing
that christ shed his blood for
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and i tell you what before jesus comes
back to take the church home
with him and then the antichrist
they can do whatever we want we're going
to be gone it's going to be a mess
okay when he wants to go around doing
all of his uh one world government
locking everybody down and doing all of
his
pathetic horrible unmentionable horrors
that he's going to do
will be gone but let me say this before
the lord takes the church up
to meet him in the air in the clouds let
me say he's going to do a transformation
beauty job
and the church that will go up is going
to be the glorified church
and i say that you're going to be
looking mighty good praise god
so i would just say lift your hands and
worship god and receive whatever you
need by faith
and be persistent like the widow woman
cry out day and night jesus i thank you
jesus i'm back before your throne again
there's a lot of good programs on tv
there's a lot of things i could be
watching on the internet right now but
jesus i'm here to worship you because
you're worthy and i thank you for my new
leg
i think of my new lungs hallelujah glory
to god whatever it might be
whatever it might be financial miracle
whatever it might be
hallelujah god i thank you for my home
god i thank you for a car
lord you know i'm believing you for a
car i praise you every night for a car
praise god
and just pour it on pour it on but i'm
mainly talking about the real hard stuff
god my child has autism god my child has
down syndrome
god i have i have disfigurement god i've
had you know
i was in a car wreck and i've got body
parts missing out god
god can fix all of that he can fix all
of it
um yes yes pastor stephen we're going to
get to that meeting we're going to get
prayed for
he can do it that way he established
that weight he ordained
that way he gave those gifts as he
ascended he released those gifts he
still gives them today
but i'm just saying they're both they're
both paths that are proven for victory
but what i'm trying to tell you is that
this one
this one though is one where you don't
have to have a lot of variables
lined up the only thing that's got light
up is you
but you see what i'm saying
now we all need to come together and
charge the atmosphere well it's just you
you charge it just you and the lord in
your in your room
how complicated is this right
glory to god hallelujah but if you do
that just worship the lord
just do that praising praise and pastor
people what i do what do i do after 30
minutes will i forget well i run out of
things to do
although just keep praising him and
worshiping and pray in the spirit pray
in english and tell him how good he is
there'll be times where you probably
feel very tired very fatigued there
might be other times where you
you don't really have any good feelings
maybe they're just maybe you're still
dealing with symptoms but you know what
just do it just do it and you'll find
that
symptoms start to leave there'll come a
point also you're starting to realize
hmm
something's going on here and the
miracle can be sudden or the miracle can
be gradual
i've heard of people have body parts
grow back out legs grow back out fingers
grow back out
but grow slowly but just grow out
now a doctor's going to tell you that
can't happen don't know they'll tell you
it can happen with a lizard with his
tail
lizard's tail can fall off and then he
doesn't care a new tail is going to grow
out
but they'll tell you uh that doesn't
happen for people
but god god can give you
he can give you a new foot new nose do
whatever you need
can god work through the ministry gifts
yeah we can get it to you also one on
one
uh there's a pastor in long beach
california a lady
she was ministering in um uh
i think it was like um south pacific
south pacific islands and she was
praying for sick people she goes on
she's going down the line praying for
people
anointed by the holy spirit and she gets
to one lady
and uh the holy spirit just imprint and
pressed upon the minister to have the
had the person in the prayer line stick
their tongue out so the minister said
stick out your tongue
and the lady well kind of like that
didn't do it
and so it made the minister mad she said
i told you stick out your tongue
and the ladies stuck her tongue out
and the minister found out after the
service when the service was over
she found out by the pastor and
everybody else in the building the lady
didn't have a tongue
she was born without a tongue
she got one now praise the lord yes
i need to get in that meeting pastor
stephen well that meeting was on in the
south pacific
it's going to take a long ways to get
there and maybe that minister won't be
there
but you can get anything you need from
god right
where you're at
pastor steven i've been having a little
covert discouragement everything's been
shut down
and i'm just kind of locked up whoa you
locked up with god
that sounds like a setup something that
you could use to your advantage
lift your hands father i pray for those
that are watching right now that need a
miracle
you have revealed two paths they are
both ordained by you
and father there's a special there's
just a it's like a highlight
yeah you always blessed a five-fold
ministry established by your son
father there's this other path that so
many of your people don't know about
but it requires unwavering faith
persistence
but if your people father will will take
this
second path it's bulletproof
and in some ways easier
father we thank you we thank you
in jesus name amen
thank you father amen i'm telling you
if you don't know a peter's shadow to
take your
uh cot or tent or or bed and pitch it at
you really need to consider this second
option that i've shared with you
because you couldn't get anything you
can have anything you want from god if
you just worship him
thank him in advance honor his word and
you show up
every day show up every day at this
designated time do it for an hour maybe
30 minutes an hour
two hours if it's if it's
life-threatening
yeah maybe two hours pastor chief when i
probably get tired yeah you probably
will
praise god but you can have a miracle
you can have anything you want
and that warehouse is wide open god will
have an angel go get that body part
and give it to you it doesn't matter
what you need god can do it for you
praise god praise the lord well
if you're watching today and you don't
have a personal relationship with this
mighty
miracle-working god who created you
who created humanity then today you can
know god as your father
by receiving salvation through his son
whose name is jesus if you would like to
get your life right with
god pray this prayer after me
say jesus come into my heart
wash all of my sins away
i give my life completely to you
and i repent of all of my sins jesus
save me now
write my name in your book of life in
your name i pray
amen and amen
and he's heard that prayer and he saved
you and you know he has praise the lord
rejoice
in the lord now as a church family let's
take holy communion together
and as we do think about that thing that
you want
think about that that great desire that
miracle that you need
that it takes god he'll do it for you
he'll do it for you think about paying
the cost
of committing to honoring the lord and
seeking him day and night like that
grab some unleavened bread grab some
grape juice let's pray
father thank you for the bread and the
juice we bless it
we consecrate it we said to the part is
holy
we thank you this is now the flesh and
the blood of christ our savior
so father as we receive his flesh his
body
we thank you that you're a miracle
working
god and that you're not withholding
anything from us
that you want us to have it but we must
seek you
and meet you on your terms and
conditions
and those terms and conditions are
surrounded by consistency
fervency crying out
worship and showing up
to honor you to receive your best now
father we thank you
we believe you're going to do it and we
thank you for great
miracle testimonies
in jesus name let's receive
praise the lord
hallelujah glory
glory glory
glory glory glory
glory you know let me say that
very special anointings very special
giftings
upon the servants of the lord apostles
prophets
evangelists pastors and teachers very
special anointings
yeah they're rare they're they're
special gifts you better believe they
are
yes it's not like it's on every block
you know what i'm talking about
and my friends honor the ministry gift
that god has placed in your life
and the ministry gifts god has placed in
the earth
anytime anytime you you come across
like a special like maybe you would just
say i bumped into so and so that's a
very very anointed servant of the lord
you know show honor praise god praise
the lord show honor
praise the lord because they are gifts
praise the lord father thank you for the
blood of jesus
thank you for forgiveness of sins
cleansing from all sin and all
unrighteousness
we pray father that you would forgive us
of our sins
we forgive anybody that sinned against
us we forgive them
and we go on we ask that you would lead
us away from temptation
we ask that you would deliver us from
the evil one
and we thank you that you will that
you'll protect us and keep us safe
and that you'll strengthen us thank you
father for the cleansing blood of jesus
thank you for the great glory
that's coming waves and waves
of mighty glory of
creative miracles and that warehouse
that warehouse having a lot of parts
taken out
but father we thank you that we also
we have another option and we're always
going to work that
as well thank you thank you for your
wisdom of your word
we give you praise we receive the blood
of jesus father in jesus name
amen let's receive
is being delivered right now from
addiction to cigarettes
you you do know nicotine is poison the
devil wants you to kill yourself
self-inflicted death but god's power is
there to deliver
you right now the facts you lift your
hands i break the addiction to nicotine
and through the anointing and power of
the holy spirit i release you right now
from that hold of wickedness and
iniquity
be free in the name of jesus
you go free now praise god and remove
that stuff from your possession remove
all products of tobacco from your
possession
glory glory
glory hallelujah do not
toy with alcohol you're playing with a
demon
you're playing with a monster get it all
out of your house
wine beer whiskey
liquor get it out of your house don't
give it to your neighbor
get rid of it get rid of it praise the
lord
hallelujah it is a door into demonic
activity praise god praise god
father i speak blessing over your people
blessing
and i thank you father god i thank you
father god that your people are going to
seek you
just like the widow woman did before the
unjust judge
crying out day and night and lord she
got an answer
she got exactly what she wanted and
jesus said how much more
well your heavenly father move upon your
behalf
i thank you father for the mighty works
you're going to do for your people
as they cry out to you we give you
praise
in jesus name amen
god bless you as you enjoy walking on
both paths
may the holy spirit bless you in jesus
name see you back
next time