Keith Moore Miracles Now Pt 12 How to have miracles

or flow in the scripture would you turn please to Matthew the sixth chapter Matthew 6 if you didn't bring a Bible with you this evening the ushers have extra Bibles would be glad to let you use one of course you'll be needing it in a minute for the rest of the service and message but hold up your hand if you didn't bring one tonight and let them get one to use one of ours and turn to Matthew the sixth chapter Matthew chapter 6 and verse 24 Matthew 6:24 says no man can serve two masters either he'll hate the one love the other else he'll hold to the one and despise the other you cannot everybody say cannot you cannot serve God and Mammon now Mammon is money personified so he's told my money and stuff you can't serve money and stuff and serve God you can't serve God and serve money and stuff not it's not it's challenging not it's hard to juggle you can't do it and this phrase came up as I was waiting on the Lord seeking him about the ministry tonight and this weekend this phrase came up to me want to have my cake and eat it too have my cake and eat it too and you know what about that you can't you cannot have your cake and eat it too if you keep your cake you can't eat it if you eat your cake you're not gonna have it anymore this is too complicated can you have your cake and eat it too no you can't you cannot hey guys the first chapter talks about this hagee I the first chapter and they'll put it up on the screen for us verse 2 that's back there where some folks pages are still stuck together but it's all good how many know the whole Bible is good it's it's good word and he said thus speaks the Lord of Hosts saying this people say the time has not come the time that the Lord's house should be built next verse we're going to read them through verse 10 maybe then came the word of the Lord by Hagi I the Prophet saying is it time for you o you to dwell in your sealed houses and this house lie waste what were they saying it's not time to build the Lord's house so what did he ask them is it time to build your house now therefore that says the Lord of hosts consider your ways you've so much and bring in little you eat but you don't have enough you drink but you're not filled with drink you clothed you but there's none warm he that earns wages earns wages to put it into a bag with holes not enough seems like you get a little bit and it's just gone and where did it go and no matter what you get it's it's not enough it's not enough it's not enough that's being cursed when you're living in the blessing you don't come short you have more than enough you believe what if we're experiencing this what's the problem keep reading verse 7 thus says the Lord of hosts consider your ways look at what you're doing look at how you live in how you're operating verse 8 go up to the mountain and bring wood and build the house what house my house build my house and I'll take pleasure in it and I'll be glorified says the Lord of Hosts since the Lord verse 9 you look for much and it came too little and when you brought it home I blew upon it why but says the Lord of Hosts because of my house that's waste and you not every man to his own house verse 10 therefore the heaven over you has stayed from you and the earth has stayed from her fruit now with that in mind do you remember Malachi 3 what did it say have you that same phrase about the heaven instead of it being stayed it talks about it being open doesn't it what is it Malachi 3:10 you'll put that up there Malachi 3:10 bringing all the tithes into the storehouse that there may be meat or food in my house and prove me now herewith says the Lord of hosts if I'll not what in other words the heavens are not closed over you they're open over you and pour you out a blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive it well how many people won't the heavens opened and blessings pouring on you two you don't have enough room to receive everything that's coming in what can you have that without bringing all the tithes into the storehouse and putting God first but millions are trying that they want to have their cake and eat it too they they want the blessing but they don't want to do what the Lord said to do to get the blessing proverbs 3 why don't you look at that you see I excited everybody gets when you start talking about this proverbs 3 and 9 well I don't see tithing in the New Testament it's only because you haven't looked close enough well I just don't believe in it well I feel for you because how you gonna get the blessing of tithing without tithing you're with me and I'm not talking about tithing to this church I'm talking about tithing to the Lord right y'all with me everybody I don't wonder why I keep asking that can you have your cake and eat it too can you honor the Lord with what you spend on yourself you can't you can't when matters like this it's going to cost you can you eat three big pies and and raid the fridge at one o'clock and have that small waist size and where the little clothes now you can't it's going to cost you oh boy this is going to be big this is man you feel the excitement through the night huh Kenya how can you do both can you have both can you go in bed over your eyes and max all your credit cards and just buy everything that you kid it's your eyes see and and overextend yourself and do what you need to do for the kingdom you can't you can't do both can you you can't you cannot do both in order to do one you can't do the other and then one of the most vivid examples of this in the New Testament is Ananias and Sapphira they wanted the blessing there was a move in the church if you go back and read it of people liquidating their houses there they were selling houses and buildings and lands and properties and putting it all into the kingdom of God because they were so stirred up they love God so much and they were so full of faith and love and and they were doing it and then talked about you know uh I was at Barnabas I talked about something that he did well Ananias and Sapphira wanted that prestige they wanted that reward they wanted that harvest but they also wanted the money and so they had a dilemma so they believed God and they put their property on the market and they sold it and they got a great big prize for it and they wanted to do it but they wanted the money and they wanted to do it I wanted to go down and be able to say with the rest of them men we sold this and we made all this money and we're putting it all in the kingdom of God but then they thought about that's a lot of money and I don't like that money and I want to keep that money and I want my cake and eat it too and so they devised the plan that's what we can do and we can have our cake and eat it too we'll just say we're doing it and not really do it hello anybody remember hi Ananias and Sapphira came out we're out so do you want to do that no no absolutely no what we say you cannot do both what you spend on you you can't put in the kingdom and people won't the blessings they won't the harvest they want the rewards now and in the time to come but so many just they're not not willing to do what he said to do proverbs 3:9 we I guess we had that we do we ever read it what did he say honor the Lord with your substance at your stuff and with the first fruits of all your increase in verse 10 what will happen your body your storage places will be filled with plenty and presses will burst out how many like the idea of overflow I mean that sounds like Malachi doesn't I mean you don't have room to receive busting out and overflow how many like the idea that you like that how's it coming Oh only the one way of putting him first and honoring him so friends please don't don't be annoyed with me because I bring up tithing I'm not talking about you tithing to me and how much you tie them to this church too much you're tithing to the Lord too much you putting him first this is something Phyllis and I had to get settled years ago and when we did it turned our life around and I want that for you if you're not experiencing that I want you to experience that I want you to tap in to the source that never runs dry come on to see the overflow that is not straightened or hindered by whatever is going on in the economy or your business or whatever the case might be God is big enough and more than that to meet every need we've gotten to take care of us but if you won't the good measure pressed down shaken together if you want the windows open and blessing poured out if you want plenty and running over it's going to cost you somewhere you understand what I'm talking about you gonna have to make a decision you have to choose you can't do this and this in these areas you got to do this put God first and then believe him to take care of you and when you do that you will see amazing things happen in your life can anybody in here testify that you've done some of that and you see what the Lord has done for you and nobody ever put God first and and trusted in him and he didn't take care of them has never happened never will what David say I've been young now I'm old I've never seen the righteous forsaken I'm gonna believe then you never will tell my people that are trusting God and walking with it I've never seen them Forsaken and never seen their seed their kids out begging for bread what they didn't have to not always took care of them can you say glory to God well I'm that might not have been exactly what you're expecting but I think about it think about it and make up your mind that you you're going to make some choices and put God first let me give you the good report on the projects that are going on right now the hangar project in Sarasota is ten thousand square feet and $35 a square foot pays for it and this week we had another a hundred and forty one and another three and another thirty two we had a hundred and seventy-six square feet paid for this week puts us up over 77 percent that's approaching 80 percent glory to God won't last long isn't it wonderful we have that paid for it and aircraft paid for and all the travel that we need to do done taken care of and you got seed in it you ought to be believing for harvest and equipment just whatever me if it's an airplane believe for one if not whatever it is you need equipment wise it might be a good John Deere hay baler but believe for it and paid for a tractor whatever it is the property down there's Phyllis was showing you some pictures of the parking lot and that development constructions going on right now and we're believing to build it out in twenty five hundred seat auditorium and two thousand dollars per seat pays for everything and we're believing that it will and the Lord is doing it he's bringing it to pass and this week we had an additional for an additional to an additional four we had ten ten seats paid for this week thank you law and in addition to that we had you know people have been sewing and saying well whatever you need just incidentals and that kind of thing use it whatever and an additional ten thousand came in to help with that well that's wonderful because then it won't have to come from somewhere else you know it can take care of everything glory to God also the word supply look at there with everything else that's going on the word supply is well supplied something the Lord brought to my attention and out if I can say it like it came up in my heart and no matter what else goes on in the Sarasota Church or anything the more Life Ministries our outreach something that this church right here will always have was the beginning and development of the word supply that's a great thing it's the Branson Church that helped believe and do that and get that started and rolling and so that it could grow in advance and increase and that say I believe that's a big thing you say glory to God Unser's wait on the people you want to get involved in the giving this evening raise your hand if you're giving by cash or by credit card and take an envelope for that if you're giving my cheque you don't require an envelope check should be made out to faith Life Church faith Life Church if you want something to go to one of those projects designate it put down if you want it to go to the hanger or if you want it to go to the the Peyton for the church building if you want it to go to the word supply put that if you don't designate it that's fine too it'll go to the operations of the church here and it's outreaches and we're tithing Church that means a substantial portion where I actually the tithe and then some will go to other churches in other ministries I don't believe the tithe should ever ever stop I believe preachers or the tithe churches are the tithe if tithing is right it's right that's right for one person that's right for everybody and I believe it's one of the reasons why we've been blessed aren't every one of our needs have always been met always and gone in every project you've seen it that the Lord directed us to do it is just come in so quickly and easily and that's this the Lord that's just him and he's no respecter of persons you do know you got the same source as the Church of the ministry so if you want something to go to one of these projects designate it otherwise it'll go here and that's good too like we said Phyllis would you come and bring our offerings soon as you got yours ready you can stand in everybody whether you're giving or not everybody stand up with us and just worship the Lord maybe you'd like to give but you don't have anything we'll ask the Lord to give you seed and as we pray hold if your head even though it's safety and claim it and watch how quickly he'll bring something in for you hold up your offering hold up your handset outloud father God we worship you you are our source it's because of you we have a place to stay something to eat something to wear because of your faithfulness we don't want or lack for any good thing but we always have abundance in every area and plenty to give to every good work thank you for giving us seed to sow multiplying our seed sown and increasing ripe fruits thank you for increasing us more and more us and our children for blessing us and making us a blessing to many people to your glory amen thank you know what's going on in the faith life family right now we're getting our buildings our lands and our houses we're getting them secondly all of our debts are being reduced and eliminated thank you look if this so well said all this stuff well this is Christianity it's always been this way Jesus is called the Apostle and high priest of our confession and so he works with what we say in our life and so say to get all my debts are being reduced and eliminated can the Lord do it can he can he do in a month or two what it takes 30 years for you to do can he do it can he do it he can do it not only can he do it he is doing in in my life said out loud he's doing it in my life thirdly God's bringing into my hands seed even some great big whopper Chuck see he meant he's freeing us up before we don't have those obligations and in debts and everything and so we can do more than we've ever done before in the kingdom and when he brings it to you what are you gonna do with it you're not going to eat it you're gonna sew it exactly where he tells you to and then what will happen after that then you'll reap some of the biggest harvest that you've ever reap because that's just how it works and it's just no end to it you can just coming up up and up from faith to faith and glory to glory in Jesus name if you really believed all this no matter what kind of builds you had or what's been going on you'd be rejoicing because you know it has to change I'm coming up I'm coming out I'm not staying where I am do you believe it how can you tell if you believe it look around to your neighbors see how can you tell if they if you believe it you'll be excited about simple praise go you can be seated uh shoes right on the people [Music] surname [Music] see [Music] don't you say the ball away [Music] alone give to the poor lay a foundation shake and when you're in et situation it'll be there for procreation sauce to me [Music] much [Music] don't you say the Bahrain [Music] save me [Music] thank you lord thank you lord I am convinced that God is well able to take care of me and now my whole life long I will always have everything I need mm-hmm and I'm not going to fear no matter what happens or doesn't happen or what I see or hear I refuse to fear you believe that or not everybody said out loud - the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want didn't that saying that just a better way the Lord is my shepherd so because he is I shall not want shall not want for any good thing would you turn to mark please the sixteenth chapter this evening mark chapter 16 let's pray and agree together concerning exactly what needs to happen if you uh you don't want to just look look at me and see what I can do and I don't just want to look to you you and I need to look to the Lord right and believe for him to speak through me right now and to speak to you he'd say some things to you that didn't come through me right but just say some things and minister some things are not said but their spiritual realities you can have a supply of the spirit ministered to you you can have grace imparted to you by the word of the Lord by the Spirit of the Lord without anybody specifically praying over you or touching you the Spirit of God is all over all over this place he's in every seat all through the place right he can do things in you and for you and me right now this evening let's agree father in the name of Jesus we agree together as touching this thing asking you for utterance that we may hear you and asking for eyes that we may see you in a heart that would understand and give us what we need right now Lord in the days that we're in and then what's coming prepare us equip us enable us give us the answers to the questions and the direction for right now we pray and whatever it is we need to strengthen us and help us and bring us to the next level in Jesus name and we we purpose not to be forgetful hearers but by your grace will be doers of what you show us and tell us and as we do we know we'll be blessed because you are faithful to watch over your word and performing in our lives in Jesus name Amen set out loud I'm a doer I'm a doer I'm a doer of the word of God that's the only people that get results not just churchgoers not just note takers not just DVD CD mp3 players and listeners it's only the people not just convention goers not just prayer line callers who gets results only those who do what the Lord says to do in mark 16 mark 16 and 15 Jesus said to them go go go ye into all the world and preach the gospel of every creature that's our job that's the church's job people try to make it other things and doesn't mean you can't do some some other things but this is our main job isn't it what's our main job go and what preach means to proclaim the gospel gospel is good news what good news all about how Jesus came and paid the price and has redeemed us well be to God and made it possible for us to be born again and be his very own brethren and be children of God oh it's good news how many blood no it's good news it's not bad news it's good news he said go into all the world and proclaim the good news to everybody keep reading next verse he that believes and is baptized will be saved he that believes not will be damned does it make it a difference if you receive the message or not total difference 17 and these signs shall follow them that believe in my name they'll cast out Devils they'll speak with new tongues verse 18 they take up serpents if they drink any deadly thing it will not hurt them they lay hands on the sick they shall recover these signs somebody signs can't you see that every one of those has to do with a spiritual manifestation this is not just natural physical mental things people being delivered from demonic influence people being healed not from natural means but supernatural means right people being protected even from being bitten by a snake or drinking something lowest point eaten something that was poisonous you know if you ever eat something and you can tell it's really making you sick and be something to stand on right there hmm and of course if we will pay attention he'll check us before we eat it but you may be like me and have missed it before in that area but you know some years ago as we're in a ministers akan convention I guess you might call it after the service Phillips myself and some ministers went out to eat and we waitress came and took our order and walked away and we went back to talking and normally what we had done is when the food came out didn't we'd pray over our food and give thanks and eat and as the waitress was walking away the Lord prompted me I don't mean I heard a voice but he he spoke to my heart he said right now is the time to pray over your food right now and I hadn't thought about that before but but as I pondered it they were talking and I'm smiling but the Lord was talking to me and he said to my heart he said the difference between you getting a good cut of meat or a spoiled piece of meat is them reaching here or here and if you'll just ask me to be involved it gives me a right to be involved and this is one this is a way of doing the scripture that said pray without ceasing that doesn't mean you pray every breath that you breathe or every second or a moment of the day but it is a lifestyle and the Lord dealt with me that if you went to to buy something you're buying an electronic thing or or whatever it might be in a lot of places you don't have to go back to the back then and get one he said the difference between getting one in the last 20 years and weren't perfect or getting one that'll blow up the third time you turn it on and have to take it back and deal with all that is them getting this box or this box so he said while they're walking back asked me to direct them in the selection of it and concerning the food this is the way he direct me he said he said not right now is the best time to pray while she's walking away they hadn't done anything with the food you asked me to direct them in the selection and preparation of it and then thanked me for it and blessed and sanctified and of course then when it comes out you ready to eat to just dive right in works real good [Laughter] and this is not just some wild idea Timothy talks about says that what we eat is sanctified by what by two things by the Word of God and prayer and so we don't people talk about saying grace and a lot of times only don't even know what they're doing or what that means but we're supposed to release faith when we pray over our food and that's what the Lord ministered me about that we've been doing it that way ever since but these are supernatural things that he's talking about miraculous things deliverances healings speaking in tongues supernatural protection and deliverance do you believe in miracles let's read the rest of the passage what was that verse 19 was next is that right can you put it up mark 16 19 so after the Lord had spoken to him he was received up into heaven he sat on the right hand of God and verse 20 they did what he told him to do they went out they went forth and they preached everywhere and the Lord was working with and confirming the word with signs somebody say signs what's what's a sign well a sign is something that's awesome something that's wonderful they're the three words signs wonders miracles they they go together and a sign is something that causes you to take notice get your attention a Wonder is something that you marvel at and Wonder it you're in all of a miracle if you look up the word for it it simply means power our force it comes from the Greek word we get our word dynamite from its its power what is a miracle a miracle is a manifestation of God's power and if you look up other words that go along with it in definitions it has to do with power that makes possible so even though it looks like it couldn't happen a miracle can make it happen power that makes possible do you believe in miracles so we've been on this for some weeks now talking about miracles now and we've gone through the book of Acts and looked at several of the instances have you read the book of Acts are there miracles in the book of Acts Oh manifestations of power power that made things possible that men could not do that natural things could not affect let me remind you some of them that we've already gone over some that we've already seen the book of Acts begins with the resurrection of Jesus and how he's been raised from the dead do you believe he really was dead then how did how did he come back to life has he been raised from the dead it is a manifestation of the awesome amazing power of God isn't it Roman says he was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father by the glory of God well his power is glorious and we say that he gave them instructions and ascended just left the ground and went up out of their sight until into the clouds and and they couldn't see him anymore do you believe that really happened is that miraculous is that amazing then we see that they did what he told him and they they tarried in the city of Jerusalem and they were in the upper room 120 of them pray in him and believe in God and and when the day of Pentecost was fully come there came a sound like a rushing mighty wind but it wasn't a natural wind it wasn't something blowing through the doors are the windows it was inside but it was blowing like a hurricane and there appeared to them cloven tongues tongues of flickering fire but it wasn't fire the house was an old fire nothing was on fire naturally but they saw fire and this fire came and got on him and it didn't burn him it didn't hurt him but it failed him hallelujah if they were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues that's supernatural that's miraculous and now all come out of the upper room and into the streets and there was because of the day of Pentecost there were people there from nations all over and I guess what was it over something like a couple of dozen different languages that he mentions right there that all these people heard them speaking in their tongue and dialect and they knew they didn't know these languages how can that be it's miraculous then in acts 3 we see Peter and John come up to the temple at the hour of prayer there's a man laid there who's crippled who's been that way from his mother's womb and they everybody knew and he's laid there every day and and and they said in the name of Jesus get up and walk and he did do you believe this really happened or not yes he leaped and walked this is not a fairy tale this happened do you believe it happened how did it happen it's a miracle there's the power of God is God real does he move in the affairs of men when people believe him interesting yes does he do things that are beyond natural law and beyond what men can do or conceive our understand how happened you know brother Hagin my father in the faith said when he's a little boy he never could figure out how Brown cow could eat green grass and give white milk and you turn it make yellow butter he could not figure that out but all the while he's trying to figure it out he's the drink in the milk and eaten the butter can you enjoy something that you can't figure out yes you can and that's big part of the Christians life you can enjoy somebody say thank you lord we see that after that that they gathered again and and they were in one place in the building you know after they had threatened them and beaten them and they're praying that God would do more of the same and the Holy Ghost shook that building baba said that wasn't a natural thing the the whole building where they were gun didn't just shake some people he shook the building and we see that there were signs of judgment and there were spectacular healings where Peter would walk by people and his shadow would just fall on him and then jump up healed run off do you believe these things really happen and that cloths were taken from that he had touched and and had around his body or on him and and they were taken to take these cloths and laid him on people and and if they were crazy out of their mind they just couldn't become sane or if they were deathly ill they'd just be healed you believe this Bible says it numerous things I won't go through every one of them but thing after thing after thing and we're reminding ourselves of this that in the beginning days of the church the same church were a part of preached the same gospel we're supposed to be preaching now same Holy Spirit same name of Jesus right the supernatural was a regular part of their life wasn't it they were keenly aware of the Moving's the speaking the manifestation of the Holy Spirit in their services in their streets in their homes and they saw things and heard things that were absolutely miraculous didn't it why should we not have that today what reason would there be do we not need to see the word confirmed today just like there doesn't our generation need to see the the manifestation of the goodness of God and the power of God as much as them don't we need that to draw in people that might otherwise be skeptics and not even bother to take time if they think it's just intellectual or religious but if they see people are hungry even people that say they don't care anything about daughter church they are hungry for the reality of God and if they can see and experience something that God is doing and they they it touches their spirit and they realize this is not just some dead something out of a seminary this this is real this is this is not just some group of people in the rules they've made up something's real here how could that happen how do you explain that and when NIC that kind of thing happens that's what these signs are for signs are to get your attention aren't they turn here we've got signs and Branson don't we what are signs for signs are to get your attention and get you come in that direction well God has signs God is in the sign business always has been he's never changed many have gotten intellectual and unbelieving and I mean you've even got a is supposed to the supposedly theological seminaries where it is taught that you know the virgin birth didn't necessarily happen that it's more figurative or symbolic and that the miracles they're not that they're really more parables and the illustrations and the main thing is the idea and the teachings of geno know it's either true or it's alive no no you can't marry a Christian and not believe in miracles I'm Aniston this book from the front to the back have you read it at all from the front to the back is absolutely miraculous isn't it Jesus was born of a virgin he walked in power amazing things were happening I mean the dead were raised as sick were healed he walked on the water and he was raised from the dead you don't believe that you're not a Christian well I believe in the teachings of G if you don't believe that he was raised from the dead you're not a Christian Kate but Jesus said you must be born again and that's how you are born again that you believe on him that the father sent and you believe that he's been raised from the dead and confess him as Lord with your own mouth and when you do something miraculous happens in you how many can testify when you do something miraculous happens in you I remember as a boy walking down the aisle behind my daddy after a message as he was going to the altar in a little Baptist Church and giving my heart to the Lord something happened to me anybody to know what I'm talking about it something happened to me I was different the next day I was there at then but I was different the next day as I went to school and his other thing I was a different person I didn't understand it but I just looked around and just loved folks I didn't understand what was going on but the Bible said we know we've passed from death unto life because we love the Brethren the love of God has been shed abroad in your heart by the Holy Ghost it's a love that's beyond the natural it's the love of God shed abroad and you're in my heart can you say Amen can you say you believe it turn with me to Galatians please mmm let's see how about John 4:14 and then galatians john 14 you believe in with me this leaf please do I want to talk about this evening how to have miracles I'm talking about how you can have miracles in your life are you interested how do I not not just be with somebody else's having them how you you didn't know what I'm talking about you every person in this room how are you everybody watching my internet how you can have miracles in your life well here's something that should be obvious to us but it's very very significant in John 14 and 10 John 14 and 10 jesus said believe us now not that I'm in the father and the father in me the words that I speak to you I speak not of myself but the father that dwelleth works now what I'm getting into right now is how to have miracles you could sit like this how to do the works you know how we'll do the works that he did the same way he did them the same way he did him how did he do it he said the father in me he does the works say that out loud the father in me he does the works verse 11 he went on to say believe me that I'm in the father and the father in me or else believe me for the very works sake verse 12 verily verily I say unto you he that believes on me do you believe on him he that believes on me the works that I do did that involve many miraculous things the works that I do shall he do also and greater than these shall he do because I go until the father if he'd a stayed and continued that it just kept getting greater and greater but his only purpose was not to come and do the greater works he did that and demonstrated and showed us how it's done but he was also coming to be our sacrifice wasn't he to go to the cross for us pay the price for our sins but he said if you believe on me you'll do what I've done now this is so wonderful that many in the church if not dared believe it and many in positions of leadership and teaching behind the pulpit they have either inferred or implied or outright said put our Usher's sit like this they've put gee everything that Jesus did in his life and ministry in a category that was absolutely unattainable to anybody else that yeah he did that because he's the son of God but why would you imagine you could do it cuz you're not the Son of God you're not God implying that he did what he did as God but the truth is Philippians says he laid aside his mighty weight and power and glory and became like other men and in fact he had to be anointed didn't he when he came into the time for him to minister and to do the things you know some apocryphal writings we'll have Jesus as a child performing miracles healing his play friends raising little birds from the dead don't you believe any of that that's junk because the Bible said the first miracle was when the water was turned to wine and that's after he was aged 30 after the Spirit of God had come on him when he was baptized in the river Jordan sono he performed no miracles no healings while he was 10 11 12 15 18 20 25 28 29 none why because he has to become a man are you with me friends see if you're operating as god you're the anoint Durer you don't need to be anointed but because he's operating as a man he must be anointed and operate by that anointing and so when he's baptized in the River Jordan you remember when he's coming up out of the water what the Bible say here comes the Holy Spirit in a bodily shape and form as a dove and comes down and comes upon him hallelujah and right after that was the temptation but when he came out of the wilderness the Bible City came out in the power of the Spirit and he went into the synagogue and the demons cried out and people started getting delivered and healings started happening and miracles why it's by that anointing now if he did what he did as God then I'm not God you're not God we can't imagine doing the same kind of thing but if he did it as a man undaunted with the Holy Spirit and he would anoint us with that same great spirit then we can see the glorious potential of what he just said having and doing the same works then he did come on read it again verse 12 verse 12 What did he say verily verily I say to you he that believes on me do you believe on him the works that I do shall he do also don't let any bodies multiple degree and hardcover book and seminary seminary education talk you out of that do you believe what Jesus said then is it possible for you to see some of the same things in your life that he had in his life miraculous happenings he that believes 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 glory to God it's not for the faint of heart it's only for those that will dare believe it well now how did he do it remember we said if if if we're gonna do the works he did we'll be doing them the same way he did them how did he do it how did he do it go to Galatians the third chapter if you're holding your place there Galatians 3 some very enlightening words about miracles right here Galatians 3 5 Galatians 3 5 he says he therefore that ministers to you the spirit and works miracles among you doeth he it by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith how does it happen do you know if you had to pick one multiple choice a or b which first or no last in which one you pick huh last one you'd be right when one translation that god's word translation says it like this does god supply you with the spirit and work miracles among you through your own efforts are through believing what you heard is it through can we produce miracles through our own efforts and through our own works we cannot but can miracles be produced by the hearing of faith obviously that's how they were happening then and that's how they happen now every miracle begins by hearing from him can you say glory to God every mirror some people get it get all worked up and go I I want miracles I want I want to be a part of miracles I want to see miracles what you want to do is hear from him now I've heard till I'm sick of hearing I want to see something according to this verse how the miracles come by hearing every miracle begins by hearing from him you won't you won't have any miracles in your life that didn't begin by you hearing from him they come miracles are worked by the hearing of faith you can't believe him to do something you didn't hear from him that he would do you can't just work yourself up and I'm gonna go do a miracle I'm gonna do this in that you can't I'm on baby I can well you won't go to John five and let me make more plain why John five we all okay in here this evening you believe the Bible is true me too John chapter 5 verse 19 John 5:19 jesus said to them verily verily I say to you now now if the Lord said it is true if he said verily it be true he says verily verily but why would he say that because he's wanting to get you to give him your full attention about how important and how true this is verily verily I say to you the son can do nothing of himself but what he sees the father do for what things soever he doeth these also doeth the son likewise verse 24 the Father loves the Son and shows him all things that himself doeth and he will show him greater works than these that you may marvel now this this phrase greater works that's the same as miracles these are works of power manifestations demonstrations of the power of God did Jesus have them did he walk did he walk in and did he see them manifestations of amazing things awesome things lepers healed blind eyes opened come on do I believe this deaf ears opened the dumb able to speak the Bible talks about in his ministry the maned being made whole what does that mean that means limbs twisted off missing parts restored people born without something and is put there do you breathe you serve a God that can easily do these kind of things did Jesus really do these works could anybody else ever have them and see them and do them whoo-hoo-hoo those that believe on him as the church preached this and believes this by and large no no no but can we believe it I've heard folks say 'ah people even challenge me in times past and say well prove to me that anybody got healed you want to say well prove to me and nobody got healed and of course when you're young you know you tend to be more fleshy and combat even you want them and and I thought well you know man we got all kind of testimonies and we've got doctors reports I've got x-rays test results yeah I'll just cover him up and stuff the Lord will help me to see no no no it is not your job to prove anything to anybody he did he didn't tell us going to all the world and prove it to people hmm going to all the world knew what proclaim it and he that believes it will have it and these signs will follow who then they say prove it to me no no no they felt they won't have it they won't be bothered with it they'll think it doesn't exist but they don't realize it just doesn't exist for them other people experiencing it other people are enjoying it no it doesn't work when you say well show me and I'll believe prove it to me no no but believe and then you'll see seeing is not believing it's absolutely untrue statements got nothing to do with belief you believe then you see but jesus said I only do he said I can of my own self do nothing didn't say I choose not to What did he say I can't so how many miracles could Jesus do now I you you got to believe the scripture to answer this correctly how many miracles did Jesus do because he just decided to do something none What did he say himself he said I can't a lot of people don't they don't want to believe that they don't think that's right because they'd rather believe what they have heard then believe the scripture I believe is true and yet we see mighty things happen through his life and ministry how did they happen he said he said the father in me he does the works and I can't do anything of myself why because he's operating like us he's operating like a man I can't do anything of myself but what I see the father do that's what I do oh come on now how can you have miracles how can you have the kind of amazing things in your life that Jesus had in his life how it's gonna be the same way that he did them how did he do we we read there in that what was it that John 14 the tenth verse put that back up again John 14 10 he said do you not believe that I'm in the father and the father's in me the words I speak to you I speak not of myself but the father that dwelleth in me he does the works what's he saying I only say what I hear him say I only do what I see him do that is how you have miracles it's no more complicated than that let's go to that passage in John 2 where the first miracle occurred in his life and ministry remember I know it sounds repetitive but I'm not just saying it to log it in your mind sometimes you need you need to have it hit you again and again and it gets in your spirit how would you know that got in your spirit and you're believing it how would you know well what about the excitement level right now that that's a revelation of our faith level right now which ain't so hot but it can change right it can change and how do you get faith comes by hearing that's why I'm still talking and if we haven't seen some things that we'd like to see how many know we can have faith that we're gonna stay with it we're gonna stay after we're gonna believe the word no matter what we see or don't see we're gonna stay after we're gonna believe it and we know we don't know everything but we believe he does and he knows how to get it across to us and he'll get it to us he'll teach us he'll show us he'll if we need corrected we want to be corrected instructing whatever needs to be he can get us there do you have faith he can get you there to where you you're seeing the same kind of things in your life in our church in our lifetime and generation that they were seeing in the book of Acts that Jesus was seeing in his life is it possible is it the will of God can he get us there yeah will we stay with it long enough for him to yeah well yes I just say yes where are you and John 2 verse 1 third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee and the mother of Jesus was there verse 2 both Jesus was called and his disciples to the marriage verse 3 so they they went that were not too spiritual to go to a party and when they wanted wine they ran out of wine the mother of Jesus said to him there a lot of wine they don't have any there out verse 4 Jesus said what's that to do with us I mean you know we're not doing business and he knows why she's asking him because she you know the Bible said she was a woman that pondered things in her heart and from the beginning in his miraculous conception and birth they know prophecy is being fulfilled and they know and and then here he is a grown man now and she just knows something's about to break out and she's prompted I believe to say hey they need provision they need help and he said well so what's that to us and he said my hours not yet come and it wasn't but it was 11:59 [Laughter] and verse five his mother just turns to the surface and gives the complete summary of how to have miracles come owner y'all with me tonight or not how everything we've been talking about for weeks now it's right here in this verse how to get a miracle have you read the rest of this chapter here have you read this did they have a miracle an amazing thing happened yeah okay this is before it's manifest right here it hasn't happened yet so how is it going to happen the Spirit of God says through her whatever he says to you do it whatever he says to you do it so at that point they're not bugging him anymore but they're all alone ready because he just said my hours not come what's that to us but she just turned and said okay but if he says anything to you be ready do it whatever he says just do it so they're all sitting there watching him you say anything anything but but if he said anything you ready I'm ready I'm ready okay I don't know how long it was but the Spirit of God spoke to it let's just stop right here did Jesus just change his mind and decide off you know whatever let's let's make him some wine now see they hear some people preach you'd think that he thought yeah I'm Jesus I'm the son of God I'm God incarnate let me just show off a little bit let me just prove and show Who I am and what a mm-hmm what did Jesus himself say he could do so could he if he had just decided I want to do this could he have done it according to him he could not what did he do what did he say how the amazing things happened he said the father in me he does them and I only do what I see him do I only say what I hear him say so obviously as he's sitting there the father showed him something right the father said something to him or he saw him going and getting those water pots and filling them up and the words that the Lord says to you speaks to you they they do show you something were his words produce vision when he says something to you you see it have you ever heard somebody when revelation went off in them and they said what I see that I see why cuz the word that you hear enables you to see he heard it he saw it I don't know exactly how the word doesn't tell us but I know that's what changed everything is the father he saw it he heard it or a combination of both and so he turns around and tells them go take the water pots and fill them with water what were their last instructions whatever he says to you do it it doesn't make sense to their natural mind it's not water that they're short of he if they got a party going on they got duties to attend to they're not supposed to be hauling these big lots are filling these big pots up and dude you don't just drop a hose in it they gotta make a trip down to the well and draw it up and haul it back and pour a bucket in and go back I mean this is work makes you sweat you got your party clothes old you're supposed to be waiting on the people and this is just not what you would think you should do but this is how you have miracles you trust in the Lord with all of your heart and you don't lean to your own little noggin and it won't always make sense to you and it won't always seem reasonable and you won't know why and you won't be able to figure it many times because if you couldn't figure out how to produce some a miracle why would you think you would understand it before it starts but the Lord just told them go do it they did it his work the field all these big big these things are big they hold what twenty thirty gallons of peace I mean big old pots and vases and they fill them all up there's swapping the sweat going okay okay got him full who no one he said dick T some out of there and go take it to the governor of the feast oh boy you ever eat in comfort of water you don't want water he wants wine did it take faith for them to obey everybody waking here they say yeah how do you get miracles jesus said the works I did you can do also how if you believe on me how did he do him if we're gonna do the works that he did we got to do them the same way he did them how did he do them he just said what he heard and he just did what he saw can you say glory to God and when he did amazing things happened miraculous things occurred they had enough faith to do what he said I don't know who the governor of the feast was if he was a nice guy if he's a rough guy I don't know if he was hard on the helper he I don't know some guys would have spit it out and slapped somebody or fire them but they take his big wineglass they dip her out the wall they put her in there and hand it to him just like it's vintage he takes beat takes some big sent me goes now what do you think they're doing what border they did still sweaty from how long hot water they probably tried to get out of the way somewhere and he says wow wow now this is some good wine boys this is what I'm talking about were you had these stuff I mean most people they save the bad stuff to last everybody's drunk don't care but this stuff this is excellent wine they probably treat each other with why because I know they put h2o hitting that Cup they know it they know where it came from came out of the well they hold it put it in the jug and the Bible said this beginning of miracles this is this is where it started right here happen and the glory of the Lord begin to be showing manifested oh somebody say thank you lord how did it happen or are you any stronger on how it happened how did it happen Jesus said I I can do nothing of myself the father in me he does the works I just say what I hear him say I just do what I I see him do go to the book of Acts please go to the book of acts can you take a little more I'm not I'm not quite done can you text some more hope you can cuz you're gonna get it it's coming your way is this exciting or not this is wonderful we're not just talking about some some dad theory this is the glorious possibility of us having the same kind of thing happened as the water turning to wine as people being healed and delivered raised from the dead now I want us to look at a couple of well yeah a couple in Acts chapter 9 a couple of individuals that had miracles happen in their life and yet they were not preachers they were not prophets they were not evangelists not pastors not Bible teachers there what what we might call today layperson a believer this first one the men called ananias acts 9 and verse 10 acts 9 says there was a certain disciple at Damascus named and a nice now disciple if you look it up it just simply means learner learner student pupil of of the Lord student of who not to seminary just a disciple of the Lord he's a should every believer be a learner ready to learn more about the Lord and to him sent the Lord in a vision in a what what happens in a vision you see things he said and a nice he said behold I'm here Lord yes is it possible for the Lord to speak to you hmm how many believe this really happened just like this yeah verse 11 the Lord said to him get up so guess he's laying down I've been that time maybe in the sleep his bedroom I don't know get up and go to the street which is called straight this is word of knowledge he's giving him directions this is way before the days of GPS get up and you go to this this street the name of the street is straight and asked in there on that Street about Judas houses and ask about a man named Saul so he tells him the street he tells him whose house he tells him who's in the house not a profit not a pasture not an evangelist a disciple a learner because and telson gives him another word of knowledge Saul which he doesn't know personally say he's praying right now tells him what he's doing where he's at and what he's doing let's just stop right here is this miraculous huh this is not something you learning on the news or somebody calling you on the phone there's no way you could know any of this and the Spirit of God is telling you we're part of the same church come on we are we have the same new birth that N and I said come on now we have the same Holy Spirit that Ananias a same name of Jesus the Lord loved you as much as Helen eyes verse 12 he said this man saw that's in this guy's house Judas that's on the street name straight Street he's praying and he has seen in a vision I've shown him something he saw a man coming in named that in eyes I'm sure thought and last thought that's my name he saw man coming in name down in eyes come in and put his hand on him that he might receive his sight now lets him know he can't see verse 13 and and I says Lord I've heard about this guy this is a bad man I've heard from a lot of people about this guy how much evil he has done to your saints at Jerusalem and he had I mean he was dragging people out of their houses he was taking them to jail you'd never hear of him again people are being stoned in the street he's been a mean bad guy and now the Lord's telling him you go to his house in the middle of the night put hands on him this is how you have miracles come on our Yahweh's well this is how you get miracles every miracle begins with hearing from him he said I have heard Lord all the evil he's done to you your people at Jerusalem verse 14 and here he's got authority from the chief priests I mean he's awful right he can't drag anybody other house he wants to he can take anybody to jail he can officiate their execution and everybody that calls on your name he's including me 15 the Lord said go your way told you get up go because he is a chosen vessel unto me now this this takes faith doesn't this the meanest guy in the country tearing up churches killing people right and left God says I've chosen this man he is a chosen now this is this is pre Romans Ephesians Colossians Philippians pre any of the missionary journey none of this has happened all that has happened is he's killing people because they believe in Jesus destroying churches the Lord says you go your way go on down and ice cuz I he's a chosen vessel to me I have picked him out to bear my name before the Gentiles and the Kings and the children of Israel and verse 16 I will show him how great things he must suffer from my namesake 17 and to Ananias credit you see why the Lord spoke to him because was he do he gets his little britches and shoes on and gets itself out the door and then don't matter what time it is or where this straight street is or if they're all asleep or what he's got to do to find out or what this guy might possibly do to him when he does finally find him and Anais is out the door and gone because if the Lord says do it he's gonna do it and whatever the Lord says to him he's gonna do it he's not a prophet he's not a I believe that's one of the reasons why he's in the book right here the Lord want you to know you don't have to be a well-known preacher you don't have to be standing behind the pulpit you don't have to have any kind of a special call to hear from the Lord and go do what he tells you to do and have a miracle happen in your life all you got to do that's what Jesus did whatever you hear say it whatever he shows you do it whatever he tells you to do actor like canonized without delay he he he was concerned so he asked a question and the Lord told him go going go your way cuz I've picked him up and that was good enough friend a nice no more questions no more arguing here he goes win his way he found that straight street he found that house I don't know what he had to do to but but I'm sure the Lord helped him and he said you got a guy in here named salt I said yeah right back here back bedroom he said I need to I need to see they let him back to the back room come on get this now he walked straight in there puts his hands on he says but brother saw brother brother there wasn't nobody else in town calling him brother I'll tell you that brother Sal why I like to send a nice if the Lord says he's picked him that's good enough for him hmm next time he sees him it's brother brother saw the Lord even Jesus that appeared to you in the way as you came has sent me that you might receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Ghost glory to God this is a mean guy that's been breathing out threatenings and murderous threats and dragging people away from their kids and their spouses and and he says no God sent me in here tonight you can get your sight back don't you know that was good news to solve that's right he'd been able to see a thing since the experience he's totally blind he can't see a thing he said you're gonna receive your sight and you're gonna be filled with the Holy Ghost you got his hands on him if you want to have miracles you got to be bold to do what the Lord told you to do come on then you can't play around with it and mess around with it you got to do it verse 18 immediately over to God there fell from his eyes as it had been scales and he received his sight forthwith and he got up and was baptized glory to God what Ananias told him happened right there right then he he could see someone say miracle miracle he's fair with the Holy Ghost miracle Smurfs a miracle miracle miracle who is this a denies who is he he's a disciple they'll have their down then the Lord spoke to him in the nighttime is this real to you friend yes can the same kind of thing happen with you you you with you oh you've got to do its here from him that's all you got to do and then go do it whatever he says to you do it glory to God somebody say glory to God oh thank you lord verse 19 was it said when he'd received meat he was strengthened and saw with certain days with the disciples who Damascus from this point on he's no longer the bad guy he's not the enemy he becomes the strongest champion for Christ took the gospel to the known world and how the Lord helped him get straightened out and get on the right track called a man in the night time that nobody I mean what's said about him before or after this God just knew he was a man didn't do what he told him to do can somebody say praise the Lord acts 10 can you take one more of these acts 10 and verse 1 there was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius a Centurion of the band called the Italian band he's a soldier you see a preacher no he's not a pastor what is it he must have been a good soldier because in this tremendously disciplined army that he's a part of he's been promoted and has men under him that didn't happen if you were a lazy coward this man has fought in campaigns he has led men into battle he has won and yet this man is in the book of Acts about to have a miracle can you work in a profession other than preaching and not you're not a pastor you're not traveling evangelist you're not a missionary but can you work in another profession that some might not think is very spiritual and have miracles yeah I mean soldiering is especially in their day still is today but especially in their day I've bloody ah hand-to-hand and he's done it and been successful and yet he loves God I don't know all the things that happened in his life that caused him to be a soldier and caused him to come to the place where he had been promoted and led how many think for our soldiers in the field tonight yeah standing on the wall doing hard things so we don't have to so us and our babies can be safe you appreciate it yeah I appreciate it does that mean because they're doing a rough job and a hard job that they can't have miracles and spiritual things happen in there like yes they can yes they can says many times people think because I do this natural job and and it doesn't seem spiritual to me or other people that well I'm just relegated to be a natural man and and I don't know about all those spiritual things and I don't I don't know how to quote all those scriptures not how to do it and people just give up and quit and don't make this stuff available and it's a shame it's a tragedy because God would use men just like this and women like that and people are getting ice and he wants people that'll just simply have the faith and boldness and just push their little minus side and do what he tells them to death it's all he needs keep reading verse two he's a devout man he feared God with all his house you don't want to meet him on the battlefield he'll cut you nine ways from Sunday and walk right over here to the next guy so he's got to do but he loves God with all his heart he reverences God and he was such an influence that everybody in his house everybody under him they feared God and He gave much alms to the people and he prayed to God all the time can you be a man like this and be a praying man see a lot of people think well you know well I you know I have to work and make a living you know my wife's the player and she's the spiritual one well thank God is she's a spiritual one in prayer I don't mean that she can't do your praying for you don't mean you can just be carnal and flesh out all the time cuz you work with your hands or you do this for that moon know every every born-again child of God no matter their job their place their lot in life they should have the miraculous the element of the miraculous in their life they should have a a close walk with the Lord shouldn't this should be a praying man or everybody everybody should be a praying man or woman and know God and reverence God and get up in the morning loving God and aware of God and go through their job and life all day with him and lay their head on the pillow not serving God worshiping God praying to God you don't have to make a spectacle of yourself but it can be there all night and all day and the Bible said he saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day verse 3 an angel of the Lord coming in to him and he said Cornelius it sounds familiar don't sound like Ananias are we about to see a miracle yeah how do they start how does every miracle start by hearing from him mrs. hat starts he's hearing something he's seeing something he's hearing something verse four when he looked on he was afraid and he said not now he's afraid this is a guy that stared death in the face many times but when he's looking at this glorious being he's thinking whoa what what is it Lord he said your prayers and your giving to the poor your arms have come up before God does God see everything you do no matter where you were what you do what your vocation everything you do for him and his people does he see it does he know it does he remember he said they come up as a memorial remembrance before God verse five now you send men to Joppa here comes that revelation that word of knowledge you call for one Simon whose surname is Peter verse six he's Lodge and he's staying with Simon a Tanner if you went to try to find Peter you might have had trouble finding him because he wasn't home but the Lord knew where he was and it reveals it to this soldier this so he's not a prophet and yet he knows where a man is right now why because it has to do with his life and his family his house is by the sea set he will tell you what you ought to do you know the story man Cornelius acts on it he sends people to him and God is getting Peter ready on the other side he's hungry he falls into a trance and the Spirit of God says they're men downstairs right now I've sent him you go with them doubting nothing because man this is breaking every religious rule in the book for him to go to this this non-jewish soldier and go in this house and do things with them they just did just wasn't done but the Lord tells him you get up and do it why Peter have miracles in his life whatever the Lord tell you he'd do it so man he comes to marching in there Oh Cornelius comes and falls down and says oh thank you thank you for coming Peter says get up get up I'm a man just like you and he's looking around he's thinking what am i doing in this bunch and it hits him you got to preach they told him they said the Lord told us to sin for you and you tell us something it hits him he thinks wow I'm gonna preach to Gentiles hadn't been done this is how you have miracles you step out into areas you hadn't been before doesn't start with thunder and lightning it starts with you seeing something and hearing something and having enough courage to step out and go over there go to the guy's house go to the town go to the street go knock on the door he said I perceive God's no respecter of persons but anybody anywhere that'll believe on him and he starts talking about Jesus and he just was getting into it when the Holy Ghost interrupted him and fell on everybody there and they all started speaking into us you talk about some shocked Jewish men Peter and the guys that can I'm telling you their jaws must have been on the floor they're thinking no no what and yet they know it's God they know it's the Holy Ghost and I'm telling you hold doors were thrown open to groups of people that would have never been considered before glory to God somebody say glory to go glory to God do we have the same Holy Spirit yeah let me tell you what's gonna happen are you ready you and I gonna draw closer to the Lord come on are y'all with theater we're gonna pray more I said we're gonna pray more yeah I'm not talking about just didn't prayer immediate I might you at your house by yourself we're gonna pray more we're gonna seek the Lord yeah anybody here with me or not we're gonna seek the Lord we're not gonna try to produce anything or work anything up but we're gonna make ourselves available we're gonna say here in my lord use me see you want to do something with me I'm available and he's going to show us things don't try to make it too complicated don't try to make it spectacular he's gonna show us things it may be a very simple thing call them go check on them go do this go give this to them go give that to that one pray this for this one but you'll see it clearer and I'm not talking about you having to see something with your physical eyes you'll see it you'll know it you'll hear you know I'm not too much you have to hear it with your physical ears but you'll see it and you'll hear it and you'll know it then what's gonna happen help me out come on help now let's go happen then we go and do it we're gonna do it we're gonna take a step of faith step out we're gonna call them they're gonna go check we're gonna give it we're gonna show it we're gonna pray it say it do it and then what's gonna happen come on help me out then then we're gonna step back out of the way of the Lord and He will do miracles that's the way it work then that's the way it work with Jesus that's the way it works with Peter and Paul it worked that way with Anna nice it worked that way with Cornelius it works that way today with you miracles now miracles today this is how can you say glory digger have my stand up on your feet Oh

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