[Overcoming] Failures by Lee Stoneking (Condensed Message)

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you there is a tragic account recorded in Matthew's Gospel chapter 26 it has to do with Peter in Matthew's Gospel chapter 26 in verse 69 the Bible says now Peter said without in the palace and a damsel came unto him saying thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee but he denied before them all saying I know not what thou sayest and when he was gone out into the porch another maid saw him and said unto them that were there this fellow was also with Jesus of Nazareth and again he denied with an oath I do not know the man and after a while came into him they that stood by and said to Peter surely thou also art one of them for thy speech barea thee then began he took curse and to swear saying I know not the man and immediately the crew and Peter remembered the word of Jesus which said unto him before the crow thou shalt deny me thrice and he went out and wept bitterly I am sure it was just an ordinary barnyard rooster but to Peter it was a trumpet of dawn that awakened in him a remorse and a regret there was practically unconscious 1 verse 9 John wrote and said if we confess our sins first John chapter 1 and verse 9 if we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins say that's me and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness say I have hope I'm quite sure today that there are many people here who at one time or another you have done something that you wish you had never done I'm quite sure here today that there are people many of you both men and women who feel like somewhere in your effort to live for God you have failed him and memories haunt you and grief and remorse at times overpowers you to those of you who are here like this today this message is affectionately dedicated I simply want to entitle this failures would you pray we read in our day a great many biographies and autobiographies and we are impressed with the content and the people's lives that they disclose to us however the truth of the matter is that the Bible biographies that we read from the context of the Holy Writ are much closer to the truth than contemporary biographies about men that God uses today consider with me here today the life stories of Jacob David and Jonah these men who ran these adulterers when we read these stories we are shocked embarrassed and sometimes blush saying God how could you ever have used them how could you have used such men the bible does not gloss it over whitewash it it's all there in black and white it's in your Bible yet these men rose out of their failures and were men of the Spirit we need to take a clung look at the glaring failures in the lives of men that God has used would you consider Moses a failure hardly but let's take a look at this man who waves the rod and plagues an entire nation divides the sea and his armies Passover on dry ground look at his face as it's alive with the glory of God and turn nation at his knees seeking his judgment and advice here's the man who talked face-to-face with the Almighty God who brought water from the rock who made bitter water sweet you would hardly call this man a great failure not until you go behind the scene behind the glory deep into his personal life and then all you find when you look real close is failure upon failure how would you like to begin your ministry with murder for example how would you like to find a clear call of God soured by 40 years alone in the desert hiding from the Courts of Justice this man had murdered an Egyptian how would you believe that a man of so many weaknesses would ever be used of God at one time this man was full of fear and unbelief in Exodus chapter 4 verses 10 through 13 we find four excuses that this man of God used when God called him Moses said I am slow of speech sends somebody else who's this talking now here's the man who angered the Lord in Exodus chapter 4 and 14 the Bible says and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses Moses murmured long before the children of Israel murmured when he said in Exodus 5 and 22 and Moses returned unto the Lord and said Lord wherefore hast thou so evil and treated these people why is it that thou has sent me neither has they'll delivered thy people at all Moses murmured long before the children of Israel murmured he lost his temper it was his angry outburst at the smiting of the rock that so angered God that God refused him entrance into the Promised Land but in spite these failures the Bible declared quote and Moses verily was faithful in all his house as a servant for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after unquote God makes it clear that the day would come that the testimony of Moses would be faithfulness there you have it this is God speaking of a failure consider with me Jacob the man who was numbered among the greatest of him the Bible says we serve the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob who was this man Jacob was he not the prayer warrior the intercessor who prevailed with God the man who had visions of angels ascending and descending upon a ladder the man who so recognized the presence of God that he said surely God is in this place he who said God spoke to me in a dream saying Jacob Jacob and I said here am i Jacob was trying to tell the world God talks to me personally Jacob was the one who carried with him the blessing of his father Abraham hardly a failure by our standards of success today but Jacob was more than that he was a man of many failures and God never did seek to hide them see him kneel first of all before a blind father in an act of deception that will exceed anything in the whole world see him still a birthright and the blessing in this act of deception here's the man who married Leah but was in love with Rachel can you imagine her heart it must have been for his wife Leah God saw that leah was hated and opened her Barren womb to assist her in winning the love and attention of Jacob a man who did not recognize his responsibilities as a husband this man was a failure in his home here is the story of a man caught interception and graft unfaithfulness polygamy thievery and craftiness yet it is still said of him we serve the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob the Bible does not hide it now consider david the patriarch was this not the man of god who would not even stand with sinners nor sit in the seat of the scornful the man who delighted in the law of the lord who asked the heathen for a heritage who preached righteousness to the whole congregation who led the armies of israel from victory to victory was david not the giant-killer the man who provoked the respect of thousands who sang his praises and talked of his exploits was this not the king who was promised that his seed should reign forever was it not said that Jesus was the son of David would you consider David a failure the bible does not gasp over this man's failure yet they are shocking by any standards here was the man who sent Joab into battle with all the armies of Israel while he stunned himself on a rooftop in Jerusalem and according to Nathan the prophet he despised the commandments of God the man who said the Lord God is my delight Nathan said David you despised it now has killed Uriah in essence he said David you are a murderer you've taken his wife thou has despised me you did it secretly if you want to see how shocking it is just picture this great man of God who had become a mighty nation builder standing at the casket of a dead illegitimate child standing hand in hand with a stolen wife the enemies of God around the world laughing and blaspheming this man who rocks just beautiful music out of whose lips and heart poured such beautiful praises to God failure David was a failure by any standard by any stretch of the imagination David had totally failed nevertheless David the Bible says of you Jesus the son of David the Bible saw him God saw him a man after his own heart to be captain over his people David how could Jesus use the murderous Moses the scheming Jacob the commandment breaking adulterous David how can God use men like this if you look closely these men learned to face their failures they didn't run from them they didn't hide them they didn't gloat in them they learn to live above them they learned how to face it and bring glory to God there are many people today who struggle I hear it everywhere I go people come to me and say brother stonking I can't live it I don't have the power I've been such a failure there's no use trying if you're here like that today and that is the cry of your soul I'd like to say to you that you are closer to God and his kingdom than the man or the woman who tries to hide their sins and never admits their need or their failure I've come here today to tell you that you are pushed to God in those among us who tried to hide their sins and never admit their need of God or their failure how does a man a woman of God become a man a woman of God in spite of their failures number one you must learn to face your failure and shake off all fears about failure never be afraid of failure I'm here to tell you today he who has never failed has never done anything I don't care what they tell you I don't care what they tell you he among us who has never failed has never done anything because none of us are perfect but we're going to be we're going to be we're going to be fear a failure always causes a person to hide themselves from the presence of God it causes a person to run Adam said after he sinned in essence I failed God and I was afraid so I hid myself Peter failed his master what a tragic failure he had to get away from the searching eye of his master so he ran Jonah knew he had failed in his mission and he drove himself farther in fear to taxes Adam Peter and Jonah all running in fear away from the presence of God because they had a fear of their failures why do you think Adam Peter and Jonah ran from the presence of the Lord I personally think that Peter never lost his love for Jesus in fact as he stood on the hillside weeping I think he probably loved Jesus more in those moments than he had ever loved him in his entire life Adam in hiding I think he grieved because he knew he had failed God I believe it hurt him Jonah I believe as he ran he kept telling himself I'm not worthy I have failed God I ran so I might as well keep on running Satan carries like a vulture around your personality he works on you and he works on you and he works on you until he finds your weakest link ahead when he finds your weakest link he begins to drop on that like water dripping on a rock and he'll work at it and he'll work at it until he tries to crack you ladies and gentlemen hear me today you better find out in prayer and fasting what's your weakest link is and you better cover with prayer and fasting you better strengthen that link because the devil is there to break it he's there to break it but by the grace of God by the help of God by the glory of the gospel we can strengthen anything I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me the devil is a liar but God is true once once you have failed in any measure the devil uses every lie of Hell and tries to tell you that you need to run and to give up Satan will say things to you like God is - holy you're - unclean you - imperfect you're never gonna make it and we as Pentecostals we're really something you know we come this thing and get the baptism of the Holy Ghost get baptized in Jesus name but feel the glory of it all and then we've all done it we set up for ourselves a criteria by which we are going to someday judge ourselves worthy to be mightily and supernaturally used by God and so we begin to do the things we're told to do we come the church and you should we worship and you should we're given the offerings we pay our ties we clean the church we worship we do all the things that are asked of us we teach Bible studies we witness to people on the job and we keep climbing and climbing this ladder that we build for ourselves we're going to do everything just right everything perfect and all of a sudden one day we're going to reach the top of this ladder and we're going to step off into some ethereal gossamer mysterious supernatural realm that will suddenly qualify us to be mightily and supernaturally used by God and the devil watches you climb your ladder he watches you go rung by rung and then all of a sudden when you're just about to step off the top rung you do some stupid thing and you leave the four clear off the ladder or you fall halfway down the ladder and then we crawl in some corner and we begin to lick our wounds and we say woe is me I've messed this whole thing up I'm unworthy I can't be used of God I'm a failure come on you're in your corner and when you were licking your wounds and when you were whining the devil it has got you exactly where he wants you he has rendered you helpless and useless but what we ought to do is we ought to get out of our corner we ought to somehow pick ourselves up and come out of our corner and say devil I'm gonna make you sorry you ever heard my name I'm gonna make you wish you had never entangled yourself with me we need to come out of our corners and say devil I'm gonna make you wish you had never heard my name I'll make you wish you had never entangled yourself with me because I'm still going to the house of God tonight and when I get there I'm going to sing the songs of Zion I'm going to lift my hands I'm going to dance before the Lord I'm going to worship here but I'm gonna run the aisles I'm still gonna go to the hospital I'm still gonna teach Bible studies I'm gonna make you wish you had never heard my name and if you had never entangled yourself with me we need to come out of our corners and there are some of you that is part of everything that's happened here you are still in a corner say I'm coming out on my corner devil is such a liar he will costly try to remind you of where you came from the next time he reminds you of where you came from remind him of where he's going it has a tremendous effect on him I may have come from nothing and Lucifer you're on your way down boy you are on your way to town and I'm on my way up I may not be perfect but I'm gonna be perfect and when I see him in the clouds of glory I will be changed like unto his glorious body and there is nothing the devil can do about it if there's nothing he can do about it he can't change it and he can't stop it he's just got to agonize through it I'm on my way to a place called heaven I've have been redeemed by the hand of the Lord I am filled with his spirit his name is engraved upon my soul I belong to the king of kings and the Lord of lords is a son of God the devil could not live for God when there was no devil I think in view of that statement we're doing pretty good I think we're doing just fine I think we're doing great he couldn't make it when there was no devil that's how weak he is in fact as far as I'm concerned the devil is a first-class jerk jerk jerk he always overstepped himself he always goes too far this goes beyond where he should he's a liar he gets himself tangled up and we've got the power we've got the power we've got the power to cut the limb off he's always on the end of a limb but we got the power to cut the limb off it's in the name it's in the name it's in the name of this man called Jesus of Nazareth ho clap your hands in victory shouting triumphant because the Lord is in this house gloriously upon us and of all the stories I tell I like this one best there was the place in biblical times called Gadara there was a man there who was possessed with a legion of devils depending about which authority you read after that can be from three to six thousand dollars so we'll be conservative we'll take three thousand this man has got three thousand Devils inside of him and he is naked he has got himself with stones he walks and lives and sleeps among the dead and anybody who serves the devil lives among the dead he cuts himself but Jesus steps on board of a ship and he sets his sail toward gaturro and when he lands in gaturro the maniac comes running and he is the thing that is incredible to me he's got six thousand Devils but the man in spite or inhabitation of six thousand Devils his human spirit wanted to worship and the Bible says the man came and worshiped three to six thousand Devils could not stop him from worshiping the devil cannot stop you from worshiping if you want to wash up Kay and he worshiped it came aunty rush and the Bible says the Bible says in the end of the story that the maniac was sitting at the feet of Jesus clothed and in his right mind have you ever wondered where he got those clothes I have Jesus when he stepped on board little boat knew he was there and Jesus brought a change of clothes with him for the maniac Afghan Jesus has a change of clothes for you here today if you are willing to put them on Jesus as a change clothes for you here today if you are willing to better man so now we have a man goes his right mind and we have Jesus on this side but over here we've got a congregation of three to six thousand whimpering whining Devils and they've been talking their dilemma over because evidently they've reported an ambassador between them and this man Jesus because one of them speaks out to Jesus and he says master I like that especially like that master you have cast us out of this man and we have no place to go would it be all right with you if we went into these pigs over here what I'm saying is this the Bible says that the devil took people over at his will in the Old Testament there was no remedy there was no recipe there was no barrier there was no barricade against demon possession that's why in the time of Jesus birth Lee ministry it came to him and they said to him and you help my son that devil throw him into the fire when Jesus came they that sat in darkness I saw a great light and cried out and the Devils began to tremble and they began to shake they had to withdraw and they had to back away what I'm really saying is this the devil had had gone his way until Jesus came but when Jesus came they had the commission from Jesus to go into a hog how to tell you something friend that ought to tell you something that means that we've got the devil on a leash we've got him on the leash the devil does not have me on the run I have him on the run he doesn't have you on the run we have him on the run we've got the devil of the run he had to get permission for this man called Jesus to go into a hog Billy Cole that means that I've got him on a leash and I'm gonna torment him I've gonna torment him say I'm out of my corner devil here I come in Jesus name every man that I have mentioned here today ran in the face of their failure the papal said and Moses feared and said surely this thing isn't known we say exactly the same thing surely everybody knows about the failure in my life when in reality the scriptures say there is nothing before you but such is common to old man the paper says thinking not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you pebble does say be sure your sin will find you out don't think for one moment at the failure you have faced is unique and nobody else has ever faced it don't think that you're the only one that has failed in this particular way I'm not here today to excuse sin I'm just trying to rescue you before the devil totally wipes you out Moses fled and dwelt in the land of Midian and set down by a well this man sitting by a well is a perfect picture of failure telling himself it's over I'm washed up I thought God called me and now I have to flee from the court of justice Moses believed this lie you would have never heard another word about him it took 40 years for God to drive that fear of failure out of his heart it took 40 years he learned to believe God in spite of his failure and come to God and I've seen more than once as much as your God and as much as I am and that is how much I need you and delayed is desperate David in fear after his sin cried out oh then I had the wings that I could escape to the desert I would escape the fairy blast but he kept on riding he said but where would I flee from his presence where would I hide from his spirit there is no place to hide there is no place to hide once you have ever as it were made love to him intimately spiritually he is never willing to give you over to another lover he will hunt after you you will hear us singing in the night you will hear preaching come to you again you'll send people across your pathway he will continue to reach for you because he is a jealous God not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance there is no place to hide there is no place to hide you'll find him at the top of Mount Everest you'll find him in a moon walk you'll find him at the depths of the sea you'll find him in the valleys you'll find him in the mountains you'll find him in the plains you'll find him in the cities in the Hamlet's and the villages in the countryside he'll be there in the nighttime when the earth is sleeping he'll be there at High Noon you'll hear his voice above the din of the city traffic and the sirens and the horns he will speak softly to you and once you've heard his voice there is no voice like Jacob fled into the desert trying to escape his deed in failure nothing for a pillow but a stone that God brought him to his knees if any one of these men had given up you would never have heard anything about them again but you see Moses rising again to go to Egypt forgetting his hour of failure the rod of God in his hand you see Jacob returning to be reunited with his brother having prevailed with the Lord and forgetting his past you see David running into the house of God laying hold on the horns of the altar to return a mighty man of faith you see Jonah retracing his steps you see him going to Nineveh or get his hour of fear and fair and preaching in faith you see Peter going to Pentecost and forgetting that courtroom experience and becoming a man of victory and power in the upper room in spite of all failures keep moving on no matter what you've done no matter what has happened don't give up keep moving on I have preached this entire message today to this point to make one statement it's always after failure that a man in the Bible it is greatest work for God it's a revelation to me it was always after failure not before but a man facing his failure did his greatest work for God and that's not my exegesis that's in the book David kept moving on after his sin after the funeral the boy's body is committed to the ground and this is the very next statement in the Bible concerning David's life in 2nd Samuel 1324 quote David comforted Bathsheba and his wife went in unto her and lay with her and she bore a son and called his name Solomon and here's the part I like and the Bible says and the Lord loved and out of the ashes of his failure David Rises mix up his army and again goes after the ammonites this is something I cannot understand and I've tried it's the mercy of God beyond any finite comprehension how that God can bless a man in spite of his failures that David was a man after God's own heart he was a shepherd boy king he was a singer he was a harvest he was a statesman he was a military man was the poet but David was out of the line of duty and when you are out of the line of a duty you are in the way of tempt a David when he should have been on the frontlines fighting was on the rooftop of his house and below him in the Lower City he fastened his eyes upon Bathsheba beautiful Bathsheba live pornography and instead of turning his back as the law of God would have commanded he continued to look he lusted after he sent for she came he committed adultery and he covered it he brought Uriah home from battle thinking that your Ryle would surely after all this time go to his own house because he'd gotten word the Bathsheba was with child at this point succumbed to political correctness but Uriah a noble character loving as king he would not go David tried to drunken him it didn't work David found Uriah on the steps of his own palace asleep David sent him back he said a note the Joab he said put him in the thick of the battle at the front of the lions even knew he would be killed and he would look safe and it happened as he had plotted and schemed and Uriah fell in battle and the note came the message came that Uriah was dead and David brought Bathsheba to the palace and it all looked legitimate now until one day the prophet of God came walking him to the court and he told David a story he said David there's a man in your kingdom he has vast herds sheep and flocks he has a neighbor that had only one little ewe lamb and instead of taking one from his own flock he took the only little ewe lamb his neighbor had and he stood and paid Mary with his friends when company came and now his neighbor is weeping and crying because he had nothing and david was filled with wrath and david said that man show god Nathan point a finger in the face of the king he could have caused that prophet his life and if you're a real man of God you're going to say what does say at the heart I want you to hear me today preachers in this hour are in the most precarious position they have ever been since the beginning of the gospel preaching because God says sad and the people say I don't want a dad and we are caught between you and God if you're real man of God you have no choice but to say what thus saith the Lord you don't have a choice you've got the Bridgette and Nathan reached it is it David foul heart the man David knew that he was uncovered David reached up and took the crown of his head he lowered it to the floor and then he crawled out of his throne and he stretched himself out upon the floor of his own palace and he began to pull his hair and groan in his spirit but if in a place called heaven there was a god heard the voice of a shepherd boy king I was not singing sweet melodies my eyes there was agonizing creep remorse and exposure crying son mercy and God Himself rose from his throne he walked through the gate of the unchanging unmerciful laws that he himself had written he walked through the gates closed the gate behind him and walked on an ivory staircase and walked upon a terrestrial ball and entered into an earthly palace and God Himself stooped down to a shepherd boy King a pull mucus and tears the hands of God scraped through it and pulled this shepherd boy to his heart and David heard the voice of God the lips of a prophetess said thou shalt not die God broke his own laws to save David unbelievable incomprehensible because the law said the pie right David should be not broken bleeding and dead under a puff stones but God broke his own to save David and basically you're all preachers here today and men in high places within our group and organization I've lived in this for 30 years and I've watched it we have thrown out the David's and we have Harvard the Saul's we have thrown out the David's and we have Harvard the songs which do you think that God will bend to a man a woman has made a mistake and her lying in sackcloth and ashes begging God to forgive them claiming every promise in the world whom do you think the mercy of God will be extended to that man or that woman who has made a mistake and they're crying to God for mercy or the corrupt politicians upon us who plot sting and hurt and in fact wombs I watched it for 30 years I can tell you you can tell me to whom the hand of Mercy will be extended help us I'm here to tell you today if God forgives them you better forgive them and you better go to lunch with them too and you better talk to them in public and you better shake their hands and you better call them brother and you better have them mad because if I know anything about the gospel this is what it's all about this is what it's all about this is what it's all about this is not a museum for Saints this is the hospital for the broken look at Moses going on after forty years of living in failure and fear he was alone and abandoned yet here he stands now at the Red Sea in his finest hour here he comes now to do his greatest work of God after his story of failure the chapter of failure is closed here and we read of him quote Moses said unto the people stand still and see the salvation of the Lord which he will show you today the Lord shall fight for you and you shall hold your peace think of it this man stands with power and dignity in his finest hour after his failure don't give up just because you have failed your greatest hour it's just ahead of you don't give up the Bible says that toward the dawning of the first day of the week women came carrying spices and oil to anoint the body of one they had hailed as the Messiah and in the soft shadows of dawn they're walking along holding their jars and their spices and as the women walked they were talking during I know they were talking because women like to talk that's how I know they were talking and they were saying things like this they were saying can you believe this happened did you believe that he is dead can you believe that we are going to his tomb we hailed him as the Messiah we watched him heal the lepers he caused the lame to walk the pine saw he raised Lazarus from the dead how is it that we are now calling him to his grave 29 tears body and then I think the conversation changed and I think it went something like this someone said but when we get there which one of us were the first one to enter the tomb which one of us will pour oil on his body which one of us will slip these spices under the grave wrappings and do any of us dare to pull the napkin from his face one more time and look into that marvelous countenance and they stumbled on and then suddenly the big question was asked suddenly one of them brought it out but when we get there who will roll the stone away for us we can't roll that stone away it's too heavy the Roman soldiers will not roll that stone away for us we can't do it the stone is too heavy it's too large we might as well turn around and go back there's no one to roll the stone away there's no one to help us but thank God it did not turn around and go back in spite of the unsurmountable obstacle in their minds they did not turn around and go back they kept on walking and that is the secret keep on walking no matter how big the stone is just keep on walking there no matter how impossible it seems to you and keep on walking don't turn around and go back because some of you if you turn around and go back now you are near to one of the greatest experiences and you're into her life no matter how impossible it seems keep on walking and they kept on walking and suddenly they came out from underneath those olive tree branches and when they looked at the face of the tomb stone and already been rolled away but only had the stone been rolled away it had been lifted out of the rolling trench and the stone was placed over here in a place apart by itself and an angel of the Lord was seated upon that stone do you know what that means for you and me it means that bad can take the obstacles of our lives and he can make them seats for angels God can take the obstacles of our lives and he can make them seats for angels I'm talking to people here today don't turn around and go back don't turn around and go back keep on walking come out of your corner keep on walking no matter how impossible it may seem no matter what you have done no matter what has happened keep on walking in spite of your failures keep going back to the altar keep pushing the Lord Moses in spite of having failed said he is my god and I will prepare him a habitation that my father's God and I will exalt him Moses salvation was that he learned to talk to God face to face he learned to have it out with God the Bible says and the Lord spake unto Moses face to face as a man speaketh unto his friend no matter how much the failure keep going back to God and say Lord if you are still my friend I still love you if I never feel you again I'm gonna keep coming to this house I'm gonna keep worshiping you I have already felt enough to keep me going until I see you in the clouds of glory I'm gonna keep on singing I'm gonna keep on done this was the secret of David's victory this is why God called him a man after his own heart in spite of the fact that he murdered in spite of the fact he has stolen another man's wife and lived in adultery in spite of all of this man's sins David wrote in Psalm 25 and to thee O Lord do I lift up my soul o my god I trust in thee let me not be ashamed let not mine enemies triumph over me let none that wait on thee be ashamed David waited on the Lord he went back to the house of God he went back to the horns of the altar and said God forget the foolishness of my youth and my transgressions and let me not be ashamed because I wait on thee show me thy ways teach me thy path lead me in truth teach me thou art my god remember thy tender mercies that loving-kindnesses remember not the sins of our youth and my transgressions good and upright is the Lord he will teach sinners in the way all the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth something happened to me in December this past year that has caused me to become violently defensive of doctrine and truth no we got there I've never seen thing like it they kept coming in all hours a Buddhist explain to us how he believed in 100 cards and the holy ghost poke to me and said 103 or - it's all idolatry and I was so moved young people kept coming in they had travelled long distances cars to get there and they kept asking did this Jesus they couldn't pronounce his name they have never heard the name of Jesus twenty-nine million people at least Americans have heard it in cursing and swearing but they haven't even heard it that way they've never heard the name of Jesus they have never seen a Bible they have never seen a nativity set they don't know anything about it there were two people a young man and a man about 35 years of age in that meeting we left there at 1:30 in the morning when I got to the hotel I nearly went to bed with my suit on I have never done that before and I have never been that tired but I told brother lucus I said that man second from me where ice was seated I feel something about him and on the third night of that little four night crusade that man came and sat in the audience and when he sat there they don't move they give no emotion if you raise your hands they'll raise their hands because they're taught discipline and respect if you stand they will stand that they don't feel anything and they're just doing it because they're being honorable and they bow to you continuously it's just their culture they are disciplined on the Spirit of God began to move the man began to look around and he walked down to the front and the Holy Ghost fell on this man and he fell in the floor and curled up in a fetal position and he said to me he could speak a little English I went to him and got down the floor with him he said to me he said I am hurting inside he said there is pain inside and it was a devil letting loose from him but I didn't want to scare him I said that's just sin leaving you I should just stay right in there I'll stay with you and he came out of it speaking with tongues as the Spirit of God gave him the utterance the second night it was an aged Japanese woman that came to the service and she put her arms around my left ankle and she was weeping and she was speaking something I couldn't understand and she was stroking my pant leg well they're all very grateful and who knows what they're doing and I'm trying to help someone else get the Holy Ghost so we'll just she can work on my leg and I'll help this person get the Holy Ghost Easter but what I didn't know was this she had come with a large malignant cancerous tumor on the outside of her abdomen and when she began to walk to the altar it disappeared totally from her body and she was healed by the power of God by the power of the gospel and when she saw that she was healed she threw her hands in the air and began to shake and God gave her the baptism of the holy ghost when her daughter's saw that her mother had been healed her daughter came running and she said this Jesus whatever he is whoever he is I watched him and she threw her hands in the air and God gave her the baptism of the holy God and when I looked at that I saw it I sat down and I said Jesus I am accident I am backslidden and I don't even know it I have given so much time to things that aren't even important I have given time to things that are relative but they're not vital and God you've got to help me and I'm here today to tell you as far as I'm concerned have been a failure and I not sure how to help myself except to do what all of you have preached to me in this conference people there's something in me I've got to be different I've got to be changed I can't live like I used to live when millions are just stumbling through life and they've never heard the name of Jesus they have never seen a Bible and they don't even know when they begin to cry their apologetic they think they're out of order and you have to get down and say to them it's the Spirit of God you feel his name is Jesus so this is his word foundation all right the only solid ground as nations right she one strong now forever [Music] [Music]

Channel: Called, Chosen and Faithful

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Rating: 4.8048782 out of 5

Keywords: God (Deity), Holy Spirit (Deity), Jesus Christ (Deity), Religion (Literary Genre), New Testament (Religious Text), Old Testament (Religious Text), Christianity (Religion), Pentecostalism (Religion), Apostolic (Religion), christianity (religion), monotheism (belief), religion (tv genre), Oneness Pentecostalism (Religion), the bible (religious text), salvation (belief), believer's baptism (religious practice), Lee Stoneking

Id: uk1c_jgKrZ4

Length: 51min 59sec (3119 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 11 2018