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Unveiled.
Published June 27, 2011Sooo… you know how in the Old Testament, there was the Holy of Holies?
There was a veil separating anyone (except the appointed priest… once a year) from “entering” the very presence of God.
The average Joe could not “encounter” the presence of God.
So…. remember what happened on the cross? The veil, that separated the normal people from God, was torn so that we could all have constant accessto what an Old Covenant, holy priest only had access to once a year. (Matthew 27:51)
If you say things like, “the presence of God was there”, or “God was in that place”, or “God showed up”, you have actively created a mindset that puts God back into that room behind a veil.
HE LIVES IN YOU.
You have become the Holy of Holies.
You have become the Most Holy Place.
You have become the temple in which He resides. (1 Cor 6:19)
You have become one spirit with Him. (1 Cor 6:17)
You have been hidden in Him. (Col 3:3)
He is living in you. (Gal 2:20, Col 1:26-27)
You are constantly in His presence. Do not wait to go to a building to become aware of it.
God doesn’t “show up”. He was always there. The only thing that changed was that you became aware of it and actually dared to believe Him at his word, “I will never leave you”, “greater is He that is in you than he that is in this world”, “if God is for us, who can be against us?” (Heb 13:5, 1 John 4:4, Rom 8:31).
Do not trade a lifestyle for watered-down, centralized, program-based, event-based religion.
[read the book of Hebrews]
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Flea Market & Sweet Tomatoes
Published June 20, 2011I was hanging out with a friend on Saturday (June 18th) morning. She wanted to get ‘trained’, healing the sick and stuff, and she also had a ton of questions about direction and identity stuff. I went to a huge flea market with her and we spent most of the time talking, but we saw some pretty cool stuff.
The first person we ministered to was an old gentleman in a red scooter. He was just finishing a purchase and I asked him how he was doing. Surprisingly, he introduced himself first and then I asked him what happened to his legs. He said that he was a war vet and that years ago, he had a bad accident which resulted in most of the bones on the right side of his body to be broken.
He explained how the entirety of his right arm/legs were in pain because they didn’t recover correctly.
“Here let me pray for you man” as I knelt down an put my foot on his knee. I commanded his body to be whole. After a few seconds, I told him to stand up (I had that thought in the back of my head… “ARE YOU CRAZY??! WHAT IF HE’s not healed?) and he did.
For a few seconds, I didn’t know what was going on, because he didn’t say anything. I asked how he was doing and he said there was a lot less pain. I offered to do it again so all the pain would go, but before I could, he sat down and said, “hold on.”
He pulled out his wallet (i totally thought he was gonna try to give me money) and pulled out a doctor’s note that explained his condition. He was in awe, because he was supposed to be in “chronic pain” according to the note. The whole time, I remember him profusely asking, “What did you do to me? This is amazing!” Before, he could barely stand up, but now he had very little problems doing so.
I ended up laying hands on him one more time, but he didn’t walk. He said that he was missing his left leg. 70% of his right leg was prosthetic.
Haha, I asked him, “Do you want your leg to be restored?”
He got this weird look on his face. “What?”
“Do you want function to return to your leg?”
I think he was so shocked because he already had some good news, getting his leg back would be too much goodness. He ended backpedaling and asked me if I lived in the area. I ended up giving him my card/cell # and he told me he was gonna call me.
“I’m not even a believer!!” I remember he said. haha. Hopefully he calls me soon.
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I think about 10 minutes later, we see 2 younger girls pushing a lady in a wheelchair.
I got their attention.. “Hey how you guys doing?” I asked the lady what happened to her leg and her daughter explained that her mom had cancer in her leg and it messed up her tendon. She had melanoma under her skin.
The daughter kept translating for us and I laid hands on the mom’s leg. After I commanded it to be whole, I told her to bend her leg. “Mejor, mejor! (Better, better)” as she nodded her head. Then I told her to stand up but her daughter interjected, “she can’t”.
“Well, is there anymore pain?” The mom said there was still some along the outside of her thigh, so I made her a deal. I told her I was going to pray for her one more time, and then she was gonna stand up. They agreed.
.. put my hand on her leg, commanded it to be better, told her to stand, and she stood. “Any more pain?” She had just a twinge left on her hip. Took a few seconds to knock it out and then I told her to take a step. She started hobbling, it wasn’t anything impressive, but it was a big step from being confined to a wheelchair.
I told them that I would expect their mom to be a lot better the next morning, and then I told them some of the testimonies I had from Africa just a month ago. They were from Oakland, so I gave them my card and told them to give me an update.
That was a cool “intro” for my friend.
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Today (June 20th), I went to Sweet Tomatoes with my aunt for lunch. On the way out, I saw 2 guys sitting at a table and one of them had a cast on his left forearm.
I stopped and asked the guy, “Hey what happened to your arm?”
His friend made an innuendo as to how he broke it, but he said that he just tripped and fell.
I asked him how much longer he needed the cast for and he said, “oh this isn’t the real one, I’m going to the doctor tomorrow to get the real cast, it’s gonna be 4 weeks”
“Oh man.. is it hurting right now?”
“oh yeah.”
“Here, check this out” I leaned over an put my hand on his cast. Commanded the pain to go, for the arm to be whole. His friend across the table sort of rolled his eyes when I said, “in Jesus name”. haha.
“Move your hand, check it out”
While he was moving is hand, he was trying to find where the pain went.
“How is it?”
His friend interjected, “the same!”
“Nah, actually, it’s a lot better.”
“There still a little bit, though?”
“Yeah”
“Here” as I put my hand on his cast again, thanked God for the progress and commanded it to be 100%.
I told him to check it again. He was impressed. His friend stopped talking.
“It’s doing a lot better, thanks. I’ll have to let my doctor take a look at it”
“Hey man, what’s your name?”
“Ishmael.”
“Brandon. That’s awesome man, go to your doctor, get it checked out, it’ll be good.”
bahaha. I love encounters like these.
Thinking back, I definitely could have stayed a bit and talked to them about what just happened. I was feeling rushed cause my aunt was waiting outside and had no idea where I went.
It’d be so funny to hear what their conversation was like after I left. Man. I should’ve gave him my business card or something. Ah. Live and learn.
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Testimonies and Realities from San Diego
Published June 19, 2011This is a testimony I posted up on my tumblr about a week ago to encourage the young Christian community there. This is the original post.
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Today, I was at REI in San Diego hanging with the family. I saw a lady being pushed in a wheelchair by her daughter. I followed them, approached them from the side and asked, “hey, do you mind me asking why you need the wheelchair? what happened?”
She and her daughter looked a little skeptical and cautious but the lady said that she couldn’t walk very well.
“Is it your knees?”
“Well, it’s my ankles and my knees. I have tendinitis.”
“So is it hurting right now?”
“yea..”
“Here let me pray for your legs real quick!”
They breathed a sigh of relief, realizing that i wasn’t crazy, asking such weird questions. “Oh, go ahead!”
I introduced myself and laid hands on her knees. After commanding it to be healed, I told her to stand up and walk. She said, “Well, i can walk, there’s just pain when i do it.”
“Just walk!”
She stood, walked, no pain. All gone. She was surprised.
I started to explain how Jesus did this stuff all the time (healing the sick, casting out demons), how I’m just a normal believer, and that every believer is empowered to do what Jesus did. They were intrigued. After a few minutes, another family member showed up, so I asked if she needed healing as well.
The lady that was just healed said, “Yes!! She has a bad neck!”
I prayed for her twice without any result, and then on the third, she was 70-80% better. By then, 3 more family members had gathered. They started asking me about which church I went to (turns out they were catholic).
Long story short, my brother connected them to his church and I told them about a college fellowship at UCSD called Origins that does/teaches what we do. The daughter who was originally pushing her mom in the wheelchair piped up and said that she wants to go there. Apparently, she’s transferring to UCSD in the fall and I was able to get her email to connect her with good friends!
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This was never meant to be confined in a building. This was never meant to be reserved for super-saints that are dead or 50+ year old pastors who have been doing this for 20+ years.
The same Holy Spirit is in every believer. The same authority is delegated to every believer. Every believer is seated in heavenly places above every principality, might, and power (Matt 10:1, Luke 9:1, Luke 10:19, Eph 1:21-23). Every believer has the life of God in them. Just as every believer can minister to God as a priest, every believer can set free people who are bound by the devil because they are kings (1 Peter 2:9, Luke 4:18, 1 John 2:27).
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A few days ago I was in LA with family. We were parked downtown while my relatives were all running some errands. I stayed in the car because I wanted to read.
After a few minutes, I saw a guy heading my way with a neck brace and a sling for his arm. He was smoking, wore a hat, looked pretty ragged and dirty. He stopped ~15 yards away to smoke. I opened the van door and sat there reading, waiting for him to pass by.
A few more minutes pass and then he starts heading my direction. Just as he walks past the car, I say, “Hey man, what happened to you?” I thought he was going to ignore me, but he stops, turns and tells me what happened. “I fell off a wall and hit my face.”
“How’d that happen?”
He told me about his police confrontation 2 weeks before and said he must have gotten too jumpy and caught his legs on the wall as he went over. He ended up messing up a few of his vertebrae and broke his arm.
“Man… how much longer you need the brace for?”
“4-6 weeks…” and he explained further about what his doctor said.
I got up from the car and headed towards him, “dude, check this out, my friends and I go heal the sick all the time, you want to get better?”
“Oh yeah, of course.”
I introduced myself, shook his hand, commanded his neck to be healed and told him to test it out.
All the soreness he had was gone. I told him to take off the brace and he moved his neck around. He tested it and had the most mobility and range of movement since the accident. He said his arm was already doing fine, and then he thanked me for the blessing and said he had to go.
He walked off holding his neck brace.
A few days before that, I was on vacation with family in the grand canyon. I saw a lady with a bandage/wrap around her knee so I asked her what happened. She said that she just had an operation done and was recovering.
“Is it hurting right now”
“Yeah, I can’t put too much weight on it…”
“Here, let me pray for you” as I reached out my hand, “What’s your name?”
I shook her hand and then put my hands on her knee. Commanded her to be healed and then I told her to bend her knee. She said it was a lot better.
“Is there anymore pain?”
“A little”
I laid hands on her knees one more time and then I told her to walk.
She lifted up her cane and walked flawlessly.
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This is the call of the believer. Demonstrate Jesus. Set people free. Destroy the work of the devil.
It’s not about gathering in big piles of salt in a church building. It’s about spreading out, salting and preserving the world around us that has been torn apart with hate because of religion.
We have made a pedestal out of what should be the lowest common denominator.
The supernatural wasn’t meant to be reserved for a specific day in a specific location for specific people. It’s meant for anyone who has become the temple in which the Holy Spirit, who raised Christ from the dead, resides.
It’s not about saying “Jesus loves you” “Jesus died for you”. It’s about you actually loving the people you encounter on a daily basis and demonstrating that the power of Jesus is alive in you.
It’s not about flippant church cliches. It’s about legitimately giving people hope. Giving people legitimate answers to their problems.
When’s the last time your gospel actually sounded like good news to someone?
When was the last time you loved someone without an agenda?
How are the people around you ever going to encounter Jesus if you, being His body, do not represent Him?
How are you being leaven to the world around you? Or has the leaven of the world around you affected you?
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I posted this a few days later to demonstrate a reality that most healing “ministries” don’t talk about or mention because I didn’t want to create a false expectation from the people reading. Here was the original post.
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So when it comes to the supernatural, boom, i’m there. I live it, i teach it, i write about it, i think about it, i dream about it… There’s a lot of people that do that, but there is a reality that I don’t hear a lot of people talk about.
The misses. The failures. The dropped balls. The blips in the radar.
The last thing I want to do is to paint a reality that isn’t quite the full story. This leads to false expectations, and thus, disappointment. Here goes.
I’ll be referring to the previous post a lot, so here’s the link.
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When I was at the Grand Canyon with my family a few weeks ago, there was a lady that I saw at the visitor’s center. She had one of those fold-up walkers that you could also sit on. She didn’t look too inviting, so I wanted to be a little more aggressive (something you learn when you do this a lot).
Same drill. I approached her, asked her what happened, she told me it was her hips that were out of whack. I said, “Let me pray for you real quick” and I followed up with a “what’s your name?” before she could respond to the first statement.
“Brenda” as I shook her hand.
“I’m Brandon” and since I already had her hand, I started praying/commanding the sickness/pain to go.
She was a little more hesitant. I told her to stand up and walk, but she had a “this ain’t ever gonna happen” attitude. She stood up out of courtesy and told me she already had people praying for her. She quickly said that her friends were waiting for her, so she went on her way.
The next day, when i was walking out of a gas station, I saw a young girl (looked like a high schooler) sitting right outside smoking. I felt a nudge to talk to her, I was thinking she had knee problems. “Nah, I doubt it…” I wrestled with it for a little bit, long enough to get into the car.
I finally got out of the car and approached the girl and said, “hey, this might be a weird question, but did you bust up your knee recently?” She gave me a weird look, “nope.” as she shook her head.
Oi. Miss. “Ok, nevermind.”
In downtown LA, while my sister was getting her visa for China, I waited downstairs because I had to make some calls. While I was on the phone, a guy walked past heavily with a cane. What’d I do? I finished my conversation on the phone and the guy was gone by the time I finished the call.
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When I was in REI, there was a guy I saw on crutches. He said he messed up his hip (I don’t remember all the details). Prayed for him twice, but we didn’t see much change.
Even after I ministered to the family with the lady in the wheelchair who was healed from tendinitis, I was again, on the phone when a guy walks into the store with a prosthetic leg. What’d I do? I blipped. I spoke with my friend on the phone and my family began to head out of the store…
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I’m still growing. Before I see “greater works” than Jesus, I should be able to do “equal works”.
I haven’t seen everyone I’ve ministered to recover instantly (then again, I haven’t followed up with every single one).
I haven’t ministered to every single person I’ve seen with a need.
I don’t always know how to approach/interact with every sick person I come across.
I still have people who flat out get angry when I ask about why they are disabled or hurt.
Ryan (http://reformationforjesus.tumblr.com) has had people cuss him out for trying to minister to a family member.
I’m certainly seeing more than I did 2 years ago. I’m certainly seeing more people impacted and transformed, but I still have growing to do, and it certainly hasn’t been perfectly amazing every single time [so far].
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John G. Lake – Spiritual Dominion
Published June 9, 2011Originally from http://standsure.net/research/spiritualjgm.htm
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There are so many preachers who are afraid of the devil. They have no idea of how big God is who dwells in you. They have no idea of the power given to you because God dwells in you. They preach fear of the devil, fear of demons, and fear of this influence, and fear of that influence, and fear of some other power. If the Holy Ghost has come down from heaven into your soul, common sense teaches us that He has made you the master thereby of every other power in the world. Otherwise the Word of God is a blank falsehood. For it declares:
“Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world.” (1 John 4:4)
“Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.” (Luke 10:19)
And if we had faith to believe that the “greater” is in us, bless God, we would be stepping out with boldness and majesty. The conscious supremacy of the Son of God would be manifest in our lives and instead of being subservient and bowed down and broken beneath the weight of sin and the powers of darkness around us, they would flee from us and keep out of our way. I believe before God, there is not a devil that comes within a hundred feet of a real God anointed Christian. That is the kind of vision God put in my soul.
When I went to South Africa, years ago, after I was there a short time, I attended a great missions conference. It was a general missions conference of the country. We were bringing a new message on our teaching the Baptism of the Christian to heal, and they wanted to hear us, and get us sized up and classified. On account of the Holy Ghost and the power of God featured in the conference, we were a peculiar lot.
Among the difficulties they discussed in that conference was the tremendous influence of the native medicine men over the people. They call them witch doctors. They are a powerfully developed psychic type of man, and for generations and generations they have studied psychic things, until they understand the practice of psychic laws.
It is marvelous to see the psychic manifestations they bring to pass. I have seen shocking things take place at the hands of witch doctors, things that nobody would believe unless you beheld them.
On one occasion two men who had become extremely jealous of each other, both native chiefs, and they lived sixty miles from each other. One time, as I was in the kraal of one of them, I heard them discussing this difficulty with the other chief and it was decided by the chief that the next Sunday morning he was going to set the other fellow on fire. I wanted to see this phenomena and I got a horse and went across the country to be there on Sunday morning.
The chiefs go out and round up their cattle and herds, look over their flocks, etc. It is a sort of Sunday exercise. I rode along. We had not ridden for more that an hour when I observed that this fellow was becoming very hot. Within half an hour he was absolutely purple. I knew somewhat of medicine; I would have said the man was likely to have a stroke from blood pressure. After a while he began to complain of terrible pain, and finally he became exhausted, got down and lay on the ground, and passed into a state of terrible exhaustion. I believe the man would have died. I had heard about these sort of things, but this was taking place under my own eyes. I saw that unless the man got deliverance he would die. When it got to that point, I said to the brethren, “it is time that we prayed.” I stepped over and laid my hands on the chief, and called on God to destroy that damning psychic power that was destroying the fellow and God shattered it.
I talked to the conference about this matter. I said, “It is a strange thing to me that in all the years of missions in this land that your hands are tied on account of witch doctors. Why don’t you go out and cast the devil out of these fellows, and get the people delivered from their power?” They took a long breath and said, “Cast the devil out? He will cast the devil out of you!” The secret of our work, the reason God gave us one hundred thousand people, the reason we have twelve hundred native preachers in our work in Africa, is because of the fact we believed the promise of:
“Greater is He that is in you, that he that is in the world.”
We not only want to seek them, but challenged them separately and unitedly, and by the power of God delivered the people from their power, and when they were delivered the people appreciated their deliverance from the slavery in which they had been held through their superstitions, psychological, spirit control, and they are most terrible.
Whenever they got in the presence of one of these fellows and wanted to cast out the devil, I always felt I wanted to get his eye. The eyes of a man are the windows of his soul. In teaching a class of children I asked them what the eyes are for. One little chap said, “Your eyes are for you to lookout of.” Do you get it? It is not a poetic expression, they are the windows through which you look out. It is wonderful the things you see when you look out. Sometimes you see fear, and the spirit of darkness, and you see the devil in the other life. Marvelous things that you see with your inner eyes.
The world laughs at our Pentecostal people, because they sometimes talk about seeing by the Spirit, and sometimes we talk about seeing psychically. We see all the time, naturally, as you and I do now.
God anoints your soul. God anoints your life. God comes to dwell in your person. God comes to make you a master. That is the purpose of His indwelling in a Christian. The real child of God was to be a master over every other power of darkness in the world. It was to be subject to His. He is to be God’s representative in the world. The Holy Ghost in the Christian was to be as powerful as the Holy Ghost was in the Christ. Indeed, Jesus’ words go to such an extreme that they declare that, “Greater works than these shall ye do.” (John 14:12)
It indicated that the mighty Holy Ghost from heaven in the lives of the Christian was to be more powerful in you and in me after Jesus got to heaven and ministered Him to our souls that He was in Jesus.
Beloved, who has the faith to believe it? Who has faith to exercise it? We cannot exercise anything beyond what we believe to be possible.
Listen: “God hath not given us the spirit of fear.”
Fear of the devil is nonsense. Fear of demons is foolish. The Spirit of God anointing the Christian heart makes the soul impregnable to the powers of darkness. How I love to teach men that when the Lord Jesus anoints your soul and baptizes you in the Holy Ghost, that the almightiness of the Eternal God, the Father, by the Spirit, and Jesus Christ combined, has come into your soul.
One of the thirty six articles of the Church of England says, “The Holy Ghost which proceedeth from the Father and the Son.” There is no truer thing in all the world. Do you get it? “Which proceedeth from the Father and the Son.” In the fourth and fifth chapters of Revelation you see the distinctive personalities of God the Father and Jesus Christ. God the Father occupies the Throne, is holding the seven sealed book in His hand. And Jesus Christ, the silent Lamb, without an attendant, not an angel to accompany Him, absolutely alone, presents Himself to the Father, and the Father hands Him the seven sealed book, as He whose right it is to unseal and open the seals. What I want to bring to you is that the Spirit of God, the divine master, the eternal power of God, the combined life and presence, by the Spirit of the Father and the Son, is given to you. Not to leave you a weakling, and subject to all kinds of powers of darkness, but to make you a master, to give you dominion in God over every devilish force that ever was.
“God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”
The Spirit of Power is the Holy Ghost, bless God. And not only of power, but of love and of a sound mind. Not craziness and insanity, but a sound mind, by which you can look in the face of the devil and laugh.
Once I was called to come and pray for a blacksmith at Johannesburg, South Africa. He was in delirium tremens. When I got to the house they had him locked in a room, and the windows were barred. The wife said, “Mr. Lake, you are not going into that room?” I said, “Yes, I would like to.”
“But, Brother, you do not understand. My sons are all more powerful than you are, and four of them tried to overpower him and could not do it. He nearly killed them.”
I said, “Dear sister, I have the secret of power that I believe matches his case.”
“Greater is He that is in you, that he that is in the world.”
“Sister, you just give me the key, and go about your work, and do not be troubled.” I unlocked the door, slipped into the room, and turned the key again, and put the key in my pocket. The man was reclining in a crouch like a lion ready to spring. I never heard any lips blaspheme as he did. He cursed me by every expression I ever heard, and worse. He threatened me if I came near him he would tear me limb from limb and throw me out the window. He was as big as two of me. I never saw such an arm in my life.
I began to talk to him. I had the confidence that, “Greater is He that is in you, that he that is in the world.” I engaged him in conversation until the Holy Ghost in me got hold of that devil, or a legion, as the case might be. I approached the bed step by step, sometimes only three inches, and in half an hour I got up close enough where I could reach his hand. He was still reclining in a posture like a lion. He caught his hand and turned his wrists. I was not practicing any tricks, but I unconsciously turned his wrist over, and as I did it brought my eyes down near to his, and all at once I looked up and I could see the devil in that man begin to crawl. He was trying to get away. God Almighty can look out of your eyes, and every devil that was ever in Hell could not look in the eyes of Jesus, without crawling. The lightnings of God were there.
My spirit awoke, and I could see the devil was in terror and was crawling and trying to get back away from my eyes as far as he could, I looked up to heaven and called on God to cast that devil out, and lent Jesus Christ all the force of my nature, all the power of my spirit, and all the power of my mind, all the power of my body. God had me from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet. The lightnings of God went through me and the next thing I knew he had collapsed in a heap and flopped down like a big fish. Then he turned out of the bed on his knees and began to weep and pray, because he had become human again, and the devil was gone.
Dear hearts, don’t you see, in a moment that character of education develops a certain confidence in God, and it makes your soul sick when you see Christian men and women sneak around afraid of the devil, and teaching people the devil is going to jump on you and take possession of you. Not a bit of it! There never was a devil in the world that ever went through the blood of Jesus, if the individual was in Christ.
In the Jewish Bible, among the listings of the covenants, is one that is known as the Threshold Covenant. That was the Covenant by which the Israelites went out of the land of Egypt when God told them to slay a lamb, and put the blood in the door posts and lintel. And the Jewish Bible adds they put the blood on the threshold. And a lot of people get the blood of Jesus on their head, but it seems to me they do not get it under their feet. The Word of God teaches us to get the blood under your feet, and on the right hand and on the left hand and over your head. That is your protection. There was no angel of death in the land of Egypt, or in hell, that could go through that blood unto that family. No Sir! He was absolutely barred.
Friends, do you believe it was the blood of the lamb that was barring the angel of death? Do you believe the red stains on the doors frightened him away. Oh sir, the blood signified to me that there is one that goes through the blood, that is the Holy Ghost. And beloved, the Eternal God, by the Spirit, went through the blood to the inside, and stayed there and defended the house.
“Greater is He that is in you, that he that is in the world.”
All these little insignificant devils that came along in this sickness or that sickness, or that temptation of sin have no power over you. Dear friends, from heaven there comes to your heart and mine that dominion of Jesus by which the God anointed soul walks through them, through myriads of demons and they cannot touch you.
I was in Pretoria, South Africa, visiting with a friend and trying to keep out of the hot sun, to meditate and pray; and as I meditated and prayed, I seemed to be lifted up in the Spirit until I was a mile or more above the city and could see the city like you would from an airplane. When I got up there, I made a discovery. There were spirits of darkness and myriads of spirits of light in the most awful conflict I ever saw. Naturally, you think of a weapon when you see a fight. I thought, “If only I had a weapon I would get into that fight.”
Presently, the Spirit of God got hold of me and when these demons came at me from all sides, I waded into them and began to knock them sown. It continued until I had knocked so many down I had to climb over them to get at the rest.
When the vision lifted I prayed, “Dear Lord, what does it mean?” And the Spirit of the Lord said to me, “This contest that you have seen in the upper air will exist among your own people in six months. This lesson is to teach you that there is a dominion in Jesus Christ, and “greater is He that is in you, that he that is in the world.”
Friends, it is time you and I, as the Blood washed in Jesus, awoke to our privilege, whereby in the Name of the Lord we cease to sin, and let no unholy condemnation remain upon our life any longer.
I do not know, but maybe I have come through a different school from what others have, in the lines of the Spirit, but I am sure of one thing, that if Christianity was to leave me a weakling, to be oppressed by the power of darkness, I would seek something else because it would meet the need. It is that which meets the need that gives you divine supremacy in Jesus Christ. Friends, when your heart is surcharged by that faith in God so that “greater is He that is in you that he that is in the world”, you will pray a new prayer.
Moses came to the Red Sea with impassable mountains on the right hand and impassable mountains on the left hand, the army of Pharaoh behind him and the sea in front of him. If any man had a right to stop and pray, surely you might say that man had.
Over and over and over again, when we get to the real ditch, we try to jump over the thing and put the responsibility back on God. Just watch God make a real man. When Moses got his prayer nicely started, God rebuked him and said,
“Wherefore criest thou unto me? Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward: But lift THOU up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it.” (Exodus 14:15-16)
I want you Pentecostal Christians to get this. God did not say, Moses, you stretch forth your hand, and I will divide the sea. He said, “Stretch forth thine hand over the sea, and divide it.” You have faith in me, you stretch forth your hand and divide the sea. Jesus said practically the same thing to His disciples, “When he had called unto Him His twelve disciples, He gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.” (Matthew 10:1, Luke 9:1-6)
Beloved, He gives it to you. What is the Holy Ghost? It is the gift of God Himself to you. The Holy Spirit is not simply given that you may be a channel, and always a channel. No sir! But instead of that, the most magnificent thing the Word of God portrays is that Christ indwelling in you by the Holy Ghost is to make you a son of God, like Jesus Christ. God’s anointed from heaven, with the recognized power of God in your spirit to command the will of God.
It may not be all souls have grown to that place where such a life as that is evident, but surely if the Son of God by the Holy Ghost has been born in our heart, it is time we began to let Him have some degree of sway in our heart, and some degree or heavenly dominion of value, and some degree of the lightnings of Jesus Christ breaking forth from our spirit.
That is what the word of God speaks to my soul tonight. That is why my spirit rejoices in this blessed Word.
“God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and or love, and of a sound mind.”
The sanest man is the man that believes God and stands in His promises, and knows the secret of His power, receives the Holy Ghost and gives His way in his life, and goes out in the Name of the Lord Jesus to command the will of God and bring it to pass in the world.
At the end of the first three hundred years of the Christian era, there were millions or Christians. Christianity was an aggressive power. Christianity went into the heart of heathendom to undo their superstitions to break down their psychological forces, to leave the consciousness of Jesus Christ in the heart, to heal the sick, to raise the dead. Oh, God in Heaven, bring our hearts back to it! Christianity was a conquering force.
But, friends, there was a consecration secret in the life of the early church. It was this: If She could not conquer, they would die. Dear friends, you will never exercise very much of the dominion of the Son of God in your spirit until your heart is ready to say, if I cannot get the mastery, “I can die.” The early Christians died, plenty of them. Millions of them. That is the reason people say the blood of martyrs was the seed of the Church. Bless God, they died for their faith.
Friends, you and I will never know or have the big ministry and the big victory until our souls have arrived at the place where we will die for our faith also. Lord God, help us. These days, if a man gets a stomach ache he is afraid he will die. Die if you have to die, but do not disgrace the cause of Christ and weaken in your faith and sell it man or the devil. When that degree of consecration comes into your heart, when that degree of determination comes into your spirit, you will not have to die.
But I tell you, most of you will think she is dying before we enter there. That is the life into which dead men enter. That is the resurrection life. You have to die to get it. You have to die to enter there. We die to our sin, we die to ourselves, we die to the opinions of men and we die to the old world, we die to the fear of spooks and demons and devils, and prove the truth of the text, “Greater is He that is in you that he that is in the world.” In my name they shall cast out devils. Rebuke the devil and he will flee from you. We live in Jesus Christ. Blessed be His name. (Ephesians 4:27, Ephesians . 6:11, James 4:7, 1 Corinthians. 10:13, Matthew 17:20, Luke 10:19)
- John G. Lake
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originally from http://standsure.net/research/spiritualjgm.htm
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