22-0926P_PERFECT STRENGTH BY PERFECT WEAKNESS PT.14 (THIRSTING FOR LIFE)
2Co 12:7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
2Co 12:8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.
2Co 12:9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
HOW DO WE KNOW THE
LORD'S GOING TO HEAL
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E-2 It's so good to be back here in the building tonight, to serve the Lord with you. And I would like to ask now, we have give out tomorrow night as a healing service or to pray for the sick. We don't know what the Lord's going to do. That's the reason we never announce healing service. How do we know the Lord's going to heal, it's just up to Him. And I don't think it's really up to Him, I think it's up to you wants healing. He's paid the price, and--and we have the assurance that He does it, and we know that He's willing. It's just up to the individual.
NOW, GOD IS IN YOU IF
YOU HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT.
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Now, I--I know the King James says, "Greater,"
but it really isn't the original. See? It's "more." No one could do
anything greater. He raised the dead, healed the sick, stopped nature, done
everything there was to be done. It couldn't be greater in quality, but it
could be greater in quantity. So the Holy Spirit then was in one Man: That was
the Son of God. He had the Spirit without measure. God dwelt in Christ
reconciling the world to Himself. He--God was in Christ.
Now, God is in you if you have the Holy Spirit. God is in you in a portion. But it
was in Him without measurement. He had the fulness of God in Him. But now, it's
measured out to each one of us.
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GOD SEPARATING HIMSELF
THAT HE MIGHT DIP DOWN INTO HIS BIG SOUL AND POUR OUT A LITTLE SPOONFUL IN ME,
AND REACH OVER AND POUR OUT A SPOONFUL IN YOU
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E-7 Oh, how I think of God separating Himself that He might dip down into His big soul and pour out a little spoonful in me, and reach over and pour out a spoonful in you, and in you, and in you, and you, and you, dividing Himself, the fire, the cleansing power of God. Then, if you have a spoonful, and I have a spoonful, and we both get together, we got two spoonfuls. And if fifty of us are together, we got fifty spoonfuls. Where there is unity, where there is gathering, there is safety and whatmore. It's just twice as hard as in the prophet's hand, the sticks to break. Two sticks are harder to break than one. And when we can come to that place, brother... If I can see that happen, I'd walk out here on top of Camelback Mountain, raise up my hands and say, "Even so, come, Lord Jesus. Take me now; it's all over." See? I'd be ready to go right then.
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E-20 In this 3rd verse:
Because thy
lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.
When I first read that, I thought it was an unusual text to
take. And God is unusual, and God does things unusual, unusual things. And when
I read it, I wondered what David must have been speaking about when he said,
"Thy love-kindness is better to me than life." I weighed that out,
wondering just what could be better than life.
If we should take a
trip tonight, and go up into the heaven, and I'd meet with father Abraham, and
I'd say, "Abraham, what is the most glorious thing that you have ever
known? What is the most essential thing that you have ever known?"
Abraham would say to
me, "Life Eternal."
Then I'll take a little trip, and we'll go again, and we'll
go up to the great Archangel, Gabriel, Who is the messenger of the covenant to
the Jewish people, Who stands at the right hand of God, one of the highest
order of Angels in the heaven. And I would say to Him, "Gabriel, Thou art
a mighty Angel. You are loved of God, and You've been here for aeons of time,
and You, perhaps, know everything in the heavens, and where everything is
placed, because You're one of God's right hand Angels. And You know the great
secrets of the heavens. You sounded the trumpet at the coming of the Lord
Jesus. You announced His first coming, and You shall announce His second
coming, so You must be a mighty man or a mighty Angel. I want to ask You in all of God's treasures, what
is the greatest thing that You have found among His treasures?"
I can see Gabriel bring himself to attention, and say, "The greatest thing that I have found in God's treasures since He created Me is Life. God made Me to live for eternal, for eternity. And Life is the greatest thing that there is."
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E-21 No matter how rich you might be,
no matter how popular you might be, no matter who you might be, the greatest
thing there is that any man can achieve in this earth, is to achieve Eternal
Life.
Though you be king and potentate, though you rule the world for a million years as king and young men, and you fail to find Eternal Life, you've lost the greatest thing that anyone could lose.
*I'LL GIVE YOU A HUNDRED YEARS OF MISERY
AND WOE, AND TROUBLE, AND SORROW, BUT AT THE END OF THAT HUNDRED YEARS, I'LL
GIVE YOU ETERNAL LIFE.
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E-22 I've often said if I can be a
young man of twenty-five years old, if God would appear on the platform
tonight, and say, "I will turn you to twenty-five years of age. There
you'll remain for a million years, and I'll make you the king over all the universe.
Everything will be at your command. Or I'll give you a
hundred years of misery and woe, and trouble, and sorrow, but at the end of
that hundred years, I'll give you Eternal Life. But the end of the million
years, you are lost."
Oh, I'd say, "Lord God, I don't have to wait any longer to make my choice. Let me have the hundred years of misery and woe, any kind of a death that you choose for me to die, only, Lord, give me Eternal Life. For though I own the whole world and was king for a million years, at the end of that million years, I become a hell bound creature for eternity. But no matter how bad my lot is here, at the end of my life, if I've got Eternal Life, I live on in the blessed Presence of God forever and forever."
*LIFE HAS MANY MEANINGS. IT DEPENDS ON
WHICH A WAY YOU LOOK AT IT. AND YOUR LIFE IS WHAT CONTROLS YOU.
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E-23 So it bothered me when I begin to think
what was this prophet speaking of? Now, we know David was a prophet. So I
wondered, "What was he speaking of when he said, 'Thy
lovingkindness is better than life.'" Then I found out that life has
more than one meaning. Life has many meanings. It
depends on which a way you look at it. And your life is what controls you. You have your living, your
moving, your being is life. And it depends on what kind of life is within you,
the way it will control you.
No wonder that people cannot believe, yet they claim to be religious, cannot believe Divine healing, cannot believe in miracles, cannot believe the Holy Spirit makes people to--to be filled with the power of the resurrection of Christ. The reason they cannot believe it, they have nothing inside of them to believe with, because your life is--your motion is controlled by the life that's in you.
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E-27 Oh, I thought no matter what we may have to go through with, if it's trials, if it's heartaches, if it's persecution, if it's to be laughed at and made fun of, what kind of a people ought we to be? We are sons and daughters of the King. Though we be in an unwelcome world, though we be to a place where we're hated, maybe called scandalous names like "holy-roller, pentecostal-tongue." What different does it make? We ought to have our chin up, our shoulders out, believing God's Word, because across the land yonder, our Father is the King.
WE SHOULD LIVE AN
EXAMPLE, LIKE WE ARE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF GOD, THE ETERNAL KING.
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E-28 No matter how poor we are, how we have to be run over, how the world talks about you, and says everything about you, it ought to make you keep head up for the mo--morales of the rest of them. We should never have words against one another. We should always say the highest thing about a brother or sister. If one is down in the gutter, don't never shove them any farther down. Pick him up; get him out of there as quick as you can, because it helps. We should be an example. We should live an example, like we are sons and daughters of God, the Eternal King. We ought to conduct ourselves in that manner as sons and daughters of the King. We should never do nothing that would bring disgrace.
WE JUST LAY RIGHT TO HIM AND DRAW FROM HIS WORD THE STRENGTH OF GOD,
GIVEN IN ITS COURSE, NOT TAKING OUR OWN MIND; JUST BELIEVING IT.
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E-23 Abraham was an
old man, a hundred years old, when God appeared to him in the Name of Almighty
God. The "Almighty" there comes from the Hebrew word of the
"El Shaddai" which means the bosom or breast of a woman. Now, he was old; his strength was gone. But
El Shaddai is the Almighty, the strength Giver. And all Abraham had to
do to obtain this promise was lay right on that promise, other words, like the
baby to it's mother, and nurse from the mother, strength for the baby.
And we do the same thing when we come to God and see His
promise. We just lay right to Him and draw from His
Word the strength of God, given in its course, not taking our own mind; just
believing it. "After He had endured, he obtained the promise."
Oh, I just love that!
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NURSING THE STRENGTH OF GOD INTO HIS OWN BODY.
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E-32 Man
believes God from the heart. And as long as that Divine
Promise can find a anchoring place in the human heart, there isn't all devils
in hell can ever tear it away from him. It's there. He believes it.
He'd--he'd die by it, for he believed it. And holding that promise,
after all he keeps holding it and believing it, the finger begins to wiggle.
Then the hand begins to move. See, he's nursing the strength of God into his own body.
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ABRAHAM, DRAWING, NOURISHING IN ALL THE STRENGTH OF GOD,… BRINGING IN
STRENGTH TO GET READY TO HAVE THIS CHILD AT A HUNDRED YEARS OLD.
E-63 Now, watch Abraham, drawing, nourishing
in all the strength of God, what? Bringing
in strength to get ready to have this child at a hundred years old.
Not only is He the breasted One, but He's a Satisfier. The little baby when it's sick and real sick, the mother takes it up to her breast, and it begins to nurse her strength into the sick baby; and while it's getting well, it's satisfied. So is the real man that's got a hold of God and nursing in the Holy Spirit knowing that He's satisfied that God's going to make every word come to pass. It's Abraham's seed. That's the real true seed of Abraham. I don't care what anybody else says; he says, "If God said so, that settles it; I say, 'Amen' to it." And he's satisfied it's going to happen. You ain't buffeting him around.
Jas 5:2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
Jas 5:3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
Jas 5:4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Jas 5:5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
Jas 5:6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
Jas 5:7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
Jas 5:8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
Jas 5:9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
Jas 5:10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
Jas 5:11 Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
Jas 5:12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
Jas 5:13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
Jas 5:14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
Jas 5:15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
Jas 5:16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
Jas 5:17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
Jas 5:18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Jas 5:19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
Jas 5:20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
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