February 7, 2019

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let’s turn over to the book of Acts

chapter three and you know I really feel

impressed that the Lord has spoken to me

about just sharing on the authority that

we have as believers and when Linda

deeds got up here tonight she said that

that was the thing that she was watching

and you know I didn’t remember that in

her testimony but I felt like the Lord

told me that this is what I need to talk

about you know I have people come to me

all of the time and they believe that

God is real I’m sure that you do that’s

the reason you’re here on a Thursday

night you came out here because you you

aren’t you’re not to God crowd that just

goes one hour a week on Sunday

fulfilling an obligation I mean you’re

out here because you’re fanatics are you

or are you a drug here by a fanatic but

did you know most Christians even though

they love God and even though they’re

excited about God and even though they

believe that God can do anything they

don’t understand the power and authority

and they are constantly approaching God

in a sense saying oh God we are nothing

we have nothing we can do nothing but we

know that you can do all things would

you stretch forth your hand would you

heal this person would you touch me

would you heal my finances and we are in

a passive position of asking the Lord to

do things and I think that one of the

most common things that I deal with is

people who believe God can do anything

but they think that it’s just God

performing these miracles they don’t

understand that everything we receive

from God comes through us and that’s

that causes a lot of problems there’s a

lot of people that when somebody dies

they think why did God allow that you

know God’s God and if he wanted to go to

heal this person you don’t understand

Authority you don’t understand that God

has bound himself by his word

there’s people that think why is God

taking so long to heal me you don’t

understand Authority I’m tell you this

is one of the most misunderstood things

in the body of Christ now I don’t know

Dwayne and I hadn’t talked I don’t know

what he’ll teach on but I know Dwayne

we’re really close and I know Dwayne is

going to be telling you about who you

are in Christ that’ll be part of his

ministry regardless of what he titles it

and so that’s what I’m going to be

talking about too but I’m going to be

focusing on the authority that God has

given us and I just want to use this

example in Acts chapter 3 to kind of

highlight this this is something that

you’ve probably read many times but you

know what most people become so familiar

with this that they don’t really know

what it says I want to point out some

things here that are just really

different than the average Christian

today in Acts chapter 3 in verse 1 it

says now Peter and John went up together

into the temple at the hour of prayer

being the ninth hour and a certain man

lame from his mother’s womb and we find

out in the next chapter when he has been

grilled before the scribes and Pharisees

that he was 38 years old at this time

and so a certain man lame from his

mother’s womb for thirty-eight years was

carried whom they laid daily at the gate

of the temple which is called beautiful

to ask alms of them that entered into

the temple who’s seen Peter and John

about to go into the temple astin alms

and Peter fastening his eyes upon him

with John said look on us and they gave

heed unto them expecting to receive

something of them then Peter said silver

and gold have I none some people use

that to say that see the disciples were

poor it just means they didn’t have

their billfold with them

there’s times I don’t have any money

with me but it doesn’t mean I’m broke

he just says silver and gold have I none

but such as I have give IV in the name

of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and

walk and he took him by the right hand

and lifted him up and immediately his

feet and ankle bones received strength

and he leaping up stood and walked and

entered with them into the temple

walking and leaping and praising God and

there is so much in these verses that I

could Minister on but I want him to just

focus on this that Peter said silver and

gold have I none but such as I have such

as I have give I unto thee and then he

didn’t even pray a prayer he didn’t say

oh god I can’t do anything for this man

but I know you can do anything all

things are possible to you would you

stretch forth your hand would you touch

this man see that’s the way it’s done

today that’s a chicken prayer

that’s a safe prayer in other words

you’re saying well it’s not up to me

we’re just gonna pray and if you jump up

well Jesus gets all the glory and if you

don’t get up well let’s not be God’s

timing yet maybe God wants to teach you

something you can’t lose with that kind

of a prayer but Peter said such as I

have give I unto you and then he didn’t

even pray a prayer he reached out and

grabbed me by the hand and lifted him up

and immediately his feet and ankle bones

received strength and he leaping up

stood and went walking and leaping and

praising God

Peter said such as I have did you know

that that would get you kicked out of 99

point something percent of all churches

today to come in and say I have the

anointing the power of God in men if I

lay hands on you you will be healed

people would look at that and be

arrogant and it could be I guess in a

way but you know what it’s it’s not you

bragging on yourself it’s you bragging

on what Jesus did Jesus gave us power

and authority on this earth and it is

listen to what I’m saying don’t turn me

off until I have time to explain this

but it’s not Jesus who’s not healing

people today it’s us who aren’t healing

people and it’s us who aren’t reaching

out and taking what is rightfully ours

and instead we are coming before God as

beggars we are coming before God not

realizing what he’s done for us and God

is not going to violate his word I’ll be

teaching on this all week weekend long

and I’ve got a lot to say so I probably

won’t cover all of this but if you were

to go back to Genesis you’ll find out

that God is the source of all power and

all authority and he gave authority over

this world to man and he didn’t put any

qualifications on it he didn’t say as

long as you do with it what I tell you

to do you have power and authority no he

gave us Authority and then we turned it

over to the devil

and God listen to this God would have

been unjust to come down here and wipe

out the devil and say how dare you do

this to my creation and I’m gonna just

destroy you because he gave authority to

us and in Psalms chapter 82 I believe it

is verse 6 Jesus quoted this verse and

God said are you not all gods not

capital G in the sense of divinity but

rulers small G he gave us control over

this earth Psalms 115 verse 16 says the

heavens even the heavens of the heavens

are the Lord’s but the earth had he

given to the sons of men

God gave control over this earth to us

and we are the ones that empower the

devil we turned it over to him and if

God would have come down and have just

dealt with the devil like that he would

have been untrue to his promise he says

you have Authority you rule you subdue

it and so God because he is holy because

he has exalted his word above all of his

name Symes 138 verse 2 Psalms chapter 89

verse 34 says my covenant will I not

break nor alter the thing that has gone

forth out of my lips when God says

something it’s a covenant with God God

never violates his word Hebrews chapter

1 verse 3 says that he is the brightness

of his glory the Express image of his

person and he upholds all things by the

word of his power God created this world

through words words are what created

everything physical that we see the the

universe you and me we were all created

by words and words hold everything

together he up

holds all of creation by the word of his

power if God was to break one of his

promises the world would self-destruct

the universe would self-destruct it’s

held together by the integrity of his

word and so when God said you this is

yours

you rule you do with it as you want did

you know that that excluded God that

excluded his direct control man I’m

bumping up against something right here

that I could spend weeks explaining but

one in my estimation I believe the worst

doctrine in the body of Christ is an

extreme interpretation of the

sovereignty of God that God just

sovereignly controls everything that

whatever he wants done is gonna be done

whether you or I pray or do anything

that God just sovereignly moves he is in

control well I believe that God is

sovereign if you will define sovereign

the way the Bible defines it as being

first in rank order or authority God is

absolute but to say that he controls

everything that is denying and not

understanding that he delegated

authority to us God does not control

what goes on on this earth matter of

fact the Bible says in James chapter 4

verse 2 from whence come Wars and

Fighting’s among you come they not hence

of your own lusts that war in your

members you lust and kill and desire to

have and yet you have not because you

ask not that verse right there makes it

very clear that the reason we have wars

are not because God starts all of the

wars it’s because God gave us control

and we are not using it properly and

this is the reason things happen I

actually heard a woman on a television

program who her and her daughter were

abducted at gunpoint taken out to a

remote area they were both raped and

then he made him lay face down and shot

him both in the back of the head and

killed the daughter the mother lived

through it she had some physical

problems but she did survive and she was

on television talking about that we know

that God works

all things together for good that God

had a purpose in this and she was

blaming God for the death of her

daughter the abduction the rape and all

of this stuff that is wrong that is

ungodly to blame God for that God does

not control everything if you’re sick

it’s not because God allowed it God

doesn’t allow sickness we allow it God

allows what we allow we’re the ones that

have authority and power and it’s

because we aren’t using the authority

that God has given us and we’re

approaching him as a beggar as if he has

done nothing when the Bible says by His

stripes we’ve already been healed first

Peter 2:24 God has already done his part

and he has put this power on the inside

of us and if we aren’t seeing the power

of God manifest it’s because we aren’t

believing and exercising the authority

that God has given us and instead we are

coming advocating our authority and say

no God we can do nothing but you can do

everything that is opposite what Peter

did Peter came and said such as I have

give I unto thee and then he reached

down and grabbed the man and lifted him

up and I guarantee you don’t do things

like that if you don’t understand that

God has given you the authority and the

power to heal over in Matthew chapter 10

let me just read this one to you some of

you wouldn’t believe this is in the

Bible if you don’t read it Matthew

chapter 10 in verse 1 it says and when

he had called unto Him the twelve

disciples he gave them power that word

power there is a word Dunamis

it means miraculous power and authority

God gave His disciples which it isn’t

limited to those original twelve it’s

been passed on to all of us we are now

the disciples of the Lord and it says

that he gave them power against unclean

spirits to cast them out and to heal all

manner of sickness and all manner of

disease all in the Greek that word all

means all Oh

I mean people come before and say well I

know God healed things but what about

cancer what about AIDS oh Jesus is

exalted above every name every name has

to bow if you can put a name on it Jesus

is above it and he has destroyed it and

he gave every born-again believer in

here power over all of the power and

authority of the devil over all sickness

and all diseases and then going down to

verse verse seven it says and as you go

preach saying the kingdom of heaven is

at hand which if you look that up in the

Greek it just means it’s present it’s

now it’s not soon to come it’s already

come it’s here the kingdom of heaven is

here and then he says heal the sick

cleanse the lepers raise the dead cast

out Devils freely you have received

freely give he didn’t say pray for the

sick he said heal the sick

there’s a difference again to say Oh God

would you heal this person we’re asked

that that’s not gonna get people healed

he told you to heal the sick it’s not

your power it’s God’s power but it has

been given unto you and you have this

Authority and power that’s what Linda

deeds who is testifying about tonight I

didn’t pray for her she heard the truth

and her husband and her agreed and then

she stood up and took her authority and

acted in because of it she was delivered

of arthritis and all these other things

that were affecting her every person in

here has the power and authority over

whatever it is that Satan is fighting

you with but the problem is we aren’t

using our power instead we’re saying oh

god we have nothing you can do it oh god

would you heal me well yes it’s his

power but it’s already done by His

stripes you were healed first Peter 2:24

God has already done

his party Jesus is now seated at the

Father’s right hand

Jesus is not healing people tonight we

are healing people with his power it’s

his power it’s not my power but it’s in

me and unless I use it and speak in

authority it’s not gonna get done God

will not flow without flowing through

people look here’s another verse you

need to see Ephesians chapter 3 verse 20

that verse says now unto him who is able

to do exceeding abundantly above all we

ask or think how many of you believe

that that’s wrong I quoted it the way

people believe it it says now unto him

who is able to do exceeding abundantly

above all we ask or think according to

the power that works in us if there’s no

power working on the inside of you you

limit God you stop God you know come

back tomorrow Dwayne is encouraging

Dwayne will make you feel good he will

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but I’m telling I’m said I’m saying this

in love the brothers and sisters it’s us

that’s limiting God God is not limited

in himself but he will only do according

to the power that works in you if you

aren’t seeing God’s power manifest it’s

not because God hadn’t answered your

prayer it’s because you haven’t taken it

by faith and used your authority thank

you for that warm pew T class

I know some of you thinking man this is

not what I came for

you’re saying it’s my fault yeah that’s

what I’m saying

and some people think that bothers me

you you’re you’re hurting me to say that

it’s my fault that I’m struggling well

do you want to say it’s God’s fault do

you want to say that God’s the one who’s

letting you suffer for years and letting

you be poor and letting your emotions

are you going to blame God that’s what

most people do that’s what religion does

and they come up with these elaborate

doctrines to say well God you know it’s

not time yet he wants you to suffer a

little bit longer you’re made perfect

through what you suffer and and they

come up with all these doctrines no

that’s not God God is not the one who’s

not answering your prayers

God has already given you everything

that you need before you even had the

problem before you had the problem God

had already supplied the need it says by

His stripes we were healed God doesn’t

wait until you’re sick and then heal you

he puts supernatural raising from the

dead power on the inside of you when you

got born again and you already have the

same power that was released when God

the Father raised Jesus Christ from the

dead that power is already inside of you

and you don’t have to pray and ask God

to send it down see this is where so

many wrong doctrines come from the

spiritual warfare people which again

there is a place for spiritual warfare

but the way it’s been taught I believe

is primarily a mistake it’s empowering

the devil and decreasing higher

authority and giving him way too much

credit and they’re saying that the

devil’s over Orlando and there’s demonic

powers that are blocking our prayers and

keeping them from getting up to heaven

and we got to pray and get a hole in the

atmosphere so our prayers can reach

heaven

that’s literally taught there are people

that literally rip airplanes and fly a

pie because there’s demons in high

places

Ephesians chapter 6 verse 12 until they

ran airplane just come to Colorado we’re

at 86 hundred feet

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you want after in a plane that’s just

crazy that your prayers won’t get you

know people say well they’re your prayer

didn’t get above the ceiling you don’t

need your prayers to get above your nose

God lives right here that’s the reason

you bow your head when you pray is so

that you can look at God

this whole doctrine of demons are

blocking our prayers they will use

Daniel chapter 9 in chapter 10 and yes

in the night in the tenth chapter of the

Book of Daniel the Prince of Persia

blocked Daniels prayer but he was an Old

Testament man it also says in Isaiah

chapter 64 I believe it’s verse 6 where

it says rend the heavens and come down

and people pray that I’ve heard this

prayed in prayer O God read the heavens

and come down o God sends your power

down and they beg God to move that’s an

Old Testament prayer God ripped the

heavens and came down in Jesus and Jesus

said I’m never gonna leave you

comfortless I will send the Holy Spirit

and now when you get born again you’ve

got the Holy Spirit and you don’t have

to get your prayers up past the ceiling

pass through some hole in the demonic

realms God lives here and all you’ve got

to do is just say father and instantly

you’re right there

and people say well if I’ve got this

power well then how come nothing’s

happening because you have to have it

according to the power that works in you

you have to get it out of your spirit

and through your mind that’s what the

renewing of your mind is all about

that’s why we’re having a conference

this weekend is to be sharing truths

with you that if you would receive these

truths you will know the truth and the

truth will make you free but it’s only

the truth you know that makes you free

and if you are saying oh god would you

please heal me well you may not be

malicious about it you may not be mean

about it but you are denying the fact

that the Bible says by His stripes you

were healed and you’re saying no I’m not

because you can’t see it you can’t feel

it the doctor can show you that you

still have some problem but all they can

do is search the physical part of you

the emotional part of you but in the

spirit you got the same power that

raised Jesus Christ from the dead

Ephesians chapter one verse eighteen he

prays that your eyes of your

understanding would be enlightened that

you would see what is the hope of his

calling and the exceeding greatness of

his riches towards us who believe

according to the same power that raised

Jesus Christ from the dead you now have

the raising from the dead power of Jesus

on the inside of you it’s not out there

that you have to pray down it’s in you

but you’ve got to believe it and you

know the things I’ve already said I know

that there’s lots of people just saying

how can this be it’s like you cannot

embrace this because it’s so contrary to

everything we’ve been taught and I’ve

got a teaching out there entitled spirit

soul and body Dwayne’s got a book

entitled identity thief that deals with

these same things when you’re looking

for this power it’s not in your physical

body it’s not in your soulish mental

emotional part it’s in your born-again

spirit and the Bible says that that

which is flesh is flesh and that which

is spirit is spirit

you can’t know spiritual things by

feelings you can’t see it in a mirror a

doctor can’t probe your spirit and see

what’s in your spirit but according to

the Word of God Jesus said in John

chapter 6 verse 63 the words that I

speak unto you they are spirit and they

are life this Bible is a perfect

representation of what’s in your spirit

and this says that you have the same

power that raised Jesus Christ from the

dead that you have been given power and

authority over all sickness and over all

diseases to cast them out therefore go

heal the sick cleanse the lepers raise

the dead cast out devils that’s what

this says it’s in your spirit and you

can’t see it perceive it in any physical

natural way you have to perceive it by

faith faith comes by hearing hearing by

the Word of God Romans 10:17 you just

have to take the representation of God’s

Word and believe that this power is on

the inside of you and it’s a process

however old you are that’s how long

you’ve been taught that you are nothing

except natural you’re just human Lord

I’m only human

I’m just a man one day at a time sweet

Jesus that’s all I’m asking of you that

song will kill you I’m not just human

I’m not just a man one-third of me is

wall to wall Holy Ghost I’ve now got the

supernatural power of God in

and you’ve got to start seeing yourself

in Christ and recognizing the power and

the authority that you’ve gotten I’m

telling you brothers and sisters this is

where most of us are missing it it’s

because we don’t see ourself in Christ

we don’t have our identity and who we

are in Christ we’re we’re just looking

on the outside and seeing what we don’t

have we go by what the doctor report

says and you know it’s only going to

tell you what’s in the physical realm

it’s not going to tell you what’s in the

spiritual realm the only way to access

that is through the Word of God through

just believing this report that God’s

Word gives you but I’m telling you you

are loaded you are loaded you have

everything that you will ever need you

don’t need more you need less less

unbelief less doubt let’s focus on your

natural self you know when the Lord

touched my life and called me I had

never been good at anything I never been

a success at anything and so it was easy

for me to just turn my life over to the

Lord because I had nothing to let go of

I didn’t have any trophies I didn’t have

any awards I didn’t have anything and so

it was easy for me to just find myself

in Christ those of you that have all of

these great talents and abilities in a

sense I feel sorry for you

because it’s hard for you to just find

your new self man I was looking for me

I hadn’t established who I was yet and

so I was looking and when the Lord

showed me these things it was easy for

me to transition to it but there’s a lot

of people that you are just steeped in

your successes and in your failures and

you don’t really know who you are in

Christ but I’m telling you that in

Christ you’re identical to Jesus you’re

a new creature you can do anything

anything that God calls you to do you

have supernatural ability on the inside

of you and very few Christians are using

this supernatural ability most people

are living way below their privileges

they aren’t even shooting for greater

things because they feel like who am I

to do this you need to recognize it when

you got born again God gave you

supernatural power and ability greater

is He that’s in you than he that’s in

the world the devil trembles at you

because he knows what your full

potential is but most of us don’t know

what our potential is I’m telling you

brothers and sisters you have power and

authority over whatever it is that Satan

is coming at you with I don’t have time

tonight but I’ll get into this sometime

tomorrow and show you that the devil

cannot do anything to you without your

consent in cooperation

and at first many of you’re gonna say

well that’s not encouraging well it

really is you’re the one that’s in

authority and you may think well I

didn’t ask for this sickness I didn’t

believe for this sickness no but if you

just sit there and accept that I’m only

human and that you know I humans get

sick it’s just flu season it’s time to

be sick it’s flu season if you just

think natural like that you have

cooperated with the devil because you

don’t know your power and authority you

don’t know the verse or if you know it

you’d aren’t living in it the verse that

says no plague will come nigh your

dwelling only with your eyes will you

see and behold the reward of the wicked

but man you don’t have to be sick you

don’t have to be poor this is not what

the world is saying but it’s what the

Word of God says who always causes us to

triumph in Christ Jesus and sad to say

even religion isn’t preaching this they

will sit there and say well you know you

just have to suffer and we’re further

along we know all about it I’m just a

poor Wayfaring pilgrim a trudging

through this world below and we glorify

our inadequacies Dwayne mentioned this

this morning when we were with our Bible

college students and he said that we

have been sitting here having

self-improvement

things is what our churches got into his

self-improvement trying to get you to

feel better about yourself you need to

you need to deny yourself you need to

get out of yourself and into your

born-again self

this isn’t Jesus didn’t come to change

your life he came to exchange your life

to give you a new life you are already a

new person in the spirit you don’t need

to grow and get complete you are

complete in the spirit the growth in the

Christian life is right here between

your ears renewing your mind and getting

out of this carnal way of thinking that

limits God and begin to start seeing and

seeing and thinking about yourself the

way that the Word of God says and I tell

you there’s not very many Christians

that do that again the average Christian

has been taught to glorify their

weaknesses now Paul did say that I glory

in my weaknesses but not because he just

stayed there but when I’m weak then I’m

strong when I recognize that I can’t do

it then it pushes me beyond myself to

say God you can do it I can do all

things through Christ who strengthens me

people will say well without Jesus

you’re nothing John chapter 15 verse 5

jesus said that without me you can do

nothing and they’ll sit there and I’m

nothing without you well that’s

absolutely true

but I’m never without Jesus he never

leaves me nor forsakes me in myself I am

nothing I can’t heal a net but I’m not

by myself and I’ve been born again you

have to then you’ve got the supernatural

power of God on the inside of you and we

need to start living like it we need to

start talking like

I prayed with a man tonight who had

problems with his memory and he says I’m

struggling to remember things and God

just spoke a word to me proverbs 18:21

death and life are in the power of the

tongue

and I said you got power right here in

your tongue I said from now on don’t you

ever talk about you not being able to

remember things you start saying the

memory of the righteous is blessed that

the Holy Spirit will bring back to my

remembrance all things of G and I said

start using this power but see most

people oh god I’m losing my mind would

you please help me the Bible says God

didn’t give you a spirit of fear but of

power and of love and of a sound mind

you start speaking it use your authority

if you see something that’s wrong in

your life talk to it take your authority

and start speaking and I know some of

you think boy you are one arrogant

person I’m talking about what Jesus did

for me it’s not my power but it’s in me

and until I started realizing that and

quit approaching God as a beggar and I

start coming as a son and using my

authority I’m not going to see the

supernatural power of God manifested you

know I had a friend Dave dhu-l who we

ministered together for decades and

David well was this wild guy that spit

on people and blew on people and if you

didn’t fall down he’d push you down and

he was a wild guy but anyway he went

over to Nigeria and he held a meeting

and they saw some blind eyes open they

saw deaf ears open he saw great miracles

happening and so the next day he was

waiting on the evening service and he

was walking through the marketplace and

of course Nigeria they were all black in

Nigeria and he was a white guy walking

through there and so he stood out people

recognized him from the crusade the

night before and so they started running

up to him and you know just begging to

touch him and his first reaction it was

that old religious thing he wanted to

say no no it’s not me it’s not me don’t

worship me but before he could get that

out

the Lord spoke to him and it says Dave

and he said yes and he says what would

you have thought when I entered into

Jerusalem and I was riding on that

donkey and they took palm branches and

threw him in the way and took their

coats off and laid him down and they

were singing Hosanna glory to God in the

highest what would you have thought if

that donkey would have said it’s not me

it’s not me

he says nobody’s praising you

he says you’re just like the donkey that

Jesus rides on when somebody comes up

and says you know thank you for healing

me I’ve had people say that before and I

don’t heal anybody it’s always Jesus

power that does it but when they come up

and if I go it’s not me don’t say no you

know give all the glory to God you know

what that I’m the only one who thinks

it’s me everybody else understands it’s

God’s power and it’s just flowing

through me but we have all of these

religious cons I’m telling you you’re

loaded you got the supernatural power of

God and you need to quit going around

like a loser and you need to start

taking your authority and power and

using it it’s as simple as what I’m

saying but it’s not easy because the

hardest thing you’ll ever do is renew

your mind to who you are in Christ and

what you have in Christ and start using

it instead of begging God you know what

would happen if I went to your house and

I was in your kitchen and one of your

your children or your grandchild was to

come in and fall on the floor and say oh

I’m not worthy I know I haven’t done

everything right I know I didn’t make my

bed today I know I haven’t done all of

the things all of my chores weren’t done

but I’m thirsty would you please give me

something to drink I know I don’t

deserve it but just a little bit of

water you know if that’s the way that

your child approached you I’d say you

are having a bad relationship with your

child those kids they just come in and

say hey mom give me something to drink

I’m thirsty and you do it not because

they’re superior but because you love

them they are just reaching out and they

know that you love them and they know

that

thing you have is theirs and they just

are making a demand on you know this is

what Jesus told us to pray our Father

which art in heaven hallowed be thy name

thy kingdom come thy will be done on

earth as it is in heaven give us this

day our daily bread he didn’t so god

please could we have a crumb no it’s

it’s it’s a command give us this day our

daily bread now please don’t

misunderstand I’m not saying that we’re

commanding God and that he has to obey

us but God through love has made

everything that he is and everything

that he has available to you it’s on the

inside of you already and instead of

approaching God as if we have nothing we

need to start recognizing the power and

the authority that God has given us and

we need to start using it and we need to

take that authority and use it and this

is where the vast majority of Christians

are missing it today because they’re

approaching God as if he has done

nothing he couldn’t do anything but he

has done nothing and so we’re asking God

to move God’s not the one who needs to

move God’s already moved God’s not stuck

it’s us that need to move faith doesn’t

move God faith appropriates what God has

already provided through grace that’s a

mouthful right there it took me 20 years

to get to where I could say that God has

already provided it by grace before you

ever had the need look at this passage

over in Genesis chapter 1 this will

illustrate what I’m talking about in

Genesis chapter 1 he created the heavens

and the earth he created all of the

trees the plants the grass he created

all of the animals in the sea and on the

land he created us he did all of these

things and then in Genesis chapter 1 and

in verse 30 it says to every beast of

the earth and to every fowl of the air

into

every thing that creepeth upon the earth

wherein there is life I have given every

green herb for meat and it was so and

God saw everything that he had made and

behold it was very good

in the evening in the morning were the

sixth day and I’m not going to take time

to go through all of this but the Lord

waited until the end of creation to

create mankind not because we were last

we were actually the goal of creation

we’re the crowning jewel of God’s

creation he created all of this earth

and all of the animals and everything

for us and we are the rulers over this

so why didn’t God create us first

because it wasn’t ready for us did you

realize it was three days I think before

it created land if he would have created

us first we’d had to tread water for

three days and then he created all of

the trees and the hills and all of this

and trees were popping up they didn’t

start his little tiny plants he created

him full-grown with the seed in themself

you know which came first the chicken or

the egg the Bible says the chicken and

the seed was in the chicken so God

created everything full-grown and if we

would have been here we’d have been

dodging trees as they came up and plants

and grass and all of these things he

created us last not because we are last

but because he prepared everything

before he created us did you know that

he didn’t have to he didn’t create us

and then Adam says oh god I’m hungry

what do I eat and God says oh I need to

get you something to eat and so he

creates fruit for them to eat no he

anticipated did you know that he has

never created any more food on this

planet since creation there was enough

food on this planet in creation week to

feed the entire population of the world

you talk about abundance he didn’t you

know Adam didn’t have to say god I can’t

breathe and God had Oh

I’ve got to make some air no he

anticipated this he created air he

created food he created everything that

we need everything was perfect

nothing has caught God by surprise and

this is one reason it’s not the only

reason but it’s one reason that I don’t

buy into the environmental stuff about a

fragile earth and we’re destroying the

earth and that we’re gonna ruin

everything and I think it’s this

I can’t pronounce this noose

representatives name Alexandra Forte of

whatever I can’t pronounce her name but

I think she made a prediction that in 12

years it’s going to be the end of the

world because we’re destroying it see

that that means that God didn’t

anticipate what a mess we were gonna be

and so we took him by surprise

no God has anticipated everything that’s

not to say that we go out and trash the

earth I’m not into littering and doing

stuff but I’m saying that the Bible

tells us how the worlds are going to end

and it’s not going to end by us putting

co2 emissions in the atmosphere God

anticipated every need every need people

are so we’re running out of oil

you know they’ve just found new oil

reserves in the United States we are now

the largest exporter of oil in the world

and they say with just the known oil

reserves that we have it’s enough to

power the whole world for over a hundred

years at any pace we want and it

wouldn’t exploit it but even if it did

God’s anticipated what this is about and

there’s other ways of doing it I’ve got

an employee that works for me that has

run a car over a hundred thousand miles

on water I guarantee you there is no

lack of anything God anticipated

everything we ever need and we’ve got

now over seven billion people if we go

to 14 billion people there’s a way to

handle everything we just need to draw

on the wisdom of God nothing catches God

by surprise when you get sick it’s not

like okay oh god I’ve got to have you

move and do something know God’s

anticipated anything that would ever

come your way and he put on the inside

of you more than enough power to heal

anything they would ever come against

he’s put on the inside of you more than

enough anointing to accomplish whatever

it is he’s put on the inside of you the

power it says in Deuteronomy chapter 8

verse 18 you shall remember the Lord

your God for it is he who gives you

power to get wealth he doesn’t give you

well he gives you power

anointing you’ve got an authority’s what

that’s talking about to be wealthy every

one of you and yet there’s a lot of

people who I’m just living off of Social

Security well that’s because you’ve

limited God you think that that’s all

you can do is just Social Security you

know Jamie and I had a woman in our

church or in our Bible study in Lamar

Colorado who struggled financially she

had I think four kids and there was

times that we were struggling but we

helped her she helped us this woman’s

struggle financially and she heard me

talking along these lines that God has

given you power to get wealth and so she

was praying and saying God we can’t even

buy food what can I do what what have

you given me and she was cooking clay

for her children because she didn’t like

the store bought clay because it was

toxic sometime he would stick to the

carpet and things and so she had her own

formula that wouldn’t stick to anything

it wasn’t toxic they could have eaten it

and she was cooking this clay up and she

says God what could I do and the Lord

told her he says take this clay and

start packaging and she put it in little

Ziploc bags and put five little rolls of

clay in there different colors and

started taking them to these craft fair

things and within a short period of time

had 89 people working for her and she’s

the lady that if you ever saw shark tank

that they had this little board that

looks like a skateboard except on the

bottom it has a bubble and you just

twist like this on it she’s that lady

and she went on Shark Tank and she’s

made millions of dollars doing that

and she told us that the last time the

next time that she gets a royalty check

it could be a billion dollars is her

royalty check man and this is a woman

who was so hungry that she couldn’t eat

and she just started believing I’ve got

power to get wealth God has given every

person in here the ability to be wealth

every one of you can be filthy stinking

dirty rich if you desire to be I’m not

preaching that God is gonna do that for

everybody because not everybody is

capable of it you your heart’s not right

the Bible says if you desire to be rich

you Pierce yourself through with many

sorrows which drowned man and hurtful

lustin and gods got to work in you to

get to where you can handle riches and

some of you you couldn’t handle it right

now but I’m saying that you have that

power you have this the power to get

wealth

there is nothing limiting you but you

and again a lot of people this isn’t

blessing me because you take great

delight in same God why haven’t you done

this and you place a blame that we won’t

accept responsibility but I’m telling

you it’s our fault

that we aren’t seeing the power of God

manifest January the 31st 2002 the Lord

spoke to me Psalms chapter 78 verse 41

that says in their heart they turned

back and tempted God and limited the

Holy One of Israel some 78412 what I

said but that’s 78 41 a limited the Holy

One of Israel some people think well God

is sovereign God just does whatever he

wants to know you can you can stop God

you can limit God the Israelites limited

God it wasn’t God’s will for them to

spend 40 years in the wilderness that’s

because they would not obey God and they

believed that the ten spies instead of

the two spies and they operated in

unbelief and it cost them 40 years in

the wilderness and that was not God’s

will for them they limited God God spoke

that to

and I knew what God’s will for my life

was I’ve known since 68 or shortly

thereafter that God wanted me to be

touching people all over the world and

take the things that he’s shown me and

share them with people all over the

world and I knew it and I was headed in

that direction but at a very slow pace

and I started on television January the

3rd of 2000 and we were seeing increase

but the Lord spoke to me and said you’re

limiting me by your small thinking and

so I repented and I’ve got a series out

there entitled don’t limit God you can

read more about it but there was reasons

I was fearful of success and some of you

think well man why would you fear

success I’ve seen success ruin a lot of

people I’ve seen people that when

they’re when they’re struggling they

seek God because there is no other way

but when success comes they quit seeking

God and success has ruined more people

than hardship ever has success is hard

to handle and I was afraid that if I

really started seeing God use me that it

had changed my heart somehow or another

that I’d lose my relationship with God

and I didn’t want to do that and you

know I did part of it’s just lazy it’s

easier to you know a dead fish can float

down the stream but when you turn the

corner and start swimming upstream

against the current man that takes

effort and I knew that if if God

increased this ministry it was going to

be a lot more work on me and I’d have to

start doing more and I was just enjoying

for the first time in my life having our

needs supplied in us not going hungry

and I didn’t want to stretch myself and

start believing more and also people

have a fear of failure they think if I

start believing big I might fail and

there’s people that honestly would

rather live a mediocre life than to

start thinking big and run the potential

of failure don’t look at me in that tone

of voice

there are many of you in here that are

shooting at nothing and hitting it every

time you aren’t believing for anything

beyond yourself you are just doing what

you are confident that you can

accomplish in your own ability and I can

guarantee you if all you are doing is

what you feel qualified to do in

yourself you have missed God I can

guarantee it

God is going to call every person in

here to do something that is bigger than

you something that’s bigger than

yourself so that you will trust in Him

we serve a big God and God is looking

for people that will release him and he

loves it says in second chronicles or

maybe its first chronicles 16:9 the eyes

of the Lord run to and fro throughout

the entire earth seeking to show himself

strong in behalf of those who are

perfect in his sight

did you know that the eyes of the Lord

are in this auditorium tonight and God

is looking and saying is there somebody

who will receive what Andrews saying and

go beyond themselves and take the limits

off and go to believing for something

big God will pass over everybody in

Florida to find one person in here they

would say men God don’t look any further

Here I am but the average person is just

playing it safe

just working hoping that you’ll have

enough for retirement so you can just go

out and fish play golf do nothing the

rest of your life and ahem that’s not

living I’m not God’s not against

retirement but then you don’t ever

retire from ministering to people you

need to be busy doing the Lord you need

to be changing people’s lives and I

guarantee if you don’t have something

bigger than yourself to live for that’s

one of the reasons that you aren’t happy

if you’re all wrapped up in yourself you

make a very small package

if you’re just living by your own

steaming power it’s it’s no good you

know there’s adrenaline flows when

you’re out there in the supernatural out

on the limb like God if you don’t come

through I’m gonna dead that’s a fun way

to live it’s an addicting way to live

you know what my biggest temptation is

is getting bored when I don’t have

something that God’s told me to do

that’s rough on me but man when I got

this huge goal out here that is so big

that man I got to be seeking God I just

love that I love the adrenaline rush

some of you don’t know what I’m talking

about

do you know in the last six-and-a-half

years we built 75 million dollars worth

of buildings debt-free above my normal

expenses

and when we started that process six and

a half years ago I didn’t have anything

did you know six a night well let me go

back a little bit further to 2002 when

the Lord told me I was limiting him in

2001 our total ministry income was 2

million dollars and this last year it

was 75 million dollars I think in that

short a period of time and we are moving

much more than that god I’ve got at

least a hundred and fifty to two hundred

million dollars worth of things that God

has told me to build debt-free and some

of you immediately starts at all you

can’t do that well you just hide and

watch it will come to pass

I’m telling you brothers and said God is

big people who feel like they’re

imposing on God I had a guy in a prayer

line one time and he says I’ve got pain

in my neck and it goes all the way down

my spine and my hips are bothering me

I’ve got nerve pinched and I’ve got pain

all the way down my leg and then he just

described his feet he had pain in his

feet so from head to toe he had pain he

named all of these things and then he

says but you know if God would just heal

the pain in my neck I could live with

the rest of it so I looked at him and I

said well I understand what you’re

saying I said you don’t know if we ask

God to heal your neck your spine your

hips your nerve and your feet the lights

in heaven might dim I’m not sure God’s

got enough power to pull this off and

this guy just looked at me and he says

that was kind of dumb what I said

real dumb I said your you aren’t

imposing on God’s you aren’t making it

hard for God you know Elijah when he

went and had the duel with the prophets

of Bale he poured water on this

sacrifice and did it three times until

everything was saturated just to make it

hard just so that there wouldn’t be any

confusion about this being spontaneous

combustion

he just soaked the altar and everything

that’s a man who knew his authority that

knew that God was coming through but

there’s some money in here that well God

if I could just get this bill paid I

could live poor the rest of my life I

got a mansion in heaven and I’m just

struggle through why are you believing

so small now I will agree that you can

use the things I’m saying for greed just

so that you can have millions and

millions of dollars worth of stuff

that’s not godly I’m not saying that God

mind you having things but we ought to

prosper not so that we could just have

things but so that we can be a blessing

he told Abraham he says I will bless you

and make your name great and you shall

be a blessing you can’t bless other

people if you aren’t blessed I’m not

talking about believing for a great

amount of money so you can live in a 10

million dollar home and do all of this

stuff I mean that God’s not against

anything like that but it’s not about

you getting stuff it’s about you being

empowered so that you can be a blessing

you know we give away hundreds and

hundreds of thousands of dollars every

month plus we give away free tapes and

teachings and on and on I couldn’t do

that if I wasn’t blessed the reason I

believe for Prosperity is not so I can

drive a fancier car or live in a bigger

house if so that I can be a bigger

blessing your motive has to be right but

I’m telling you God is not limited until

we limit him my personal testimony is

that when God spoke that to me

that was on January the 31st on February

the 11th I called my staff together I

had 24 employees at that time Jan

February the 11th 2002 and I called them

together and I said look I’ve been

limiting God and I don’t know how long

it takes to change the image that’s on

the inside I don’t know if it takes a

week a month a year 10 years I don’t

know what it takes but I said I’m gonna

change and I am gonna take the limits

off of God and I will do what God called

me to do and I told my staff and did you

know that was in 2002 and we had 24

employees and we now have 650 employees

we have 16 offices around the world we

have 70 Bible schools we are seeing

people’s lives changed by the millions

and I’m not saying that to pat me on the

back I’m saying that man I was limiting

God by my small thinking and did you

know that when the Lord spoke that to me

it took me two months to pray about it

and come up with a letter to write to my

partners and to let them know about what

God had spoken to me it took me two

months to come up with a letter right it

had it prove and then have it produced

and then ship it out bulk to our

partners so for two months nobody knew

about it and during those two months our

income nearly doubled without me telling

anybody just changing the way I thought

on the inside it wasn’t in response to

my great letter that I sent out it was

when I changed something on the inside

we had tried to go on a star television

network for two years and I had been on

television with Marcus and Joni lamb at

least four or five times and they loved

me and we had a great relationship and

yet every time I asked them about going

on television they they wouldn’t let me

they had a rape card and they would

quote me a price that was higher than

the price that they gave everybody else

it’s like they didn’t want me on and I

couldn’t figure out why I couldn’t get

on there you know what it was is because

I was thinking small I was letting Satan

under me and when I changed my thinking

within two days I got a letter from

Marcus and he says why aren’t you on

Daystar he says you send us the programs

we will put you on on Monday and I

guarantee you we will give you a rate

that will that you can afford and he

gave us like half price to get started

and that’s I didn’t tell him I didn’t

call him I changed the way I thought and

all of a sudden everything out here

begin to change you know what I some of

you think I’m putting myself down that’s

not what I’m doing I haven’t got time to

explain what I’m doing but I am NOT the

sharpest knife in the drawer if I was

God I wouldn’t have chosen me and I’m

aware that I’m not the best person that

God could have used and because of that

I just couldn’t see myself reaching

people and doing some things and being

accepted

you know Dwayne and I’ve talked about

this Dwayne and I are so much alike it’s

scary it’s like we were twins separated

at birth of course I’m the

better-looking one but Dwayne and I

share a lot of same things and I just

couldn’t see myself being accepted by

these people who were famous that just

wasn’t me I’m I was nobody I was nothing

and you know what that was limiting God

I if you can’t see it on the inside you

can’t see it on the outside and I

couldn’t see myself reaching people I

knew that that’s what God called me to

do but I couldn’t seem I wouldn’t let

myself see it because I thought that

would be operating in pride and anyway

when the Lord spoke this to me you know

what I had to change on the inside and

now it is phenomenal I’ve had if I was

to start naming names I can guarantee

every person in here would know who I’m

talking about and these people have come

to me and and they want to meet with me

and so I meet with them and I say so

what do you want and they just say we

want to help you what can we do to help

and these people who are world famous

one object came to me is the most quoted

man in America everyone I’ve you know

yeah and he just says what can we do to

help you I’m just sitting there like

where did this come from God just

started doing things when I took the

limits off of God when I started

recognizing who I was and the authority

that I have in Christ and I’m guaranteed

I don’t know if he related to what I’m

saying but everyone I in here have

limits that you’ve placed on God because

you don’t understand the authority that

he’s given you you don’t understand who

you are in Christ and I’m telling you

you God has such a great plan for your

life that it’s bigger than what you’re

thinking I’ve seen God do some great

things in my life but I guarantee you I

have not tapped God out God spoke to me

January 31st 2002 and told me I was

limiting God and then he spoken that to

me I bet you a dozen times since then

and if I live long enough he’ll speak it

to me another dozen times you don’t ever

get to where you have done everything

that God has for you if your life isn’t

supernatural it’s superficial

you ought to be able you ought to be

able to look at your life and say there

is no justification for what’s happening

in me it’s just God I can’t explain it I

can’t explain why God’s blessing me the

way he’s blessing me it’s certainly not

because of me it’s God the only thing

I’ve done is I’m letting that power work

on the inside on me I’ve quit limiting

God I’m dreaming big and thinking big

and I guarantee you God it’s just

tremendous it’s like there was a dam

built here and all of the things that

God was wanting in my life had been

stopped behind that dam

when I broke the dam and quit thinking

small then all of the blessing and the

power of God begin to flow and it’s the

same thing for every person in here

God’s will for you is absolute victory

he doesn’t want anybody just tolerating

and treading water and just surviving

and getting by I ask people sometimes

how are you and they say well not too

bad under the circumstances you need to

get out from under the circumstances

you’re supposed to be above only and not

beneath the head not the tail

God’s got big things planned for you but

the power is in you it’s not out there

that you got to pray in beg God and ask

God to release his power that power is

on the inside of you and you have to

start acknowledging it

Philemon chapter 1 verse 6 Paul was

praying a prayer for his friend Philemon

and he says I pray that the

communication of your faith would become

effectual that means begin to work by

the acknowledging of every good thing

that is in you in Christ Jesus the thing

that makes your faith begin to work is

when you start realizing who you are and

what you have and I’m telling you

brothers and sisters if you are born

again you are loaded if you are baptized

in the Holy Spirit you now have the same

power that raised Jesus Christ from the

dead and greater is He that’s in you

than he that’s in the world greater is

He that’s in you than that sickness

that’s in your body then the poverty

that has affected you you’ve got all of

this power and authority but you’ve got

to begin to acknowledge it before your

faith becomes effectual and most of us

just are ignorant of what God has done

or if we’ve heard it we aren’t focused

on it we’re instead focused on the

limitations and the negative things and

praise God this weekend we are just

going to saturate you and who you are

what you have

and I believe it’s going to be hard for

you to get out of here without seeing

your needs meant a man for he’s God