EVANGALISM

MARK  16: 15 – 18
                                 HE (JESUS) SAID TO THEM, “ GO INTO ALL THE WORLD AND PREACH THE GOOD NEWS TO ALL CREATION. WHOEVER BELIEVES AND IS BAPTIZED WILL BE SAVED, BUT WHOEVER DOES NOT BELIEVE WILL BE CONDEMNED. AND THESE SIGNS WILL ACCOMPANY THOSE WHO BELIEVE: IN MY NAME THEY WILL DRIVE OUT DEMONS; THEY WILL SPEAK IN NEW TONGUES; THEY WILL PICK UP SNAKES WITH THEIR HANDS; AND THEY WILL DRINK DEADLY POISON, ITWILL NOT HURT THEM AT ALL; THEY WILL PLACE THEIR HANDS ON SICK PEOPLE, AND THEY WILL GET WELL.”

ALL THE WORLD
THIS STARTS AT HOME, ACTS 1:8  “ YOU WILL BE MY WITNESSES IN JERUSALEM, AND IN ALL JUDEA AND SAMARIA, AND TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH

PREACH THE GOOD NEWS
ROMANS  1:17 FOR IN THE GOSPEL A RIGHTEOUSNESS FROM GOD IS REVEALED, A RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT IS BY FAITH FROM FIRST TO LAST , JUST AS IT IS WTITTEN:” THE RIGHTEOUS WILL LIVE BY FAITH.”
GALATIANS 1: 8 BUT EVEN IF WE OR AN ANGEL FROM HEAVEN SHOULD PREACH A GOSPEL OTHER THAN THE ONE WE PREACHED TO YOU ,LET HIM BE ETERNALLY CONDEMNED.
PROVERBS 30: 6 DO NOT ADD TO HIS WORDS, OR HE WILL REBUKE YOU AND PROVE YOU A LIAR.

ALL CREATION
NO DISCRIMINATION OR FAVORATISM (LEV.19: 15 ,ACTS 10:34 , JAMES 2 ; 1 & 2: 9 )

WHOEVER BELIEVES AND IS BAPTIZED
                                 MATTHEW 3:15 JESUS REPLIED , “LET IT BE SO NOW; IT IS PROPER FOR US TO DO THIS TO FULFILL ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS “. ACTS 2: 38 PEETER REPLIED,” REPENT AND BE BAPTIZED, EVERY ONE OF YOU, IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF YOUR SINS. AND YOU WILL RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT .(39) THE PROMISE IS FOR YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN AND FOR ALL WHO ARE FAR OFF , FOR ALL WHOM THE LORD OUR GOD WILL CALL. “ I DO NOT WANT TO GET SIDETRACKED INTO A THOLOGICAL DEBATE. SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE, PREACH AND TEACH THAT THE BAPTIZING IS WHAT WASHES AWAY OUR SIN. SCRIPTURE TEACHES THAT ONLY THE BLOOD OF JESUS CAN WASH AWAY OUR SIN. DO NOT FOCUS ON THEOLOGY BUT SIMPLY ON OBEDIENCE TO GODS WORD. ANOTHER DEBATE IS IN WHAT NAME TO BAPTIZE IN. MATTHEW 28:19, JESUS SAYS BAPTIZE IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND OF THE SON AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. KEEP IT SIMPLE.NOTE JESUS SAID NAME, NOT NAMES ,AND THE DISCIPLES USED THE NAME JESUS IN WHOME THE FULLNESS OF THE GOD HEAD DWELLS.
              I HAVE HEARD A LOT OF LONG DRAWN OUT THEOLOGIES ABOUT WHY TO GET BAPTIZED AND WHAT IT MEANS. KEEP IT SIMPLE .JESUS SAID IT .THAT SETTLES IT.IT IS THE FIRST PUBLIC ACT AND DEMONSTRATION OF OBEDIENCE TO JESUS . THE WORD DOES NOT GET HUNG UP OVER IT AND NEITHER SHOULD WE. THE WHOLE WORD IS ALL ABOUT  OBEDIENT LOVING RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD FIRST THROUGH JESUS AND THEN OUR NEIGHBOURS (MATTHEW  22:37-40)

WHOEVER DOES NOT BELIEVE WILL BE CONDEMNED
              DO NOT BE CONCERNED ABOUT WHO OR HOW MANY SEEM TO BELIEVE. THIS IS NOT YOUR BUISNESS.THIS IS OUR LORDS BUISNESS AND HIS ALONE.(MAT.16:18) .OUR   TOTAL FOCUS, TRUST,FAITH, HOPE, LOVE AND OBEDIENCE MUST BE ON JESUS. IF WE DO NOT HAVE THIS RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS, THEN WE ARE DOING IT BY MIGHT AND POWER,NOT BY HIS SPIRIT. NOT ONLY WILL YOU GET DISCOURAGED BUT ALL YOUR EFFORTS WILL BE BURNT UP WHEN TESTED AT THE END. DO NOT GET CAUGHT UP WITH THE “ I “ CREW IN MATTHEW 7;22 & 23 (NOT ALL THOSE WHO SAY LORD LORD WILL ENTER).
              DO NOT BE CONCERNED ONCE AGAIN BY NUMBERS. YOUR HEART CRY BETTER BE ' JESUS PLEASE LEAD ME , JESUS PLEASE DO YOUR WORK THROUGH ME , I DO NOT WANT MIGHT AND POWER BUT YOUR SPIRIT DOING THE WORK THROUGH ME.' DO NOT GET CAUGHT UP IN PRAYING THESE EXACT WORDS AS A FORMULA. IF YOU DO YOU HAVE MISSED THE POINT. KEEP IT SIMPLE .
              ISAIAH 59: 16 ---- SO HIS OWN ARM WORKED SALVATION FOR HIM, AND HIS OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS SUSTAINED HIM. WELL IS JESUS NOT OUR LORDS ARM AND THE HOLY SPIRIT HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS ?MATTHEW 16 :17 – 20 EXPOUNDS UPON THIS SCRIPTURE . JESUS WILL BUILD HIS CHURCH BY THE POWER OF ALMIGHTY GOD . JESUS IS ALSO THE ONE WHO 'WILL',(FUTURE) . GIVE THE KEYS AND AUTHORITY TO HIS FOLLOWERS.
             WHAT ARE THE KEYS JESUS IS TALKING ABOUT? FAITH ,LOVE,OBEDIENCE, HOPE ,JOY,PRAYER ARE BUT A FEW. SIMPLY PUT JESUS GIVES US WHAT EVER WE NEED TO SUSTAIN US AS HE BUILDS HIS CHURCH THROUGH US BY THE HOLY SPIRITS POWER. EVERY GOOD AND PERFECT GIFT IS FROM ABOVE (JAMES 1: 17) . PSALM 127:1 UNLESS THE LORD BUILDS THE HOUSE,ITS BUILDERS LABOR IN VAIN. HEBREWS 13:8 JESUS CHRIST IS THE SAME YESTERDAY AND TODAY AND FOREVER.
              THE NUMBERS GAME IS THE SAME TODAY AS IT WAS FOR DAVID (2 SAMUAL 24:10) HE WAS LOOKING HORIZONTALLY AT HIS KINGDOM INSTEAD OF VERTICALLY AT WHER IT CAME FROM. THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NOT A MATTER OF TALK BUT OF POWER (1 CORINTHIANS 4:20) . IF YOU LET JESUS DO HIS WORK THROUGH YOU THEN YOU WILL SEE THE AWSOME POWER OF GOD AT WORK AS THE KINGDOM IS BUILT. HOWEVER IF YOU ARE TRYING TO BUILD GODS KINGDOME  AND SAVE PEOPLE,YOU WILL GET VERY DISCOURAGED.(NOT BY MIGHT,NOT BY POWER BUT BY MY SPIRIT SAYS THE LORD ZEC.4:6)

AND THESE SIGNS WILL ACCOMPANY THOSE WHO BELIEVE
              REMEMBER JESUS USED SIGNS AND WONDERS AND MIRICALS TO BUILD HIS CHURCH IN THE BEGINING. HE CONTINUED TO DO IT THE SAME WAY EVER SINCE. IF YOU ARE NOT SEEING SIGNS WONDERS AND MIRICALS, THEN YOU BETER BE VERY CONCERNED. REMEMBER THE HOLY SPIRIT DOES NOT BLESS MANS WORK,BUT GODS WORK, THROUGH JESUS.
              HAVING SAID THAT, IT IS A GOOD TIME TO REMEMBER, TO ALWAYS TEST THE SPIRITS ( 1 JOHN 4:1). NOTE IN HEBREWS 5:14 WE MUST BECOME MATURE, SO WE CAN DISTINGUISH GOOD FROM EVIL. 2 THESSALONIANS 2:9-12 WARNS US ABOUT COUNTERFEIT SIGNS, WONDERS AND MIRICALS. JESUS WARNS US MANY WILL COME IN HIS NAME, AND DECEIVE MANY. (MATTHEW 24:5).SOME CHARISMATIC PEOPLE HAVE GREAT FOLLOWINGS OF PEOPLE.THEY EVEN USE THE NAME JESUS, FROM TIME TO TIME. BEWARE, JESUS IS BUILDING 'HIS' CHURCH, THROUGH HIS SHEEP. GUESE WHO IS BUILDING THE CHURCH, WHERE THE SHEEP FOLLOW PEOPLE,AND NOT JESUS ?
              THERE ARE MANY REASONS WHY YOU MAY NOT BE SEEING,CONSTANTLY, THE SUPERNATURAL IN YOUR WALK AND MINISTRY. KEEP FOCUSED ON JESUS AND LET HIM LEAD YOU FORWARD IN FAITH. IT IS A FAITH WALK FROM START TO FINISH.FAITH ON,IN,AND THROUGH JESUS.HE WILL ALWAYS SHOW YOU THINGS WHEN YOU NEED A LITTLE EXTRA SPIRITUAL HUG. AND REMEMBER 'HE ',' WILL', COMPLETE THE GOOD WORK HE HAS BEGUN IN YOUR LIFE. HEBREWS 11:6 IS A REAL ENCOURAGER.
              REMEMBER THAT TESTIMONIES ARE INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT, THEY ARE GREAT FAITH BUILDERS WHEN PROPERLY PRESENTED.TESTIMONIES REFERED TO IN REVELATION 12:11,ARE REFERING TO WHAT JESUS HAS DONE IN LIVES AND CIRCUMSTANCES.IT IS NOT TALKING ABOUT WHAT PEOPLE AND EVIL HAVE DONE. EPHESIANS 6:9 TELLS US, THAT THERE IS NO FAVORITISM, WITH THE LORD. IN OTHER WORDS, HE WILL MEET THE NEEDS, IN ANY-ONES LIFE, WHO APPROACHES HIM, ACCORDING TO HIS WORD WITH FAITH, BELIEVING IN JESUS AND HIS BLOOD.
              REMEMBER WHEN TEACHING ABOUT THE FULL ARMOR OF GOD (EPHESIANS 6:10. POINT OUT VERSE 11 TO,WHERE IT TELLS US TO TAKE OUR 'STAND' AGAINST THE DEVILS SCHEMES. SOME TEACH TO CHARGE INTO SATANS CAMP .REMEMBER JESUS DOES THE FIGHTING, WE DO THE FOLLOWING. (JOHN 10:27) PROVERBS 19:2 , IT IS NOT GOOD TO HAVE ZEAL WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE. HOSEA 4:6 MY PEOPLE PERISH FROM LACK OF KNOWLEDGE.

IN MY NAME
              ISAIAH 42:4 ------- IN HIS LAW THE ISLANDS WILL PUT THEIR HOPE -----
              MATT.  12:21------ IN HIS NAME THE NATIONS WILL PUT THEIR HOPE ----
               JOHN    1 : 1 ------ IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD -----
               JOHN    1 : 14 ----- THE WORD BECAME FLESH ------
               MATT.  22:37 -----  LOVE GOD FIRST &YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF --------
               MATT   22:40 ----- ALL THE LAW & THE PROPHETS HANG ON THESE TWO ----
                1 JOHN  4:16 -----  GOD IS LOVE -------
WHEN YOU PUT THIS ALL TOGETHER YOU WILL REALISE MORE OF WHAT IS MEANT  BY “ IN MY NAME “. FIRSTLY IT IS JESUS TALKING SO DO EVERYTHING IN HIS NAME. SECONDLY JESUS IS THE WORD, SO APPLY THE WORD IN ALL YOUR WORK. THIRDLY GOD IS LOVE AND JESUS IS THE IMMAGE OF GOD SO DO ALL YOUR WORK IN LOVE.
              IN MY NAME ALSO TELLS YOU TO HAVE FAITH IN JESUS. REMEMBER AS WE HAVE ALREADY QUOTED JESUS AS SAYING “ I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH AND THE GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT “. SO OUR FAITH IS NOT IN OURSELVES BUT IN JESUS. IN MATTHEW 28:18 JESUS TELLS US THAT ALL AUTHORITY IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH HAS BEEN GIVEN TO HIM. SO WHEN WE FOLLOW JESUS INTO THE HARVEST FIELD 'IN HIS NAME' ,THEN ALLPOWER AND AUTHORITY IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH, BACKS US UP.
              IN JOHN 14:13 JESUS TELLS US HE WILL DO WHAT EVER WE ASK IN HIS NAME. NOTE IN THE SECOND HALF OF VERSE 13 ,JESUS TELLS US WHY HE WILL DO IT. WHY ? SO THAT THE SON MAY BRING GLORY TO THE FATHER.
              IT IS CRITICAL THAT YOU UNDERSTAND, WHO IS DOING THE WORK. IF YOU DO NOT, YOU ARE IN DANGER OF GETTING PROUD, AS JESUS BUILDS HIS CHURCH THROUGH US. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED TO THE, 'BUT LORD DID WE NOT', PEOPLE IN MATTHEW 7:22. STAY HUMBLE, YOU MOST CERTAINLY, DO NOT WANT TO KEEP COMPANY WITH SATAN FOR ETERNITY, IN A LAKE OF FIRE.
              JESUS FINISHES THIS PART OF MATTHEW 14 WITH “ I LOVE THE FATHER AND I DO EXACTLY WHAT MY FATHER HAS COMMANDED ME “.  BE OBEDIENT IN THE NAME  OF JESUS AND YOU WILL HAVE WHAT JESUS TELLS US IN VERSE 27. “PEACE I LEAVE WITH YOU; MY PEACE I GIVE YOU.I DO NOT GIVE TO YOU AS THE WORLD GIVES. DO NOT LET YOUR HEARTS BE TROUBLED AND DO NOT BE AFRAID.”

THEY WILL DRIVE OUT DEMONS
              WHAT A DEMON IS IS CONTROVERSIAL BUT IT DOES NOT REALLY MATTER. DEMONS ARE REAL SPIRITUAL BEINGS AND JESUS DROVE THEM OUT OF PEOPLE TO HEAL THEM OF ALL SORTS OF THINGS. THIS TELLS US DEMONS CAN EFFECT PEOPLE IN DIFFERENT WAYS. NOTE JESUS USES THE WORD 'DRIVE'.THIS TELLS US THAT YOU MUST RELEASE COMMANDS FOR THEM TO LEAVE WITH A FORCEFULL ATTITUDE.
              MARK      1:23 – 26 A MAN POSSESED BY AN EVIL SPIRT CRIED OUT “WHAT DO YOU WANT WITH US JESUS OF NAZARETH ? HAVE YOU COME TO DESTROY US ? I KNOW WHO YOU ARE THE HOLY ONE OF GOD “.
              “BE QUIET” SAID JESUS STERNLY. “COME OUT OF HIM ! (26) THE EVIL SPIRIT SHOOK THE MAN VIOLENTLY AND CAME OUT OF HIM WITH A SHRIEK!
               THE SAME OCCURENCE IS RECORDED IN LUKE 4:31 – 37. IN BOTH ACCOUNTS IT STATES HOW JESUS SPOKE AS ONE WITH 'AUTHORITY'. THE EVIL SPIRIT KNEW WHO JESUS WAS AND JESUS EXERCISED HIS 'AUTHORITY' 'STERNLY' , 'COMMANDING' THE  EVIL SPIRIT TO COME OUT. BOTH ACCOUNTS SHOW THAT THE EVIL SPIRIT EXERCISED CONTROL OVER THE VICTIM.
               LUKE 8: 26 – 39 GIVES THE ACCOUNT OF THE DEMON-POSSESED MAN IN THE GERASENES REGION.NOTE THE DEMONS CONTROLED THE MAN.HE DID NOT WEAR CLOTHES AND HE LIVED IN THE TOMBS NOT A HOUSE. NOTICE HOW HE CAME TO JESUS AND WAS SHOUTING AT THE TOP OF HIS VOICE WHO JESUS WAS. HE ALSO KNEW JESUS HAD THE AUTHORITY TO TORTURE THEM. NOTE VERSE 29 ' FOR JESUS HAD COMMANDED THE EVIL SPIRIT TO COME OUT OF HIM '.EVEN THOUGH THE EVIL SPIRIT HAD BEEN ORDERED OUT BY JESUS,IT WAS STILL IN THE MAN.HE HAD BEEN GUARDED AND CHAINED BUT BROKE THE CHAINS .THIS SHOWES HOW EVIL SPIRITS CAN EXERCISE SUPER HUMAN STRENGTH AND THAT MAN HAS NO CONTROL OVER THEM.IT ALSO SHOWES ONCE AGAIN THAT THE EVIL SPIRIT CONTROLLED THE MAN,'DRIVEN BY THE DEMON INTO SOLITARY PLACES'
               JESUS ASKED HIM “ WHAT IS YOUR NAME “. THIS IS THE ONLY RECORDED INCIDENT WHERE JESUS ASKED A QUESTION TO A DEMON . DO NOT TRY TO ENGAGE DEMONS IN CONVERSATION . THEY REPRESENT THE AUTHOR OF LIES,SATAN SO ACT ACCORDINGLY.NOTICE THE ANSWER 'LEGION ,BECAUSE MANY DEMONS HAD GONE INTO HIM. ' THEY BEGGED HIM REPEATEDLY NOT TO ORDER THEM TO GO INTO THE ABYSS'. NOTICE 'REPEATEDLY' TELLS US THEY DID NOT LEAVE RIGHT AWAY WHEN JESUS 'COMMANDED' THEM TO LEAVE.THERE WAS OBVIOUSLY RESOLVE OR PERSERVERENCE ON THE PART OF JESUS TO CAST THE DEMONS OUT.
             VERSE 35 SHOWES THE CHANGE IN THE VICTIM.THE MAN WAS SITTING AT THE FEET OF JESUS ,DRESSED AND IN HIS RIGHT MIND. JESUS WOULD HAVE BEEN SHARING THE GOSPEL TO THOSE PRESENT . WHEN THE MAN WANTED TO GO WITH HIM, JESUS SENT HIM HOME, TO TESTIFIE ABOUT GOD'S GOODNESS. QUITE DIFFERENT THAN WHAT WE HAVE BEEN EXPOSED, TO IN OUR TEACHINGS.
              IN MATTHEW 4 : 41 ' DEMONS CAME OUT OF MANY PEOPLE ', INDICATING DEMON PRESENCE IS VERY COMMON IN PEOPLE. REMEMBER TO THESE PEOPLE WERE THE RELIGIOUS ELITE OF THE DAY, GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE.
              JESUS TEACHES IN MATTHEW 12 : 43-45 “WHEN AN EVIL SPIRIT COMES OUT OF A MAN, IT GOES THROUYGH ARID PLACES SEEKING REST AND DOES NOT FIND IT. THEN IT SAYS, ' IWILL RETURN TO THE HOUSE I LEFT. ' WHEN IT ARRIVES, IT FINDS THE HOUSE SWEPT CLEAN AND PUT IN ORDER.(45) THEN IT GOES AND TAKES WITH IT SEVEN OTHER SPIRITS MORE WICKED THAN ITSELF, AND THEY GO IN AND LIVE THERE.AND THE FINAL CONDITION OF THAT MAN IS WORSE THAN AT FIRST.
              BE CAREFUL ABOUT CASTING OUT DEMONS, IF YOU HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO DO IT. CONSULT JESUS FIRST AND ASK HIM WHAT TO DO, WITH ERYTHING. REMEMBER IF JESUS DID EXACTLY WHAT THE FATHER COMMANDED HIM (JOHN 14 : 31), AND ONLY SPOKE WHAT GOD COMMANDED HIM, THEN SHOULD WE NOT DO LIKEWISE ?
              JESUS KNOWS IF A PERSON WILL ACCEPT HIM AS THEIR SAVIOUR AND GET THE HOUSE FILLED UP WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT,SO THE DEMON CAN NOT GET BACK IN.SO ONLY DO WHAT JESUS LEADS YOU TO DO. REMEMBER YOU CAN BIND DEMONS . THEY FALL INTO THE 'WHATEVER' CATAGORIE SPOKEN OF IN MATTHEW 18 :18. REMEMBER IF JESUS LEADS YOU TO BIND THEM,THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL BE IN AGREEMENT. SINCE THE HOLY SPIRIT IS PRESENT INSIDE BELIEVERS, YOU WILL HAVE TWO IN AGREEMENT FOR THE BINDING. THIS WILL STOP THE SATANIC ACTIVITY SO YOU WILL BE ABLE TO MINISTER MORE EFFECTIVELY. HOWEVER YOU WILL HAVE TO ASK GOD IN FAITH TO OPEN  THE PERSONS EARS, TAKE THE BLINDERS OFF,AND OPEN THEIR HEARTS, BEFORE THEY WILL BE ABLE TO RECEIVE(MATT.13:13-15 ,2 COR. 4:4 , I JOHN 2:11, 2 TIMOTHY 2:25&26).
              I HAVE BEEN SHOWEN BY JESUS THAT IF YOU SIMPLY SAY “ WE BIND YOU UNCLEAN SPIRIT “ THEN THE BINDING REMAINS FOR A DAY. WHEN YOU BIND IF YOU SAY “ INDEFINATLEY “ THEN IT WILL BE BOUND INDEFINATELY. I HAVE NOT FOUND A SCRIPTURAL REFRENCE TO BACK THIS UP YET,BUT I KNOW FROM EXPERIENCE IT IS ACCURATE.
              ANOTHER THING, YOU CAN ORDER SPIRITS TO COME OUT AND NEVER ENTER THE PERSON AGAIN.(MARK 9:25 JESUS SAID YOU DEAF AND MUTE SPIRIT,” I COMMAND  YOU, COME OUT OF HIM AND NEVER ENTER HIM AGAIN.)
         IN SUMMARIZING THE DRIVING OUT OF DEMONS, KEEP IT SIMPLE; DO NOT SHOUT AND HOLLER, SIMPLY BE STERN AND FORCEFUL. IN YOUR ATTITUDE AND APPROACH.
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO SPEAK AUDIBLY TO DEAL WITH DEMONS, MORE THAN ONCE I HAVE BEEN IN ENVIRONMENTS WHERE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY UNWISE TO SPEAK OUT AUDIBLY. IN EVERY CASE THE DESIRED RESULT WAS ACHIEVED WITHOUT NOISE.
IF YOU ARE NOT GETTING THE DESIRED RESULTS THAT YOU EXPECT, THEN ASK JESUS TO INTERCEDE FOR YOU. THIS I APPLY IN ALL AREAS OF MY CHRISTIAN WALK SEE LUKE 11:9-10 AND JOHN 14:13-14 ALL APPARENT NEGATIVES ARE NOT CAUSED BY DEMONS SO BE CAREFUL. YOU CAN CAUSE A LOT OF HURT AND PAIN IF YOU LACK DISCERNMENT AND SCRIPTURAL KNOWLEDGE.

SPEAK IN NEW TONGUES
            IF YOU ARE NOT PROMPTED BY JESUS TO SPEAK IN OTHER TONGUES, THEN DO NOT DO IT, IS MY EXPERIENCE. MOST OF MY SPEAKING IN OTHER TONGUES IS DONE WHEN INTERCEDING IN PRAYER.

PICK UP SNAKES WITH THEIR
            IF YOU ARE TRYING TO PROVE YOUR SPIRITUALITY BY PICKING UP SNAKES, THEN I BELIEVE YOU ARE IN ERROR. TO ME THAT IS PUTTING GOD TO THE TEST. PEOPLE HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES DOING THIS.
            WHEN PAUL PICKED UP THE PILE OF BRUSH IN ACTS 28:3 HE DID NOT KNOW THERE WAS A VIPER IN IT. THE LORD CERTAINLY USED THE INCIDENT FOR EVANGELISM BUT UNLESS THE LORD TELLS YOU, LIKE MOSES, TO PICK UP A SNAKE, YOU WOULD BE WISE TO LEAVE THEM ALONE. REMEMBER IT IS THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT DRAWS PEOPLE TO JESUS NOT PEOPLE TRYING TO BE IMPRESSIVE.

THEY WILL DRINK DEADLY POISON, IT WILL NOT KILL THEM
            THE SAME APPLIES HERE AS WITH THE SNAKES, ONCE AGAIN LIKE PAUL WHO DID NOT KNOWINGLY PICK UP THE SNAKE HAD NO ILL EFFECT. IF YOU UNKNOWINGLY DRINK POISON WHEN YOU ARE FOLLOWING JESUS IN MINISTRY IT WILL NOT HURT YOU.

THEY WILL PLACE THEIR HANDS ON SICK PEOPLE AND THEY WILL GET WELL
            ON THIS STATEMENT. I ONLY KNOW THAT WHEN I FOLLOW JESUS AND LAY HANDS ON THE SICK GOOD THINGS HAPPEN. SOMETIMES I AM LED TO USE OIL AS THE DISCIPLES SOMETIMES DID. (MARK 6:13) MOST OFTEN I DO NOT USE OIL. FOR THE OIL SIMPLY PUT OLIVE OIL IN A SMALL VESSEL. I THEN PRAY AND ASK GOD IN JESUS’ NAME TO BLESS THE OIL. IT IS GODS BLESSING THAT MAKES THE OIL SPECIAL.
            WITH UNBELIEVERS OR NEW CHRISTIANS I WILL SAY “JESUS TAUGHT IN THE BIBLE THAT PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN HIM, SHALL LAY HANDS ON THE SICK AND THEY SHALL RECOVER. DO YOU WANT ME TO PRAY FOR YOU?”
            IF THEY SAY YES I PROCEED AS JESUS LEADS. I ALWAYS STAND IN THE FAITH THAT JESUS WILL HAVE THE WORDS COME OUT OF MY MOUTH THAT WILL DEAL WITH THE SITUATION.