THE X-FACTOR CAN PUSH YOU OVER THE TOP
. INTRODUCTION
God has shown me how they operated it in the New Testament Book of Acts 1st Century Church. Let’s be totally honest; virtually nobody today is functioning in this in the church in America and much of the world. We have turned to just making excuses to why we are powerless in this area. That just doesn’t cut it. God wants every believer to know how to be healed and walk in Divine Health.
I was attacked by the enemy a few months ago. In case you don’t know what happened Eventually it turned to double pneumonia; this was over a couple of months. It would get better and then worse. I was so congested I couldn’t sleep and I then I couldn’t get my energy back with no sleep. It was a Vicious Circle) Eventually, I almost died and ended up in the hospital for 21 days.
God had just given me some new revelation that would make it so much easier for people to receive their healing. I have been given mercy to be able to continue and share these messages. These are perhaps the great insights from the Bible that the Holy Spirit has ever shown me!
And let me say this; There were two forces working against me. One was the devil trying to kill me. God had told warned me about this and told me this was going on. The other was my addiction to food for 35 years which was broken when I ended up in the hospital. This was my fault and no matter what I tried to do I just couldn’t overcome it. I was standing on a promise found in the Book of Romans. I knew how to overcome it; but it didn’t kick in until I was in the hospital.
IT WAS GAME ON!
Ephesians 6:12-13 (ESV)
12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.
1. I had to discern that I was in battle against the forces of evil not just a physical only one
· I believe based on what I have read by others who have studied this that 50% of physical sickness is natural only (we live in a fallen world) and the other 50 % is an attack of the enemy.
· Why is that important to know. Well in my case if you just would have treated it as natural only-I truly believe and have no doubt that I wouldn’t be talking to you right now. I would be dead.
· Another key can be this: if you go to ever kind of doctor imaginable and they can’t every figure out what’s wrong with you-it probably is a demonic attack on you.
· If you deal with it only from a natural physical realm you won’t be able to overcome, it.
Let me share from the Word of God these verses
2 Kings 6:8-23 (ESV)
8 Once when the king of Syria was warring against Israel, he took counsel with his servants, saying, “At such and such a place shall be my camp.”
9 But the man of God sent word to the king of Israel, “Beware that you do not pass this place, for the Syrians are going down there.”
10 And the king of Israel sent to the place about which the man of God told him. Thus he used to warn him, so that he saved himself there more than once or twice.
11 And the mind of the king of Syria was greatly troubled because of this thing, and he called his servants and said to them, “Will you not show me who of us is for the king of Israel?”
12 And one of his servants said, “None, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom.”
13 And he said, “Go and see where he is, that I may send and seize him.” It was told him, “Behold, he is in Dothan.”
14 So he sent there horses and chariots and a great army, and they came by night and surrounded the city.
15 When the servant of the man of God rose early in the morning and went out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was all around the city. And the servant said, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?”
2. Are you going to believe what you see only?
· Panic/Worry/Fear/etc. will take over if you respond to only what you can see.
· Elisha’s servant-panicked and basically said “What are we going to do. He saw them as toast.
3. Challenge to believe what you can’t see with only your eyes but with you heart. We must be able to see beyond the natural.
16 He said, “Do not be afraid, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”
· I can only imagine what Elisha’s servant must have thought. He’s lost it; The odds are 10000 to 2 and he’s betting on us.
· God made an exception upon Elisha’ request that this man be able to see with his physical eyes what in the invisible Spiritual World
17 Then Elisha prayed and said, “O LORD, please open his eyes that he may see.” So the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw, and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
· The bottom line is there is more power in the Spirit Faith realm then in the natural realm, but you must stand on the Promise and having done all to keep standing
NOW FOR THE REST OF THE STORY
18 So Elisha prayed to the LORD and said, “Please strike this people with blindness.” So he struck them with blindness in accordance with the prayer of Elisha.
19 And Elisha said to them, “This is not the way, and this is not the city. Follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek.” And he led them to Samaria.
20 As soon as they entered Samaria, Elisha said, “O LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see.” So the LORD opened their eyes and they saw, and behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.
21 As soon as the king of Israel saw them, he said to Elisha, “My father, shall I strike them down? Shall I strike them down?”
22 He answered, “You shall not strike them down. Would you strike down those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink and go to their master.”
23 So he prepared for them a great feast, and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. And the Syrians did not come again on raids into the land of Israel.
Fear/Worry/Anxiety are just other names for unbelief
You have to work thru it with God’s help then you can receive
4.The deciding factor is our faith (do you have to see it to believe or do you have to believe it to see it?
Let me share this story from the Bible with you”
Exodus 17:8-13 (ESV)
8 Then Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim.
9 So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose for us men, and go out and fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.”
10 So Joshua did as Moses told him, and fought with Amalek, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
11 Whenever Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and whenever he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed.
12 But Moses’ hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other ide. So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. And Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his people with the sword.
This story in Bible about when Moses could hold up his hands Israel would prevail But when they got weary and came down they would begin to lose. So Aaron and Hur held up Moses’ Hands when he was too weak to do it himself and they prevailed again. I needed some help holding up my hands during this time. My wife-Ginelle, family, Pastor, my Doctor and some church people were holding up my hands. They were giving me assistance until I could recover and hold my own hands up.
5. Sometimes you need others to help hold you up till you are strong enough to walk on your own.
(I don’t believe this works in a group setting with Divine Healing) (But it can apply in all other areas. Mine was not divine healing but God plus medical healing and I needed the help of others to lift me up.)
6. I needed some people to help hold me up my hands until I could walk on my own. (This is especially true for all us especially when we are under attack)
7.THE X-FACTOR IS SIMPLE CHILD-LIKE FAITH WHICH GOD FREELY SUPPLIES COUPLED ALONG WITH HIS PROMISES FOUND IN THE BIBLE THAT ARE ALIVE
AND WE NEED TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FOR EXAMPLE IN THE CASE OF DIVINE HEALING ONE OR TWO PEOPLE WHO HAVE WALKED SUCESSFULLY IN THIS TO PRAY WITH YOU OR FOR YOU AND WHEN YOU SHOULD HAVE OTHERS HOLD UP YOUR HANDS AND THIS INCLUDES MEDICAL HEALING).
I do believe that you can walk in Divine Health all the time. Basically, I am doing just that. But this required some extra help from others.
I am growing all the time in this and have come so fare and am just humbled that God is using me to teach others how to receive their healing.
I just wanted to share that with you tonight to give you hope. God will expand the ministry he gave me and he will if you seek him and let him transform your life too.
Out of this whole trial many good things. My trust in the Lord grew much stronger. If you don't quit while you are going through it-it eventually will turn around) What Satan meant for bad God will turn around for good!
God has shown me how they operated it in the New Testament Book of Acts 1st Century Church. Let’s be totally honest; virtually nobody today is functioning in this in the church in America and much of the world. We have turned to just making excuses to why we are powerless in this area. That just doesn’t cut it. God wants every believer to know how to be healed and walk in Divine Health.
I was attacked by the enemy a few months ago. In case you don’t know what happened Eventually it turned to double pneumonia; this was over a couple of months. It would get better and then worse. I was so congested I couldn’t sleep and I then I couldn’t get my energy back with no sleep. It was a Vicious Circle) Eventually, I almost died and ended up in the hospital for 21 days.
God had just given me some new revelation that would make it so much easier for people to receive their healing. I have been given mercy to be able to continue and share these messages. These are perhaps the great insights from the Bible that the Holy Spirit has ever shown me!
And let me say this; There were two forces working against me. One was the devil trying to kill me. God had told warned me about this and told me this was going on. The other was my addiction to food for 35 years which was broken when I ended up in the hospital. This was my fault and no matter what I tried to do I just couldn’t overcome it. I was standing on a promise found in the Book of Romans. I knew how to overcome it; but it didn’t kick in until I was in the hospital.
IT WAS GAME ON!
Ephesians 6:12-13 (ESV)
12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.
1. I had to discern that I was in battle against the forces of evil not just a physical only one
· I believe based on what I have read by others who have studied this that 50% of physical sickness is natural only (we live in a fallen world) and the other 50 % is an attack of the enemy.
· Why is that important to know. Well in my case if you just would have treated it as natural only-I truly believe and have no doubt that I wouldn’t be talking to you right now. I would be dead.
· Another key can be this: if you go to ever kind of doctor imaginable and they can’t every figure out what’s wrong with you-it probably is a demonic attack on you.
· If you deal with it only from a natural physical realm you won’t be able to overcome, it.
Let me share from the Word of God these verses
2 Kings 6:8-23 (ESV)
8 Once when the king of Syria was warring against Israel, he took counsel with his servants, saying, “At such and such a place shall be my camp.”
9 But the man of God sent word to the king of Israel, “Beware that you do not pass this place, for the Syrians are going down there.”
10 And the king of Israel sent to the place about which the man of God told him. Thus he used to warn him, so that he saved himself there more than once or twice.
11 And the mind of the king of Syria was greatly troubled because of this thing, and he called his servants and said to them, “Will you not show me who of us is for the king of Israel?”
12 And one of his servants said, “None, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom.”
13 And he said, “Go and see where he is, that I may send and seize him.” It was told him, “Behold, he is in Dothan.”
14 So he sent there horses and chariots and a great army, and they came by night and surrounded the city.
15 When the servant of the man of God rose early in the morning and went out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was all around the city. And the servant said, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?”
2. Are you going to believe what you see only?
· Panic/Worry/Fear/etc. will take over if you respond to only what you can see.
· Elisha’s servant-panicked and basically said “What are we going to do. He saw them as toast.
3. Challenge to believe what you can’t see with only your eyes but with you heart. We must be able to see beyond the natural.
16 He said, “Do not be afraid, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”
· I can only imagine what Elisha’s servant must have thought. He’s lost it; The odds are 10000 to 2 and he’s betting on us.
· God made an exception upon Elisha’ request that this man be able to see with his physical eyes what in the invisible Spiritual World
17 Then Elisha prayed and said, “O LORD, please open his eyes that he may see.” So the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw, and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
· The bottom line is there is more power in the Spirit Faith realm then in the natural realm, but you must stand on the Promise and having done all to keep standing
NOW FOR THE REST OF THE STORY
18 So Elisha prayed to the LORD and said, “Please strike this people with blindness.” So he struck them with blindness in accordance with the prayer of Elisha.
19 And Elisha said to them, “This is not the way, and this is not the city. Follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek.” And he led them to Samaria.
20 As soon as they entered Samaria, Elisha said, “O LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see.” So the LORD opened their eyes and they saw, and behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.
21 As soon as the king of Israel saw them, he said to Elisha, “My father, shall I strike them down? Shall I strike them down?”
22 He answered, “You shall not strike them down. Would you strike down those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink and go to their master.”
23 So he prepared for them a great feast, and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. And the Syrians did not come again on raids into the land of Israel.
Fear/Worry/Anxiety are just other names for unbelief
You have to work thru it with God’s help then you can receive
4.The deciding factor is our faith (do you have to see it to believe or do you have to believe it to see it?
Let me share this story from the Bible with you”
Exodus 17:8-13 (ESV)
8 Then Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim.
9 So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose for us men, and go out and fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.”
10 So Joshua did as Moses told him, and fought with Amalek, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
11 Whenever Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and whenever he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed.
12 But Moses’ hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other ide. So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. And Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his people with the sword.
This story in Bible about when Moses could hold up his hands Israel would prevail But when they got weary and came down they would begin to lose. So Aaron and Hur held up Moses’ Hands when he was too weak to do it himself and they prevailed again. I needed some help holding up my hands during this time. My wife-Ginelle, family, Pastor, my Doctor and some church people were holding up my hands. They were giving me assistance until I could recover and hold my own hands up.
5. Sometimes you need others to help hold you up till you are strong enough to walk on your own.
(I don’t believe this works in a group setting with Divine Healing) (But it can apply in all other areas. Mine was not divine healing but God plus medical healing and I needed the help of others to lift me up.)
6. I needed some people to help hold me up my hands until I could walk on my own. (This is especially true for all us especially when we are under attack)
7.THE X-FACTOR IS SIMPLE CHILD-LIKE FAITH WHICH GOD FREELY SUPPLIES COUPLED ALONG WITH HIS PROMISES FOUND IN THE BIBLE THAT ARE ALIVE
AND WE NEED TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FOR EXAMPLE IN THE CASE OF DIVINE HEALING ONE OR TWO PEOPLE WHO HAVE WALKED SUCESSFULLY IN THIS TO PRAY WITH YOU OR FOR YOU AND WHEN YOU SHOULD HAVE OTHERS HOLD UP YOUR HANDS AND THIS INCLUDES MEDICAL HEALING).
I do believe that you can walk in Divine Health all the time. Basically, I am doing just that. But this required some extra help from others.
I am growing all the time in this and have come so fare and am just humbled that God is using me to teach others how to receive their healing.
I just wanted to share that with you tonight to give you hope. God will expand the ministry he gave me and he will if you seek him and let him transform your life too.
Out of this whole trial many good things. My trust in the Lord grew much stronger. If you don't quit while you are going through it-it eventually will turn around) What Satan meant for bad God will turn around for good!