The Miracle Ministry of The Prophet PDF

The Miracle Ministry of the
Prophet
Prophet
Dr. Christian Harfouche
Power House Publishers

Pensacola, Florida
Unless otherwise indicated, all scriptural quotations are from the
King James Version of the Bible.
The Miracle Ministry of the Prophet

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Contents
Introduction...............................................................................7
1 The Missing Art of Imparting..............................................11
2 Children of Destiny..............................................................19
3 Living in the Realm of Miracles..........................................31
4 Living in the Anointing........................................................43
5 Day of Impartation...............................................................53
6 Growing in the Anointing....................................................63
7 The Key to Miracles.............................................................73
8 Apostle of Faith....................................................................81
9 The Emergence of the Third Move......................................91
10 Imparting Strong Faith.....................................................99
11 The Realm of Perception..................................................109
12 Our Destiny: Giant Killers!.............................................117

Introduction
P aul said to the Roman church, "I long to see you, that I
may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end
ye might be established" (Romans 1:11).
It is my desire to teach you by the anointing of the Holy
Spirit so revelation would impart and trigger in you the
supernatural abilities God has already given you through the
Spirit.
It is my conviction that what Jesus accomplished in His
ministry is the absolute limit. We can never surpass Jesus'
standard, but we can definitely press into what He had in
His life and ministry.
Although the disciple is not above his master (Matthew
10:24,25), as believers we are called to do greater works
through faith in Him. It is His victory on Calvary that
provided our authority. We can come to the fullness of Christ
(Ephesians 4:13). He is the standard for perfection.
Jesus said if what we do is the result of our faith in Him,
we will do the same works—not words—that He did. Then
He went on to say, "...and greater works than these shall
he do, because I go unto my Father" (John 14:12).
It was Jude who wrote in verse 3 that believers "should
earnestly contend for the faith which was once
delivered unto the saints."
Today, in this liberal, double-minded decade, we need to
contend earnestly for the God-kind of faith—not the religious
form of faith, and not man's opinion of faith—but biblical
faith.
Without faith it is impossible to please God, and without
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faith, everything we do is dead. Dead works will not benefit

anyone; but faith works will empty a hospital room, raise a
person from the dead, and open blind eyes. Faith works will
trigger the power necessary to override impossible
circumstances.
Would you like to see the impossibilities in your life turn
around because you, by an act of your will, are able to
biblically trigger the power of God that is resident in you? Of
course you would.
That's why I want to pour into your heart, confirm, and
validate what God has already put within you. Then you can
begin to rise to a level of faith where the manifestation of
that invisible faith will become visible.
In other words, the devil will obey when you command
him; the disease will leave when you talk to it; the situation
will turn around when you confront it—because you've got
active faith living in you!
—Christian Harfouche
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Prophet
Chapter 1
1 The Missing Art of Imparting
If there is a missing art in the Church today, it is the art of
imparting, transmitting, and receiving the same kind of faith
Jesus left with the apostles two thousand years ago.
I believe God has given the fivefold ministry gifts the

ability to impart the same kind of ministry power they
possess to others.
The anointing can be transmitted through them to others
in the Body of Christ so the Church may be successful in
doing what God has called it to do.
Jesus said, "My joy I give unto you." He said, "I give you
my name. In my name you are going to do these things." And
He said, "I am going to leave my Word with you."
By saying these things, Jesus left the Church with an
awareness of what the Christ-kind of ministry would be. The
Holy Spirit came to endorse and enforce that ministry and to
help the Church walk miraculously in the midst of a world
that is bound, is natural in its outlook, and bows its knee to
impossibility.
Hebrews 1:9 says about Jesus:
Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated
iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed
thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
The moment you love the Word of God and the things of
God and hate things that are not righteousness, certain
changes take place in you. For example, you develop
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discernment, which is the ability to detect between right and

wrong.
Then, because you loved righteousness so much once you
learned what it is, the Father will anoint you with the oil of
gladness the way He anointed Jesus. As we just read in
Hebrews 1:9, "...therefore God, even thy God, hath
anointed thee...." Have you wondered why certain vessels
are more anointed than others?
I believe with all my heart that there is a certain level of
unction, or anointing, that cannot come without the love of
righteousness and the hatred of iniquity.
Yes, everyone who, is full of the Holy Spirit has a certain
measure of anointing, and everyone who is called into the
fivefold ministry has a higher level of endowment or
anointing.
Pressing into the Great Miracles

However, it is only those who have developed a hunger for
righteousness who are able to press into the great miracles,
the earth-shaking miracles, the kind of lifestyle in God that
can validate and demonstrate that you are not alone; that
God is with you.
So let us develop an awareness of the different levels of
anointing that are available to us.
In Luke 4, we read that Jesus visited the synagogue at
Nazareth one Sabbath and said:
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he
hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he
hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach
deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to
the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To
preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
And he closed the book, and he gave it again to
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the minister and sat down. And the eyes of all of them
that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
And he began to say unto them, This day is this
scripture fulfilled in your ears.
Luke 4:18-21
The Mantle of a Pioneer

I want to point out something here about the ministry of
the prophet, or the individual who brings a word that is a
rhema—a word that is active, challenging, and dominating at
the time.
Anyone who brings a word that says, "Now is the time for
your miracle; now is the time for your deliverance; now is the
time for revival" has, in essence, put on the mantle of a
pioneer.
Such a person is not going to put up with the status quo;
he is going to speak what God gives him, telling the truth in
spite of the danger of its hurting someone's feelings. Jesus
came with that same attitude to the synagogue. Why?
Because He was anointed by the Holy Spirit!
When you are under the influence of the Holy Spirit, you
are not afraid of the bondage of men, because you know you
have sufficient power to transform, change, and deliver. And
you know who you are.
Jesus did not make any pretense about the fact that the
Spirit of the Lord was upon Him. Someone will say, "Well,
that was Jesus." However, Jesus had been baptized in water
only a short time before.
He had never made that claim before the Spirit of the
Lord came upon Him and anointed him at the River Jordan.
He had never made that claim until He was tested in the
wilderness and He resisted the devil through the written
Word, saying, "It is written...it is written...it is written." He
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had never made that claim until He returned in the Spirit

and the power of God.
When He returned with that anointing and entered the
synagogue, it was not a pretense. He just walked in and
zeroed in on the appropriate scripture for the day.
The Prophetic Life

Your life today is a prophetic life. Your life today is a
rhema life. It tells everyone you are serving a living God, not
a dead God, not a God who used to do it, but a God who is
doing it today! Your life should have that "air" about it
because of the anointing that is upon you through the Holy
Spirit.
When Jesus came into the synagogue, He said (and I'm
paraphrasing), "I know that heaven has been silent for
hundreds of years. I know that since Malachi until now you
have not seen a move of God, but here is Isaiah 61:1, and I'm
quoting it to you:
The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has
anointed Me to do these things. I am going to heal the
brokenhearted, preach recovering of sight to the blind. I am
going to bring a miracle move, because I am going to preach
the acceptable year of the Lord—the Jubilee Year—the year
where God is active, the year and the hour where man no
longer needs to wait for a future date in God.
Anytime you make such a bold proclamation, there are

many who will not readily receive you; however, those who
are hungry will. Those who are not ready for change, those
who are mindful of their excuses more than they are of the
antidote, will not readily receive you. Their excuses will keep
them out of God's best for their life.
Here comes Jesus in Bible days, who says, "It's time for
change!" Here comes any believer today who believes in signs
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and wonders, who believes that the Holy Spirit is active

today, who believes that the Word of God is alive in them and
with them. They have an air about them—an attitude about
them—because they cannot stand to leave things the way
they are. They want to change things because they know it is
possible with God; because they know they are anointed by
God to do it.
The Pharisees' Question

The Pharisees who were present in the synagogue that
day immediately had a question, because this was Nazareth,
after all, and they were accustomed to seeing Jesus the way
He used to be—before His baptism with the Holy Spirit and
before His commitment to ministry.
In essence, His commitment was a decision whereby He
said, "Whenever I meet a devil, I'm going to defeat it.
Whenever I meet a disease or some other need, I'm going to
meet it. I'm not going to trespass over people's wills, but
whenever I'm invited, I will meet the need." That was Jesus'
decision.
You are going to have to make a similar decision. The
devil will tempt you to go back on this decision, and people
who are accustomed to the way you used to be are going to
challenge you once they begin to see you in a new light, now
that you are audacious, bold, and quite different in your
conduct. They are going to ask you the same question the
Pharisees asked Jesus: "Who do you think you are?"
After Jesus came down off the mountain where He was
tempted, the people of His hometown were shocked, because
the man who stood before them that Sabbath, reading that
scripture, had a completely different disposition than the
man they were used to. So they started wondering about
Him.
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Jesus' Reply
Jesus' reply reveals one of the hindrances to a miracle
ministry and how to overcome it. He replied starting in verse
23:
Ye will surely say unto me this proverb,
Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard
done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.
And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is
accepted in his own country.
But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in
Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut
up three years and six months, when great famine
was throughout all the land;
But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto
Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a
widow.
And many lepers were in Israel in the time of
Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed,
saving Naaman the Syrian.
And all they in the synagogue, when they heard
these things, were filled with wrath,
And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and
led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city
was built, that they might cast him down headlong.
Luke 4:23-29
Jesus returned to Nazareth with the miracle power of

God! He was bold to declare change as He said, "This is the
year the Lord has made. I have come to preach the acceptable
year of the Lord. I have the power that is needed to do it. The
Spirit of the Lord is upon Me."
When He detected an attitude in the hearts of the people,
He didn't remain silent about it or preach over it. He
immediately said, "You would say to Me...." In other words,
"You'd like to tell Me, 'Physician, heal yourself. What we
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hear You're doing in other towns, do also here in your

hometown.'"
Why were they thinking that? Because their attitude was,
"If we see Him do it, we'll believe it. You want us to believe
it; do it."
Attitude Fights Gift

Jesus immediately resisted; a man of God will resist that
type of spirit. Jesus learned to detect it because it clashed
against the miracle gift God had put on His life!
So Jesus immediately said to them, "This is what your
attitude is, but I'll tell you of a truth: In the days of the
prophets there were many widows in Israel, but the prophet
Elijah wasn't sent to one of them. In the days of Elisha, there
were many lepers in Israel, but only Naaman the Syrian was
healed."
We can see by what Jesus said that only one widow and
only one leper were ready to believe in an instantaneous
change through a visitation from God. That's why God never
sent His prophets to heal any of the others: They were not
ready to believe in an instantaneous change!
Deadened by Skepticism
Why is it that the Church today by and large has lost its
edge to convert sinners, to cast out the devil, to break the
power of drug addiction, and to bring a miracle-working cure
that is greater in its dimensions than the medical community
can accomplish?
It is because the Church has been resisted by the
mentality and the thoughts of skeptics, who say, "We've
heard it was done in Bible days. Now do it here that we
might believe it."
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Jesus' response to that attitude was, "Don't worry about

it; you won't get the power, the invasion, the healing, or the
breakthrough in your life if your attitude is that of a skeptic."
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Chapter 2
2 Children of Destiny
S ome people think this matter of healing the sick and

believing in the supernatural, prosperity, and casting out
devils is a new thing. I want to show you it isn't.
Let's look back at just one hundred years of Church
history. We find that for a long time there was a voice; God
used many men and women in operating the gifts of the Holy
Spirit during the last century—more, in fact, than we could
ever study during this brief time.
However, I have chosen several who I believe are
fascinating because they seemed to know exactly where they
were going in God. They had a spirit of boldness about them.
When they came on the scene, it was as if a voice—the
thundering voice of a prophet—said, "World, you may not be
ready for this, but here I am with God—and we're not going
to let things continue the way they are!"
These men and women were children of destiny!
John Alexander Dowie: Apostle of Healing

The first such person we are going to study is John
Alexander Dowie. His name may be all but forgotten today,
but he was known to millions at the turn of the century,
some with respect and some with derision.
Dowie started as just a normal clergyman. He was
pastoring a Congregational church in a suburb of Sydney
when a plague suddenly hit Australia, and people started
dying by the thousands, including some members of his
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congregation.
Until this time, Dowie had been a traditional clergyman.
He had never prayed for the sick with faith, and he had
never seen a miracle. But now his flock needed miracles. His
heart especially broke over three little children in his
congregation who were dying.
At that time the commonly held belief was that God puts
sickness and disease on people. "Does God put sickness on
innocent little children?" Dowie asked himself. "Does He
snatch their parents from them, leaving them helpless
orphans?" he wondered. The devastating plague drove Dowie
to search the scriptures for answers.
Dowie's Revelation of Divine Healing

John Alexander Dowie received the revelation he sought
from Acts 10:38:
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the
Holy Ghost and with power who went about doing
good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil:
for God was with him.
This one scripture exploded in Dowie's consciousness,

forever changing his life and, ultimately, the lives of millions
of others around the world.
Dowie's quest and revelation took him to other healing
scriptures. He read that "Jesus Christ [is] the same
yesterday, and to day, and for ever" (Hebrews 13:8). He
found that Jesus took our infirmities, carried our diseases,
and gave us power over darkness—and by His stripes we
were healed.
And Dowie prayed the prayer of faith with such success
that not one of his flock died in the epidemic after he received
this revelation, and the three sick children were healed. He
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covered that church with God's power during the time when
the plague was running throughout Australia.
Dowie Tackles Chicago

In 1888, virtually unknown, Dowie came to the United
States, landing first in San Francisco and later making his
way to Chicago. Once established there, he fearlessly took on
the religious world.
He started addressing a backslidden, lukewarm, tobacco-
smoking, alcohol-drinking church, pinpointing the error of
their ways just as Elijah had stood up and challenged the
nation of Israel when he thought he was the only prophet
alive.
There's something about taking up your responsibility in
God that makes you feel important. Some people don't feel
they're important, and it's because they're not doing anything
worth feeling important about!
The moment you realize there is a job that will never be
done unless you are involved, you will begin to find there is a
destiny for you. Then God can begin to reveal to you step by
step where you fit into His plans for His kingdom.
Man With a Mission

John Alexander Dowie was a man with a mission. He
came heralding a message of change to a people who did not
know the living God, and he was persecuted.
Dowie and his message literally shook the church world!
Many religious people in Dowie's day hated him with the
same ferocity that the religious people in Jesus' day hated
Him.
Why? Anytime men and women of God denounce sin and
call for righteousness, hate the devil and challenge people to
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change, the the world will try to destroy them, just like the
people of Nazareth tried to destroy Jesus. They took Jesus to
the brow of a hill, seeking to push Him to His death, because
He had said, "Change is available for you today through Me."
So Dowie was fiercely persecuted by a hostile press as
well as clergymen, city officials, lawyers, and the sellers of
tobacco and liquor. He was illegally arrested many times for
praying for the sick.
Arrested 100 Times!

In fact, in one year alone, he was arrested a hundred
times. Sometimes he was charged with "practicing medicine
without a license."
Instead of hiring a lawyer for his many court cases, Dowie
trusted God to give him the wisdom to be his own trial
lawyer. And if he failed in the lower courts because those
courts were corrupt, he took his case to higher courts and
won.
Dowie didn't mind the lawsuits at all; in fact, he seemed
to thrive on persecution! Those who fought him ultimately
disappeared from the scene or ended up dead or discredited.
So Dowie won the cases and succeeded in bringing the
masses to a knowledge of the Gospel of divine healing! One of
his first outreaches was to establish several Divine Healing
Homes in former rooming houses in Chicago.
There the sick and the terminally ill were taught the
Word of God so their faith could get to a level where they
could receive their miracle. Thousands went through those
healing homes.
Dowie challenged the sick with the Word of the living God
and an absolute message of divine healing he believed was
the only alternative for the world and medical science. And
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thousands of those terminally ill "guests" (never "patients"),

instead of dying when their doctors predicted, recovered and
lived victorious Christian lives, testifying about their
miraculous healings.
Dowie had a revelation from the Word of God, and he was
willing to challenge the world and bring change to it. He had
a powerful healing ministry, and was especially successful in
seeing people healed from malignant diseases like cancer. He
once ripped a cancerous growth off a person's face with his
bare hand—and the congregation then witnessed new skin
appear over the wound!
Drug Addict Healed

Dr. Lilian B. Yeomans, a physician, came from a family of
physicians. She was a born-again Christian who was to find
that she was really a lukewarm Christian.
Because of the stress of her job, Dr. Yeomans started
using a little morphine to sooth her nerves and help her get
to sleep at night. After a while, to her shock and surprise,
she realized that the morphine had her bound, and she was
addicted to it!
Her weight dropped below 100 pounds. Her nurse
described her as "a skeleton with a devil inside." Although
that was not a complimentary description, she later wrote
that it was true of what she had become.
When Dr. Yeomans came to John Alexander Dowie for
prayer, he refused to pray for her until she had stopped
taking morphine for a while. That was a strict rule of his:
Dowie demanded that those who came for prayer got rid of
their drugs immediately before he would pray for them.
Desperate for a Miracle
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Some people have become so accustomed to a drug or a

natural cure that their problem becomes less real to them,
and they don't press in with desperation for God's answer.
I'm not going to argue for or against medicine. I just want
to give you a little background on what these men and
women of faith believed. Although you and I might think that
some of them were not perfect, they achieved more than most
of us put together!
Let us determine to press in to that greater dimension; to
the place God has called us to walk.
When Dowie first refused to pray for Dr. Yeomans, she
had to go off the morphine. Withdrawal from the drug
produced severe physical problems which overwhelmed her,
and she realized she needed a miracle; only God could deliver
her from morphine. She later testified that she was healed in
one of Dowie's Healing Homes.
Dr. Yeomans became a powerful writer for the Gospel of
truth, telling about the power of God to heal. One of her best-
known books is entitled Healing From Heaven.
Dowie's Prophetic Insight

Dr. Dowie had a prophetic insight that was more
remarkable than any other preacher alive in his day. He
preached and prophesied things that did not come to pass
until years later.
For example, he prophesied the invention of radio during
a meeting in Chicago on September 5, 1897, predicting that
there would be an instrument that would enable man's voice
to be carried to different cities and regions of the earth.
He also prophesied the invention of television on October
16, 1904! In the middle of a sermon, he remarked:
I know not the possibilities of electricity. It is possible
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that it may yet convey the face of the speaker and, by

photoelectricity, show the man as he is talking. Perhaps a
discourse delivered here may be heard in every city of the
United States. Some day that will be so and the word
spoken in Shiloh Tabernacle will be heard even in the
farthest corners of the earth.
That's prophetic insight!

We have proof that John Alexander Dowie did not speak
with other tongues. I don't know what your belief is on this,
but I believe in being filled with the Holy Spirit with the
evidence of speaking with other tongues. However, this man
was full of the Word, and he had a revelation of the healing
portions of the Word.
Commitment Leads to Boldness

Dowie believed to the point of action, and he was willing
to allow it to give him boldness to pray for terminally ill
people and see them delivered.
Dowie had such an embrace and conviction of the Word, it
gave him prophetic insight, in spite of the fact that he may
not have been on the same level of blessing that you and I,
who have been filled with power from on high, are on today.
The Bible says, "The steps of a good man are ordered
by the Lord" (Psalm 37:23). There have been men and
women in history who have performed greater miracles
without the baptism in the Holy Spirit than some
Charismatic people do with the baptism. Why? Because they
were so committed to a measure of the Gospel, it moved them
to action. If a portion is all you have, it's more than enough to
bring about revival!
Today, we have better spiritual provisions. We can mix
both the anointing of God and His Word; and the baptism in
the Holy Spirit and the Word of God. Thus, in this decade of
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the '90s, our results can eclipse anyone else's in Church

history. This final generation is going to see it!
The Prophetic Edge

When John Alexander Dowie, with his long white beard,
stood behind his pulpit, he preached against sin and
unrighteousness. In the background, mounted around the
walls of the church, were crutches, canes, braces, casts,
wheelchairs, and so forth that had been discarded by the
joyous people who had been healed.
Dowie was the perfect picture of what a modern prophet
should be like. Why? Because the moment you believe in
change, in results, and in an immediate answer, you've
stepped into a prophetic edge.
"If any man speaks," the Bible says, "let him speak as
the oracles of God" (1 Peter 4:11). Do you know that "any
man" means you? Whether you're called to be a prophet or
not, "any man" means you. It means you can speak as the
oracles of God.
Be the Antidote
In other words, there can be a prophetic edge—a rhema
edge, a "now" word—for every circumstance you encounter,
because you're utilizing the anointing God gave you to be the
antidote to the situation.
Are you willing to do this? Are you willing to say, "I'm not
going to yield to the status quo and be one of the majority
that says there's nothing we can do about it.
"I'm going to be a messenger sent from God with the
living Word, with an anointing from the Holy Spirit, and I'm
going to say, 'Here we are! We are ready to see change,
church growth, revival, salvation, and healing.'"
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Anytime you do that, you begin to resemble a person from

another world, because you are stepping into an edge where a
pioneer, a prophet, a mouthpiece for God, functions. When
you get into that realm—which you can with a simple
decision—the Holy Spirit can work with you.
The Lord Will Work With You

When Jesus ascended and sat down at the right hand of
the Father, the Bible says, "They [the disciples] went
preaching every where, the Lord also working with
them and confirming the word with signs following."
Lay hands on yourself and say,
When I go preaching the Gospel of the kingdom,

which means that Jesus defeated the devil and paid
my debt of sin in full, it's time for a change. When I
preach that I have the anointing to help change
come about, the Lord will work with me and
confirm the Word with signs following.
John Alexander Dowie had that "air" about him. His

appearance inspired confidence, for he was full of authority.
In his great crusade against unrighteousness, Dowie
established a standard. He could probably be considered an
apostle and a prophet in his own right.
He did not establish the standard of a denomination or a
religious system; he established a standard by declaring
God's will to heal the sick. When he came on the scene, the
majority of people in the world were completely ignorant of
the message of divine healing.
Through his large church and crusades, his Healing
Homes, and the publicity he attracted, millions around the
world came to know that God still heals today.
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On New Year's Day 1900, Dowie unveiled plans for his

dream city of Zion, which was built 40 miles north of Chicago
as a wholesome environment for his followers and their
families.
Recipe for Miracles

In order to have the miracles Dowie experienced in
Chicago's climate of unbelief, and in order to believe that
what you are believing is not off the deep end, you must
make the following decision daily: "I believe the Word of God;
therefore, I do not need the approval of the majority."
There are Christians in the Church today who cannot
commit to the Great Commission because they have never
seen it in action! They won't lay hands on the sick, and they
won't see miracles, because persecution is associated with a
flourishing Gospel, and they fear controversy, failure, and
being persecuted. You don't get persecuted much when you're
not flourishing. You don't get persecuted much when you're
preaching something that is poverty-stricken, sin-infested,
and disease-ridden. But the moment you believe in and stand
for a life-changing Gospel, there's persecution!
John Alexander Dowie was persecuted. The religious
system said, "We don't want him. He stirs up too much
trouble."
Can you imagine a man who single-handedly built Holy
Ghost Healing Homes as an alternative to hospitals? After
the world had given up on them, the sick came, heard the
Word, were prayed for, and usually left totally healed.
So many people were healed, Dowie's healing ministry
affected the medical community financially, and doctors
opposed him. There was no love lost between them. Dowie
hated medicine. He hated crutches. He hated disease.
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An Imprint on Society
I don't want you to read this and say, "Christian
Harfouche hates medicine and doctors." But I want you to
know that a man like Dowie can come from a background of
religiosity and get a revelation in the Word that becomes so
powerful in him that he leaves his imprint on society a
hundred years later. That is awesome!
I believe Dowie was a forerunner of the Healing
Movement. As a matter of fact, when Dowie began to preach
healing, few others were preaching it. He and Maria
Woodworth-Etter were among the first.
Lay hands on yourself and say,
I not only have the Word; I also have the Spirit. I

will flow with the power of both to see greater
results, if I only believe and contend for the faith
that was delivered to me.
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Chapter 3
3 Living in the Realm of Miracles
And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was
blind from his birth.
And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who
did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born
blind?
Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned,
nor his parents: but that the works of God should be
made manifest in him.
I must work the works of him that sent me, while
it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the
world.
John 9:1-5
J esus passed by with His 12 disciples. They were right

next to a man who was born blind when the disciples
asked Jesus, "Rabbi, who sinned—this man or his
parents—that he was born blind?"
That was the common theology of the day. It seems like
that theology is still in business today, because when we see
someone who is suffering from a seemingly hopeless
condition, we try to find a reason for why they are like that.
I want to challenge you. If you want to live successfully in
the realm of miracles, one principle you must remember is:
Do not try to find out why certain things are the way they
are. The moment you do, you will start conjuring up super-
spiritual answers.
People frequently build a theology on why people don't get
healed. In other words, if you bring 10 blind people to a
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service and only three get healed, people tend to build a

theology on why the seven didn't get healed.
What you should say is, "Thank God, we got three healed!
Let's have another service and bring the seven back. We'll get
another three healed. Then there will only be four left. We'll
have several more services, and we'll get them all healed."
Be careful not to analyze and try to formulate a doctrine
about the cause of an impossibility. When the disciples asked
Jesus who had sinned in the blind man's case, they were only
repeating the theology that was predominant in their day.
All his life—anytime he was in the synagogue, anytime he
heard a sermon preached, anytime he heard someone's
opinion, anytime another rabbi passed by, anytime someone
gave him alms—that blind man had heard this question.
Sin Before Birth?

Let's examine this attitude. First, how could you sin
before birth and be born blind, unless you sinned in another
life, which we know does not happen.
But the Hindus, who believe in reincarnation, would look
at someone who is blind, crippled, or otherwise handicapped,
and say, "The reason they're like that is because it's karma."
In other words, what they did in a former life caused
providence to allow this to come on them.
If we're not careful, we'll be Christians in church and
Buddhists or Hindus in lifestyle, because we think, "Well, the
reason the Lord is allowing that person to be sick is because
someone sinned."
What's the Reason?

When Paul survived a shipwreck and reached the island
of Malta, the natives exclaimed when the snake bit him, "Oh,
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he must be a murderer, because he didn't die in the sea and

now the snake bit him. There's a reason for this!" Mankind is
always trying to find a reason why there's an impossibility.
Do you realize it's not what happens to you that matters;
it's what you do with what happens to you. Paul shook the
snake back in the fire, and when the people saw he wasn't
going to die, they were ready to believe what he had to say.
People must see your consistency "in season and out of
season." Paul refused to believe God was allowing the snake
to bite him in order to teach him something. He shook it
right back into the fire, unwilling to die yet. That's divine
authority!
Anytime you say, "Well, the reason it's not happening is
because...," you're being super-spiritual, because Jesus Christ
is the same yesterday, today, and forever! If He's not being
the same today in your life, it's because you might not be
meeting the challenge God has called you to walk in.
The Normal Helpless Condition

The disciples were displaying the normal helpless
condition of mortals. In other words, we can't do anything
about a man born blind, so there must be a reason for it.
"So tell us, Master, who did sin—this man; karma, that
he was born blind; or his parents? It must be generational."
Yes, there is a truth to generational problems or weaknesses,
but those conditions can be broken by believing prayer.
The last time I went to the doctor for a checkup, even
though nothing was wrong with me, I was given a long list to
fill out. It asked, Does this run in your family? Does that run
in your family?
The doctor looks at that list when you see him. Then he
says, "Based on the fact that such-and-such disease runs in
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your family, you ought to be having regular checkups to

make sure you don't have it, because chances are you're going
to get it."
The Preacher Answers

When the doctor looked at my questionnaire, all my
answers were no, no, no, no, no. Nothing is running in this
family but divine health, glory to God, because we broke
everything bad that was handed down. We're not going to let
it run in this family any longer, because there shall no plague
come nigh the dwelling of this family. We don't let it!
The doctor looked at my questionnaire and said, "You're a
preacher, huh?" I did not have to preach a sermon to him; he
knew what I believed from reading my chart.
Normal, helpless, powerless humans say, "There must be
a reason for this!" If you allow yourself to be bound up in the
realm of reason, you will never be moved by faith to act. But
the moment you move to act, you will be given all the power
you need to see change come about in your life.
The Work of God

This is what Jesus replied in John 9:3-5:
Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents; but
that the works of God should be made manifest in
him.
I must work the works of him that sent me, while
it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the
world.
Notice it wasn't blindness that was the work of God; it

was what Jesus was about to do that was the work of God so
the works of God would be made manifest. Jesus said, "Never
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mind the reason. Neither this man nor his parents have
sinned."
Also notice that Jesus just said, "Unless I do the works of
Him that sent Me, the works of God would not be manifested
in people." He later gave His authority to the Church, and
now we can say, "Unless we work, the works of God will not
be manifested in people's lives."
So if we do not do the works of Him that sent us, we will
not see the works of God manifested in people's lives. Jesus
said, "As long as I am in the world, I must do. I am the light
of the world. I must do."
What is blindness? It's a work of the devil. What is
blindness? It's a by-product of the curse.
A Different Sermon
The blind man was sitting right there, and he could hear
what Jesus was saying. After all, he wasn't deaf; he was just
blind.
For the first time in his life, he heard a different sermon.
He heard a sermon that emphasized the reason why things
were the way they were. All his life, he had believed his
blindness was caused either by him or his parents. But this
day he heard a sermon that said, "Never mind the reason. I
can change things." The moment you give a sermon like that,
people start listening.
There are people in the earth today who feel, like the
blind man, that the reason they're going through things is
because of God. Some people think that the reason they don't
see miracles is because of God. Others think the reason they
don't succeed is because of God.
The moment the blind man heard this different report, he
started listening intently.
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Jesus said, "I must work the works of him that sent me,
while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. As
long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
The Healing of the Blind Man

The story continues:
When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground,
and made clay of the spittal, and he anointed the eyes
of the blind man with the clay.
And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam,
(which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way
therefore, and washed, and came seeing.
John 9:6,7
When the blind man heard Jesus talking to the disciples,

he thought, "You mean it's not my fault? You mean it's not
my karma? You mean it's not my lot in life? You mean it's not
my parents' fault? You mean God didn't put this on me? You
mean the works of God should be made manifest in me? You
mean blindness is not the work of God? He's the light of the
world? I've never seen light. I need light. He must do the
works of Him that sent Him? I wonder who sent Him? I
wonder what His works are?"
Jesus Knows the Need

Then he heard Jesus spitting—and it wasn't a delicate,
Charismatic spit, either, because you can't make clay that
way. The significance is, Jesus hadn't even spoken to the
blind man yet. Jesus hadn't asked him anything, but He was
indirectly communicating with the man's spirit, because He
knew the man's need.
The moment we begin to know what the need is, and that
we have an answer to that need, people will listen, and they
will have a miracle.
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As Jesus was spitting, the blind man was thinking, "What

is He doing?" Notice the word "doing." Jesus had said, "I
must do the works." The blind man figured He was doing
something good.
Jesus made the clay. He approached the blind man, and
the blind man was ready, even though he hasn't been spoken
to yet.
For the first time, he was exonerated. For the first time,
he was justified. He wasn't told, "It's your fault." He wasn't
told, "It's up to God." He was told, "I am here as a Messenger.
I can do something." And he was willing to listen.
Then Jesus put the clay on his eyes, telling him, "Go,
wash in the pool of Siloam." That's all He said. And the
man went, and washed, and came back seeing. The only
"work" Jesus did was to issue a command to the blind man.
A Thirst for Healing

That's why John Alexander Dowie insisted, "Stop taking
the morphine, or I won't pray for you. Come back later, when
you're in a lot of pain, and I'll pray for you then."
When you have a gift from God, you should not "cast
your pearls before swine," or pour it out indiscriminately
First, you must develop the thirst for it in your own life and
then you must develop the thirst for it in someone else's life
to get them to receive.
Covered With Faith

Jesus never told the blind man, "You'll come back seeing."
As a matter of fact, He never told him, "I'm going to open
your eyes." And He never told the disciples, "I'm going to
open his eyes." He just hinted at it. But He covered that man
with so much faith, the man was healed!
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A blind man is conspicuous enough without mud on his

face, but he is much more of an attention-getter with mud on
his face.
As he went his way, someone asked, "Where are you
going, blind man?"
"Just direct me to the pool of Siloam, the pool called
Sent."
"Why are you going there?"
"Someone sent me there."
"Who sent you there?"
"Someone that was sent by Someone else."
"Well, what was He sent to do?"
"He was sent to do the works of Him who sent Him. He
said He was the light of the world."
"Why do you have mud on your eyes?"
"Someone put mud on my eyes."
"Who?"
"Someone that was sent by Someone else."
"What was He sent to do?"
"He was sent to do the works of Him that sent Him."
"Well, what did He do?"
"He put mud on my eyes, and He sent me."
"Where did He send you?"
"To the pool called Sent."
"Why are you going there?"
"I'm going there to wash the mud off my eyes."
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All the way to the pool, Jesus had this blind man in faith;
he couldn't think about anything else. As he was walking
down the road, the sun beat on the mud, and the mud dried
up. The blind man was very conscious of the mud on his eyes.
He thought, "There's mud on my eyes. Who put mud on
my eyes? The man who was sent by Someone else. What did
He do? He sent me. Where did He send me? To the pool
called Sent. What did He send me to do? To wash. What did
He say? He said it wasn't my fault, and it wasn't my parents'
fault!"
All the way to the pool, the blind man was not thinking
about what the doctor said. He didn't care what his relatives
said. He didn't care what the Pharisees said. He didn't care
what public opinion said. He was so wrapped up in this
rabbi's illustrated sermon that even though Jesus never said,
"You will come back seeing," the blind man figured it out on
his way to the pool.
"Light of the world? Doing the works of Him that sent
Him? Spit? Mud on the eyes? Born blind—why? Never mind.
I think that when I wash, I am going to receive my sight!"
Probably a crowd had gathered around him and was
following him. He got to the pool and washed. Just like that,
he received his sight!
Who Is the Light of the World?

Who is the light of the world? True, in John 9:5 Jesus
said, "As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the
world." But in Matthew 5:14-16, He said:
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on
an hill cannot be hid.
Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a
bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto
all that are in the house.
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Let your light so shine before men, that they may

see your good works, and glorify your Father which
is in heaven.
Notice when Jesus said, "I am the light of the world,"

He was talking about doing a miracle; about doing the works
of God. Then He said that we are the light of the world, and
we are to let our light shine.
The Will of God Prevails

How does our light shine? When we do the works of Him
that sent us! Then His will and His works are manifested in
the lives of others. Where there used to be deafness as the
will of Satan, now there is hearing. It is the will of God.
Where there used to be blindness as the will of Satan, now
there is sight. It is the will of God.
So Jesus said, "Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works." These good works
are the result of His power. They are done by us to give Him
glory.
When Jesus said, "I must do," He wasn't doing the
miracle as God; He was doing the miracle as a man anointed
by the Holy Spirit. The man Christ Jesus was saying, "In
order for the will and the work of God to be done in that man,
I must do it." The man Christ Jesus was saying, "I must work
in order for people to see the power of God."
We in the Church today must realize that we were also
sent. How were we sent? Jesus said, "As my Father hath
sent me, even so send I you" (John 20:21).
If we know we were sent, what were we sent to do?
The works of Him that sent us.
Who sent us?
Jesus.
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Who sent Him? The Father.

What were we called to do?
The works of God—and we are going to do them!
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Chapter 4
4 Living in the Anointing
And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our
faith.
And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of
mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree,
Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted
in the sea, and it should obey you.
Luke 17:5,6
W hen the disciples asked Jesus for faith, Jesus told them
about the action-kind of faith—faith you can see. You
can't see faith, but you can definitely see the results of active
faith.
When a person is living by action faith, miracles, signs,
and the witness of the Holy Spirit accompany his life, and he
is successful.
So Jesus responded in verse 6,
If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye
might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked
up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea, and it
should obey you.
That tells me that faith can produce a statement of

command that is obeyed by an impossible condition.
As you know, in the natural a tree will not obey you.
When Jesus said to the fig tree, "Let no fruit grow on thee
henceforth for ever" (Matthew 21:19), it was a statement
of faith that released the power of God, went right into the
roots of that tree, and caused it to wither.
When the disciples saw it, they exclaimed, "Look how
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quickly the tree you commanded to wither has dried up!"

Jesus replied in Matthew 21:21,22:
If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only
do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye
shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and
be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.
And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer,
believing, ye shall receive.
My Words Can Carry a Miracle!

This tells me that active faith will produce a response.
And it tells me my words can carry a miracle if they are
words I believe are in line with God's Word; words I believe
cannot fail.
There is something awesome about God's ability to
impart faith that will, in turn, move you to speak to your
situation and will bring a miracle.
However, there are certain signs and wonders that will
never happen unless you do the commanding. One of them is
demonic situations. God is not going to bind the devil for you,
and He's not going to cast him out for you! If the devil is
going to be cast out, it must be by your word. And he will
obey your word!
Jesus said, "If I with the finger of God cast out
devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you"
(Luke 11:20). That phrase "the finger of God" means the
power of God. Therefore, if Jesus cast out devils with His
Word, His Word had power. The power was in the Word, and
it literally drove the devil out, because it brought the power
of God on the scene.
"What a Word Is This!"
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And [he] came down to Capernaum, a city of

Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days.
And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his
word was with power.
And in the synagogue there was a man, which had
a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud
voice,
Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with
thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to
destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of
God.
And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace,
and come out of him....
Luke 4:31-35
In other words, Jesus said, "Shut up, and come out of

him!"
And when the devil had thrown him in the midst,
he came out of him, and hurt him not.
And they were all amazed, and spake among
themselves, saying, What a word is this! for with
authority and power he commandeth the unclean
spirits, and they come out.
Luke 4:35,36
Notice, Jesus was in the synagogue teaching, and while

He was teaching, a man with an unclean devil started crying
out. Anytime you flow in the anointing, it will cause the devil
to react. Anytime you speak and live in the anointing, you
will clash with the devil.
People who are demonized will "twitch" around you! They
will shake around you. Sometimes they will become angry
and cuss around you, because when you flow in the
anointing, it causes the devil to manifest. It drives him to
surface.
Why? Because the devil is in the business of hiding. He is
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not running around planet Earth saying, "I am real"; he is

doing his best to make people believe that he really doesn't
exist! He delights in working in secret. He likes darkness. He
likes being camouflaged and going incognito.
The Spotlight of God Reveals Evil

But when you come on the scene with the Word and the
anointing, the spotlight of God zeroes right in on the devil
and makes him feel as if he's naked or uncovered.
That's why, when we testify, witness, or preach in the
anointing, we are not shooting into the air or fighting the air.
We are zeroing in and hitting spiritual powers head on, just
like Jesus did when he dealt with the woman at the well of
Samaria.
He hit the problems in that woman's life head on, and
immediately brought to light the fact that His knowledge
came by supernatural means.
When we testify, witness, or preach in the anointing, it
will cause a response: People will be pricked in their hearts.
They will either be converted, or they will rebel. They will
either want to receive what we have, or they will become
angry and want to stop us.
I was in a certain meeting recently, and I had a word of
knowledge about multiple herniated discs in the back. I
stepped in front of the pulpit ready to give it when I sensed a
man was standing to my right. I turned and asked him,
"What do you need, sir?" He said, "I have two herniated discs
in my back."
I said, "You should have waited. I was getting ready to
call that out."
He said, "Well, I'm here now."
Resisting the Power of God

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As I laid hands on him and began to minister to him, I

felt the virtue of God flowing through me, yet there was
something that rose up from within him—an attitude, a
disposition, a critical attitude, unbelief—that resisted the
power of God, and it bounced off him. I knew he wasn't
receiving, so I removed my hands. He began to walk off the
platform in a huff, with an attitude.
I said, "Sir, come back here! Come here. Do you believe
God sent me here to heal you?"
And this is what he said: "I believe that He can, if He
wants to."
That was a rebellious attitude he had, in light of the fact
that I had just finished preaching from the Word of God for
an hour on God's willingness to bless people with their
miracle!
While I was preaching, evidently this man was flipping
through his Bible trying to find something that contradicted
what I was saying. And because of this, I knew he was not
going to receive his miracle.
Righteous Indignation
I felt righteous indignation rise up on the inside of me.
The Lord had shown me there were other people in that
building with the same condition he had. I said to him, "Sir,
just stand there and watch." Then I announced, "If you are
here tonight, and you have a multiple herniated condition in
your back, I want you to come up here right now. I'm going to
minister to you, and God is going to heal you."
The first man who came up was in excruciating pain. I
asked him, "Do you believe God sent me here to heal you?"
He replied, "I know God sent you here to heal me!" When I
laid my hands on him, he fell under the power. He was
instantly healed by the power of God.
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I asked the same question of the next man who came up. I
said, "Do you believe God sent me here to heal you?" "Yes,"
he said. Immediately I laid hands on him. He started
jumping up and down, shouting and praising God.
I said to the man who doubted, "Just watch. This is how
easy it is. Just look."
The third man who came had not turned his head for nine
years because his neck was stiff. I put my hands on his neck.
I asked, "Do you believe God sent me here to heal you?" He
said, "Yes."
I said, "Well, then, you shouldn't have that stiff neck,
should you?" I turned his neck, and it turned easily in every
direction. He was instantly healed by the power of the living
God.
Clash With the Devil!

In order to flow in that realm of miracles, you must clash
with the devil—and you will clash with the devil. However,
you won't clash with the devil if you pray nice little prayers
and don't pursue him beyond that point.
A man whose bones had been eaten up with disease for 20
years came to one of our meetings. He was in excruciating
pain. His face told the story.
He had pain in his chest, pain in his vertebrae, pain in
his joints, and so forth. He had to use a walking stick to get
around.
Before I laid my hands on him, I asked him, "Do you
believe God sent me here to heal you?"
He shook his head and said, "I want to believe." When I
laid my hands on him, he fell under the power. His
expression mirrored his thoughts: "I'm not healed. I'm not
going to get healed. I'm in pain. I shouldn't be lying on the
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floor."
Why? Because he had a disease, it was eating his bones,
and he was in agony.
That man would never have received his miracle unless I
stood him up, grabbed him by the hands, and told him, "Open
your eyes and look at me!" In the spirit I detected in him self-
pity, a spirit of hopelessness, and a will to lie down and let
the devil have his way in his life.
A Time for Decision

I said, "I'm not going to allow you to leave here without
your miracle! You can either make the choice to lie down and
let the devil cripple you, or you can make the decision to
stand up and receive your miracle!"
Then I told him, "The doctors can't help you anymore—
but Jesus can!"
I picked up his hands and lifted them above his head,
something he hadn't been able to do. I took away his walking
stick, but he didn't need it any longer. His pain was gone!
His response was, "I can't believe it! I don't have any
pain! I can't believe it!"
I said, "Believe it!"
We're not going to see miracles unless we clash with the
devil. We can't have miracles by praying little prayers and
allowing the devil to hide in people's lives, even if he's hiding
in the form of a misconception or an attitude of pity or
hopelessness. You have to confront it. You have to drive it to
the surface and take command of the situation. But first you
must believe in what you know, and you must know what
God said.
When Excuses Are Demolished
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We have been studying the story of Jesus teaching in the

synagogue of Nazareth. The devil couldn't handle his
teaching anointing.
I've been in meetings where people crossed their legs so
many times, they wore out their pants! They were
uncomfortable because the truth was being preached. They
were "itchy," looking at everything they could look at because
the devils that were binding them with tradition were being
knocked down, one after another, and they couldn't handle
the fact that their excuses were being demolished right in
front of their eyes. It was a time of deliverance.
As Jesus was teaching, a man suddenly cried out with a
loud voice. It was a full demonic manifestation. What are the
odds that the same demon-possessed man was in the
synagogue every Sabbath for years, and no one knew he had
a devil until Jesus showed up? It's entirely possible, because
the devil can hide quite well when there is no anointing. But
the moment the anointing is flowing, you will see demonic
manifestations. They will come to the surface.
How to Talk to Devils

You and I have been called by God to do two things: heal
the sick and cast out devils. This means we have to know
how to talk to devils and cast them out. There is an attitude
involved in talking to the devil, and there is a power involved
in releasing those words.
The devils in the demon-possessed man spoke to Jesus
and said, "What have we to do with You? Have You
come to destroy us?" Jesus made His reply short and plain:
"Shut up, and come out!" Isn't that plain?
As I was preaching in a meeting in Florida, the people
had jumped to their feet and I was pacing up and down the
aisle. A man standing in the front held his hands together
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and said in a deep, guttural voice, "Come here."

I went over to him, grabbed his hands, and said to the
devils in him, "Shut up, in Jesus' Name!" He fell to his knees.
I said, "Say 'Jesus.'" He said, "Jesus." "Say, 'Thank You for
setting me free right now.'" He was instantly delivered, and
we went on with the service.
Most of the time, if the devil cannot hide, he will do his
best to get as much attention as he can. If he has to manifest,
he wants it to be so flashy and strong that you are captivated
or moved by fear rather than by the Word of God.
So Jesus told the devil to shut up, and He cast him out.
Luke 4:36 says,
They were all amazed, and spake among
themselves, saying, What a word is this! for with
authority and power he commandeth the unclean
spirits, and they come out.
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Chapter 5
5 Day of Impartation
N ow I want to share with you about another "child of

destiny," John G. Lake, the great missionary to Africa
who was used powerfully in the area of deliverance.
Lake was the kind of man who believed it was God's will
to redeem spirit, soul, and body, so he believed that every
part of man can be charged with the life of God. He was not
planning to get sick or fail, because he believed that God's
anointing and redemptive plan included every part of his
being.
Lake is well known for the fact that during the time the
bubonic plague hit South Africa, he conducted an experiment,
putting his hand in froth that was infected with the virus.
Under the scrutiny of a microscope, the scientific community
watched while the disease died because it was touched by the
man of God!
But it wasn't always like that for John G. Lake. He and
his relatives were often sick. Sickness and disease, doctors
and nurses, hospitals, funerals, graveyards, and tombstones
were memories that haunted his early childhood and young
life like a nightmare. I believe Lake developed an unnatural
hatred for sickness and disease because of these early
experiences.
When you realize it is not God's will to kill, steal, and
destroy, and when you realize that you have been given the
power to do something about it, you begin to hate it, and you
begin to do what you can to annihilate its influence on the
lives of people.
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"I Walked Like a Christian"

For a long time, John G. Lake suffered from rheumatism.
His legs were crooked. His pastor told him he was glorifying
God by his rheumatism. And his church told him to endure
it.
But he went to John Alexander Dowie's Healing Home at
12th and Michigan Streets in Chicago, where an old gray-
haired man laid hands on Lake. The power of God went
through him and made his legs straight. "I went out and
walked on the street like a Christian," Lake recalled.
A Christian ought to have straight legs, a straight back,
and a straight walk. That's what Lake believed—that
redemption wasn't meant only to save our soul; it can also
renew our mind, heal our body, and fill us with the life and
energy of God. That was the key to Lake's boldness to dare to
put his hands in the plague-infected froth.
Someone may say, "Well, I might try that some day."
Don't do it! It's not something we try. Lake did it because he
knew that he knew that he knew that he wasn't on planet
Earth to catch a disease; he was here to deal with the disease
through the power of the living God.
Transmission and Impartation

When he went to John Alexander Dowie's Healing Home,
Lake experienced a miracle. I'm sharing this with you to
show you there is a transmission and impartation that
passes from one ministry to another. It enables the newer
ministry to carry a torch that is similar to and sometimes
greater than the torch that the established ministry carried.
Today is a day of impartation. We are going to do the
same thing. Such as we have, we are going to give unto you,
because there is a torch, an impartation, that gives you a
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supernatural ability to contend for the great things in God.

Lake became a successful businessman. He made a lot of
money in business and later worked in Dowie's ministry,
During his time of training as a faithful man, Lake got a bit
critical and criticized Dowie.
Dowie confronted him and told him, "If you ever develop
constructive qualities equal to your critical capacity, you will
be a bigger man than I am. At present, however, you are an
operator, not a constructor. But you have it in you."
Sometimes you have to be stirred like this. I don't believe
Lake would ever have become what God wanted him to be if
he hadn't experienced the confronting reality of the man of
God.
Lake got delivered from his criticism, and instead of
leaving Dowie's ministry critical and broken, he left with the
same torch and the same miracle-level anointing he saw
operating in Dowie's life.
Also, because Dowie challenged him, and because Lake
was a teachable man, we find that Lake later went to South
Africa and built a work that comprised 700,000 members.
A Form of Deliverance
Records tell us that one day as Lake was ministering, a
group of ruffians entered the church and started toward the
platform. Lake immediately perceived that the young men
were up to no good. With him on the platform were a band
and a choir made up of women and girls.
While the ushers were still scrambling to come to his aid,
Lake quickly solved the problem. As the ruffians came on the
platform, he grabbed them by the seat of the pants and the
back of the neck and literally threw them out the window
that was located above his head.
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One...two...three...and the rest noticed that this man

must be operating in supernatural strength. They decided
not to come up on the platform. The same Holy Spirit who
came upon Samson came upon John G. Lake that day.
Lake believed not only in a Holy Spirit who blesses your
heart; he believed in a Holy Spirit who influences your body.
That's why he wouldn't catch a germ or a disease. That's why
he had supernatural strength when the situation demanded
it.
I know some well-meaning Christians will say, "That's
cruel, isn't it, to throw people out of a window?" If you look at
it one way, it's cruel. But in another way, Lake might have
had an altar call that night and filled the altar with people
who respected the man of God who had such strength.
We have to know what we know, we have to believe what
we know, and we have to believe what God said. John G.
Lake was like that.
The Dangers of Religious "Salad"

Lake was in a certain meeting in South Africa when a
woman with a crutch came up to the platform and asked for
prayer. She had spent a great deal of money seeing doctors.
Nothing had helped her, and now she was seeing what they
called hypnotists. (Today they may call them psychologists,
because hypnotism is often part of their treatment.)
Lake asked, "Where's your hypnotist now?" She said,
"He's sitting in the front."
Lake simply stepped out and said, "You devil of
hypnotism, come out of him!" He didn't even know who the
man was. He added, "And enter into him no more." Then he
went on ministering to the woman, who was instantly healed.
After that meeting was over, the hypnotist came to Lake
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and offered him a large sum of money to give him back the
ability to hypnotize people, because it left him upon Lake's
prayer.
Today some people want psychology, psychiatry,
hypnotism, Christian Science, New Age, and everything else
that seems right. They want to mix it together in a "salad" of
religious persuasion and come out with the kind of results
Dowie and Lake had. But you can't do it that way. You must
learn to discern who the devil is; you must learn to discern
what is of the devil; and you've got to know how to confront
it.
Breaking Up a Seance
At times Lake would go to a seance, just to break it up!
He liked to confront the spiritualists and bind any demons
that might be present. Once he went to a seance that was
attended by a husband and wife, Methodists, who had lost
their born-again daughter.
The spiritualist medium was supposedly conjuring up the
"spirit" of this dead girl and communicating with her.
After the girl's so-called "spirit" spoke, Lake said, "Let me
talk to her spirit now," and the medium let him.
He asked the spirit, "Are you So-and-so?" A female voice
answered, "Yes, I am."
"Where were you born?" The voice gave him the right
information.
"Where did you grow up?" Again the voice gave him the
correct answer.
"Then you were there in the church that night when I
gave the altar call, and you came forward to the altar and
gave your life to the Lord."
The spirit couldn't remember that. Do you know why?
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Because the moment the spirit remembered it, Lake would

ask the next question: "So you believe that Jesus Christ is
come in the flesh, don't you?" And the spirit would have to
answer in the affirmative.
"You mean you don't remember the time when you were
baptized in the Holy Ghost?"
"No, I don't remember that."
"Then you're not that girl, you lying devil! Get out of here
now"—and the spirit left!
We need more men and women of God who can crash a
seance or a psychic rally. We need believers who know how to
operate in the anointing of God. John Lake knew how to live
in that realm and dimension where the power of God
operated strongly through him.
100,000 Documented Healings

Lake said, "Throw your medicine in the toilet and then
apologize to the toilet." I'm just quoting him. Today I know he
might seem extreme, but he had extreme results, too:
100,000 documented miracles of healing in the city of
Spokane, Washington, where he established Healing Rooms
and healing services. Those are extreme results!
A man like John G. Lake is entitled to his opinions. He
was a man of absolutes. When he believed something, he
stuck to it. There's something admirable about that. I believe
there's a place in God like that, and I believe Jesus walked
there.
I don't believe that Jesus walked around with a medicine
cabinet carried by the disciples so he could take some
medicine when He broke down between meetings. No! I
believe Jesus was walking in that level where He did not
need medicine. He was the medicine! He was the Balm of
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Gilead. He was the Great Physician.
Walking in Perfect Health

Potentially, we also have divine health, and we can walk
in it. Lake did. He walked in perfect health when it came to
his physical state.
I believe a certain amount of Lake's antagonism toward
medicine and his refusal to tolerate any alternative to divine
healing came about because he was so well acquainted with
John Alexander Dowie's ministry, and he saw so many
results there—more results than you would normally see in a
hospital or a doctor's office.
Lake therefore formed his theology on what the Bible
says about divine healing, and it's strong. That's why he
could crash a seance, or tell you to throw away your
medicine.
Lake worked hard. He preached six times a week and
twice on Sundays, but he never burned out—and he never
fell out. He was consistent in his strength, because he
believed that God lived on the inside of him.
You ask, "How will that help me live today?"
By finding out what these "children of destiny" thought,
we can become what they were. If, by thinking the Word,
they became the product of the Word, we can think the same
way. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. The battle is in
the mind. The moment we've conquered the mental battle,
we will understand our spiritual authority.
Pentecost As God Gave It

A key to John G. Lake's ministry was a vision he had. An
angel appeared to him, took him through the Book of Acts,
and spoke these words to him: "This is Pentecost as God gave
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it." Among other things, he also said, "Strive for this.

Contend for this. Teach the people to pray for this."
The angel took him through the miracles, the acts of the
apostles, the moves of the Holy Spirit, and the results the
Church enjoyed, including the salvation of the thousands.
And he said, "This is Pentecost as God gave it."
In other words, "Anything else, John Lake—anything
watered down, anything that is not as strong, anything that
is not as radical—is not pure. This is Pentecost as God gave
it!"
That vision, that revelation, produced the kind of man
John G. Lake became: a bold man, a man of the Spirit and a
man of the Word. We need both, and we're going to find out
what God is saying about that shortly.
Occultic Resistance
And when they had gone through the isle unto
Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false
prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-jesus.
Acts 13:6
Notice this man wasn't a Christian; he was a sorcerer.

The Bible calls him a false prophet. It seems to me that much
of what the Bible says about false prophets is referring to
today's New Agers, occultists, and Satanists who deny the
Lordship of Jesus Christ.
I believe with all of my heart that everyone in the Church
of Jesus Christ has been included in the privilege of speaking
on God's behalf. All of you at some time or other are going to
speak on behalf of God in order to reach someone. And
whenever you do that, you're God's messenger for that hour.
So whether we're called to the office of the prophet or
we're a lay person, each of us is going to weave into a certain
level of speaking God's Word into the lives of others.
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Paul and Barnabas next met a government official:

...the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a
prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and
desired to hear the word of God.
But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by
interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away
the deputy from the faith.
Acts 13:7,8
Notice there is occultic resistance here to the miracle of

salvation. In other words, whatever you set your hands to do,
you are going to have to commit to it through obstacles and
resistance. There will be either natural or demonic reasons
for why you should not succeed in doing what God has called
you to do. That's why it is imperative to know who you are
and to stick to the power God has given you.
Paul reacted strongly to the sorcerer's attempts to hinder
the Gospel:
Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with
the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him,
And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief,
thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all
righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the
right ways of the Lord?
And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon
thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a
season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and
a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead
him by the hand.
Then the deputy, when he saw what was done,
believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the
Lord.
Acts 13:9-12
The Bible says the deputy was astonished at the teaching.

It was an illustrated sermon!
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Chapter 6
6 Growing in the Anointing
W e know that before Paul was released to his apostolic

function as a "sent one," he was named among the
prophets and the teachers that were in the church of Antioch.
The Bible says so, and calls him by name:
Now there were in the church that was at Antioch
certain prophets and teachers, as Barnabas, and
Simeon that was called Niger; and Lucius of Cyrene,
and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod
the tetrarch, and Saul.
As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the
Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for
the work whereunto I have called them.
And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid
their hands on them, they sent them away.
Acts 13:1-3
We know that Paul was a man of visions and revelations.

He wrote, "...I will come to visions and revelations of the
Lord" (2 Corinthians 12:1).
So before Paul was sent out to function as an apostle, he
was not only a teacher of the Gentiles; he was also a prophet.
As a prophet of Jesus Christ, he had a certain level, capacity,
function, and authority that accompanied him and enabled
him to present Jesus on a high caliber of flow.
The Holy Spirit said, "Separate me Barnabas and Saul
for the work whereunto I have called them" (Acts 13:2).
And they laid hands on them, prayed over them, and released
them to their ministries.
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What did that accomplish? It was the impartation that

brought the final level of anointing necessary to go out and
fulfill their ministry It was like an ordination or sealing to
release the gifts of God in the two men in the level they
needed.
So they departed on their mission to spread the Gospel,
and the first thing they encountered was the challenge of a
false prophet—head on. They were trying to convert a
prominent, prudent man, but Elymas the sorcerer "withstood
them."
The Bible doesn't say just how he withstood them. It
doesn't say if he tried to put a curse on Paul and Barnabas. It
doesn't say if he tried to bind the gift of Paul.
Cursing Weak Christians

Today there are Satanists who think they have more
power than the Church does, and some of them are messing
around and putting curses on weak Christians. And because
these Christians receive the symptoms of headaches and
confusion instead of rebuking them, they keep preying on
them.
Sometimes Satanists or occultists will come into a
meeting to try to hinder it. When we were in a recent
meeting, a woman who was into spiritualism was present.
Robin had a word of knowledge and called out, "Someone
here is using beads and doing occultic things, and we want
you to come up here for deliverance."
When the woman didn't come, I pointed her out to the
whole church. The next week she attended another of my
meetings and came up in the altar call because she wanted
hands laid on her. She wanted to receive the blessing, she
said, but she didn't want to receive Jesus Christ.
You see, people in the occult know there is power. Many
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of them are striving to have greater power, and some of them

will try to oppose what you're doing.
The Roots of Epic Revival

When John Lake went to South Africa, his workers came
back reporting that the witch doctors were resisting them.
Lake got the people together and said, "I want you to go out
into the mission field and find the witch doctors. I want you
to openly challenge them, and I want you to cast the devil out
of them."
When they did, and the people saw that greater is He
that is in the Church than he that is in the witch doctors,
people got saved and delivered, and revival broke out.
It is no different here in America. When the world finally
sees that the occultists, the New Agers, the psychics, the
spiritualists, and the Satanists do not pack more power than
the Bible-believing children of the living God, we're going to
see revival. And we're going to see it in epic proportions,
because God has called you and me to confront the devil!
Mixing the Spirit and the Word

Immediately Paul did something: He told the devil off—in
the Holy Ghost. You don't lack words when you're anointed.
Too many people stop to think, "What am I going to say?"
That isn't necessary when you mix the Spirit and the Word
together in your daily life.
The apostles did this. They said, "We will give
ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of
the Word" (Acts 6:4). What does that mean?
"We will get information and revelation from the Word.
We will make it our foundation. Then, when we pray in
tongues, it will build us up. We will get faith out of the Word,
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and we will be built up on that faith by praying in the Holy

Ghost. And when we run into a situation that demands a
miracle, we can deal with it."
Faith for Blindness

Paul dealt with the sorcerer by rebuking him and then
telling him,
And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon
thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a
season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and
a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead
him by the hand.
Acts 13:11
Paul had no problem with blindness. In fact, he had faith

for blindness because of his own experience. When Paul (then
Saul) was still a child of the devil by nature, he was
persecuting and threatening the Church, even killing
Christians, with the permission of the religious leaders.
Saul was on his way to persecute the church in Damascus
when a light brighter than the noonday sun suddenly
knocked him to the ground and blinded him.
The Bible says Saul heard a voice. It was Jesus asking
him, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?" He replied,
"Who art thou, Lord?" "I am Jesus whom thou
persecutest..." (Acts 9:4,5).
Saul remained blind for three days until a believer in
Damascus named Ananias prayed for him and he recovered
his sight. That's why Paul had blind faith. He figured, "You
mess with God, He'll strike you blind." It had happened to
him.
A Sorcerer Goes Blind
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Therefore, when he ran across his first sorcerer, Paul

said, "I know how to deal with him. BAM—the hand of the
Lord is on you!" And immediately the sorcerer went blind.
The Bible says when the deputy saw that doctrine, he
quickly learned the lesson and believed. What was the
doctrine? You mess with God, you get judgment. What was
the doctrine? The power of God is greater than anything.
What was the doctrine? There is active power in this
message.
Peter, on the other hand, didn't have blind faith. Even
though he was one of the disciples, he had denied the Lord
three times shortly before His crucifixion. He was worthy to
be a castaway, and he knew it.
After the resurrection, the Lord appeared to him in the
Galilee and asked him three questions: "Do you love Me? Do
you love Me? Do you love Me?"—and He restored Peter.
Peter knew one thing: You betray the Lord; you die. How
did he know that? Judas had betrayed the Lord, and he had
experienced suicide, death, and judgment. That was what
Peter knew.
Later, when he was a leader in the Church, Peter ran into
Ananias and Sapphira, who lied to the Holy Spirit. He knew
what to do about their situation. What happens to you when
you lie to the Holy Spirit? You die, that's what happens to
you!
Peter asked Ananias and Sapphira, "Why did Satan fill
your heart to lie to the Holy Ghost?" POW!—they
dropped dead at his feet. The faith Peter had was killing
faith. Paul's was blinding-for-a-few-days faith.
Growing Means Excelling

What am I expressing here? As you grow in your
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experience in God—as you grow in the anointing—you will

excel in certain areas. Different persons in Church history
have excelled at different things.
Even the healing ministries didn't have the same rate of
success with every kind of disease. Some healing evangelists
had the gift of healing for blindness, and they had more blind
healed than any other condition. Others prayed more
successfully for people with crippling conditions, hearing
problems, cancer, and so forth.
Each of us has the potential to be successful in every
area, but there will usually be an area in which our faith
flows the easiest. For example, some people can believe God
for money. Some people can't. Some people can believe God
for money, but they remain sick. Others stay poor but remain
healthy.
God's best is for us to be able to believe for everything He
has made available to us.
A Frozen Intruder
I was in Hollywood, California, ministering in a prayer
line when a rugged, loud, unruly man came up to the altar
and began to shout, trying to disrupt the service.
I went over there and asked, using the live microphone,
"Do you need prayer?"
He said, "I'm here, aren't I?" I repeated the question. "I'm
going to ask you one more time: 'Do you need prayer?'" "I'm
here, aren't I?"
I said, "Either you say you need prayer, or you go over
there right now and sit down and be quiet." He said, "Yeah, I
need prayer."
I grabbed his hand and said, "I bind you, devil, in the
Name of Jesus! You will not disrupt this service!" And I
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walked away. That man stood there frozen until I finished

praying for everyone. When we dismissed the service, he left
the building.
Acting Before You Think

You see, there will be certain times when a challenge will
unexpectedly confront you, and you won't have time to think,
"What would Jesus do in this situation?" or "What am I
supposed to do?"
You needn't wonder, because when you're full of the Holy
Spirit and the Word, you can act before you think. You can
know that what you're going to say and do is going to be
backed up by the power of God.
That is why and how Paul was able to speak out of the
Spirit of God that was within him a word that brought
conviction and reality into the lives of people.
Speaking to the Devil

In Matthew 8:16 it says,
When the even was come, they brought unto him
many that were possessed with devils, and he cast
out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were
sick.
Jesus cast out the devils with His Word, and He healed
all that were sick. Notice there is a way to flow. Once we
understand what the root of a situation is, we can
immediately know by the Spirit what to do.
We must speak by faith to the devil and tell him to go. We
can bind him, and he will be bound. We can loose the power
of God, and it will be loosed. When we operate in that realm,
we will see great things!
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Talking to Tumors
When I was in Hawaii, a man flew in from Canada. He
had 40 tumors the size of golf balls hanging on the outside of
his body. He had been prayed for by several "greats" in the
healing ministry. He named them to me. It was almost as if
he was trying to convince me that he had a track record in
not being healed.
I told him, "I'm not going to pray for you then." His eyes
got real big. "I'm not here to pray for you," I explained,
"because I'm here to get you healed! I'm going to curse those
tumors. I'm not going to pray that God would heal you. I'm
going to talk to those tumors. I'm going to tell them to
dissolve, and they're going to have to dissolve."
Within a few days, only four of the 40 tumors were left,
and several days later, he didn't have any. He came up to the
platform, removed his shirt to testify, and rejoiced at his
healing.
Why was he healed? Because we targeted the problem.
We spoke to it. We released that power resident in us
through the Holy Spirit to go to work in that body and see it
manifest the power and the anointing of the Lord.
Learning From the Greats

Men like Dowie and Lake had a mighty role to play in the
church world. If we can glean from them some of the
revelations they had and the truths they held dear, we can
incorporate it into what we know to be the truth. If
something is Bible-based, you can bank on it.
In closing this segment devoted to John G. Lake, I want
to share the following prophetic word attributed to him. This
man was so under the anointing of the Lord, he prophesied
this utterance in perfect rhyme.
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Prophecy Given by John G. Lake

He is risen! He is risen! Hear the cry
Ringing through the land and sea and sky.
'Tis the shout of victory: Triumph is proclaimed.
Heralds of God announce it: Death's disdained.
Shout the tidings! Shout the tidings! Raise the cry:
Christ's victorious, Christ's victorious, cannot die.
For the bars of death He sundered;
Satan sees that he has blundered.
As the shouts of angels thundered: "He's alive!"
Catch the shout, ye earth-born mortals. Let it roll
Till it echoes o'er the mountains, from the centre to the
poles,
That the Christ of earth and Glory Death has
conquerered.
Tell the story: He's the victor, He's the victor! So am I.
For this reason, that my ransom He has paid,
I've accepted His atonement, on Him laid.
He the Lamb of God that suffered all for me,
Bore my sins, my grief, my sickness on the tree.
I am risen, I am risen, from the grave
Of my sins, my griefs, my sickness; and the waves
Of the resurrection life and holy power
Thrill my being with His new life every hour.
Now the lightnings of God's Spirit burn my soul;
Flames of His divine compassion o'er me roll.
Lightning power of God's own Spirit strikes the power of
hell.
God in man—oh, glory, glory!—all the story tell.
I have proved Him, I have proved Him. It is true:
Christ's dominion yet remaineth; 'tis for you.
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Let the fires of holy passion sweep your soul.

Let the Christ who death has conquered take control.
He will use you, He will use you, Zion yet has saviors
still.
Christ the Conqueror only waiteth for the action of your
will.
Lake prophesied this extemporaneously by the anointing

of the Holy Spirit on June 18, 1910 in South Africa. It was
supernatural, and it carried a revelation in it.
Lake prophesied, "My sickness was carried. My griefs
were carried. My sins were carried on the tree. God was
waiting for me just to make that my will."
Lake had more revelation of the cross of Calvary and the
triumph of the resurrection than most of the Body of Christ
and some theologians have today. Is it any wonder he
couldn't catch the plague? Is it any wonder he could throw
people out a high window?
Let us yield to the Holy Spirit, step out of natural limits,
and speak, live, and act supernaturally!
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Chapter 7
7 The Key to Miracles
I n the eighth chapter of Acts we read that the apostles

appointed deacons to wait on tables. The apostles said:
...It is not reason that we should leave the word of
God, and serve tables.
Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven
men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and
wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.
But we will give ourselves continually to prayer,
and to the ministry of the word.
And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and
they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the
Holy Ghost...
Acts 6:2-5
I want you to see something that I believe is the key to

having miracles in your life. There are two elements you
must have for miracles, and you cannot have one without the
other: prayer and the Word.
Notice the apostles said they would give themselves
continually "to prayer, and to the ministry of the word."
That means, we need not only the teaching of the Word, but
we also need prayer so we may be filled with the Holy Spirit.
One of the men they chose to wait on tables was Stephen,
who later became the first martyr of the Church. The Bible
says that he was a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit.
Elements for Ministry

Notice the two different elements in him: faith and the
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Holy Spirit. You can be full of faith and not be full of the
Holy Spirit.
We have seen many ministries that minister strictly by
faith, and they have a certain amount of results and success,
but it isn't God's best.
On the other hand, we have seen people who minister
simply by the Holy Spirit. They will not minister by faith to
anyone. They exercise the word of knowledge or other gifts of
the Spirit, but when the Spirit is not in operation, they will
not do a thing. They, too, have a certain amount of success,
but it isn't God's best, either.
If you just have the Word, you can dry up. If you just have
the Spirit, you can blow up. But if you have both, you will grow
up, as someone said. That's why we need both.
We need not only prayer, but the Word. We need not only
faith, which comes by hearing the Word; we need to be filled
with the Spirit, speaking to ourselves with psalms and
hymns and spiritual songs.
Actions Filled With Power

That is when your actions become filled with the power of
God. We're going to see the importance of that in the eighth
chapter of Acts:
Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and
preached Christ unto them.
And the people with one accord gave heed unto
those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing
the miracles which he did.
For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came
out of many that were possessed with them: and
many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were
healed.
And there was great joy in that city.
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The Key to Miracles
Acts 8:5-8
Here we see Philip again, this time in full-time ministry

as an evangelist. We know he was one of the seven, including
Stephen, who were chosen earlier to wait on tables! The
apostles had chosen them, laid hands on them, and appointed
them as deacons.
Philip went to Samaria and preached Christ, and the
people received his message. They saw devils come out of
people, crying with a loud voice. Many who were lame and
sick with palsy were healed, and the Bible says there was
great joy in that city.
A Sorcerer Is Saved
Then the account goes on to tell us there was a man
named Simon, a sorcerer who had bewitched the people and
had been appointed as a high-ranking spiritualist in the city.
The people thought he had the power of God. During the
revival, the Bible reports, "Simon also believed."
We also learn that when the church in Jerusalem heard
that the Samaritans had received the Word of God, they sent
Peter and John to Samaria to minister. The Samaritans had
heard and received the Word of God from Philip. Preaching
the Gospel, he'd also had tremendous success in healing the
sick. And he had baptized the new converts in water.
The Second Blessing

But the Bible says in verses 15 and 16 that Peter and
John went to Samaria to pray for them, "that they might
receive the Holy Ghost. (For as yet he was fallen upon
none of them: only they were baptized in the name of
the Lord Jesus.)"
This gives us a clear indication that there is a ministry
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for the evangelist (Philip) and there is a ministry for the

apostle (Peter and John). The two ministries bring different
levels of truth.
Thank God, salvation is not the end; it's just the
beginning! We don't have to remain babies. We can grow up
in Christ.
Although Samaria had received the Word of God;
although they were saved, including the sorcerer; and
although they were baptized with water, the Holy Spirit had
fallen upon none of them!
God's Best for Me

Here came Peter and John. They prayed for the
Samaritans that they would receive the Holy Spirit. That
tells me I receive salvation through the hearing of the Word,
and then I must receive the baptism with the Holy Spirit as a
separate experience.
Those two elements working in my life can produce God's
best in me, which is a Christ-like person; a Jesus-kind of
believer. This is the kind of believer Jesus described in Mark
16:17, when he said, "These signs shall follow them that
believe...."
These signs include, "...in my name shall they cast out
devils; they shall speak with new tongues...they shall
lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover" (verses
17,18).
Peter and John prayed for the believers in Samaria, and
in Acts 8:18 it says, "And when Simon saw that through
laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was
given, he offered them money."
The Ministry of Impartation
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Was Simon saved? Absolutely. Baptized in water? Yes.

But he saw something in the ministry of the apostles. He saw
something in the ministry of impartation that he wanted so
desperately, he offered money for it.
"Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay
hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost," Simon asked in
verse 19. In other words, he was saying, "Give me the ability
of impartation." The ministry of impartation means that the
Spirit of God comes into your life in a stronger measure to
release in you the giftings God has deposited in you
supernaturally.
But Peter thundered:
Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast
thought that the gift of God may be purchased with
money.
Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for
thy heart is not right in the sight of God.
Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray
God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be
forgiven thee.
For I perceive that thou art in the gall of
bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.
Then answered Simon, and said, Pray ye to the
Lord for me, that none of these things which ye have
spoken come upon me.
Acts 8:20-24
Time for the Apostles

Miracles had been happening through Philip. Devils were
cast out through his ministry; sick and crippled people were
healed through his ministry; and the city received great joy
because of his preaching. But the Holy Spirit had fallen on
none of them.
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Philip was through ministering. His ministry in Samaria

ended with the repentance and salvation of the Samaritans.
However, the apostles Peter and John came now with the
gifts and the ability to impart them. When they laid hands on
the new believers, the Bible says they were filled with the
Holy Spirit.
I believe prophets and apostles have a higher level of
impartation capacity. Because they speak prophetically or
inspirationally, they can impart to others, strengthening
them through the outpouring of the Spirit that is in their
ministry.
What Simon Saw

When Simon the former sorcerer saw that through the
laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Spirit was given, he
offered them money for this power. Simon saw the results of
the impartation. The Holy Spirit is invisible. You cannot see
the Holy Spirit given, but you can see a manifestation when
the Spirit is given.
As Paul wrote to the Corinthians, "My speech and my
preaching was not with enticing words of man's
wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of
power" (1 Corinthians 2:4).
That means that the ex-sorcerer could not have seen the
Holy Spirit as a dove or as a flame of fire; however, he saw
that through the ministry of the laying on of hands, the Holy
Spirit was given.
No doubt he witnessed people shake, fall under the
power, shout, get drunk in the spirit, laugh hysterically, and
speak in other tongues. And when he saw that the ministry
of the apostle produced an impartation that demonstrated
the power of God, he sought it for himself.
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The Captivating Anointing

There is something in the Church world that will always
captivate those who are seeking power, and that "something"
is the anointing. As we see in this account of the Samaritan
revival, there is a difference between the anointing for
conviction and salvation and the anointing that comes to
bless, fill, and equip the saints through the baptism in the
Holy Spirit.
I don't know if you've ever been in a service when nearly
everyone was drunk in the Spirit, but I've been in many of
them. It doesn't happen all the time, but it happens quite
regularly where I have congregations drunk in the Spirit,
laughing hysterically, down and out on the floor, because the
power of God is moving in the form of impartation, in the
form of blessing, in the form of filling God's people to
overflowing.
What Simon Sought

When Simon saw that, he began to say, "Give me that!
Give me that!" If you have the ability to make people happy
joyous, and free—if you have the ability to ease people's
burdens because you carry with you a presence and a level of
glory that is able to liberate and add to the message of
salvation—people will want what you have!
Notice, Simon did not offer Philip the evangelist money,
not because the evangelist was inferior—absolutely not—but
because what Philip brought to Samaria was the Word of
God on salvation. It was just one part of what God had for
the people.
Then Peter and John brought the Word of God on the
Holy Spirit. And when you put the Word and the Spirit
together, there is an explosion, and suddenly Simon said,
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"Give me that," and he offered money.

Of course, we know Peter was not a diplomat. He told
Simon, "Your money perish with you! You're in the gall
of bitterness. You're in the bond of iniquity."
Peter's reputation had probably preceded him. No doubt
people had heard about Ananias and Sapphira dropping
dead. You don't mess with Peter! And the moment Peter
started talking to Simon, Simon said, "No, no. I'm not going
to pray. You pray to the Lord that He would forgive me, that
none of the things you said would come upon me!"
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Chapter 8
8 Apostle of Faith
O ne of the forerunners of ministering in the realm of

impartation in modern times was Smith Wigglesworth,
the well-known English evangelist.
Wigglesworth is probably most famous for the fact that he
reportedly raised 14 people from the dead. Can you imagine
that? Some claim he raised more than 20 people from the
dead, but, documented, he raised 14 from the dead.
Wigglesworth would move from faith to special faith.
When you begin to believe the Word of God to the point
where you go as far as you can, like Wigglesworth, there will
be times when outbursts of supernatural faith will manifest
through you.
We were in a certain meeting recently, and a tiny woman
came up for prayer. She had pain in her neck and back
because of arthritis. I laid my hands on her, but she did not
receive. I took my hands off her, and then great faith came on
me.
When someone is in pain, you can't grab them and yank
them around unless you have received that release into
special faith, and you know that what you're about to do is
going to work.
I grabbed the woman by the wrists, and when I violently
yanked her arms above her head twice, the power of God hit
her, and she started to laugh hysterically. She stood there
and laughed like a drunk for about 10 minutes, and then fell
under the power.
She came back later and told me that not only did the
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pain leave instantly when I did that, but she had never felt
the Spirit of God fall on her as powerfully as it did when I
yanked her arms. That was impartation.
Smith Wigglesworth operated in that dimension. He
would hit people in the stomach, and tumors would dissolve.
When he was criticized for it, he said you cannot be soft with
the devil.
Of course, the moment you believe the Bible, you're going
to be criticized, because the Bible isn't a book composed of
double-talk. The Bible doesn't present a suggestion; it
presents an absolute method for obeying God. If you don't
want criticism, don't believe the Bible.
"I Hit the Devil"

When Wigglesworth was criticized and told, "You hit
people. You're too rough," he said, "I don't hit people; I hit the
devil. If they get in the way, I can't help it. You can't deal
gently with the devil, or comfort him. He likes comfort."
We have also seen tumors dissolve when special faith
moved us to hit people. We are learning how to step out of
the faith of the Word into the manifestation of the faith of the
Spirit. That is a manifestation of the Holy Spirit: special
faith, gifts of healings, and working of miracles.
You can't make it happen when you want to. You can
always lay hands on the sick and minister healing to them,
and you can always have the anointing working with you, but
if you're going to move into a manifestation of the Spirit, it
must be sparked or unctioned by Him.
Otherwise, you'll hit someone in the stomach, and you'll
hurt them. You'll pull someone out of their wheelchair, and
you'll hurt them—because it won't be God doing it through
you.
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On Raising the Dead

In order to raise the dead, Wigglesworth would approach
the situation with as much faith as he had, and then he said
he would penetrate heaven with his faith. In other words, he
would be seeking a yes answer, and he would be ready.
When Peter raised Tabitha from the dead in Acts 9:36-42,
he knelt beside her bed, made everyone leave the room,
prayed, and then turned and said to her, "Tabitha, arise!"
What was he doing when he was praying? He was
penetrating the throne room of God with great plainness of
speech, with his own faith, in order to receive by faith the
God-kind of faith. He knew that when he talked to the dead
woman, he had to know beyond any doubt that she was going
to resurrect.
Preparing to Minister Healing

I remember when I first began to feel the tugging of the
Holy Spirit to minister healing to the sick. I began to feel
that God wanted me to minister strongly to people with
bursitis, arthritis, scoliosis, neck injuries, fused spines, and
so forth.
If a man had a crippled arm, I would almost be sure that
if I grabbed his arm and picked it up, it would be healed. But
when I first moved into that realm of ministry, I would stand
and hold the person's hand for several minutes; however long
it took.
What was I waiting for? I was getting rid of every bit of
doubt. You cannot move in faith when you're wondering what
is going to happen. You can only move when you know what
is going to happen. And you can only know what is going to
happen when there is absolute faith convincing you of it.
When I settled it in my heart, that's when I moved the
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hand or arm and the person wouldn't scream—they would be

healed and their pain would leave—they were delivered just
like that. For months I found myself doing this in a very
cautious fashion until I got bolder and stronger in it.
One night we were in a meeting, and everyone who had
pain in their body—scoliosis, arthritis, injured shoulders,
injured necks—was coming up, and I was yanking them
violently, aggressively attacking the condition. People were
getting healed one after the other because the gift of special
faith was in manifestation.
We've got to move into it. We've got to be convinced of its
reality and learn how to cooperate with it, and then we will
grow in it. We must start in the beginning by simply
ministering to the sick through the conventional means of
laying on of hands. And we must find out what God has
gifted us with: What kind of manifestations does the Spirit
manifest through us?
A Mouthpiece for God

Wigglesworth had special faith working in him. We even
call him "the apostle of faith." But I believe with all my heart
that Smith Wigglesworth was a prophet. He prophesied
important things, and he had several visions. He was a
mouthpiece for God in many situations.
He said, "I understand God by His Word. I cannot
understand God by impressions or feelings. I cannot get to
know God by sentiment. I can only know Him by His Word.
It is a dangerous practice to be governed by feelings."
In other words, if Wigglesworth had pain in his body, he
didn't go by that pain; he went by Jesus' stripes, and he was
healed. This man lived a life of divine health until the day he
went to be with the Lord on March 12, 1947. He was 87.
He was attending a funeral and asked a friend how a
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certain person he had prayed for was doing, and suddenly

Wigglesworth was gone. When they inspected his body, the
doctor said it was like the body of a young man.
It was common to perform autopsies on the dead in those
days, but they didn't do one on Wigglesworth's body, because
he had vowed that "no knife will touch this body in life or in
death."
When he died, his words were still alive, and the doctors
could not perform an autopsy on his body, because he had
said it by faith when he was living.
His Faith Was Tested

Of course, his faith was sorely tested. For years
Wigglesworth would finish a miracle service and go to his
hotel room and roll on the floor in pain from kidney stones.
Anyone with less faith than his would have had an operation,
but he had made a decision to believe God for his miracle,
and he remained adamant, despite the pain.
After six years, he was completely delivered, and he lived
in divine health and strength until his late eighties, working
hard. He was a good example. He didn't miss God, and he
walked in the anointing and the power of the Lord.
It is even said that Wigglesworth grew his third set of
teeth. That is awesome! For someone to believe God for a
third set of teeth, he would have to have faith!
San Francisco Sees a Miracle

It is also said that when Wigglesworth visited San
Francisco years ago, so many people wanted to hear him, he
preached and ministered by walking the streets. The people
brought out the sick and laid them on mattresses so the
shadow of Wigglesworth could pass over them. As it did, the
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sick were healed. San Francisco witnessed a 20th century

Book of Acts miracle.
Why? There was no pretense to Wigglesworth. The reason
he had the miracles he had is because he was a man of the
Word and of the Spirit. He was a man who believed the Word
just like it is, and he was a man who let the Spirit control his
life.
Reading in the Holy Ghost

He used to say, "Some people like to read the Bible in the
Greek, and some people like to read the Bible in the Hebrew,
but I prefer to read my Bible in the Holy Ghost." That's the
best way to read the Bible, isn't it? That's when you can get
revelation. That's when the Bible lives in you, and you live in
it; and in that realm you can ask what you will, and it shall
be done unto you.
Wigglesworth used to say, "Faith is an act." A man like
that was seldom caught without action. He was a man of
action. When he saw something, he took care of it.
One day in his meeting, a demon-possessed man cried
with a loud voice and turned around and tried to run out of
the building. Wigglesworth ran after him, tackled him, and
cast the devil out of him. He was a man of action!
A Man of Action
You see, when the Word and the Spirit are living in you,
you are no longer asking a lot of questions or wondering. You
become a man of action.
How do you know when you have faith? It is because you
can act. You can act before you think! You can detect what
the devil is about to do, and you can stop him. If you can't
stop him before he does it, you can act while he's in the
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middle of it and stop him then.

You are a man of immediate action, just like Jesus was
when he was walking Jairus to his house and He was
stopped by the woman who touched the hem of His garment
and was healed. After the interview with this woman,
messengers came and told Jairus, "Don't bother the
Master any more; your daughter is dead."
Jesus immediately said, "Fear not; only believe." That's
a man of action speaking. He did not allow the devil to rob
the father of his faith. He immediately counteracted what the
devil said with His word—a man of action.
A Consistent Man
That is how Wigglesworth was. He used to say, "Faith is
an act." He used to say, "Only believe." He is the originator of
the phrase, "God said it, I believe it, and that settles it."
There are some dried up, dead, cold, lukewarm,
backslidden, powerless theologians running around today
who are trying to dispute and argue with some of the things
Wigglesworth said.
But anyone who has raised 14 people from the dead is
worth listening to. I would rather listen to him than to
someone who got his information off a bookshelf and has
failed to produce the living faith of God. Faith is an act.
One night Smith Wigglesworth woke up and the devil
was in his room. He looked and said, "Oh, it's only you," and
he rolled over and went back to sleep. We're talking about a
man who had no respect for the devil!
God woke him one night and told him to go to such-and-
such a place and raise a person from the dead. He told the
Lord, "I'll do it in the morning, Lord," and went back to sleep.
He woke up the next morning, put on his clothes, and went
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over there and raised that person from the dead. That's a
man of consistency.
A Visit From Old Man Danube

When Lester Sumrall visited England as a young man, he
became well acquainted with Wigglesworth, visiting him in
his home and preaching with him. Wigglesworth laid hands
on him, wept over him, and prayed that God would release
the faith he had in him into Lester Sumrall.
I believe in impartation. I would rather "catch" something
from God than have my mind full of information I can't use.
We were with Dr. Sumrall in Sweden and he told of a
time he was ministering close to the Danube River, and he
called out demon-possessed cases. He said, "If you're here
and you're demon possessed, come up here right now," and
300 people began to come out of the congregation!
He said, "No, you don't understand. I said demon
possessed." The pastor said, "They know exactly what you
said."
And Dr. Sumrall began to command the devil, saying, "By
faith in the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, I command
you to come out!" People began to writhe like snakes on the
floor, and devils began to come out of them.
All of a sudden, a deep, guttural male voice came through
a woman and said, "My name is Old Man Danube, and I'll
kill her!"
Sumrall replied, "Old Man Danube, my name is Lester
Sumrall, and I've come to cast you out!"
Wigglesworth's Impartations
He got that faith because of the impartation Smith
Wigglesworth poured into his life through prayer.
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Wigglesworth had a presence with him, and he believed

in impartation. He believed in sitting next to you and
releasing the anointing without saying a word, waiting for
the opportunity to witness.
At times, it is reported, people were overwhelmed by the
feeling that they were going to die and go to hell—just
because they were around him. They would come to him and
say, "We don't understand what it is about you, but your
presence makes us feel as if we're going to die and go to hell.
Would you pray for us?" You can't do that without an
anointing being with you, accompanying you wherever you
go.
You need the Word and the Spirit to ignite the power of
the living God like this.
Faith by Association
Once when Dr. Sumrall was in Java, he was awakened in
the middle of the night by a demonic manifestation which
was walking his bed across the room. He woke up and told
the devil, "Put it back!" He didn't say, "Stop it," or "Knock it
off." He said, "Put it back!" And he made the devil that
walked his bed across the room walk it back where it
belonged!
He got that faith through impartation—through
association—with Smith Wigglesworth. There are certain
things you glean by association with the right crowd, and
there are certain things you glean by impartation from the
right crowd.
We know this is biblical, because when the disciples
performed the miracles they did, it was because Jesus had
said, "You will receive the same Spirit I have. I will ask the
Father, and He will send you the Holy Spirit."
When the religious people saw the disciples performing
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miracles, it was obvious they had been with Jesus. They had
associated with Him—they had received an impartation from
Him—and they had become like Him in ministry.
A Fearless Stance
Wigglesworth said, "God said it, I believe it, and that
settles it." If you believe what God said, that settles it in your
life, and no devil can rob you of what God has promised you.
Wigglesworth also said, "Fear looks; faith jumps." Fear is
always wondering, "What are we going to do?" Faith has no
time to hesitate, and faith does not respond or react to the
devil. Faith always acts from a position of superiority to the
devil. We see that in the life of Jesus. We always see Jesus
taking command. We always see the disciples taking
command because of the power they had through the Holy
Spirit.
Wigglesworth used to say, "Any man can be changed by
faith." That includes all of us. He would say, "Never say 'I
can't' if you're filled with the Holy Ghost." People say, "I
can't" all the time, but all things are possible to him that
believes. So if you are filled with the Holy Spirit, never say "I
can't," because you can do all things.
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Chapter 9
9 The Emergence of the Third Move
O ral Roberts said he and his fellow healing evangelists

owe Smith Wigglesworth a debt beyond calculation.
Why? I believe Wigglesworth was a forerunner of a balanced
message, saying there is the Word and there is the Spirit,
and when they are combined, a mighty revival will result.
Wigglesworth prophesied, "There is coming a move that
will restore the gifts of the Spirit. Then there will come a
second move that will emphasize the Word."
Then he prophesied, "When these two moves of the Spirit
combine, we will see the greatest move the Church of Jesus
Christ has ever seen. I won't see it, but it is going to come,
and it is going to be greater in its dimension of the
miraculous and success in God than anything any of us have
ever encountered."
The Gifts Restored

As you know, the restoration of the gifts of the Holy Spirit
took place during the Healing Revival of the 1950s. After
Wigglesworth and Aimee Semple McPherson died, a mighty
healing revival swept this nation.
The media by and large chose to ignore it, but people by
the millions came to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ
during the Healing Revival, when great men of God like Jack
Coe, William Branham, A. A. Allen, Oral Roberts, and many
others were on the scene ministering powerfully.
The blind were seeing, the deaf were hearing, the lame
were leaping for joy, and it brought the Church a new
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revelation of the gifts of the Spirit and the knowledge that

there were men and women who still operate in the gifts of
healings and still have the working of miracles in their life.
The Healing Revival Didn't Die

Many believe the Healing Revival ended, but I don't
believe it died; I believe the healing evangelists died. I don't
believe it is God's best for us to wait for a future date for
miracles.
This is the day the Lord has made; I will rejoice and be
glad in it. We can have miracles today. Jesus Christ is the
same today as He was yesterday.
But to have miracles, we are going to have to pay the
price. The great men and women of faith in the past paid the
price, and part of the price was in their thought life. They
weren't liberal thinkers; they were people of absolutes. They
chose the best route and made it the only route.
The Charismatic Movement Emerges

During the time the Healing Revival died down because
the evangelists had left the forefront, there came in the
1960s the Charismatic Movement and a woman by the name
of Kathryn Kuhlman. Kathryn Kuhlman rarely ministered to
the sick by faith. What she did was open the eyes of the
Church. She brought a fresh awareness regarding the person
and gifts of the Holy Spirit.
By worship and praise, and by turning the hearts of the
people to the Lord, the tangible presence of the Spirit
released the revelation gifts—the word of knowledge and the
word of wisdom. Miss Kuhlman operated in the gifts, and
people were healed.
They were also healed through the corporate prayer of
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faith, which normally does not involve the laying on of hands.

Wigglesworth foresaw the Charismatic Movement when
he was alive. This movement began to reach beyond
denominational barriers, and it brought a revelation of the
Person of the Holy Spirit to the Church. People started
getting saved in all kinds of denominations. Catholics started
getting baptized with the Holy Spirit.
The Word/Faith Movement Arrives

Shortly after the Charismatic Movement emerged, there
came a revelation known as the Word/Faith Movement. Some
people act as if it never happened. I don't care what the
skeptics say; the Word/Faith Movement is a genuine, sound,
Bible-based foundation for the Church. Without the
revelation of the integrity of the Word of God, a Christian is
powerless against his adversary.
Here came men and women who began to preach about
the integrity of God's Word and His promises. One such man
was Kenneth E. Hagin, who at the time of the Healing
Revival was preaching and teaching in churches.
He didn't have a tent, and he wasn't a famous preacher,
but he was on the scene. When the Charismatic Movement
came, it was a launching pad for him to join in and bring the
message of the Word: "You can have what you say."
Critics may call it the "Blab it and grab it" or "Name it
and claim it" move, but the Bible is clear: "What things
soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive
them, and ye shall have them" (Mark 11:24).
When we believe in the integrity of God's Word, we don't
need the gifts to be in operation, or we don't need to feel
goose bumps, or we don't need a certain atmosphere to be
present in order to receive answers from God.
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The Era of the Teacher

The Word/Faith Movement was the era of the teacher,
just as the Healing Revival had been the era of the
evangelist. The Lord brought a strong emphasis on the Word
and faith through Kenneth E. Hagin, Kenneth Copeland, and
many other faith teachers.
It may have seemed like the evangelist went out and the
teacher came in, but God never fights against Himself. When
He anoints the evangelist and then brings in the teacher, it's
only because the teacher can add to what the evangelist did.
It's not to separate or divide the two, but to put them
together and come up with a great and mighty weapon to use
to defeat the works of the devil.
There came the revelation, "I don't go by what I feel; I
believe what the Bible says: It doesn't matter what the
symptoms are; I quote the Word.
"It doesn't matter what my financial condition is; my God
shall supply all of my need according to His riches in glory. It
doesn't matter if I feel weak; let the weak say, 'I am strong.'
Be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Resist
the devil, and he will flee from you."
This revelation of the integrity of the Word and the
authority of the believer came through the Word/Faith
Movement.
The Third Move That's Coming

But Wigglesworth didn't stop here. While he was still
alive, he prophesied of a third move. He said, "In that third
move, the Church is going to take the gifts of the Spirit; its
awareness of the Third Person of the Trinity; its awareness
of the revelation gifts, the utterance gifts, and the power
gifts; and it's going to put it together with a balance: the
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Word- based revelation of the integrity of God."

Wigglesworth concluded, "It's going to be the most
powerful move the world has ever known."
Do you realize it belongs to you and me?
Bulldog Faith
Wigglesworth was a man of tenacious faith. However, he
never expected others to adhere to a standard he was not
willing to live himself.
One day they brought a crippled child to him. The Spirit
of the Lord moved him, and he literally kicked the child off
the platform! As the crowd gasped, the child just flew
through the air—and when he landed, he was completely
healed!
A human mind cannot understand that. We can never
hope to get to that dimension in faith unless we begin to
believe God in the little things and become like a bulldog. We
must hold onto God's promises and not allow men's opinions,
theology, doctrine, religiosity, or traditions rob us of what we
believe God has for us.
The Day Polly Died

While Wigglesworth was away from home one day
holding a meeting, his wife, Polly, died. When he got home,
he resurrected her from the dead and tried to talk her out of
leaving this life! She said, "I want to go to be with the Lord.
It's my time to go."
Can you imagine: You die, but you can't get rid of your
husband! His faith wouldn't quit, and he raised her from the
dead. She had to convince him that it was time for her to go.
Otherwise, she couldn't have gone, because his faith would
have held her here.
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I know that doesn't sit right with the religious mind,

because we think that when your number comes up, it's your
time. But the Bible says, "With long life will I satisfy him,
and shew him my salvation" (Psalm 91:16).
Wigglesworth was so bold, many of the preachers around
him tended to believe him even when he was joking. You can
get so bold in God, and people can see you have so many
results, that your words will carry great weight.
Living in Psalm 91
A man once came to Wigglesworth and said, "How dare
you say you are going to live to such-and-such age when the
Bible says it's threescore and ten, and you are already
beyond that?"
Wigglesworth responded, "Where does it say that?"
The man answered, "In the 90th Psalm."
Wigglesworth said, "I don't live in the 90th Psalm; I live
in the 91st Psalm. It says, 'With long life will I satisfy him,
and show him my salvation.'"
Then one day as he was sitting at the dinner table, he
told some friends, "I just found out in Genesis that man's
days shall be 120. I think I'll live to be 120."
Someone said, "Now we know how long you'll live. If you
live to be 120, that will be the end of your days."
Wigglesworth replied, "Well, if I get to be somewhere
around there and I'm not satisfied, I'll just jump over to the
91st Psalm again."
Believing for God's Best

Now we laugh about it and say, "Well, it didn't happen.
He died at age 87." Yes, but he died at 87 healing the sick.
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He died at 87 raising the dead. He died at 87 with his bills

paid, the devil under his feet, and God exalted in his life.
The reason was not because God sovereignly chose to give
Smith Wigglesworth a different lifestyle of victory. No, it was
because he contended for the faith, believed for it, and
expected great things to happen, believing for God's best.
Wigglesworth saw some of the most powerful things man
could see, yet he prophesied that even greater things would
come to our generation.
Wigglesworth gave the torch to others who were in
contact with him, and now they are running with it.
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Chapter 10
10 Imparting Strong Faith
D uring the Healing Revival, generally dated by historians

as 1947 to 1958, literally hundreds of ministries were
involved in healing the sick and casting out devils.
It was a tremendous move of God! The healing
evangelists were waging a tenacious battle against sickness
and disease. People were getting healed by the thousands,
and the Church was also having great success in getting
people delivered from alcohol, drugs, and tobacco.
Today, some of those evangelists would be considered
people who "hype" and go to extremes to get the crowd into a
high vein of enthusiasm and excitement. But regardless of
what people think, genuine miracles took place in their
services night after night.
Fortunately, we can still witness some of the meetings of
William Branham, A. A. Allen, and Jack Coe today, because
they were filmed. We see up to 90 persons who were bedfast
or confined to a wheelchair get up healed in the middle of a
strong move of God.
There was such boldness and such a strong conviction
that Jesus Christ is the same today as He was yesterday,
people were almost afraid not to be healed.
The evangelists were so strong in their message, most of
them said, "If you don't get healed, it's because you don't
have faith." Although that is not a popular message today,
there is a lot of truth in it.
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However, it isn't our desire to condemn people, or make

them feel guilty because they don't have strong faith. It's our
job to impart strong faith to them. If they don't get it
immediately, we can still work with them. We must learn to
hate the devil. We must learn to hate sickness. But we must
learn to love people.
There is a balance, an accuracy, there. There is a truth in
being strong about what you are preaching. Sometimes
you've got to be rough with people if you're going to help
them. Otherwise, you might get on their good side and end
up burying them. I'd rather get on their bad side and see
them get healed!
The healing evangelists were rough. Jack Coe had strong
faith and was rough. He would walk down the healing line,
pick people out of wheelchairs—and let go of them. If they
fell, they fell. And if they stood, they stood. By and large, 60
to 70 percent of those he picked up out of their wheelchairs
were healed instantly and walked off. That's a pretty good
percentage!
Kathryn Kuhlman
Out of that driving, enthusiastic, high-energy Healing
Movement came the Charismatic Movement—and Kathryn
Kuhlman. Miss Kuhlman was a woman of the Spirit, but she
did not agree with a lot of the methods the healing
evangelists used.
I believe there are two viewpoints regarding healing. The
one espoused by the healing evangelists was, "We will believe
God by faith; and we will push, press in, and agree together
—and we will see it happen."
On the other side was the Charismatic viewpoint held by
Kathryn Kuhlman and others, who said, "We will just
worship the Lord, and we will let the Spirit of the Lord bring
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the miracle. If you get healed, God healed you. If you don't
get healed, we don't understand why some people are healed
and others aren't."
Both Viewpoints Needed

The reason I am mentioning these viewpoints is because
we need both today. The Lord told me we need to have the
Charismatics' love of worship, praise, atmosphere, the power
of God falling, and people getting healed as well as the
healing evangelists' preference for the gifts of the Spirit in
operation. We also need tenacity when there is no anointing
or flow in a meeting to blast through the hindrance and let
the flow of God come.
God never eclipsed the Healing Revival by the
Charismatic Movement! Neither did He eclipse the
Charismatic Movement by the Word/Faith Movement. His
intention was for us to take everything that is biblical in all
these moves and combine it so we could see the full picture of
what God is doing in the earth today.
We have been studying about prophets and the miracle
ministry of the prophet. One reason for our study is because
prophets tell you what's coming. We have learned through
the Word and through the mouth of Jesus and other
messengers that a revival is coming. This coming move of
God will be stronger than anything we've experienced before.
William Branham
William Branham was a modern prophet. He became a
controversial man later in his ministry, but he was a man of
the Spirit—a man of extraordinary visions and revelations.
He was what I call a seer. He was like an Old Testament
prophet. There is no doubt that he had the gift of God
working in him.
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The angel of the Lord that had talked to him since

childhood appeared to him on May 7, 1946 and told him,
"Fear not. I am sent from the presence of Almighty God to
tell you that … God has sent you to take a gift of divine
healing to the people of the world." The angel also told
Branham he would be able to detect and diagnose all
diseases and afflictions when the gift was operating.
Looking Over the Wall

Branham saw events before they took place. He used to
look into people's lives by the Spirit. The late Demos
Shakarian told me that when he asked Brother Branham,
"How do you do it?" Branham said it was almost as if he
pulled himself over a wall through his faith and looked into
people's lives.
It was not unusual for people to come on the platform and
for Brother Branham to give their name and address,
diagnose their condition, tell them how long they'd been in
that condition, name the doctor they'd been seeing, and
repeat what the doctor had said. Then, after he had
confirmed that everything he had said was true, he would
tell them to go home and believe God, because they were
healed.
Equipping the Saints

The Bible tells us that the ministry gifts (apostle,
prophet, evangelist, pastor, and teacher) and the gifts of the
Spirit, such as the word of knowledge, are alive and active
today. They are going to be part of equipping the saints for
the work of the ministry, so we can work together to bring
about this great and mighty harvest that God intends to give.
It is said that William Branham was in a meeting one
night when a man wearing dark glasses was escorted into the
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building, as if he were blind, by two other men.

Branham stopped in the middle of his sermon and said,
"Three men just walked into the building. The one in the
middle is faking blindness. Two men are walking you down
the aisle. You have come here to mock the man of God, but
you are going to be blind for a season."
Everyone in the congregation heard the man scream in
horror as his eyes literally went blind as the prophet spoke
the Word of the Lord.
I believe God is calling us in this hour to believe the Word
and to flow in the Spirit that strongly. Then, every time the
devil tries to do something against us, it will turn around and
become an embarrassment to him, because the Church of
Jesus Christ has been born into the kingdom. This
generation has been born into the kingdom for such an hour
as this. God has called us to live like this.
The Boy in the Vision

One day Branham saw a vision of a boy who was hit by a
car. He was lying by the side of a road. His clothing was
rumpled and he was fatally injured. Branham knew he would
raise him from the dead. From that time on, he shared this
vision and told people all over the country to write the
prediction in their Bibles, because it would surely come to
pass.
One day they brought Branham to a boy who had
drowned, but when the prophet looked at him, he said, "No,
that's not the one I saw in the vision."
Later, as he was riding through Finland, he saw a crowd
gathered by the side of the road. He asked the driver to stop.
When he got out of the car and investigated, it was the same
boy he had seen in the vision—and he raised that boy from
the dead!
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Things like that happened to Branham continually. He

didn't operate without the gifts. He would have visions and
then come to the meeting, and when people would come for
prayer, they were the same people he had seen in the vision.
He could diagnose their conditions better than any doctor
could. And he could provide the answers they needed for
their conditions.
A Ministry With Mystique

Actually, Branham's ministry had a lot of mystique about
it, because anytime a man operates so strongly in a gift,
people tend to gravitate toward him and believe that
everything he says is straight from God.
I believe we must be sure as Christians that we are not
only people of the Spirit, but we are people of the Word.
Why? Because in this day and age, we cannot afford to see
any more ministries rise and fall. We need to see them make
it all the way through.
There is a biblical standard for success in the ministry,
and I will give you an example of it. During the Healing
Revival, Brother Hagin was brushing shoulders with all
these evangelists. He was not as popular as they were. He
didn't buy a tent, although many people prophesied over him
that he should. He remained in local churches and
ministered in the level of grace he felt God had given him.
Building on the Word

But he used to tell many of those evangelists, "When
you're gone, I'll still be around, because you're building on a
gift, and I'm building on the Word of God."
Before William Branham died on Christmas Eve 1965,
Gordon Lindsay, Brother Hagin, and several others knew by
revelation of the Holy Spirit that Branham was going to die.
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Brother Hagin knew that Branham would die unless he

stopped trying to be a teacher of the Word and stayed within
the higher level of anointing God had given him as a prophet.
The message was delivered to Branham, but he said, "I
know I'm not called to teach, but I like to teach, so I'm going
to continue doing it."
Even though he could call you by name, detect your
condition, and bring a cure to you, he was lacking in the area
of doctrine and the Word! What happened was, the devil used
that weakness in him to cause him to stumble.
But just because it happened does not lessen his success;
nor should we throw away the gift he had. We need that gift.
We need it alive in the church today. We need it alongside
the Word of God so whoever flows in it can continue to
maintain a long and successful ministry; and when they don't
have a supernatural gift, they will still have the Word, and
vice versa.
Supernatural Signs
Branham had two supernatural signs that were peculiar
to his ministry: pulsations and swelling in his left hand and
the operation of the word of knowledge.
When he took the left hand of a sick person, he would feel
vibrations in his own left hand which would allow him to
discern which diseases the person was suffering from.
If demonic activity was present, his hand would swell and
become red, and it would be visible to everyone. When the
demon spirit came into contact with the gift of God, Branham
would feel like he had grabbed an electric line. In fact, the
impact was so strong, his watch would stop. Then, when he
would cast the oppressing spirit out, the swelling would go
down, and his hand would return to normal.
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By the way, when the prophet was flowing in the gift, 100
percent of the people would be healed miraculously by the
power of God!
Sometimes Branham would push away the microphone
and tell a person privately, "In order for God to heal you, you
need to repent of this hidden sin that is going on in your life."
No one else heard their whispered conversation. When the
person repented, God healed and delivered him.
God's Will Is to Heal Everyone

When we regard a gift like Branham's and see that God is
willing to call people by name and minister healing to them,
we can understand how it is God's will to heal everyone.
Some people think it isn't God's will to heal everyone,
because not everyone gets healed. But if that were the case,
it isn't God's will to save everybody, because not everyone
gets saved. Nevertheless, it is God's will to bless His people;
to give them the healing blessings of Calvary through a
ministry gift.
Sometimes we can't see the full picture. We don't know,
for example, if unconfessed sin is involved in someone's
sickness. We don't know if there is a lack of faith on the
person's part. Or we don't know if the minister lacks
guidance from the Holy Spirit to detect what kind of
condition the person has and what its root cause is.
Despite that, we must press in and believe for 100
percent results, even when we only see 30 to 60 percent
results. We must believe for one hundred percent results
every time we step into the arena of divine healing!
The Word of Knowledge Builds Faith

The second sign Branham had that helped elevate the
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faith of the people to a place where they could receive healing

was the gift of the word of knowledge. Because this gift is
ministered to individuals, not corporately, it is impossible to
minister this way to a congregation made up of hundreds or
thousands of people. However, once 10, 20, or 30 people were
individually ministered to by the gift of the word of
knowledge, the faith of the whole congregation would rise to
a place where they could receive the prayer of faith that went
through Branham, and miracles would happen.
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Chapter 11
11 The Realm of Perception
And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in
his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who
never had walked:
The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly
beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be
healed,
Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet
And he leaped and walked.
Acts 14:8-10
This was a form of the word of knowledge. I believe that

perception is a form of the word of knowledge.
You know it is impossible to see whether someone has
faith or not, because you can't "see" faith with your natural
eye. It must be spiritually discerned.
When we are ministering, there are things we know when
we're in the anointing that we think we know because we're
so smart, but that's not it at all. We look at someone, and the
Lord talks to us about them. We know by the Holy Spirit
because the anointing is there. If that anointing is removed,
you know a great deal less.
I can look at people at times and the Lord will show me
things about them. I'll know what they are saying in their
heart to the Lord. I'll know when they are saying, "I wish I
could believe." And I'll know when they say, "I believe." This
is because there is a realm of perception that you can tune
into in God when the Holy Spirit has anointed you.
We learned earlier that Paul was a prophet at Antioch
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even before he was released to operate as an apostle. There is

a realm of perception that operates in the revelation realm.
Exploding Into the Faith Dimension

Do you know the Bible says, "ye may all prophesy one
by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted" (1
Corinthians 14:31). So when that anointing is there, the
children of God can prophesy a measure of the Gospel—can
prophesy by faith what the scripture says—and it will not be
a manifestation of their mind, will, or emotions. It will
indeed be a manifestation of the Holy Ghost, and it will carry
with it life that will sometimes explode a congregation into a
dimension of faith!
The Bible says that when a sinner comes into our midst
and hears us prophesy, "the secrets of his heart" are
exposed "and falling down on his face he will worship
God, and report that God is in you of a truth" (1
Corinthians 14:24). Why? Because you have "read his mail,"
so to speak.
That's how witnessing works, too. You don't witness just
by handing out tracts; you witness by detecting where that
person is spiritually.
If someone comes to your home or place of business, and
you offer him something he doesn't want, he's not going to
accept it. The same holds true with someone who is lost. You
must know where he's at in order to "hook" him and make
him want to receive what you have.
Paul Perceived Faith

So Paul, the Bible says, perceiving by the Holy Spirit that
the crippled man had faith to be healed, zeroed in. Probably
there were many people there that day who needed a miracle
and many whom God was willing to heal. But there was a
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The Realm of Perception
connection between Paul and this man who had never

walked.
Paul got hold of him in the spirit and detected he had
faith. Again, it was a form of the word of knowledge. Acts
14:9 and 10 says that Paul "stedfastly beholding
him...said with a loud voice...."
Sometimes we need a loud voice! Sometimes if we're not
ready to say it in a loud voice, we're not ready to experience
it. Sometimes a loud voice is the by-product of big faith—not
always, but sometimes.
When you're saying to a crippled man who has never
walked, out loud in front of a crowd, "Stand upright on
your feet!" it's because you know that you know that you
know that power is going to go out of your word, be received
by him, and he's going to respond.
We see in Acts 3:6 where Peter at the Gate Beautiful told
that other crippled man, "In the name of Jesus Christ of
Nazareth rise up and walk." But then he had to take him
by the hand and yank him up in order to help the
impartation take place. There is commitment, strength, and
involvement in that realm of perception.
So Paul perceived and William Branham perceived.
Branham operated in that realm by pulling himself over a
wall, as it were, and began to see into people's lives.
Combining the Spirit and the Word

The Charismatic Movement in the sixties opened our eyes
to the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Now the third wave of bringing
the Word and the Spirit together is coming. We need to
operate with the Spirit and the Word combined.
We were in South Africa recently in a time of
impartation, and the gifts of revelation began to operate.
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Robin looked at a certain woman and said, "There is one

thing in your life that you cannot believe God for. You can
believe God for everything else but this one thing."
The next day the woman brought her 10-year-old son who
had been born dumb. He had never spoken a word. As she
brought him up to the altar she was already teary-eyed,
because that word was so real to her. Until that time she had
probably believed that God can heal, but that belief didn't do
her any good.
Just because God can heal does not mean He will. It
takes our will to believe that He will in order to receive His
goodness.
A Time Not to Pray

When the mother brought the boy to the altar for me to
pray for him, I knew in my spirit that I shouldn't pray for
him. Instead, I bent down, looked at him, and said, "Do you
know who I am?" He said, "Man."
I said, "Man of God." He said, "Man of God."
I said, "Jesus is healing you, isn't he?" He said, "Jesus is
healing me."
I said, "Say, 'Hallelujah.'" He said, "Hallelujah."
I said, "Say, 'Praise the Lord.'" He said, "Praise the Lord!"
The congregation went wild! The mother went wild.
People were shouting and clapping and glorifying God.
It was a perception in me that the healing was already
done, simply by the act of the mother bringing the child for
prayer. It was done in the spirit. Sometimes things are done
in the spirit realm and we don't know it.
Knowing by the Inward Witness
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An Indian woman came to my meeting. She wasn't even

saved. She had a blood clot in her left leg, and she was
carried to the altar. She didn't know a thing about ministry.
When I laid my hands on her, she fell under the power.
After a while, they helped her to her feet, but she still held
her left leg as if it were still crooked. She still appeared to be
sick.
I said, "I want you to stand on the left leg and pick the
right leg up." I said that because I knew what had happened.
Sometimes you just know by an inward witness in your spirit
that it's time to stop praying, it's time to stop asking, because
it's over—it's done. When this woman stood on her left leg, it
dawned on her that she was healed.
I was in a meeting in Northern California one day, and a
woman in tormenting pain came up for prayer. Her back was
deteriorating. I said, "Turn around and show me where it is."
When I said that, the pastor knew I was going to hit her
in the back. His wife knew I was going to hit her in the back.
And my wife knew I was going to hit her in the back.
"Don't Hit Her in the Back!"

Later, the pastor told me, "I almost stopped you and said,
'Don't hit her in the back! She's in a lot of pain.'" But before
he could talk me out of it, I had hit her in the back, and she
was completely healed by the power of God! Why? Because
there is a "knowing" that can operate in you.
When we were in Florida recently, eight deaf people
received their healing in one service. The eighth person I
prayed for had been born without an eardrum. When I put
my finger in her left ear, it felt as big around as a quarter. I
pulled my finger back out and put my hand over her ear.
I said, "How many of you believe this woman is going to
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hear out of an ear that does not have an eardrum?" The

natural mind, you see, cannot receive the things of the Spirit
of God; they are foolishness to him. He cannot know them.
That woman started hearing perfectly. She plugged up
her right ear and was hearing perfectly out of her left ear—
the ear that did not have an eardrum in it. This is what God
wants for us today.
The Gift Does Not Do Away With the Word

When we were in Taos, New Mexico, several years ago, a
man in the service had been believing God for healing,
standing on the verse in First Peter 2:24, "By whose stripes
ye were healed." Standing on God's Word is a valid thing to
do.
But that night I had a word of knowledge. I said,
"Someone is here with a left shoulder that is in bad shape.
You have a lot of pain. God wants to heal your left shoulder."
The man didn't come forward. He was in the back of the
congregation, thinking, "Well, I'm already healed by Jesus'
stripes. I'm standing on the Word. I don't know if I should go
up there, because by going up, I might be denying my
miracle."
But the gift does not do away with the Word, and the
Word does not do away with the gift. They work together.
Because that man was believing he was healed, God gave me
a word of knowledge to make that manifestation a reality.
A Creative Miracle
I had a further word. I said, "You're standing by faith.
You believe by His stripes you were healed. Come up here."
And the man came. He had a short-sleeved shirt on, and his
shoulder was visible. The left shoulder protruded up like a
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pyramid.
He had fallen off a cliff and had broken the shoulder. It
did not heal right. They were getting ready to break the
shoulder cap, insert an artificial one, and reset his arm.
When I laid my hands on him, he fell under the power.
The power of God was on him. That deformed shoulder was
moving independent of his arm as fast as a piston would
move in an engine. It was going b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b.
I said, "Look at that!" and as many people as could crowd
around him watched as this man's bone moved independently
of the rest of his arm. After he had lain there a while, he
stood up, and now he could move his arm and shoulder with
ease. He had no pain. He was completely delivered instantly.
It was a creative miracle that was brought about through
the gift of the word of knowledge. This is a documented
healing.
There are no limits on God. The limits are at our end.
When we receive something from God, we can keep it, we can
run with it, and we can allow it to be a blessing in our life.
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Chapter 12
12 Our Destiny: Giant Killers!
N ow I want to share with you what I believe is our

destiny.
In this book, although we started in the Book of Acts, we
have spanned about a hundred years of recent Church
history.
We have studied the champions of faith—the children of
destiny—in the past century to validate and demonstrate
that there is a pattern to be found in the moves of God.
These moves led people out of the Dark Ages, out of the
Reformation, and out of the simple evangelical or salvation
message into the place where divine healing, prosperity, the
integrity of the Word, the validity of the gifts of the Holy
Spirit, and the restoration of the ministry gifts are viable.
We spanned all this to come to our conclusion: What is
the Body of Christ facing today?
A Visitation
Several years ago while my wife, Robin, and I were lying
in bed, resting, she had a vision that answers this question.
We weren't speaking about anything spiritual. I had my
hand on her stomach, and all of a sudden we grew silent. We
began to sense the witness of the Holy Spirit in our hearts
that something was about to happen.
I felt a slight surge of anointing leave my hand and enter
into Robin's body. When it did, we began to feel the presence
of the Lord move into the room. The stronger the presence
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got, the stronger the surge coming out of my right hand

became. I have never felt quite the same release of anointing
come out of my body.
The power of God pinned Robin to the bed, and the glory
of God filled the room. We both remained silent. This
experience lasted 12 to 15 minutes.
A Giant With Nail Prints

Robin saw a vision of a giant with nail prints in his hands
and feet, with fire coming out of his eyes, a sword coming out
of his mouth, and light coming out of his hands.
This giant was standing, planted firmly on top of a seven-
headed dragon that had seven different faces. Demons were
running in terror in every direction around the head of the
giant, and there were chariots of fire with angelic beings in
them.
When Robin came to, the surge of power in my hand
began diminishing, and the glory cloud started leaving.
Afterwards we remained silent a few more minutes before we
were able to speak.
The Interpretation
Robin described the vision to me, and the Spirit of the
Lord spoke to me and gave me the interpretation, saying:
That giant is the Body of Christ; the Church of Jesus
Christ. I will build my Church, and the gates of hell will not
prevail against it. Jesus Christ is the Head. The Church is
the Body.
The reason it has nail prints in its hands and feet is
because it has been crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, it
lives, yet not it, but it is Christ who is living in it.
The reason it has fire coming out of its eyes is because
the Church will have discernment, loving righteousness and
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hating iniquity. It will know what is of God. It will know

what is of the devil. It will believe God and resist the devil.
The reason it has a sword coming out of its mouth is
because the Church is going to speak and believe the Word.
And like a two-edged sword, it will pierce to bring the power
of God to a world that lies in darkness.
The reason it has shafts of light coming out of its hands
is because the healing power of God has been given to the
Church to operate. Behold, I give you power over all the
power of the devil, and nothing shall by any means hurt
you.
And the reason it is standing on top of a seven-headed
dragon is because all the power of the devil is going to be
subdued spiritually by the Church of Jesus Christ!
The Bible says of Jesus:

Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and
given him a name which is above every name:
That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things
under the earth.
Philippians 2:9,10
Cancer, AIDS Will Bow the Knee!

That means while we're here on earth, we're going to see
cancer bow the knee to the Name of Jesus Christ; AIDS bow
the knee to the Name of Jesus Christ; every other incurable
condition, bondage, and demon spirit that holds men bound
(if they are willing to be set free); and every demonic force,
disease, affliction, infirmity, and hopeless condition bow the
knee to the Name of Jesus Christ!
The reason the dragon had seven different faces is
because Satan will utilize everything within his power to
solicit his evil. If he cannot get you involved in Satanism,
he'll try to get you involved in Christian Science,
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Mormonism, or spiritualism. And there are presently

Christians calling 1-900 numbers to get a word from a
psychic!
If the devil cannot get you to walk out on God, he'll try to
do the second, third, fourth, or tenth best thing. That's why
he has different faces. He cannot appear to everyone as a
hideous creature. He tries to transform himself into an angel
of light.
We know that the vision we had is real, because the Bible
says in Ephesians 4:11-13:
And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets;
and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and
teachers;
For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of
the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of
the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man,
unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of
Christ.
That "perfect man" sounds like a giant, doesn't he?

The Bible says of Jesus:
And [God] hath put all things under his feet, and
gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
Which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth
all in all.
Ephesians 1:22,23
Here we are, entrusted with the most powerful

dispensation in history!
Go After the Devil!

We can believe the Word, pray and be filled with the
Spirit, and keep ourselves from the wicked one. And instead
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of "holding the fort," we can go after the devil's fort, pull

down his fortresses, take land from him, and take souls for
the glory of the kingdom of God.
Greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world!
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Other Books by Dr. Christian Harfouche
Authority Over the Powers of Darkness
Doing the Impossible
How to Receive Your Miracle
Living on the Cutting Edge
The Hidden Power of Your Words
The Silver, the Gold, and the Glory
The Spirit Guide
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For orders or more information contact:
Christian Harfouche Ministries

2411 Executive Plaza Rd.
Pensacola, FL 32504
(850) 494-1975
Or visit our website:

www.globalrevival.com

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The Miracle Ministry of the

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The Miracle Ministry of the Prophet

Second Printing, June 2000

Copyright © 1993 by Dr. Christian Harfouche

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1 The Missing Art of Imparting..............................................11

3 Living in the Realm of Miracles..........................................31

4 Living in the Anointing........................................................43

6 Growing in the Anointing....................................................63

7 The Key to Miracles.............................................................73

9 The Emergence of the Third Move......................................91

10 Imparting Strong Faith.....................................................99

11 The Realm of Perception..................................................109

12 Our Destiny: Giant Killers!.............................................117

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