Spiritual Java by Johnson Bill & Vallotton Kris & Dedmon Kevin & Johnson Beni & Silk Danny & Liebscher Banning

Author:Johnson, Bill & Vallotton, Kris & Dedmon, Kevin & Johnson, Beni & Silk, Danny & Liebscher, Banning [Johnson, Bill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780768490855
Publisher: Destiny Image
Published: 2010-10-21T00:00:00+00:00

From reading the book of Acts, you know what some of those signs and wonders were. Use your Spirit-inspired imagination to transplant some of those phenomenal occurrences to the milieu of your present-day world. Now take some of the signs and wonders from the chapter above and imagine them happening in the book of Acts. Allow your expectations to expand!

Chapter 21

ONE HUNDRED PERCENT SUCCESS

KEVIN DEDMON

I USED TO HAVE 100 percent success in healing; everyone I prayed for was healed. The catch is: I didn’t pray for anyone, so no one ever got healed. During the first three years of my Christian life, however, I had prayed for many people and several were healed. One day I was called on to pray for a woman who had cancer. I went full of faith and prayed for the woman, fully expecting her to improve. That night, however, I found out she had died shortly after I prayed for her. I was devastated. I was overcome with the idea that I had killed her because I really did not have a gift of healing and should have summoned the assistance of someone who did.

I spent the next 23 years avoiding praying for the sick. I believed in healing, and I believed that the Kingdom of God could break into this earthly realm. I just did not believe that I could administrate the grace of healing because I did not have the gift. As a pastor, if I knew of someone who was sick, I would call on one of the “gifted ones” in the church. I would often quip, “You don’t want me to pray for you. I might kill you!”

I truly believed people were better served if I did not pray for them. Then one day the Lord got my attention with a question: “Kevin, do you really believe you have the power to cause someone to die?”

“No, Lord, of course not,” I responded.

“Then you do not have the power to heal someone either,” He countered.

I got the point. Our job is to bring God’s Kingdom to earth, which means that we represent His name in our lives. We are called Christians because we have taken His name. We are the children of God (see 1 John 3:1), which means we are to be identified with His name. Therefore, we have the power associated with the Name we carry, in order to meet any need we encounter.

Not only do I have His name, but Christ also lives in me so that He can live through me. In Colossians 1:27, Paul says that it is “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” Therefore, I have what it takes to reveal the glory of God through my life. Jesus said in Luke 17:21, “The kingdom of God is within you.” God is simply looking for those who will release what is inside of them.

I cannot save anyone, but Christ in me can save everyone. I cannot deliver anyone, but Christ in me can deliver everyone.

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