Christ In Me The Hope Of Glory, Jesus

In addition to the incredible things the Lord was doing to get my ministry 

established, He continued to show me other wonders. One day I was running an errand for my dad to the bank. As I was driving into the parking lot I began to pray, “Lord, open a door for me to minister to someone today. Use me.” Interestingly, at that very moment I noticed a gate off to the side of the lot swing open. I then heard, “The man in the car next to you is sick.” I got out of my car and went over and knocked on his window asking, “Are you alright?” He said, “No, my head is killing me.” I told him I would pray for him. He said thank you and remained there resting, with his head lowered. 

I walked toward the bank, which was not yet open, and as I waited at the door, I had the realization that God had just spoken to me—it was He who told me the man was sick. I spontaneously burst into a glorious “Good morning!” to the ten or so people who were waiting with me for the bank to open. I then said, “God bless you all!” Then the doors opened. 

When I was done with my banking and had turned around to leave, the man from the car walked in. I went up to him to ask how he was doing when suddenly he collapsed and I caught him in mid-air. I started to scream quite loudly, “Do you have Jesus? Do you have Jesus?” I thought for sure he was going to die right on the spot but he opened his eyes and said “Yes.” I praised God and then looked up to see that every eye in the place was on us; everyone was watching as if this was a skit. In reality, it was a living parable played out for all of them by the great Master of Creation. They could not help but have it impressed upon their hearts that before they leave this world, they had better receive Jesus as their Lord and Christ. 

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The next thing I heard from the Lord was, “Ask if anyone has a cell phone.” When I did so, a woman stepped forth to help. The man, who was smaller than I and about eighty years old, gave her his family’s phone number. She dialed it for him and then gave him the phone so that he could speak, and I continued to hold him the whole time. He spoke to his family in Vietnamese and told them where he was and what had happened. This was God’s provision, for by the time the paramedics arrived to help him, his family was already there and at his side. 

The day after the service I felt like going out for a walk so I grabbed my friend Ricky and out we went. At the end of her block there was a two-lane highway and across it we could see fields of corn that seemed to go on forever. Not too far away was a farmhouse with other small buildings visible behind it. I knew with all my heart that I needed to get to that farmhouse; in fact, I knew that I would be meeting the people who lived there. I said to Ricky, “Let’s cross the highway and go down towards that home. She said she wasn’t sure she wanted to but I said, “Yes, we have to.” She said, “Okay, then.” 

We crossed the road and were walking down towards the house when a woman came out of the door and turned around and looked at us, as we were about a hundred yards away. I waved to her. She waved back and then went back inside her home. As we continued on I said to Ricky, “I am going to meet her.” Ricky replied, “You have more courage than I.” But it wasn’t a matter of courage at all. I just knew I needed to talk with her. 

As we got closer to her house she came back outside. We were now walking up her very long driveway so she decided to come meet us. I said to her, “Look at this beautiful place! It looks like you get to have your cake and eat it, too!” She said thank you and then asked, “Do I know you?” I said, “No, you don’t. But this gal here is your neighbor across the highway. We decided to take a walk and when I saw your house I just knew I was supposed to come here.” I then continued on to tell her that I was from California and was here visiting my friend, and that I was holding healing services at the Assemblies of God Church in town. I also shared with her about some of the miracles I had seen. 

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She replied, “That’s funny. You know, seven years ago I was diagnosed with breast cancer and I prayed very, very hard for a miracle and I got one!” But just recently she had been to the doctor’s and he had found something suspicious and ran some tests. That very morning he had called with the news that she had a mass of some kind on her lung and that she had to get back in to see him soon. She was very upset. 

I said to her, “Well, imagine that! Just this morning, huh?” I told her that I was a minister and that it was by no mistake that I decided to get up and take a walk by her house today. Especially after having just had a healing service the night before. She looked at me and said, “I guess so.” I then told her how the Lord always had me in the right place at the right time and that this was one of those times. I asked her for some oil so that I could anoint her. We went into the house and I anointed and prayed for her in front of her husband and daughter. 

Updated report: After returning home I called Ricky and told her to go to the ladies house and see how she was doing.  Ricky went and called me and said the lady said the next visit to the doctors she said they checked after the miracoulous happenstance and the Doctor said the mass was gone!  In Jesus Name.

I was at home reading my Bible one day and kept getting a recurring nudge to go over to one of the hospitals I frequently ministered at. I didn’t respond to it and just kept on about my business, but the next day the same thing happened again. I was at a regular prayer meeting later on and shared about this with the leaders. We prayed about it and then they told me that the next time that feeling came over me, I should get up and go
to the hospital. 

Two days later I got the same feeling, again while I was reading the Word of God. I put down my Bible, got into my car, and drove over to the hospital. When I walked into the lobby, my gaze was distinctly drawn in the direction of the elevator and I felt compelled to get on it. The next thing I remember is that I was looking down at my own feet, watching 

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them walk into a room as if I were observing but not participating in the action. I then heard a voice in my head say, “Pray!” and I looked up to see a man lying on a bed. 

He was flat on his back and out cold and he had no perception whatsoever that I was even there in the room with him. I didn’t know him, however, I was being obedient to what I was being led to do, and I bowed my head to pray for him. I said barely in a whisper, “Dear Lord, I pray for this man’s salvation, and I pray you lift him out of this sick bed.” I raised my eyes and what I saw next just about drove me to run straight out of the room. For in a single motion, and without using his arms as any means of support, the man suddenly sat up bolt upright. His eyes remained closed and he spoke these words: “I AM.” This exact phrase was the one God used to identify Himself to Moses at the scene of the burning bush. In Revelations the Lord is called the Great I AM, and to see this man sitting up and to hear him utter these words even in an unconscious state, was like seeing a dead man rise. 

I caught my breath and stammered, “Oh, my God!” With eyes open wide with shock, I turned to make a run for the door when I clearly heard the man say, “Piece of cake!” I looked back at him in disbelief and then continued my exit from the room as quickly as I could. A nurse came in just as I flew out and after seeing the frightened look on my face, I can only imagine what she thought I must have been up to. All I knew was that I wanted out. 

I was so overwhelmed by this event that I went directly to my pastors to seek their counsel. They tried to encourage me by telling me that God was with me and that I had been the vehicle of a mighty manifestation of the power of the Holy Spirit. Try as I might, I couldn’t quite come to grips with it and I pondered this for a long time. But one thing I know for sure. God used this miracle to indelibly inscribe upon my heart, soul, and mind the truth that where I go, He goes! 

Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them. .  Mark 11:24

Surely he has borne our sickness

and carried our suffering;

yet we considered him plagued,

struck by God, and afflicted. 

 Isaiah 53:4

 But he was pierced for our transgressions.

He was crushed for our iniquities.

The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed. 

Isaiah 53:5

Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink! 38  He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”   John 7:37-38

1 Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2 (although Jesus himself didn’t baptize, but his disciples), 3 he left Judea and departed into Galilee. 4 He needed to pass through Samaria. 5 So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.* 7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 8 For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

9 The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water? 12 Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his children and his livestock?”

13 Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, 14  but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I don’t get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw.”

16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”

17 The woman answered, “I have no husband.”

Jesus said to her, “You said well, ‘I have no husband,’ 18  for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly.”

19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”

21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father. 22  You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews. 23  But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers. 24  God is spirit, and those who
worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah comes, he who is called Christ. When he has come, he will declare to us all things.”

26 Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who speaks to you.” 

John 4:1-26

Dear Heavenly Father, 

I believe you sent Jesus to the cross to die for my sins.  I ask you to forgive me and I ask Jesus to come into my heart and to be my personal Lord and Savior today.  I promise to be obedient and follow you all the days of my life, In Jesus  Name.  Amen!

If you said that prayer, please email me and let me know, today at mtygod1@juno.com.

11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.  Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)

1 Yahweh, you have searched me,

and you know me.

2 You know my sitting down and my rising up.

You perceive my thoughts from afar.

3 You search out my path and my lying down,

and are acquainted with all my ways.

4 For there is not a word on my tongue,

but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.

5 You hem me in behind and before.

You laid your hand on me.

6 This knowledge is beyond me.

It’s lofty.

I can’t attain it.

7 Where could I go from your Spirit?

Or where could I flee from your presence?

8 If I ascend up into heaven, you are there.

If I make my bed in Sheol,* behold, you are there!

9 If I take the wings of the dawn,

and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea,

10 even there your hand will lead me,

and your right hand will hold me.

11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me.

The light around me will be night,”

12 even the darkness doesn’t hide from you,

but the night shines as the day.

The darkness is like light to you.

13 For you formed my inmost being.

You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

14 I will give thanks to you,

for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Your works are wonderful.

My soul knows that very well.

15 My frame wasn’t hidden from you,

when I was made in secret,

woven together in the depths of the earth.

16 Your eyes saw my body.

In your book they were all written,

the days that were ordained for me,

when as yet there were none of them.

17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God!

How vast is their sum!

18 If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand.

When I wake up, I am still with you.

19 If only you, God, would kill the wicked.

Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

20 For they speak against you wickedly.

Your enemies take your name in vain.

21 Yahweh, don’t I hate those who hate you?

Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?

22 I hate them with perfect hatred.

They have become my enemies.

23 Search me, God, and know my heart.

Try me, and know my thoughts.

24 See if there is any wicked way in me,

and lead me in the everlasting way.  Psalm 139:1-24 

Living water is a biblical term that is in both the Old and New Testament. In Jeremiah 2:13 and 17:13, a prophet describes God as "the spring of living water", who has been forsaken by his chosen people Israel. Jesus told this woman to call her husband, pointing out her sin's in having sexual relations with many  men that were not her husbands "outside marriage".  As Jesus disclosed to her that she had five husbands at that.  The point is that in order to come to God you must come to Him through the work Jesus did on the Cross.  By repenting and turning from sin, and being obedient to God and following Him all the days of your life.

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Hebrews 4:12

13 There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.  Hebrews 4:13 

Jesus the Great High Priest

14 Having then a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let’s hold tightly to our confession. 15 For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin. 16 Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.  Hebrews 4:14-16

 Dear Heavenly Father, 

I want to lift this precious partner up to you today in prayer, you God Almighty know what they are going through today.  Whatever it may be, sickness, loneliness, depression, anxiety, perhaps suicide throughts, loss of a loved one, living in fear, need of finances.  God you are there with them, as they received you today.  

My prayer is that you are the answer:

 Sickness:        

                         Isiaha 53:4, Isiaha 53:

Loneliness:        

          Genesis 2:18

          Psalm 68:6

Depression:        

            Psalm 3:3       

            Psalm 41:3   

Anxiety: 

             Phillippians 4:6-7

Suicide:    

             Isiaha 41:10

             John 10:10  

Loss of a Loved One:            

             Revelation 21:4 

             Psalm 34:18

             Psalm 147:3

Fear:   

             Psalm 23:4

             2 Timothy 1:7

Protection:  

              Psalm 91

There is a scripture for all your needs in the Bible.  Jesus said "Seek me with all your heart and you will find me".  Reading the Bible every day as Psalm 1 reads, You will be Blessed!  Go to all these scriptures and learn what God say's about you and your situation.  He backs up what He say's.  You are Victorious In Christ Jesus!