Do you know Jesus? Where did He come from? Is He rich or poor, trustworthy or undependable? Does He keep His promises? What does God say about Him? What is His record of providing for the human race? The Lord has answers to all these questions. He wants you to examine Jesus, measure, weigh Him. Behold Jesus, the Satisfying Christ: For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness (Psalm 107:9).

Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount, Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled (Matthew 5:6). If you have an appetite for the Word of God, always wanting more and more of Him, you will be served. With an unquenchable appetite, keep reaching for more of the Lord.

There is no lack in Jesus. When a lack occurs in a life, it is because that one is not using the whole Jesus. The Early Church used the whole Jesus, and they lacked nothing. Each member took up his own cross and carried it, determined to be just like Him. They had power to trample devils underfoot, power to supply their needs—and their road was very rough. Even through the worst of persecutions, the Early Church was sustained by the satisfying Christ. Giving up family, friends, they followed Jesus and gloried in His promise: Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father (John 14:12). Physically, spiritually and financially, Christ satisfied the people in a beautiful way, leaving behind a wonderful example. It was marvelous!

Just as Jesus supplied the needs of the Early Church, he has sufficient means to supply all your needs. He desires to be your sufficiency. When you have sufficient supply of something, you have an ample amount or quantity of what is needed. Jesus is your sufficiency, and He is rich. Having sufficiency is having an amount equal to what is specified or enough. Those times you don’t have enough help, enough joy, enough deliverance and power to defeat the devil, turn to the Lord and let Him serve you what you need.

To be sufficient is to be well-qualified, efficient, able. I am persuaded that he is able (II Timothy 1:12): Jesus is able to meet all your needs. In all their deep, deep valleys down through the years, the Bible prophets have cried: My God is able! Daniel in the lions’ den knew God was able to deliver him. In the morning when the king came to see if Daniel were still alive, Daniel cried: My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me (Daniel 6:22).

In this final hour, the Bride is shouting: My Lord is able! My Lord has all ability to perform any miracle, and so I don’t have to worry about my inabilities! He has ample supply; His heavenly warehouses are open continuously. All needs are met by my God who serves me through Jesus Christ.

The Lord weighs you, measures you, and offers you His Son. Is He able to meet your needs? Does He have the qualifications of a Redeemer? Was He really born of the Virgin Mary? Who is He? You need to know. Weigh Him and see that in Him is no lack. He is the satisfying Christ, the fulfillment of life. You don’t really have fulfillment in this life unless you have Jesus. Keep Jesus in the center of your heart at all times.

Many search for the life only Christ Jesus can give. Some have found that life, but then neglected to use it. Christians, depressed and discouraged, are not using the life of Jesus. I am the way, the truth, and the life, Jesus tells us in John 14:6. I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly (John 10:10). Study the abundant life that Jesus talked about, and find how you can have it, too.

To have fulfillment in your life means you have carried out something desired, promised, or expected. God will carry out the things He has promised, those expectations in life of joy, peace, greatness and all the good things that make up life with Him. He will fulfill all His promises to you; but for Him to be the fulfillment of your life, you must accept the whole Jesus. Many have pushed Jesus aside, substituted desires of self and the world for the things of God. Looking to friends and loved ones for fulfillment, they have put them in the place of God.

All too many people are discontented. Suicides can result when people find no fulfillment, no fullness in their lives. They turn to death, to the devil, to people who don’t have Jesus. How tragic to be so close to Jesus and yet so far away! Some who know Him are not letting Him fulfill all His benefits for them, not allowing Him to serve them the way He wants to. Therefore, they are not the blessing He wants them to be.

You see many Christians who are not fulfilled through Christ Jesus. Their lives are empty. They look, talk empty, act empty and serve from emptiness. How sad that they do not reach for the fulfillment in Jesus!

To have a full life, the center of that life must be the things of Christ. But the Bride is going to step into all His fulness, for she will find fulfillment in His life. Paul found that fulfillment: I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God (Galatians 2:20). Christ lived on the inside of Paul.

And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst (John 6:35). With Jesus you have everything; without Him, nothing. What you substitute for Jesus will not bring fulfillment. God never expected man to be fulfilled without Him. In the beginning, God planned to be joined to the man and woman He had made; they were always to have been one, to walk hand in hand with God and never be separated.

God was the supply of Adam and Eve. Not until Adam and Eve sinned, turned away from the Lord, was their supply limited. Leaving God, they became children of the devil. The moment sin entered their hearts, they lost that completeness with God. No life is complete without Him. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power (Colossians 2:10).

Many are looking to Earth’s possessions for life’s fulfillment, but Jesus brought spiritual fulfillment. He said, Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life (John 4:14). The natural things of this earth are not spiritual fulfillment. Material possessions are not life; life is not in what you possess. People call being rich “really living.” If money is all you are depending on, you are not living. Wealth can go in a moment and your life with it. But when eternal life through Jesus Christ is yours, you will never die. Eternal life, eternal peace, eternal joy come through Him.

Some try to buy happiness for fulfillment. As a true child of God, however, you don’t need to buy joy and peace; they are freely given to you. Because you have Jesus, they are yours; He serves them to you.

When you say Jesus is yours, realize what a miraculous life really belongs to you. All that He brought and taught, all that He promised is yours when you stake your claim on Him. Claim your place in Heaven, your eternal home, your mansion; claim all the greatness of God for you here and for all eternity through Jesus the satisfying Christ.

Jesus brought a well of living water to those who long to drink of it, a well that will continue to flow, springing up into everlasting life. That life Jesus brought is real fulfillment, a well of joy. Drinking at the wells of salvation, you have eternal life springing up through His love. Take time to enjoy it.

Some people think they have no peace because they have no money with which to buy happiness. Isaiah has the answer for that: Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price (Isaiah 55:1). You don’t have to buy these living waters; Jesus paid the price. They are eternal; draw on them.

Drinking substitutes for the satisfying Christ has made many people dissatisfied. Trying to satisfy your soul on things grown from the earth won’t work. You can satisfy your stomach with things that come from the earth because your stomach, your body are a part of the earth; but the soul came from the breath of God, and it can only be satisfied with spiritual things, with that which comes directly from Heaven. Earth doesn’t have the satisfying power, the fulfillment that God provides for the soul.

Adam sold the human race into bondage. From that point on, every way man turned he found death. Adam and Eve learned to their sorrow that disobedience had plunged them into the bondage of death; they turned out the light of life. Because we are people who are meant to live in God, Jesus came and bought us back after we had become slaves to the devil.

Dine on the promises of God, on the reality of who Jesus is. Weigh Him, I say again, measure Him. Find how great He is, knowing that His greatness is for you. Jesus is just as great in your life as you allow Him to be. There is no limit to His greatness; the limitations all come from man.

Measure Jesus on the love scales of God; you will never weigh anything heavier. The weight of all the oceans in the world could not compare to the spiritual weight of Jesus. What a lovely Jesus we have! He is our fulfillment if we allow Him to be. Through Jesus Christ we have the richness of life. He wants to be our God, our director, our everything, and to freely give us all things.

Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness (Isaiah 55:2). So often things we labor for do not satisfy; quickly they are gone. People call life eating a big steak—and then they are left with an empty dish. When I reach the bottom of a bowl of ice cream, I call that disappointment. It’s gone. God’s life isn’t like that; He is the bread of life without end that comes from Heaven. When you dine on the Lord, there is fatness in your soul. You don’t have to worry about calories; you can eat the nine fruits of the Spirit and not gain an ounce physically.

My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips (Psalm 63:5). Do you find any dissatisfaction in Jesus? Is He the fulfillment of your life? Satisfied in the fulfillment of life in Jesus, you joyfully praise the Lord. Knowing no lack, you have peace whether or not anyone else has it.

How strange that death causes people to think about the fulfillment of life! When people die, Christians talk about what they did in the Lord and where they are now. Calling them godly persons is the most blessed thing that can be said about them. Maybe a person was poor and others felt sorry for him; now suddenly, they see how rich that one really was. He was rich while still alive, but many didn’t realize it.

You’re rich while you are in Jesus. I love the words of this song: “My Father’s rich, and I’m an heir.” Know who you are in Jesus: an heir to Heaven.

My mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips: When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches (Psalm 63:5,6), my soul is satisfied. Why be depressed in the night when you could be rejoicing in the greatness of the Lord? Why be lonely when Jesus is with you? Why worry about the tomorrow that God holds in His hands? Jesus told us to consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you (Matthew 6:28-30,33). God feeds the birds, why would He not feed His children? Tell the Lord what you need; talk to Him the way you would talk to a person. We tell people our needs if we think they can do something about them, but with the Lord, we are not so plain. Why? It’s a lack of faith on our part; we don’t think He will come through for us.

Look to Jesus. The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season (Psalm 145:15). Our eyes should be upon Jesus, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith (Hebrews 12:2). Stephen, the first martyr, said when he was dying, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God (Acts 7:56).

Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing (Psalm 145:16). The Lord is so great that He just opens His hands and satisfaction, fulfillment of life are there for every living thing on planet Earth. The birds recognize His open hand; they never sing a sad song. Through God, they have fulfillment. Since God is their supply, think how much more Jesus is your supply.

The lord has promised to look out for His children. Do you belong to the Lord? If so, be secure in Him. Know that He is fulfillment for you, and let Him give you the wonderful life He brought for you. When you allow Him to serve you well, you know what the new and living way is really like.

And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day: And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not (Isaiah 58:10,11). Who can feed you anything to make your bones fat? Only the Lord. The Lord fattens the very structure of your spiritual life, increases it, makes you like a watered garden.

Picture a beautifully cared-for garden, planted and tended by the Lord. You have all you need there—a wonderful life—but if you don’t live in it, don’t accept it, you receive none of that garden’s benefits. Living beneath your privilege, you may reach the gate of Heaven, but you will be wearing a beggar’s rags.

God does not expect you to beg for what He freely gives. Why be destitute when Jesus came to give you abundant life? Jesus said, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened (Luke 11:9,10). All you have to do is stand at the door and knock; the Lord will open the door, dine with you. Not even Adam had the choice of knocking anytime day or night. God came down in the cool of the day to talk with Adam, but Jesus stands at the door ready and waiting to dine with you. You can wake in the wee small hours of the morning, and Jesus will be there. Everyone else will be sleeping but you and Jesus. As you talk with Him, tell Him your whole heart; He will listen to all that you’re saying.

The Lord satisfies the longing soul and fills the hungry soul with goodness—that’s real fulfillment! The Lord is the one who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s (Psalm 103:5). O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him (Psalm 34:8). The Lord satisfieth with things physical and spiritual; He satisfies with good things. There is no lack of His benefits.

Jesus came to buy back everything that was lost by man in Eden. He is our Redeemer Kinsman, bringing redemption for the earth and for man as well. So much of His redemption is within our reach now, that it is overwhelming.

Jesus came to serve. He even prepared fish to serve to the disciples. Mothers could never love their children the way Jesus loves us. Day after day a good mother will give her life for her little one, lose sleep, suffer anything for that child’s sake. But Jesus’ love is greater; He is life’s fulfillment. That’s what is in Jesus for us.

Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart (Psalm 37:4). How do you delight yourself in Him? By holy living, by pleasing the Lord, by doing what the Lord wants you to do, by having clean, holy hands that fit into the nail-riven hands at all times.

Jesus, the satisfying Christ is on stage today. He is your guardian, your guide; He looks out for your welfare, makes sure you have clothing, food, shelter as long as you allow Him. Some people don’t want Him to be their guardian; they want to take care of themselves, and Jesus lets them. Would you want to be the guardian of a person who constantly took the control out of your hands? When you won’t let the Lord take care of you, you are really saying you don’t want Him. He wants to look out for you. He lets you know that in the last days you will need a guardian: This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof (II Timothy 3:1-5). Dangerous times are here; you need someone to take care of you. Many of God’s people are making mistakes in business, in their lives, buying the wrong things. They don’t let the guardian Jesus look after them; they don’t trust Him or depend on Him.

The Lord is not the guardian of evildoers; the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil (I Peter 3:12). A good guardian is diligent to fulfill his obligation. Jesus took on the obligation of your guardianship. He is faithful to His task, showing at all times His ability to love and care for you.

Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness (II Peter 3:13). According to His promises we expect to see new heavens and a new earth. God is protecting us in this evil world and planning our heavenly home that will last for all eternity. What a guardian He is! Everything we need will be supplied forever.

A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee (Psalm 91:7). When have you had faith to use this verse? Some people almost have a nervous breakdown when just one enemy closes in on them. But if you know your guardian is in charge, there is no need to fear the enemy. Jesus guards you, watches out for you, takes care of your affairs when He has your permission. However, He does not guard you without your permission. You must want Jesus to be your guardian every day you breathe, to be master of that day. Give Him authority; make Him your guardian daily. If you take things into your own hands, if you stubbornly and willfully go against His wishes, then you tie His hands and He cannot move for you. By insisting to be in control, you take His power away from you. Those are the bad days.

Have you ever had a bad day when you let the Lord be in control, when you let the Lord direct you and make the decisions? Let Him be over all that you do; experience the glorious life that the satisfying Christ can give you.

For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy (Psalm 61:3). A guardian is a shelter, a strong tower. Looking out for your welfare, a guardian makes sure you are not cheated. The guardian Jesus is looking out for you when you let Him. Do you want His protection? If so, you can have it. He is the perfect protector.

The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing (Zephaniah 3:17). Have you ever let the Lord sing over you? No one can out-sing Him; He loves singing. The angels sing much. If you are living holy and doing God’s will, the Lord is singing over you. You have the nature of Adam and Eve before they fell from grace. Thinking like the Lord, you have taken on His mind, His thoughts.

But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries (Exodus 23:22). Jesus is a real protector, an enemy to your enemies. All you have to do is obey. Those with stubborn burrs obey only part-time. Stubborn not only with people, they are stubborn with the Lord as well. Is any stubbornness in you? Do you rebel at all? Do you resent anything about Jesus or what He asks you to do? Are you obedient or disobedient? Do you think you are being treated justly or unjustly? Mistreated or treated fairly? Do you really believe God deals with you fairly all the time? How do you feel about Him, how do you think toward the Lord? Do you recognize Him to be your sufficiency, your guardian, your protector? You have everything in Him.

The Lord promises through Isaiah the prophet: When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee (Isaiah 43:2). That’s what is in Jesus for you. You have all these marvelous promises of protection no matter the trials you may have to go through. It doesn’t matter about the nature of the trial or what direction it is coming from, whether ten thousand enemies rise up against you or only one: God is more than able to take care of you. He is not limited in power toward you unless you limit Him. He is all the strength you will ever need; He has power over every enemy you have, and He can protect you from them all. The Lord knows more about your enemies than you do; and He has them marked. Every word they say against you He notes and holds against them. That’s what Jesus is to you.

Look at Him on center stage: How wonderful He is! Do you like what you see? Do you want Him as a guardian? Do you want Him to be everything in your life, or do you want to make your own way?

Some children rebel at a very young age against good parents; they feel unfulfilled in life and think they can do better than their parents. All too often they find they do worse. Many have run away from home dissatisfied. Stubbornness took them over, and they resented the supervision of their good parents. They didn’t know what that protection meant—those that ran from a good home. When self rises up, how mean, how disturbing it can be! Self can put people in perilous situations and predicaments.

Jesus is indeed our supply, our sufficiency. Look at Him. And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work (II Corinthians 9:8). Why do we come up lacking? Why is there such a shortage of fulfillment in some of our lives? It’s because we won’t let Jesus be all things to us. We let Him be Savior for our souls, but when it comes to the fulfillment of our lives on Earth, we want to be in the driver’s seat, planning life the way we want it.

When young people marry the one they want instead of the one God has planned for them, many marriages are in danger of failing. People look for a happy marriage, for fulfillment with a mate; and yet they are disappointed again and again because they didn’t let the Lord be everything to them. Nor depending on the Lord, they took their lives out of the hand of God and chose their own mates. They thought they deserved that privilege. The Lord lets them make that choice, but so often it is to their downfall.

Some people are miserable together, blaming the Lord for their condition. Lord, why did you let me marry this one? they cry. They didn’t consult the Lord when they married. They didn’t ask: Lord, is it all right for me to marry this person? Many give no thought to the Lord at all in their decision—until they discover they married the wrong one. I let the Lord help me choose my wife, and she let the Lord help her choose a husband. That’s the reason we matched so perfectly in the Lord and in each other. Our years together were happy.

The Lord doesn’t lead you into evil, but into good. Daniel had an experience that looked bad to people, but in the den of lions an angel was there with him to close the lions’ mouths. It is better to be in the lions’ den and happy with the Lord than to be miserable married to the wrong person.

Life is full when you let God abound toward you, when you abound in every good work. How can you add to a vessel that is full? But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19). God shall supply all your needs from His riches in Glory. How rich do you think He is? Does He own all things? Does He own you? Did He pay for you on the cross? Do you recognize His ownership? Are you His servant, or do you turn your back to Him?

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God (II Corinthians 3:5). Many think they are sufficient; their egos tell them they are wonderful, that they are the ones responsible for their good fortune. They glory in themselves. When you take credit for your blessings, you are on the wrong road.

I once heard a story of a bird and a frog, a Northern frog. The bird was going south for the winter. On the way, he stopped by a little pond that had a big frog in it. The bird looked so happy, was singing so beautifully that the frog was envious.

“You seem so happy,” the frog said. “Where are you going?”

“I’m going south for the winter where it’s warm and doesn’t have any cold or snow.”

“Well,” said the frog, “I sure would like to go, too.”

“I’d take you if I had a way.”

Earlier that day, a little girl had been down by the pond and dropped her ribbon. The frog spied that ribbon, and an idea came into his head. He was always thinking up ideas; he was, remember, a big frog in a little pond.

“I’ll tell you what,” the frog said. “You take hold of one end of the ribbon, and I’ll take hold of the other, and we’ll go south together.”

“Of course,” said the bird; “I can do that.”

The bird took one end of the ribbon in his mouth, and the frog took the other end. They took off and mounted higher and higher. The frog had never been that high. He was excited. Things were going well; the bird was accustomed to keeping his mouth shut when he flew, and they were getting closer and closer to the sunny South.

They flew above a group of people.

“Look at the bird and the frog! I wonder whoever thought of doing such a thing!” a woman exclaimed.

The frog was so afraid the bird would get the credit, and he was so in the habit of taking the applause when things went well, that before he thought where he was, he said, “I did.” That was the end of the frog, but he left a valuable lesson for all those whose egos are always looking for the glory. Be a bird Christian, keep your mouth shut and you will get along better.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me (Philippians 4:13). Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us (Romans 8:37). Through Jesus we are more than conquerors—what a glorious statement! When you can say you are more than a conqueror, you are fulfilled in life, free to work for Jesus. However, if Jesus is not the very center of your being, you can’t honestly say you are more than a conqueror. Without Jesus, you never will be a conqueror in this life—the devil will see to that—for when you don’t serve Jesus, the devil has control. He makes sure you don’t conquer. Only through the blood that stained the Old Rugged Cross can you conquer.

Some of you have been busy doing your own thing, trying to come out first in everything you touch, striving to make a full life for yourself only to find the fulfillment you seek is not there. It will never be there until you make Jesus your life.

Jesus, the new and living way, came to give you life abundantly—not just ordinary life, but miraculous life. Many times Jesus proved that He could do this. He multiplied the loaves and fishes, healed the sick, made the weak strong and even raised the dead. He brought everything that man needed—and much more. There was no lack in Him. He had all the answers, all the happiness, peace, joy, all the greatness that man could hold. He had everything necessary to make a garden of love for humanity.

Imagine what it would have been like had every member of the human race accepted Jesus and stayed true to Him down through the ages! The world today would be wonderful instead of the dying mess it is. If everyone would have accepted Jesus from the time He came until now, God would just have moved down here with us all.

Always remember that in Christ you are more than a conqueror. Stop worrying and fretting. For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation (Psalm 149:4). In His salvation is the beauty of joy and peace that was one in the Garden of Eden.

And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness (II Corinthians 12:9). Jesus is your sufficiency. Look at Him—do you doubt Him? Does He weigh on your scale? Does He measure tall enough to be all He claims? Do you think He has enough joy, enough peace, enough happiness to serve you a full life? Will you be like Eve, straying off to forbidden fruit, seeking to fulfill lust? God gave man and woman a full, full life; how tragic that they were not satisfied with it! I see Christians today who, like Adam and Eve, are not satisfied with the Lord’s full life. That’s the reason some of them fail God, go away from Him completely. Others accept only part of the Lord, and He can’t get His work done through them.

And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places (Ephesians 1:19,20). Look at the mighty power of the Almighty God, power to raise the dead. Jesus brought it all and put it within reach of us through His blood. Christ is always within reach of the children of God because He liveth within.

This is the message for the Bride: Christ liveth in me (Galatians 2:20). Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world (I John 4:4). The Bride will see God’s greatness in action. At last God will have a people who will accept all the greatness of God, the Bride of Christ, saith the Lord. She will accept it all, use it all, believe it all and it all will work through her. That’s the reason she will evangelize the world in such a short period of time. Nothing will be able to stop her.

Anyone who wants to find God can find Him. The demonic powers of darkness will not be able to hold them back. Jesus came to set the captives free, to break all the locks, and to bring out those who were in the prison house of the devil. Today the Bride is doing and will do the same thing, only on a larger scale, every day she has left. Greater and greater will be the Bride’s accomplishments for God because they will be according to the working of His mighty power, not according to the opinions or strength of man. It will be according to the strength of God. Jesus has given the Bride His name to use in this last hour, and she is using it. By her using it, the world will see the greatness of God manifested in a way they have never seen before. One more time the Lord will shake the earth with His power, and then the end will come. With signs, wonders, miracles and healings He will shake it, revealing His mighty greatness to people in this last hour as He works through the Bride.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ (Ephesians 1:3). All the joy, peace, goodness that we need to make our lives full and complete are in the spiritual blessings of God. Why would a child of God allow fear and depression to rob him of God’s blessings? Why should anyone stay oppressed and discouraged? Discouragement may come, but don’t let it stay, don’t carry it with you, don’t let it grind into you. Claim the promises of God to get rid of it. Wake up to the fact that you don’t have to keep anything that does not come from God. Claim only that which is of the Lord: claim Jesus and all His benefits. Check what comes your way; if it does not come from the Lord, then don’t be depressed over it or afraid because of it. It isn’t yours.

The Lord is your guardian, your sufficiency, your protector, your Redeemer, your Savior, your everything. Since He is your everything, you have no lack as long as you claim everything of His. His grace is sufficient. Don’t look at your weaknesses; look at His strength ready to flow through you. Don’t use your weaknesses to be defeated; use His strength to win victories. The Lord wants you to use His strength. Let Him be strong in your weakness; in other words, use His strength when you are weak. Not only that, turn your strong points over to His complete control. Step into the role of His greatness, and He will let you use it. He seeks to bless you with all spiritual blessings.

Christ hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2:6). The Bride will sit in heavenly places; in arms of love the Lord will lift her above the cares and duties of this life. He will let her look beyond Earth to her home in Heaven and the greatness that awaits there. Heaven will be real to her even while she is still on Earth. Like an airplane flying above the storm in the night, the Lord will lift the Bride into His light. The Bride will be so far removed from the storm she will be able to rescue others, lift them into the arms of Jesus. We haven’t had a lot of this in the past, but we will have it in this last and final hour of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Lifting people out of the storms of life, we take them into the greatness of the Lord, into those heavenly places. However, if we first are not going to be lifted into those heavenly places, how can we lift anyone else into them? You will not lift anyone higher in the Lord than you climb. The higher you climb, the higher you can lift others.

According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life (II Peter 1:3). All things that pertain to life He has given you. Through divinity you have everything that makes up a full life. If you don’t have a full life, if you don’t feel complete, it’s because you are not using Jesus and all that He promised. When He isn’t everything He desires to be in your life, you have let the devil rob you.

How easily the devil robs! You are just human, and when a loved one is taken in death, you go down into that valley of great sorrow. But with Jesus, know that joy cometh in the morning when He lifts you out by His strength and power and moves in close with more of His love.

When the Lord took my precious wife, Angel, I died deaths. I didn’t see how I could go on breathing, how I could live without her. The thought of facing another day or night and not seeing her was more than I could handle in myself. Sometimes I had to live one moment at a time; any longer than that was too much for me. Gradually the Lord was able to lift me out of that terrible grief into the greatness of Him. I don’t know whether it was an angel or Jesus Himself who came into Angel’s office one day where I was and put his arms around me. It was like human arms, and I was flooded with peace. The Lord moved in with a divine peace that I had never, never known, and more of His love. I don’t mean that I never sorrowed again, but now I was different. Carefully, carefully the Lord used His sufficiency to pull me back from a great vacuum that seemed deeper than the Grand Canyon, and filled me with His love. It’s because of Jesus today that I have a full life. How can I be so happy when losing Angel left such an enormous emptiness in my life? Through the fullness of the life of Him. Jesus became my entire life. He will do the same for all who yield all to Him. He will give you a full life no matter the circumstances.

The only cure for the devastated heart is Jesus. It takes time for the Lord to get that heart to yield enough to Him so He can take out the hurt, time to rise above the human feelings. Human beings cannot take out all the hurt. There is much that human hands cannot do for us, much doctors with all their knowledge and remedies cannot do. However, there is nothing the Lord cannot do for us when we will let Him. He can bring sunshine at midnight; He can take away loneliness when we are drowning in it. Jesus is like that.

I bring to you again II Peter 1:3: His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness. The Lord cannot give you a full life without godliness, without holiness on your part. You must have the Word, the Word. If you are not a lover of the Word of God, you are not a lover of Jesus. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth (John 1:14). If you had been here on Earth with Jesus, loved Him, you couldn’t have gotten enough of Him. That’s the way you must love the Word. In most churches not much of the pure Word is given out. People do not want to hear the Word; they want anything but the Word—stories, sports, current events, government. Listening about Jesus makes them restless. I get restless when people talk about other things. I am filled and thrilled with Him. You have my attention when you are saying good things about Jesus, heaping glory on Him. He is worthy of all the glory we can give Him. Through the name Jesus, the blind receive sight, people are healed of all manner of sicknesses and diseases.

The Bride will have all the favor of Heaven, all the love, peace and grace of God. The Bride will have much happiness and joy that will give her all the strength she will need. She will have it all because she will have all of Him. She will use the power of Heaven as it flows like mighty rivers to her, making up a sea of God’s greatness and miraculous manifestations of His mighty power throughout the whole earth. The Lord told me that His Spirit would flow like springs and then rivers and finally one great sea of His greatness to cover the whole earth. And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh (Acts 2:17).

God poured out waters of judgment one time and flooded the whole earth; this time He will flood the earth with miracle power. Those who want Him will reach out and receive. Those who don’t will blaspheme against the Holy Ghost, saith the Lord. They will be like the people in Noah’s day who had no way to escape the flood waters, no way to escape the judgments of God. His Spirit will cease to strive with them. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man (Genesis 6:3).

The Lord told me years ago in a divine visitation that He would pour out His unbelievable greatness and miracle power, and when people saw it they would either accept it or else blaspheme against the Holy Ghost. He said that preachers—even Pentecostal preachers—would see His miraculous greatness and turn from it, blaspheming the Holy Ghost, and He would never deal with them again. When He told me that years ago, it was an unheard of thing; but now you see it happening. The hour is now here, saith the Lord, that people are already blaspheming His Spirit, and more and more will do it as they turn away from His miraculous power.

I honor God’s miracle hand; I honor God when He is performing miracles. Some people in the services do not always honor God. They turn their backs to God when they need to be face to face with Him. Perhaps they will be talking to someone by their side instead of keeping their minds on the Lord, restless in the services. I would never dare do such things. A person can seal his own destiny in hell, can walk out on God. You can seal your destiny, saith the Lord, dishonor your God for the last time. You have the opportunity to see His greatness, but you are in grave danger when you witness Him coming down in the midst of His people, projecting His greatness, and you turn your back on it all. I’m careful how I act in God’s house. The Spirit within me sorrows again and again in miracle services as people dishonor God. I fear for them. They’ve turned their backs on God’s miraculous power. Will they ever have another chance? I know they’re not promised another one. Oh God help us!

His divine power has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue (II Peter 1:3). God gave all knowledge to Adam and Eve, and now He is making it all available to the Bride. How blessed, how fortunate she is! She has denied self and the world and claimed Jesus for her own. Going into the spiritual Canaan in a mighty way, she will serve His very greatness—the very riches of Jesus—to the people throughout the whole earth. Carrying that light that penetrates all darkness, she will use love that destroys all hate, mercy that forgives all sin. She’ll carry the power that delivers people from devil possession no matter how many demonic spirits bind them. If they want deliverance, she will be able with His greatness to cast out those evil spirits and set the people free.

Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature (II Peter 1:4). We are partakers of divinity. If you are born new, you have divinity on the inside of you. You are not born new unless you have divinity, unless you have taken on the divine nature. His divine nature is the only way you can be new, the only way you can be free from sin. Divine nature will not mix with one speck of sin. Every soul that is redeemed is made clean through divine blood and sealed with the Holy Spirit. Not a bit of sin remains in that soul when it is cleansed by the blood and sealed with the blood by the Holy Spirit. No devils can break through that seal no matter how many millions try at one time. You’re the only one to break the seal; it can only be broken from the inside. Neither man nor devil can break it. A million human enemies could come against you, all the armies on planet Earth with all their nuclear arms, but they couldn’t penetrate that seal of blood.

Adam and Eve were sealed against sin. God had no plan for them to sin, no excuse for it. In their souls was sealed eternal life, sealed so the enemy couldn’t get to them. But Eve opened the door to the devil, and Adam opened the door to Eve. They broke the seal of God, the seal placed on them by divinity after He made them. The devil couldn’t break that seal for them; they had to break it themselves. They both sold out to the devil. Because there was no excuse for their sin, God wouldn’t let them stay in the Garden. The Lord is emphatic about sin; He allowed none in the Garden, and He will allow none of it in Heaven.

You are partakers of the divine nature having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust (II Peter 1:4). This is an hour of great, great lust, but no lust exists in the divine nature. Many demons of lust possess people today. Watching degraded movies and television shows opens the door to lust. Never toy with lust. Looking at pornographic magazines brings in the spirits of lust. Don’t think you can stay clean and indulge in these things. The eyes are the windows to the soul, and demons can enter the soul through the eyes. Are you guilty? You are damning your own soul if you are, destroying your passport to Heaven. Quickly the devil can snatch you into damnation. You’re on dangerous ground.

He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things (Romans 8:32)? God did not spare His own Son to make possible our redemption. He gave His own Son to deliver us so He could deliver to us all things—that’s how much He loves us. In spite of all the sins of the human race, God still loved them.

The Bride is going to prove the truth of the Scriptures that man has not believed in the past. Most preachers dare not preach pure faith. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you (John 15:7). This promise is our birthright when we are born new. We are in the Lord, and His Word is in us, His promises are in us. We can ask what we will and it shall be done—He promised.

Ask what you will; ask according to the divine will of God. How many Christians really believe that if they abide in Jesus and He abides in them they can ask what they will and it will be done? Ask according to the divine will of God every time you pray. A pure motive must be in your spirit continuously whether you speak the words or not: Not my will, Lord, but thine be done. You approach the heavenly Father in the same Spirit that His Only Begotten did when He was here on Earth. The Bride will pray just like Jesus, believe just like Jesus, have the same powers of Jesus and will defeat the devil just as He did. This is the hour of grace and victory.

Yea, saith the Spirit of the Lord: I am preparing the Bride for her final walk. I am preparing the Bride for her final victories. I am preparing the Bride to be my hands in this last hour. She will do me honor and glory, and she will bring the millions from the paths of sin to the cross of power and deliverance. There will be no weaknesses in her. She will stand as I stood, and she will love as I loved when I was on Earth, saith the Lord. She will speak with a voice like I used when I was here on Earth. She will speak with authority, and the demons will have to obey. They will have to bow. She will preach my Gospel to the ends of the earth, and she will carry my light for all to see. She will have life, life like mine. She will have peace, peach—mine. She will have trust, trust in me, and she will have the same confidence that I had in the Father when I was on Earth. Persecution will not make her weak just as it did not make me weak when I was on Earth. She will trample devils underfoot as I trampled devils underfoot when I was here. She will speak, and it will be done just as I spoke and it was done. She will indeed be a terror to the devil and his kingdom, and she will help destroy his kingdom in this her final hour. She will be my joy. She will be my delight, and I will look upon her with gladness daily. I will protect her. I will be everything to her, and no power will be able to destroy her, saith the Lord.

Thank God for Jesus, I say! Thank God that the whole Jesus belongs to the whole human race, to each member who will accept Him. Oh let Him be your everything!

You who are lost and undone without God, you need Jesus; you have no life without Him. Don’t you want Him? I have held Him up so very high for you to see. The Lord anointed me to do so, higher than a human being could have held Him up. I held Him up with the grace of God and the strength of God, held Him as high as Heaven itself. Did you measure Him? Did you weigh Him? Sinner, you need Him. Pray this prayer with me now:

Oh, God, I have sinned against you. I am so sorry; forgive me, Lord! I believe the blood of Jesus is sufficient for me, and I believe the blood of Jesus washes away all of my sins. Come into my heart Jesus, come on in!

If you meant that simple prayer, He has come. If you meant it, He is yours, the satisfying Christ. He is the Christ of sufficiency, your sufficiency. He is your protector, your guardian, your love, joy, peace and salvation. He is your Redeemer Kinsman; He is your Lamb of eternal life and salvation. He is Jesus.

Just thing, newly born-again one, you have His life that He brought, the new and living way. Live it well. The Word of God, your road map, tells you how to use and live the new life that Jesus brought.

Jesus not only is your Savior, He is your healer, your Great Physician ready to heal you now if that is your need. He is ready to heal that little child of yours who may need healing. Perhaps that child has only part of a brain, but Jesus is your sufficiency, the satisfying Christ. There is no lack in Him. Touch His garment right now and let that little one be made whole. Touch His garment now, oh sick one, and be made whole. Oh crippled one, reach out and touch Him now and be made well. I am not a healer. I believe in the power of prayer. I am a believer in the Bible promises of healing. Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth (Mark 9:23). With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible (Mark 10:27). He is the Lord who healeth all thy diseases (Psalm 103:3).

Believe while I pray this prayer for you now: Lord, I bring the sick and afflicted to you. You are our sufficiency not only for the soul but also for the body. In you is life for the sick bodies of people who call upon your name. From your supernatural gift of miracles and gifts of healing I inject your miracle healing power as a servant of God into their bodies. Heal! in the mighty name of Jesus. Heal! in the all-powerful name of Jesus. Heal! I pray.

The healing power is flowing. Don’t you feel it? Believe that you’ve touched Heaven for your healing today, and that power will linger in your body, or in the body of your little one, for hours, days and even weeks to get you well. Only believe—Jesus said it when He was here on Earth. Only believe and the miracle will take place. All things are possible—only believe and keep on believing. You must keep on believing for His power to work, just as you have to keep on believing for salvation to work. Jesus loves you; remember He is Jesus, the all-sufficient one, the all-giving one. Through Him you can have a full, satisfying life. It’s promised, and He keeps His promises. Behold Jesus, the satisfying Christ!