God has two kinds of winds: the wind of judgment, which includes correction, warnings, and destruction; and the wind of great mercy, the grace wind. Today God is giving us the great grace wind; the wind of Pentecost is blowing all over the world, blowing the riches and blessings of Heaven upon everyone who will accept them.

I am excited over what God is doing in this last and final hour, how people, for example, are receiving The Power of the Holy Ghost magazine miles away. Many are being healed, saved through the magazine; it’s the Lord’s magazine. He named it in 1954 and told me it would be one of His mighty arms in the final hour; and here it is just as He said, traveling the globe, a ministry of its own. Through the divine Word of God that the magazine carries, people are being set free, and through the divine anointing of God you can use that magazine any time just as you would use a blest cloth. Believe God and be delivered, be healed.

This is the pouring-out time of the Holy Spirit. And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come: And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved (Acts 2:17-21).

In this hour, the winds of grace are blowing mightily on all who call on the name of the Lord; we live in the great outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

Jonah Ran from God

In Jonah’s day, God was thinking of sending another kind of wind, an ill wind to destroy the inhabitants of a whole city. But first, He wanted to send Jonah to warn them, give them time to repent. Jonah, however, wasn’t willing. He ran from the presence of the Lord. Many today are running from God’s presence, also. Down through the years people have tried to run from Him, and God sends ill winds after them.

Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken (Jonah 1:1-4).

It wasn’t that Jonah didn’t know running from God might get him in trouble; he did know. He just didn’t think God would send a great wind after him when he boarded a strange ship. No one on board knew him and he didn’t know any of them. But God was watching him. God waited until the ship was away out in the deep, until Jonah lay down, hoping to get his mind off everything he didn’t want to do. I’m safe now, he thought, and fell asleep. He didn’t know his fate; didn’t know the Lord was about to send a great ill wind after him.

Today God is sending great winds after many Jonahs. If you are a Jonah, one who is running from God, He is sending ill winds after you, and sooner or later they will catch up.

The Lot Fell on Jonah

Not only was Jonah in danger, he was about to cause everyone else on board to drown as a great wind took over the ship. Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep. So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not. And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah (Jonah 1:5-7). The sailors were surprised to find Jonah had been sleeping while they bailed water and prayed to every god they could think of to save them. No answer. When they cast lots, they found the trouble; the lot fell on Jonah, a man who was running from God.

In the Presence of God Is Safety

If you’re running from God, you’re in trouble. If you’re running from any of the Word of God, from the presence of God, from the power of the Holy Ghost, you are in a mess. Not accepting the wind of the Holy Ghost, you will find an ill wind coming after you, a wind of trouble, danger, a destructive wind. Oh, yes, God is doing that today! The Spirit is in desperation, for He knows your fate is death unless you stop running from the presence of God. The only people who are safe are the ones living in God’s presence.

Are you really living in the presence of God? I love to live in the divine presence of God, to use divinity, to use the greatness of divine love, divine grace, divine faith, divine strength and compassion. The children of God are a part of Christ, a part of Heaven, for we are joint-heirs with Him. And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together (Romans 8:17).

Jonah Confessed

Jonah had thought to escape from God. But then the wind came, lives were at stake and Jonah was in such desperation that he confessed the reason he was on their ship, and the frightened men on the ship believed him. Then said they unto him, Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us; What is thine occupation? and whence comest thou? what is thy country? and of what people art thou? And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land. Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him, Why hast thou done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them. Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous (Jonah 1:8-11). Thinking that God was going to destroy him anyway, Jonah wanted to save the men on the ship. He told them that if they threw him overboard, the sea would become calm. He still had enough reasoning with God to know God would show mercy to the innocent men on board who were so afraid.

And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you. Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them. Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man’s life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee. So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging. Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows (Jonah 1:12-16).

Just throw me overboard, Jonah cried, but still the men tried to save him, rowing hard to reach land only to see the wind grow stronger and stronger. Finally they picked him up and threw him into the sea, and the sea suddenly became calm. Now the men began to pray to the right God; they had found true religion, forgetting about all the other gods. Jonah had preached to them a little about Jehovah, the True and Living God, and they were ready to serve Him.

The Whale Was Waiting

When ill winds come after you, when God has to send an ill wind after you like He sent to Jonah, know that a whale is waiting. You think you’re miserable running from God, but you don’t know what misery is until you’re in the belly of the whale, until God overtakes you.

God had Jonah hemmed in—inside a great whale—but God wouldn’t let Jonah die. Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights (Jonah 1:17). Jonah became quite religious way down in the whale’s belly. He cried out to God.

Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish’s belly, And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice. For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple. The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head. I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God. When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple. They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD. And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land (Jonah 2:1-10).

Jonah prayed like he had the victory, even though he wasn’t sure he had it. He was holding on, forsaking lying vanities, forsaking everything that would make him doubt that he would be saved. Acknowledging God’s greatness, God’s power to deliver, he praised God. He sacrificed with the voice of thanksgiving, and the Lord moved on the whale to spew him out on shore.

Jonah Warned a Whole City

And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying, Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days’ journey (Jonah 3:1-3). Jonah traveled three days through the great city of Nineveh, preached a convincing warning that they were about to be destroyed if they didn’t repent. However, he didn’t really want to convince them. He was a preacher who didn’t want good results. It’s a wonder God didn’t give him back to the whale—assuming the whale would have accepted him. Jonah was probably the worst piece of meat the whale had ever swallowed, and he was glad to be free of him.

And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not (Jonah 3:4-10).

Jonah Was Angry

Jonah preached so well that the king declared a fast; even the animals had to fast! Did Jonah rejoice that a whole city was saved from destruction? No. He withdrew to a mountainside to watch destruction fall; and when it didn’t, Jonah was irate. But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live. Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry (Jonah 4:1-4)? Yes, God did have great mercy or else Jonah would have been destroyed for his anger. In the whale, he was thinking about God’s mercy, but God’s mercy on the people of Nineveh was not to his liking.

That’s the way many people are when God catches up with them: They think God should have mercy on them, but not on others. Out of the presence of God, they feel God isn’t justified when He begins to deal with them. God is justified in all He does. As for God, his way is perfect (Psalm 18:30). In the presence of God is joy—unless you’re running from His presence. In His presence is peace and love—if you’re not running from it. The greatest thing in the world is to be in the presence of God, to live and dine in the cloud of His presence. It’s wonderful to see the presence of God, and I’m glad the Lord lets this humble servant see His glory, see His power, see inside the cloud.

The Soul That Sinneth Shall Die

We read of Adam and Eve and how they sinned against God and ran from His presence. Hiding themselves, they tried to cover up with fig leaves. But God sent a wind of anger after them. He had told them what not to do, and they did it anyway. There was no second chance for them to stay in Eden. The Lord threw them out, and they no longer enjoyed His benefits.

When people run from the presence of God, they won’t enjoy the great benefits of Heaven. Adam and Eve disconnected themselves from God willfully; they had been warned.

Down through the ages since Eden, the message has been that sin brings death. The soul that sinneth, it shall die (Ezekiel 18:20). People won’t believe what God has said; they believe the devil’s contradiction, and they run from the presence of God. When people believe they can’t live free from sin, they’re running from the presence of God. God’s presence is holy; people must be righteous to be in His presence, free from all sin. Not one speck of sin can enter the gate of Glory.

The Greatest of Ill Winds Is Yet to Come

It’s time for people to wake up, for we live in an hour the Lord is sending ill winds after people all over the world, people who are running from His presence. That’s the reason there is so much chaos in the world now, the reason so much tragedy is brought about through the elements. And worse things will happen, for one of these days the stars will fall out of the sky, the moon will turn into blood, the sun refuse to shine. It’s coming. Why? Because people are running from the presence of God, and God has the greatest wind of destruction yet to send after them. The wind He sent after Jonah was tiny compared to the ill winds that will blow in the Tribulation Period. If God sends a Tribulation wind after you, it will be too bad; but He will send it to all who fail to live in His presence, to please Him, to wear the shoes of Jesus.

God Sent an Ill Wind after Cain

Cain, the son of Adam and Eve, killed his brother and the Lord sent an ill wind after him. And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear. And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him. And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden (Genesis 4:13,15,16). It’s all in the Bible; the Bible is true. That’s the reason the devil spends twenty-four hours around the clock trying to convince people that the Bible is not factual. One day, however, every knee will bow and everyone will have to confess—all hell included—that Jesus Christ is Lord. That’s what the Bible tells us, and it will happen. For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass (Ezekiel 12:25). His words will come to pass because He is the Lord.

Noah Found Grace in the Eyes of God

The Lord decided to send an ill wind after a devilish generation and destroy them all, but then suddenly a breeze came up before the Lord, carrying a voice that sounded like the voice Adam once had. God knew it couldn’t be Adam’s voice, but this was an Eden voice praising God and glorifying Him. That holy voice was the voice of Noah. Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord (Genesis 6:8).

The people of Noah’s day didn’t believe an ill wind was coming. For one hundred twenty years Noah preached to them and they watched the ark being built. Then they saw the great miracle of the animals two by two heading for the ark on their own; no one was driving them in. Those animals had more sense than the people, for they felt no other place was safe but the ark. And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah (Genesis 7:7-9).

The animals went into the ark, went to where Noah was. Now the Lord gave the people outside seven final days and nights to make up their minds. Did they want to enter the ark, too? No, they didn’t. Not a person other than Noah’s family went into the ark. God closed the ark door, sealed it up to not open it while one soul left on Earth was still breathing. They had mocked, they had made fun; now they were pounding on the ark door screaming, “We believe! Let us in!” The ill wind had come pouring down in the form of rain.

God Will Mock Your Calamity

There comes a time when it’s too late to believe, too late to contact God. God no longer is concerned. He told us how He would look on people who refused to accept Him: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh (Proverbs 1:26).

The people in Noah’s day climbed the tallest trees, scrambled to the highest mountain peaks, but the waters kept coming. They pleaded; they cried, but it did them no good. They all perished through the ill wind.

That ill wind is still destructive today. Day after day, multitudes on planet Earth are being destroyed by it. They’ve run from the presence of God, satisfied every lust of the flesh. Not concerned about the God who made them, they don’t want God or His ways. Not caring that they are not in His image, they laugh at those who are. If you’re not saved today, you’re not in the image of God.

The ill wind blew when Christ was here on Earth. Jesus said to those who were in sin, Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it (John 8:44). These people were not in the family of God, and Jesus made it plain.

Few Men Will Be Left

We find the ill wind was sent to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. They were high and mighty, above God in their minds; they didn’t think the ill wind would come.

Although an angel of the Lord was leading Lot and his family out of Sodom, the heart of Lot’s wife was still with those who were in sin; she was one who was running from the presence of God. The presence was moving to save her and her family, but she didn’t want that presence. Looking back, she longed for the pleasures she found in those evil cities, and instantly she was turned into a pillar of salt.

All the other people of those two cities were killed except Lot and his two daughters. Three souls got out, but all could have gotten out.

How many will get out of here before Tribulation days? How many will get out before the greatest wind of hatred from Heaven blows all over the world? Jesus said, For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be (Matthew 24:21).

People are talking about wars, but they’ve never seen a war to compare with the Battle of Armageddon. Isaiah tells us, Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left (Isaiah 24:6). Few men will be left alive after Armageddon. Where will you be when that time comes? Where will you be when these ill winds blow on the earth, when the Lord destroys sinful humanity with a power the world has never seen? A mighty ill wind from Heaven will blow strong, strong.

The Wicked Will Be Turned into Hell

Zechariah tells us that this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth (Zechariah 14:12). Before they can even fall to the ground, their flesh will melt away from their bones. People don’t know God; they can run all they want, but the wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God (Psalm 9:17).

The ill winds—God has plenty of them, but thank God, Calvary, the Holy Ghost and God’s mercy are holding back those ill winds from us; God’s children have the grace, the favor of God. We have His respect, His love and we’re walking hand-in-hand with Him. Everyone who will clean up their dirty lives through the blood of Jesus will find a cleansing fountain open to them, a fountain to set free all the unclean throughout the earth.

But many don’t want the power of God; they think we’re fanatical because we endorse Him, because we believe in His miracles. One day they will want a miracle from God and it won’t happen. He won’t care; He won’t hear their prayers; He has promised not to hear.

Down through the years God has destroyed whole armies at one time. On the Egyptian army pursuing the Israelites, ill winds blew. But first the grace wind blew from the nostrils of God and separated the waters of the Red Sea, banked them up like mountains on each side making a dry passage for the Israelites to go through unharmed. How great indeed!

God can use the winds of great favor in one hand while He’s holding the wind of destruction in the other hand. The Egyptians following the Israelites into the Red Sea met with the ill wind of God. The waters were not held back for them and the whole army drowned. That great army that Pharaoh had depended on, everything he counted dear, all the protection, was swept away in moments of time. He had to sit in his chariot and watch it all take place. That God was God he had to admit, although he hated Him now more than ever.

People Still Are Driving Out Jesus

The ill winds for those who don’t want grace were blowing when Jesus came. He calmed angry winds and gave people a chance. But how many accepted Him? All too few. The people were offered everything great. They were offered the wind of His grace, offered love, faith, holiness, and righteousness, but they wanted no part of it. They wanted Christ to be dead, the Christ who had come to save them.

At one place because Jesus cast so many devils out of a madman—devils that then entered a herd of swine and ran violently down a steep hill into the sea and were drowned—the people of the community wanted Him to leave. When the people came to see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid. And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine. And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts (Mark 5:15-17). The people didn’t want Jesus, the Son of God. Think of the ill winds blowing upon them when they drove Jesus out. That is what so many in America are doing today, driving Jesus out of their schools, out of the government, out of their lives. Not wanting the Cross, they can’t even stand to see the sign of the Cross. It convicts them. They don’t want the Bible to be present in school; children are not at liberty to pray or to be taught any part of the Scripture.

The Handwriting on the Wall

The God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified (Daniel 5:23). This was the accusation against Belshazzar the night Daniel was called to a wild party to interpret the handwriting on the wall. Belshazzar and his guests were drinking strong drink out of the holy vessels that had been captured from the house of God in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon. The Lord had enough. The ill wind began to blow and the finger of God started to write. Belshazzar didn’t expect to die the night the hand wrote on the wall, but he was killed by his enemy, and in hell he lifted up his eyes. The ill wind blew.

Ill winds had been sent after Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar’s grandfather, who wouldn’t obey God either. He ran from the presence of God. Then one day the Lord reached down into the king’s bosom, took out the heart of a man and replaced it with the heart of an animal. While the word was in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee. And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will. The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws (Daniel 4:31-33).

For seven years Nebuchadnezzar’s mind was gone, but then God in His mercy reached down again, took out that heart of an animal and restored a man’s heart. Nebuchadnezzar himself described it: And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation (Daniel 4:34). God is longsuffering, merciful, but He’s coming to the end of His mercy.

Belshazzar knew what his grandfather had endured for seven years, but still he ran from the presence of God. He wanted to do his own thing. Lifted up by the devil and man’s power, he thought he couldn’t be touched. He was wrong.

Perilous Times Are Here

Oh, Sinner, you’re in danger of that same ill wind. You’re in the pathway of the greatest storm you ever imagined. That ill wind is beginning to blow, and you had better take warning while the Lord is still seeking to send the miracle of the grace wind upon you. But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh (Acts 2:16,17). God, remember, is pouring out the Holy Spirit today, but how many are accepting it? How many Jonahs are running from it? How many church Jonahs, how many preacher Jonahs are running from the presence of God, from the old-time power? How many are not willing to fast, pray and live in God’s presence the way Jesus did? Jesus is our example. The Bible says that in the last days people would deny God’s power and have just a form of godliness.

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: from such turn away (II Timothy 3:1-5).

Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation (II Peter 3:3,4). People satisfy themselves with going to church, but where are the miracles?

Signs Follow Believers

Jesus said signs would follow believers: And these signs shall follow them that believe; 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 (Mark 16:17,18). Wherever you find Jesus-believers, you find signs, wonders, miracles and healings. These miracles are not done in a corner; they’re done right out in the open where people can see them.

I go to foreign countries, stand before fields of people, acres of people, and the miracles are on the stage in plain sight of everyone. Multitudes, untold thousands come to God, people who never knew anything about the presence of the Lord. Most were raised in Satanism, witchcraft, voodooism and the other darknesses of the devil, but they are set free through the blood that stained the Old Rugged Cross and the power of the Holy Ghost. The mark of the devil was upon them; however, grace erases it all.

Where are the miracles? Here at Grace, you find them. You find the miracles wherever this ministry is holding crusades; the wind of grace is blowing with miracles, healings, and greatness from on High. We are a blessed people, a fasting, praying, Bible-believing people. We are truth people.

Don’t shun the Word of God; don’t avoid His truth. Be made a new creature in Christ, born again. It all comes through the second Adam, Jesus Christ the Son of the Living God, who makes His obedient children sons and daughters of God.

Wake Up!

Wake up! The ill wind is about to blow. Wake up fast and get on the right path to Heaven, the path that leads the lost into the Kingdom of the Lord. Turn your back on Satan and all his dirty works, crying: Take the whole world, but give me Jesus! Give me the old-time power, the grace of God, the presence of Him. We’re not running from the presence of God; we run after His presence. The Bride is saying, Draw me, we will run after thee (Song of Solomon 1:4). His presence is drawing us to Him night and day. Don’t you feel the drawing of that holy presence?

Search the Word of God. Search for the Jonahs. Search for the Sauls. King Saul finally committed suicide. He went into fits of madness and nothing would help but David’s music that drove off the evil spirits for a time. The wind of God’s grace blew on Saul for short periods, and then he would run from the presence of God. He didn’t want to do the will of God. It was a different story when he was first called to be king; then he was humble; everything was in his favor.

Many today are like Saul; they were drawn to the Lord at first, but now they are running from His presence. Ministers who once preached the old-time power of God, regeneration, sanctification through the blood and the baptism of the Holy Ghost, no longer preach these things. Many teach that people can speak in tongues whenever they want—that’s damnable false doctrine.

All Were Filled with the Holy Ghost

On the Day of Pentecost about 120 in the Upper Room were all filled with the Holy Ghost and they spoke in tongues as the Holy Spirit gave the utterance, not by their own will. And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance (Acts 2:1-4).

The Bible tells us the many tongues they spoke in. The people who heard them were amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God. And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this (Acts 2:7-12)? The Holy Ghost spoke in many languages on the Day of Pentecost; He can speak in all languages under the sun.

Great Tribulation Is Just Ahead

Today the evil winds of God are blowing more and more. Added destructions are on the way until the final destruction. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb (Revelation 6:15,16). The Great Tribulation is just ahead. All the endtime signs are telling us that Jesus is soon coming, and we must take this Gospel to the world and let nothing stop us. It’s time to move, if you’re going to move, before the ill winds come. Now God is sending His winds of grace to persuade you through this Gospel message of love, this message of grace, to follow hard after Jesus. On tomorrow, it could be a message of judgment.

Everyone can be touched with the winds of God: the ill winds or the righteous winds of the Spirit, one or the other. Make your choice. Oh, God help us! Don’t be a Jonah any longer, don’t have any part of his spirit. If you miss Heaven, you’ve missed everything. Once the whale gets you, you may never be delivered. Millions down through the ages have not been delivered after the whale swallowed them. The ill winds began to blow, and it was destruction with no mercy. Although God is longsuffering, His patience has an end. God has come to the end of His patience for many people already, and He’s on the verge of coming to the end for many more. All over the world, He’s sending ill winds as well as the winds of fabulous grace and miracles.

Jesus, in talking about the endtime signs, said, For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places (Matthew 24:7). There will be earthquakes in places considered safe from them. I was shocked beyond words when Akron, Ohio had an earthquake. I just had not expected it; earthquakes are not common in Ohio. It damaged many buildings. Close by us a couple of men were killed by the collapse of a building under construction.

Are You in the Pathway of an Ill Wind?

The God in whose hand thy breath is…if you’re not glorifying Him, you’re in the pathway of the greatest ill wind that God has ever sent. Just before that ill wind strikes, however, the Bride of Christ is going to be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed (I Corinthians 15:52). Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord (I Thessalonians 4:17). Hallelujah for that hour! Thank God for that hour! I’m on my way to Rapture ground while seeking to win every lost soul I can for the Kingdom of God.

But the ill winds He carries in His left hand, the power of those winds, He can turn loose on one person or on a million. It matters not to Him. People can run from His presence, but when they do, the great wind of judgment will overtake them just as it did Adam and Eve. They thought they would be safe by covering up with fig leaves. It was a worthless fig-leaf religion. How sad.

A Salvation Prayer

You who are unsaved, the ill winds are going to blow your way, and it may be much sooner than you think. Consider the people who were alive last week only to find that ill winds were about to blow their way. Now they’re in eternity without God. Sinner, when the ill winds blow your way it will be destruction, destruction. There may never be any grace winds for you again after today. But now the Lord is offering you His grace wind, His loving grace wind. Oh, God, save the lost! Save the multitudes who are running from the grace of God, running from your wind of love, your wind of kindness, your wind of redemption, your wind of salvation. Move for them, Lord! Help them to desire your presence, to surrender and yield to your presence, Lord.

Sinner, say, Oh, God, I’m so sorry I sinned against you, but I’ve come home, and I’m going to serve you now the rest of my life. I will never run from your presence again. I’ll accept the whole Bible, the Old Testament and the New, rightly dividing the Word of God. Come into my heart, Jesus! Come on in!

If you believed that prayer, He has come; He’s yours now. Keep Him close, for He wants to keep you close. Never be a Jonah; never have anything to do with a spirit that runs from God. We have no record that Jonah ever went on to follow the Lord completely.

Healings and Miracles Come from God

You who are sick and afflicted, believe this prayer for your healing. And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up (James 5:15). Lord, I bring those with HIV/AIDS; some are at death’s door. Lord, you are healing them; you’re setting them free. Heal! Heal! And, Lord, heal people of all kinds of death diseases, cancer, heart trouble, sugar diabetes, lung problems, strokes, leprosy. Lord, you can heal everything because you are the Lord. Heal! Through the divine blood healing power comes. And with His blood stripes you have physical healing.

Get well; the God of miracles lives. God will do for you today what no other power can do. The grace of God is abounding; with the Lord, anything is possible. No one knows better than I where this power comes from. It always works for the people because He is the Lord and He has all power. Honor Him; believe Him. It’s time to let the divine blood work for you.

Close your eyes and think of nothing but the precious blood of Jesus. Remember that moment your life changed through the blood; remember the first miracle you received for your body. The miracles come through the blood.

When I had been so close to death at twenty-three, through the divine blood, every disease left my body; I was made well. What the Lord did for me through the blood, He will do for you. I preach the blood and it works for everyone who will accept it and believe it. Accept divinity, believe it and let it be paramount in your life.

I am here, saith the Lord. It’s a must that you use my blood and believe in my divine blood and use my divinity and get well. It is my will for you, saith the Lord. My Spirit prayeth for you, saith the Lord.

The tables in the wilderness of this old world are spread with miracles and healings. He has given you His faith and love to reach out and take what you need. Do it now. Take whatever you need.

Healing is promised to you in God’s Word. He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions (Psalm 107:20). By whose stripes ye were healed (I Peter 2:24). Praise God for the blood! For breaking bondages and carrying burdens, give Him all the praise, honor and glory. Don’t fail to do whatever the Lord calls on you to do. Don’t ever run from His presence—remember, the Lord sent a wind after Jonah.