Greater Is He
by Ernest Angley
June 2000
Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world (I John 4:4). Greater is He, the one who chose your body to be a holy temple for His dwelling place after He saved you, sanctified you. Now He dwells within, He who is greater than anything else on Earth or in Heaven. Paul said, I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me (Galatians 2:20). Greater is He, greater is He!
The apostle Paul recognized that greatness within, the greatness of the Lord Jesus. Paul confessed that at one time he had been the worst of sinners, persecuting those who followed Christ. However, after he came into the greatness of salvation, he could say that Christ was alive on the inside of him. Isn’t that glorious! Greater is He!
God’s Word Is Greater
God’s Holy Word is greater than all the words anyone else has ever spoken. If you could lump all man’s words together into a mountain they still would be weak, weak, weak compared to one word of God. There isn’t anything like the life, the love, the power, the greatness and the Spirit of God in His Word.
It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God (Luke 4:4). Man shall live by every word of God that brings true life. Every word God speaks has His life, His greatness in it.
For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass (Ezekiel 12:25). He speaks, and what He says comes to pass because He is God. Never doubt Him; never doubt such a one as Lord God Almighty!
God’s Greatness Has No Limits
Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool (Isaiah 66:1). Man may think he is in control of many things on Earth, but God is so great, so mighty that all Earth looks to Him as small as a little footstool would look to us. The greatness of I–Am has no limits. Why struggle to believe Him? The struggles to believe in the greatness of God come when we fail to use the sixth sense of faith to operate the other five spiritual senses. Living only in the five physical senses, we will not see the greatness of God in our lives. The physical senses must work in harmony with the spiritual senses.
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth (John 4:24). To worship God in Spirit, is to worship through the six spiritual senses.
Walk in the Light of God’s Spirit
If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit (Galatians 5:25). Now the just shall live by faith (Hebrews 10:38). To walk and live in the Spirit by faith can be done only through the spiritual senses. Come into these six spiritual senses; learn them, and you will receive much from the Lord. Through the six spiritual senses, blessings from Him flow to you.
The spiritual senses let you know that God is greater than all the powers of the world, all the powers of darkness. Greater is He! Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life (John 8:12). The light of God’s Gospel is greater than all the lights of the universe put together; nothing compares to the Gospel light. God’s light shines into the darkest corners of the Earth, penetrates the darkest night. Oh, greater is He!
Do you wonder whether or not the Lord can bring you out of your valley? Can He deliver you from sickness? Greater is He! Don’t look to self or other people; look to Him. Behold the greatness of Him; behold His power and righteousness! Behold His wonderful, overwhelming love; He loves you with divine love, everlasting love, eternal love, love that will never die. As long as God lives, His love lives. Greater is He; greater is He!
Abundant Life
Jesus said, I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly (John 10:10). What did Jesus give us? What did He bring down? Life, life, life. Jesus brought the life that man had lost in the Garden of Eden; and now the Bride in her final hour can have the greatness of His life—and she must have this greatness. With His divine favor the Bride will have His love, His faith. Not only will she have these things, but she will use them to bring in the harvest just before the Lord comes again. Praise the name of the Lord!
Greater is He, greater is He: Say the words over and over. When you can’t sleep at night, don’t count sheep; count the ways He is greater. The devil will back away and let you go to sleep just about every time.
Greater is He! With that wonderful praise flowing in your spirit, in your soul, in your mind, the devil can’t worry you. God is greater than all the mind battles the devil tries to bring. Decide that God is yours: Greater is He that is in me. The reality of the Lord living on the inside of you, however, can only be yours through the spiritual senses. Christians, because they do not trust Him with the spiritual senses, doubt God again and again. There can be no room for doubt when it comes to God. He doesn’t want you to doubt one moment and believe the next; He wants you to be a believer all the time.
Signs shall follow believers, not people who believe once in a while, but those who believe all the time. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover (Mark 16:17,18).
Greater than any other conceivable power is God in His eternal promises toward us. Every promise in the Book is yours, every chapter, every verse, every line. When you look to His promises in all faith believing, your heart cries out: Greater is He! Greater is He! Claim each promise, knowing God is in it—His life is in every promise. In every promise of God you find His miracles, His healings, His directions, His power and His faith. When you are born again, God is right there with you, living and dwelling within. Recognize Him! You recognize people that are around you, now recognize the wonder of God, the Lord, the great I–Am living on the inside of you. He is marvelous to behold!
His Grace Is Sufficient
Greater is God’s divine grace than any other favor, and you can have that divine grace. My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness (II Corinthians 12:9). Sufficient means more than enough; when you are born again you have more than enough grace. Where is it? On the inside, in your very soul, your innermost being. The grace–favor of God is sufficient twenty–four hours around the clock. When everything is going well, His grace is sufficient; when everything is going wrong, grace ensures that you still have the favor of God if you are His child.
The Lord has given you so much favor He said: Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you (Matthew 7:7). You have the favor of God if you need a miracle or a healing. God seeks to favor all with salvation and the same baptism of the Holy Spirit that those in the Upper Room received on the Day of Pentecost. What amazing favor it is to have the Holy Ghost move into your house of clay and set up His office work! Oh, glory be to God forevermore!
Let His Greatness Be Your Song in the Night
Greater is He! The very thought of His greatness should thrill every muscle, every nerve in you. It should be your song in the night—greater is He! Greater is He! Greater is He! Your song at noonday: Greater is He! No power can defeat you when you trust in the Greater is He who liveth on the inside of you.
Greater is He will lift you up. If you’re down in the valley, what does it matter when God is right there with you? But if that valley is not the will of God, climb out of it immediately! Never stay in a valley that God hasn’t willed for you. Let the power of God, the Word of God bring you out of those valleys. Don’t think you can’t get out; don’t agree with the devil when he whispers that you will be in the valley forever. It’s time to agree with God! Greater is He!
God’s divine joy is greater than all the worldly joy that people seek here on planet Earth. I see Christians trying to generate their own joy, but why go to all that effort when the Lord gives it free of charge? Joy, in fact, is one of the fruits of the Spirit. But the fruit of the Spirit is…joy (Galatians 5:22). You can have a whole tree of joy in your innermost being, God’s pure fruit of joy. Dine on the fruit of the Lord and be happy.
Enjoy the Lord, enjoy His blessings, enjoy the plan of redemption. His plan of redemption is greater than any plan man could ever have come up with. All man’s greatest ideas and inventions amount to nothing compared to Greater is He.
Jesus Came to Set the Captive Free
God has a plan for your life; why not take it? Why be satisfied with anything less than God’s plan? Why struggle against the will of God? Some Christians fight against God’s will—battle and battle—and the Lord wants them to come out of it. Greater is He is inviting you out of those pits of depression, oppression and despair. Are you coming out? Jesus broke all the locks that would keep you shut in. You can walk out of those spiritual and mental prison houses; Jesus came to set the captives free.
The devil tries to bluff you, to make you think you can’t break out of your bondages. He tries to talk you out of your rights in the Lord. Like all bluffers, the devil is just full of words. He doesn’t have the strength to do anything else but talk you into accepting his captivity. That’s the way the devil is: talk, talk, talk. The devil has the talk, but always remember that God has the power.
Be still, and know that I am God (Psalm 46:10), He told the Psalmist. Be still and see His mighty power in action. Compare that which comes against you with Greater is He, and know that God can carry you through the stormiest trials. In Heaven we’ll be so ashamed of what bothered us, what held us down here on Earth that we won’t want to tell about it. The valleys we cried and cried over will look like tiny ruts. We will think, Lord, please don’t ever tell how I was so weak on Earth that I let the devil keep me bound in depression, oppression and fear. Angels, please don’t tell it either. I’m ashamed of the way I let little things get me down. The devil fooled me and made me think I couldn’t come out of that prison house, and I could have walked right out anytime.
Did you know that you can walk away from the devil anytime? God didn’t promise you oppression, depression, despair, fear. He promised you joy unspeakable and full of glory; He promised you faith; He promised you love that would cast out all fear. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love (I John 4:18).
Jesus Conquered for You
Has one defeat after another been coming your way? Decide that through God, defeat will be turned into victory. You’re promised victories, you know; Jesus is your victory. Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ (I Corinthians 15:54,55,57).
Jesus conquered death, hell and the grave for you. Because of Him, the grave won’t be able to hold your body, so why let that sickness today hold it? Why not decide, Here I come Lord! You said if the Son sets me free I’m absolutely free—and I’m going to be free because greater is He! With that shout in your soul, claim all the wonderful healing and deliverance promises of God.
Speak the Blood Name
Jesus gave you His blood, divine blood that showed its greatness when it washed away all your sins. His divine blood, those blood stripes show His greatness again and again as the Lord heals the body. Anything you put under the blood is destroyed if you keep it there—and why shouldn’t you keep it there when you know that the blood is the greatest power on planet Earth today?
So much power is in the blood of the Lamb that the blood–name of Jesus means everything. Speak the blood–name in faith, and demons have to obey. Speak the blood–name in faith, and sicknesses leave the body, have no more power. Speak that name in all faith, and crippled limbs are set free, begin to move, to operate as they should, as God planned them to work. Through the blood name of Jesus, people are delivered, soul, mind and body.
Greater is He walked the shores of Galilee, cast out devils and healed the sick. Greater is He came to live on the inside of man. Man would have all the power he needed at last, all the victory over the devil because Greater is He met the devil head–on and won deliverance for you and me.
God Will Supply
Jesus, greater than all the powers of darkness, will help you mount up through the six spiritual senses as He supplies your needs. But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19). God gave faith. God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith (Romans 12:3). Then Jesus said, According to your faith be it unto you (Matthew 9:29). As your faith is, so be it unto you. Use the faith that Greater is He brought to mankind. The members of the Early Church used it and were delivered, set free. It worked for them and it will work for you when you use it as the apostles did.
Jesus would say to people, Wilt thou be made whole (John 5:6)? Wilt thou be made well? It was their choice. All they had to do was reach out, and there He was. All they had to do was use His words, accept His words. Jesus had come to set the captives free, and He didn’t fail in His mission. Greater is He than all the powers on planet Earth, and greater than all the powers under the Earth, greater than all the powers that you could ever imagine or know about.
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8). Oh, the glory and power of the I–Am who is always the same! Greater is He, I say again, who lives inside you than he who is in the world. Why should you be afraid of the powers of the devil? Why should you be afraid of the powers of darkness when you walk with the one greater than all the powers of darkness? You walk with the one who has all power, the one who holds the whole world in His hand at one time and yet has room for more, the one who could gather up all the waters of the oceans in one heap if He so chose. By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses (Psalm 33:6,7).
Greater is He, greater is He! In this wonderful plan of redemption, God has built us a second Eden, a place in which we will live as the eternal ages roll—a trillion years and more, just the start of eternity. Not one ache, not one pain will darken your life in a land where you will never grow old.
Greater is He than all the misgivings, all the sadness, all the loneliness in the hearts of people today. Jesus went to Calvary for you; He went to Calvary to make all His greatness possible for you to have. His great divine faith is greater than all the doubt in the world. Why should you hesitate to meet doubt head–on? The great I–Am gives you His faith, His divine faith. He gives you His divine presence; for, remember, He lives not on the outside but on the inside of you who are born again. On the inside He lives with His peace, joy, grace and faith.
God Lifts Us Up into His Divinity
Thank God for the way of the Lord! Greater is He in all His ways—His ways are higher than our ways. Greater is He in all of His thoughts—thoughts that are higher than ours. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts (Isaiah 55:8,9). The Lord lifts us up to walk the highroads; He lifts us up to give us His high thoughts. Into His divinity, His great divine love and grace He lifts us up. Greater, greater, greater is He!
With God All Things Are Possible
Behold, the greatness of the Lord today. Behold the hand of the Lord: Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me (Jeremiah 32:27)? The Lord is asking you today: Is your case too hard for me? Is that sickness, that disease working on the inside of you too hard for me to cure? Is it too hard for me to give life to your body? I gave life to your soul; why would you think I can’t give life to your body? I’ve provided for you to have life, given you the faith to receive it. I have given you the love to know my deliverance is real. Now, why don’t you reach out and accept it? Why would you dare say you don’t have any faith when I have declared that to every man, every woman, every boy, and every girl I have given a measure of my divine faith as well as my divine love and my divine grace?
God has given you everything you need. Why act as though you have nothing? He said, I AM THAT I AM (Exodus 3:14). The great I–Am is here today with armfuls on purpose.
On a divine mission, the Bride is coming together in a powerful way, getting ready for the marvelous appearance of Jesus in the Rapture. Greater is He dwells on the inside of the Bride. Going forth without fear, the Bride rejoices in the favor of God that rests upon her. What does it matter about man’s favor when you have God’s favor? God will see that you get the favor you need wherever you need it.
Know the Greatness of Our Lord
God was greater in the lion’s den than all the lions. He was greater in the fiery furnace than the fire itself. He was greater than the Red Sea, greater than all the force of that water. He separated the waters, and with His great power made a dry highway for the Israelites to cross. The LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left (Exodus 14:21,22).
Greater is He than all the storms that come your way. Greater is He than the darkest night you have ever known. Greater is He than all the hate in the world today. God’s love destroys hate if people will only let His love work.
God is not weak, but He gave us free choice; and if we choose the broad way of the world, we close Him out. If we choose walls of doubt and unbelief, curling up in dungeons of despair, oppression and depression, God stands sadly by waiting for us to turn to Him in trust. How can He move for us when we bind ourselves in chains from the enemy? How can He move for us when we reject His greatness and the warmth of His love? He offers us all the power of His love, all the power of His grace, His wisdom, His knowledge. When troubles come, declare: “God is greater! He is greater than this trouble; He is greater than what I am facing, and I take Jesus for mine!” To know the greatness of our Lord is glorious indeed!
The Blood of Jesus Washes Away Every Sin
You who are steeped in sin: I bring you the one greater than all the sins you’ve ever committed. So great and so powerful is His blood that it will wash away every sin. You who are unsaved: The Lord is here to deliver you and set you free. If you believe in the greatness of God, if salvation is your need, say the sinners’ prayer with me: Oh, God, I’m so sorry that I sinned against you! But I have come home, and I’m going to serve you the rest of my life. I take Jesus for mine. I confess all my sins, and I believe the blood of Jesus washes them all away. Come into my heart, Jesus; come on in!
If you meant that prayer, now you can say: Hallelujah, He has come! Hallelujah Jesus is mine! Greater is He that is in me now than he that is in the world. Oh, what victory, what deliverance!
God Is the Healer
Greater is He! Greater is He! Whatever your need is, God is greater. Why not let Him serve you what He wants to serve you? Why not take that good health from the healing hands of the Lord? With His blood stripes we have physical healing: With his stripes we are healed (Isaiah 53:5).
The Lord healed me years ago when I was close to death; it took only a moment of time. He was greater than all my sufferings, greater than all my pains, greater than death. As though death were as helpless as a tiny lamb, God backed it away, praise God! He let me go to the edge of the grave, but He wouldn’t let me die. Greater is He who gave me life! Oh, how I suffered; but I walked away from it all because I walked with Greater is He, and the victory was mine!
But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings (Malachi 4:2). Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases (Psalm 103:2,3). To forgive all our sins, to heal all our diseases is the will of God. Shouldn’t that make Him magnificent in your sight? How big is God, Preacher? He’s big enough for whatever you need, big enough for any valley you may go into. God is big enough to bring the dead out of their graves on Resurrection Morn. Glory be to God, He is big enough! God is greater than death; He is life forevermore! Reach out and touch the Lord; He’s passing your way.
You who need healing: Claim the promise of God’s healing hand. He has endued me with His gifts to deliver people. The Holy Spirit operates these divine gifts through me with His holy power, and you can be free. If you have a deaf and dumb child it can be healed. If you have a child born deformed, it can be set free as others have been set free. Perhaps your child was born with just part of a brain; God can give it a whole brain. He’s done it many times. Maybe you’re paralyzed: Know that the Lord can give you life; He has done this again and again for others. If your heart does not work right, the Lord can re–create your heart. God heals lungs; He melts cancer by His mighty power. Greater is He than all the sicknesses, than all the diseases in the world; and He is our great healer who gives masterful surgery.
Lord, I bring the sick and afflicted to you. I bring those little ones who need to be healed. In the name of Jesus, heal the people today! Heal in the all powerful name of the Lord! Heal, heal, I pray!
His all–powerful love and greatness are flowing. Use your faith, your love and let God do the rest. Watch yourself get well; watch all improvements daily in your child, and praise the Lord for victory.
You who have found Jesus, write and tell me about it. Blessings upon you. The Lord is with you. Remember, He’s greater than your problems today; He’s greater than all those diseases; He’s greater than all those tears of despair; He’s greater than that spirit of loneliness. Whatever it is, He is greater! Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world (I John 4:4). Greater is He! Greater is He! Greater is He! Now shout: Victory is mine!
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