Jude 1:3: Ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. Study and re-study the kind of faith that was truly delivered to the saints of God. Most people have never come into the realization that the Lord has many kinds of faith. Christians are baffled at times: They think they’ve used faith, but they didn’t use the kind of faith they should have used for what they were asking.

The Lord gives faith for the healing of the body, faith to break all bondages, faith to walk the waters, the seas of life. He gives many kinds of faith, but the kind of faith that performs miracles for you must come through prayer and fasting. Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting (Matthew 17:21). The Lord let us know that certain miracles couldn’t come any other way. If you’re not accustomed to fasting, send for the book God gave me on fasting and let the Lord anoint you for a long fast.

Live in His Presence

This ministry never could have been brought about without many long fasts. How many forty days of fasting have I had? I don’t rightly know, so many I’ve lost count. My life is dedicated to prayer, fasting and living in the Word. I have no life of my own; it’s all been given to the Lord. I must be in His presence, live in His presence.

Earnestly, sincerely contend for the faith once given to the saints, fight for it. To contend means to stretch out, stretch beyond anything you’ve ever been able to do; go into action. You may think you can’t come to that place, but you can by stretching, going beyond yourself, beyond what you call your limitations: The Lord will help you to go beyond.

Use the Measure of Faith God Gives You

Start at the beginning: God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith (Romans 12:3). You couldn’t have found Calvary without a measure of faith. Everyone is given one measure of faith, but you can have as many measures as you want; there’s no limitation on faith. However, you must use each measure God gives before you can expect to receive more and greater measures.

We have no record of anyone in Old Testament days being given the Spirit without measure, but the Spirit was given to Jesus without measure: For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him (John 3:34). Since the Spirit was given to Jesus without measure, it’s available to us without measure. Love, peace, as well as the nine fruits of the Spirit and all the greatness of God are given to us without measure. Without measure faith is definitely given.

Degrees of Faith

Just as there are degrees of love, there are degrees of faith. How does faith register in your life today? Some people have talking faith, some have shouting faith; but the Lord has nothing to do with talking and shouting faith. James tells us that faith without works is dead faith. What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone (James 2:14,17). For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also (James 2:26).

Do you carry around dead faith and then wonder why you don’t get prayers answered? If you don’t have works, your faith is dead and you should bury it. As long as you carry that stinking carcass of dead faith, you won’t receive live faith from Heaven.

Faith Is in the Will

Contend means to strive after. Go after faith; really want it; desire the things of God. The New Testament is our Will, and faith is part of that Will. If you’re named as a beneficiary of someone’s will, you’ll ponder it, make sure you get all the benefits promised. Be that concerned and sincere about the Jesus Will, the greatest Will of all. You can get along without other wills, but you can’t get along without the Jesus Will. There’s no Heaven, no greatness for you without this Will.

Resist the Devil

Jesus helped make the first man. He knew there was no good reason why the first Adam should have failed, but fail he did, and Jesus knew why. When Jesus came to Earth, He stayed away from all evil, refused to listen to the devil or to debate with him. Had Eve refused to debate with the devil, had she given him what God had said, she would not have eaten the forbidden fruit. Every time you tell the devil what God says and mix nothing else in it, you are saying, Get away from me, Devil! There’s power in what I’m telling you; it’s the Word of the Lord.

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you (James 4:7). You can’t live in fear of the devil and expect him to run from you. If an animal can sense fear in you, then know that the devil can certainly discern fear in you. The devil knows if you’re afraid, knows whether or not he can scare you out of the Word of God.

It takes faith to resist the devil, to have him run from you, but that’s the kind of faith you can have. However, some of you have never received that kind of faith. You’ve hardly made the devil walk away, much less run. Get down to business.

Contend means to struggle. You have to struggle for the faith that was once delivered to the saints. How much have you struggled? How much have you pondered over their faith? Go back and check them out. You need to do this again and again if you want the kind of faith they had.

Different Kinds of Faith

Noah had a faith different from Abraham’s. Abraham had a different faith from Moses’ faith, and Joseph had a faith different from all of them. So it goes throughout the Old Testament: The men and women who did great things had faith that was for different situations—yet it was all the same faith: God’s faith. God gives faith for physical miracles, faith for spiritual miracles, faith to pray and make intercession for others, faith to give the needed helping hand, and faith to be all God wants you to be.

Think about the kind of faith that was given to Noah. Of course, we can’t go through all he went through for one hundred twenty years to get that faith, no. Noah’s faith increased as he worked; he didn’t get it all at one time, but he had faith enough to start building the ark.

Some people are waiting for a mountain of faith to move a molehill; however, they’re not waiting on the Lord. When you have faith, use that faith in the waiting station. Be at the right place and in the will of God.

God gives you a measure of faith to bring you into His will at Calvary. Salvation is the beginning of life for you as you yield to the divine will of God. Walking in that divine will, your feet are upon the path straight to Heaven, the straight and narrow way. No bypassing, no detours, absolutely none are on that path.

Noah had a faith that grew. If our faith and our lives are kept pure, our faith increases, gets stronger. We become more knowledgeable in using that great weapon called faith. You must know what you have, what you possess and how to use it. How can you possess something and not know it? The things God gives us are real. All of the blessings of God flow through His feelings, not through human feelings. Why? God wants us to feel as He feels.

Faith Can Grow

When Noah first told his family about the ark, not all the family members had enough faith to build it. They had never seen an ark, never helped build one. What did the Lord do? He took that little bit of faith Noah had generated in the hearts of his sons and daughters-in-law and made it grow.

Faith, one of the fruits of the Spirit, has to be produced on the inside; your soul must be prepared for it through the blood. When the blood takes all contamination out, your soul is just like God’s soul; there’s no sin, no disobedience, no stubbornness, no unkindness in it. The Holy Spirit delights in growing faith on the inside. You help bring that faith by reaching out to God to gather the help you need. Using spiritual eyesight, you see faith increase as you gain full assurance that you can use it.

It isn’t enough to have this powerful weapon against the devil; you need to know how to use it, know that you can use it, and know what it will do even before you see the results. Know that the weapon of blood faith will conquer the devil, render him helpless. Don’t start using it until you do know.

How are you going to know faith will work? By prayer, fasting and living in the Word you will know. Paul said, For I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day (II Timothy 1:12). Do you know in whom you have believed? Knowing is the first step.

Faith for Salvation

You have to know that you have salvation, that you have really found Calvary before you can believe for the benefits of Calvary. You have to have a measure of faith to help you find Calvary. Calvary was two thousand years ago and the only way you can find it is through the divine faith of God. When you want that faith He will give it to you.

Spend time with God. The Lord said, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me (Luke 9:23). Follow Him.

In Step with God

Are you in step with the Lord? If you’re in step with the Lord, your heartbeat is so in rhythm with the heartbeat of God that you can’t tell the difference.

God couldn’t tell the difference between His heartbeat and Adam’s heartbeat; neither could Jesus and the Holy Spirit tell the difference. That’s the way it must be today with the Bride of Christ, saith the Lord. The world doesn’t understand, and we don’t have time to explain it to them; we must go on with the Lord. And as we go, He begins to reward us.

Jesus Is Our Ark

Jesus is our Ark, not an ark we have to build, but an Ark we must bring before the people, introduce to the world: the Ark—Jesus Christ. The ark door is still open, everything is being prepared in Heaven, for it’s almost time to go home; the ark is about to sail. Using this faith that was once delivered to the saints, we must hurry to finish the harvest.

Noah’s family had a faith that worked one hundred twenty years, day after day. It was pure faith; no doubt went on board; the ark was a place of the miraculous. The Ark of Jesus is a place of the miraculous, too: We must yield completely to Him and His divine will. There’s no room for doubt.

Doubters try to figure out how the ark could have held everything the Lord said was to be on board. I’ve never worried about that. Don’t you know that the ark had miracle meal barrels? All man had to do was fill them up one time and they stayed filled over a year while Noah and his family were in the ark.

Did you think the Noah family were in the ark only forty days and nights? Think again. In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged; The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen. And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried. And God spake unto Noah, saying, Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee (Genesis 7:11,12; 8:1-5,13-16).

When you have the kind of faith that was delivered to the Noah family, you have faith that fills the meal barrel. Not worried about what you’re going to eat, what you’re going to wear, you don’t walk the floor wringing your hands all hours of the night thinking, What am I going to do? You know what you’re going to do: Trust God. The Noah family put their trust in the Lord. Praise and honor Him; glorify His holy name!

All Needs Were Supplied

The miracle power and faith were on the ark to keep everyone well. We have no record of sickness, and no record of doctors on board. Only Doctor/Jesus, Doctor/God the Father, and Doctor/Holy Ghost were with them. How wonderful it was, a bit of Heaven.

What faith the Noah family had! Did their faith wear out? No, they kept that faith the whole time they were in the ark. Only after they came out of the ark did they doubt God and fail to use faith as they should have. Over a year in the ark they lived holy before Him. If you want this kind of faith you have to live holy, holy, holy.

Abraham Staggered Not in Unbelief

Consider the faith of Abraham and the promise God had given him. It would take twenty-five years before that promise would be fulfilled, but he held on to it. Abraham against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb: He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God (Romans 4:18-20).

Abraham didn’t stagger, much less fall; nor did his faith waver. He looked at the promise of God, not at Sarah’s body, how old she was and what an impossibility it was for women to give birth at that advanced age. When you have this kind of faith, there are no impossibilities; they all become possibilities in the divine will of God. For the impossibilities to become possible, one must work hand-in-hand with God all the time, walk with Him, live with Him. The mind must be plugged into His; man was made that way, geared that way in the first place.

Stay Plugged In

Eve should have stayed tuned into God all the time, but the devil got her attention and she unplugged, listened to what he had to say. For the same reason Christians today are in trouble: They are forever unplugging from God.

No more than your vacuum cleaner can take up dirt without electric power can you operate without the power of God. A vacuum cleaner has to be plugged in to be used, to have power to operate. It’s made that way.

Adam and Eve never were meant to be unplugged from God. Without God, human beings can’t function right. Without God, we go crazy, do silly, foolish things, act like the devil. The human race, that had been unplugged for such a long time when Jesus came, found it possible to be plugged in through divine blood.

Divine blood would have enabled Adam to live forever had he not lost that blood through sin. But when man sinned, his body became contaminated, and divine blood could not exist in a contaminated body. Sin made it necessary for God to take the divine blood from man and to give man human blood that would make it possible for his body to exist outside Eden. Would man ever have divine blood again? Yes, but only in his soul when he became born again. Jesus brought that divine blood, and through His sacrifice on the Cross offered that blood to all who would take Him into their hearts. Now divine blood would enter the soul for salvation and the body for physical healing, making the way for the person to have eternal life. In order to live forever, you must have divine blood in your soul. Depend on the divine blood; treasure the divine blood in your soul.

A Few Used Divine Blood

Some of the men of God in Old Testament days used divine blood. Very few used it, but those who did saw great results. After Abraham was given the son for whom he had waited so long, Isaac, he thought he had all he could ever want. He didn’t know what was about to happen, didn’t know he would go into the deepest valley of his life. And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of (Genesis 22:1,2).

No matter how deep your valley is, if you have the faith of God you’ll climb out. It may take awhile; you may be knocked down into the dirt, but you’ll come back up to stand as tall as Jesus stood. The devil can’t keep you in the valley, so regardless of what happens, no matter how much he tries to talk to you across the fence, don’t listen to him; don’t even act as though he’s there. Ignore the devil and stay tuned in to Heaven.

There is no life without God, for the soul that sinneth, it shall die (Ezekiel 18:4). You must yield to the Lord while you’re still here on Earth; if you die in sin, you will find no gate back into Eden. But if you are born again, you can have here on Earth the Eden faith, the Eden life, the Eden joy, and the Eden peace that were once delivered to the saints.

Abraham Put Everything on the Altar

Genesis 22:3, And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.

Do you have the kind of faith that made Abraham willing to offer his son? Do you have the kind of faith that can make any sacrifice? Do you let kin hold you back, put you down, let their criticism hinder you? If so, you wouldn’t have made a good Abraham; you don’t have his kind of faith, but you need to contend for it. With that faith you’ll have no trouble overcoming a critical family. You’ll put them under the blood into the hands of God and go forth to tell the story of Jesus to people who want to hear.

You may become defensive when I talk about your kin, but if they need salvation, they need salvation. We all have to be born again. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23). No longer sinners, we have the grace and power of God abounding and we’re contending for the kind of faith that Abraham had.

Giving Up Benjamin

Abraham put everything on the altar; he was not like Jacob of old who couldn’t give up Benjamin. And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt. But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him. (Genesis 42:3,4). Poor Jacob thought he’d die if he had to give up Benjamin.

Some of you have a Benjamin you can’t give up. You say you want God’s will, but you’re kidding yourself: You don’t want His will or you would give up Benjamin. You may not call that something—that him or her—a Benjamin; but that’s your Benjamin and you’re in trouble. You’re not going to get the corn from heaven that you need until you give up Benjamin. You’ll have to shape up if you want the kind of faith to stand as tall as Jesus. Faith to stand that tall has already been delivered to the saints, and you can have that faith.

The Lord Wants to Wake You Up

Jesus used the faith that was delivered to the saints, no more, no less, and He willed it to us; we can all have it. What are you going to do about it? Are you going to rejoice a little and then forget all about it, or are you going to carry this message in your heart?

God gave this message for you and I’m delivering it. Read it until you know every word and it makes music in your heart—or else creates a storm. Play it over and over in your mind until you either can’t sleep or you can sleep better than ever, one way or the other. This message is going to help you, bless you, lift you up or make you miserable.

You may be rubbing your bruised spots and thinking I shouldn’t have said all of this to you. But when a good hunter goes out to get a squirrel and he hears a noise up among the leaves of a tree, he doesn’t close both eyes and shoot; he takes careful aim. When I preach the Gospel, I get the old double barrel loaded, get ready for you, and take aim. I haven’t fired yet, but I’m aiming at you, and you’re saying, Lord, give it to me; I can take it. Let this message do you some good; the Lord wants you to wake up.

Do What God Tells You

Do you think Abraham told his wife he was going to sacrifice their son? I don’t think so. Sarah didn’t have that kind of faith; she might have divorced him before he got back.

Don’t tell people everything. If God wants you to do something, do it and let others see the results; they’ll believe better. If you explain ahead of time what you’re going to do, they might try to talk you out of it. You can’t allow anyone to talk you out of what God wants you to do. Unfortunately, some people think God is always telling them something, but the next day they think God is telling them something different, that God has changed His mind and He’s canceling out the first instruction. When God tells you something, hold on to it. Decide that God said it, I believe it, and that settles it. Then you won’t be tormented.

Some of you leave your mind open to worry that comes straight from the devil. Making a racetrack in your mind, the devil runs back and forth, putting you into confusion and stress. Does every Christian have to be like that? Is it dreary to be a Christian? That all depends on what kind of Christian you are. If you’re trying to be a Christian without putting your trust in divine blood, yes, you’ll live in confusion, fear, dread, depression and oppression. Christians are not meant to live like that. Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil. The Bible says God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him (Acts 10:38). That promise is to every child of God, so what do you have to be depressed about?

Abraham didn’t question God; he knew what the Lord wanted; he knew the voice of God and he started out to do His will. Until he reached the mountaintop, Abraham probably didn’t have all the faith he needed, but he had enough to keep moving. As long as you have enough faith to keep moving toward the will of God, enough faith to do His whole will, you’ll land right in the middle of God’s will and be able to do it. God will deliver that faith to you.

Preacher, how is it going to be delivered? Whatever it takes, whatever He has to do, God will deliver His faith to you His way. If He has to flatten your nose on the ground for a while, He’ll do that, too.

Knowing he was on his way to sacrifice his son, Abraham probably cried more than one tear as he glanced down at him. Only about twelve years old, Isaac was Abraham’s heart—and he could have been his Benjamin, but he wasn’t; Abraham’s first allegiance was to God.

Some people think they belong to the Lord, but He doesn’t really have their heart. God doesn’t have you until He gets your heart, for that’s how He moves in you. His heart with your heart, God gives His love and faith so He can work with you. You’re not shorthanded unless you won’t receive what the Lord has promised.

Actions Speak Louder Than Words

Genesis 22:4,5, Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off. And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you. By the time Abraham got to the mount he had enough faith to tell his servants to wait: Isaac and I will be back. He had faith in his mind: God can’t lie. The divine faith of Abraham is the faith you must have.

How many times have you doubted God’s promises, failed to believe He was going to do what He said? Do you doubt that God is telling the truth all of the time? Some of you act as though you believe He isn’t. You don’t have to say, God, I don’t believe you; by the way you act you say it. Actions speak louder than words.

Abraham didn’t believe himself, he believed God. He knew that God could not lie, and that’s what you must decide. With the faith delivered to him, Abraham believed the promises of God.

Do you want the Abraham faith? The Lord said you could have it, declared it is yours. He put His promises in the Bible, not to fill up space, but for you and me, spiritual children of Abraham to use.

Thank God for Jesus, I say! He brought all of this, unveiled divine faith; He’s the one giving you light on healing for soul, mind and body. Jesus Christ is our Revelation for this hour.

You’re not going to understand the Will unless you understand the one who brought all that’s in the Will and left it for us. But if you don’t believe in His promises, don’t believe Him to be born of the Virgin Mary, you will never have this kind of faith that was once delivered to the saints.

Genesis 22:6-8, And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together. And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together. By the time he got to the mount, Abraham was ready to do all that God had told him to do. He knew if he killed his son, God would have to raise him up. Even before they started up the mount, Abraham had told the young men they would be back. He knew he wasn’t going to leave a dead son on top of the mountain, and he didn’t.

Contend for Faith in the Name of the Lord

To contend means to strive as in combat and oppositions, to rise up and fight. Contend for that faith, war for it; don’t wait for it to be delivered to you; go after it in the name of the Lord.

David went after Goliath in the name of the Lord. David said, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD’S, and he will give you into our hands (I Samuel 17:45-47). Coming from a youth like David, such words sounded like foolish talk to his brothers.

And he [David] took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd’s bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine (I Samuel 17:40). David didn’t look threatening. He had only a slingshot to kill a giant, but he had what he needed: faith in the Lord God for victory.

When you have Jesus you have what you need. Jesus is our slingshot, so to speak, our stone. David stopped by the brook, picked up five stones, J-E-S-U-S, but just one stone did the work. You can use a little bit of Jesus to conquer the devil, win any fight, any war; just a little bit of Jesus will do.

Jesus said, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you (Matthew 17:20). Jesus was revealing the power of real faith in operation.

Get Angry with the Devil

Strive in anger when you contend for that faith—not anger with God but with the devil. Get angry with the devil, enraged toward him. When have you been really infuriated with him? If you learn how to cast out devils you’ll be furious with the devil. I get so furious with the devil that people think I’m mad at them. I scare people the way I look, but I’m after the devil, not after people; and that anger comes up in me, that anointing to cast out devils. I despise that devil, hate everything about him. I hate what he’s doing to the person I’m praying for; I hate that he could nest in a human soul, a soul that came from the breath of God.

When the gift of discerning of spirits first started to work in my life, it about killed me. I didn’t know such hideous things could be inside of people’s souls. I could see them just like I look at a person—their eyes, their bald heads, their repulsive sneer. I’d turn away and start wringing my hands, groaning, oh my God, oh my God! Then I’d turn back and cast them out through the Spirit of God.

I despise what those devils do to people. I hate the way they cause people to mistreat and destroy their own children, how they murder and butcher people, how they steal and rob. I loathe the torture they bring about, how the tobacco devils destroy the bodies of men and women, boys and girls, the devils that cause people to crave nicotine, drugs and alcohol. When the devils are cast out, people won’t crave those destructive habits.

There are murdering devils, sex devils, all kinds of devils; the possessed person becomes what that devil is. Sex demons drive people crazy with the desire for sex, and that demon can’t be satisfied until he uses a person’s body to satisfy his desire. When he’s finished, the desire starts in all over again; in other words, the devil is never really satisfied.

Take the faith that was once delivered to the saints so you can understand the delivering power of Heaven’s faith.

Have the Faith of God

By faith God spoke this universe into existence, the moon, the stars, and the sun. Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light. Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens. Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created (Psalm 148:3-5).

God has names for all the stars. He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names (Psalm 147:4). He is the great I-Am, the great God Almighty of the faith that was delivered to the saints. The saints had the faith of God.

We’re to have the faith of God—do you know that promise is in the Will, have you ever read it? The Bible says, Have faith in God (Mark 11:22). To have faith in God means to have the faith of God; it’s God’s faith. It’s the same faith He’s always used, but in this final hour of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, He has been able to use more of it and He wants the Bride to use it in perfection the way Jesus used it.

Don’t Fool Yourself

We hinder ourselves by doubting God, by not yielding to His will. Some of you have hindered God much, messed up your life again and again because you won’t listen to Him. If it pleases you to go God’s way, you’ll go; and if not, you tell yourself that it’s not the will of God. You can tease yourself into accepting your own will, fool yourself into believing what you want is God’s will; but if you do, you’ll never have the kind of faith the saints had; it will never work for you.

To hold fast to this kind of faith you must reach out for it, assert yourself: I’m an heir to this Will; this is my Will! It has my name on it written in blood; it’s mine, mine, mine.

You may trust the Lord for Heaven, for the eternal life that’s in the Will, but what are you going to do with that faith while you are en route to Heaven? What kind of faith are you going to use for the outreach for souls? Are you going to sacrifice all or just a little bit? How much are you going to pray, how much are you going to give of your time, your money to bring in the lost? You say you have the faith to believe the Lord is coming in your day, but do you really believe it? If you’re getting ready to leave out of here, you’re affecting people with the love, grace, faith, joy and happiness you show. By your works they will know that you have faith in God.

You’ll have the love bridle in if you have this kind of faith, but if not, the Bible says your religion is vain. If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain (James 1:26). The devil doesn’t have to give you a rope; by not wearing the love bridle you can hang yourself with your own tongue.

Many Kinds of Faith

Where are you? Do you want the faith of Moses? You can have that kind of faith, the kind of faith that’s needed. Because Moses had many different kinds of faith, God could use him whatever way He wanted to get the Israelites out of Egypt. The Lord wants us to have that kind of faith so we can bring people out of the bondage of sin and sickness.

Moses brought the Israelites out of Egypt and mighty miracles took place. In the beginning, he didn’t have the kind of faith to separate the waters, but he had faith for God to do some things. As he used that faith, God would take him another step. That’s the way the Lord is taking us—that’s the way He has taken me: step-by-step.

The Lord taught me that there’s no room for doubt. Right in His presence in the divine visitations, listening to what He was saying, I’ve never had one doubt. Free from all distress, free from everything that wasn’t pleasant to the spirit or the mind, the experience must be like being in Heaven. I was conscious of only Him, His love, tender grace and loving promises, conscious of His showing me things to come. He actually let me see the kinds of miracles that would take place and how the greatness of His miracle power would move in this final hour. We can expect anything and everything.

Joshua learned much faith through Moses, but he had to have more. It was not easy to take on his grave responsibility, but he did it, and how marvelously that faith worked as Joshua led Israel against Jericho and saw the walls come tumbling down!

Hezekiah Had Faith to Live

Hezekiah had that divine faith for healing, faith to live even when the prophet Isaiah told him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live (II Kings 20:1).

Hezekiah knew Isaiah was a true prophet, but look what faith can do: Then he [Hezekiah] turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, saying, I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying, Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD. And I will add unto thy days fifteen years…and he recovered (II Kings 20:2-7).

Hezekiah didn’t turn his face to death, and he didn’t start getting his house in order to die; he set his heart to live and he used that faith. God honored Hezekiah’s faith, honored his walk of perfect love.

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said, Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect (Matthew 5:48). Be perfect in love. You may not be perfect in the eyes of people, but you can be perfect in the eyes of God through His great blood love, blood grace, and blood faith.

It’s Time to Work

Hezekiah was given fifteen more years to live; why would you be afraid the Lord is not going to let you stay here and help get the harvest in? Why would you think God doesn’t want you to work for Him? When you receive healing it’s time to go to work; you’re expected to go to work. If you want to live, tell the Lord you want to live and work for Him. If you just want to live, He can let you live in Heaven.

Do you want to live in Heaven or do you want to stay here and work? I love the Lord so much I don’t want to be in Heaven yet. As long as there are souls down here I want to chase after them, bring them in. As long as there’s a devil to fight and I can fight him off a human being, I want to be here to help do it, don’t you?

Preacher, don’t talk like that! Why? Are you backing down on God when you could make the Rapture? Do you want to be in a coffin? Do you want someone to dig a hole and put you into it? Is that what you want? I think it’s better to go straight to Heaven like Jesus did. To go up in the Rapture—what a privilege that will be!

Do you have trouble believing you’ll be changed in a moment and a twinkling of an eye? I’ve been under the power of God and felt His presence so many times that I don’t doubt such a change at all. In His presence, I’ve felt the power of God as though it were burning my flesh; after the visitation I would go to a mirror to see if I still looked the same. The power of God is that real, that great!

The Lord wants to be reality to you, but you must get down to business. You can’t rob God of His time, can’t rob Him of what He wants of you and still expect to have this kind of faith, this living reality in the blood of Christ through the Holy Spirit, living reality through Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God. God’s Word is a Book of Heaven’s realities and it’s for you; it’s a pattern for your life.

Elijah Thought He Was the Only One

Elijah had faith; he just failed to use it one time, and God understood. Elijah had seen a lot of blood, killed a lot of men; he was heartsick, and when he looked around he thought no one was left to serve the Lord except him. And he [Elijah] came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah? And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away (I Kings 19:9,10). But the Lord said, Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him (I Kings 19:18). Elijah took courage, went forward, and made it to Rapture ground. That’s the kind of faith we need, the kind of faith that was delivered to the saints.

What Will You Do with the Promises of God?

Daniel had that faith. How we rejoice in his victory over the lions! You have faith enough to shout for Daniel’s victory, but if you had been that Daniel, some of you might have lost your shout. By the time you heard the lions roar a few times, you may have been ready to have a nervous breakdown. Lord, I don’t think I’m going to make it! The Lord promised you’d make it; He said, Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world (Matthew 28:20). What are you going to do with that scripture, that promise? What are you doing with all the promises of God?

The promises are on your table; you need to get them off the table and into your heart. Don’t just go through the motions, not letting the promises be real to you. Know the promises are yours and hold on to them.

And then there was Jonah; he had to use a lot of faith, for he was in sore straits there in the whale’s belly. He told the Lord, I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving (Jonah 2:9), and he did; he was thanking God for deliverance ahead of time. Through faith he could already see himself out of the whale’s stomach.

Peter Walked out of Jail

What faith Peter had! They were going to kill him the next day and there he was, asleep in prison. Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also…And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people. Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him. And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison. And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands. And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals. And so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me. And he went out, and followed him; and wist not that it was true which was done by the angel; but thought he saw a vision (Acts 12:1-9).

Peter, chained between two guards, had faith to walk out of jail when the angel came in. With that kind of faith nothing can hold you down, nothing can keep you back.

Study the Faith of Paul

Study Paul. Look at what he went through. Do you want the faith that Paul had? Then contend for that faith, struggle for it. Spend time with the Lord and you can get that faith without the experience of having to go through the trials those blessed saints of God had to go through. You can get that faith now and use it on the devil to get the harvest in.

It’s time to bring in the harvest, not time for you to give in to personal valleys and all kinds of trouble in your home. Raise up a standard against adversity through the faith of God and decide you’re not going to let the devil take over. Tell yourself: I’m going to please God and, Lord, you’re going to give me and my family the victory. You’re going to give us power from On High, power to overcome sicknesses and diseases, power to overcome everything, power, power, wonderworking power. Lord, we’re struggling for that power and we’re going to have it. You said for us to contend for the faith and we’re going to contend for it; the devil is not going to keep us from it.

The devil can’t keep you out of touch with Heaven. Through Jesus Christ, the Son of God, know that when you whisper a prayer, dart a prayer, it’s heard. Why struggle trying to get a prayer through? Why depress yourself? You don’t have to do that. Talk to God in all faith and know He hears every word you speak. You have that privilege; it’s in the Will. Jesus said, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you (Matthew 7:7). 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).

What are you going to do with those promises? Are you going to leave them in the Bible, leave them on the page that man has printed them, or are you going to carry them in your heart?

The Lord Gave His Whole Heart

It’s time to wake up, time to know you have the heart of God. When the Lord gave you Jesus, He gave His whole heart. If you have Jesus, remember, you have the heart of God: Let it operate right, let your heart beat in rhythm with the heart of God. Jesus had a human heart and it beat with the will, the consecration, and the soberness of the mind of God. Jesus’ heart beat to do the whole will of God no matter how He was persecuted.

But we don’t have to suffer all those things, don’t have to go through what Jesus went through. The heartbeat of God is willed to us and the Will is ready and in force right now. What are you going to do about it today? Are you going to be a weak Christian whom the devil can push this way and that, glad when you get to Heaven? Why don’t you come out of bed each morning ready to fight the devil? Go to sleep with your mind on the Lord and you’ll have something in you to fight with.

No matter how much I’ve been through during the day and no matter how much I’ve prayed for things during that day, just before I go to sleep I like to take that special time with the Lord; it’s better than a sleeping pill. Many times I’ll go into a vision of the Lord, and He will let me fall asleep while I’m in the vision. I’m in the cloud of His presence, in the divine will of God, and I believe every promise in that Book. I believe God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. I believe in the soon coming of the Lord and all the end-time signs. I know I’m going to walk down the Avenue of Glory one day, and it won’t be long till we can all be there. Isn’t that wonderful!

Are you going or are you staying? Are you going to linger, struggling against yourself and against doubt and fear? Are you struggling against oppression and depression, or are you struggling for the faith that was once delivered to the saints? Get that faith and you’ll be all right. Paul went through much, but he didn’t spend time on discouragement. In fact, he did some of his best writing while he was in prison; the Lord gave it to him. Paul called himself the Lord’s prisoner. I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles (Ephesians 3:1).

Reach Out for the Things of God

It’s time to wake up. Are you wide-awake today and ready to do the whole will of God? Are you really looking for Jesus to come? Do you want to get this Gospel to the world so you can go home, or do you just try to look like the rest of the congregation while you’re at church, but when you get home you forget about God? What are you going to do about this message? Are you going to apply it and decide, I can have that; I’m going to have all the promises of God through Jesus Christ. They belong to me, they’re mine, and I’m going to reach out and take them right now. With the faith once delivered to the saints, reach out with both arms to take all of this right now.

Do You Need Jesus?

Oh, Sinner, Backslider: Come to Jesus! Let me persuade you as one who loves your soul: Believe on the blood that stained the Old Rugged Cross. The blood of Jesus will cleanse you, make you a new creature. The blood can deliver you, give you peace in your soul, mind and spirit.

If you don’t know Jesus, ask the Lord to let that divine blood flow into your soul as I pray with you now: Oh, God, I confess that with divine blood Jesus was born of the Virgin Mary. Jesus shed His divine blood, blood with power to wash away every sin. I believe that His shed blood will wash away every sin. Come into my heart, Jesus! Come into my heart!

If you believe that prayer, the blood is powerful to make your soul new in a moment of time. In a split second all your sins were washed away in the blood of the Lamb. This is the faith of the Early Church. Put your faith in the blood of Jesus, in the holy, sacred blood from Heaven brought down to redeem fallen humanity.

With His Stripes You Are Healed

The divine blood of Jesus was shed for healing as well as for salvation. Without divine blood there would be no healing for us today. God gave this to me, showed me that the blood brought about healing. There is healing through the blood of Jesus for whatever your disease or affliction: cancer, heart trouble, HIV/AIDS, diabetes or anything else. The blood ran from His back when He was beaten, and through that blood we have healing for the physical body. With his [blood] stripes we are healed (Isaiah 53:5). If you need healing—even if it’s for AIDS—accept this prayer of faith now: Lord, here they are. I have brought the living Word, the living Christ, the Divine One to the people. Now from your supernatural gifts of healing and from your supernatural gift of miracles it comes, through the name of your Son, Jesus, through the blood of Jesus it flows: Heal! Heal! in the name of the Lord. Heal! in the holy, holy name of Jesus.

This is your hour of revelation, your hour of visitation. God is flowing His anointing to you in every way that you will accept it. Receive everything He has for you, contend for it. Open your heart, your mind to the Lord so He can give you the faith, wisdom and knowledge that were once delivered to the saints. Contend for the faith once delivered to the saints, and let the Lord work His works for you and through you.