The Bible tells us that there is a time and a place for everything that God wants. To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die (Ecclesiastes 3:1,2). If you follow the Lord’s plan, the devil cannot kill you; you will die at the very moment God wills for you to go.

My wife, Angel, went to Heaven at the very moment God wanted her to. She had finished her work, and He had anointed her to go. She had seemed so homesick to go that she had looked up every scripture in the Holy Bible that even mentioned Heaven; and when a member of Grace Cathedral would die and go to Heaven, she seemed to envy that person for getting to go home before she did.

Perfect before the Lord

Ecclesiastes goes on to say, A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted (Ecclesiastes 3:2). There is a time to bring in the harvest of lost souls, and that time is now. Jesus came and planted the seed, and we are to bring the people in.

There is a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance [or be happy]; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate [We have to hate everything that is unlike the Lord.]; a time of war, and a time of peace (Ecclesiastes 3:3-8).

It is time for God to have His way in everything in our lives. It is time to go forth in the blood name of Jesus and take this Gospel to the whole world. It is time to make sure you have no spots, wrinkles or blemishes because you will not be on the one flight out if you do. That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish (Ephesians 5:27).

You have to get rid of everything unlike God because the Groom, Jesus, is saying to the Bride of Christ, Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee (Song of Solomon 4:7). Jesus is saying that to people who are saved and baptized in the good Holy Ghost.

The Bride must be like the first bride the Lord made on Earth, the perfect Eve He made for Adam. God let me know that the Bride for the Second Adam, Jesus, will have to be just as perfect for His Son as Eve was for Adam.

Great Benefits for the Bride

Members of the bridal company today are getting ready for the one flight out. I am so happy about that, and I think about it night and day. It is a great time to be on Earth, and I want to live to see the Rapture take place; yet some of you would like to die.

When Jesus comes for His Bride, He will not come all the way to Earth; and that is one reason why you must have the Holy Ghost. He is the only one who can change you in a twinkling of an eye so you can go up to meet Jesus in the air. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 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 4:16,17). We will meet not only Jesus but also our loved ones who have died in the Lord because Jesus is bringing them with Him.

The Lord has great things in store for the Bride. The Marriage Supper of the Lamb alone will last for seven years, the entire time of the Tribulation Period on Earth. Then in the Perfect Age, the saints of God will come back to Earth with the Groom and reign for 1000 years. At that time, the curse will be lifted from the Earth; and we will have a great time! We will be able to walk and talk with Jesus just as the first Adam and Eve walked and talked with Lord God Almighty.

It is time for us to know what we have to look forward to, but some of you only look forward to old age when the Lord said He would renew your youth. Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s (Psalm 103:5). You can claim this and all of the promises of God as long as you meet the condition of each one.

The Lord healed me at twenty-three when I went to the edge of the grave, and I have never gotten out of my youth since then. That valley was God’s plan because I had to know what it was like to face death and want to live. I had to know how it felt to suffer day and night, to be weak and tortured and to watch my body go down to about a skeleton. Then the Lord came one night and made me whole all over, and that miracle still lives in me today. That same night, the Lord lingered to talk to me; and He told me I would have His gifts, His healing ministry and that I would take Jesus to the world. I believed everything He said, and I knew without one doubt that I was going to live.

Live in the Truth

It is time to make sure that we have none of the world in us. Jesus prayed to the Father concerning us saying, They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world (John 17:16). When we live in truth, there can be no false about us because the truth has set us free. And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free (John 8:32). That truth will endure forever. The truth of the LORD endureth forever. Praise ye the LORD (Psalm 117:2).

Living in God’s truth is the only way to live and be justified. Jesus prayed, Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth (John 17:17). Jesus was the truth sent down from Heaven for our sanctification. As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth (John 17:18,19).

Paul told us how to be wholly sanctified. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind (Romans 12:1,2). If you are on the Mount of Transfiguration today, you have been transformed.

Receive the Holy Ghost

It is time to receive the Holy Ghost and to yield to Him. John the Baptist came saying, I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire (Matthew 3:11). Some people are not seeking that fire; but if they don’t, they will be left. No one can get the Holy Ghost after the Rapture takes place because the Spirit will have finished His work and taken His flight.

When you get a real born-again experience, you will seek the Holy Ghost until you receive Him. It did not take me long to get the Holy Ghost because I had really become saved and had taken on the mind of Christ. I sought God with my whole heart night and day. I would go to sleep saying, “Lord, give me the Holy Ghost.” If I woke up during the night, I would say, “Lord, give me the Holy Ghost.” When I got up in the morning, I would say, “Lord, give me the Holy Ghost.” I wanted the Holy Ghost power from On High more than anything else in the whole world. I wanted what God had given the disciples on the Day of Pentecost. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance (Acts 2:4).

I knew that for me to be called of God to go forth and preach the Gospel, I would have to have the Holy Ghost; and I received a marvelous experience. Suddenly, I longed to be with the Lord all the time, and He would draw on me so much that I could hardly wait to get home and close myself away with the Lord.

It will take Holy Ghost power to change you on Rapture Day because the Bible says it will happen according to the power that worketh within you. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you (Romans 8:11). You are going to be changed in a moment from the inside out, not from the outside in. Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all 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 15:51,52). It will happen according to what you have in your soul, so your soul will have to be in perfection just as Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount: Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect (Matthew 5:48).

Fire from On High

The Holy Ghost brings fire from On High, and you must have that fire. Moses had to go to the burning bush to get that fire so God could use him. And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him [Moses] in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground (Exodus 3:2,4,5). Once Moses got the fire at the burning bush, he had to use it.

It is not enough to get baptized with the Holy Ghost and with fire; you have to learn to yield to that fire and use it. Jeremiah the prophet said, His word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones (Jeremiah 20:9). The Lord told Isaiah the prophet to go to the house of Israel and deliver His message of judgment to the people; but Isaiah did not want to go because the people were rebellious, and he didn’t think they would believe him. However, fire from On High changed that. Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me (Isaiah 6:6-8).

That coal of fire from the altar of Heaven set Isaiah aflame through and through; and suddenly, Isaiah did not want the Lord to send anybody else. When you are really on fire for the Lord, you will be ready to volunteer and to do whatever you can for Him. You will not just stand aside and let other people do the work; you will be ready to do your part.

Walk in Faith

It is time to live by faith, not by feelings. The just shall live by faith (Galatians 3:11). You have to get rid of your human feelings and take on a faith-walk, faith-talk and a holy faith-life. Then you can walk God’s seas of promises with great, divine faith.

Faith is one of the nine fruits of the Spirit and one of the nine gifts of the Spirit, and the Lord told us to contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints (Jude 1:3). You must seek that kind of faith and then go from faith to faith. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith (Romans 1:17).

The Lord has given you faith, and it is time for you to use it; but some of you will start off in faith and end up in doubt. The Lord said, But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering [doubting]. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord (James 1:6,7).

I do not doubt God. Jesus said, Only believe (Mark 5:36). He also said, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth (Mark 9:23). I believe all things are possible because I believe God. I never struggle with doubt and unbelief; I use the blood and put doubt to flight.

The devil wants to make you doubt. He will even afflict your body and try to make you think you’re sick because you are not right with God. Sickness will not send you to hell, but your sins will. The soul that sinneth, it shall die (Ezekiel 18:4).

Saved by the Blood

It is time for us to be free of all depression, oppression, misgivings and despair; and Jesus came to set us free from all of that. 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).

Some of you are always depressed. That does not mean you will miss the Rapture, but it does mean you will be so unhappy in this final hour when you could be full of joy. The Bible says, The joy of the LORD is your strength (Nehemiah 8:10). You do not have to be depressed and oppressed. Instead, turn things over to the Lord through the divine blood. Study the blood and know what you can do with it because it is time to use it day and night. All miracles, healings and spiritual blessings come through the blood; so go to sleep in the blood and wake up in the blood. Rejoice and feel the anointing of the blood.

Salvation comes through the blood; and the Bible says, And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission (Hebrews 9:22). Today is the day of salvation. Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation (II Corinthians 6:2). Jesus is knocking at your door today; and He said if you would answer the door, He would come in. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me (Revelation 3:20). It is so sad that some people have no time to open the door.

If you have the divine blood of Jesus in your heart and soul today, you are a member of the family of God. You are an heir of God and have so many benefits available to you. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ (Romans 8:16,17). You do not have to wait until you die or go to Heaven to become an heir; you are an heir right now. You’re an heir to salvation and to the grace, power, goodness, peace, hope, faith, love and longsuffering of God. You’re an heir to the great thoughts and visions of God, and the great Word of God is all yours; it is your love letter from God’s heart to you.

With all of this available to you, you should decide that no matter what you are going through today, you will not let it get you down. You should say every day you have left, “Lord, I am yours, and I refuse to be discouraged about anything. I am going to walk like Jesus, act like Jesus and think like Jesus; and I am going to be blessed just like He was blessed because I am a son or daughter of God.” But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name (John 1:12).

Jesus Gave His All for Us

You must take on the joy of the Lord like Jesus did. The joy of knowing what was going to happen to you and me was what kept Jesus going when He was in the Garden of Gethsemane and suffering so much that His sweat became as blood. And being in an agony he [Jesus] prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground (Luke 22:44). When Jesus was carrying the Cross, He did not back down because He had Heaven in view for all of those who would accept God’s plan for salvation and redemption.

Jesus knew it would be worth everything He was going through to be able to see you happy and in Heaven one day. He knew it would be worth it all to see the great love handkerchief of God dry all of your tears so that you would never cry again. He knew it would be worth it all to be able to take all of the diseases from your body and for you to never feel another pain or have another heartache. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away (Revelation 21:4). No one will ever hurt you again in Heaven, but where will you spend eternity? You must decide because only God can measure out the time of your life, and nothing can keep you on Earth forever.

King Hezekiah was told he was going to die; but he had the favor and grace of God, and the Lord gave him fifteen more years. In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live. Then he 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 (II Kings 20:1-3).

The Lord heard Hezekiah’s prayer; and through the prophet Isaiah, God said, 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 (II Kings 20:5,6).

Today, many people can testify that the Lord has added to their years. He had mercy on them and healed them of AIDS, cancer, heart trouble, lung trouble and other deadly diseases; and He gave them life. Only by the grace of God are they here and alive today.

I travel to Africa where untold thousands of people are dying with AIDS, and it thrills me to see God heal so many of them through this Jesus ministry. Others who are in great darkness are delivered from witchcraft, voodoo and all kinds of demonic spirits. We shine the light of this Gospel upon many of them for the very first time. They have never felt the warmth of Heaven until I hold the Gospel light over them, and it melts the hardest of hearts. As they begin to yield, their eyes change; and it is worth every sacrifice we have to make to see them smile with heavenly sunshine!

Wear God’s Armor

It is time for you to put on the whole armor of God. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God (Ephesians 6:13-17).

If you are wearing the whole armor of God, you are protected; and you have nothing to be afraid of. The breastplate of righteousness covers your heart, and the helmet of salvation covers your brain. Your feet are shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace, and you have on the shoes of Jesus. Those shoes will never wear out, and there is a pair to fit everyone who will shape up and live right with God. But remember, there is no shield for your back; so if you turn and run, you should be shot because you’re a coward.

When you have God’s armor on, it is time to walk and talk with the Lord daily. Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah (Psalm 68:19). The Psalmist said this before Calvary, so how much more will the Lord load you down after Calvary? Nevertheless, some of you are loaded down with troubles every day, and you never get to the table of the Lord. You must hear the Lord saying, Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls (Matthew 11:28,29).

Through the blood of Jesus, I unload all the burdens that are too heavy for me on the Lord; and you can do the same thing. The blood is our most powerful weapon against the devil, and he runs from it. The Bible says, Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you (James 4:7).

If you resist the devil through the blood, he will run; but some of you are so afraid of him. I don’t fear the devil; I fear God, but the fear of the Lord is not stifling fear like the devil’s fear. To fear God means to honor Him.

Trust the Promises of God

It is time to pray, fast and live in the Word. Those three steps done over and over are what it will take to live the Jesus life. He said this miracle kind goeth forth only by prayer and fasting. Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting (Matthew 17:21). My congregation is full of people who fast, but so many churches do not teach or practice fasting. They don’t think they need to fast; but that is the only way you will have reality in the Lord, and you must have it. You have to study and learn Jesus just as I have done for over seventy years. I am still learning more and more about Him today, and I expect to keep learning for all eternity.

Some of you do not know Jesus like you should, and you spend too much time in a world of unreality. That does not mean you have backslidden, but you are living by your feelings instead of using the faith of God that you used to have. I don’t feel things out; I faith them out, and when I pray, I know the Lord always hears me. Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always (John 11:41,42). I am walking God’s seas of promises. Doubters cannot do that, but believers can.

When we were building this work of God and we needed more money to come in, I would get to the end of my rope, tie a knot and hang on. Then one time, the Lord came to me and told me that I was no longer to tie a knot in the end of the rope but to let go and land on His seas of promises. I began to walk on those seas, and I have been walking them ever since. I have received more power, more greatness and more visions and revelations from God.

Follow the Cloud

It is time to have that “go ye” and to journey with the Lord. It is time to be in the cloud of His presence and to find His peace and help, saith the Lord; it is there for you. That cloud of God’s presence was going to lead the Israelites all the way to Canaan in eleven days; but because of their rebellion and disobedience, they spent forty years wandering in the wilderness. Except for Caleb and Joshua, all those who were twenty years of age and older when they left Egypt had to die before the people could enter into Canaan. Think about all the graves there must have been in that wilderness; it was filled with nothing but death. When their children finally entered the land of Canaan, they failed God, too. The Jewish people as a whole are still in such distress today because they have continued to fight against Jesus Christ.

I have studied the Israelites over and over in the Word of God, and they were filled with rebellion and arrogance and would not follow God no matter what He did. By His mighty hand, God brought the entire Israelite nation out of Egypt led only by Moses who was carrying a shepherd’s rod; but through God, that rod became the rod of truth. God made a highway for them right through the Red Sea at a place where it has been calculated that it was twelve miles across, and the water was eighty-six feet deep.

That must have been a mighty big highway for three or four million people to be able to use it, and they also brought their herds and anything else they could take with them. But after that great miracle, they still failed God because they had a grumbling, complaining spirit; and many of them still had the spirit of worshiping the golden calf.

Give All to God

It is time for every one of us to go forth with the fire from On High to win the lost. Give me souls or let me die has been my theme with God for all of these years. I do not want to be on Earth for one more moment if I cannot win souls. Some preachers look forward to retirement so they can golf and fish; but I’m glad that God does not have a retirement plan for me. I plan to still be working in Heaven.

I have given my whole life to the Lord; and now, He has brought me into the place where I know what He is thinking on His throne, but I had to learn how to do that. I had to learn how to yield to the Holy Ghost through much prayer and fasting—many fasts going as long as forty days at a time. Just as easily as you can reach out to shake hands with someone, I have learned to turn my mind over to the Lord; and He uses it, I am sure, just like He used the mind of His only begotten Son when He was on Earth.

Heaven will be worth all the time you give, every sacrifice you make and everything you have to go through. The Apostle Paul knew that, and nobody has ever suffered more than Paul except Jesus Christ. Paul went through so much; but thank God, he stood the test. In the last letter he wrote to Timothy, his son in the Lord, Paul let Timothy know, For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing (II Timothy 4:6-8).

What a good feeling that must have been for Paul to know he had won the last soul the Lord had marked for him to win, and he was ready to go. He had only one more sacrifice left—the physical life the Lord had given him—and he was going to give it on Nero’s chop block as a living witness to the power and greatness of God. Then he walked out boldly with great joy.

Just think of the millions of people who will be in Heaven because of the price Paul paid. He has been in Heaven about 2000 years, and I’m sure the Lord has made everything up to him many times over; and the Lord will keep on giving to him for all eternity.

Quit crying over yourself when you are on your way to that city whose builder and maker is God. Just set your eyes on the goal and keep running; don’t let anything stop you. When the devil and all of his power are coming against you, say like Paul did, I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me (Philippians 4:13). In all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us (Romans 8:37).

Paul knew that nothing could ever separate him from Christ. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 8:38,39).

The Power of the Holy Ghost

It’s wonderful to have victory in the Lord as Paul did, and it is time for you to know Jesus and the power of His resurrection. The Apostle Paul had that great desire when he said, That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection (Philippians 3:10). Where does that power come from?—from the Holy Ghost, the very one who brought Jesus out of the tomb. Thus saith the Lord, He walked out through the power of the Holy Ghost; and you must get the Holy Ghost baptism. It will take the same power that changed Jesus to change you, too, when Jesus returns.

Thank God, we are almost home. We have the blessed hope, and it should encourage every one of us in this final hour. It should lift us up and give us great strength. We have the good Holy Ghost; and He is the best keeper, helper, comforter and guide Heaven can afford. We have all the power of Heaven at our fingertips, so why are you discouraged?

I am a Holy Ghost preacher; and years ago, the Lord gifted me with calling down the Holy Ghost upon people just like I call down healing for them. Remember that in the Early Church, Peter, John and some of the other apostles called down the Holy Ghost. Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John: Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost: (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost (Acts 8:14-17).

When the Lord told me to establish a work for Him in Akron, Ohio, He told me to preach the Holy Ghost because it had not been preached. He told me about the future and said I would reach into the upper class with the Holy Ghost baptism, something that had never been done before. I have held on to that promise; and now, we are reaching those people. The Lord told me I would stand before kings, queens and presidents with His Gospel; and I have done that and will keep doing it. We are now reaching people in high places in other countries, and many of them want me to pray for them and for their loved ones.

Know Divinity

You must know who you are in the Lord and what is on the table for you daily. Know the promises of God and meet their conditions so you can use them. The Lord told me that His promises are just print on paper until you meet their conditions, and I seek to meet the condition of every one of them. When I stand before crowds of people, I want to be qualified to believe for them no matter what they need. That is why so many thousands are healed in our overseas crusades. This is the Jesus ministry, not mine. I have studied His teachings and how He ministered to the sick and the ungodly, how He talked to those who did not know the first thing about a born-again experience and how He raised the dead.

The Lord moves according to the knowledge you have. If you have knowledge of the Word, you must use faith with that Word. The Lord expects that, and He will not let me or anyone else use all the faith for you; you have to use your own faith and claim what you receive.

When the Lord made me whole, every devil in Satan’s kingdom of darkness could have come against me at one time and not made me doubt for a moment that I had my healing. I knew I was well. The devil did his best to give me false symptoms; and he would say, “You had better stop telling people you are healed because you may have another one of those painful attacks while you are in the pulpit, and you will not be able to hide it.” However, I never did have one of those attacks in the pulpit. The devil would also say, “When God does something, He does it exactly right; so if He had really healed you, you would not have any pain.” At that point, I would find somebody to tell about my miracle as quickly as I could; and the devil would leave.

If you want to defeat the devil, study the one thing he is afraid of—the divine blood. When you have the blood, you have the fire that Moses received at the burning bush and the pillar of fire that protected the Israelites in the wilderness; and you have to use that blood on the devil.

Redeem the Time

It is time for us to use all the divinity God has made available and to move on for the Lord. We have no time to waste in this last hour, but I see many people who waste so much of it. Even Christians waste time that I would like to have to use for the glory of God. I need it because there is so much to be done, so many people who need to be helped throughout the world and so many things to pray about.

We must learn to put value on time. Paul said, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil (Ephesians 5:16). You must have the reality of the soon-coming of the Lord. The end-time signs are all around us; and Jesus said, When ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it [my coming] is nigh, even at the doors (Mark 13:29). Now, we are seeing all the things that Jesus said and more.

You have to make the most of your time and spend it as carefully as you would spend money. There are millions of watches on Earth today, but not one of them can give you any extra time; they just tell you the time that God has already measured out. Therefore, we must redeem the time, and make it count for the Lord.

There are only so many seconds in each day and, in fact, in your whole life span. Every time the clock ticks, it is ticking away a part of your life—some of it passed last night; some has already passed today, and more will pass if you live throughout the day. What did you do with all of your time today? God gave you that time, but how much of it did you give back to Him? Each one of us has just so many minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years until we go into eternity; so in this final hour, Children of God, we must use the time the Lord has given us for His work.

We have a lot to do and only a short period of time to do it in; but for most people in the world today, it is time for pleasure, for sinning and for satisfying every lust of the flesh. They have all kinds of time to clothe, feed and shelter themselves; but they have no time for Jesus…and one day, the Lord will have no time for them either.

All of the material things will be gone one day, and even your body will go back to the dust of the Earth; but when your body is dead, your soul still lives on. How much time did you give to your soul today? How much of last week did you give to the inner man who cannot die? An unprepared soul will go to a timeless place of torture and have no time left to find Jesus. No one will ever escape hell because there is no way out of that place of damnation and the lake of fire. Once people are there, the Lord no longer cares what they do; and one day, He will seal all the wicked off along with the devil and his angels and never remember any of them again.

Wasted Time

When Jesus came down from Heaven, He came under subjection to every second of the clock; and He lived with time as we do. He came under subjection to persecutors, to audacious men and to all the arrogance they spewed out against Him; and He suffered so much. But in the midst of all of that, He had time to help people; and Jesus gave all.

How much heart do you have for people? How much time and service do you give to the Lord? How much time have you wasted by not reading the Word of God and instead reading worthless things that did not feed your soul or bless others? You can only give things to the Lord through time—by the second, the minute or the hour.

How much time have you wasted in your life so far? If you could look at a calendar of all your days and moments since you have been on Earth, and the Lord would give you knowledge through His Holy Spirit to cross out every moment He considers to have been a waste, how much of that calendar would be crossed off? How much of it would be left? How many moments would there be in which you had redeemed the time by serving, obeying and doing the wonderful works of the Lord?

Your calendar of life will show up one day regardless of whether you die lost or saved. On the Day of Rewards, we will be rewarded only for the time we gave to the Lord and for the works we did for Him. He has given us the time, the love, the knowledge, the wisdom and everything else we need. He has given us strength, but did we waste it and use it for something else when we should have been using it to serve in His army?

No Time for God

The rich, young ruler who came to Jesus had so much, but he was not on God’s time. He had time to make money, time for pleasure and time to satisfy every lust of the flesh; but he did not have time to do what Jesus had told him to do. And when he [Jesus] was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God. Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother. And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these have I observed from my youth. Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me. And he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had great possessions (Mark 10:17-22). Jesus gave the young man a chance to redeem the time and to redeem his soul, but he would not do it.

Still today, many people refuse to do what God wants them to do. They waste so much time, and they are wasting their lives. Most of the people who have been born and died on this Earth have lived wasted lives. They had opportunities to find the Lord, and there were times when the Holy Spirit wanted to talk to them; but they wasted every opportunity. They did not have time for the things of God; and instead, they used their time for doing what they wanted to do. When you run out of time and lose your soul, it will be too late.

Hell’s Fire Is Real

The rich man Jesus told about in Luke ran out of time. There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores (Luke 16:19-21).

The rich man was selfish. He had no time to serve God’s love to the poor servant of God at his gate. And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments (Luke 16:22,23). Lazarus had not wasted his time. He had spent time getting his soul right with God and in doing the Lord’s will; so when he died, he lifted up his eyes in Paradise. The rich man, on the other hand, had given no time to God and had made no preparations for his soul. He had only taken time to make money and show off the material things of life. People may have thought he was well-off, but he was not; and he died without hope and without God.

In eternity, the rich man wanted a favor from the poor beggar who had been at his gate. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame (Luke 16:24). He was asking for just a little favor—a drop of water to cool his tongue—yet some people claim there is no flame in hell. The Lord said there is, and anyone who denies that is denying Jesus altogether. They may preach, testify and declare they believe the Bible; but they don’t. In speaking of hell, Jesus said, Where their worm [the soul] dieth not, and the fire is not quenched (Mark 9:44).

The devil has tried his best to do away with hell. If God’s people had given their time to Him like the disciples did in the beginning of the Church, and if they had taken every opportunity to tell the story of what eternity without God would be like, they would have rescued a lot of people. Many who are screaming in hell today could have been in Heaven; but people do not have time to listen to a message about hell and will not attend a church that preaches it. They do not want to hear the truth.

The Rich Man Was Too Late

When the rich man was on Earth, he had no time to go to his brothers’ homes and tell them about God; but in hell he cried, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him [Lazarus] to my father’s house: For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead (Luke 16:27-31). If people do not want to hear from those who are very much alive, they certainly will not want to hear from those who are dead.

Suddenly, the rich man had plenty of time on his hands to think about his five brothers going to hell, and he wanted to send a preacher to them; but why didn’t he do something about it when he was on Earth? His time would have counted then; but in hell, his time was all wasted. There is no way to redeem time in hell.

In Heaven, the seconds will not tick away our lives. We will live for eternity, and there is no end to eternity. But for now, we are either in the liberty of time or the bondage of time. If you are wasting time, it is bondage to you because these are times of depression, oppression, worrying and fretting for you. If you are redeeming the time, it is liberty to you; and these are times of rejoicing and singing praises to the Lord.

Your Time Is Limited

God in His goodness has given you time today, but you don’t know whether or not He will give you time that will stretch through to another day. Many people who started their day on Earth yesterday never made it through to last night; they went into eternity either prepared or unprepared.

People of the world are running to and fro because they’re dissatisfied, and they are seeking peace and happiness. However, they cannot find them because they will not take time to look in the right place. If you want real joy, you will find it only at Calvary. That is where I found my joy, and it has lasted for all of these years; and it will continue to last for all eternity.

Many people treasure the money they have in the bank, but they do not treasure time. Millionaires and even billionaires have died and left everything they had. They gave their lives to make that money, but they did not give back to God. They could have done so much good for lost humanity and in helping to build the Kingdom of God, and Heaven could have been theirs if they had only surrendered; but they would not humble themselves, and they had no time for Jesus.

How valuable is time to you today? It is very valuable to God, and He gave it to you so you could use it; but you are a free moral agent, so He leaves it up to you what you do with your time. No matter how much time God gives you, He cannot make you use one moment of it for Him.

Sinner, you had better consider time. You are still in sin, darkness and disobedience because you have not used the time the Lord gave you to work for Him and to care for your own soul. Jesus took the time to come to Earth, go all the way to Calvary and die on the Cross for you. He took time for the last drop of divine blood to flow from His veins, but some of you never take time to live for Him.

One of these days, the Lord is going to declare through the angel of God that time will be no more. And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer (Revelation 10:5,6). What will you do and where will you be when there is no more time? Eternity—either good or bad—starts for each person where time ends.

Do Not Waste One More Minute

Where will you spend eternity? The grace of God is reaching for you now, and the Lord wants you to live in Heaven with Him. It is time for you to come to Jesus; you have no more time to waste. You have already wasted too much time, and it is only through the grace of God that you who are unsaved or backslidden have this moment left. Will you waste it? This may be the last opportunity you will ever have to give your heart to the Lord.

It is time for you to say this prayer: Oh, God, save my soul. I am so sorry that I have sinned against you, but I have come home. I believe that the blood of Jesus washes away all of my sins, and I am going to serve you, Lord, for the rest of my life. Come into my heart, Jesus! Come on in! If you meant that prayer, He has come; and now you can say, Hallelujah! Jesus has come. Hallelujah! Jesus is mine.

Now, you must take more time to serve Him. Take time with the Word of God and in prayer and in fasting. Take time to live holy and righteously in this present world; and one day, Heaven will be yours. Time will cease up there, but you will not care because you will be in that glorious, eternal day.

Believe and Receive

Now, it is time to know that the God of miracles lives. If you are sick and afflicted, you can have a miracle. Untold multitudes have been healed through this Jesus ministry. I am not the healer; Jesus is the healer, and I am agreeing with you for you to receive your miracle.

We have so many living, walking miracles in this ministry because we not only believe in miracles, we depend on them. It is not the will of the Lord for you to be sick, crippled or paralyzed; those things are the will of the devil, not the will of God. That does not mean you are not a child of God if you’re afflicted. The devil will fight because we are living outside of Eden; but the Bible says, The just shall live by faith (Romans 1:17). That means we are to live by promise, and the Lord has promised us healing and good health. The Bible says, Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth (III John 1:2). That is a great promise!

The God of miracles lives, and unbelievable miracles will flow your way now as I pray; so accept all you need. The Lord will make you and your deformed baby whole and heal all those who are dying with AIDS, but you have to serve God and live for Him.

I never doubt that God can heal anything because I have the faith of God. It is a gift He gives to all of His children, and we can use it just like Jesus did when He was here. He showed the disciples how to use faith; and when they used it in the beginning of the Church, unbelievable things happened, and they even raised the dead. Always remember that the Lord is life; Jesus is our tree of life, and He came with healing in His wings. But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings (Malachi 4:2).

Lord, I come with your supernatural gifts. I come with your divine blood for the sick and afflicted. Heal those with AIDS and other deadly diseases. Lord, you have healed so many little, deformed babies. You have given those who were born with just part of a brain a whole brain showing that you are the Creator. Do it again right now, Lord, while the mother or daddy holds their child, and let them see the greatness of you. Heal! in the blood name of Jesus. Heal! in the all-powerful blood name.

The healing power is flowing like mighty rivers, just as the Lord told the disciples it would. Be thou made whole. Feel that power going into you. You have taken time to believe with me, and now you must take time to watch yourself get well; then write and tell me about it, and I will rejoice with you.

May God be with you, and may Heaven be yours one day…and it definitely will be if you give God the time He wants!!