In the beginning of the Church, the Lord gave much—His greatness, His love. Just before Jesus ascended to Heaven He told His followers, And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high (Luke 24:49). And on the Day of Pentecost, in obedience to the Lord’s command, His followers climbed to the Upper Room and tarried, full of praise, glorifying Jesus. Suddenly it happened. The fire of God fell; power from On High came down to possess waiting souls. What a glorious moment when the Holy Ghost left Heaven to make His appearance to the Church! And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance (Acts 2:1-4).

About one hundred twenty souls were in the Upper Room waiting for the promise of the Holy Ghost that Jesus had given them, the promise of the Father. They didn’t know exactly what they were waiting for. Although unfamiliar with the greatness of the Holy Spirit, they had discovered the greatness of Jesus. When one finds the greatness of Jesus, it’s easy to find the greatness of the Holy Spirit.

As the tongues of fire licked out and fell on each one in the Upper Room, they were filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues as the Holy Spirit gave utterance. The Holy Spirit had come. Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. And they were all amazed and marvelled (Acts 2:6,7). It was through the utterance of the Holy Spirit that they were speaking, not by their own will. And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this? (verse 12). It’s the honest-hearted who discover the meaning of the fantastic manifestation of the Holy Spirit.

The Stone the Builders Rejected

Simon had the message from the Lord. Fearlessly he stood up, no longer afraid the way he was at the crucifixion. Repent, repent! he cried to those who so recently had crucified Jesus the Son of God, the Redeemer of Israel. This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved (Acts 4:11,12).

The stone the builders rejected had become the chief corner stone; no building could stand without it. Jesus is the foundation, the Rock, the Christ, the Savior and Redeemer, the only way to Heaven. Three thousand heeded the words of Peter, fell down and gave their hearts to the Lord. The revival was on; God was blessing, and the Church was in business. Although no longer on Earth in human form, Jesus through the apostles continued to save, to heal. The Holy Ghost went into action in the lives of the disciples. Great manifestations occurred: the blind received their sight, the deaf heard, the crippled were made to walk. The signs of the Lord appeared in the midst of the people just the way Jesus had said. And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following (Mark 16:20).

The book of Acts tells of the acts of the Holy Ghost through the lives of the apostles. In Acts 5:16 we read that there came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks; and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one. What manifestations! Everyone was healed! In this final hour, too, God’s miracle services will be incredible, filled with the wonders of God as He delivers people and sets captives free.

Persecuted for the Sake of Christ

When the power of the Holy Ghost fell in the Early Church age, the high priests rose up against it. They hated the power of God that was setting people free. Many church leaders today hate the signs and wonders of God. Rejecting the miracles and healings of the Lord, they also deny the Holy Ghost baptism with the evidence of speaking in other tongues as the Spirit gives utterance. Coldness spills out of their hearts; they don’t want the greatness of God, just the desires of self.

The Early Church rose up, witnesses thrilled with the power of God, urgent with the truth. You crucified the Son of God! they cried. You cannot deny it. Unless you repent you will not see Heaven. They were witnesses to the Resurrection. Jesus has risen! He is alive! He ascended back to Heaven. In His name these wonders and miracles are being done. We’re just witnesses, obeying God no matter the consequences.

And [they] laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison. But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth…But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and told, Saying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within (Acts 5:18,19,22,23). Where did the apostles go after their escape from prison? Did they run away and hide? No. The report came to the high priest: Behold, the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people (Acts 5:25). Faithful to their divine mission, the apostles gave their lives completely to the Lord in His service. The signs and wonders of God were in operation.

The Seed of Blood

Jesus had paid all for the Church’s victory; the apostles paid all; the Early Church disciples paid all. For thirty-some years the greatness of God was manifested through them. At one time people called them these that have turned the world upside down (Acts 17:6). The power of God working through willing hands and hearts affected people, drastically changing lives. Many in the Early Church were stoned, crucified, fed to wild beasts, killed in different ways. The Bible tells us the heroes of the faith were people of whom the world was not worthy (Hebrews 11:38).

The true children of God can always be distinguished from the world. Without spot, without wrinkle was the Early Church in the beginning; and that’s the reason all Heaven backed her up. She had the favor of Heaven twenty-four hours around the clock. The devil couldn’t destroy her.

The blood of the martyrs was the seed of the Church. The more her members were killed, the more converts came into the Kingdom. When one was slain, three or four would spring up in that one’s place. They died in the grace of the Lord as the Man on Golgotha died. Holding nothing in reserve, they could die like Him because they had lived like Him.

Stephen preached like a man from another world, arousing such fury from the enemies of the Cross that they stoned him. He revealed their hypocrisy for what it was, and they hated him for it, refused to accept his words. Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it (Acts 7:51-53). Looking into heaven, Stephen saw Jesus standing at the right hand of God.

Paul: From Darkness into Light

The witnesses who had falsely accused Stephen laid down their cloaks at the feet of a young man called Saul who later was to become the great apostle Paul. Although Paul consented to the murder, created havoc with the Church, imprisoning men and women, his life must have been touched by Stephen. Paul had a heart God could deal with, and on the road to Damascus a light from heaven blinded him and he fell to the earth. Transformed by God into a mighty vessel of honor, Paul went from darkness into light.

This is the power of God in operation. The demon possessed are changed instantly: one moment devil possessed, the next Spirit filled, delivered by the hand and power of the Holy Ghost.

Paul prayed for the sick, and they were healed. He laid his hands on people and they received the baptism in the Holy Ghost. And when Paul had laid hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied (Acts 19:6).

In the 14th chapter of I Corinthians, Paul instructs the Church about the Holy Ghost baptism. Did he think it was important? I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all, he said in verse 18. The Early Church believed in speaking in tongues, that every child of God should have this great manifestation, the first evidence of the baptism in the Holy Ghost.

Christ Must Live on the Inside

The Church spoke words that came to pass. They commanded and what they said took place because their members represented Jesus. The Church clothed themselves in His humility. Using His joy and peace, they shunned the world’s pleasures of sin. Their joy came from righteousness, holiness and pure, clean living. Having no desire for the world, they were able to cry with Paul: I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me (Galatians 2:20).

It’s Christ, not the world, who must live on the inside. The Early Church lost its appetite for the world, their thirst for the pleasures of sin. Closing every door to the world, they let the Holy Spirit seal them shut. Walking in the holiness of God they were caught up in the work of the Lord and what He thought. The Lord beamed His smile of pleasure on them, warmed their spirits every moment day and night. The Early Church went forth to conquer in the name of the Lord.

This is the hour of victory, saith the Lord. This is the hour to defeat the devil, not the hour to be defeated by him. Use the Word of the Living God and the power of the Holy Ghost to be victorious just like the Early Church was in the beginning. Be Spirit-filled with the same Holy Ghost they had, baptized in a baptism of fire, and you will overcome the enemy of your soul.

Gifts and Fruits

The Church was like a tree of life bearing perfect fruit: the nine gifts of the Spirit and nine fruits of the Spirit. And so it shall be, saith the Lord, in this the final hour. The same fruit, the same gifts working in perfection through and in God’s people will deliver souls from demonic powers, set captives free.

What are the gifts of the Spirit? For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues (I Corinthians 12:8-10). Had the Church kept the nine gifts of the Spirit in operation, we would have a different Church today, a most glorious history. Instead, the church history that began so brightly, so filled with power, became dark. Sorrow, heartache and tragedy filled the void when the Church lost God’s greatness.

The fruits of the Spirit are listed in Galatians 5:22,23: But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance. In one mind and one accord, the Early Church was united in love. They had it all…but the worms came, the worms of hate, deceit, disobedience, cheating, lying.

The Terrible Worms of Destruction

The great prophet Joel received a vision of that time of falling away. Through him, God gave a message of doom: That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten (Joel 1:4). Worms of destruction, destroying the good of the land, thousands and thousands of them…. Worms turned people away from the truth. They received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie; That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness (II Thessalonions 2:10-12).

Seeds of discord were sown in the midst of God’s people, breaking down the unity. No longer were they in one mind and one accord in the Lord. The palmerworms went to work, eating and destroying the gifts of the Spirit. Now the gifts did not operate as they once had and soon were not manifested at all. The Holy Spirit was grieved and finally driven out from the children of God. The Church ceased to speak in tongues or teach it. (The first evidence of the Holy Ghost baptism is the speaking in tongues as the Spirit gives utterance.)

The locust came, destroying the green leaves. The cankerworms ruined the branches, the tender shoots. The bark of the tree ceased to be nourished with the love and faith of God, with holiness and living free of sin. The Church began to teach that man couldn’t live free from sin, that no one could be holy, that striving for holiness was futile. This damnable doctrine still exists today, still is sending people to hell.

From that bright, shining time, that rejoicing time of power when the Church walked with her head high, bowing to neither man nor demons, compromising with none, the Church fell into darkness.

The fasts grew scarce, prayer from the heart, foreign. As a whole, the Church ceased to live holy. No longer were they separate from the world. When the holiness and righteousness of God left the Church, the life of God went, too. Without God is no life, only death. What a death it was for the Church of Jesus Christ as the years passed by! Robbed of everything, the Church let the light grow so dim that at times only a handful of faithful souls held onto God. Even that handful didn’t have all the power of God, all the gifts—and perhaps not all the fruits of the Spirit. But a remnant remained that carried a little light.

Although the Church had sold out to the devil, the promise of God through His prophet Joel was never destroyed: I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm (Joel 2:25).

With Luther the Restoration Began

The Early Church lost the gifts, the fruits, salvation, the Holy Ghost, righteous living, sanctification, justification. With Martin Luther the restoration began. In the 1500’s, light broke through his darkness when he finally realized that the just shall live by faith (Romans 1:17). God began to restore salvation to the Church. Martin Luther stood to his feet, stepped into the salvation of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, never to do penance again. Justification comes through Jesus Christ! he began to preach. Regeneration, the new birth is through the blood of Jesus. The blood of Jesus, not works, washes away sins and brings salvation. People here and there began to find salvation. Restoration was on its way. The worms had destroyed much, and now light was coming back—but not all at once. It left gradually and it was returning gradually.

Holy Living Was Preached

Listen again to the message of hope God gave us through Joel: And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. Joel wrote more of God’s prophecy of restoration: it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh (Joel 2:28). The Lord will restore all. The latter rain of the Holy Spirit will be greater than the early rain at the beginning of the Church Age.

Salvation was restored first, forgiveness through the blood of Jesus and no other way. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved (Acts 4:12). Then came the message of sanctification, holy living, righteousness. In the 1800’s the Wesleys and a few others began to preach sanctification, and revival fires were lit. God was moving, restoring. People came so close to the baptism in the Spirit, that they mistook it for sanctification. Yet in some of their meetings, from what we read, there were those, no doubt, who did receive the Holy Ghost. They just didn’t recognize it to be the baptism in the Holy Ghost. People were slain in the Spirit; some lay in the Spirit for hours.

Consecration, dedication, holiness were now being preached. The Lord passed by those of whom He said, I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead (Revelation 3:1). In this hour, the Lord is doing the same thing, passing by the lukewarm, the spiritually dead.

John Wesley, Charles Finney and others sought the Spirit, the power of God; and they heard from Heaven. William Booth (1829-1912), the great organizer of the Salvation Army, separated from the dead Church. When on trial, when men wanted him to deny the true Gospel, his wife stood up in the balcony and cried: Say no to them, William! Say no! He said no.

Some of the Salvation Army members in those days received the baptism in the Holy Ghost and spoke in tongues. Many of them also were slain in the Spirit in some of their great services.

They Sought the Pentecost Experience

Then came the holiness churches, those preaching salvation, holy living, sanctification, and the baptism in the Holy Ghost. They wanted no other way but the way of Pentecost when the disciples and apostles were all filled with the Holy Ghost and spoke in tongues. Now the doctrine once in the Early Church was being preached again.

When I was just a boy, one of my sisters received the baptism in the Holy Ghost; and she brought the light of the baptism, the Spirit, into our home. It was a bombshell, sending my people forth to seek the baptism in the Holy Ghost, too. They found this great faith among the children of God outside the church we had been attending. My people had been saved, were living holy lives; but they had not realized there was more to receive until my sister was baptized in the Holy Ghost. They were like some disciples Paul met. He asked them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost. And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John’s baptism. Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus. When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied (Acts 19:2-6). My people received the baptism in the Holy Ghost and spoke in tongues, the fullness of the Gospel.

Great Faith Was Manifested

The power of God fell in those days in that little Pentecostal church I attended. Many received the baptism in the Holy Ghost. All hours of the night after services closed, people would linger around the altar, either seeking the baptism or helping others receive. In that church, not one person was taught to speak in tongues at will. What they received was the real Holy Ghost.

Even as a child, I thought receiving the Holy Ghost was a most remarkable experience; never did I get enough of watching the Holy Ghost take over a person. I knew without a doubt it was from God. I saw what looked like a pale ring around the lips, faces lit with angelic expressions. No one could have made me doubt these experiences. I marveled at the great faith I saw manifested along with the other fruits of the Spirit.

Healings Took Place

My mother, who possessed unusual faith, reached out for the Holy Spirit. Never have I seen a lay person used more by God than my mother. People would come to the house any hour of the day or night looking for Mrs. Angley, the woman who prayed for people and they were healed. She would leave the house to go to the sick, staying hours to pray until the victory was won. Almost every time she came home, her face would be aglow; and we knew great, wonderful healings—astounding miracles—had taken place. God did it. I saw unbelievable things happen in our own home.

One time my mother herself became afflicted and lay at death’s door with pneumonia, her gasping rattle heard all over the house. It was frightening. A man of God walked in and said, “In the name of Jesus, be thou made whole!” Instantly she was healed. In a matter of minutes she was in the kitchen making dinner for her children, singing as she worked. She looked happy enough to fly away. Amid such an atmosphere, I matured in the knowledge of God. Nurtured in the truth, the righteousness and holiness of God, I saw the signs and wonders of God. Athough there were many healings, the gifts of the Holy Spirit and the gift of miracles were not manifested in the greatness they are today.

The Gifts of the Spirit Appeared

When I was a young boy I heard of only one preacher who had the gifts of healing. Other preachers were so busy criticizing him that they didn’t take time to fast and pray and go after the greatness of God themselves.

Then when I grew older, the news came: Someone else had received the gifts of healing, and there were wonderful results. Could this be so? It was marvelous news—if it were true. I hadn’t seen the results yet, but people claimed miracles were happening. Then I had the opportunity to watch the gifts in action. It was true! I knew it was of God.

Some of the preachers fought the gifts, denied them—preachers with whom I was acquainted. They should have known better. I hadn’t realized they were in such a lukewarm condition that they would doubt the power of God. It looked to me as though anyone with any God at all could recognize the gifts of God. I watched, I reasoned, I knew and I rejoiced in seeing the greatness of God. In those days when the gifts first began to be restored, the ministry rebelled much against the power of God, turned away. That’s the reason so many churches are in the lukewarm condition they are in today. But some dedicated Christians went on into the greatness of God. Many received power from on High—and had to leave their denominations. It should never have been—but it was. Ministers fought ministers and God’s power.

I Did Not Seek the Gifts of the Spirit

I’m not in the healing ministry by choice. As a young minister starting out, I didn’t seek the gifts. These supernatural gifts seemed to be on such a high shelf I wondered how anyone could reach them. I didn’t consider it would happen to me—not one of the gifts of the Spirit!

I knew receiving the gifts would require much more fasting—long fasts—and staying in the presence of God all kinds of hours. I asked God to give the power to others; I would never fight His power, never criticize it.

Then I became afflicted, and the illness continued a long time. Steadily the condition worsened, bringing me to death’s door.

When it looked as though I couldn’t possibly live any longer, Jesus came, electrified my very being with His presence. So much of His power went into me that it felt like many volts of electricity. Never again would I be the same; the walls were all torn down between me and Heaven. I was ready for whatever God wanted. He didn’t ask me if I would accept His gifts; He just told me what was going to happen. He knew I was willing, that I wouldn’t rebel. “Later,” He said, “you will go on a long fast. When you come out of that fast, you’ll have my power for the healing of the people; and you’ll take my power to the world.”

I was going to live. I was scared, but I was going to live, to get well; and I would have the power of God, His supernatural gifts for the healing of the people.

About six or seven weeks later, the Lord started me on that long fast. Never again would I be the same. When I began that fast I knew as surely as I knew I was alive that I would reach the place of the gifts of God. I had no particle of doubt.

It was the crossroads in my ministry. Would I keep company with those ministers who had been my friends or would I walk alone with God? I thought my wife Angel would stand with me, but I didn’t know whether anyone else would or not. I wouldn’t force her if she didn’t want to. She would have to walk with me willingly. And she did.

Man’s Persecutions Came with God’s Gifts

Closing all doors behind me, I determined to pay the price for His gifts. I knew not what the price would be, or how many fellow ministers would turn against me saying I was in the power of Lucifer, in fanaticism. Angel and I left all behind, walking into God’s presence with words of abuse ringing in our ears again and again. Ministers fought us, sending out messages to others to have nothing to do with us. I had been considered one of the denomination’s top evangelists, but now I was poison. It didn’t matter. Officials in the denomination I was associated with wanted me to compromise, to forget the gifts of God. Could I forget His gifts? Could I refuse the power of God that had brought me back from the edge of the grave? No, a thousand times no. Man sought to destroy my walk with God, but the more I was fought, the more God blessed. The more others mocked and made fun, the more God moved. They couldn’t honestly find one thing wrong that I had done in my life, so they decided to make people think my mind had gone bad because I had stayed away with God so much, fasting and praying. That wasn’t it. Restoration had come, and God had included me.

In God’s presence I had reached that place of restoration through the persecutions by my brethren. It hurt. But I lived with God day and night. In His presence I was willing to die for His name’s sake. Nothing could stop me.

A Love-Victory over Persecutors

One night in my service, some of my fellow minsters sat behind me on the platform, mocking and laughing at God’s power while God healed the people. Grieved to the depths of my soul, I went to my trailer that night, sleepless until about four o’clock in the morning. But when I finally fell asleep, I had a love victory over every critical preacher that I knew. Walking out before the audience the next evening, I said, “Something happened last night on this platform that will never happen again as long as I have breath. Ministers sat here and made fun of the power of God. They made fun of the blind receiving sight, the crippled being made to walk. It will never happen again in my service.” I let none of them sit on my platform after that. They would sit in the audience to see what was going on, to have something more to criticize; but God delivered and set the captives free. We had revival.

Now the gifts of healing were working, and God was dealing with me about the gift of discerning of spirits. Fasting, praying, living in His presence, breathing His very breath, I was clinging to Him, the only refuge in a terrible storm that seemed never to end. I said, “Anything, Lord. Anything. My life is yours.” Suddenly one night the gift of knowledge went into operation as I stood before a packed house. I knew the diseases of the people; I knew how many in the audience were devil possessed; I knew the number of demons that possessed them. Suddenly I could look into a soul and see the devils that bound it!

Restored, restored…this is the hour of restoration. Let me admonish you as one who loves you and has walked the road you are on: Don’t let anything or anyone turn you away from the greatness of God. Go on with God; He wants to use you in this final hour. You have loved ones who may not be saved if you don’t pay the supreme price.

Jesus paid the price. Some of my relatives criticized me, but God helped me win them. Numbers of people who once didn’t believe in the baptism in the Holy Spirit have been brought into the truth. It’s ever onward when you have Jesus, no matter who doubts. Having Jesus and Jesus having you is what really counts.

I was full of His Spirit and love. I loved my enemies. Instead of fighting them, I went on with God, loving, believing, forgiving. Lord, just use me. Use me, He has. I honor Him. God is seeking to use all His people in this final hour.

The Darkness Has Ended

Once again today people are willing to give their very lives to bring in the harvest. Lost men, women, boys and girls will come to the Lord. Why? Because all has been restored.

We have the same salvation, the same righteousness, the same holiness, the same gifts and the same fruit of the Spirit as the Early Church. We have it all to use in this final hour. Daily, Heaven is shipping it down. It belongs to the children of God, the Church, the Bride of Christ. She was special in her beginning, in her first appearance; and she’ll still be special when she makes her last appearance. The Bride is on stage for the final time.

We won’t lose the greatness of the Church Age; we’ll be holding onto it when we hear the midnight cry: Behold the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him (Matthew 25:6).

With armfuls on purpose, loaded down with the sheaves, we’ll go out to meet Jesus, bringing multitudes with us as we go.

The hour in which we live is wonderful! Everything has been restored to the Church of Jesus Christ! Forget about those spiritually dead, the destructive worms. See the live tree with the nine fruits of the Spirit and reach for them. They belong to you, Child of God. They are supernatural fruits produced in your life by the Holy Spirit.

God’s Spirit Poured Out on all Flesh

The power that was in the Early Church, now on a greater scale, is raining down. Then three thousand were saved at one time, five thousand at another; but we’ve seen over one hundred thousand saved in one service. In the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh. God is pouring it out.

In the flow of the Spirit you will find the healing power, the greatness of God. Step into its flow. From the Throne of Grace come all the supernatural gifts of God, all the supernatural fruits. The greatness of Heaven has opened upon the land at the end of the Holy Ghost dispensation, and demons are trampled underfoot. The cry of God’s people rises to Heaven and His power falls. Demons are cast out of the demon possessed. The blind receive their sight; the crippled are made to walk and sinners brought into the Kingdom. Joy vibrates throughout Heaven as angels rejoice. We have found it: the victory, the glorious power that was in the Early Church!

God abides in His children. Holy people bow in the presence of a Holy God. He will do anything for such a people because His ears are opened to the cry of the righteous. His holiness has made us righteous in His presence through the cleansing blood of Jesus; there’s power in the blood of the Lamb! The devil and all his demons know of that power and tremble. We have the Word of the eternal Living God.

Thank God for the Old Rugged Cross, for the journey of Jesus Christ from Heaven to Earth and back to Heaven alive. He completed the cycle, and He’s at the right hand of the Father making intercession. It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us (Romans 8:34,35,37). Jesus is making intercession for you. The Spirit is speaking to you. He has much to tell you, and He is seeking to bring you quickly into all of His greatness. He brought the Early Church fast; and now, in this hour, He is going to bring the Bride fast. Some time ago the Lord came to me and said it would be the laymen in the Church He would have to depend upon because the ministry as a whole has failed.

The Sinners’ Prayer

Cry aloud unto the Lord if you do not know Him. Oh, God, I am lost. I have sinned against you, but I know there’s forgiveness in your shed blood. I know there’s power in your blood to wash away all of my sins. I believe the blood of Jesus washes away all of my sins, all of my sins. Come on into my heart Jesus! Come on in!

If you really meant that prayer, He has come into your heart, making you a new creature in Him. Go on to receive the baptism in the Holy Ghost, obedient to Him in every way. Then every step you take is headed to Rapture ground.

Restoration of all God’s greatness is available now. Make the most of it, Child of God. Use it all to bring a lost and dying world to Jesus, everyone who will respond to the love of Jesus.

The Spirit is calling: Your Lord cometh! Hurry, hurry, hurry! In your waking hours, you will feel the urgency of the Spirit ever pressing you on to do all you can with all that God has placed within your reach to bring in the harvest. This is a message that will live for time and eternity. Weigh carefully everything in it. This message is for you.