The Jesus Cup
by Ernest Angley
October 2001
Jesus is all of life. There is no life without Him, no life outside of Eden without Jesus. I am…life (John 14:6). This is where so many Christians have erred. They haven’t made Jesus their whole life, only part. Relatives and friends take up more of their life than Jesus does. They consider others before they consider what Jesus wants.
Put the Lord Jesus first; He is your life. Without Jesus you have no life. Relatives, friends can die; but with Jesus you still have life. No matter who forsakes you or what takes place, with Him you still have life. When you have Jesus, you have an inner peace the devil can’t steal, can’t take away even in the midst of sorrows. In your innermost being is His peace, and it’s covered with the blood. A blood peace is one the devil can’t take away. With blood peace is blood happiness, eternal happiness. Colossians 3:11, Christ is all. Colossians 2:10, Ye are complete in him. You are complete in Christ.
First Corinthians 2:12, Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God. When we are born again we don’t have the spirit of the world, of self. We got rid of our old self, and the spirit of the world went with it. We received the spirit which is of God that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God (I Corinthians 2:12).
What has God given us so freely? John 3:16 explains: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. God freely gave us everything when He gave us Jesus; He held nothing back, not even His own Son whom He treasured so much. God gave His heart.
That’s what God wants of you—your heart. Why should you put anything ahead of God? You rob yourself, and you rob God of His chance of winning your loved ones when you don’t put the Lord first. By putting family first, you may very well lose them to the hands of the devil. But when they see your determination to live for God no matter what they say to you, when they see your great love, your courage, your faith, it rubs off on them and they can’t get away from it; the Holy Spirit sees to that.
Jesus is our everything. Look into the blood cup of Jesus, the cup of holy communion. Drink ye all of it (Matthew 26:27), Jesus said to the disciples; and He is saying to the Bride: This is my cup; it’s all yours. Know what’s in the cup; know what is yours.
Jesus is our today and all of our tomorrows. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever (Hebrews 13:8). What Jesus is today He will be tomorrow: If He’s your everything today, you don’t have to worry about any of your tomorrows; He’ll be the same.
Jesus is our advisor and director. We can talk to Him any time, night or day, and He will advise us. The Holy Spirit will always help us contact Jesus.
Jesus is our great teacher; Nicodemus recognized this. There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him (John 3:1,2). In Jesus we have the teacher of all teachers, the teacher who knows more than all other teachers who have ever been on planet Earth and all who live on planet Earth now. There isn’t anything Jesus doesn’t know. He’s our personal teacher as well as our personal Savior, and that’s so wonderful to me!
I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing (John 15:5). Jesus is the vine; we are the branches; there is no life without Him. If you don’t have Jesus working in your life, you’re not going to bear the fruit of the Spirit.
Jesus is our great preacher. Some people don’t think of Christ as being a preacher, but there’s never been a greater preacher than Jesus. He was the greatest teacher, the greatest preacher who ever walked upon the earth.
Seek to Be Like Jesus
Seek to be just like Jesus in whatever you’re doing. Have a hunger day and night to be like Him; let it be your greatest desire. Seek Him; seek more of His love, more of His faith, more of His peace, more of His miracle power, more of His healing power, more of His wisdom and knowledge.
We must serve all of Jesus to the whole world, and to do that we must have the whole Jesus. We can’t serve what we don’t have. We first have to receive it, and then serve it.
Jesus is the Sermon on the Mount. And seeing the multitudes, he [Jesus] went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: And he opened his mouth, and taught them (Matthew 5:1,2). Have you ever thought of Jesus being that sermon? The Sermon on the Mount is what He stood for, what He brought; the Sermon on the Mount is Jesus; the two can’t be separated. Jesus is the beatitudes; He’s your blessing daily: Blessed are ye!
Jesus poured out His whole heart in that Sermon on the Mount. There’s never been another one like it, and there never will be. It covers everything from the cradle to the grave; it’s all there. Study the Sermon on the Mount; go back to it and make sure you understand every word in it. It’s essential that you do.
Jesus is not just a companion; He’s your daily companion, night and day. You will never walk alone, for He holds your hand and guides each step you take. Jesus understands you.
Jesus is our compassion for a lost world, for every lost soul that can be reached. But when he [Jesus] saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd (Matthew 9:36). You don’t have to muster up compassion; just take the whole Jesus and you’ll have compassion for the lost. Without that great compassion you can’t have the whole Jesus.
When Jesus came into my heart, He brought compassion for lost humanity. I wanted to get everybody saved. I thought everybody ought to know Jesus, everybody ought to have Jesus; and I still do. When you accept Jesus, you have to learn the qualities that come with Him and yield to His ultimate anointings so you can use those things.
The blessing and the secret of the Early Church is that they learned what made up the character and personality of Jesus, and then they received His ultimate anointings so they could be like Him. The Lord poured out His Spirit upon them the way He’s pouring it out to His true believers today. They received, and then they went forth with His great power serving the whole Jesus.
Jesus is our rewarder, not just for today and tomorrow, but He’s our rewarder for all eternity. Who else could reward us for all eternity? We’ll still be enjoying His rewards a trillion years and more. Our rewards will never decrease, never be moth-eaten or tarnished. Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal (Matthew 6:20).
I love to dwell on the different things of Jesus; they feed my soul. This is the heavenly manna for us to dine on.
Solomon Failed to Treasure the Riches of Heaven
Jesus is our “greater than Solomon.” The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here (Matthew 12:42).
How great was Solomon? King Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom. And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart. And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year. And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem. And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees that are in the vale, for abundance (I Kings 10:23-27). You read of Solomon in all of his glory and then you read of Jesus, and Solomon’s glory looks insignificant. Solomon’s riches faded away; he died and left it all.
Jesus is the one who brought all the riches of Heaven to us. Solomon did not have the riches of Heaven, only the riches of Earth. How sad that Solomon didn’t treasure the riches of Heaven. If he had, he might not have failed God the way he did. For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father. For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father (I Kings 11:4-6). Solomon probably died without God. How sad!
Consider the power of Solomon: He gave orders that were carried out; his power and wealth backed up what he wanted done. Whatever he pleased to do, he did; but he didn’t please to serve God the way God wanted him to serve Him, so he fell. But thank God one greater than Solomon came to pave the way to Heaven for us, showed us how it could be done. Jesus became poor so He could make us rich.
We’re Heaven rich today—richer than millionaires, richer than billionaires, richer than any language could ever describe. We’re rich, but we must never forget who Jesus is.
Perfection Comes from the Lord
Jesus is our perfection. For by one offering he [Jesus] hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified (Hebrews 10:14). Man was created to have love, peace, joy, and happiness in perfection. His whole body was created in perfection. Had sin not entered, Adam and Eve would be alive today as perfect as when they were first created. Their eyes wouldn’t have dimmed; their skin would have shown no age; they would have been just as young, beautiful and handsome as they were when God first made them out of clay. Adam lost perfection in Eden, but Jesus came to be that perfection for us.
No wonder Paul said, Let us go on unto perfection (Hebrews 6:1). He had the vision that we can all go into perfection in the Lord; we can live in love in perfection now. 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). The Bible tells us, Be ye holy; for I am holy (I Peter 1:16). God will never be satisfied until man and woman are brought into perfection the way He intended them to be, planned for them to be, and made them to be in Eden. In the second Eden called Heaven all will be perfection. Life in Heaven will never be anything less than perfection.
A Glorified Body
Jesus is our resurrection. Jesus said…I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live (John 11:25).
Jesus is the power of our resurrection. Come Thomas, He said, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing (John 20:27). Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have (Luke 24:39). After the resurrection, Jesus’ body was glorified. The glorified body is like the bodies were in Eden: No sewer system was on the inside because there were no bowels. This is the way the glorified body will be in Heaven.
When sin brought the curse upon the body, a drastic change took place on the inside. Sin broke the connection man had with God, and then man was on his own. Man would have to digest his food; he’d have to clean up after himself. It had to be this way because man had left the perfection of God, left love in perfection. It’s astounding, isn’t it! But Jesus showed us He had paid for all that was lost so that one day we, too, would have a glorified body in Heaven.
Jesus is our glorification. We are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together (Romans 8:16,17).
What would you give for a glorified body? If you had a trillion dollars would you be willing to pay it all for a glorified body that would never be sick, never age, never have a pain, never be weak?
The disciples examined Jesus after the Resurrection, touched glorification. And Jesus said unto them, Have ye here any meat? And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb. And he took it, and did eat before them (Luke 24:41-43). He ate to show them He was real, not merely a spirit. He was in His glorified form, and He looked like He had looked when He walked with them before He was crucified; they knew Him. The Bible says, But then shall I know even as also I am known (I Corinthians 13:12).
Jesus became our Rapture victory; He proved this when He ascended back to Heaven; at command He could go. While they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven (Acts 1:9-11). At command Jesus can take us from the earth at any time.
Jesus is our glorified body. We have Jesus, and we will be changed; He is that change. Without Jesus there could be no change. The Holy Ghost will use the power in the divine blood to change us in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye. The blood is Jesus, of course.
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. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality (I Corinthians 15:51-53). The fast moving power and the greatness of Jesus is made clear in these verses. He is that Rapture change to catch you away in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, to meet you in the air.
Think on these things, oh Bride of Christ; you must talk, think, work, and believe just like Jesus in this final hour. Your work is cut out for you, and He is your pattern. All you have to do is accept the plan of God, and give your life to stay in the divine will of God.
Jesus Satisfies
There isn’t anything in the world as important to each member of the Bridal company today as being in the divine will of God. That’s the reason the devil will try to make people restless in the work of God, make them think they need to work elsewhere. Restlessness has caused preachers to give up their churches and retire ahead of time, to go off and leave their congregation because of that spirit working on them. The flesh is calling: Oh, you’re not satisfied! Look elsewhere!
I’m satisfied with Jesus. Like Paul, I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content (Philippians 4:11). You can’t be contented with the world, with most people; but you can be contented with Jesus. Where Jesus wants you is the place to be. If you’re not in that exact place and stay in that place, you’ll not be the service to the Lord that He wants you to be. Being in the wrong place could cause you to fail, cause you to miss the Rapture. It’s essential to be in the divine will of God.
Enoch, a type of the Rapture, was in the will of God. And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him (Genesis 5:24).
Elijah, also, is a type of the Rapture. And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more (II Kings 2:11,12).
Jesus, of course, was always in the will of the Father; and you can even think of Him as being the Rapture going forth, our Christ. He ascended up, up, up as the apostles watched Him out of sight.
Jesus is our catching away. There will be no catching away for the Bride without Jesus. 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). The Lord is not sending someone else; He Himself is coming.
Jesus is power. Jesus is power to resurrect the dead. Dead bones that have been buried or have lain in sepulchers for thousands of years will come forth. Jesus said when He was on Earth, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth (Matthew 28:18). All power has been given unto me, He was saying. I have all authority, and I have the authority to give you all of this power. I have come to show you how to walk to have it, how to walk to be in the divine will of the Lord.
We can never value money, houses, lands or anything else above the will of God. God promised to look out for us, to take care of us if we would walk in His will. When the Lord called me to preach, He didn’t mention finances. Jesus didn’t have it easy when He walked the earth, and I didn’t expect to have it easy, either. I expected to sacrifice, to give and never stop giving. It’s in giving that we are blessed.
The Heart of God
Jesus is the whole heart of God. When you have all of God’s heart, what more could you ask for? The Father, who owns the land of many mansions, who has so much gold that He’s paved the streets in Glory with it, has let us know that the material things man would sell his soul to the devil for are trash.
Money has drawn many people out of the will of God because they didn’t love God enough to put Him first. Since Jesus is the whole heart of God, how could I do less than give my whole heart in exchange? I just have one little human heart to give, one little human spirit, one thread of human life; to not give that completely is unthinkable to me. Jesus is the very air we breathe; without Him we are nothing.
To miss God’s will is to miss souls. I feel I can’t miss one soul who is marked for me to win. I’ll give my life for one soul; to me each soul is an eternal individual. Although we are winning people on the mission field in masses, we still need to look at them one on one. I preach one on one; I speak one on one to people on television in a direct way, and they say they feel I’m talking right to them. People in the services feel I’m talking directly to them, too. When Jesus talked, He talked to individuals.
Jesus is our success, the only success that counts. People striving for success in the world study the programs and literature available to help them reach their goals. Down through the years I’ve watched people climbing the ladder of what they thought was success, only to see them run out of ladder; and that was the end. But we’re climbing the successful ladder known as Jacob’s ladder, the Jacob/Jesus ladder that is; and it reaches all the way to Heaven. Success is in Jesus; He is our success.
How successful are you in life? True success depends on how much Jesus you have. How much does He mean to you? How much of Jesus have you claimed? How much of Him has become real to you? Have you taken half of Christ, a third, a fourth, or a tenth? What have you done? The Bride will take the whole Jesus. That’s the reason she will be a terror to both devil and man; that’s the reason the lions’ dens, the fiery furnaces can’t stop her. In every type and shadow in the Old Testament, the Bride couldn’t be stopped. So it is in the New Testament in the new and living way; the Bride will come forth in living reality to be just like Jesus.
Even now the Bride is walking like Jesus. When she puts her foot down, it is thousands of feet coming down the way that one foot came down when Jesus walked here among men. When His voice spoke, the devil had to obey; now it is thousands of voices speaking, but it’s the same voice. It has the same tone, the same love, the same power, the same hate against the devil and all he stands for.
Jesus should be your very heartbeat. You value your physical heartbeat, but the spiritual heartbeat is even more important. Your spiritual heart will beat for eternity. That’s the real Jesus life that He brought.
He is our Jesus, concerned for even the birds and the flowers. Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these (Matthew 6:26,28,29). The flowers, even the tiniest, are clothed in beauty; look at the care the Lord has taken putting in lovely colors, making them so beautiful.
Jesus wants us to be beautiful, too. He’s willing to do anything to make us as beautiful as the first Adam and the first Eve. None of us are overlooked just as none of those little flowers are overlooked.
Jesus is the one who can be touched with our feelings. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin (Hebrews 4:15). We’re not to live in the feelings of our infirmities; Jesus will take care of them. We are to live by faith and to know that Jesus is compassionate toward us. He keeps up with every heartbeat; He knows when your heart skips one beat; He knows your pulse, your blood pressure. Jesus is aware of every part of you, every organ.
Remember, Jesus is your revelation of God; you don’t have to fear God as the Israelites did, or be afraid of His voice, afraid of the shaking earth. When you are born again, you are safe from God’s terrible judgments. Jesus is our revelation of God, and God is love.
John, the one who was so close to Jesus, the one who leaned on His breast during the Last Supper, the youngest of the twelve, is the one who later wrote: He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love (I John 4:8). The books of the Bible John wrote are wonderful. No one else ever received such end-time revelations as John put down in the book of Revelation. Daniel was given revelations of the end; other prophets had part of the revelations, but John got them all.
Like Jesus, John paid a price for spreading the Gospel. People tried to kill John; tradition tells us that he was even put into boiling oil, but he wouldn’t die. Evil men were furious with him, furious that they couldn’t destroy him; he was indestructible. Doesn’t that show you how big Jesus is? To boil someone in oil is no worse than putting him in the fiery furnace.
When you have faith enough to be boiled in oil and have it be soothing to your body, when people see you sitting in that pot smiling, it terrifies and infuriates them. John couldn’t be boiled, and his tormenters didn’t want to look at him anymore, so they exiled him to the Isle of Patmos. Probably not another human was there at that time, but for a man who had chosen Heaven to be his home instead of Earth, nothing could stop him. The Isle of Patmos was where God wanted John all to Himself.
On Earth Jesus was John’s shelter in time of storm; it was a joy and a delight for John to be with Jesus. John is in Heaven in the bosom of Jesus today, the place he found to be his hiding place, a place of love, grace and tender kindness.
Jesus said that when He comes He’ll bring our loved ones with Him, and John’s going to be right there in the bosom of Jesus; he’s not going to give up his place. Through all the persecutions John endured, He refused to give it up.
We’ll Live Forever
Jesus is your crown of life, and what a crown that will be! Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him (James 1:12). Think how you love beauty…there won’t be a more beautiful crown than the crown of life. But nothing is quite so beautiful as real life; therefore nothing is quite as beautiful as Jesus. He’s the only real life we have on planet Earth today.
People spend any amount of money to live an extra month, an extra year, or an extra two or three years. But with Jesus, our crown of life, we’re going to live forever.
The world today is dying; everything has to go to make way for a new heaven and a new earth. And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband (Revelation 21:1,2). Thank God, we will live in a new heaven and a new earth. How wonderful!
What will happen to the earth as we know it? It is going to be melted with fervent heat. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up (II Peter 3:10).
Looking at the earth will be like looking into a furnace of melted glass. I had that experience one time. I had to look through a colored glass because I dared not look into that furnace with the naked eye. And I thought, Oh my God, is hell like this! It was a real picture of hell for sure; it was death, death, death. For anyone who fell into that furnace death would have been instant.
Jesus is our beautiful Christ, our Christ of beauty. But on Calvary He was so beaten, bloodied, and butchered that people couldn’t bear to look upon Him. The Bible tells us about it: He hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him (Isaiah 53:2).
We love beauty, and in the beautiful city of God all the gems we’ve ever seen—and many, many more that we haven’t seen—will garnish its twelve foundations. And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst (Revelation 21:19,20). The city of God will be beautiful, but Christ is more beautiful.
Jesus is our beauty: He will beautify the meek with salvation (Psalm 149:4). Jesus is salvation; He takes ugly people and makes them beautiful inside with the same power that will make all of us beautiful outside, too, one day. Won’t that be wonderful! But until that day, we’re made young on the inside through the blood of Jesus, new creations, young and joyful with more happiness than we have ever felt. It’s the joy of Jesus.
We’ll Follow the Lamb
Jesus is the lamp that will light the whole city of God. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it (Revelation 21:23,24).
The Lamb is the light; never doubt that He will light up our paths and our highways down here. Never question the fact that He’s not only God’s Lamb of light; He’s our Lamb of light.
Because of Jesus, we’ll never know the night, the darkness of eternity. God hates that darkness. He despises it, and one day He will close it out, block it away forever, seal it up to never think again of all of those who have died in darkness. Remember, Jesus is your cup of everything.
Jesus is our sacrificial Lamb, but He will be our eternal Lamb just as He’s God’s eternal Lamb. The Father will share His eternal Lamb with the Bride for all eternity. We’ll go wherever Jesus goes; during the perfect age the Bride will be closer to Jesus than any other people are. Won’t that be wonderful! The Bride can always touch Jesus. What happiness, what peace, and what joy!
Let the Lord rain down His reality on you through the Holy Ghost until you never forget that Jesus is your everything. What are you going to do? Answer quickly: I have Jesus for this.
Jesus is our foreign missionary. He came from another country, another land; He came all the way from Heaven. Doesn’t that make Him a foreign missionary? Missionaries years ago said goodbye to loved ones, never knowing whether or not they would ever see them again. There were some sad goodbyes. Missionaries have to pay the price.
But true children of God who have been won by the missionaries, how they love the missionaries; how they appreciate them. Why? Because those missionaries brought them the bread of life, the light, the passport to Heaven. They brought them the knowledge of Heaven, the knowledge of salvation and deliverance, the knowledge of the power of God and the power of Jesus, the power in the blood over all demonic spirits.
Jesus is our fortress. I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust (Psalm 91:2). A fortress must be so strong that no enemy can break through. Years ago a fortress was the last line of defense, vital; and when the Psalmist compared the Lord to a fortress, it meant much. Our fortress Jesus is stronger than all mankind’s refuges, all the fortresses, stronger than anything ever made.
Jesus is our strength. For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle (Psalm 18:39). Jesus is all the ammunition we’ll ever need. We have the big Gospel gun and bullet power to make the devil go. Power, power—never be without God’s power. Keep that Gospel gun loaded with the Word of God all the time. Get the big “double barrel” going and mow the demons down. They’re afraid of the Word of God; when we’re shooting out the Word, we have the devil on the run.
It’s amazing on the mission field to see thousands of devils fleeing from souls as the power in the blood rains down. They fill the air trying to escape, trying to go. I see them. It’s good for them to know I’m seeing them, seeing the power over them, seeing how helpless they are. The devil can’t stand it.
The devil seeks to bluff you; he wants you to look at him as something so strong he can’t be defeated. He flexes his muscles, but when you look at him through the Lord, you see something weak and ugly in charge of flies—his very name meaning the Lord of flies—and that’s pretty weak!
Jesus is our evangelist. An evangelist travels from place to place to win souls. Jesus, the greatest evangelist, went through the land; and I want to be like Him. I want to preach like Jesus, pastor like Him, and evangelize like Him; I want to be just like Jesus.
Put yourself to sleep each night this week saying, I want to be just like Jesus. Turn yourself over to the Holy Ghost so He can work on you while you are sleeping, helping you to be just like Jesus.
Yes, Jesus is our great evangelist come to evangelize the world. He gave that evangelistic spirit to the Early Church, and He’s giving it to us. Where did you think this evangelistic spirit came from? Not from me. Where did you think I got it? From Jesus. He is our great, great evangelist.
Jesus is our secret place. He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty (Psalm 91:1). Jesus is the great secret place of the most High for the children of God under the dispensation of grace. Paul said, It’s not I that liveth, but Christ liveth in me (Galatians 2:20). Paul had found the hiding place, the place of refuge, the place of shelter.
Jesus is our complete trust. There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust (Romans 15:12). On some of our money are the words: In God we trust. Unfortunately, most of the American people don’t really trust Him. They may trust during an earthquake or when a storm is raging; but when they see they’re going to live, the majority trust in other things. Our complete trust is in Jesus because we have accepted the whole Jesus; when you accept the whole Jesus, He is your whole trust.
The Lord Is Our Refuge
He shall cover thee with his feathers (Psalm 91:4). Jesus is our feathers of love. Did you ever feel those downy feathers, how soft they are, how gentle? The Lord has the softest touch you will ever receive. In fact, He touches some of you so softly and gently you don’t even know you’ve been touched; but a human being can touch you and you feel it right away. You need the Spirit working through you all the time so you can feel His touch.
Feel the touch of His hand on yours. Feel the touch of His hands on your eyes or on your ears. Feel the touch of His fingers on your lips; feel His touch. Jesus is our feathers, He really is. Oh, the help, the ease we have in Him! Those feathers take away much from the hardships around us.
Jesus is our habitation. Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling (Psalm 91:9,10). We dwell in Jesus; we live in Him. Not outside, we live in Him and He lives in us—but only through the Spirit can you understand such language. The Bible tells us the Lord is our habitation.
Jesus is our music. God’s people sing His music because Jesus is everything. There’s no such thing as “Christian” rock; the devil has deceived people. Christ’s Spirit is not in that music; it is not holy, but of the world.
When I received salvation, when the blood of Jesus flowed through my soul, through every particle of me, the devil’s music, the world’s music went right out of me. I never gave it another thought. I didn’t want to hear it; I didn’t want to think about it. What was in my bones? True gospel music. I joined the choir and started singing as though I’d been there twenty years, singing my heart out, praising God and having a great time. I joined because I had Jesus, and I had His music in my heart.
Jesus is the harp of our salvation.
Jesus is our trumpet of the Gospel. Jesus will help us use this Gospel trumpet, sound it to the world in this final hour. Isn’t that great!
Jesus is our great hand; He holds us all at one time and will never let us down—one hand holding us all, every child of His! A mother can handle one child at a time with one hand, but our Lord holds us all with one hand, just one hand. That hand can hold us all because it’s the only begotten Son of God’s hand.
Jesus is everything lovely, beautiful.
Jesus is our flowers and our green grass; He is all life. If you could gather all the life from planet Earth, Jesus is all of that.
Jesus is the cool springs of water bubbling up in all of our valleys. Our valleys are filled with springs because He is everywhere, and wherever Jesus is there’s life, life, life. Jesus is our springs in every valley we go into; not one spring, but springs.
Jesus is our sweet meditation day and night. In Old Testament days those close to God meditated on the Law. We meditate on the Gospel, not the Law; for Jesus is our Gospel, our blood salvation, our blood passport to Heaven. Jesus is our sweet, sweet meditation; we meditate on Him and in Him through the power of the Holy Ghost.
Jesus is our Canaan, our heavenly Canaan flowing with milk and honey. O taste and see that the LORD is good (Psalm 34:8). Jesus is all of Canaan, all the milk and all the honey. He will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey (Numbers 14:8).
A Close Connection
Jesus is the whole plan of redemption given by God. He is, He is, and He is sitting at the right hand of the Father right now—and yet He is in people everywhere who have taken Him into their heart. No limitation is on Jesus. He can turn from talking to the Father and speak to you. Isn’t that wonderful! The Lord told me a number of years ago how close the connection is: The angel who stands by your side just turns from me and speaks to you. What a close connection we can all have with the Lord in this final hour! Jesus is everything, and Jesus brought about that connection. We’ve been made nigh through the blood of Jesus. What an inheritance!
Jesus is your inheritance, as well as all of Heaven; you are a joint-heir with Him. 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 have everything you need on the journey to keep you, to see you through all the way; and you have everything for eternity through Jesus as the endless ages roll.
We are Jesus’ name’s sake. The Bible, speaking of Israel, tells us in Psalm 106:8, He saved them for his name’s sake. Today we are the name’s sake of Jesus, we carry the Jesus name. We’re a Jesus blood-washed and delivered people.
Jesus is our help. The LORD: he is our help (Psalm 33:20). Jesus is our help all the time, not just part of the time. At home, outside the home, on the job, Jesus is our help. If you have a business, Jesus is your first help; He shows you how to deal with things, and helps you with all problems. You look upon Him and declare, Jesus, you are my help, not helper, but help. My help cometh from the LORD (Psalm 121:2).
Jesus is our warrior. He fights for us—and what a help He is in time of war! When enemies come against us to torment us, to battle our minds, we can be freed of all those battles, all that oppression and depression through Jesus. He came to destroy it all. He is your help if you’ll let Him be. Such help is in those hands, and yet many people won’t accept the great help of the Lord, and they stumble along in the night.
Jesus is a lamp unto your feet who is with you always. He said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee (Hebrews 13:5).
As a child, I lived on the farm—no electric lights, no street lights. We used oil lamps, carried them with us in the dark if we wanted light. We didn’t even have flashlights. My bedroom was upstairs in the old farm home. I’d look out the window at night and see a light waving; it seemed to be going through the air all by itself, but I knew my dad had hold of it. He was going to see about a calf about to be born, or perhaps a new one that had just arrived the day before. Maybe he was on his way to look in on the old mother pig with all her little pigs, to check that all was well, and he had to carry his light or he had no light to see.
If you take Jesus with you, you’ll always have light; you will never walk in the night. He is, He is, He is—oh how the things that He is pile higher than all the mountains on planet Earth. The Lord makes the mountains look like little hills. Jesus fills the whole earth and the heavens, too; He is just that big.
Jesus is our redeemer. I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer (Isaiah 60:16).
Jesus is our deliverer; as we cry He is, He declares back, I AM THAT I AM (Exodus 3:14). We say He is; He says, I am the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever (Hebrews 13:8). That puts the cap on all of it, leaves no room for doubt. Let I-Am close your thoughts on ever doubting the Lord. In this great outreach, Jesus is and must be your everything.
Don’t let the devil battle your mind. If you don’t know of any sin you’re committing, don’t worry and fret. The enemy tortures the children of God whenever he can. He tried that method on Jesus, but it didn’t work; and since Jesus is our everything it won’t work on us if we will let Him take over. Jesus will always stand between His children and the devil. However, you who are doing things you know you ought not to do should fret and worry; you should be afraid.
Jesus Brings Salvation and Healing
You never face the demons alone if Jesus is with you. Always have the blood, and when you have the blood you have Jesus. You can’t have the divine blood without having Jesus on this Earth. He’s the one container who brought it, and He’s the one we look to.
If you don’t have the blood of Jesus in your heart, let me pray for you now: Oh, God, save my soul: I do believe in the blood of Jesus! I’m so sorry I sinned against you, Lord, but I’ve come home and I’m going to serve you the rest of my life. I believe now that the blood of Jesus washes away all my sins, all of them! Come into my heart, Jesus; come on in!
If you meant that prayer, He has come. If you meant it, His blood is flowing in that soul of yours; it has washed away every sin stain. Walk with Him; serve Him. Live in His Word and know Him as your everything.
God is preparing us for mighty, mighty things. He’s preparing you who can’t go to the mission field to pray like you’ve never prayed before, to believe like you’ve never believed before, to call up Heaven day or night knowing you have a perfect line without any static on it whatsoever. Let the bond of blood love bind us together in one mind in one accord so that we’ll be one wherever we go on planet Earth.
No matter who goes to the mission fields or who stays, we’ll still be one unit, one mighty army led by Jesus Christ our captain. And we will trample devils underfoot; we will cast out devils in the name of Jesus. We will use His blood and heal the sick of all manner of sicknesses and diseases. We’ll take their AIDS, put them under the blood through faith, and the AIDS will be killed out. The spirit of leprosy will be destroyed; the blind will be receiving their sight, the deaf hearing, the dumb speaking, the paralyzed and the crippled being made to walk. Miracles of creation and re-creation will take place, and people who have never been normal, children born abnormal, will suddenly be made whole, saith the Lord, through the greatness and the might of His power.
If you need Him for your healing or for the healing of a loved one, let me pray with you for your need. Remember, He is everything for your every need. Isaiah 53:5 tells us that with his stripes we are healed. Dear God, I bring the sick and afflicted. I bring those who have no one to pray for them. Jesus you’re our everything to trample all the devils of sickness and disease underfoot. With your divine blood heal all manner of diseases. From your blood power, your supernatural gifts of healing and gift of miracles, heal everyone—those with AIDS, leprosy, the deaf, the paralyzed. Those who were never normal, God make them whole through the greatness of your divine blood miracle power. Heal! Heal I pray in the blood name of Jesus!
Notice every sign of improvement daily and decide the Lord will get you well. Hide in His healing promises.
This is your hour, your hour of visitation, your hour of revelation. Let me be your everything, saith the Lord.
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