Nothing less than the Jesus strength will be sufficient for the children of God in this their last hour as they battle against the powers of darkness, against the powers and strongholds of the enemy. In such conflict, realize that as a child of God, you have strength not in the human but in the Lord. God is your strength. Through Jesus Christ you can have the great strength of Heaven; it’s yours. Jesus brought it. However, just as He had trouble delivering it to His disciples before Pentecost, He has trouble convincing many children of God to receive His strength today. It wasn’t until after Pentecost that the disciples learned to use the Jesus strength through the power of the Holy Ghost that descended on them in the Upper Room.

The strength from Heaven the disciples learned to use is available to you today. It consists of many, many things: peace, joy, love, wisdom, knowledge are all in the strength of Jesus. To have the Jesus strength is truly wonderful!

Let My Lord Speak

God gave great strength to the prophet Daniel. He writes in Daniel 10:19: Let my lord speak; for thou hast strengthened me. This is the secret of receiving God’s strength: Let my Lord speak. That should be the cry of every child of God in this last hour: Let my Lord speak! Lord, I’m listening. In your voice, oh Lord, in your Word, I will find the strength that I need, the Jesus strength. Cleansed from all sin, pure and holy, men and women can reach out and hold to God’s unchanging hand.

In the strength of Jesus, the Word flows freely. You find strength when you open your Bible with the trust of Samuel: Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth (I Samuel 3:19). Jesus said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God (Matthew 4:4). Don’t think of your weakness, but pick up strength, the Word. When you read the Word of God, you bring God’s strength to you. The Word is the mind of God for you; He wants you to have His strength and power.

The Lord said, He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches (Revelation 3:6,13,22). Listen to what the Spirit is saying; listen to God–talk if you want the strength, faith, love, hope of God.

Words from the wrong people can take your strength. Have you ever felt strong until you met someone who dumped all his problems on you? Suddenly you felt weak. On the other hand, others have talked to you about the greatness of the Lord and you felt your strength increase. They used God–talk.

The strength of God flows from one child of God to another. Unfortunately, discouragement flows the same way. Be very careful. If the Bible teaches anything, it is the fellowship of Jesus for every child of God. To walk in fellowship with Him, in the light of Him, means you have the greatness of Him. You listen humbly as the Lord speaks to you.

Opportunity Turned to Calamity

Down through the ages there have been men who have pleased God, a few Enoch’s, a few Moses’s, a few Abraham’s and some others; but as a whole people on Earth have not had the walk of God. Israel did not have the walk of God, and because of it they couldn’t stay out of disobedience and sin. God tried His best to teach the Israelites how to walk with Him in His miraculous strength and greatness, protecting them with a pillar of fire in the nighttime and a cloud by day. He proved He walked with them on that twelve–mile hike through the Red Sea as the water stood up like a wall to their right and left. It has been calculated that the water where they crossed was over eighty feet deep and twelve miles wide. What a walk! It was nothing less than a God–walk. God wanted them to walk with Him all the way. Had they trusted and obeyed Him, they would have been in Canaan in around eleven days. Instead, those who were twenty years of age and over when they left Egypt died in the wilderness—all except Joshua and Caleb. Those who reached Canaan did so after forty years of wandering.

The human race as a whole could not identify with the great I–Am. God tried again and again to get man to walk with Him. At Sinai, God was thrilled. Moses, tell the people this: Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself. Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation (Exodus 19:4–6).

God told His people to prepare. And the Lord said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to–day and to–morrow, and let them wash their clothes, And be ready against the third day: for the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai (Exodus 19:10,11). But another great opportunity turned into calamity. Man would not walk with God. They didn’t even want God to talk to them; never again did they want to hear the voice of God. And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die (Exodus 20:19).

The Second Adam

Man was created to walk with God. He didn’t have to learn to walk. Not stumbling to the left or right, man in Eden stood on his feet and walked in perfection with his God. But man lost that walk. It was to be many, many years before mankind would learn to walk again.

God’s love kept reaching out to them, disobedient though they were. God so much wanted man to walk with Him, but it would take the second Adam—Jesus—to purchase their redemption. He had hands like the first Adam, arms, feet, legs, a voice like the first Adam. Jesus the Son of God came all the way from Heaven, taking on human flesh so He could be the second Adam to restore the walk the first Adam had lost. The human race, if they wanted, could learn to walk with God again.

Anyone who has ever heard the story of Jesus and has not learned to walk with Him has only himself to blame. Jesus came, taking every step for us, measuring every step. Every thought He had was for us, every work, everything He did. Now in this last hour, we have the blessed wonder of walking with God, of having the mind of God, thoughts of God, the greatness of God to use—through the redemptive work of Jesus.

Strength According to the Riches in Glory

Adam, in the beginning, got his strength from God, from the Spirit and breath of God. God breathed upon the form of clay, and man became a living soul. Man had strength to stand, to run and to walk hand in hand with God—spiritual and physical strength that comes from God. We would have no strength for the body had not God furnished it. All life is from God. Spiritual and physical strength come to us through His in–dwelling presence.

That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man (Ephesians 3:16). Your strength comes from the inside, from the soul. The Lord puts His salvation, His love, His grace, His greatness, all that makes up His strength, in your soul. By His Spirit, His power, His greatness in your soul you are strengthened. Your strength lies in your soul. Many children of God, always looking outward, searching for strength without, do not realize they have this marvelous strength within. If you have been born again, you have it; the Lord has given it to you. Use it. According to the riches in His glory your strength comes. To be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the soul—the inner man—is a great privilege of the child of God.

Flowing Strength

That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love (verse 17). As you are rooted and grounded in love, as Christ dwells by faith in your heart, the strength of God flows to you.

Learn to trust God like the Early Church. They didn’t depend upon people, on the Roman kingdom, on their relatives. Many early Christians were betrayed by loved ones and family members, but as they trusted God, the fear of man left them. Their great strength came from Heaven, flowing from one child of God to another.

In the congregation of God’s people, strength flows like a mighty river. People have been healed in my services during the preaching, delivered from weaknesses in their bodies. A flow of the greatness of the Lord in the congregation of God’s true people brings help and strength. It’s wonderful to see God deliver people in so many ways!

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might (Ephesians 6:10). All the instructions and promises in the Bible are yours. You can use them or not. The Holy Spirit will give you insight into the Word if you want it. When the disciples received insight into the Word, they started walking in God’s strength.

Everything God Has Is for His Children

The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust (Psalm 18:2). Where do we get our great strength? From the Lord. He offers all His strength just like He offers all His love, all His faith. Everything the Lord has belongs to the children of God.

In the story of the prodigal son, we find the father saying to the stay–at–home brother: All that I have is thine (Luke 15:31). The prodigal’s father represents the heavenly Father who is saying to you: Child, all I have belongs 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). Jesus received strength from Heaven when He was here on Earth; He stayed connected with Heaven. We are joint–heirs with Jesus Christ. As joint–heirs, all we have to do is stay connected with Him.

God Performs the Impossibilities

My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word (Psalm 119:28). Here the Psalmist is claiming the promises of God. In great distress, He draws strength from God, knowing God is faithful to His promise.

Have you ever felt as though your soul were melting with heaviness? Under such a great load, you must realize that the source of your strength is in the Lord. In this final hour, you will carry heavy loads; the battles will be many. Depend on the Lord to give you spiritual and physical health.

Many doubt God because they have never seen His promises in action, never seen a miracle. The Lord has not had the opportunity to display His greatness for us on a grand scale. But this final hour is a different hour, saith the Lord. God is going to reveal Himself, manifest Himself, show the almighty power that He has toward and for mankind. He will do the unbelieveable, perform the impossibilities for those who will really look to God and trust in Him with all their hearts, leaning not to their own understanding but yielding to Him.

God cannot reveal Himself through angels in a great way; God needs people to move through and with. It’s through human beings that God reveals His love. In creating man and woman, God revealed His greatness, and He reveals Himself through people today.

You will need all the Jesus strength in this final hour to be a witness for the Lord, to put the greatness of the Lord on display so all can see that the promises of God are real. He is looking for people on whom He can perform miracles, showing the world that He keeps His promises; God does what He says He will do. He is seeking those He can use. He is seeking you. Decide you will be what God wants you to be. Accept His help. Stand for Him. Use His Word. Draw strength from God, for He is your strength. When you do, He goes into operation for you, working for you because He works through His faith and His love that you have accepted into your heart.

Accept What God Offers

Here is God’s promise to you: He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint (Isaiah 40:29,31). If you are weak, God will give you power when you trust Him. You don’t have to buy it; He gives it. Many, relying on their own strength, think they can’t succeed. God is the One who increases strength. With God you have everything needed if you will only use what He has for you. No one, however, can give you a gift if you won’t accept it.

God isn’t keeping Himself out of your reach; man put God out of reach. Whenever man wants to be within the reach of God, all he has to do is take the steps toward God that God has given him the ability to take. The Son of God came to Earth and died for us. Now He is saying, Come to me. I have come to you; and now it’s time for you to come to me, time to take the steps you need toward God and draw on His strength.

You can have your miracles; you can have your healings, your deliverance through the Word, the promises of God. Your strength lies in what God has promised. How strong is your faith in His promises? When faith is strong in His promises, you have His strength. A father brought his son to Jesus for deliverance. Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief (Mark 9:23,24). When your faith has reached its limit, ask God’s faith to take over.

The Power of the Lord Is for You to Use

If you have ever fasted a long fast, you found the more you depended on God, the more He strengthened you. Forty days is a long time to not eat. On my long fasts I say, God, you’ll have to strengthen me. Oh Lord, I am so weak! The power, the strength of God comes upon me, and I minister to my congregation strong as though I’ve not been fasting—until the anointing lifts after the service. If the power of God can come upon a person in that way, giving him such miraculous strength when he hasn’t been eating, then the power of God can come upon you anytime you need it if you will look to God for it. The power of the Lord is at your fingertips, in your life to be used. God didn’t give you something to store away: your salvation is to be used to make God’s power a living reality in your life. Draw from the wells of salvation. The Holy Spirit Himself has come to baptize you and to serve you. All that comes from God is for you to use.

Learn to use what God gives you, to use the strength of God that overcomes weakness. You thought you were born to be weak? The Word says, The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid (Psalm 27:1)? Isaiah, remember, wrote, He giveth power to the faint. God increases strength for those who have no might. He gives it to you. But, remember, He will not serve you unless you look to Him. You must look to God for your help, for the strength He promised.

Some think the only strength God gives is strength to stay out of sin. No, there is much more to God’s strength than that. God has all the strength you need, physically and spiritually. Learn what He has for you and how to draw on it.

I’ve learned how to draw on His strength in the miracle services where for hours I minister to people. Many times I do not know the end of my own strength; the Spirit of the Lord upon me gives me strength to go on and on. The power of God flows through me into the people I am praying for. My flesh and bones pick it up. Every muscle and nerve receives strength that lingers in my bones, sometimes for days, after a service. His power electrifies me, lifts me up into God’s strength. It’s wonderful for the power of God to give you the strength you need.

You Can Never Bankrupt Heaven

Walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing…Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power (Colossians 1:10,11). His strength is yours; claim it. This is the way of the Lord, what the Lord has planned for us. Recognize and reach out for the things of God. The Lord has told you what to reach for. Some of you don’t believe you can have deliverance physically and spiritually, but you can. So much is yours from the Lord you couldn’t use it all in thousands of years, and yet you think you are too weak for the task ahead. Let the Lord speak; let Him talk to you.

Those who come into my healing line saying they won’t ask anything for themselves but for another have no concept of the greatness of God. He can heal whole families at one time. Abraham prayed for a family and the Lord healed them all. So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants (Genesis 20:17). Don’t think you will bankrupt Heaven if you pray for more than one thing or person. God can make you well all over. Why ask God for one thing only, not for everything you need?

A Twofold Atonement

God gave His Son to die for your salvation and physical healing. It’s a twofold atonement. Jesus went to the whipping post so you could be healed as well as saved: With his stripes we are healed (Isaiah 53:5). God made an incredible sacrifice for salvation and healing—His Only Begotten Son. It is no trouble now for Him to heal you; the trouble comes when you are afraid to ask for what you need. God does not want His sacrifice for your healing to be in vain.

Jesus says, If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you (John 15:7). God asks only that you serve Him and walk in His righteousness the way He intended man to walk. Never did God plan for man to be sick, weak. He meant for the human race to be strong like Him. In Eden this worked, but we live outside Eden.

The devil fights every step of the way so you won’t draw on the strength of God. He knows if you draw on God’s strength, you’ll have it and he can’t defeat the strength of God; if you walk in that strength and that power, you’ll have victory over him.

We Must Carry On Jesus’ Work

In this last hour, we must have the Jesus victory as we walk, talk and are like Jesus, wearing His shoes, His spiritual robe so we can take His place here on Earth just like the Early Church disciples. We must take His place. How can we do that if we are not going to be like Him? How can we be like Him if we don’t accept Him as being everything we need? Accepting Jesus means using His power, everything He used when He was here. It’s all available to us. Jesus paid for it. Use it and let the strength of God flow into you from the soul to the flesh.

First of all, let God flow His righteousness and holiness, goodness, love, faith, greatness right into your soul, to the inner person, the real you. From the real you, His strength comes gushing forth like mighty rivers. He didn’t make the human race to be weak, but to be strong and healthy. It is the will of the Lord for you to be in good health. Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth (III John 2). Draw on God’s strength; decide that the Lord is your strength. God is mighty, powerful, and the might of God belongs to you.

Gideon’s Three Hundred

In Old Testament days, God, through Gideon’s army of three hundred obedient vessels, manifested His great strength. Gideon hadn’t started out with only three hundred, but with thirty–two thousand. The Lord told him the army was too large. They would become puffed up in victory, saying they had won the battle and not the Lord. Therefore, God proceeded to pare down the number. First He instructed Gideon to tell whoever was fearful and afraid to go back. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand (Judges 7:3). Still too many were left. Take the people to the water, the Lord told Gideon. Everyone that laps water should be separated from those who bow down on his knees to drink. And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water. And the Lord said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you (Judges 7:6,7). Feeling strong with his mighty army of thirty–two thousand, Gideon hadn’t known of all the weaknesses contained in it. We are prone to be impressed by large numbers. God doesn’t look at numbers, but at holy, yielded vessels. Yield to Him, let Him help you, let Him give you the strength you need.

Jesus Drew Strength from On High

Go in the power of the Spirit as Jesus did, in the might of Him. After His forty days and nights of fasting, Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit (Luke 4:14). His fast was more than spiritual; He drew from it physical power as well as spiritual power to carry on His ministry. Great and mighty was His ministry, filled with all the strength He needed to minister to the people.

In the Garden of Gethsemane Jesus took complete responsibility for man’s sins and sicknesses. And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him. And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground (Luke 22:43,44). Jesus never would have endured the crucifixion had it not been for strength from On High. Even when it looked as though the Father had forsaken Him, Jesus had that strength.

Don’t check to see if God is manifesting Himself around you the way He did yesterday; you have His promises. He has given them to you, placed His strength into your soul. So many times the devil has led us into the darkness of fear, despair and frustration because we were looking for the reality of God in what we had yesterday. Where is He today? He is in your soul; He lives in your heart. That’s the reason you have eternal life. Draw from Him on the inside.

Shut in with God

The disciples in their little boat on the stormy sea were shut in with the Master and the power of Heaven, but didn’t know it. All that registered to them was the reaction of their physical senses.

It’s the nature of men to seek an opening in the clouds; not finding it, those without God are shut in with despair, not with the Lord. If you are a child of God, however, you are shut in with the Lord whether you realize it or not. Instead of spending your time trying to find an opening in the storm, realize that God is with you—Emmanuel. Through the promises of God you live and breathe and have your being, not through the physical senses. From the life of God, the love, faith, greatness of God you have more than you need. Why worry about where your strength is coming from?

I will go in the strength of the Lord God (Psalm 71:16). My strength is resting on the inside of my soul because the Lord is there, and the Lord is my strength; the Lord is with me. Draw strength and more strength from your soul.

When the Lord becomes living reality inside your heart, you have the joy and strength of Heaven abiding within. The joy of the Lord is your strength (Nehemiah 8:10). It’s yours to use. The peace, the love, the joy of Heaven are all yours to use, but you must use the things of God the way He planned. His plan is the only one that can work. He didn’t spare Himself when that plan included the suffering and death of His only Son for the whole human race. Heaven paid the ultimate price to carry out God’s plan. That’s the reason it works. Like Sarah, judge God faithful who had promised (Hebrews 11:11).

Seek Within

Learn how God works in this your last hour. Know Him, know the power and greatness of Him so you can know the strength of Him. Many of you have never learned the strength of God that can be yours, never felt you could draw on His strength just like you can draw on His love and faith. Recognize how to draw on all God has for you, or else you will be always looking for His greatness and strength elsewhere but in your soul where it is, always searching in the wrong place for that which you so greatly need to use.

I see God’s people seeking, seeking to find that which is within, but seeking outside the soul. God, I say again, is within. When you reach Heaven and learn the whole system of the Lord that was for you down here on Earth, you will realize how much more of God you could have had. You needn’t wait until then; you can know it all now through the Holy Spirit. He is your teacher. He will guide you into all of His truths, helping you in this hour of the Lord’s greatness, of the pouring out of God’s mighty power.

In the name of Jesus, take the strength of Him. In the name of Jesus, take the strength for the inner person, and strength for your physical being. Take the strength of God. He gives strength to the weak; He promised. He will strengthen your body to help you do the work He wants you to do, so you can be the witness He wants you to be. Again and again He proves that by healing people. Many have received physical miracles from the Lord, strength for the body. Every miracle, every healing is strength for those receiving it.

Jesus Healed Me

Often I tell how the Lord healed me when I was twenty–three. Close to death, I was weak with an affliction eating my life out. When Jesus came that night and made we well, He gave me great strength. I was a new person in body; that’s what His miraculous power did in a moment of time. The Great One, the Mighty One had come—my Jesus and your Jesus. He had come to me when I needed Him so much, doing for me what no other power could do.

His healing touch wasn’t just for me, it is for all who will believe on Him. He is Jesus. Listen to what He is saying to you. Daily He is speaking to your heart in close communion, shining His great light to show you His path. Walking with Him is easy when you have His light to show you where to step. For each step you take, God furnishes the light, the strength to help you.

If you need a physical miracle of strength for your life, take it from the Lord. The Lord is your strength; the Lord is your strength! Lord, I bring the weak, the sick and afflicted. I bring them all to you. Let your strength flow now like mighty rivers. Heal, heal in the holy name of Jesus. Heal in the name of the Lord! Amen.

Is Jesus Really in Your Heart?

Oh, Sinner, you have missed much. Why don’t you come to Jesus? Why don’t you give your heart to God? Why don’t you let Him come in? You can have the Jesus strength for soul, mind and body. He who was the strength of Adam and Eve is the strength of God’s people today, strength for the whole person. Pray the sinners’ prayer if you don’t know Him today: Oh, God, I confess that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. He died for me. I will live for Him. I believe the blood of Jesus washes away all of my sins, all of my sins. Come into my heart, Jesus. Come on in!

If you meant that prayer, He has come into your heart.

Take this message. Use it. Let it work. The Word brings the Jesus strength. Nothing less than the Jesus strength will be sufficient for the child of God in this last hour. The Word will bring health to your flesh, deliverance to your spirit. He sent his word, and healed them (Psalm 107:20). The Word—you can’t separate God from His Word. God sent His Word and gave the weak strength. The Word brings the Jesus strength.