The Tears of Calvary for the Sick and Afflicted

I will always rejoice over the night I received salvation, and the power in the divine tears of Calvary flowed into my life. I walked down the aisle of a little church as a lost teenager who was fighting God, but I also knew God would let me die and go to hell if I didn’t give my heart to Him. I forced myself to go to the altar to receive salvation thinking I would never be happy again, but I was amazed when I met the Master because He filled me with unbelievable joy. He reached over and took away my great weight of sin and laid it aside. Then He placed the burden for the whole lost world on my shoulders.

From that moment on, I had profound compassion for the lost; but I didn’t realize that compassion was from the tears of Calvary or even that the Lord had given me those tears. I just knew I was possessed with God’s love, compassion and yearning to win the lost. I knew that with every breath I took, I must get closer and closer to God. I knew I had to have more and more of Him so I could help others be delivered and set free from sin. Oh, how that divine cry moved within me day and night! They were tears for the lost.

In the very beginning of my ministry, and before I received any of the gifts of God for healing, I gave altar calls in my revival services mainly for salvation. (Although, I would always have one healing service in each revival.) I seldom left the building until the last person seeking salvation had gone away from the altar. My cry was, “Oh, God, this man must find you tonight! This boy, this girl, this man, this woman must find you!” I told my wife, Angel, that there was no need to get people to the altar if no one was there to help them.

Sometimes, even saints of God would stand around laughing and talking, and they were unconcerned about the souls of the lost. However, no matter how tired I was, I would help those at the altar. A school teacher once told me that I took things too seriously, but I wondered how anyone could be too serious about souls.

The compassion for the lost I received through the tears of Calvary was why I could pray so many through to salvation and why God gave us so many souls. Angel cried those tears too. No matter what happened in the services, we were not satisfied if lost souls did not come to Jesus. We had to have souls.

I Knew I Was Dying

Shortly after Angel and I were married, I became afflicted with an ulcerated stomach and had many complications from it. We watched my body go down to almost a skeleton. My condition continued to get worse, and I knew I was going to die unless God intervened. I cried out to God in great suffering and with tears rolling down my cheeks, but I didn’t seem to be reaching Him. I didn’t understand. God had called me to preach when I was eighteen, and He had gifted me with the ability to preach. I thought my faith was gone, and any hope I had of living much longer was fading fast. I knew without a doubt I was going to die.

I was so ill, but I stood in the very presence of the Almighty God with a pure and clean heart. I examined my soul with His Holy Word and could find nothing in my life against it. I knew I had lived free from sin every minute of every day since my salvation, and God brought no accusations against me. Knowing God had not moved for my healing even though I had no sin in my life put me into dungeons of despair. Why would He want me to die so young? There didn’t seem to be any answer. However, those tears of Calvary that I didn’t understand were inside of me, and they were reaching out to the Lord to bring healing to me.

God Made Me Whole

Then one night, Jesus came to me with divine tears and the suffering of Calvary; and with His blood stripes, I was healed. God’s power shot into me, and I lost all control. He healed me and then lingered to talk with me. He told me that later, I would go on a long fast; and when I came out of that fast, I would have His power for the healing of the people.

I was almost afraid to go to sleep in that early morning hour as I struggled to grasp the wonder of it all. I had asked God for healing so many times; and I thought, “What if this was just a dream?” How shattering it would be to wake up and find I was still afflicted with the cruel pain that felt like hot metal burning my body. The agony I had been through was so terrible that I felt I couldn’t bear one more second of it, but I found that my healing wasn’t a dream. I really had been made whole.

After the Lord visited me, I lost all sense of time; but sometime in an early morning hour, I finally fell asleep. I had heard from Heaven, and God had marked me for a lifetime. I would be all His, and I would never refuse Him anything. I would never refuse a fast no matter how long it was to be. I was healed. What a great treasure that was!

I Received the Tears of Calvary

The night the Lord made me whole, He gave me the tears of Calvary for the healing of the sick. What makes up those tears?—the Lord’s love, faith and all the fruits of the Spirit. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance (Galatians 5:22,23). The nine fruits of the Spirit are produced through the Holy Spirit in our lives. We cannot produce the fruits within ourselves because they are the fruits of the Spirit. We must furnish the soil; and the Holy Spirit produces the love, the faith and the rest of the fruits needed in our lives.

The fruits of the Spirit were given so we can have the tears of Calvary Jesus shed while He lived on Earth. His tears on Calvary for a lost and dying world were more than human tears; they were divine tears for the sins and the sicknesses of the people. Isaiah tells us Jesus was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed (Isaiah 53:5). Jesus is our sickness-bearer as well as our sin-bearer.

Old Testament types and shadows reveal the two-fold atonement of Jesus—healing for both soul and body. At that first Passover in Egypt, the Israelites were instructed to kill a lamb and place its blood on the doorpost of each home. When the angel of death saw that blood, he passed over the house. The atoning power of the Lord, represented by the lamb’s blood, saved lives just as the atoning power in the blood of Jesus saves souls from hell.

The sacrificial lamb did even more for the Children of Israel during that first Passover. Everyone in need of healing received it when they ate the lamb’s body. The atoning power of the Lord, represented by the lamb’s body, gave them healing. The Bible says, He [God] brought them [the Israelites] forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes (Psalm 105:37).

Take Advantage of Calvary’s Tears

We find that although the great tears of God were available in the Old Testament, very few people took advantage of them and cried those tears for the sick and afflicted or the lost. In a revelation from the Lord, I learned that many people could have been healed down through the years had more tears of Calvary been shed.

The power of divinity must be in our prayers. Jesus brought that power all the way from Heaven to forgive sins and to heal sicknesses and diseases. He used it in perfection, and He is our example. For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps (I Peter 2:21). Jesus said, Follow thou me (John 21:22). Only when we follow Jesus and cry the tears of Calvary will the sick be healed and those bound in sin delivered.

I know Jesus was the source of my healing those many years ago, and I always follow Him. To follow Jesus is to do whatever He tells you to. When He told me I would have His power for the healing of the people after I went on a long fast, I knew I would have it just as I knew I had a left hand and a right hand. There was no turning back for me; I would never be the same. As I fasted and sought the Lord, I put self down completely and became like Him. Those who expect to be instruments the Lord can work through must walk in His steps.

Greater Works

Jesus gave us this promise in John: Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask anything in my name, I will do it (John 14:12-14). Verse 12 in that reading is the verse the Lord used when He gave me the gift of discerning of spirits. He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do.

In verses 16 and 17 of that same chapter, Jesus said, And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you (John 14:16,17). Neither the world nor lukewarm Christians understand Jesus, the Holy Spirit or their divine tears. When Jesus prays to the Father for us, He prays with all the power in the tears of Calvary.

Later in that same chapter, Jesus said, But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you (John 14:26). Jesus said the Holy Ghost would teach you. Only through the Holy Spirit can the gifts of the Spirit and the power of God operate.

The Separating Hour

God has a clear-cut plan for every member of Christ’s Glorious Church who will take his or her place in the body of Christ. The Lord told me years ago this hour of people going either to the right or left would come. You will go God’s way or the world’s way; you cannot stand still. You may think you are, but you are really going one way or the other.

The Spirit of God lifts when you won’t go His way; but because He loves you so much, He doesn’t just suddenly snatch His Spirit and love away from you. They usually fade away gradually. The Lord keeps hoping, trusting and working for you as much as He can; but as you move away, you separate yourself from Him more and more. Oh, how the tears of Calvary fall when only one last drop of mercy is left for you! God knows that if you refuse that last drop, you are doomed.

Those who are ready to be taken in the Rapture will have the same spirit of separation the Early Church had. The Early Church held on to no one but Jesus. When they were about to be burned at the stake, crucified or torn apart by wild animals, they faced death with the courage of Jesus. They were just like the Master, and they died for His name’s sake.

Jesus demonstrated His separation from the world when He asked, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren? And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother (Matthew 12:48-50).

Divinity Is Strength

The hour has come to separate the strength of the tears of Calvary from the weakness of human tears. Human tears are no stronger than a human being; and compared to the miraculous strength of the Almighty, that is not very strong. Human weakness makes it a necessity that we have divinity with us. It is the reason we must be partakers of the Lord’s divine nature.

Again, I say that human tears are just weak, salty fluid running down human cheeks, and they are shallow. Human tears will not save the lost, heal the sick and afflicted or deliver the devil possessed; but the divine tears of Jesus will.

Let nothing hinder your commitment to God, and don’t mistake the emotion of man for the tears of Calvary. Some cry only self-tears that are full of human emotion. They may bring sympathy, but they will never bring deliverance. Divinity can be crying even when no human tears are flowing. When divinity cries, the love of Heaven, the peace of God and His healing power flow. When divinity cries, saving grace goes into action.

See the Cross of Calvary and the tormented form of Jesus hanging there. The tears Jesus shed on Calvary were preserved and bottled up so those who truly love and serve Him can use them millions and millions of times. God gave everything when He gave Jesus; and that is why we have all the love and faith of Heaven and everything we need in Calvary’s tears. But in order to use all of that, we must separate from the world and yield to the Holy Spirit daily.

Healing Is God’s Will

Thus saith the Lord, the Lord cannot deliver those who don’t want to be delivered; but if they want it, they can be delivered. Jesus said, In my name shall they cast out devils…they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover (Mark 16:17,18). Believers with the tears of Calvary will lay hands on the sick in the name of Jesus, and the sick will get well.

A leper came to Jesus saying, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean (Mark 1:40). The leper knew Jesus had the power to heal him, but he didn’t know whether or not his healing was God’s will. Then Jesus immediately made His will known to the leper by healing him. And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean (Mark 1:41). Jesus was moved with the same compassion that went into the tears of Calvary. The same love and compelling spirit were all there that day the leper came asking Jesus for healing. As the types and shadows of Moses’ day indicated, Jesus brought healing as well as salvation to mankind.

Jesus, the Healer

And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick (Matthew 14:14). Jesus looked on that multitude of people with the same compassion He would later have on Calvary when He would pay the price for our sins and our sicknesses. Remember that Jesus is our sickness-bearer as well as our sin-bearer. He is everything for the human race and everything we need. All who will accept Jesus, His sacrifice and His Calvary tears can have deliverance in the name of Jesus. Blessed be the name of the Lord!

And, behold, two blind men sitting by the way side, when they heard that Jesus passed by, cried out, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou son of David. And the multitude rebuked them, because they should hold their peace: but they cried the more, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou Son of David. And Jesus stood still, and called them, and said, What will ye that I shall do unto you? They say unto him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened. So Jesus had compassion on them, and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him (Matthew 20:30-34). Those two men didn’t listen to all the people who had rebuked them for calling out to Jesus. Instead, they followed Jesus because they knew He was the source of their miracle.

Jesus saw a woman who had been bent over for eighteen years. Today, we would call her condition arthritis, but Jesus called it devil bondage. And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself. And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God. And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day (Luke 13:11-13,16)? Immediately, the woman was delivered.

Deliverance Never Seen Before

Thus saith the Lord, Calvary’s tears will flow for the sick and afflicted in this final hour. The Glorious Church, the Bride of Christ, will have tears for the sick and afflicted just as she has tears for the lost; and the sick and the afflicted will be delivered as never before in the history of mankind. In this final hour, Calvary’s tears will bring about the mighty signs and wonders the Lord prophesied would come to pass in the latter days. These signs and wonders will open the eyes of many who don’t believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

The victories of the Early Church came about through the tears of Calvary—tears for the lost and tears for the sick and afflicted. Those disciples had powerful healing services; and the Bible says, And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people…Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them [and bring about the miracle needed]. 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 (Acts 5:12,15,16). As the Early Church disciples ministered in the midst of the people, the same kind of miracles took place as when Jesus walked the Earth. Why?—because they carried the same tears Jesus carried.

In this final hour, the Glorious Church of Jesus Christ will be without spot and wrinkle. That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish (Ephesians 5:27).

The Bride will live holy and please God the way Jesus did. She will walk in the perfection of God’s love and do His will day and night crying, “I have come to do thy will!” It is no wonder God called the Bride glorious. She is glorious in the ways of His Son, Jesus. She is glorious in His love and compassion and in delivering the multitudes as His Son delivered them. Blessed be the name of the Lord!

Power to Tread Serpents Underfoot

Even before Jesus shed the tears of Calvary, He introduced the power of them to the twelve apostles. Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases. And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick (Luke 9:1,2). Then He introduced them to some of His followers. After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come (Luke 10:1).

Jesus sent those seventy forth to heal the sick and preach the Kingdom of God. And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you (Luke 10:17-19).

Jesus brought that power to Earth, and the seventy rejoiced over it; but Jesus warned them, Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven (Luke 10:20).

For a short period of time while Jesus was still on Earth, the twelve apostles and the seventy disciples had the power in the tears of Calvary to tread on serpents and scorpions; but they were not able to keep that power until they had received the Holy Ghost.

When Jesus was resurrected, the tears of Calvary had been shed; and He had won. As He was about to ascend into Heaven, He left His tears with the disciples saying, But ye shall receive power (Acts 1:8). Then they could all have that power. Jesus had already told them, These signs shall follow them that believe (Mark 16:17).

All the power needed to bring salvation and healing to mankind is in the tears of Calvary. They are tears given to us by Heaven. Jesus paid for them, and they are ours. We must use the tears of Calvary to take the Gospel message to the whole world in this final hour. With those tears and all the power they provide for mankind, we must go forth crying, “You can be saved! You can be healed! Jesus saves! Jesus heals!”

Experiencing the Unbelievable

Peter and John met a man who was lame from birth as they were going up to the temple to pray. The man was over forty years old, but he had to be carried to the Gate Beautiful where he asked for money from those entering the temple. When he asked for money from Peter and John, then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk. And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God (Acts 3:6-8). That miracle filled the people with wonder and amazement.

In this final hour, we too will experience the unbelievable. The Lord will reveal Himself like He has never revealed Himself before because this is the final hour.

And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon’s, greatly wondering. And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk? And his [Jesus’] name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all (Acts 3:11,12,16). Peter told the people not to look on him and John as special people. He wanted them to know that the healing came through the name of Jesus and faith in His name, not through any holiness of their own. The tears of Calvary had brought that man perfect soundness.

The lame man’s miracle frustrated those who were persecuting the Early Church, but they couldn’t do anything about it. And beholding the man which was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it (Acts 4:14). It will be that way today too. People will want to sneer at the power of God, but a fantastic miracle will stand before them—a person once blind will be able to see; one who could not walk will begin walking; a person dying with an awful disease will be healed. People will not be able to deny the facts.

The Holy Ghost Is for Everyone

The cry in the tears of Calvary that rang out in the Early Church still rings out for us today. Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. (Acts 2:38). We must carry the message of the tears of Calvary to the whole world. We must also let them know that the promise of the Holy Ghost is for everyone who has answered the Lord’s call to salvation. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call (Acts 2:39). Jesus said, Receive ye the Holy Ghost (John 20:22).

A Bridle of Perfect Love

And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles (Acts 2:42,43). Why were they able to perform so many signs and wonders?—because of the tears of Calvary Jesus shed. They were tears of His compassion, love, peace and longsuffering. The spirit and the power of His self-control lived in the hearts of those Early Church disciples, and they put self down so that Christ might live and be everything to them.

The Early Church disciples were continually praising God and going from house to house in great fellowship. They did not gossip or criticize; they spoke with love and encouragement. Gossip and criticism will not be allowed in the Glorious Church in this final hour, but those who are lukewarm will welcome it. Thus saith the Lord, people who gossip and criticize will be left standing outside. They will be left outside the gates of Heaven. How sad! They will think they are part of the Glorious Church, but they will find they are not.

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another (John 13:35). Every member of the Glorious Church will wear the bridle of God’s perfect love, and many signs and wonders will take place today through that love, oh, Bride of Christ. Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently (I Peter 1:22).

The Sound of Abundant Miracles

The Bible tells of a man born blind who received a miracle that unbelievers weren’t able to brush aside. And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth…he [Jesus] spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing (John 9:1,6,7).

Today, God will do all kinds of miracles, healings and fantastic things that man will not be able to ignore. The Lord showed me this miracle outpouring years ago in a vision, and the fulfillment of that vision is on its way. The sound of the abundance of miracles is up ahead.

Believer, do you wonder why the enemy fights you so much or why he tries so hard to keep you from fasting, praying and living in the presence of God? Why does he try to stop you from being so careful with how you live, what you say and do and with the type of influence you have? The devil knows that when you live a holy, dedicated life, you will have the tears of Calvary and the power to do what no other power can. Every member of the bridal company will carry Heaven’s power with all of its greatness just as the Early Church did, and each person must obey the truth.

In the midst of all their persecution, the Early Church disciples prayed for holy boldness. And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word, By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus. And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness (Acts 4:29-31). We must have the same holy boldness the Early Church had.

I say again that healing for the soul, mind and body is in the atonement. With his stripes we are healed (Isaiah 53:5). The tears of Calvary are for the healing of sicknesses and afflictions. They are for the forgiveness of sins of all kinds. What a price was paid for those tears, and they are so incredibly valuable.

With the tears of Calvary, we will pull down so much of the power of God that impossibilities will become possible. Thus saith the Lord, we will pull down such power that people will step into that power of God’s greatness and be made whole.

Angels Minister to the Bride

With Calvary’s tears, the Bride is in her great, final hour on stage for the Lord. Nothing will be able to stop her or destroy her because all Heaven watches over her night and day. Millions of angels will minister to the Bride as she ministers to the people. There will be no weakness in her because she will use divine strength.

The Bride will have the same message Jesus had, not another; and she will have the same results He had. Only it will be on a greater scale, saith the Lord. Multitudes, multitudes, multitudes with no way for man to number them will be saved, healed and delivered. Feel the Earth trembling as the Bride walks in God’s strength and power. “Arise!” she will cry to the crippled ones, and they will walk.

God has given many, many miracles through this Jesus ministry. I will never forget how the Lord healed a man of a large cancerous growth on his face in one of my services. After prayer, the growth fell off his face before he even left the platform; and he turned around to show me what had happened. It looked as though the cancer had been cut out, but the flesh was smooth where the cancer had been. God had done it.

Be Alive with the Tears of Calvary

To have compassion means to suffer or to feel pity and sympathy. With Calvary’s tears, you are willing to suffer and fast. Having the compassion of Calvary’s tears on the inside of me has caused me to go on many fasts, numbers of them reaching forty days and nights. The compassion of Calvary’s tears compels me ever onward into the arms of God, so I can help others. I look into tormented eyes filled with suffering and cry, “Oh, God, you must heal this person!”

As I look into those eyes staring past me and seeing the jaws of death, I see myself years ago when I was in a dying condition. I was at the edge of the grave, and I knew I would soon be in eternity if God did not intervene. I see people standing before me in the same condition I was once in; and their spirits are crying out, “Oh, God, I want to live! I want to be delivered from this tumor! I want to be healed from this affliction! I want a good heart. I want strong legs so I can walk!” When I see them, my soul is alive with the tears of Calvary.

Calvary’s tears bring the healing power of God to people in my services. Through those tears, the blind receive their sight, the deaf hear and people are delivered from all manner of sicknesses and diseases. As we cry out to God, more and more souls are coming into His greatness; and more and more miracles and healings are taking place.

Thus saith the Lord, the anointing is increasing every time we come together because people are agreeing. Many people at Grace Cathedral have come in to the greatness of God and have taken the tears of Calvary for their very own, crying the tears of Calvary for the lost and the sick and afflicted. Oh, what a difference it makes when the Church cries the tears of divinity! They are not human tears of self-pity or weakness; they are Heaven’s divine tears of power that carry Christ’s salvation and healing.

Heaven’s tears bring people under subjection to the Word of God in such a mighty way that they can yield everything to Him. They cry, “In the name of Jesus, thou foul devils, come out!” Then the devils have to leave. It takes divine compassion to deliver people from demon possession. My soul cries for the devil possessed when I see people bound with demons of alcohol or drugs because I know they can be delivered. I have the tears of Calvary for them in my heart and in my spirit. The compassion of those tears cries out, “You can be delivered! You can be set free! Don’t you want to be free?”

Look Beyond Man’s Limitations

When I think of you who are sick and afflicted, the compassion of Heaven moves inside of me. God intends for you to be a partaker of His divine nature, so get ready for His divine power to move for you. Get ready for your miracle. Forget about man’s human tears and his hands of clay. Look beyond man’s limitations to the tears of divinity. Feel God’s love saying, “I will deliver you! I will set you free, Child!” Let the Lord speak to you as He spoke to me the night He healed me and brought me life.

Again and again, the Holy Spirit will cry through me to a crowd of people, “Wilt thou be made whole? Wilt thou be made whole? Wilt thou be made whole?” As I do, the same Spirit the Lord brought to me the night I was healed comes upon me for others.

Thus saith the Lord, in this final hour, there will be many, many multitudes that will be made whole in a matter of moments by the hand of God, by the Spirit of God. They will be signs and wonders to the unbelievers. Oh, Glorious Church of Jesus Christ, with the power and tears of the Lord, nothing can defeat you! The tears of Calvary in the hearts of men and women are a thrilling sight in the eyes of God. Jesus paid for our salvation and healing on Calvary. It was a great price, but He paid it.

When Jesus was on Earth, He was acquainted with grief. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief (Isaiah 53:3). He met all sin and diseases for you and me, and He conquered them all. There is no lack of His power to deliver.

Many people come for healing, but they expect only one healing at a time when they may need many afflictions healed. That is the way they have been taught, but the Lord can heal more than just one thing at a time. One day, the Lord reminded me that when He pulled me back from the edge of the grave, He didn’t heal only part of me; He healed me all over. That great miracle of complete wholeness is one the Lord has me bring before people, and I do it with the tears of Calvary.

The Bible says, Who [the Lord] forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases (Psalm 103:3). Notice that verse says “all.” The Lord forgives all sin, and He heals all diseases. When you present yourself before the Lord, don’t limit God by receiving only a portion of what He wants to give you. The Lord could not forgive you of all your sins until you yielded all to Him. He could not save your soul until you gave your soul completely to Him. You must yield all your diseases to Him in the same way.

My Deepest Valley

When I was being groomed to receive the gift of healing as well as the other gifts of the Spirit, I didn’t know the deep, deep valleys of darkness and suffering I would have to go through so that I could have divine compassion for others. You cannot have great compassion for things you have never experienced.

I had preached many, many funerals before my precious wife, Angel, died; and I thought I understood how the ones left behind felt. I wept and mourned with those families and loved ones. As a pastor and the shepherd of my flock, I have always loved my people; and I have fasted and prayed for them so much. If one of them was in sorrow, I was in sorrow. I carried their burdens down through the years.

I say again, I thought I knew how people felt who had lost loved ones; but I didn’t really know what they went through until I lost Angel. After that great valley, one of the men who traveled with me said, “I can tell the difference in you when someone comes before you who has lost a companion.” Yes, I now cry on the inside as the tears of Calvary flow forth to those people. Oh, how I want to help them. I want to reach down and lift them out of that deepest of valleys! I want to bring them into God’s sunshine and the light of His love. I want to tell them, “Jesus will love you so much now. All you need to say is “Jesus, love me!” That is how I survived when I lost Angel.

After Angel died, I didn’t see how I could live without her. My world turned into a nightmare; and at times, I couldn’t even breathe normally. I hemorrhaged through my nose and mouth, and the blood gushed out in large clots. The doctor said later that if I had not hemorrhaged, I probably would have suffered a stroke. That would have been fearful if I had really cared; but at the time, I thought, “What did it matter? Angel was gone.”

Then the Lord used the tears of Calvary for the lost and afflicted to get my attention; and He said, “You will have to live for them.” He let me know that the tears of Calvary were not for me; they were for all those who could still be reached with the Gospel truth. After Angel died, there was no longer anything I wanted for myself. Had I not had the tears of Calvary, nothing would have mattered at all. Death would have been a welcome visitor to me, and I had never imagined I could feel like that.

Tears Gave Me the Heart to Live

Thank God for the Calvary tears of the Lord’s love and grace! Those tears on the inside of me made me stand when nothing else could. They were tears of compassion to care for others who were loaded down with burdens. What would my people do without my support and prayers? I knew I had to live to help them and their children. I was born to help people, so it didn’t matter how I felt.

The tears of Calvary gave me divine love for afflicted and lost humanity, and they gave me the heart and the determination to live. I love the lost and the sick and afflicted more than I love myself. I never would have fasted for myself the way I have fasted for others, and I never would have spent the hours on myself that I have spent on others. I do it for Jesus, for lost humanity and for the sick and afflicted. I do it for those I know as well as for those I have never seen.

I don’t consider a person’s race, nationality or social position. A minister who had watched me pray for children on an impoverished mission field said he didn’t think he could hold dirty, little babies in his arms the way I did. I was amazed he commented on it. I don’t look on them as children to avoid but as suffering ones who need love and help. The compelling love in the tears of Calvary reach out to all in need. I am called of God to love the lovable and the unlovable, the clean and the unclean. Some may never have had the privilege of being taught how to be clean, but that doesn’t matter when souls are concerned.

Suffering is terrible. People’s bodies may ache, and they may be in extreme pain; but with great compassion, the tears of Calvary reach to all suffering, tortured humanity.

Mama’s Tears

My mother cried the tears of Calvary for me when I was just a little boy and tortured with a bone disease. It felt like I had a fire burning in my leg and a wild animal gnawing on my bone, and there was no way to stop it. Through my long nights of pain, my mother stayed by my bedside. No matter how tired she was, she never left me. Mama held onto God and prayed hour after hour until I got relief, but it would only last for a while; and then the pain would come back.

No one knows what it was like to have that disease. I could never explain the horrible pain even to Mama. I wanted to scream and keep on screaming—anything to get away from that agonizing pain in my bone. Mama would say, “Honey, Jesus will heal you. The devil is just trying your faith.” She knew that even as a child, I had faith; and she had played a big part in putting it in my heart. Again and again she said, “Honey, the Lord is going to heal you. He will do it.” The last thing I would remember before falling asleep was Mama praying, “Please, God, do heal him. Lord, he is suffering so much! Do heal him!”

The tears of Calvary in Mama’s life are the reason so many people were healed when she prayed. I have never known other laymen to have the success my mother had in praying for the sick. God performed miracles and healings through her hands because she was a prayer warrior who fasted and prayed. She loved the Bible, and she had so much faith in its promise of healing that she would lay it on a sick child and expect that one to get well. She had great compassion for the sick…and for me.

I suffered with that bone disease for a long time, but Mama wouldn’t give up. Her message of faith in God’s healing power never dimmed or softened; it always sounded out loud and clear in my ears. Mama said I would be healed, so I knew that healing had to come and would come! Mama had never lied to me; she just didn’t know when the miracle would take place.

Then one day, the miracle happened; and my suffering came to an end. I was healed, and I’m so grateful today for that healing. I no doubt would have lost my leg if there had been no Calvary tears and the Lord had not intervened.

It took Calvary’s tears for the afflicted to help me. The devil had afflicted me, but Jesus won; and that gave me more faith as a child than ever before. It was fantastic faith, and much of it flowed through my mama. I had watched her pray for me and others, and I had seen the results. When Mama prayed, I would feel the Spirit of the Lord going through me; and I knew she was in touch with God. Her prayers poured forth like water from a bursting dam as she cried out to Heaven. She pulled down the tears of Calvary for the sick and afflicted. There is nothing like the tears of Calvary, the tears of Jesus.

Bone of His Bone

Some of you don’t realize it when you are crying the tears of Calvary. You have great yearning and compassion for the afflicted and the lost, yet you wonder why tears are not running down your cheeks. Well, be deceived no longer. You are crying the tears of divinity that really count. You have that hunger for souls and that divine cry of God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit for the soul and body. It is the cry of divinity.

The members of the Glorious Church have divinity’s salvation and have gone on to receive the baptism in the Holy Ghost, the third Person in the Trinity of the Godhead. They have become bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones (Ephesians 5:30). They are partakers of His divine nature.

The true, born-again Christian cannot be separated from the Lord. The devil has nothing he can use to do that. The Glorious Church, the Bride of Christ, will stay with the Lord. She will be like Jesus—humble and without sin. She will walk in His shoes, say the things He said and preach the same Gospel. People will be healed of all manner of sicknesses and diseases, and the devil possessed will be set free. Oh, blessed be the name of the Lord! We will be somewhere working for our Lord when Jesus comes to take us home.

There will be sunshine at midnight when the midnight cry goes forth and the sunshine of Heaven beams upon the glorious Bride. She will be on stage in all the glory, humility and compassion of Jesus and ready to be caught up and changed in a moment and a twinkling of an eye all because of the tears of Calvary.

On that great day, the Lord will wipe away the Bride’s tears. What a glorious wedding it will be, and what a glorious Marriage Supper of the Lamb will follow! There will never be any more human or divine tears shed for eternity! How wonderful it is to know that we belong to the Lord 100 percent, and He belongs to us. Heaven holds nothing in reserve. We have the whole Jesus.

Thus Saith the Lord

Yea, saith the Lord, redemption draweth nigh. I am giving you my tears. They are divine tears, but you are mine. You are my precious jewels, treasures of mine; and you are so valuable. You are not contaminated; you are pure. You are pure, clean and holy. You will walk with your hand in mine. There is no separation in your spirit and mine. My Spirit flows into you, and your spirit flows into me. You are joined together with me, and we are workers together. You are taking my message; you are taking my power and my greatness to the inhabitants of the Earth, and then the end will come, saith the Lord.

You will not be defeated, so do not be discouraged. I will be your strength; so never say, “I am weak.” I will be your love and your joy and your peace. I will comfort you, and I will be with you in all of your valleys. When the furnace is heated hotter than ever before, when you are persecuted like never before, I will be with you. I will be with you to rejoice because you will be using my power, and no power will be able to defeat you, saith the Lord. I will be the very strength, the very love of your life. You will see and hear and know that I am nigh unto you night and day.

You will have reality in my love for you. And you will have reality in knowing how valuable you are to me as I use you to bring in the lost, as I use you for the signs and the wonders and the miracles and the healings, as I use you to show my love to a people in darkness, as I use you to shine my light through to light up their paths so that they can see.

You will feel the warmth of my love, and you will know that you indeed have the tears of Calvary. You have become like your Master who died for you. And with the strength that I have given to you, your heads will be lifted high; and you will shout, “Redemption draweth nigh!” We must hurry and bring in the harvest before it is too late, saith the Lord.

Decide to Be Like Jesus

The Lord is here, and He is moving. If you want to be just like Jesus in this final hour, say this prayer with me: Oh, God, I do want to be just like Jesus! I want to love like He loves and serve what He serves. I ask Him to forgive me of all my sins and to come into my heart, so I can wear the shoes of Jesus and help people throughout the whole Earth. I will pay any price for you, and I will do anything for you. I will walk softly before you, Lord, and I will refuse you nothing. From this day forward, I will never say no to you. I will do your will, and I will treasure the tears of Calvary. God, I will yield myself to the Holy Spirit night and day, so I can have the tears of Calvary and so you can use me as you used your Son, Jesus, when He was here on Earth. He ministered to people with salvation and healing and brought deliverance for the whole person. I consecrate myself to you. I am yours, Lord. Use me! Use me, Precious Divine One. Use me with your tears of Calvary for the sick and afflicted to be healed. Use me for the sinful to be saved so that the world may know your love and compassion for all humanity as you know them. Amen.