God Empowers the Weak Part 5 - David Eells - UBBS 9.20.2026

God Empowers the Weak (5) (audio) David Eells, 9/20/26 I’m going to continue about letting God teach us how to use faith. Some of you know my testimony of when my oldest daughter, Deborah, was a little girl, and I was going to pick her up from pre-school. We had put her in a Christian pre-school one year. We homeschooled her all the rest of the years. I was going to pick her up, but God decided He was going to teach me a lesson. I got about two or three blocks from that school and my car just shut down; it just died. I tried to start it several times, and I ran the battery down doing that. Just revved right on down to nothing. So I got out and started walking. And I tell you what, the sky had just turned totally black. I mean, I could tell that it was about to dump on me. So, as I was walking along, the Lord spoke to me at the very moment it began to rain, and I knew I was going to be soaking wet before I made another 20 feet. The Lord spoke to me. He asked, “Why don’t you command that to stop?” And I said, “Okay.” I was sure enough God had spoken to me that I did it immediately. I mean, He asked, “Why don’t you command that to stop?” like, “Why don’t you do it?” Normally, in our religious thinking, we might ask God to do it, but really that’s not God’s plan. Jesus asked, “Where is your faith?” He is here as the Master. We are here as His disciples to learn to walk like Him. Ask Him to take you by the hand and show you what He wants done, to put faith in your life in circumstances, and show you how to change circumstances. So I said, “Okay, I will.” And I rebuked that rain. I commanded, “Rain, stop in the name of Jesus!” I even waved my hand. “Stop in the name of Jesus!” And boy, I’ll tell you, it just stopped like I cut it off with a knife. Not another drop fell on me, and I walked for a block or more, and I picked up my daughter. As we were walking back, I was telling her what happened, and she was just all giddy and laughing. And I said, “Well, if God can do that, He can take care of that car, can’t He?” And she said, “Yeah.” Well, when we were getting close to the car, I said, “You know what? When we get to that car, we’re going to lay hands on that car and God’s going to start that car.” God taught me another lesson about weakness when I got to that car. We got to the car, we got in, and we laid our hands on that dashboard. Then we commanded that car to run in the name of Jesus and I turned the key. Now, you can run a battery all the way down, but if you stop for a few minutes, that battery will partially build back up. And it had built back up a little bit. And I turned the key and it started turning over kind of wiggly, but it started turning over. But I still just held the key on, and it went all the way down to nothing until I was totally weak and the machine was totally weak. If a miracle came, it had to come from God. I wouldn’t let off the key. I ran it all the way down. You know, as soon as that thing went all the way down to whump, whump, whump, then it started up like a shot. I knew it was God. You run the battery down on a vehicle, and it won’t ever start like that. God showed me that it wasn’t the power of that vehicle, but it was the power of faith that would change things, and the power of weakness. There’s a power in weakness because God doesn’t want to share His glory with this world. We have the funny idea that God needs us or He needs men to handle these situations, that He needs their ingenuity and their figuring everything out. No, God’s already figured it out and His method is faith. Faith is the victory that overcomes the world (1 John 5:4). But when you get a few of these little experiences of the Lord taking you by the hand and showing you these things, you begin to quit doubting you can handle anything. That’s not to say that you can’t have a miracle one moment and doubt the next. You sure can. Remember that even after the loaves and the fishes (Matthew 16:5-12), the disciples still wondered the next time, “Well, what are You going to do, Lord? Here we’re all hungry again.” Somehow it’s like they didn’t remember what He had done the last time. Sometimes we have really short memories, too, don’t we? Sometimes we forget the great miracles God’s done for us in the past. He doesn’t ever want to stop that. He never wants to stop that. He wants to be our provider and He wants us to know that He’s our provider. He wants to be our deliverer and He wants us to know He’s the deliverer. He does not want us to share that glory with anybody else. He wants to be our healer and He wants us to know He’s the healer, to know that He doesn’t need man to heal. Find that in the Bible. God uses the hand and the faith of His believers to heal, but He uses the word of faith out of their mouth to do that. He has not changed. Men have changed Him, but He hasn’t changed. His methods are the same because they take the glory from man and give it rightfully to God, where it belongs. He doesn’t want to share His glory with another (Isaiah 42:8). This is our thinking that God needs the help of the flesh. He doesn’t need the help of the flesh. You know what we are? Do you know who the hand of God is? The believers. The Bible says, “to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?” (Isa.53:1), and that’s obviously Jesus. He’s the arm. But the Bible also says that we are the hand (Isaiah 53:10). Don’t expect God to do something that He’s told you to do. This is the problem. Everybody’s praying to God to handle this or handle that, but where in the Scriptures do you find the disciples, when they were ministering to someone else, asking God to heal or deliver them? You can’t find that. The disciples realized that was what they were there for, not to ask God to do it. God was manifesting this situation in front of them so that they would do something about it. Did you ever notice this? (Isa.53:10) Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin…. What happened when God made Jesus’ soul an offering for sin? He died, right? Jesus entered into eternity. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong his days…. Do you see that? “He shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong his days.” This is the 42nd generation written in Matthew, but there’s one missing. It says, “unto the Christ” (Mat.1:17) is the last one, but there’s one generation missing. That’s His seed. The body of Christ is the 42nd generation because there’s one missing in the list. Count it as many times as you like. One is missing and God revealed to me that the 42nd generation is His seed; it is the body of Christ. “He shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong his days.” Jesus went into eternity. There are no days in eternity. But you know where He’s “prolonging His days”? In you and in me. Jesus lives in you and in me. (Isa.53:10) … He shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. It’s God’s people; it’s you and me who are the hand of the Lord. When the angel came to Cornelius (Acts 10:3), why didn’t that angel preach the Gospel? He knew the Gospel better than Peter did. But the angel wouldn’t do it, would he? He told Cornelius to send for Peter to preach the Gospel because that’s God’s method. God wants to use His people as His hand to do His work in the earth, and yet they’re steadily begging God, “Will You do this? Will You do that?” Now, wait a minute. When Jesus left, He delegated authority and He said, “as the father hath sent me, even so send I you” (Joh.20:21). “As the Father sent Me, so send I you.” We’ve been delegated authority to do this, but unless we understand the Lord’s methods, we’re not going to agree with Him in the process. We have to know God’s method. God’s method always gives all the glory to God. It’s not of our works, lest any man should boast (Ephesians 2:9), for in Christ Jesus we were created for good works (Ephesians 2:10). Sounds like schizophrenia, doesn’t it? But it’s not because one work is talking about your works and the other work is talking about God’s work through you. And there’s only one way we can get an understanding of how God works through us. The truth is in the Bible. The Gospels and the Book of Acts reveal how God works through us and He does it that way. I don’t care what men say; that’s His method. And He chose that method because it takes the glory away from man and gives it to the rightful Owner, and that’s God. He’s the One Who’s doing this. It’s His power. (Rom.8:13) … But if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body…. He said, “If you by the Spirit.” “IF you.” There’s an “if” in front of “you.” “If you by the Spirit.” See, it’s God’s power, it’s His Spirit and it’s His power, but it’s still an “if” on you. The Bible commands us to take the promises of the Word of God and cleanse ourselves (2 Corinthians 7:1). Everybody’s praying to God to cleanse us. No. Look at what the Bible says. (2Co.7:1) Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit…. That’s heresy in most churches, but it’s what the Bible says. God gave you a weapon. It’s a two-edged sword (Hebrews 4:12) to go into your promised land and to put to death the old man, to cut him up and live in his house (Deuteronomy 19:1). If you stand outside the promised land and don’t win this battle, it’s nobody’s fault but yours. God gave a weapon that the enemy could not stand up to. He told Joshua, “there shall not any man be able to stand before thee” (Jos.1:5). No man will be able to stand before you, but guess who has to fight that battle? If you don’t fight that battle, you lose. If you don’t fight, you lose. This is not one where you can stand on the sidelines. If you don’t fight, you lose, and you can’t afford to lose this one. The stakes are too high. We can’t afford to lose. The most important thing that we’re on this earth for every day is to put to death that old man and do the work of God. So, as we’ve seen from Isaiah 53, we are the hand of the Lord. And since it was by the hand of man that this earth was turned over to the curse and the devil, God determined that it’s going to be by the hand of man that this earth is going to be turned back. The Bible says it plainly in Daniel. Did you know that? I want to show you this because a lot of people don’t believe this, but God is going to do what He said He’s going to do. And He’s going to use man to do it. Notice that everything that came to pass in the Old Testament was manifested through the mouth of the prophets. God first spoke it through the mouth of man. Man confessed what God was going to do and then God used man to do it. God did it; it was His power all along. (Dan.7:25) And he (this is the beast) shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High; and he shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time. (26) But the judgment shall be set, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end. (27) And the kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High: his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him. (28) Here is the end of the matter. In the Book of Revelation, there’s a great similarity between those curses poured out on the earth and the ones poured out in the past, such as those spoken through Elijah and Moses. Did you ever notice that? Well, the ones poured out in the past came out of the mouth of men and, I’ll tell you, the ones in the Book of Revelation will come that way, too. They’ve been spoken by faith. The Scriptures teach us to turn the other cheek (Matthew 5:39). We are like lambs in the midst of wolves (Luke 10:3), Jesus said. But there’s a time coming when things won’t be the same because grace is going to be taken away from the Gentiles. Do you know why these curses are spoken in the Book of Revelation? They’re spoken because grace is being taken away from the Gentiles. Yes, there will be people speaking curses, just like in the Old Testament. I don’t know what you understand about the two witnesses in Revelation 11. (For a detailed study of this subject, read chapter nine of my book “Hidden Manna For The End Times.”) If you only understand them to be two men, that’s fine, but notice that they spoke curses. The two witnesses brought some of the exact same Old Testament curses in the New Testament. God spoke it through the two witnesses, and then those curses came to pass because they brought judgment out of their own mouths. A brother had a dream or a vision of me; he saw me walking across this country speaking judgments. He said everywhere I spoke one, they fell. And I prayed, “Lord, if You want me to speak the judgments, okay, but I’d love to speak the grace first. I’d love to see people delivered. I’d love to see Your blessings poured out.” But, you know, there’s coming a time when, as much as you would like to do that, the Bible says, “the night cometh, when no man can work” (Joh.9:4). That was spoken in Jesus’ day because shortly after Jesus there came a time when no man could work. What was He talking about? He was primarily talking about how He came to the lost sheep of the house of Israel (Matthew 15:24), but God was turning out the light to Israel. God was taking away their grace. There came a night when nobody could work on Israel anymore. It was a waste of time for you to witness to the Israelites. That was what they call the “early rain” (James 5:7). Now we’re coming to the “latter rain” (Hosea 6:2,3) and just the opposite is about to happen. God is going to pour out His power in a great way, but we’re coming to a night when no man can work. Work while you have the light because we’re coming to a night when no man can work. I recently had a vision in which I was preaching to the Jews and explaining to them a judgment that was falling on the United States. I’ve never had a dream before that I was preaching to Jews. God is planning to turn to the Jews, and you’ll be wasting your breath on the Gentiles. God is doing a special work in these last days, the last hours of this light. You know what that work is? I’ll tell you right now; He’s expending much energy. He is sending His angels, and He is putting a special emphasis on bringing in the children and relatives of the believers. He showed me that. But “the night cometh, when no man can work.” Work while you have the light. Who else is going to do it? Who’s going to preach the Gospel? Angels can’t do it. The Bible won’t let them (Hebrews 1 and 2). When the fullness of the Gentiles comes in, God is going to turn back to the Jews (Romans 11:25). When I was studying the Book of Acts, I received my own revelation of when that will happen. The Book of Acts was called the “early rain” (Hosea 6:3), but in the Book of Acts, during the early rain, God was already in the process of turning away from the Jews to the Gentiles. Now we’re coming to the latter rain (Hosea 6:3). And, guess what? It’s the same in reverse. God will be in the process of turning away from the Gentiles to the Jews. And great power is going to be poured forth; great miracles are going to happen, the same as in the early rain, except far greater! There will be many more people involved and much greater miracles. We’ve heard that the latter rain is the Pentecostal revival in this country, but that’s not the latter rain. The true latter rain is about to begin with the Biblical gifts being restored to the Church. Many Pentecostals call their revival the latter rain, but I’m convinced it’s not, because we have too many signs from the early rain showing us what the latter rain’s going to look like. And besides, Solomon said, “that which hath been is that which shall be; and that which hath been done is that which shall be done” (Ecc.1:9). Everything that’s happening in these days has happened before. Everything. You can go back in the Bible and find out what’s going to happen because it’s happened in the past. If you want to know what’s going to happen in the latter rain, just go back and look at the early rain. The only thing is the cast of characters was much smaller in the early rain. Look at what happened to Jesus in His days when He walked the earth. That’s going to happen again. This was a revelation of the end time. He said that Jesus and the children whom God gave Him were for a sign (Isaiah 8:18). A sign of what? A sign of the future. What happened there is going to happen again, even up to the destruction of Jerusalem. All that is going to happen again. That was a sign, a parable, if you will, of what’s going to happen. Also, if sometimes a prophetic word doesn’t fit into that sign, you can throw that prophecy out because it’s wrong. The end time fits in the Gospels. We have every character there in the Gospels. We have Christ and we have the Christ on the earth today, which is His body. The cast of characters is much bigger, but the sign is there. We have Judas among the disciples and still today we have the Judases. “A man who is a city” is what “Judas Iscariot” means. He represents a group of people. We have the harlot, which was the Judaistic religious system in Jesus’ day, and we have the apostate religions of today. We have the Beast that was the Roman government back then. Everything that happened there is happening right now. It’s beginning right now. Get ready for it and watch. When you read the Gospels, let God show you these signs because they’re in there so clearly. Then the Book of Revelation is just a fulfillment of it. But to return to our original topic, Jesus took me by the hand when I asked Him to when I was a baby Christian, and He’s still doing that with me, and He’s showing me things. Ask Him to do that for you, too. Have a relationship with Him. If you are a disciple of Jesus Christ, that means you are a learner and a follower of Him. He is taking you by the hand; He’s leading you through the earth and He’s teaching you. Why do we get into circumstances and situations? Why did the disciples end up out in a boat in the middle of a storm on a very dangerous lake? Why? They got into that situation because God wanted to teach them something. When you get in a situation, don’t fear; just remember God is your guide. You’re there for a reason. He wants to take you by the hand and teach you something. And, believe it or not, you have authority over the situation and the circumstances because Jesus paid for that on the cross. But people don’t understand. “Saved.” “Sozo.” It’s the same thing. (Eph.2:8) For by grace have ye been saved…. “By grace have you been.” That’s what it says in the original. “Have you been” means it’s already accomplished. How do you enter into it? You enter into it through faith. (Eph.2:8) For by grace have ye been saved through faith…. Hebrews 4 says the same thing. Listen, “the works were finished from the foundation of the world” (Heb.4:3). The thing that remains is for us to enter into those works through faith. What works? Well, for one thing, Jesus became accursed for you (Galatians 3:13)). And when you go back and read the curse in Deuteronomy 28, you’ll discover that it means just about anything detrimental that ever happened to man. If Jesus became accursed for you, does that mean that God wants you to escape that? Yes, it does. Will everybody escape it? No, they won’t. We can look at our lives right here, and we can see that, to a measure, each one of us has learned with the faith that we have to enter into parts of God’s deliverance, God’s salvation, God’s sozo. Some of us have more faith in some areas than others, but when we get together, when we share things, we begin to receive understanding from other people’s gifts, and it encourages us. And sometimes we can even use someone else’s faith to add to our faith to help us to overcome a circumstance or a situation. Now Peter had guts. He stepped out of the boat, didn’t he? He knew God wanted to teach him. What was the purpose? We may think that there has to be a reason, but there doesn’t have to be any reason but one. God wants to show you what He has invested in you. The Bible says “that the fellowship of thy faithmay become effectual, in the knowledge of every good thing which is in you” (Phm.6). The word “fellowship” means “sharing”; it means “communicating”; it means “using it,” or “sharing it with one another.” (Phm.6) That the fellowship of thy faith may become effectual, in the knowledge of every good thing which is in you, unto Christ. Do you know what God has invested in you? The seed of Christ. He put it in there so that Christ could live in us and do what He did in us. That’s why He put it in there. We should expect God to use us to destroy the works of the devil. Jesus came here to destroy the works of the devil. Am I saying we’re going to get out of going to our cross? Absolutely not. We have to go to our cross. You won’t be any use to God unless you, daily, will bear your cross. No, no, deliverance from the curse does not include deliverance from your cross, so don’t get mixed up with that. That’s the teaching of the “prosperity” folk. They want to use the faith to get rid of their cross, but you can’t do that. (1Jn.2:15) Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. If you love this world, the things of this world, the love of the Father is not in you. We’re not here for that purpose. We came here to die. We came here to lose our life. And it’s conditional. Jesus said, “If you lose your life, you will gain your life” (Luke 17:33). Now, this isn’t talking about you dying at the end of your sojourn down here. He’s talking about the death of the old man. Every day God brings us into circumstances where we can say no to the old man and yes to the new man, and that’s crucifixion. This is what we’re here for. Don’t waste your time. It’s a race to get through that door before it closes. Every one of our lives is that way. I’ve shared Mary’s vision with you: how God showed her it’s a race to be won, and the treadmill is picking up speed, going in the opposite direction. You’re going to have to run to go through the door. This is what we’re here for. And don’t let the devil use fear. Fear is the thing you have to fight against. It is faith that’s going to get you there. God brought you this far to bring you there. Just count on it. And He also made the world so strong that they would look like giants to you, but guess what? They’re supposed to look like giants because it’s supposed to be impossible for you. God put you in an impossible situation. He gave you “this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves” (2Co.4:7). But instead, what do we do? We try to do it with these earthen vessels; we try to do it ourselves. The methods God wants us to use make everybody know that when the answer comes, it didn’t come from us; it came from Him because His methods are “weak” to the world. His methods are foolish to the world. He just spoke it. He just commanded it. And when you get in situations, remember, God put you in that situation for you to do something about it, not for it to do something to you. God put you there for you to do something about the situation. And there doesn’t have to be a reason for the situation. I’ve been tempted like this and said, “There has to be a reason; I mean, I have to accomplish something.” You may not be accomplishing much in what you do, other than learning something from God. It’s very important that we overcome this flesh. If the only thing we do in overcoming a circumstance is to cause our spirit man to grow, that’s an accomplishment. I’ve shared with you about when the Lord brought us to the beach. We didn’t get to go to the beach very often, and so we prayed a prayer to the Lord. “Lord, we’re asking You to give us a nice day at the beach. Nice, sunshiny day. And we ask You to find us a place on the beach where there’s not a lot of naked people and we ask You to …” I prayed three things. I don’t remember what the three things were. Now I only remember two of them, but I asked God for three things. So when we went out there, we just kept driving and driving along the beach, and there were cars, and more cars, everywhere. I said, “Well, I don’t know how the Lord’s going to fulfill this,” but I prayed the prayer, right? Don’t forget that Jesus said, “all things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye received them, and ye shall have them” (Mar.11:24). Don’t forget. It may look impossible, but you believe you have received because God is all-powerful. And so, we finally picked a spot. There were still cars there, but we went over the dunes, and we went on out to Pensacola Beach. We looked up and down the beach and, boy, I’ll tell you, it was just packed with people from end to end. We hadn’t been there very long before another one of those big, black storms just came rolling in from Pensacola toward the beach. It was just a big old black storm rolling toward the beach. And I didn’t see God’s hand in it at the time, but He had taken me by the hand, and He wanted to show me something. We’re so ignorant, but God wants to use us to change circumstances. We’ve been delivered from the curse in circumstances in Christ, and God wants us to change things in this world. Listen, God is always going to use a very small force to overcome a very big force. He’s always done that. You go back and look at Gideon’s army (Judges 7). Look at just about every battle Israel ever won. If they weren’t outnumbered, they couldn’t win the battle. If they said, “We’re not outnumbered,” (Joshua 7:3) God wouldn’t let them win. He told Gideon, “Look, you have too many people for me to give this bunch into your hand” (Judges 7:2,4). Wait a minute now! I mean, the Amalekites, Midianites and the children of the East were coming as the sands of the sea against Gideon (Judges 7:12). This was a lot of people. They had them vastly outnumbered, but God said, “Gideon, you have too many people. You’ll be bragging about what you did. I’m going to have to whittle you down.” So God whittled him down to 300 men. God makes it impossible on purpose. He wants you to know that the battle is not yours; it’s His, and He has already won the battle. Well, anyway, out on the beach was this big black cloud racing toward us, and I think maybe even a few raindrops fell. Lightning was popping and crackling, and lighting up the sky, and everybody cleared out. I stood there and watched, and Mary was saying, “We better get outta here! We better get outta here!” And I was looking up and down the beach and pretty soon I saw there wasn’t a dog on the beach. What I prayed for came perfectly to pass. Not a dog on the beach; there was nobody on that beach as far as the eye could see from end to end. And then God spoke to me. He didn’t command me, but He said, “Why don’t you go blow that storm back?” I looked over at Mary, and I walked away from her a little bit because I didn’t want her to see me blowing. That’s exactly what I did. I’m telling you the truth. I’m as bashful as I can be. And I walked away from her because I didn’t want to look like too big a fool and I started blowing. I turned toward the storm, and I started blowing. That storm came up, and moving real fast; the clouds moved really, really fast, and then the storm just stopped dead when I was blowing at it. I mean, it backed up and backed up. It stopped right in its path and backed up and it stood right there over Pensacola. The sun broke through and shone on us the whole time we were there. It was a beautiful day. It was everything I prayed for. All the naked people were gone, and I was out there in the sunshine, and we had a beautiful day. And when we got in our car to go back to Pensacola, we got halfway to the bridge, and it was storming. We could barely see out of the car windows because it was storming. After we got back home, we learned that a tornado had passed through right at our corner. It hit the Western Auto, knocked a bunch of trees down on the golf course, and knocked out the neighbor’s back fence. I told my kids, “I blew too hard.” But, you know, you can’t count on your power; it’s nothing. We have to count on His power in us. What we’re going through right now is mostly education, and there’s going to come a time when we’re going to need this education. Did you know the Bible says we can walk as He walked? (1Jn.1:6) If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: (7) but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanseth us from all sin. He said, Ask, and it shall be given you (Mat.7:7). He also said that “ye have not, because ye ask not” (Jas.4:3). Don’t put anything beyond God. If it’s a part of the curse (Deuteronomy 28), it doesn’t matter what the circumstance is when things come against you. Our property belongs to God. You don’t own anything. Nothing’s yours. If you’re doing what you want, then you’re still the owner of it; you haven’t learned anything yet because it doesn’t belong to you. We are stewards, not owners, and that includes this tithing business. You’d better look more closely at the New Testament because Jesus said you have to renounce it all (Luke 14:33). All. “If you don’t renounce everything, you cannot be My disciple.” A disciple is a learner and a follower of the Lord. He did not possess and own the things He had. It was only a stewardship entrusted to Him. So what we have belongs to God, and if it belongs to God, then the devil can’t destroy it. Jesus has already bound the strong man, and He gave you the command to go and spoil his goods (Matthew 12:29; Mark 3:27). What good is a great outpouring of God’s power if you don’t believe that you can do anything with it? See, right now God is preparing us for a great outpouring. Remember the vision I had about the rabbit and the turtle, and the anointing oil that fell on the rabbit who was on the edge of a wilderness? Well, we’re on the edge of that right now. Right now. The anointing oil of God is going to fall on a rabbit to run through that wilderness. Power is going to come on God’s people. And right now, we’re going through a little education stage. God is just showing us how to walk. If the lesson doesn’t appear really important, it’s enough for God if it educates you and it causes you to overcome the old man, the old, unbelieving old man. That’s enough reason for it. Don’t think there has to be a big reason for it because it could be something really simple. It doesn’t matter what your need is, for “my God shall supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory” (Php.4:19). It doesn’t say “greed”; it says “need.” God said if you had a need, it would come in, and if you didn’t have a need, it wouldn’t. That’s good. Praise the Lord! Why would you want to store up treasures on earth? All you need is your need met. But having food and covering we shall be therewith content (1Ti.6:8). Why would you need more than that? We don’t. Isn’t it so wonderful that it doesn’t matter what the need is? God brings it in according as you have need. Don’t ever fear making a bold statement of faith. You may think, “Well, is this God?” Don’t worry about it. If it’s to meet your need, if it’s to overcome the curse, don’t worry about it. I remember once when I called Sid, and we were talking about what happened the time my washing machine seal had gone out. Sand had gone in it and ruined the seal. Sid had volunteered and said, “Oh, I have a friend who works on those things. I’ll get him to come by there and get it.” So I agreed, and he came by and picked it up. Sid called me back a few days later. He said, “Look, he fixed this and he fixed that, and it’ll just cost you $70.” I said, “Fine. Bring it on over.” Well, I knew Sid was coming over the next day to drop off the washing machine, and I only had $20. And so I prayed a prayer. I said, “Father, You said You supply my every need according to Your riches in glory and I thank You for it.” Then I stuck my finger out there and I pointed at the mailbox. I said, “And in the name of Jesus, that $50 is in that mailbox.” Do you know, I went out to that mailbox, and there was a $50 check inside that mailbox with a note. It read, “God wouldn’t let me go to sleep. It’s now after midnight and God wouldn’t let me go to sleep until I sent you this check for $50.” And the funny thing was, I don’t ever look at postdates, but I looked at the postdate on the check, and it had been sent two weeks before this day, a full two weeks before this day when I stuck my finger out and pointed at the mailbox. That envelope had been hung up in the mail somewhere for two weeks, wandering around, and it didn’t make it into that mailbox until the right time. But God wouldn’t let this poor guy sleep until he went out there and wrote the check and stuck it in the mail, even though it wandered around in the mail. I don’t know what the reason was for it, but it didn’t arrive until it was time for it to be there. God answers before we call (Isaiah 65:24). Do you realize that? God does not dwell in time, but we do. Don’t think it’s too late because it’s never too late for God. God has the answer coming when you speak it, and I’ve seen the biggest miracles happen when a bold statement of faith is made. The devil is telling you all the time, “Nah, nah, nah,” in your ear, saying, “Boy, you’re going to look like a fool!” But God won’t let you be put to shame. The Bible says that He won’t let you be put to shame (Romans 9:33). Anybody who puts their trust in Him shall not be put to shame, the Lord says. (Rom.10:10) For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. You need to actually say it. That was an education for me because there have been other times when I just prayed over a leaking washing machine seal, and God sealed it up. And there have been times when I’ve prayed over a carburetor, and God fixed it. Then there have been times when I decided I would take that carburetor off and fix it, like one time with my daughter’s car. I took the carburetor off there, and I tore it down. And I’m not bad at working on carburetors. So I tore it down, checked it out, cleaned it up, and put it back in there, but it did the same thing. I took it back out. It wasn’t easy to get out either, but I took it out and went through it again. I said, “Nothing’s wrong with this car. I don’t see a thing wrong with this carburetor,” and I put it back in, but it still did the same thing. Finally, the revelation came to me: “The devil is messing with you; he’s robbing your time.” And so I rebuked the devil off that carburetor. I commanded the devil to lose it. Do you know that there doesn’t have to be something wrong with a piece of equipment? The Lord showed me that many times. The devil is real, and he can manifest himself in the physical realm and he can take advantage of you. Until you take the Word of God and fight him, he can take advantage of you. He was doing that to me. He robbed my time twice to fix that carburetor. And you know what? Just because you don’t see something manifest immediately doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened. The Bible says, “all things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye received them, and ye shall have them” (Mar.11:24). So I commanded that carburetor to be healed in the name of Jesus. Then Mary went and got in the car, but when she cranked it up, it was doing the same thing. I said, “Just go; it’s healed.” She said before she got to the end of the street, it straightened right out, and I never had another problem with it. You see, sometimes you have to walk it. If you believe it, you confess it, walk it. It’s like the 10 lepers who were doing according to the Law (Luke 17:12). They had to go show themselves to the priest healed (Leviticus 14). But when they were walking, they weren’t healed. It didn’t come until they walked it out that they got healed (Luke 17:14). So you have to walk it out. Faith without works is dead (James 2:17). Just remember that. Some of Jesus’ miracles didn’t happen immediately. And He didn’t even pray twice. We are disciples of Jesus now. We can’t see Him, but we’re walking with Him, and He wants to take us by the hand and show us the way through every problem and situation we come to because it’s already been provided for. It says in Scripture, my God shall supply every need of yours…. (Php.4:19). It doesn’t matter what the need is. Why does it say that? Why did Paul say that? He said that because he knew it was taken care of at the cross. The curse was put upon Jesus. You can’t imagine what this world would be like if there was no curse. Can you imagine what it was like in the Garden of Eden with tomato plants growing 20 feet tall, everything working, nothing breaking, including you, without the curse? Now I realize nobody is totally entered into whatever this means about being delivered from the curse, but individually God’s people are entering into different parts of it. The body needs one another because sometimes other people have the faith we don’t have in a situation that we’re in, and we need to pray for people and exercise our faith over one another. But don’t think it’s not possible. We’re going to see God do things in the next few years that we would have considered impossible, that we would have just wondered, “Is that real?” Yes, God’s going to do things we haven’t seen. This outpouring of the Holy Spirit, this outpouring of power, has never been on this earth that God’s getting ready to do. People are going to walk on water again. People have done it before in these years. I don’t know if any of you ever read Like a Mighty Wind or Gentle Breeze of Jesus. They are about the Indonesian revival where, many times, many people saw people walk on water. Those little islands out there where they were trying to get the Gospel to; in some cases, it was the only method. It was necessary and they didn’t let the circumstances stop them from doing the Will of God. The Will of God was to go, and so they went. They did not let the circumstances get in the way. They walked on the water and many people witnessed it. Yes, the day is coming when you may need to drive a car that doesn’t have any gas in it. I’ve done it quite a few times and it works. When you’re going by faith, it works. Or you may have to command some gas into that car and God puts some in it. He’s done that for me, too. Listen, circumstances can’t stop you. Circumstances didn’t stop Jesus from doing the Will of God. Did you notice that? It’s the same Jesus Whom we have that your “faith may become effectual, in the knowledge of every good thing which is in you” (Phm.6). Wait a minute! He was talking to the saints, people on this earth. That’s right. But that’s Jesus Christ in the heart of the believer. He has all the power that He ever had. But if you limit Him, you won’t let Him speak that word out of your mouth; you won’t walk that walk with your feet; you won’t do those things. I’m not saying this is the most important thing to do. The most important thing, of course, is to overcome sin, and we’ve studied that in other teachings. Right now we’re talking about not limiting God in this sozo and seeing just how big it is. It doesn’t matter what your need is. God has promised to meet your need. Do I say you won’t be tried? Absolutely not. You’re going to be tried. How do you get tried? You get tried by lack. God suffered the Israelites to lack so that He might know what they would do (Deuteronomy 8:2,3). What are you going to do when you lack? Do you never get sick? No, you get sick sometimes, but the Bible says by His stripes you were healed (1 Peter 2:24). It’s a trial of your faith. God wants to see, “What are you going to do with this?” We are being tried. We are going through the wilderness just like the Israelites did. When they went through the wilderness, they suffered lack in this kind of a way and then in that kind of a way and then in this kind of way, and God answered miraculously. Right now, the righteous, just like always, shall live from faith (Galatians 3:11). The life of faith is an exciting walk with the Lord. You’ll see many miracles if you walk the walk of faith. That’s our purpose for being here. God considers a person who walks by faith and speaks faith, and uses faith in the circumstances they get into, to be righteous. He calls them “righteous,” like Abraham when he believed God about his seed. That didn’t have anything to do with salvation. God called Abraham righteous because he believed God in that point and, you know what? God calls you righteous every time you believe the Word of God. Every time you believe in the prayers that you’ve prayed, whenever you pray believing you have received (Mark 11:24), when you keep on holding onto that in faith until you see it manifested, then God calls you righteous. Look at it as if Jesus is taking you by the hand. He’s going to show you something tomorrow. He is going to do a miracle through you tomorrow. Big or small, He’s going to show you how to walk by faith. Jesus walked by faith. His disciples walked by faith. People who are in the world are under bondage, but people who walk by faith are not under bondage. When Jesus sent out His disciples, He told them, “Don’t take anything with you, don’t take any money” (Matthew 10:9,10; Luke 10:4). He sent them out in total weakness and later He asked them, “Well, when I sent you out without all these things did you lack anything?” and their answer was, “No, Lord” (Luke 22:35). They found out what it was to walk by faith. They didn’t need to bring their own supply because God was there. He did it on purpose. Now, in this day, the church is supposed to be doing the same thing. If you obey what Jesus said, you’ll be weak, because Jesus made some statements in there that put you in a position of weakness; but every time, you’re going to see miracles. When you obey the principles of Jesus, you’re going to see miracles because you’re always in a position where you can’t do it, you can’t handle it. He does that on purpose. (Mat.14:25) And in the fourth watch of the night he came unto them, walking upon the sea. (26) And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a ghost; and they cried out for fear. (27) But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid. (28) And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee upon the waters. (29) And he said, Come. And Peter went down from the boat, and walked upon the waters to come to Jesus. (30) But when he saw the wind, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, Lord, save me. That’s the word sozo right there. By grace are you saved through faith (Ephesians 2:8). (31) And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and took hold of him, and saith unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? (32) And when they were gone up into the boat, the wind ceased. (33) And they that were in the boat worshiped him, saying, Of a truth thou art the Son of God. You know, the Lord saved Peter here even in his failure, didn’t He? Every trial is from God. Every trial. God is sovereign. (Joh.3:27) … A man can receive nothing, except it have been given him from heaven. The circumstances you get into are not by accident. There’s no such thing as an accident or luck. The worldly pagans believe that. When Peter took his eyes off Jesus and saw the wind, then he judged by the circumstance instead of judging by the Word. If he had judged by the Word, when the Almighty God said, “Come,” Peter must have been able to do it, since He said it. That’s the way we have to look at these promises. We must be able to do it because He said it. It’s really simple. Peter believed if Jesus said it, he’d be able to do it, and he stepped out of the boat, but then he got his eyes on the circumstances. You always get fearful when you get your eyes on the circumstances because you don’t have any hope. Get your eyes on the Savior. You can walk on water when you get your eyes on the Savior. Listen, the laws of faith are totally above the laws of nature; they’re always above the laws of nature. You just can’t fathom how God could do some of these things. You can’t fathom how the lot can come up like it does. Can you think about flipping a quarter up in the air and it coming down exactly the way God wants it to come down? The lot worked. Go back and study it. The lot worked. Why? That wasn’t gambling because they believed in a sovereign God. Some people might think it was gambling, but it wasn’t to the Israelites. They believed in the sovereignty of God, and they believed God would answer that way and He did. He did consistently, even to the extent of finding one man out of all Israel, and that happened quite a few times. Saul was picked out that way (1 Samuel 10:21). Saul’s son was picked out that way when he made a mistake with eating the honey (1 Samuel 14:32). Jonathan was picked out of all Israel. You know they took the lot by the tribe, then they went to the lot by the family, then they went to the lot by the house. They cast lots several times. But you know what? If you believe in luck, what are the chances of the thing coming out to pick one guy out of all Israel? That’s phenomenal. That’s a lot of numbers. But God is sovereign. Well, it can be done in our day, like I said, with a quarter. I don’t recommend people lead their lives that way, but I have seen mighty miracles come to pass that way, where the answer had to be from God. But I’m just pointing out that there’s no such thing as luck. The world believes in luck and chance, but everything that comes to you is by the hand of God, even if it comes through the hand of the devil. If you remember from reading in the Book of Job, there was no luck involved with that. God was sovereign, even over the devil, and He’s still sovereign. God sends the devil against you so you can ‘whoop him real good.’ Did you know that? God will send him against you so you can whip him, so that you learn how to walk by faith and not by sight. In most cases, it’s the devil who administers the curse. Who sent the curse? The Bible says that God sent the curse (Deuteronomy 28). I don’t care what men say; the Bible says God sent the curse. Who administers it? The devil does. He loves to do it. It’s his nature to do it. But I’ll tell you, God sent the curse, and God sent Jesus to deliver from the curse. He’s working from both sides. God sent the curse to cause people to repent and turn to Him. He sent Jesus to those who will repent. And in the circumstances that we get ourselves into, God wants to show us how to give the devil a bloody nose. He wants to show us how to overcome in the circumstances, just like Jesus did. Jesus wants to move through His hand. (Isa.53:10) … The pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. That means God is going to be successful in doing what He did through Jesus, through you. That’s what it means. God is going to do that. We should consider it done. He did this for Peter, but what was the whole point? You may think there has to be some real reason for this, that you had to be saving souls or something. No. It didn’t do anything for Peter to get out of the boat, except that he learned a lesson. We should ask God to bring us these lessons. It’s really valuable to have these lessons we can look back on and tell others to encourage them in the faith and so on. God wants to do miracles through us. Right now we have a short time left to learn some lessons from God; and then great trouble is going to come, greater trouble than this land has ever seen. The people who walk in Psalm 91-type faith and who understand about the curse are the people who are going to be saved through the midst of this great trouble. A lot of the people are not going to be saved. A lot of Christians, the majority, are going to die through this trouble because the people coming against this land don’t like Christians. Let’s look at the story of the Gerasene demoniac. (Luk.8:36) And they that saw it told them how he that was possessed with demons was made whole. And the word there is sozo. For Christians, for God’s people, this has been accomplished. It’s part of sozo. It’s by grace. It’s not by grace you will be. It says by grace you have been saved through faith (Ephesians 2:8). So it’s not a matter of trying to convince God to deliver this person. It’s not that. Jesus never tried to convince God to heal or to deliver anybody. By grace have you been. It’s all past tense. Now there are some places where the people whom we want to deliver are not in covenant with God. And it’s strange but most of the church does not even believe that Christians can have demons. I’m going to show you that’s not true from the Scriptures. I’m going to show you that it’s a lie and anybody who has the gift of discerning of spirits knows that it’s a lie. I can truthfully tell you almost all the people that I’ve ever cast demons out of were Christians. When I’m talking discernment of spirits, I’m talking about the Biblical gift and that is when you see the demons. You see them manifested in their face, you see them manifested in their eyes, and in their body. The gift is manifested in different ways, but the discerning of spirits is to be able to see those demons. Anybody who has that gift knows that Christians can have demons. And I’ll tell you what the Lord showed me about it. Those who don’t believe that Christians can have demons quote, “My spirit will not dwell in an unclean temple,” but there’s no verse like that in the Bible. It’s not there. What the Bible actually says is that the flesh is an unclean temple (Galatians 5:19). Did you know that? It’s an enemy. It’s at enmity with your spirit. It is the enemy of your spirit (Galatians 5:17). The covering over the tent of the tabernacle in the wilderness was animal skins, and guess what kind of animal skins they were? Goats. Who were the goats? The goats were those placed on the left, while the lambs, the sheep, were on the right. Well, that was goats’ hair covering it. Why? Because the flesh is the enemy of God. The flesh cannot go to Heaven; ever. (1Co.15:50) … Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God…. You either get a new body or you don’t go. You either go in spirit and in soul, or you don’t go because this body doesn’t go there. You get a new one. The flesh is the enemy of God. God showed me this years ago. I had to have a theological reason because I was casting demons out of Christians and everybody said you can’t do that. So I went to God and said, “God, show me in the Scriptures.” And God brought me back to the tabernacle in the wilderness and He showed me, as I read about the tabernacle in the wilderness, how it represents us because we are the tabernacle in the wilderness. The holy of holies, of course, is your spirit because that’s where God dwells. And then there’s the holy place representing your soul. And there’s the outer court, which represents your flesh. What God showed me I’ve never forgotten because I learned what the Christians told me was the difference between oppression and possession. They say that oppression is when the devil’s on the outside and possession is when he’s on the inside, but the Lord showed me that’s not true. When we look at the outer court in the wilderness, we see that many wicked men went into the outer court. In fact, wicked men even came near unto the holy place and some were even killed in the holy place because they went in. But no wickedness ever entered into the holy of holies because the high priest had to be in good shape with God, or he’d better not go into the holy of holies. They even tied a rope onto the foot of the high priest, so if he went in there and he wasn’t walking in right covenant with God, they could drag out his body. They weren’t going in after the high priest because you’d be smitten dead if you didn’t walk in right covenant with God. The tabernacle in the wilderness represented a Christian because God Almighty dwells in the holy of holies. We have examples in the Scriptures of wickedness coming into both the outer court and the holy place, but not into the holy of holies. God was showing me that in your holy of holies dwells the Spirit of God, and only Jesus, Who is the High Priest, can go in there. By the way, ministers don’t have a right to get into your holy of holies. They have to stay without. The One Who is the head of your being is the Lord, always the Lord. If a minister becomes your head, you become a disciple of him and you, in a way, put him in your holy of holies. That’s dangerous for him and you because then he’s between you and God. Remember from our example that wickedness entered into both the outer court and the holy place. Now here’s what the Lord showed me about oppression and possession. Did you know that God seeks to possess you? He just comes from a different direction; that’s all. He comes from your spirit, seeking to possess. What He really wants to possess is your soul. He wants to possess your soul, which is your actions and your nature. That’s your whole walk. But the demons come in through the flesh, and they also seek to possess your soul. They want to come into the holy place. They want to rule in the holy place because that’s the control over your actions; that’s the control over your thinking, and the control over your life. They want to control your life. But the fallacy of the worldly church view gives us is that oppression is without; possession is within. However, the demons can dwell in your flesh, and as long as they’re just in the flesh but not in the holy place, not in the soul, they’re still in; they’re just not in possession. Possession is when they reach into your soul. If you watch demon-possessed people, you’ll see this happen. One moment they’ll be totally normal, but don’t think the demon left. He hasn’t left; he’s still there. I’ve had this experience with Christians. Everybody who is led by the flesh is not led by the Holy Spirit, and a Spirit-filled Christian can be led by the flesh. The flesh is made in the image of the devil and you’re a son of the devil if you walk after the flesh. You’re manifesting being a son of the devil. But here’s the point. If you walk after the flesh, you’re opening yourself up to let the devil in. You are the one who either permits or forbids. (Mat.16:19) I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Those demons can come into your flesh. If you give in to some sin, they can come into your flesh, but what they want to do is reach into your soul. Your soul is your nature; it is the controlling factor of your life. When the demons reach into a person’s soul, that’s when everybody says that a person is possessed. But, you know what? They’ll back out of the soul into the flesh, and the person will be relatively normal. Then they’ll come in again; they’ll manifest, and they’ll back out. We’ve seen people who look and behave totally normal. Then, all of a sudden, when you’re right in the middle of preaching the Gospel, demons manifest in these people and they start crying out. The demons cry out. Why? Were they there all the time? Yes, they were there all the time. Did they leave the person? They never ever left the person; they were there all the time. So you can be oppressed as long as the demon is in the flesh, but when he reaches into your soul, then that is possession. Who has the right to have demons cast out? Well, let me give you a few examples. First of all, what we have in the New Testament is Jesus dealing with His Covenant people, which was Israel. That was the type and shadow of what God does today. Jesus was dealing with Covenant people, and He even said, “I was not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Mat.15:24). Who was He dealing with when He cast out demons? It was the lost sheep of the house of Israel. When the pagans came, such as in the instance of the Syrophoenician woman, then Jesus said, “it is not meet to take the children’s bread and cast it to the dogs” (Mat.15:26). Well, what was He talking about? He was saying that the lost have no right to God’s provision. The biggest proof to me is my experience. The only time God ever let me cast demons out of a lost person, I had to get His permission to do it. You have to have permission to do it because you can destroy someone by casting demons out of them. The Bible even says they’ll come back with seven worse. (Luk.11:26) Then goeth he, and taketh [to him] seven other spirits more evil than himself; and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man becometh worse than the first. So casting demons out of a lost person is not good business unless you have God’s permission, since they have no right to God’s provision. God’s provision of deliverance and healing and other blessings is for Covenant people. We are Covenant people; they are not. They have no right to it. Don’t try to give God’s pearls to the swine (Matthew 7:6); they have no right to it. I’m going to prove it to you now from Scripture. (Mar.7:25) But straightway a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell down at his feet. (26) Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. And she besought him that he would cast forth the demon out of her daughter. (27) And he said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children’s bread and cast it to the dogs. He’s calling casting out demons “the children’s bread.” It’s not for the world. No, it’s only for the children. Now not only did this woman’s daughter have a demon, but she also had a spirit of infirmity. We know this from the same story in Matthew. (Mat.15:28) … And her daughter was healed from that hour. So her daughter was healed at the same time that Jesus cast out the demon. The children’s bread is deliverance from demons and healing in the body and all these things. Why? Jesus said that His Body is our bread. Were there any demons or any sickness in Jesus’ body? The reconciliation was that He gave His body for your body. See, only we have a right to have a holy, delivered body. The world does not have this right. (Mar.7:26) … And she besought him that he would cast forth the demon out of her daughter. (27) And he said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children’s bread and cast it to the dogs. (28) But she answered and saith unto him, Yea, Lord; even the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs. (29) And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the demon is gone out of thy daughter. (30) And she went away unto her house, and found the child laid upon the bed, and the demon gone out. And in Matthew, it says she was healed. So we can see, as a revelation from this example by Jesus, that someone who is a Jew according to the flesh is not necessarily a Jew according to this New Covenant. Only Jews in this New Covenant are the ones who walk in the faith of Abraham. You can’t recognize the Jew according to the flesh anymore; it’s whether they are a believer or not. It’s according to your faith or your unbelief as to whether you’re grafted in or broken off (Romans 11) – totally according to your faith. If you have faith, you’re a child. You have a right to the children’s bread. The world has no right to the children’s bread because they are not in covenant with God. Our part of the Covenant is faith. God’s part is supply. We enter into it by faith and God enters into it with supply. It’s kind of a lopsided covenant, but that’s the way He designed it. We got a good deal and that’s why it’s called the Good News.