 The life of the believer is to be distinctly marked with the miraculous and that includes you I believe that God wants to use your life to bring about miraculous results in the lives of others and today I'm gonna be going over five very practical keys for being used in the miraculous So the title of this message today is how to minister miracles. Hello. I'm David D. Hernandez and you are watching Spirit Church We're gonna go right now with Steven Mock to zoom and he's gonna lead you in some worship and they're gonna come Right back and get into this lesson where we're going to give you some applicable truths for your everyday life that will result in you Seeing miracles all around I believe that God wants to use your life to bring about miraculous results in the lives of others Now I know I said that at the top of the program But I really want to emphasize that to you today and we're gonna go through the scripture And we're gonna look at five practical keys that you can enact in your everyday life that will bring about miraculous results I believe God wants to use you in healing God wants to use you in the prophetic God wants to use you to cast out devils God wants to use you to bring financial breakthrough I mean there are so many miracles that God wants to do through your life And I believe that if you'll just position yourself as the word of God would teach us to do To be in a place of obedience toward God that miracles will follow you every single place that you go and I truly believe that the life of the believer at least of the average believer if I could use that word is To be filled with the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit and God wants to bless you with that type of anointing And he's in fact he's already given you that type of anointing and maybe in your heart you're saying Lord I want to be used in that way I want to be used to see other people get breakthrough and you don't want it so that you can glorify yourself You don't want it so that men can praise you but you want the power of God on your life So that as you preach the gospel as you minister to people that you can see the chains being broken off of their lives I really do believe that this season We're now entering is going to be the greatest season the church world has ever known and God wants you to be a part of it I truly believe that there's this shift that's taking place spiritually and we're about to enter a New season of the church. I believe that an outpouring of the Holy Spirit is coming to America such as we've never seen before now Say what you will about the political climate say what you will about the economic status of this world Say what you will about all of our standings in every other place of life But I believe with all of my heart that Jesus Christ will re reap he'll reap the reward of his suffering He's going to receive all for which he died and because he died for those who are in America It tells me that God is not done with America yet And you are that righteous in the land that preserves this nation and I truly believe with all my heart In fact, I believe that the scripture even tells us that God's will shall be done in this nation in our time So I want to talk to you about how to minister miracles. So number one the first key to Seeing miracles all around you the first key to stepping out on the power of God and seeing these things take place is number one Preach the gospel now, I remember I was in I believe it was in Sonata or TJ Mexico for a Three-night miracle service and it was a powerful service. We we actually before we arrived at the event We had done some advertising on television in Spanish, which was pretty cool that was the first time I think we'd done that and We had let people know from all over the region all over the churches had come and the power of God was moving in these meetings And there was one lady who came to the service and she had been praying for her husband to give his heart to the Lord And I don't know about you But I've have my prayer list of people that I've been praying for but this woman had been praying for her husband for years And if you've ever been in that situation where you're praying for a loved one to come to Christ And you know that at times it can become discouraging Especially when you see them hardening their hearts are becoming more and more stubborn or even becoming Irritated with you preaching the gospel to them And so I can only imagine what this woman felt in that her spouse was rejecting the very Lord whom she loved and served And she prayed for him. She preached to him. She served him. She loved him She did all that she could to make sure that this man came to Christ and she had told me that her heart was hard In fact, I believe it was alcoholism that had bound his life It was a it was a spirit of alcoholism and when I say that I mean it's a demonic spirit That influences alcohol in somebody's life even though man makes his own decision. That's a whole different topic, but She had been praying for him and so he came to this meeting and at first from what I understood This man was very skeptical of everything that was going on. He was very skeptical of the pastor He was very skeptical of me. He was very skeptical of the people I mean this was this man was as skeptical as a man can get and so he's sitting in the service I guess at the persuasion of his wife He had been convinced to come to the service and so he's there her prayers now I believe had at that point Cultivated his heart to receive the gospel I believe that this was the climax that God everything that she had prayed had led up to this moment And I was happy to just be a part of it So anyway, the service happened the the the worship team played and as usual many of you have been to our services The presence of the Holy Spirit just showed up in a tangible and a beautiful and a glorious way It was one of those services where you felt like just a cloud of glory was resting on that building and it really did fill that way I mean the atmosphere so filled that building that people began to tremble people begin to shake some people said they felt What seemed to be? Jolts of electricity surging up and down there being people were being healed to my left to my right people were being Being healed outside of the building who were not even inside of the service And we were just experiencing a wonderful move of the Holy Spirit. So this man He's watching all of that is happening and the way I had organized the service is I first I prayed for the sick and then after I prayed for the sick I presented the gospel so we started with the miraculous we showed people this is what Jesus does Then I pulled out the word and began to declare the gospel truth the gospel message as it had been presented by the early church fathers the apostles And God anointed that word and this little boy had come up to receive prayer And this little boy everyone kind of gasped when they heard his story because it really was heartbreaking that I believe it was either his right eye or his left eye It was one of his eyes that was blind and he couldn't see out of that eye and everybody was when they heard this their hearts broke You could hear a gasp and a hush come over the room when he began to share his testimony of what he was believing forgot to do in his body And so I told the people I said God wants to heal this boy and I believe God can heal this boy I believe it's the will of God I began to minister faith to the people through the word of God And so I really did I sense the anointing come on me and I just knew that I knew I don't know if you've ever been there But I just knew that I knew that I knew this boy was going to be healed And so some people as normally will be in a miracle service some people were watching with skepticism Some people were watching with interest so there were some observers but then there were those who were prayerfully participating in what God was doing on that platform And we joined our faith together all the believers and we began to pray in the Holy Ghost We spoke different languages but when we began to pray in the Holy Ghost we were praying one heavenly language We began to pray in the Holy Ghost we began to believe for God to do something for this kid And I'm telling you that little boy saw out of that eye we covered the other eye and he was able to tell us how many fingers people were holding up What was able to happen little boys crying little boys mothers crying now What I didn't realize was that little boy was the son of that man who had come And that man that night didn't just give his heart to the Lord But when he came forward to give his heart to the Lord he was sobbing he was broken he was ready to receive When he saw what Jesus had done for his son he surrendered his life to Christ And so this is what the scripture says in Mark chapter 16 verse 20 And the disciples went everywhere and preached and the Lord worked through them confirming what they said by miraculous signs I must say to qualify this lesson that not every message accompanied by miracles is the gospel But the gospel is always accompanied by miracles I'll say that again Not every message accompanied by miracles is the gospel But the gospel is always accompanied by miracles I mean you read about those in Matthew chapter 7 I think it's verse 21 where they come up to the Lord and they said Lord Lord did we not prophesy on your name Did we not do many good works and he says depart from me workers of lawlessness I never even knew you he didn't deny that they prophesied he didn't deny that they cast out devils He didn't deny that they did many wonderful works in his name he just denied that he knew them So there are those who work in miracles that don't necessarily make it into heaven Now this actually tells us of just how powerful the gospel message really is In that anybody even if whether or not their final destination is heaven or reward or punishment Whether or not Christ truly knows them the gospel message is so powerful it's so potent it's so alive And so filled with God's purpose and power that when it is preached by even someone who doesn't know Christ The gospel message results in miracles and signs and wonders God endorses the gospel message with the miraculous You'll notice that I've often said that God endorses his people with his presence He endorses his faithful with his favor but he endorses his message with his miracles The people of God carry the presence of God and there's no substitute for the presence of God upon a life So only God's people carry his presence in such a way that it's distinctive And God's faithful these are those who consistently obey God and walk in his favor because of their obedience to him They're distinctly marked with the endorsement of heaven in the manifestation of favor So faithfulness, the faithful are marked by favor The people of God are marked by the presence of God and the message of God is marked by the miracles of God So here's the true statement that I often utter that sometimes offends people But this is the truth, if you're not seeing miracles accompany the message that you preach It's time to start preaching the gospel If when you declare the message that you believe to be the gospel and there's no backing for it There's no transformation happening in the hearts and the souls of men Which by the way is the greatest miracle of salvation So that's the number one way we know we're preaching the gospel If someone comes from repentance, they repent from their sins Turn to Christ, believe on the name of the Lord Jesus, are baptized in the Holy Spirit Receive the spirit of God and become his child That's the result of the true gospel message But if you're not seeing that, it's time to start preaching the gospel If you're not seeing miracles back the message, then it's time to start preaching the gospel Now there are those who preach prosperity There's no miracles that come when you preach prosperity I've seen the difference In fact, I remember I was in a church service And this is nobody that I've ever had on the program This is nobody that you know And I'm not going to tell you who this minister was because I don't slander people But there was a minister that I had gone to see And this person was ministering in the prophetic They're ministering words of knowledge They're ministering God's Holy Spirit to the people And as they're giving out words I thought this is wonderful People are being touched But not once in that entire service Did I hear the name of Jesus? Not once in that entire service did I hear the gospel message being preached Now I know that not every service is an evangelistic service I have some people get mad, they'll watch one or two YouTube videos and go Why are you not talking about this? I'm like, well, because right now I'm talking about this You know, you can't always talk about everything that is truthful Sometimes you have to focus And this is what it's called, it's called being specific It's called focusing, it's called teaching And you hone in on one topic Right now I'm talking about miracles So I'm not really going to tell one how to be saved in this video That's not what it's about But that's not what I was requiring of the person in my own mind When I went to see them My issue was that I didn't see one mention of Christ I didn't hear any mention of God I didn't hear any mention of how we need to serve Nothing, the reason the people had gathered Was to receive the miracles and the prophetic words And they left And the message, if it's lacking from the miraculous That takes all the power out of it So when you go to service And all you see are miracles with no message That's borderline witchcraft That's incantation That's new ageism That's psychic power I mean, I've seen some wicked things From people who claim to be prophets of God And they're not And so I want to caution you That if you want to see miracles And caution and encourage you If you want to see miracles You need to preach the gospel That's the whole purpose of miracles I mean, miracles fix a temporary situation In a supernatural way But if that doesn't result in an eternal transformation The miracle was of no use in the first place Now I understand not everybody responds to the gospel Appropriately But at least preach the gospel So that the message that's being preached That's accompanied by the miracles Ultimately results in what we're ultimately after Which is the salvation of men So number one, you need to preach the gospel Number two, you need to spend time with Jesus Now there's no substitute for a prayer life When I first started preaching I studied the word, yes I studied the scripture I was reading books I was giving myself to understanding And I was asking the Lord for wisdom In fact, when I was 11 years old I said, Lord, I see this promise here in James You said that if I ask you for wisdom That you'll give me wisdom Because I ask in faith And so as an 11 year old boy I asked the Lord for wisdom And I began to understand the scripture In ways I never could understand it before So I was studying I was reading But let me tell you something I wasn't that I still today I see areas I really need to work on In my presentation I'm always working to improve My presentation as a preacher And teacher of the gospel Especially as an evangelist I want to look for ways that I can evangelize in more effective manners And so I would pray I would ask the Lord to anoint it I would study and give my best I could to God And he would show up in those services In those first years of my ministry When I began to preach the gospel At the age of 13 But when I was 13 I wasn't this great preacher I wasn't someone I mean, I'll tell you I'll just be honest with you I would get bored listening To my own sermons Halfway even though Because I would listen to them I still do listen to them So I can listen for ways That I can improve How I would word something And so on Or maybe even how I come across A certain way I try to become effective Even then when I attempted to do that I was so bored with my own message I would turn it off in the first 10 minutes And I just really wasn't this great communicator I wasn't some strong speaker I didn't have this eloquent presentation All I did was show up Preach a quick word I still remember My first message was a three-point message It was on King David And his relationship with God And I remember I preached that message And I remember thinking This is not as good as I imagined it in my head You know, when I imagined Preaching my first sermon I imagined that it was going to be So people were going to move to tears They'd run to the altar, you know But that's not what happened Because of the message People did come to the altar People were moved to tears But it had nothing to do with my presentation skills It had everything to do with the presence of God And the reason that the presence of God Had anointed what I was doing Was because I had consecrated myself I had saturated myself I buried myself in his presence And I still to this day seek his face And if you're not spending time with Jesus You're not going to see miracles I don't care what anybody says If you're not praying If you're not seeking the face of God If you're not giving yourself To consecrated, devoted moments of prayer You're not going to see miracles Manifest in your life Now Acts chapter 4 verse 13 says this The members of the council were amazed When they saw the boldness of Peter and John For they could see that they were ordinary men With no special training in the scriptures They also recognized them as men Who had been with Jesus So a result of having been with Jesus Was a tangible and a very real effect That took place in the lives of the apostles Acts chapter 5 verse 15 says this As a result of the apostles' work Sick people were brought out into the streets on beds And mats so that Peter's shadow Might fall across some of them As he went by This is the healing presence of Jesus Upon a life You see, the Bible doesn't say that Peter's shadow healed the sick A lot of people think it says that And they'll go out and they'll kind of Which is fine, I'm not against it They'll go out and they'll kind of walk across They'll go, look, my shadow heals I've seen videos on YouTube And if you want to do that, that's fine That's how God wants to work with your faith But it wasn't Peter's shadow that was healing anybody In fact, the Bible doesn't even say that It was that So it was the people who thought That Peter's shadow healed Now, what would cause people to think That a man's shadow Could bring about a miraculous healing? It's not because his shadow healed people It's because people who got around him Were healed That's amazing He didn't have to lay hands He didn't have to pray Purposefully, like you know And I use the word pray as in ministering to people As we're used to thinking in the traditional sense You know, you lay hands, you say a little prayer As you're believing God for the healing He didn't have to do that He would just show up and miracles would happen All around him I'll never forget when this first started happening And what it did is it took the pressure off me And it'll take the pressure off you I felt so relieved because I would become so discouraged When I would see people come forward to receive healing And some of the people who come to my meeting Still to this day, I'm just being honest with you I mean, it's not like nobody knows it It's a fact, I mean this is just the truth It's healed Now I can do a whole different lesson on that And there's a lot of theological thoughts that go into that And a lot of doctrines to go over But for now, I'm just saying this Because it applies to what we're talking about But when I realized that it had nothing to do With my efforts necessarily That I was just a vessel through whom God used But we have to make ourselves available still Once I realized that It took the pressure off and I realized Jesus, you're the healer I'm not the healer, you're the healer I have compassion for them I pray that God would use me to greater levels So that I can see them healed In fact, anytime I see someone not healed I go home and that whole week is just More and more intense Pray, Lord, I want to whatever it is, Lord, in me That's causing you not to be able to move through me In the way that this power should be flowing I want you to help me I want you to touch my life, I want you to show me I want you to reveal yourself And it causes me to seek God And then the miraculous begins to increase Now, I will say this, there are levels to the miraculous I know some people don't like that Especially Some of this newer doctrine that's coming out And the idea is that Well, you don't really have to do any growth You have everything that you are right now And I understand that We've talked about that, we've addressed that But the truth is that there are levels To the miraculous power of God in your life Because there are levels of spirituality And the higher up you go in the levels of spirituality The more the miraculous will increase Because I want to see you increase in it So the more time you spend with Jesus The greater the healing power will be on your life The greater the power for the miraculous Will be on your life So there's no replacement for this And when it comes to believing God For those who, you realize, oh God They're not going to be healed Or maybe you've experienced that moment And made you feel uncomfortable, made them feel discouraged Be encouraged to know that it's the healing presence Of Jesus on your life Your job is to pray for the sick And if something doesn't happen It's not the problem, it's not the word of God I like to put the blame on myself Because I don't put it on the people That's an act of faith So what I do is I take the responsibility As God's minister and I say, okay Lord Whatever it is in me that needs to change Whatever it is in me that needs to transform Help me get there And then also we can't forget about the sovereignty of God Which again, that's getting into a whole different lesson But let's go to number three now So number one, preach the gospel Number three, you gotta live clean James chapter five verse fifteen says this Confess your sins to each other And pray for each other So that you may be healed The earnest prayer of a righteous person Has great power And produces wonderful results I'm not talking about perfection But the truth is That just as there are Degrees of the miraculous Just as there are degrees of spirituality So there are levels of holiness Here's the truth And just remember this principle as it applies All across the board to any of these concepts If you can Grow in something It means there are levels to it If there were no levels To holiness, then there would be no room For growth. Now I understand That Christ is our righteousness I understand that before God we're cleansed But then there is still the process of Sanctification that is happening in our lives And the scripture is very clear Especially in Ephesians More specifically Ephesians chapter three That we are to live a life That is worthy The scripture says walk worthy Of the grace that you have received And I'm paraphrasing But the truth is that we need to grow in our holiness And we need to grow in our righteousness And we need to grow in our consecration And we need to grow in our sanctification And there are levels of cleanliness There are levels of purity There are levels of righteousness and holiness And as you begin to grow In these levels of righteousness And holiness and purity and consecration And sanctification So you will also grow In levels of miraculous power The scripture says that the prayer Of a righteous person Has great power and produces wonderful results Therefore If someone is not righteous There's not power on their prayer We have to understand this And again I'm not talking about perfection But the more clean the vessel The more the power of God can flow through You know if there's something that say If I have a water hose and I want to water my yard If the water's coming through there But there's something blocking it The issue is not with the source So the water the issue is with the vessel We need to clear out those areas In our lives so that the power of God Can flow purely It can flow freely It can flow more powerfully We need to get rid of that blockage in our lives And live and walk in cleanliness In holiness and righteousness And as you do you will see That there is great power and purity Another thought on this Specific point Psalm 37 verse 23 says this The Lord directs the steps Of the godly He delights in every detail Of their lives So God directs the godly He doesn't direct the ungodly Per se except for the times That makes them to saving power And the saving knowledge of Christ Just as you know Saul of Tarsus When he was on his way to persecute the church God directed him He rerouted him But that's an occurrence of salvation God calling one to repent But beyond the call to repentance Beyond the call to fulfill the call of God Through repentance and turning to Christ Beyond that God does not direct the righteous Except for how he preaches the gospel Through those around them like you or I That categorically speaking has only to do With their redirection towards salvation But other than that God does not direct The steps of the ungodly In fact that's why the scripture says the blind fall into the pit Because God's not there to guide them They cannot see where they're going Now if you're godly and he directs Your steps and delights in every detail of your life Then you're going to see More open doors The truth is that obedience Puts you in the will of God And the will of God The only place that you'll find the opening Of divine doors People ask me how are you seeing all this favor Anyone who looks at this ministry from the outside Looking in and I'm not saying this to Braga I'm saying this because all glory belongs to God He took someone who said Lord I don't have much But whatever you want to use take it And if God can use me trust me he can use you But God took my life and people see there's favor And I acknowledge that humbly I'm not saying that again to Braga But I do acknowledge there's favor on my life But I'm telling you there's no secret It's not because I'm talented it's not because I'm gifted It's very very simple All I do Is try to hear God my absolute best And try to obey God With my absolute best It's just as simple as that and if you'll do those two things If you'll try to hear God And you'll give yourself to seek his face And you'll lend him your ear I'm not talking I mean we understand that there's power in prayer We understand we're getting lessons on How to pray I did a lesson on how to spend more time in prayer I did a lesson on keys to prayer But we often fail to understand why it is so important to pray I mean my goodness I should do one on that But the truth is that when you pray It puts you in alignment with God When you obey it puts you in alignment with God And because of that purity Because of that righteousness you're able to hear God more clearly Because of that righteousness you're positioned In the places that you should be King David when he fell into sin with Bathsheba The scripture says that this was during the time That kings go out to war David was not in the place that he was supposed to be And time and time again You'll notice that calamity comes That problems come That temptation is given into Because we put ourselves in places That we are not supposed to be And if you're not in places that you're supposed to be You won't see the favor of God How are you supposed to walk through an open door If you're not standing in front of it Obedience puts you in front of the open door Now some doors are locked But faith turns the knob And it checks to see which one's God has opened But how are you supposed to stand in front of an open door How are you supposed to walk through it If you won't even be near it So obedience brings about righteousness and holiness And because of that I should qualify that because I don't necessarily believe That we work out our righteousness by our acts But I truly do believe that because of what Christ has done in us That righteousness should result Nonetheless as we obey God As we work to live more righteously In fact, I just read it today I hope I can find it It's not in my notes I underlined it earlier Okay, yes, okay So this is from Romans chapter 2 Verse 6 He will judge everyone according to what they have done He will give eternal life To those who keep on doing good Seeking after the glory and the honor Of immortality that God offers So it's talking about a continuation A persistent and intentional pursuit Of holiness and righteousness in our lives So as believers Even though we've already been justified We still have to work very carefully with God Work out with your own salvation Work out your own salvation If you're in trembling, the Scripture says Because that is the process of sanctification And there is power in purity The greater the purity, the greater the power Number 4 Build faith When you're ministering to people You have to build their faith This is what the Scripture says In 1 Corinthians chapter 12 verse 9 The same spirit gives great faith to another To someone else, the one spirit Gives the gift of healing So this context is talking about The gift of healing and the gift of faith And this is 1 Corinthians chapter 12 This is the chapter on the gifts of the Holy Spirit Now some believe that the gift of faith Has to do with our own faith But that's not the truth Because the reality is that these gifts The Scripture says are for others So there's the measure of faith And then there is the gift of faith The measure of faith is personal The measure of faith is what God has given you So that you can see results in your own life Of what God wants to do But the gift of faith, I believe Is the ability to raise people's faith To a different level Jesus had this faith I mean the Scripture also said Romans chapter 10 verse 17 Now this is somewhat of a misused Scripture But I'm going to read it anyway And then I'll qualify it Romans chapter 10 verse 17 So faith comes by hearing Or faith comes from hearing That is hearing the good news about Christ Now that contextually is talking about The gospel message of Christ But it's saying that they can't believe the gospel Unless they hear it in the same sense Whatever the promises of God Have to do with the need of a person They cannot have the faith to receive Based upon those promises According to their need Unless they hear what the word has to say About their need So they won't know God offers it And they won't have the faith to receive it Until they hear the promise Where God promises what he wants to give them So faith comes by hearing And hearing by the word of God Now that was talking about the gospel Faith to believe the gospel But faith to be healed Comes by hearing about the message of healing Faith to receive a miracle Comes about from hearing Just how powerful God is So as your faith expands You're able to receive Greater and greater things This is why God processes you gradually So he'll put you in a situation And in that situation You may feel you cannot handle it But you grow your faith a little more there And then you face another situation And it seems just as difficult as the last season Here's the truth The issues that you're facing in this season You may think it's just as bad as last season But the truth is that the weight you're carrying In this season is heavier than what you carried In last season You just don't recognize it Because you're stronger And God wants to take you through this process And I'm not saying we're to have a joy list Existence in the Christian life On the contrary We have joy despite what we go through But these type of trials These type of troubles They produce faith within us And in concordance with that We also have a gift of faith developed in us That when we speak to other people We can build their faith This is part of ministering miracles to people You've got to position them to receive The scripture talks about many times That Jesus, when he healed someone Just take the healing, for example When Jesus healed someone He would say, your what has made you whole That's right, your faith has made you whole So it is by faith that we receive many things So our goal is to build the faith of people So that they can receive the miraculous That God wants to give them So this gift of faith You're basically an atmosphere of faith You're basically everywhere you go When you talk, whatever comes out of your mouth Should be faith building I know people like this There's a pastor friend of mine Who I absolutely love His name is Phil Muncie If you ever get to connect with his ministry Just an absolutely amazing man of God He is probably the most encouraging person I have ever met in my entire life This guy, when he comes in the room I've watched him I've traveled locally with him I've driven him around I like to serve men of God like that And just kind of glean from them So I would be driving him around sometimes I would go with him to TBN Be back there, watch him talk to the guest And you know, this guy I would just watch him And he's very intentional About boosting faith in other people And he does so by encouraging He does so by speaking the word He does so by declaring things Such as where people are there Maybe they're talking I've seen some pastors talking to discouragement Oh, well, we might lose the building He'll say, no, God's gonna provide And even if you lose that building God's got another building And I've seen that gift of faith in action And getting around him My faith gets stirred There are plenty of people who I get around I mean, I can name them all day I mean, you guys know Ken Brown You guys know prophet Rob Some of you know my friend Daniel Galeana Great ministry You haven't checked him out You should check him out Michael Coolianos Daniel Park I mean, all these guys are on YouTube I really recommend them all But when I get around these guys And when I hear them When I talk to them Their faith just It rubs off on me And my faith in turn rubs off on them And we stir each other to faith That is the gift of faith in operation So when you're ministering miracles You have to build faith You have to build an atmosphere That is cultivated with the word of God That's saturated with faith So that you get them ready to receive So again, number one Preach the gospel Number two, spend time with Jesus Number three, live clean Number four, build faith Number five, act Now I know I always read this scripture But let's read it again Mark chapter 16 Verse 15 through 17 And then he told them Go into all the world And preach the good news to everyone Anyone who believes in his baptized Will be saved But anyone who refuses to believe Will be condemned Verse 17 These miraculous signs Will accompany those who believe They will cast out demons in my name And they will speak in new languages And then the scripture also goes on To say they will lay hands on the sick Verse 18 And they shall recover We all know that one But the truth is A lot of people think that this is Jesus telling the apostles Are going to move out in this No, he says these Go and preach And whoever believes Will be saved Whoever doesn't believe is condemned But the ones who believe What you say Not the apostles He says the ones who believe Those ones are going to Move out in the miraculous Now I don't believe that the power Of the Holy Spirit is limited To just these things On the contrary We see all throughout the New Testament Especially in the writings of Paul We see the concept of many Acts of the miraculous That are to be functioning In our lives But the truth is That none of this is going to happen Unless you act We say, well, I'm waiting to be led No, how can you wait to be led When Jesus already commanded it We say, God, show me He did, it's in the Word He said, go, preach the gospel I don't know if I'm qualified Are you saved? Do you believe? You're the one he'll use then He said, well, I want to Become more pure Well, good While you're on the process Of sanctification Let God use you Where you're at Right here right now Well, I'm not quite there yet Yes, you are You can minister to someone You can help someone You can help someone It's funny, we're always praying Lord, bless me Lord, help me We look at our needs We lay hands on our bills We pray for our checks to come We pray for our sickness We pray for our discouragement Our trial And we're saying, God, send someone Send help And I think that if we would Just learn to be the miracle In other people's lives For which we are praying In our own lives That God himself would Move on our behalf That if we would stop Looking at our own needs And start looking at other People's needs We basically step under The fountain of God's provision And power And we experience the miraculous In our own lives And we selflessly minister it To others So you have to act Number five, you have to act Now I'm not saying go And rip people out of wheelchairs You know, you got to be very wise With how you do this And you have to carry the gospel With class And you have to have a heavenly Elegance about you You are a minister An ambassador to heaven I don't believe That the Holy Spirit Makes you silly or senseless I've seen people I've had some people in my services They get drunk in the Holy Spirit Now if God does that great I'm not going to try to incite that I don't try to incite anything But I'm always very careful With how I present the Holy Spirit Want to make sure it's done So in a very classy manner But signs of the Holy Spirit Moving is not when you get Senseless and silly Signs of the Holy Spirit Moving is when the glory Of God shows up And when people become transformed And I'm telling you God wants to use your life Just like that Now I want to pray with you Because I know you're stirred Not because I'm preaching Because the word of God Is being spoken The word of God When it's preached It stirs something And the scripture says That he is able to do exceedingly Abundantly above all we could ask Or think God wants to do that Not just in your life But he wants to use you as a vessel As a conduit, as a catalyst For the miraculous In the lives of those around you You are a walking heavenly atmosphere You are the temple of the Holy Spirit And God wants to use your life Wherever you may be at You may be saying I'm disqualified because of this I'm disqualified because of that No God doesn't count you out And neither should you Count yourself out Your greatest qualification For ministry Is the Holy Spirit within you It's not about how capable you are It's not about how gifted you are It's about how surrendered you are Now let's believe That God would continue And begin to use you In the miraculous Come on, join your faith with my father In the precious name of the one Whom I serve The name of Jesus I agree with that one watching Man, I believe God's touching you And God's doing something special I agree with that one watching, Lord And I pray, Father That your anointing, your power Would begin to flow through my hands And touch that one watching Believing in faith Lord, we thank you for your anointing We thank you for your grace We thank you for your love We thank you for your gospel So, Lord, I pray that as your word Was preached here today That you would induce With power afresh And that you would cause us To be stirred to believe For the miraculous Lord, no matter how great the trial No matter how big the need In front of us, Lord That we would step out boldly In faith and declare that God Is able And I pray, Father Your power rests on them In the matchless name of Jesus And I want you to say it out loud Say it boldly If you agree, amen That's right I truly do believe I'm excited for you Because I truly do believe God wants to begin to use you In this now Go out now Go out now And begin to act Because God has anointed you Now I want to welcome The new members of Spirit Church We are just approaching Very quickly approaching 200 members of Spirit Church I'm so excited about that And I'm glad you're joining Let me tell you something When you join Spirit Church You are joining a body of believers United from all around the world We get together here This is our Spirit Church weekly I post a video weekly of teaching Not only that When you join Spirit Church You're gonna get a weekly email And in that email You're gonna be able to respond Get prayer You're gonna be able to ask questions You're gonna be able to suggest topics You're gonna see the lesson For every week And the best thing about it is Is you can attend weekly On your own schedule Now I believe in getting planted In a church physically Where there are people But I know there are some people That are different seasons of life Maybe you've been hurt by church And you're looking for somewhere To attend Maybe this could be your place For now And I look at Spirit Church As a nice transitional place For people to move from An online church Into a local church And we can even help Plug you into local churches We're connected with Over 300 churches All around the US And over 2500 churches All around the world And we can suggest A holy spirit filled Bible Believing church just for you And your family That I know will bless you There's no such thing As the perfect church So you know You gotta get plugged in somewhere Now some of you You do count this as your church And we do gather now And then we do events And we are planning To put a physical location soon So if this is your church If you're a member of Spirit Church Now is the time to sow Your ties and offering Even if you're not A member of Spirit Church You enjoy this teaching We put this out for everybody To see So they can receive impartation Whether or not We're all members of Spirit Church We're all part of the body of Christ Right? But if you're blessed By this ministry Whether that's through Encounter TV Which is our television program You'll notice there's Several different playlists On our channel I recommend you go check them out here If you're not watching this on YouTube Or you're watching this on the app Or the website Go to youtube.com Slash Encounter TV You're gonna get a lot Of great stuff there But you'll notice We have Encounter TV That's the half hour program That airs on actual television Satellite and cable And antenna all over the world And then there's Spirit Church Kind of like our online program And then you'll see all these other Different types of programs That we put out Steven Moctezuma has a playlist on here If you want to get into some worship I do prayers If you just want some quick prayer Or maybe you want to send a prayer to someone That's on here too Lots of great things on this channel Don't forget to subscribe to Encounter TV But again You're blessed by our ministry You go to our miracle services You watch us on television Or maybe you know You're receiving ministry Through any other way Now is the time to sow I'm telling you There is an increase coming On this ministry And we're seeing it now We're beginning to see you guys Starting to respond And I'm telling you Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you If you're sowing into this ministry It doesn't go to me It goes to the ministry I take a portion for myself But you know That's through salary I'm taxed on it It's capped It's not like I'm just Counting the dough back there I promise you We're using this for the gospel And you can sow in today Sow today Don't say oh maybe next week Because then you'll forget And the truth is When we say I'll do it later We're actually giving ourselves More time Because we really don't want to do it But I'm gonna challenge you now You're blessed by this ministry You're blessed by the teaching Do a one-time gift Of $5, $10, $30 Maybe you can do that right now Maybe you can do it One-time gift of $100, $500 Maybe God spoke to you Even to do $1,000 That was in your heart You're a little hesitant Just do it God's gonna take care of you If God told you to do it Do it And maybe you can do A monthly gift Of $10 or even $30 a month Either way All the support Both one-time and monthly Helps to keep the gospel Going all around the world Through this ministry Through international events Worldwide television And global discipleship ministry Well, I sure do love you I'm praying for you And I just want to encourage you Again today after the message Just go out and believe God To use your life in the miraculous That's it for this edition Of Spirit Church Until next time Remember Nothing is impossible with God That of sin Justice is the one who demands the people And it is heaven's agenda That you fulfill what God has placed in you God has Jesus