Where is your faith – 4

 

 

Faith that can lead us to the translative anointing is what I am preaching in this series.

 

"Whom having not seen ye love; in whom though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls." (1Pet.1: 8-9).

 

Faith for healing and Casting out devils:

 

After we have faith for salvation what about the healing of our body? What about casting out or rebuking the devil? It is the same faith you must apply in the word of the living God. As the scripture says, if you believe in him, and you said you have believed which is how you get salvation, it is written: "And these signs shall follow them that believe" (Mk. 16:16-18).

 

We ought to apply our faith in every sphere of life. This same faith brought us salvation by believing the report that the Lord Jesus Christ came to die for mankind. We believed it, and we invited him to take charge of our life, and we are saved. That was the grace which bringeth forth salvation. Now we have to apply our faith in the rest of the report of what the Lord Jesus said. Apply the same faith in the scriptures. This is one of the scriptures for the healing of our body, for casting out the devils that are causing sicknesses and diseases, and for controlling the spiritual forces of darkness. All we need to do is to apply our faith in the word of God as it is written. This is what is written:

"Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen." (Mk.16:14).

Remember I was talking about faith. Those people who saw the Lord Jesus after he resurrected went and told the apostles. The apostles did not believe them. Christ came to them in the above verse and upbraided them for not believing the report. You see, to show that you have faith, you have got to believe the report! Here also is the report that I am bringing to you right now, that Christ has brought healing of our body by his sacrifice on the cross. You have got to believe the report. If you say, "well Jesus Christ must come to tell me himself". He has sent me to tell you! Like the apostles, you will be making a mistake for not believing the report. This is the report I bring to you also. If you believe it, begin to exercise your faith and you will see that it works. Like I said before, "Lo this, we have searched it, so it is. Hear it, and know thou it for thy good" (Job.5: 27).

 

We have searched this thing, and it is true. We want you to hear it and know it for thy good. Faith for healing has been brought to man. Here it is:

"And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." Verse 16 is very important! "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned." Now you’ve got to believe the report the apostles brought which we have brought to you, and ye shall be saved. That is how we get the faith for salvation. Now, that is not all. He went further in verse 17, "And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover."

We can summarize this to mean power! Power over devils, power over serpents, power over sickness and diseases, power over poisons. Christ said these signs shall follow them that believe. Do you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ? Then these signs should follow you also.

You’ve got to believe this report, and exercise your faith by quoting the scriptures when the situation arises. Those who are exercising their faith are affirming that they believe the report, and the spiritual forces behind the situation have got to give way, because the report is the truth. The Almighty God has ordained it to be so. And all the living must obey him. Exercise your faith when your loved one is sick, and cast the devils out in the name of the Lord Jesus.

 

We have searched this thing, and it is true. We want you to hear it and know it for thy good.

 

I want to emphasize something here. Apostle John wrote: "That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the word of life." (1 Jn. 1: 1). I said, we have searched this thing, and it is true. We want you to hear it and know it for thy good. The Almighty God who came to manifest to mankind in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ has brought us this power for our own good. He revealed to one, and he said tell the others. The power that we need to keep ourselves in peace, to overcome all the troubles on this planet: the power that we need is in Jesus Christ. He sent that the word be preached to every creature, that we can have life abundantly in Jesus Christ, and live a victorious life. "And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son." (1 Jn.5: 11). Christ said "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly" (Jn.10: 10b).

Our faith can be exercised in all the spheres of life. To live the victorious life we must have faith for the healing of our body, and have power over all these things which we must control to live in peace. Tornadoes, hurricanes, stormy winds ought to be controlled by saints to maintain the peace Christ gave to us.

This same power of Jesus is available to us. The Lord wants us to know and begin to take charge. Faith needed to take charge comes by hearing the word of God. This is why I am preaching this to you.

Apostle John wrote that "we have seen this thing with our eyes, we have handled it with our hands, and we want you to come and have fellowship with us, so that you can also have fellowship with this life-giving Son of God and with his power." The same thing I say to you above: We have searched this thing, and it is true. We want you to hear it and know it for thy good.

 

When the apostles were called one by one by the Lord Jesus, each one found his friend and told him, "we have found the messiah", or "we have found him of whom Moses wrote". They were calling their friends to come and meet the man of whom Moses wrote. Yea, I call you also that the Spirit who gave power to holy men of old and wonders were done in God’s name, has manifested to mankind in the Lord Jesus Christ calling men unto himself. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. But he that believeth not shall be damned. The signs shall follow them that believe.

Power over sickness, power over the devils, power over the elements are the signs to follow you when you believe. Believe in him and exercise your faith.

He said also "I am the Lord that healeth thee". And again to those that trust in the blood sacrifice of the Lamb of God, it is written "He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed." (Isa.53: 5).

He watches over his word to perform it. But you must believe his word.

 

Bro. Julius Adewumi

Gospel Distribution Ministry