Feb. 20, 2008 Wednesday 10:00 am
Pastor Rich Oliver
As a believer, we need to launch faith bombs, look for the fingerprints of God and ask, “What is God Doing?”
FAITH BOMBS WE CAN FOCUS OUR EYES ON:
GOD’S LOVE
The Father’s heart of love brings miracles.
Jesus is moved with compassion for the great multitude.
MATTHEW 14:14 When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, HE HAD COMPASSION ON THEM AND HEALED THEIR SICK.
THE POWER OF HIS LOVE IN US BRINGS FAVOR AND BLESSINGS that overtakes us.
Pursue His love every day. Decide it – desire it. It unlocks healing, provision, miracles, supernatural experiences, wisdom, the hidden mysteries of the Lord, grace upon grace.
His love will clothe you, deliver you, bless you, strengthen you, bring back the prodigals.
Make it your aim to know the love of the Lord.
COVENANT-KEEPING GOD
EPHESIANS 3:6 This mystery is that THROUGH THE GOSPEL THE GENTILES ARE HEIRS TOGETHER WITH ISRAEL, MEMBERS TOGETHER OF ONE BODY, and sharers together in the promise in Christ Jesus.
EPHESIANS 3:10-11 His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, 11 ACCORDING TO HIS ETERNAL PURPOSE WHICH HE ACCOMPLISHED IN CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD.
EPHESIANS 3:16-19 I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith . And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge — that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
He is always looking out for what’s best for you.
When you have a heart of compassion, when you cry tears in behalf of your family, your nation, your city, your declaration shifts things in the spiritual.
WE HAVE TO BE IN THE CORE OF WHO WE ARE, FILLED WITH THE LOVE OF GOD.
His promises are sure. It’s His very nature to do what He promises to do.
His promise of healing is already done, finished.
1 PETER 2:24 He himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; BY HIS WOUNDS YOU HAVE BEEN HEALED.
We as spirit-filled Christians should STAND ON THE PROMISES OF GOD. If His promises are not real, then everything we have in life, which He spoke into existence, is not real.
THE WILL OF GOD
God uses us to bring Jesus into our world. Are we in His will concerning this?
FULFILLMENT OF PROPHETIC WORDS
ISAIAH 53:5 But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, AND BY HIS WOUNDS WE ARE HEALED.
Jesus is the realization of this prophecy.
Healing is for everyone.
MATTHEW 8:16-17 When evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought to Him, and He drove out the spirits with a word and healed all the sick. This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: "HE TOOK UP OUR INFIRMITIES AND CARRIED OUR DISEASES."
HE IS THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW
HEBREWS 13:8 JESUS CHRIST IS THE SAME YESTERDAY AND TODAY AND FOREVER.
JAMES 1:17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who DOES NOT CHANGE LIKE SHIFTING SHADOWS.
REVELATION 1:18 I am the Living One; I was dead, and BEHOLD I AM ALIVE FOREVER AND EVER! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.
HEALING COMMISSION
He has commissioned us to work miracles in His name.
JOHN 14:12 I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in Me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.
MARK 16:15, 18 He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation…..they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well."
Be a people who cry out to God for our calling.
GOD’S GOODNESS
We serve a good God.
MATTHEW 7:11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask Him!
Even nature testifies of God’s goodness.
JAMES 1:17-18 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
These gifts are to empower us, so that we do not speak on our own strength but on the authority of Jesus.
EPHESIANS 3:20 Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,…
GOD IS SOVEREIGN
ECCLESIASTES 8:3 Do not be in a hurry to leave the King's presence. Do not stand up for a bad cause, for He will do whatever He pleases.
Sovereign – Monarch, Supreme Ruler, Autonomous or Self-directed
He is Sovereign and He does what He pleases.
DESPERATION
MARK 5:24-28 The desperation of the woman with the issue of blood.
24 A large crowd followed and pressed around him. 25 And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. 26 She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. 27 When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, 28 because she thought, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed."
MATTHEW 15:22-28 The desperation of the woman with a demon-possessed daughter
22 A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, "Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is suffering terribly from demon-possession." 23 Jesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urged him, "Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us." 24 He answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel." 25 The woman came and knelt before him. "Lord, help me!" she said. 26 He replied, "It is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to their dogs." 27 "Yes, Lord," she said, "but even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table."
KINGDOM ADVANCEMENT
He does miracles to destroy the works of the enemy.
ACTS 10:38 …how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how HE WENT AROUND DOING GOOD AND HEALING ALL WHO WERE UNDER THE POWER OF THE DEVIL, because God was with Him.
1 JOHN 3:8 He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. THE REASON THE SON OF GOD APPEARED WAS TO DESTROY THE DEVIL'S WORK.
You and I are called to lay hands on the sick, preach and proclaim the good news and to set free those in bondage.
HOW TO MAINTAIN HEALING:
PRAISE, PRAYER AND WORSHIP helps you maintain healing.
MEDITATE ON AND LIVE BY GOD’S WORD. Meditation brings revelations, revelation brings healing manifestation, healing brings encouragement to the heart from which the mouth speaks.
PROVERBS 4:23 Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.
MATTHEW 12:34 For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks .
LUKE 6:45 For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks .
CONSTANTLY PURSUE HIS PRESENCE AND POWER inside and outside the church walls. We owe the world an encounter with God.
What I believe after I pray is as important as what I believe while I am praying.
Every problem is an opportunity for a miracle and to show the world HOW BIG OUR GOD IS. We’ve got to be a people of DISCIPLINED PRAYER, PRAISE AND WORSHIP.
Discipline will bring you to a place where God’s glory dwells. Regularly invite His presence in your life.
Pastor Rich Oliver
As a believer, we need to launch faith bombs, look for the fingerprints of God and ask, “What is God Doing?”
FAITH BOMBS WE CAN FOCUS OUR EYES ON:
GOD’S LOVE
The Father’s heart of love brings miracles.
Jesus is moved with compassion for the great multitude.
MATTHEW 14:14 When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, HE HAD COMPASSION ON THEM AND HEALED THEIR SICK.
THE POWER OF HIS LOVE IN US BRINGS FAVOR AND BLESSINGS that overtakes us.
Pursue His love every day. Decide it – desire it. It unlocks healing, provision, miracles, supernatural experiences, wisdom, the hidden mysteries of the Lord, grace upon grace.
His love will clothe you, deliver you, bless you, strengthen you, bring back the prodigals.
Make it your aim to know the love of the Lord.
COVENANT-KEEPING GOD
EPHESIANS 3:6 This mystery is that THROUGH THE GOSPEL THE GENTILES ARE HEIRS TOGETHER WITH ISRAEL, MEMBERS TOGETHER OF ONE BODY, and sharers together in the promise in Christ Jesus.
EPHESIANS 3:10-11 His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, 11 ACCORDING TO HIS ETERNAL PURPOSE WHICH HE ACCOMPLISHED IN CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD.
EPHESIANS 3:16-19 I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith . And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge — that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
He is always looking out for what’s best for you.
When you have a heart of compassion, when you cry tears in behalf of your family, your nation, your city, your declaration shifts things in the spiritual.
WE HAVE TO BE IN THE CORE OF WHO WE ARE, FILLED WITH THE LOVE OF GOD.
His promises are sure. It’s His very nature to do what He promises to do.
His promise of healing is already done, finished.
1 PETER 2:24 He himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; BY HIS WOUNDS YOU HAVE BEEN HEALED.
We as spirit-filled Christians should STAND ON THE PROMISES OF GOD. If His promises are not real, then everything we have in life, which He spoke into existence, is not real.
THE WILL OF GOD
God uses us to bring Jesus into our world. Are we in His will concerning this?
FULFILLMENT OF PROPHETIC WORDS
ISAIAH 53:5 But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, AND BY HIS WOUNDS WE ARE HEALED.
Jesus is the realization of this prophecy.
Healing is for everyone.
MATTHEW 8:16-17 When evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought to Him, and He drove out the spirits with a word and healed all the sick. This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: "HE TOOK UP OUR INFIRMITIES AND CARRIED OUR DISEASES."
HE IS THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW
HEBREWS 13:8 JESUS CHRIST IS THE SAME YESTERDAY AND TODAY AND FOREVER.
JAMES 1:17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who DOES NOT CHANGE LIKE SHIFTING SHADOWS.
REVELATION 1:18 I am the Living One; I was dead, and BEHOLD I AM ALIVE FOREVER AND EVER! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.
HEALING COMMISSION
He has commissioned us to work miracles in His name.
JOHN 14:12 I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in Me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.
MARK 16:15, 18 He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation…..they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well."
Be a people who cry out to God for our calling.
GOD’S GOODNESS
We serve a good God.
MATTHEW 7:11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask Him!
Even nature testifies of God’s goodness.
JAMES 1:17-18 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
These gifts are to empower us, so that we do not speak on our own strength but on the authority of Jesus.
EPHESIANS 3:20 Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,…
GOD IS SOVEREIGN
ECCLESIASTES 8:3 Do not be in a hurry to leave the King's presence. Do not stand up for a bad cause, for He will do whatever He pleases.
Sovereign – Monarch, Supreme Ruler, Autonomous or Self-directed
He is Sovereign and He does what He pleases.
DESPERATION
MARK 5:24-28 The desperation of the woman with the issue of blood.
24 A large crowd followed and pressed around him. 25 And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. 26 She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. 27 When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, 28 because she thought, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed."
MATTHEW 15:22-28 The desperation of the woman with a demon-possessed daughter
22 A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, "Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is suffering terribly from demon-possession." 23 Jesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urged him, "Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us." 24 He answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel." 25 The woman came and knelt before him. "Lord, help me!" she said. 26 He replied, "It is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to their dogs." 27 "Yes, Lord," she said, "but even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table."
KINGDOM ADVANCEMENT
He does miracles to destroy the works of the enemy.
ACTS 10:38 …how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how HE WENT AROUND DOING GOOD AND HEALING ALL WHO WERE UNDER THE POWER OF THE DEVIL, because God was with Him.
1 JOHN 3:8 He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. THE REASON THE SON OF GOD APPEARED WAS TO DESTROY THE DEVIL'S WORK.
You and I are called to lay hands on the sick, preach and proclaim the good news and to set free those in bondage.
HOW TO MAINTAIN HEALING:
PRAISE, PRAYER AND WORSHIP helps you maintain healing.
MEDITATE ON AND LIVE BY GOD’S WORD. Meditation brings revelations, revelation brings healing manifestation, healing brings encouragement to the heart from which the mouth speaks.
PROVERBS 4:23 Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.
MATTHEW 12:34 For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks .
LUKE 6:45 For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks .
CONSTANTLY PURSUE HIS PRESENCE AND POWER inside and outside the church walls. We owe the world an encounter with God.
What I believe after I pray is as important as what I believe while I am praying.
Every problem is an opportunity for a miracle and to show the world HOW BIG OUR GOD IS. We’ve got to be a people of DISCIPLINED PRAYER, PRAISE AND WORSHIP.
Discipline will bring you to a place where God’s glory dwells. Regularly invite His presence in your life.
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