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The Faith Trilogy II – Part 1: Answers To Prayer Usually Come In The Seed Form

4/30/2011

So, when we start thinking that everything is sudden, and we don’t get our miracle, preachers turn to
gimmicks, saying, “We got to do something in place of the miracle that didn’t come.” So, preachers get
into gimmicks and say to the people, “If you get into this, you’ll get your break through . And if you do
that, you’ll get your break through.”

And there are times in the Bible, and I have preached it, where God will ask you to do something out of
the box, something special (never done before), to receive something you’ve never had before.

BUT, when I see a preacher get into gimmicks, because nothing is really happening under the anointing –
because they think if the miracle is not sudden, then they have to turn to some gimmick or some hype
to make it happen.

God’s manifestations are tucked in His SEEDS. God’s answers are hidden in SEEDS.

The answer to your prayer will mostly not come in the mature form –
it will come in the seed form.

When you ask God to do something in your life, there will be many times He will respond by giving you a
scripture. When God gives you that scripture, you GOT your answer. Now, they take that seed and “go
WORK your miracle.”

It’s the WORKING of a miracle. It is the taking of the Word from God and turning it in to a manifestation
from God in my life. But what I’m see is – we just want stuff to just show up in our life the next day, and
people don’t even care if they have a Word or not.

Jesus said, “If you’ll abide in Me and My Word abide in you, THEN ask me – whatever you will, and it
shall be done by My Father, which is in Heaven.”

You have to have a Word in you.

Ron Carpenter, Redemption World Outreach Center

The Faith Trilogy II (Part 1): Sometimes, A Miracle Has To Be Worked

4/29/2011

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Mark 4:1-9
1 And again He began to teach by the sea. And a great multitude was gathered to Him,
so that He got into a boat and sat in it on the sea;
and the whole multitude was on the land facing the sea.

2 Then He taught them many things by parables,
and said to them in His teaching:

3 “Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow.

4 And it happened, as he sowed, that some seed fell by the wayside;
and the birds of the air came and devoured it.

5 Some fell on stony ground, where it did not have much earth;
and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of earth.

6 But when the sun was up it was scorched,
and because it had no root it withered away.

7 And some seed fell among thorns;
and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no crop.

8 But other seed fell on good ground and yielded a crop that sprang up,
increased and produced: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.”

9 And He said to them, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”

Now, what is this telling me? About 1 in 4 in this room tonight is going to “get it.” There’s going to be a
group of people that don’t last past the door, and then there will be a group that lasts for just a couple of
days. He said, “There’s going to be only ONE group that will leave here and become an ACTIVE,
on-going part of their lives.” You have to decide which group you’re in.

Mark 4:10-12
10 But when He was alone, those around Him with the twelve
asked Him about the parable.

11 And He said to them,
“To you it has been given to know the MYSTERY of the kingdom of God;
but to those who are outside, all things come in parables,

12 so that

      ‘ Seeing they may see and not perceive,
       And hearing they may hear and not understand;
       Lest they should turn,
       And their sins be forgiven them.’”

That right there really confounds me (verse 11). Jesus is saying, “This thing that I’m going to teach, My
whole ministry, My Kingdom, I am going to unfold the mystery of it, RIGHT HERE and give you
knowledge, that up until this point, only God has had. Only God has possessed what I’m getting ready to
show to you. And when you think of Heaven, THIS is the principle that Heaven operates off of.”

Mark 4:13-15
13 And He said to them, “Do you not understand this parable?
How then will you understand all the parables?

14 The sower sows the word.

15 And these are the ones by the wayside where the word is sown.
When they hear, Satan comes immediately
and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts.

   >> You don’t want to be in this group.

Mark 4:16-17
16 These likewise are the ones sown on stony ground who,
when they hear the word, immediately receive it with gladness;

17 and they have no root in themselves, and so endure only for a time.
Afterward, when tribulation or persecution arises for the word’s sake,
immediately they stumble.

   >> These are the folks saved on Sunday, and then are drunk two days later.

Mark 4:18-19
18 Now these are the ones sown among thorns;
they are the ones who hear the word,

19 and the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches,
and the desires for other things entering in
choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

   >> These are the ones that get under stress, and it’s going to either push you to God or away from
   God. And these are the folks when adversity comes, the tend to go back to old habits – instead of
   moving toward God in a cry for help.

Mark 4:20
20 But these are the ones sown on good ground,
those who hear the word, accept it, and bear fruit:
some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.”

Now, here’s what we were talking about, but let me go back and say this: it is very common in the circles
of church, likened unto ours (I don’t know if I’ve ever been in one like this one), but Pentecostal circles,
charismatic churches, full gospel-filled churches, it is COMMON to want the super-natural to come in
only ONE form – and that is “instantaneous.”

The Bible says, “there is the WORKING of miracles.” Sometimes, a miracle has to be WORKED.

We think anything that miraculous (I don’t know who started teaching that), it if indeed is a miracle -
it’s sudden. It’s instantaneous. BUT, the Bible says, “Miracles is a gift and they are the WORKING
of miracles.”

That many times, God’s outcome will be miraculous, BUT it will go through a PROCESS to get
there. You’ll get the miracle, but you’re going to have to walk out some things to get to that
intended end that God has. Everything does not come through prayer, touches and healing lines.
Sometimes, you’ve got to walk some stuff out.

Keep in mind – there are sudden miracles and I have experienced them. There are sudden breakthroughs
and sudden advances of the anointing God.

But, I can tell you by experience, there have been more things that I have had to WORK.
You have to push it out.

Ron Carpenter, Redemption World Outreach Church

Final Moments by David Wilkerson

4/28/2011

Yesterday, on April 27, 2011, Reverend David Wilkerson was killed Wednesday in a car accident. He was the founding pastor of Times Square Church in New York City and author of the well-known book The Cross and the Switchblade. He posted the following blog the day of his death.

I wanted to share with you what he wrote - just hours before the accident.

Heather
healedofcancer.com

David Wilkerson Today

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 2011

WHEN ALL MEANS FAIL

To believe when all means fail is exceedingly pleasing to God and is most
acceptable. Jesus said to Thomas, “You have believed because you have seen,
but blessed are those that do believe and have not seen” (John 20:29).

Blessed are those who believe when there is no evidence of an answer to
prayer—who trust beyond hope when all means have failed.

Someone has come to the place of hopelessness—the end of hope—the end of
all means. A loved one is facing death and doctors give no hope. Death seems
inevitable. Hope is gone. The miracle prayed for is not happening.

That is when Satan’s hordes come to attack your mind with fear, anger,
overwhelming questions: “Where is your God now? You prayed until you had no
tears left. You fasted. You stood on promises. You trusted.”

Blasphemous thoughts will be injected into your mind: “Prayer failed. Faith
failed. Don’t quit on God—just do not trust him anymore. It doesn’t
pay!”

Even questioning God’s existence will be injected into your mind. These have
been the devices of Satan for centuries. Some of the godliest men and women who
ever lived were under such demonic attacks.

To those going through the valley and shadow of death, hear this word: Weeping
will last through some dark, awful nights—and in that darkness you will soon
hear the Father whisper, “I am with you. I cannot tell you why right now, but
one day it will all make sense. You will see it was all part of my plan. It was
no accident. It was no failure on your part. Hold fast. Let me embrace you in
your hour of pain.”

Beloved, God has never failed to act but in goodness and love. When all means
fail—his love prevails. Hold fast to your faith. Stand fast in his Word.
There is no other hope in this world.

David Wilkerson
Read this devotion online: http://www.worldchallenge.org/en/node/13112

The Faith Trilogy I: Run Your Mouth, Run Your Life (Part 3)

4/27/2011

Mark 4:18-20
18 And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word,

19 And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches,
and the lusts of other things entering in,
choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

20 And these are they which are sown on good ground;
such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit,
some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred.

I feel like a whole new world is breaking open! You don’t even really realize what’s happening, but you are
being handed the methodology of the way God runs the universe. See, God runs the universe with Words
and He wants you to run yours the same way He runs His… with your words. He didn’t put the power of life
or death in your arm, or in your leg, or in your back – He put it in your tongue. You can make it live, or you
can kill it, right here in your mouth.

Now, the sower sows the Word. “When they hear, satan comes immediately and takes away the Word
sown in their hearts.” In the New Testament, the word, “Spirit” and “Heart” are the SAME place. It’s
interchangeable. When Jesus mentions the “heart”, He’s not talking about the blood pumper. He’s talking
about the Spirit element of a man - the real person inside the shell – when He talks about the “heart” of
a man.

Now, Jesus said His Words are Spirit and they are Life. Well, it’s the Holy Spirit or my Heart on the inside
of me. So, whenever I get the Word, the Word and the Holy Spirit are made of the SAME thing. The Word
can’t work for you until there’s a place inside of you for it to go. The Kingdom can’t work for you unless this
Spirit lives on the inside of you. Because I got to take WORDS out of an invisible realm and tuck
them in you, in a visible place.

The Bible says, that the Word is sown in the heart. In other words, the soil for Word is “heart.” The problem
is after you hear this, this Word is not in your heart – it’s in your head. Your brain is not the soil for Word.
Your heart is!

But the majority of people sitting in a service never get the Word past their head. And can’t understand
why the Word doesn’t work for them. You’ve got to understand the priority of soil. I can take orange seeds
with the potential to get me an orange grove, and if I drop them on that parking lot, or sidewalk, or on hard,
untilled red clay – if I put it in anything other than what it was supposed to be put in, its potential
stays in it and never comes out.

It’s only when seed gets in soil that it has the ability to produce. Now, let me tell you what soil does. Soil
resists the seed. And when the seed is resisted, it pulls the potential out of the seed. Whatever is in the
seed, that soil will resist the seed enough to push its potential out.

The Bible talks about that harvest, many times, comes with persecution. There will be something that
resists the Word that you have gotten. Whenever you meet resistance, after God has given you a Word,
it pulls the potential (in the seed) out of it. If you don’t have any resistance in life, that means satan
has already gotten the Word and you don’t have anything in you anyway.

So, you have to understand that many times, your harvest only comes with some adversity. Seeds have
to land in soil. The soil for Word is YOUR SPIRIT, because your Spirit is made out of the same stuff
and they must come together, to form something that can come out of your mouth. When it comes out of
your mouth, you are releasing creative forces in the earth, for your life in the earth, for the things that (up
until that time) were only made available in Heaven.

So, God DEPOSITS in your Spirit, out of the overflow of the heart, what the mouth speaks.
I believe; therefore, I speak. I am changing my reality by the force of the Word that’s coming out of
my mouth. And keeping in step with God, usually puts you at odds with people, because you will
always appear to be talking something that nobody around you can see. And they don’t understand
you, because you talk, ‘Faith Talk.’ Why? Because all they have is what they SEE. But you have
something much better than what you can see – you have what you HEARD. And it’s very hard to
get someone else to see what you’ve heard. Don’t ever talk to please people; talk to please God.

I thank God for Heaven in the earth, and let it start inside of me. Let’s take a look at the book of John, chapter 15:

John 15:7
“If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you…”

   You’ve got to have something in you. You can’t go to God with an empty heart.
   You go to God with, “You said, Father.”

Now, let’s finish the rest of verse 7:

John 15:7
“If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you,
you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.”

   God is saying, “What’s on your heart. What do you want to do? Come in and talk with me.”

For those cynical people that don’t want anybody to be blessed… let’s look at John, chapter 15, verse 8:

John 15:8
“By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit;”

   God wants to do a LOT with your life – not a little.
   Some say, “Well, I don’t know how He could use me.”

1 Corinthians 1:27
“But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise;
and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;”

   Well, not many ‘mighty’ are called. He takes the foolish things of the world, to confound the wise.

Ron Carpenter, Redemption World Outreach Church

The Faith Trilogy I: Run Your Mouth, Run Your Life (Part 2)

4/26/2011

The Kingdom of God is within you. The Kingdom of Heaven is within you. We became a carrier of the
Holy Ghost Himself. We live with the living, breathing God of Heaven on the inside of me. So, the same
stuff in Heaven is now inside of me. So, God said, “whatever it is you need, I’ll give to you in SEED
form.” He doesn’t give you the OAK TREE. He gives you the seed, and tells you to work it, because the
tree is inside the acorn. The apple is in the apple seed. The power of the seed is in itself. All you got to
have is the seed, and you’ve got everything in it.

Mark 4:1-9 (The Parable of the Sower)
1 And again He began to teach by the sea. And a great multitude was gathered to Him,
so that He got into a boat and sat in it on the sea; and the whole multitude was on the land facing the sea.

2 Then He taught them many things by parables,
and said to them in His teaching:

3 “Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow.

4 And it happened, as he sowed, that some seed fell by the wayside;
and the birds of the air came and devoured it.

5 Some fell on stony ground, where it did not have much earth;
and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of earth.

6 But when the sun was up it was scorched,
and because it had no root it withered away.

7 And some seed fell among thorns; and the thorns grew up and choked it,
and it yielded no crop.

8 But other seed fell on good ground and yielded a crop that sprang up,
increased and produced: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.”

9 And He said to them, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”

Now, folks, a lot of teachers will skip over theses verses to get to the main statement. The main statement
is not in the parable, but in the statement getting ready to INTRODUCE the parable. Listen to what
Jesus said right here:

Mark 4:10-13 (The Purpose of Parables)
10 But when He was alone, those around Him with the twelve
asked Him about the parable.

11 And He said to them, “To you it has been given to know the MYSTERY
of the kingdom of God; but to those who are outside, all things come in parables,

12 so that

    ‘ Seeing they may see and not perceive,
      And hearing they may hear and not understand;
      Lest they should turn,
      And their sins be forgiven them.’”

13 And He said to them, “Do you not understand this parable?
How then will you understand ALL the parables?

He said, “I’m going to let you in, and give you information on what, up ‘til this point, I have only been able
to access myself by being God.” He said, “I alone know how to run My Kingdom, but today, in your ears,
I’m going to give you access to privileged information, and I’m going to tell you how to make this thing I
run, work for you.”

Many teachers skip over this verse: Mark 4:13. Jesus said, “He is going to tell you how to operate the
land I live in,” and He said, “if you don’t get this, then take every other sermon you’ve heard and flush it
in the toilet. If you don’t get this, then nothing else you hear, will work.” And Jesus said, “it is the
MYSTERY of the Kingdom of God.”

Your miracle is going to come out of the Word of God. If you have none of this, then you have nothing to
have you prayer answered. Jesus said, “If you will abide in Me, I’ll abide in you.”

Why can you ask whatever in His Will, and it will be done? Because, if you have the Word in you, the
SEED to birth it, is already in the earth. You don’t have to pull it out of Heaven. The seed, for whatever
you’re asking God to do, already lies within you, IF you’ll just take your FAITH and work that seed!!!

The sower sows the WORD.

   X The sower doesn’t sow opinion.

   X The sower doesn’t sow traditions.

   X The sower doesn’t sow what grandma used to say.

   NONE of that is Word.

The sower sows the WORD.

   X The sower does not sow what they’re going through.

   X The sower does not sow the conditions of their life.

   X The sower does not sow how bad it is, or how bad it hurts.

The sower sows the WORD.

If you’re sowing anything else, it has NO power to work on your behalf. The only thing that has power to
work out of your mouth, is the power of the WORD. If you’ll say the same thing God says, you can get
the same results God gets.

Mark 4:15-20
15 And these are the ones by the wayside where the word is sown.
When they hear, Satan comes immediately and takes away the word
that was sown in their hearts.

16 These likewise are the ones sown on stony ground who,
when they hear the word, immediately receive it with GLADNESS;

“Gladness” --> these are the people who are happy at church, and then lose it when they get home.

Mark 4:17
“and they have no root in themselves, and so endure only for a time.
Afterward, when tribulation or persecution arises for the word’s sake,
immediately they stumble.”

As soon as stress hits, they go back to what they know and leave the Word.

Ron Carpenter, Redemption World Outreach Church

The Faith Trilogy I: Run Your Mouth, Run Your Life (Part 1)

4/25/2011

Deuteronomy 11:10
“For the land which you go to possess is not like the land of Egypt
from which you have come”

In Deuteronomy, God said, “the land you’re going into is not like Egypt”. This is not that - where you’re
going is not like where you’ve been. I’m entering places I’ve never been before. When your life is in
God’s hands, the “No” of God is just a big blessing as the “Yes” of God. Some of you are walking through
too small of doors and He has to shut them.

Faith deals with visible and non-visible. Everything you need already exists. God already had everything
ready that you would need, to finish your life here – waiting on you, when you got here. When you got here,
everything you needed to fulfill your purpose, was ALREADY here.

Look at God’s creative order… He created light, before He created grass. Why? Because grass could not
be sustained without light. So, by the time grass got there, it had everything it needed to sustain it
(survive). He created grass, before He created cattle. So, by the time cattle got here, the cattle had
everything it needed.

God has a creative process. When you showed up, there was no lack. Everything was already provided,
for everything you need to fulfill your purpose. That is RADICAL!

The problem is, it’s in another realm. It’s not really a problem, but rather, a challenge of FAITH.

So, God tucked away all of your blessings in an invisible realm that the Bible teaches is the real one, and
says this one is the subordinate one. That this one is to be ruled by the one you CAN’T see. The one
you can’t see is an eternity. It has no beginning or end. Everything created here was created out of
something in the INvisible realm.

So, I’ve got to take that same principle and apply it to my life. That’s why you NEVER beg God. If
you’re a sinner, you don’t have to beg for what is already in your father’s house. So, we have to change
the way we approach God. The Bible says to come BOLDLY. Why? Because Jesus gave you right to
access. You’ve been given the right. Your needs have been met. Jesus is FINISHED.

But, it is all in an INVISIBLE realm. Faith cometh by hearing. The just live by faith. We live by FAITH,
not by sight. The Bible is now telling us that our dominant sight, the eye, will LIE to me. The Bible says,
what I can see is a liar. And what I hear is true.

So now, the enemy’s job is to erect things in front of my sight, that contradict what I’ve heard. What is
seen is TEMPORARY, and subject to change. But the unseen is eternal and not subject to change.
So, I’ve got to reach in the unseen to change what is in front of my eyes. What I see is lying to me. It is
not an eternal thing. It can change.

If you can see it, it can change. If you aren’t hearing anything, then all you have is what you’re looking at.
And that is a sad way to live. Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. So, what God
tells me is true. What I see is a fact. However, facts are NOT in charge. It comes in 2nd. The facts are
subject to the truth. Because the Bible says He is called above ALL names and His Word.

So, when I get a Word from God about Healing, it takes a higher authority than what I see happening right
in front of my eyes. So, I’ve got to disregard what I see, and SPEAK what I’ve heard. I have believed;
therefore, I have spoken. Don’t speak the mess you see, but speak the Word that has been put in your soul!

How long do I say this? I say it until I see the thing (healing) turn around. And if it ain’t changed yet,
KEEP saying it! Look at your [sickness/disease] and say it until it changes. The Word heals me. You tell
your sickness to go. It shall be done for you if you have FAITH.

If you have faith like a mustard seed… you don’t have to have a mountain of faith. Jesus said, if you have
just a little faith, I will take that and move your mountain and throw it away.

So, God had to create an avenue, by which to get Heavenly things into the earth. He gave us the
mechanism, called FAITH and He had to give us a place of transfer. So, Jesus came, because
everybody is full of sin. Jesus said, I’m going to come and die on the Cross to get the sin out, so that
the Kingdom can come.

Ron Carpenter, Redemption World Outreach Church

Let Your Life Be Filled with God’s Light: It’s All About Honesty

4/22/2011

As we celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, let us be reminded of our purpose while on
this earth: to tell others of the Gospel of Jesus, about Salvation and about Healing.

We have been looking at the series on "Being Filled With God's Light," but starting on
Monday, we will return to the Faith series by Pastor Ron Carpenter of Redemption World
Outreach Church in Greenville, South Carolina.

Until then, have a Blessed weekend,
Heather
healedofcancer.com

Keith Moore
2 Timothy 2:26
“and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil,
having been taken captive by him to do his will”

This verse says, you can recover yourself out of the snare of the devil. Nobody even has to pray for you.
The truth makes you free. And the Light is back in your eyes. And now you’re saying, “Lord, I’m going to
do it. That thing you told me to do 20 years ago, that I ignored, I’m going to do it!”

Now, it you take that step, you’ll come right out of darkness, and the Light begins to get brighter, and He’ll
show you another step to take. At any point, we quit taking the steps and we start acting dumb, it WILL
get dark. You will get in bondage, but if you keep walking in the Light, it gets brighter and brighter.

Kenneth Copeland
And in the Light… Light never condemns you. He’s NOT giving you that Light so you can condemn
yourself. Condemnation never changes anything. You can beat yourself over the head because you didn’t
do whatever that was, and stayed right there in that mess, feeling sorry for yourself.

You need to acknowledge what you did, repent of it in Jesus’ Name and with His help, you’ll go on with
this. Instead of going on and on about how sorry you are. Get off that! Get honest before God and before
yourself.

Keith Moore
You chose to believe a lie. Because when you get truth in Light, and you don’t want it, what else is there
to believe, except lies. But, if you reject the Light, the devil will be right there, to give you lies, to justify
yourself. But it’s all about honesty. Jesus talked about the different types of ground, that the seed (the
Word) was sown on, and the good ground, the Bible says, that which in a good, honest and good heart
brings forth 30, 60, 100 fold.

One of the chief characteristics of a heart, of a life that produces the Word, is HONEST. Honest. And
everyone of us has made mistakes in these areas.

Kenneth Copeland
We just have to stand on the Word of God and walk in it.

Keith Moore
People… they play games. They play games with their spouse, their family, their friends, acting like they
don’t know stuff, and soliciting their sympathy, but it is a trap of the devil. You just open yourself up to being
deceived and to being blinded.

If you see it, you see it. Admit it. Act like you do. Walk in the Light that you have. Acknowledge what you
see and know, and don’t play games. Humble yourself. The humble get grace. And with enough Grace, you
can come out of anything. You’ll say, “Well, how can I do it?” With enough Grace, you can receive
ANYTHING from God.

Kenneth Copeland
You can obtain Mercy and Grace in a time of need.

Keith Moore, Faith Life Church, Branson, MO; Kenneth Copeland, KCM.org

Good Friday - Easter

4/22/2011

We all need to remember what Easter really means... not bunnies, or coloured eggs, or chocolate candies, or even your new Easter dress/suit...

Today is Good Friday, and three days later, He rose from the grave.

Jesus Christ was beaten beyond recognition for ALL of our
diseases and sicknesses so we can be
Healed NOW... in THIS world!

Jesus was then nailed to a cross and died
so we may be saved!

On the third day,
Jesus rose from the grave
so that we may live with Him forever!

Not saved? Would you like to know how? Click this link.

Let Your Life Be Filled with God’s Light: Playing Church

4/21/2011

Keith Moore
The problem is dishonesty. People know much more than they are acknowledging that they know. When
people are confused and they are in the dark, it’s because they rejected Light somewhere.

Else wise, they wouldn’t be in this situation of, “What do I do? I need help. I don’t know how to do it.” If they
had walked in the Light, the Lord would have led them into MORE light and the truth would have made them
free and they wouldn’t be desperate looking for answers. That’s me and everyone of us. I have to remind
myself that God is faithful, to EVERY person.

People like to play church, and solicit sympathy. And that’s where dishonesty is at the root of that. People
like to say, “Well, I’m doing the best I can,” and that’s usually a lie. I know people don’t like to hear that, but
it’s usually a lie. But they say, “I’m doing every thing I know!” Really? People say, “God knows my heart.”
Exactly! He does! He knows exactly what He has shown you.

And you might be able to con some people, but he KNOWS what you know. He knows what you have seen
and that is the BIG thing. It’s folks acting… playing church. Acting like they don’t know. This is dangerous.

If you reject Light long enough, you become deceived. Now, you really do believe you don’t know. And, it’s
a lie, BUT you believe it. And you get in a place where it’s hard to get Light, because you’re adamant that,
“Well, I don’t see. I don’t know. I don’t understand.” But there was a place back here that you did see
something. But you chose NOT to want it.

Kenneth Copeland
How do you rejuvenate that Light? How do you get out of that, where you honestly are, to the point where
you think you don’t know it?

Keith Moore
Yes, there is a way to do this. See, here a person has, well in James it says, “If you’re a hearer of the Word,
and not a doer, you deceive yourself.”

The devil DIDN’T do this to you.

> YOU saw something and you didn’t want it that way.
> YOU saw something you needed to change, but you didn’t want to change.

So, you pretended you didn’t see it, you ignored it, you played dumb. You do that long enough and you’ll
deceive yourself. You get to the place where you believe you never saw it, and you can’t understand it. So,
you’re opposing yourself. You know, this is not even the devil.

2 Timothy 2:25-26 (New King James Version)
25 in humility correcting those who are in opposition,
if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the TRUTH,

26 and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil,
having been taken captive by him to do his will.

1 John 1:9
“If we confess our sins,
He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins
and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

What you have to do is this… God will give you repentance. Repentance is a gift. That you see where you
missed it and at that point you need to be honest and you need to admit what you saw and what you did,
and if you’ll repent, the Light is back in your eyes.

Keith Moore, Faith Life Church, Branson, MO; Kenneth Copeland, KCM.org

Let Your Life Be Filled with God’s Light: When You See or Hear or Know of Somebody that Got Healed, That is Light

4/20/2011

1 John 1:7
“But if we walk in the light as He is in the light,
we have fellowship with one another,
and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.”

Kenneth Copeland
God is faithful to give every human being “Light”. The problems involved are not with God. The problems
are in the darkness of this world. Satan blinds the mind of them, but that doesn’t stop God.

Keith Moore
When we think of Light, we think of hearing the Word and getting Light, and that is one of the greatest
ways that Light comes. BUT it’s not the only way.

In Romans 1, we saw Creation itself speaking and revealing Light. The cycles of nature, the heavens,
the atmosphere, the flow of the oceans and river systems, even in its fallen, cursed state, it is revealing
rounds of Light about the very person of God… Who He is, What His tasks are, the beauty that has
come out of Him.

There’s Light, and when you see somebody spared, that was Light. When you see or hear or know of
somebody that got Healed, that is Light.

Kenneth Copeland
Jesus is the Light of the world. Looking at Him, is going to lead you to Him.

Keith Moore
The Light is all around us. And so, there is no excuse for anybody on the planet to say,

     >> “Well, I had no idea that there was God.”

And another say,

     >> “Well, they never heard about Jesus.”

Yeah, but if they had walked in the Light on God they had, He would have led them TO Jesus.

Everybody that looks up and says,

   >> “God, I believe in you. I wish you would reveal yourself to me.”

They are just a few steps away from meeting Jesus. It is NOT a problem of lack of Light; it’s a problem
of rejecting Light.

John 3:16-19
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son,
that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world,
but that the world through Him might be saved.

18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned;
but he who does not believe is condemned already,
because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

19 And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world,
and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

In verse 19, this is the condemnation. This is how the judgment comes in. “Men loved darkness rather
than Light.” It’s not that they didn’t see the Light. They saw it, and they didn’t want it.

You know, Jesus told the religious leaders of His day, He said that the prostitute and these and those that
you so despise, they are going to get into the Kingdom before you. And that made them mad. And Jesus
explained and He said, they, when they saw it, they came in and repented. He said, but you, when you
saw it... So, they SAW it.

MANY of the leaders of the Jews of His day, they saw that He was the fulfillment of prophecy, but they
rejected Him.

Kenneth Copeland
John 3:21
21 But he who does the truth comes to the light,
that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”

If you’ll act on the Word of God, it will be made manifest, that what he does has God in it.

Keith Moore
He that walks in the Light, comes to the Light – has more Light. But the person that sees it and has
darkness… so they cling to the darkness and say,

     >> “I don’t want the Light.”

They literally closed their eyes, they shut their eyes, so that they don’t see it anymore. It’s not just
ignorance. It is rejection of Light.

Matthew 13:12 (Amplified Bible)
“For whoever has [spiritual knowledge], to him will more be given
and he will be furnished richly so that he will have abundance;
but from him who has not,
even what he has will be taken away.”

This passage is quoted from:
   > Isaiah,
   > also in Matthew,
   > also in Mark,
   > also in Luke,
   > also in John,
   > also in Acts,
   > also in Romans

This SAME passage. This has to be of preeminent importance, to be repeated that many times
throughout the scripture… 7 times.

Matthew 13:15 (Amplified Bible)
“For this nation's heart has grown gross (fat and dull),
and their ears heavy and difficult of hearing,
and their eyes they have tightly closed,

lest they see and perceive with their eyes,
and hear and comprehend the sense with their ears,
and grasp and understand with their heart,

and turn and I should heal them.”

Their eyes… the devil DIDN’T do this. God sure didn’t do it. THEY have tightly closed their eyes,
“lest they would see.” That’s why they didn’t want to see it – they didn’t want to change. They wanted to
hold on to the darkness they were in.

But if they HAD, He said, “I should HEAL them. I would heal them.”

Kenneth Copeland
This scripture (Matthew 13:15) says anytime I see this, hear this and let it change the way I think and the
way I speak and the way I act, then you’re Healed.

So, this is anytime.

Keith Moore, Faith Life Church, Branson, MO; Kenneth Copeland, KCM.org