Morris Cerullo - How to Take the Limits Off God

HOW TO TAKE THE LIMITS OFF GOD

How to Cut God Loose to Work Miracles in Your Life

by

Morris Cerullo

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1

GOD KNOWS NO LIMIT

The God we serve is a God Who knows no limit.

Say that out loud right now as you begin this book: "The God we serve is a God Who knows no limit."

Think about what you are saying as you say it once more: The God we serve is a God Who knows no limit!

God is unlimited...yet man limits an unlimited God.

God is completely unlimited as to time or space or condition...or to any concept for that matter. He is all powerful, all authoritative, all creative.

Absolutely nothing is impossible to Him.

There is no limit to His ability, no limit to His love, no limit to His mercy, no limit to His bountifulness, no limit to His desire to bless His people.

He is completely unlimited...yet most people, even Christians, limit an unlimited God. They see Him in narrow concepts.

The purpose of this book is to help you take the limit off God, to help you cut God loose to work for you not according to your limited capacity but according to His unlimited ability!

Man is a creature so infinitely inferior to the Creator, God, that it is hard to imagine how man can have any power with God. Yet he does.

Made of the dust of the earth, enjoying life only by the inbreathing of God, absolutely dependent on God for all provision...yet man has both the power and the tendency to limit God to the tiniest fraction of what He would and could be in that life and experience.

There are many, many ways and reasons why we limit God.

Many of these reasons have to do with background or environment. Many of them have to do with tradition. God has been presented to us within certain limits by our parents, our pastors, our teachers, our peers...and we see Him only within those limits.

"That's the way it is" or "That's the way we do it" gets to be the program and the practice in our churches and in our lives.

"That's the way it has always been done."

"That's the way my grandmother did it."

"That's the tradition."

We also limit God by our experiences or our natural ability to experience.

How often people say, "Show me a miracle, and I will believe, but until then, I won't believe anything I don't see. I won't accept anything I can't touch."

There is a main reason that we limit our unlimited God. It is at the base, the root of all the other reasons we might give.

It is this: We limit our unlimited God because we do not see Him as He really is.

That is a very important fact.

I pray that God will tear the blinding spiritual cataracts from your eyes, and you will be able to see Him as He really is. It will revolutionize your life completely.

We are living in a day when God is moving by His Spirit in a tremendous way. In what we call the "charismatic movement," we have seen the Holy Spirit sweep mightily across denominational barriers, across ethnic boundaries, against traditional patterns.

We have seen old-line denominational churches open their windows for a fresh, free flow of the Holy Spirit over their congregations. We have seen congregations of literally thousands of charismatics of many denominational backgrounds standing with hands upraised and praising God in the beautiful prayer language of the Holy Spirit.

We have seen prayer for the sick and afflicted become a regular part of the program and the appeal of many churches formerly closed to such activity, and we have seen many, many miracles performed where God's Spirit has been allowed free access.

And yet...

...there is so much more that God wants to do for us than what we have let Him do for us. What we have seen is not just a drop in the bucket, but an infinitesimal speck in an ocean.

In spite of the great outpouring of God's Spirit we are witnessing in our day, our churches still are filled with sick and afflicted people, with men and women and children who have problems and perplexities and burdens almost impossible to bear.

There are 35,000 reported suicides a year in the United

States with many experts believing that the actual figure is closer to 100,000...there are an estimated 15,000,000 alcoholics seeking answers to their problems in the depths of a whiskey bottle...there are more than 5,000 drug-related deaths a year...the divorce rate has reached nearly one out of every two marriages in North America....

I could go on and on.

All the while an unlimited God is on the throne of this universe, ready, willing and able to meet every need of mankind. Every need!

It is not only the heathen or the unchurched who are finding their needs unmet. Many good, Bible-believing, church-going Christians endure a multitude of difficulties. I wish you could see just a portion of the mail that comes into my office every week... astounding needs, overwhelming needs... financial, mental, emotional, family, sickness... yet there is not one single need among them that God is not able to meet if people would just learn how to take the limits off God, if they could just see Him as He really is and cut Him loose to do what He is able and wants to do for you!

In many places where God is moving and people are seeing many answers to prayer, they rejoice in what has been done (and rightly so) but they fail to see how much more God has for those who will open their lives to Him completely. Many churches and individuals have limited God to the point of blessing they have reached at the present time, and they even develop a certain sense of smugness with it.

They "have it." They "have arrived."

Some people, some churches, some denominations, think that they have seen all that God has for them, but nothing could be farther from the truth.

If what we see in the churches today is representative of all that God is...

If what we see in the churches today is representative of the power of the resurrected Christ...

...The world is in deep trouble.

I am convinced that God wants to burst out of the limits that we have put Him under and that He yearns to manifest His unlimited ability in our lives in a way we have not dreamed possible. We have seen a little of His miracle-working power, but I am convinced we have not seen anything yet compared to what God wants to do, and what He will do, as we cut Him loose to work according to His own ability.

Eighteen years ago God told me that we have not seen anything yet, that greater miracles are still to come.

I was just a young preacher, 28 years old, in the Philippine Islands for a crusade that continued for three breathtaking weeks because of what the Holy Spirit was doing.

On the last day we baptized more than 1,200 people in water in one of the largest water baptismal services ever recorded on the foreign field in one day. It took 50 National ministers all baptizing people at the same time to get the job done.

We went from that baptismal service to Roxas Park across the street from the city hall in Manila where about 30,000 people were present for the closing service.

In spite of the glow from the baptismal service we had just been in, and in spite of the great number of people who were packed together in the huge park for this service, one single, individual person in that great crowd stood out like a light.

We had put ropes up around the front of the crowd to keep the area directly in front of the platform clear. Right behind the rope, sitting on the ground, was the worst, twisted, emaciated mess of a man I have ever seen. He looked awful, what you might call a hopeless case.

I had been preaching only about ten minutes when God began to do an amazing thing. Before my eyes, this terribly crippled man began to get up. His bones began to break loose and pop and jerk, until they came completely untwisted and he began to walk right there in front of the huge crowd in the open space before the platform!