Morris Cerullo - Making possible your impossibilities

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1

HOW DO YOU DO IT?

Each time I go into a city in America or a foreign country to conduct a major crusade, we meet with the representatives of the press and other news media such as radio and television. Whether it is in Miami, Florida; Denver, Colorado; or the heart of the African jungle, the first question they ask is always the same: "Brother Cerullo , how do you heal the sick?"

My reply generally brings a strange look from men and women who like to feel that they have already heard everything and nothing is new: "Morris Cerullo has absolutely nothing to do with the healing of the sick bodies...absolutely nothing! This is not the work of a man but the work of the Holy Spirit of the living God!"

This is the very foundation of this message and this ministry; making possible your impossibilities requires the work of the Holy Spirit!

As a basis for this message, I want to tell you the story of a great miracle that took place in the Bible. We will use the remarkable story of a remarkable woman who pressed through a crowd to obtain a remarkable miracle.

"A certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, and had suffered many things of many physicians and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind and touched his garment. For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague"

Mark 5:25, KJV

We place emphasis on that last statement because we always have people who say you should not trust your feelings. She did not have a chance to get an examination by a doctor, but she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.

"And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes? And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? And he looked around about to see her that had done this thing. But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth. And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace and be whole of thy plague."

Mark 5:30-34, KJV

If this miracle had taken place in our day, someone probably would have taken the garment and placed it in a glass case in some cathedral to be a memorial or shrine. Others might go to a greater extreme and cut it up and use it as prayer cloths and send them out through the mail.

This dear woman pressed through and touched the hem of Jesus' garment. Then, Jesus, knowing the frailty and the weakness of man, immediately called this woman to His side and in His words said: "Thy faith hath made thee whole."

This was the message: "There is no virtue in My garment which you touched. It is nothing more than a piece a cloth."

We are not of the household of cults or mystics. When we talk about divine healing, we are not placing ourselves in the category of "faith healers". There is no mysticism, no magic...

Jesus looked at this woman and said, "Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole!" He was explaining to her that it was not pressing through the crowd and grabbing hold of His garment that healed her but her faith...this is what healed her!

The greatest power in the whole world is the Power of Faith in God.

There are three things I want to point out that happened in the life of this woman and helped her to... make possible her impossibilities.

Chapter 2

SHE CAME TO THE END OF HERSELF

If the medical profession were on the scene 2,000 years ago with all the medical knowledge they have today they probably would have diagnosed this woman's case as an incurable cancer, "an issue of blood."

I pray God to give us spiritual eyes to see the condition of this woman. She had spent all she had on physicians and was not getting better, in fact, she grew worse.

We believe in medical science. We are not quack faith-healers. We thank God for good doctors. We thank God for medical science and its advanced technology that is helping to overcome disease and sickness.

A physician brought his family to one of our World Conferences. His young son had very bad eyesight. In one of the services, while the precious Holy Spirit was moving across the audience, the little boy's eyes were perfectly healed. The doctor brought his son back to the next conference to share the story of his son's healing and enhanced life after being healed by God's power!

We believe in medical science and in doctors, yes, but we also believe there is only one power in heaven and earth. That power has the final word in the healing of our diseases and afflictions and does not come from the hands of man. Man can assist nature but man cannot heal. No physician on this earth who will tell you he has the capacity to heal.

Only God can heal!

The lady in the Bible story spent everything she had! She is like so many people of our day who have taken all the pills they have heard of, received a variety diagnoses and have done everything in the natural that is possible for them to do. Then they have been sent home to die.

No more moneyno more hope!

She Came to the End of Her Self

This is a strange situation. It is difficult for man to receive gifts from the hand of an omnipotent God until man has come to the end of self.

Oh, the heartache that is ours because we try to work out our problems. Oh, the dead-end streets we travel on this earth because we try to take situations into our own hands and try to find the solutions in ourselves.

This is what salvation is all about: Death to self!

What Man Cannot Produce

In himself man cannot produce anything! He cannot produce happiness, he cannot produce faith, he cannot produce healing, and he cannot produce the blessings of God!

The Bible says:

"Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone .. "

The Results of "I" Rule

You have never seen a more lonely person than the selfcentered individual. You have never seen a person more in despair. No person possesses more grief than the individual who lets "I" rule and reign in his life.

"Man has nothing in himself but that he receives it from above."

This is what salvation is all about. The key to salvation is the surrender of our wills to God.

The power that brought the curse of sin, sickness, despair, sorrow, pain and misery upon man was the assertion of man's will as he rose up with his own will against God.

The Image of God

Have you really tried to understand what the Scripture meant when it said that we were created in the image of God? Did you ever look in the mirror and say, "Do I look like a god?" And then say, "Oh, no, I don't think God has my eyes. Surely He doesn't have my nose." Yet, the Bible says we are created in the image of God. If God doesn't have our physical features, where then is the image of God?

The image of God is not in our outward physical features, but the image of God is deep down inside us. It is in our inner spirit. It is in our inner man, our inner being!

No Strings

God made us miniature gods. You say, "Brother Cerullo , how do you know that?" I know because Jesus said so, "Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?" (John 10:34). God didn't make strings on our feet to make us first put up one and then the other. Oh, no! We were created in the image of God. Every man, woman and child was born with a free moral will. God could not choose for him or her.

God gave each person an authority over his mind, his spirit, his total being. But man used that god-like power against God. He chose to disobey the..."Thus saith the Lord."