Morris Cerullo - Proof producers : what must we do that we might work the works of God (John 6:28)

Proof Producers

What must we do that we might work the works of God. (John 6:28)

Morris Cerullo

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DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to my lovely and faithful wife, Theresa, who has stood by me in the nations of the world for almost half a century helping me proclaim the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

She is known affectionately as "Mama" by millions of Nationals worldwide who recognize her spiritual life in prayer and support of our ministry together.

Theresa, only in Heaven will your true sacrifice be known. I love you more now, as we approach the coming of the Lord, than I could ever express with mere words.

God reached an orphan boy...

Morris Cerullo returned in 1973 to visit the Daughters of Miriam Jewish Orthodox home in Clifton, New Jersey, where God visited him, at the age of 14 1/2, and revealed Jesus as the Messiah.

INTRODUCTION

HOW THIS MESSAGE WAS BORN

Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? (John 6:28)

To the historical religious systems of 2,000 years ago, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ was an extreme revolutionary.

This Proof Producers message, What must we do that we might work the works of God ?, at this writing has been shared personally with more than

900,000 National ministers and laypersons around the world. I thank God that He has anointed this message in a tremendous way to enrich thousands of ministries worldwide many times over.

Two personal experiences I had with God have played an important part in the development of this revolutionary message.

The first of these experiences took place in 1946 when God came to me...a young boy in a Jewish Orthodox orphanage...in a tremendous, amazing act of God's love and grace...to reveal to me Jesus as the Messiah.

This revelation did not come through ordinary channels or conventional means of witnessing. It came through a very supernatural working together of events, circumstances and manifestations of God. The supernatural manner in which God chose to reveal Himself to me has become part and parcel of the basic characteristics of my life. It has helped me to understand God's direct leadings and dealing with individuals which often are unexplainable to the human mind.

God speaks to His people today (and specifically to His prophets of this 20th century) just as He spoke to Moses, Abraham, Isaiah, Elijah, or any of the individuals we read about in the Bible that God chose to use in a special way.

In the 18th chapter of Genesis as the Lord planned to deal with Sodom and Gomorrah after their wickedness, we read this revealing question:

And the Lord said , shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do?

(Genesis 18:17)

God wanted to share with His servant. God talked with Abraham and told this faithful old servant just what His plans were. He also discloses to us in verse 19 why He chose to reveal Himself to Abraham. He said:

For I know him...

God knew what Abraham would do with the special privileges he receives from Him. God knew that He could trust this man and so He was able to communicate with him in a very personal way. James tells us that Abraham was called "the friend of God" (James 2:23).

Moses also was a friend with whom God could communicate on a one-to-one basis and reveal His plans:

And the Lord speaketh unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend...

(Exodus 33:11)

Amos 3:7 says this:

Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.

These promises are not just for "Bible days." Actually there is no such thing as "Bible days" or "days, of miracles"...what we have is a never-changing God Who is present in every period of time. God never changes!

God has not discontinued dealing with men personally.

He has not drawn a cloak over Himself. He wants to reveal Himself. He wants to communicate with faithful men and women just as much as He ever has.

HOW GOD SPEAKS TO ME

God has spoken to me many times.

Sometimes God speaks in a clear voice just as real as my speaking to you. Sometimes He speaks through impressions in the spirit which, while not audible to the natural ear, nevertheless are very, very real. Because I know Him, I recognize His voice.

In this book I will refer to a number of experiences when God has spoken to me. These times of personal confrontation are what have shaped the course and destiny of this ministry.

One such occasion when God dealt with me on a very personal level is the foundation for this revelation message and of this book. It provides the motivation behind the entire concept of training dedicated National ministers and lay people around the world in the key of evangelism which God has entrusted to me and through which an army of disciples has been trained to reach this entire world for Jesus Christ.

This charge literally was thrust into my spirit by God in an extraordinary way during the time I was conducting a crusade in Porto Alegre , Brazil, in 1962.

One night I was ministering to 50,000 people at the Exposition Grounds. I had been ministering only a short time when a tremendous pain shot across my chest. I thought I was having a heart attack.

We conduct most of our overseas meetings in a stadium or on an open field where we build a very simple little platform. A board nailed to the railing serves as the pulpit to hold my Bible.

When this pain struck me across my chest like a thunderbolt, I grabbed for that little piece of wood that served as a pulpit, and I held onto it. My whole body was doubled up in pain. "Am I going to die?" I wondered. "Is God going to take me home?"

I grasped for my overseas crusade director's hand and pulled him to the microphone. I was unable to tell him in that split second what was taking place, but I said to him, "Please, you finish this meeting. It is impossible for me to go on. Something has happened; I must get back to my hotel."

I managed to get to my automobile, which was parked right behind the platform, and the driver took me back to my hotel room.

My clothes were wet with perspiration from exertion and pain but I did not even pause to take them off. I just got on my face before God on the floor of that room.

I THOUGHT I HAD MY HOME CALL...

I asked God, "Lord, are You going to take me home?"

The Spirit of God came into my room and spoke to me just as I suspect He spoke to His prophets of old.

He said to me, "Son, I have permitted this to happen to you for a purpose."

I said, "Lord, please, teach me."

(By this time I realized that the pain had left. I have never had the faintest recurrence of such a thing in my life.)

As I lay before God, totally submissive, God asked me a very peculiar question.

He said, "Morris, what do you want out of this life?"

I thought, "That is very strange for God to ask me that."

God knew my heart. He knows all our hearts. He knows our thoughts, our intents. He knows us better than we know ourselves.

My wife, Theresa, and I at this writing, are in our 46th year of evangelism on the fields throughout the world without a break. In all of those years I have never disobeyed God. Every time God told me to go somewhere, every time God told me to do something, I did it. I never disobeyed Him.