Morris Cerullo - Taking Gods power

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter One

THE GREATEST POWER IN THE WORLD

To hear top government leaders around the world and media services tell it, the earth is in the grip of impending disastrous depletions of energy and power resources that have sent scientists and explorers scuttling feverishly to find new sources of supply for vital human needs.

The age in which we live is very power conscious. We speak of the relative power of our war missiles in comparison with those of other countries. We speak of the horsepower in our cars and aircraft and the accomplishments made possible through modern-day industries based on power-driven tools and machinery.

So, when we think of a loss of energy, the natural man is alarmed and threatened.

The area of power I want to talk about, however, is not in the area of natural power or natural resources but it is the greatest power that there is or ever has been.

There is no way, shape or form in which this power can be depleted or diminished. There is a foolproof , dynamic pipeline that we, as human beings, have by which we may tap the resources of this power for our own lives our own needs.

That greatest power in all the world is God's power.

The means by which we may take that power, use it and have it as a constantly flowing, undiminished resource in our own lives, is the greatest power which we as human beings have: the power of our faith.

When I speak of natural resources, I am speaking of things that exist on this earth such as water, oil and gas, but, in reality, these also all have their source and their beginning with God.

While these are resources, what we have in and from God is the source. Even Webster's dictionary notes the difference.

On the other hand, "source" is listed by Webster as "the point of origin" or "a generative force". This is the beginning of all power, the source, or origin...and it is generative and self-sustaining. All-powerful. Everlasting. Forceful. Life-changing.

We have the power, permission, means and encouragement from God Himself to plug into that power source and obtain from the very point of origin the generative force and supply that we need for every facet of our lives.

One of the greatest miracle stories in the Bible is that of a widow who not only was able to see where the source of power lay to have her needs met, but was able to use the power that she had within herself to obtain the answer to the most vital need in her life, to see her impossibility not only made possible but completely accomplished.

This woman's story is told in Mark 5:24-34: "And Jesus went with him; and much people followed him, and thronged him. And 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. 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 round 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."

As we study the ministry of Jesus Christ, it seems that Jesus specialized in doing the impossible, bringing healing of sicknesses that seemed incurable and solving problems that seemed absolutely insolvable in the natural.

This woman found the impossible accomplished in her life and I would like to share with you three things that happened in her experience that led her to the place where she was transformed from a poor, hopeless, drained, desperate individual into a strong, healthy, dynamic testimony of the miracle-working power of Jesus Christ.

In the natural, we might think that the experiences this woman had in the past were terrible experiences but in reality it was a marvelous thing that had happened to her for it paved the way for a tremendous miracle in her life.

What happened to her was simply this:

This lady came to the very end of herself and when she did, it opened the way for her to lay hold upon the greatest power in all the world...the transforming, inexhaustible positive power of Almighty God.

Chapter Two

THE UTTER EXHAUSTION OF SELF

In John 12:24, Jesus tells us: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." The woman we read about in the fifth chapter of Mark had come to the complete end of herself and of every natural resource and supply she had.

"And 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..." (Mark 5:25-26).

This woman was on her way home to die. She had spent all her money, she had tried every remedy, and she was going home to die.

It is not very easy for a person to come to that point.

Unless we come to that place of death of self, our life, our corn of wheat, is not productive at all.

Let us look at that four-letter word called "self." What might there be in that little word, as it related to us, that might hinder the working of the Holy Spirit in our lives?

I ask God by the power of the Holy Spirit to put a mirror before us today and let us look at ourselves. On the surface, there are many things that we have to die to.

I can deal only with the surface. The Holy Spirit and you yourself have to deal with the depth of your death to self.

One of the things that so many of us need to die to is our traditions.

We must die to them before the Holy Spirit can come into our lives and do something new and miraculous for us.

Often in our special healing services, we see people being slain under the power of God on a platform or the Holy Spirit coming and moving upon an audience in a unique way.

One morning, in such a service, there was an overflow crowd in the building. Among the many healed was one little lady who was sitting a great distance away from me.

This lady had a left leg that was much shorter than the other. The power of God came upon her and she was slain under the power of God right out in the aisle, maybe 40 or 50 feet away from the platform where I stood.

I am sure that "they don't do it like that" in many churches but we have to be willing before God to die to tradition if we are going to see the miraculous move of God.

That lady could have planted her feet and folded her arms and said, "Well, if God is going to heal me He has to do it in a more dignified, sophisticated way."

That lady would still be in the same condition she was when she came into the building but she was willing to submit to what God had for her and, as she submitted to Him, God healed her.

I will never forget a man from a nominal church background who was seeking the infilling of the Holy Spirit. He was having a very difficult time trying to shake the unwise people who were around him. They were well-meaning folk...but "well- meaners " often get in the way when God is trying to do something!

Someone would come along and lay hands on this poor man and say, "Let go."