Ed Dufresne - How to Activate Miracles

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INTRODUCTION

God spoke up to me and said, "Tell my People to tell the world that They have power with Me, that He that is within Them is greater than he that is in the world." [1 John 4:4]

God wants you to know that YOU have power with HIM, and He wants you to TELL THE PEOPLE!!!

CHAPTER ONE

JESUS MINISTRY

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

And He closed the book, and He gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on Him

[Luke 4:18-20].

Jesus told the people that He was anointed of God. Everywhere He went, Jesus told the people that He was anointed of God. There's a reason. There is a law here that we need to learn: He told the people who He was and what He was doing; if He didn't tell them, then faith wouldn't come (faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God [Rom. 10:17]). And, if WE don't tell the world who WE are, in Christ, how are they to know?

Many people who are in false cults today are persistent about their beliefs. We need to be the same way concerning the Gospel. We ought to be as bold as they are; no, MORE bold! The "bold bunch," as Kenneth Hagin says.

The Bible says, in Philippians 2:7 & 8, that Jesus of Nazareth stripped Himself of all divine privileges as the Son of God. It didn't say that He was NOT the Son of God, but that He didn't WALK as the Son of God, with divine privileges from Heaven. He came on this earth and walked as a man, under the Abrahamic Covenant. He quoted Scripture, saying, "It is written;" He didn't go around saying, "I'm the Son of God; get your healing today."

Jesus was a preacher; He walked as an Old Testament Prophet; He was the Son of God, but He didn't use that power; HE USED THE WORD OF GOD!!!

My life was changed when I found out that Jesus walked as a man.

I had been raised as a Catholic; I was born-again when I was twenty-five years old. I had always thought to myself, "If Jesus would only appear to me, I'll really receive my healing." But, I found out that He came down here as a man; He walked on the face of this earth and used the Abrahamic Covenant and lived in victory!!! He HAS appeared to us already; we can receive our healing NOW, by faith.

It would have been unfair for Jesus to have used His divine privileges here on earth and then go to hell in our place; He had to come down as a man and go through the same tests as you and I; but, I'll tell you this: He passed every one of them. He passed them by using the Word of God, and SO

CAN WE !!!

Satan took Jesus to the pit of hell because all of the sins of the world were laid on Him; Jesus Himself was a man without sin. Satan said, "I've got You now," but God said, "That's enough!" Satan answered, "What are you talking about: 'That's enough'?" God said, "You have Him down there illegally; He is a man without sin." And God raised Jesus from the dead.

CHAPTER TWO

WE HAVE POWER

The Bible calls the devil our adversary. "Adversary," in the Greek language, means " lawsuitor " (opponent in a lawsuit). The devil is running around trying to put a lawsuit on YOU, just like he tried to do with Jesus. But, when we're walking according to the Word, there are no legal grounds for satan to stand on.

When we have on our Helmet of Salvation and Breastplate of Righteousness and all the rest of the Armor of God that He provides for us [Ephesians 6:13-17], the devil looks at us and he sees Jesus, and he knows he's fighting a losing battle.

The Bible says to humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God [1 Peter 5:6]. Do you know what a humble man really is?

The Lord showed me that a humble man is a man that will take counsel from someone else. An egotist, you see, won't take anybody's word but their own; a humble man will take counsel from another.

When you take your own word about yourself, your circumstances, your body, or your checkbook, you're being an egotist. You're being HUMBLE about your situation when you take counsel from God's Word, saying, "My God meets all my needs, according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus," [Philippians 4:19] or "By His stripes we were healed." [ 1 Peter 2:24]

The world has twisted things around so much that we think we're being humble when, in reality, we're being egotists, taking the word of the situation instead of the Word of God. The Bible doesn't say that we're not to be exalted, just that we're not to exalt OURSELVES.

1 Peter 5:6 goes on to say,

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that HE may exalt YOU in due time.

He WANTS you exalted, but HE'LL DO IT. Just humble yourself to His Word and He'll exalt you in due time: RIGHT ON TIME. He will exalt us out of problems, sickness, and poverty.

The world needs to know that we, as Christians, have God's Word to use on this earth. God has given us the power of attorney, the legal right to use His Name and expects us to get the same results that Jesus would get.

My wife has the legal right to use my name, because we are one. Her signature is as valid and binding as mine, because the law sees us as a unit; it's as if I had signed it myself. Christians are one with Christ, and we have the same authority in the name of Jesus as Jesus himself. IN HIS NAME we shall cast out demons; IN HIS NAME we shall pray for the sick and they shall recover; IN HIS NAME even greater things shall we do. BUT, THE WORLD WILL NEVER KNOW UNLESS WE TELL THEM!!!

The woman with the issue of blood [Mark 5:25] had HEARD of Jesus [verse 27]. In verse 28, she said,

"If I may touch but His clothes, I shall be whole."

In verse 29, she touched the garment Jesus was wearing, and straightaway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.

This case involved Special Anointings . This lady had FAITH that if she but touched his garment, she would be made whole. She had HEARD about Jesus and her faith arose. Her FAITH is what got her her healing, not Jesus' being the Son of God; Jesus himself said, "Thy FAITH hath made thee whole" [Mark 5:34]. He felt the virtue pass from His body when she applied her FAITH and touched Him.

When the world HEARS about US, that WE have the power of God, they, too, will have faith and receive. If a man were to walk silently down a street, no one would know who he was; certainly, no one would come running up to him to jerk on his suit to receive a healing. No one would bring their sickbed to the street so that this man's shadow might pass over them.

But, if he TOLD them who he was (in Christ) and the power that he had (in the name of Jesus), they could apply their FAITH and be healed.

Acts 3:1 4: Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour.

And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple; who, seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked an alms. And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, "Look on us."

He said, "Look on us." Look on us. Not saying, "Look on us; I prayed for three short legs today, so look at me." He's not saying that; he's saying, "Look on us; we've got something for you: HE THAT'S WITHIN US." [ 1 John 4:4].

Acts 3:5: And he gave heed to them, expecting to receive something of them.

This man would have never given heed to them if Peter hadn't SAID something. He said, "Look on us." Then Peter said,