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MIRACLES ARE STILL HAPPENING

Gill Ministries
P.O. Box 6969
Big Bear Lake, CA 92315
www.gillministries.com

ISBN: 0-88368-620-1
Printed in the United States of America
Copyright 2000 by A.L. and Joyce Gill
Internet Edition 2010

Table of Contents
Foreword by George Otis

A Note to the Reader

What If...?

Chapter 1

Miracles, Miracles, Miracles

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Chapter 2

Jesus Performed Miracles

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Chapter 3

Doing the Works of Jesus

25

Chapter 4

The Dunamis Power

33

Chapter 5

The Greatest Miracle of All

43

Chapter 6

The Church Begins in Power

53

Chapter 7

Weve Been Conned!

61

Chapter 8

Moving in the Supernatural

68

Chapter 9

The choice is Ours

75

Chapter 10

Ingredients to a Miracle

83

Chapter 11

Supernatural Guidance

93

Chapter 12

Supernatural Power Protection

104

Chapter 13

Supernatural Provision

114

Chapter 14

Miracles Are Still Happening

123

Scripture References for Miracles in the Text

134

About the Authors

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Forward
Thousands of miracles along Galilee, flowing from
the touch of Jesus, heralded the birth of Christianity. Was this
awesome display of Gods power to be just a one-time
phenomena?
During Jesus final days on earth, He said to us, I
give you power over all the power of the enemy and,
Greater things shall you do than Me, as I go to be with the
Father. The small company of His disciples and apostles
then went forth with miracles and wonders bursting in their
footsteps, and turned the world upside down.
Dr. A.L. and Joyce Gills book highlights the truth
that God continues to use miracles to show His love and to
help ignite revival fires. His presence and His power must
now be acted upon by each of us to bring in this last great
harvest of lost souls.
A.L. and Joyce Gill, through their international
broadcasts, books, and travel, have deeply affected the
regions where more than a billion souls are benefited.
Miracles Are Still Happening is truly a must read!
George Otis

A Note to the Reader

Throughout this book, specific biblical miracles are
mentioned. Many of these miracles are not referenced within
the text so that the flow of thought will not be interrupted.
Scripture references to each miracle cited are included in the
final section of the book and are listed in chronological order,
as they are mentioned in the book, for easy reference.

What If ?
What If
Gods Word is true?

What If
Jesus temporarily laid aside His divine rights and
privileges when He came to this earth in the form of a
man the Last Adam and that all His healings and
miracles were accomplished through the power of the
Holy Spirit?

What If
Jesus meant it when He said that the works that He
did we shall do also, and greater works than these we
shall do?

What If
When Jesus left this earth, He sent the Holy Spirit to
empower us to do the same miracles that He did?

What If
The miracles recorded in the Old Testament, in the life of Jesus, and in
the book of Acts, could actually happen in our lives today?

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This can be the beginning of an exciting, awesome,

powerful, new way of living. We can begin to live in the
supernatural realm of the Spirit. From this day forward, we
can experience miracles happening in our lives!
For this to occur, we need to go back and look at the
Word of God again, not as theologians or historians, but as
those who will, with simplicity of faith, believe Gods Word
is true.
Lets look again at what the Word of God says we can
do, how we can live, function, and minister in todays world.
Jesus said, I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me,
and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing (John I
5:5).

A.L. and Joyce Gill

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^^^
When all the people were baptized, it came to pass that Jesus
also was baptized; and while He prayed, the heaven was opened. And the
Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon Him, and a voice
came from heaven which said, You are My beloved Son; in You I am well
pleased... .Then Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee.
Luke 3:21-22; 4:14

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Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works
that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do,
because I go to My Father.
John 14:12

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But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon
you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and
Samaria, and to the end of the earth.
Acts 1:8

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Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out
demons. Freely you have received, freely give.
Matthew 10:8

Chapter One

Miracles, Miracles, Miracles

Our Lives Were Changed
Get A.L. out of town while hes still alive! These
words from A.L.s doctor gripped my heart with fear and
desperation. Was my husband going to die at the age of
thirty-three? Would I be left alone to raise our two children?
It was 1968, and our lives had turned from believing
in the American Dream to ones of desperation. Financially,
we could see no way out, and now A.L.s health was gone.
Where had we gone wrong? We had both asked Jesus into
our hearts when we were young children. We had gone to
Bible school. We were active in our church. We were trying
to serve the Lord, but with these appalling words, all hope
was gone.
Little did we know we were about to step into a whole
new way of living. We were about to step from the natural to
the supernatural realm.
We took the doctors words literally, and soon our
family piled into our small sedan and started the drive from
Houston, Texas, to Los Angeles, California. A.L. was unable
to drive, and hour after hour, I was at the wheel. I was
desperate, and there was one thought in my mind Get out of
town for A.L.s sake, before its too late for him.
In New Mexico, I was driving on a four-lane divided
highway, and the terrain between the east and west lanes was
steep and rough. It was late. I was tired, but was still rushing
to make it to the next town. Driving at about seventy miles an
hour, I pulled into the left lane to pass a large eighteen11

wheeler. Just when our car was parallel to the truck, it also
started pulling into the left lane. I hit the brakes as hard as I
could, but there was no way to get back behind the truck. Its
wheels were getting closer and closer as I pulled more and
more to the left. Finally seconds seemed like minutes I
was forced to leave the highway and take the car down the
rough, steep embankment between the two roads.
We had seen a car earlier that day that had rolled in
the same type of area, and I knew we were in trouble. The
steering wheel jerked this way and that, and it took all my
strength to hold the car in a straight path. There were two
concrete poles ahead. I couldnt drive around them, and so I
tried to aim the car between them, even as I realized there
wasnt enough width for the car. I felt the rear wheels start to
slide out of control. God help us! I cried out.
Instantly, our car was stopped!
None of us had any impression of stopping. We
werent thrown forward. We were just.. .stopped. When I
cried out, I felt a large, warm, comforting hand take control
of the steering wheel and the car. It was still there, resting
over my right hand. I could feel it, but I couldnt see it. The
two concrete poles were still ahead. A.L. had put his hands
out, ready to grab the steering wheel if I tried to jerk the car
back to the right, and his hands were still there about six
inches from the wheel. Everything was frozen in time while
my mind tried to comprehend what had just happened.
There was no understanding it. We had moved from
the natural to the supernatural realm. From that day forward,
our lives would never be the same.

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Did our personal miracle mean God still works

miracles today? we wondered. We had been told miracles had
ceased, but was that true? We began to search the Word, and
we found the Bible to be a book of miracles. From Genesis to
Revelation, its a recording of the supernatural. And yet,
many of us have studied it as the history of what God did
with the children of Israel, what God did when Jesus walked
on this earth, and what God did when the apostles were alive.
We have failed to understand it as a record of how God
miraculously works with His people even to this present time.
Creation Is a Miracle
God created the earth a miracle. He created
everything in the sea, on the earth, even Adam and Eve all
miracles.
Job couldnt explain creation. He wrote, God thunders
marvelously with His voice; He does great things which we cannot
comprehend (Job 37:5).
Many years ago, I decided to read through the Bible
and underline every miracle I found. I opened my Bible to the
first words in Genesis, In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth..., and I began laughing at myself. The
Bible is a record of miracles from the beginning to the end. I
had just been reading it with my natural mind.
The Bible Is a Miracle
The very existence of the Bible is also a miracle. Jesus
promised, For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away,
one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled
(Matthew 5: 18).
The Bible has been hated by various people through
the ages. Copies have been collected and burned in one era
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after another. Believers have been forbidden to possess it or

to read it. They have died for having just a small part of it in
their possession. And yet, in 1947, when the scrolls were
discovered in the Judean desert near the Dead Sea, whole
sections of the Scriptures were found among the ancient
manuscripts, documents that are word for word as the Hebrew
Bible is today. Over a period of almost ten years, thousands
of scroll fragments were found in eleven different caves, but
no serious discrepancies were discovered when they were
compared with other Old Testament manuscripts. God has
miraculously protected and preserved His Word.
The Bible is a miracle in its existence antiquity
accuracy harmony preservation preparation and in its
abiding power. This is important to us, because everything we
believe, say, or do should be based solidly on what God has
written in His Word.
What Is a Miracle?
When we say something is a miracle, what do we
mean? A miracle is any event that appears unexplainable by
the laws of nature, and so it is held to be supernatural in
origin. A miracle interrupts the natural flow of things.
Sometimes a miracle defies the laws of nature.
Miracles in the Old Testament
Lets look at some of the miracles in the Old
Testament. There is the miracle of Gods judgment on the
ancient world and Noahs supernatural protection (and
through him, the safeguarding of the future of the human
race) during the flood. This miracle of protection is a picture
of believers being protected from the judgment of God.

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The miracle of Sarahs womb coming back to life and

her conceiving Isaac is a picture of the new birth, of the dead
being reborn.
We read about the miracle of Enochs translation.
Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him (Genesis 5:24).
This is a picture of believers being caught up to meet Jesus in
the air.
What about Moses? Were there miracles in his life?
God preserved his life using a small basket floating on the
river Nile. And this was just the first of many miracles God
did to set His people free. God came to Moses in the burning
bush. Following that, there are the miracles of Moses rod
turning into a snake the plagues in Egypt the parting of
the Red Sea supernatural water supernatural manna and
supernatural quail clothing and shoes that didnt wear out
the supernatural cloud giving shade in the desert by day and
giving warmth at night by changing to fire the Ten
Commandments written by the finger of God. The list goes
on and on, and we can only begin to fathom the greatness of
God through the miracles He has worked for His people.
When we remember that the children of Israel are a
type, or picture, of believers today, we can begin to
understand how God deals with His people and how He
desires to work miracles in our time.
In the book of Joshua, we find more supernatural
events in the parting of the Jordan River the Commander of
the Lords army appearing to Joshua hail destroying the
armies at Gibeon the sun standing still and the walls of
Jericho falling flat.
In Judges, we read about Gideon putting out the fleece
and the miracles during Samsons life and death. In 1 Samuel,
we find Dagon falling on his face before the ark of God.
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And how could we forget the miraculous stories of

David defeating Goliath, of Jonah and the whale, of Hezekiah
being healed, and even of God letting the shadow of the sun
go back ten degrees to confirm that healing?
The Old Testament is full of miracles. Miraculous
events happened in the lives of judges and kings, of common
people, and of the prophets.
Miracles and the Prophets
When we look at the life of Elijah, we are astounded
at the miracles that happened. He stopped and started the rain
was fed first by ravens and then through the multiplication
of oil and flour. He brought the widows son back to life
had fire fall from heaven divided the Jordan River in order
to walk across it and was translated into heaven in a chariot
of fire.
Elisha asked for a double portion of Elijahs anointing,
and there are exactly twice as many miracles recorded in his
life as in Elijahs. Immediately after Elijahs death, Elisha
also parted the Jordan River and walked across. He multiplied
oil for the widow and her sons. He prophesied the birth of the
Shunamniites son, and then, years later, when the boy died,
brought him back to life. He made the poisoned pottage good
to eat. He made the iron ax head float. He healed Naaman of
leprosy and put that same leprosy on his servant Gehazi
because of his sin. He opened blind eyes, and after he died,
even his bones brought life to a dead man.
What God Did Before, He Will Do Again
The Bible is a recording of the miraculous! Its
impossible to believe the Bible and not believe in miracles.
Over and over, through the Old Testament, we find events
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that cannot be explained by the natural mind events that

must be accepted by faith. To be true believers in God, to
truly believe His Word is true, we must believe that
supernatural events really happened. Our God is a God of
miracles.
In Malachi, we read, For I am the LORD, I do not change
(Malachi 3:6). In Hebrews, we find, Jesus Christ is the same
yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8).
What God did for the children of Israel, He will do for
us. What He did for the prophets, He will do for us. What He
did for Abraham, Moses, Joshua, Samuel, and all the rest, He
will do for us!

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Chapter Two

Jesus Performed Miracles

The Traffic I Couldnt See
It was A.L. who was dying, but I was certainly
involved. When I tried to sleep at night, I could feel my
muscles snapping against the mattress. Physically, I was as
tense as the strings on a violin. We were borrowing from
Peter to pay Paul every payday. Because of the interest on
our credit cards, our debts were growing continuously. We
had come to the end financially, A.L. had come to the end
physically, and I had come to the end emotionally. Without
A.L., I didnt want to go on living.
Where was God? We had believed in Him for almost
all our lives, but where was He?
Then God stopped our car and saved us from serious
injury or even death, it was as though He made a dramatic
entrance into our lives. He came off the pages of our Bibles
and into our arena. Our belief in Him moved from our
natural minds to our spirits. He was real! He was with us!
You would think we would have been so thankful that nothing
would ever again have bothered us and wed never have had
another problem, but that wasnt the way it was.
The day after God supernaturally stopped our car, I
was driving into Los Angeles during the evening rush-hour
traffic.
There were cars everywhere, and traffic was moving
at seventy miles an hour. I didnt know the freeways at all. I
had been driving in this traffic for over an hour, and a frenzy
was building inside of me.
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As I was making a transition between two freeways, I

was on one of those slow, twenty-mile-per-hour curves. I
knew our car wouldnt be able to accelerate to seventy miles
an hour and merge with traffic on the new freeway. And I
needed to cross immediately all the way to the left lane for the
next exit. It was an impossibility! And right there, in the
middle of that curve, everything snapped. Tears were running
down my face, and I started saying, I cant make it! I cant
go on! I meant the traffic, but also my life.. .but there was no
way to stop. There was no way to get off
As our car came to the top of the curve, I looked
through my tears for an opening onto the freeway, and it was
completely open! I drove across several lanes, from the right
side of the freeway to the left, and there wasnt a vehicle in
sight. It was as though we had the freeway to ourselves. We
looked around. Were we on a closed freeway? And then,
suddenly, traffic was all around us, beside us, in front of us,
behind us, everywhere.
I dont know what happened. I think God blinded my
eyes to the traffic and took us safely through. And then when I
was in the left lane ready for the next exit, He let me see the
traffic again.
But now, in my innermost being, I knew God was in
control! Then He stopped our car, it wasnt a one-time,
supernatural intervention of God. There was more of Him to
be found.

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When we look at the miracles of Jesus, its as though
Jesus was all the prophets, all the judges, and all the kings
rolled into one Person. The miracles in the Old Testament
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happened over a period of four thousand years. Jesus had

only three and a half years of ministry, and He moved in the
miraculous every day of that time. He healed the sick; He set
the captives free; He loosed those whom Satan had bound.
However, before we get into a discussion of the miracles
Jesus performed, we should consider the miracles
surrounding His birth, especially the appearances of angels
and the giving of divine guidance through dreams.
Miracles Surrounding Christs Birth
An angel appeared to Mary and said, Do not be afraid,
Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive
in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name JESUS (Luke
1:3031).
And an angel appeared to Joseph in a dream saying,
Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for
that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit (Matthew 1:20).
The third angelic visit surrounding the birth of Jesus
involved one angel and then many more angels who appeared
to the shepherds to announce Jesus birth. Its as though the
angels were so excited about what was happening that they
burst from the realm of the Spirit into the natural realm of
mankind.
The wise men followed the star that appeared in the
East, and they came to Jesus; then were warned by God in a
supernatural dream that they were not to return to Herod, but
instead to go home another way.
There was another miraculous dream, and an angel
appeared to Joseph and warned him to take Jesus and Mary to
Egypt. The angel went on to tell him of Herods plan to kill
Jesus and that they were to remain in Egypt until he, the angel,
came back to tell them it was safe to return.
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The books of Matthew, Mark, and Luke all start with

miraculous events surrounding the birth of Jesus. There are
three hundred and thirty messianic prophecies in the Old
Testament that are fulfilled in Jesus birth, life, and death.
Jesus Miracles of Healing
But what about the miracles Jesus did? Of course,
immediately, healing comes to mind. The second miracle
Jesus did was to heal the noblemans son. Remember how
Jesus said, Go your way, your son lives, and then the
servants came confirming that the noblemans son was healed
at that very same time?
There was the leper who asked, If Youre willing...
And Jesus immediately answered, Im willing, be clean.
There was the paralytic who was lowered through the
roof by his friends. And when Jesus saw their faith, He said to
the sick man, Arise, take up your bed, and go to your
house.
There was the man at the Pool of Bethesda.
Remember how an angel would come down and stir the water,
and the first one in would be healed? With all the people
waiting for the water to be stirred, Jesus went to this one man
and asked, Would you be made whole? This man had been
sick for thirty-eight years, and Jesus said, Arise, take up
your bed and walk, and the man was instantly healed.
Another man with a withered hand was in the
synagogue. To him, Jesus said, Stretch forth your hand, and
his hand was completely restored.
There was the woman with an issue of blood who
pushed through the crowd and touched the hem of Jesus
garment and was instantly made well.
We could go on and on telling of the miracles of
healing that are recorded. In Matthew, Jesus healed a man
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who was possessed with a demon, and who was blind and
mute. There were two blind men who called out, Have
mercy on us, and were healed. Another blind man was
healed at Bethsaida when Jesus spit on his eyes and laid
hands on him. The man who was born blind was healed in
Jerusalem. And Bartimaeus, the blind beggar, was healed at
Jericho.
There are the healings of the centurions servant, the
Syrophoenician womans daughter, the ten lepers, the man
with dropsy; and even at the end, when the officers and
soldiers came from the chief priests and elders to arrest Jesus,
He healed the servant of the high priest after Peter cut off his
ear.
There are over twenty incidents of healing told in
various details in the Gospels. But that was still just a
beginning of healing miracles, because we read, over and
over, how Jesus healed them all, how He healed every one
of them, that as many as touched the hem of His garment
were healed, how power went out from Him and healed
them all.
Actually, Matthew said it best, Great multitudes came to
Him, having with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others;
and they laid them down at Jesus feet, and He healed them. So the
multitude marveled when they saw the mute speaking, the maimed made
whole, the lame walking, and the blind seeing; and they glorified the God
of Israel (Matthew I 5:3031).
The Gospels are full of healing miracles! But the
miracles of Jesus didnt stop with the healings of the
multitudes we read about. There were other kinds of miracles,
too.

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Jesus Miracles of Deliverance

Jesus set the captives free. He cast the unclean spirit
out of the demoniac in the synagogue at Capernaum. He cast
the demons out of the man at Gadarene and allowed them to
go into the herd of swine. He cast the spirit of infirmity out of
the woman who had been bent over for eighteen years.
Jesus Miracles over Nature
Jesus performed miracles that showed His authority
over nature. The first miracle was changing water into wine at
the marriage feast in Cana. He fed the multitudes twice. The
first time, it was a crowd of over five thousand men plus
unnumbered women and children, which He fed with five
loaves and two fish. The second time, it was a crowd of over
four thousand men, again with unnumbered women and
children, and He multiplied seven loaves and a few fish for
them all to be fed.
Two times there were miraculous amounts of fish
caught when Jesus instructions were followed. And there
was the single fish that Peter caught with the tax money in its
mouth.
He spoke to the storm, Peace, be still! and it was.
He cursed the fig tree for not bearing fruit, and it died. He
walked on the water.
Jesus Miracles of Raising the Dead
When Janus daughter died, Jesus raised her from the
dead. He raised the widow of Nains son from the dead
during the funeral procession. He raised Lazarus from the
dead after he had been dead for four days!

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Jesus Still Does Miracles Today

Jesus operated in the supernatural realm throughout
His entire ministry. Miracles happened everywhere He went,
and miracles still happen through Him today.

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Chapter Three

Doing the Works of Jesus

I Tell You, Im Healed!
We had experienced miracles on the highway, but
A.L.s health was still gone. Our lives were still at an end.
During two days of driving across country, I kept hearing the
words, You have not because you ask not! I couldnt get
away from them. Over and over, they kept repeating.
Hadnt we asked the Lord to give the doctors wisdom?
Hadnt we asked the Lord to show us what to do for A.L.s
health? What hadnt we asked? The gifts of healings had
ceased, hadnt they?
As A.L. and I discussed these words and our questions,
neither of us realized that God was speaking to us. In the
church of our tradition, we were told that the only way you
could hear from God was to read His Word. And yet, now
that we had experienced the supernatural, we were ready to
believe there was more than what we knew.
Finally, we realized the only thing we hadnt asked
God for was A.L.s healing.
That evening in Los Angeles, there were six adults in
the room my sister, her family, and A.L.s parents. All of us
believed in God, but until this time, none of us had prayed for
healing. We hadnt seen anyone else pray for healing. We
didnt know how to pray for anyone to be healed!
Someone suggested it might be good if we each took a
promise out of a Bible promise box. When we read them out
loud, we realized all six promises had to do with healing.
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We joined hands, and that seemed awkward because

we had never prayed that way before. A.L. turned to his
father and said, Dad, youre the head of the family. Why
dont you pray? Dad cleared his throat a few times, and
then he began by using the verses we had just read. Father,
Your Word says... As he prayed Gods Word, faith began to
stir in our spirits. He finished by saying, Were asking You
now to heal A.L.
A.L. told us that while Dad prayed, he felt warmth
flow all through his body. He had felt the touch of God! He
knew he was healed, but the rest of us werent so convinced.
Several times that evening, A.L.s mom or I told A.L. to lie
back down before he passed out. We thought he was just
psyching himself up.
I will never forget him lying on that blue couch with
his head on a pillow to please us, and still declaring over and
over, I tell you, I am healed!
Our prayer that evening wasnt a prayer of faith. It
was more like a prayer of desperation. But God completely,
totally, unconditionally, healed A.L., and that was over thirty
years ago.
A.L. is walking in divine health. His ministry travels
have taken him to over sixty nations of the world. Instead of
my being left alone to raise two children, we now have three
children and grandchildren. Instead of our life together being
over, it had just begun.
What an awesome God we serve!

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Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works

that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do,
because I go to My Father (John 14:12).
We have read these words of Jesus hundreds of times,
but we must confess that, for years, we never truly believed
them. Yes, we would reason, Jesus said these words, but He
couldnt really have meant them especially for us. After all,
Jesus was the Son of God. He could do anything! He was allpowerful. He knew everything. He was God, and were just
normal men and women.
We did believe there were a few super Christians,
such as the apostle Paul, who could do some of the works of
Jesus. We believed there might be a few especially chosen
ones even in our generation, but certainly it would be
prideful to even imagine that we could do the works of Jesus.
And of course, there was never even a thought in our minds
that we could do the greater works Jesus spoke of here.
We put these words of Jesus on a shelf in our hearts
and marked them, Not understood! And we left them there
year after year. We couldnt admit, even to ourselves, that we
didnt believe them. And then the revelation of how Jesus
actually operated on this earth began to come.
Jesus Lived on Earth as a Man
Jesus was born of a virgin as a human being. He was
still truly God, but He temporarily gave up His rights as God
and came to this earth as a man. He was true humanity, but
still undiminished Deity.
The apostle Paul wrote, Let this mind be in you which was
also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it
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robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking

the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being
found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient
to the point of death, even the death of the cross (Philippians 2:58).
The apostle used the Greek word kenoo, which is
translated of no reputation. According to Strongs Greek
New Testament Dictionary, kenoo means to empty. It
means to make void, to deprive of force. When used here of
Christ, it means that He laid aside His equality with God or
that He emptied Himself of the form of God to take on human
characteristics.
When Jesus came to this earth, He came as a man. He
voluntarily laid aside His rights and privileges as God for a
time. Everything He did while He lived and ministered on
this earth, He did as a man, not as God.
Jesus Moved in the Power of the Spirit
No miracles were recorded in the life of Jesus in
Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John until He was baptized in the
Jordan River and the Holy Spirit came upon Him in the form
of a dove.
In his gospel, Mark wrote, It came to pass in those days
that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in
the Jordan. And immediately, coming up from the water, He saw the
heavens parting and the Spirit descending upon Him like a dove (Mark
1:910).
It was immediately after the Holy Spirit came on
Jesus when He was baptized in the Jordan River that miracles
started happening.
Jesus came as the Last Adam. It is written, The first
man Adam became a living being. The last Adam became a life-giving
spirit (I Corinthians 15:45).
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Everything the first Adam was originally created to do,

Jesus actually did. God had said of man, Let them have dominion...
(Genesis 1:26). Jesus took dominion over demons, over living
things, over the elements. Jesus walked on this earth in the
authority and power God had originally given to mankind.
Why is this important to us? Why is it necessary that
we understand that Jesus operated on this earth as a man as
a perfect man as Adam was created to be? Because then, He
is truly our example. We can understand how we can do the
same works He did. His words can become alive in us!
Greater Works
Jesus said, The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, because He has
anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the
brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight
to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; to proclaim the
acceptable year of the LORD (Luke 4: 1819).
Jesus was talking to the disciples when He said, Abide
in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it
abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. I am the vine,
you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much
fruit; for without Me you can do nothing (John I 5:45). As we walk
through life abiding in Jesus and allowing Him to abide in us,
we will bear fruit.
How exciting it is to read the Gospels, the New
Testament, the whole Bible, looking for the supernatural,
looking for the miracles that are recorded. And when we read
each one, we can stop and say, I can do that! I can do that
miracle! In the name of Jesus, I can do it too!
Even when we accept the fact that we can do the
works of Jesus, most of us stumble at the idea of doing
greater works. Perhaps thats because we have limited our
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understanding to thinking greater means stronger than or

more important. Greater can also mean larger in quantity
or number.
More Works
The Greek word meizon, translated greater in John
14:12, could also be translated more. Doing more works
than Jesus would be easier to understand. Jesus had three and
a half years to minister, and He was one person. Believers
have had around two thousand years since Jesus walked on
this earth, and they number in the millions.
Jesus never traveled more than a hundred miles from
Jerusalem, but believers have encompassed the entire world.
Greater works can mean greater in time, greater in
distance, and greater in number.
No longer are the works of Jesus limited to one man.
They are happening around the world through the hands of
millions of believers.
Multiplied Works
There is also the principle of multiplication. In
Leviticus, we read, Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred
of you shall put ten thousand to flight (Leviticus 26:8). The writer of
Deuteronomy said that one can put a thousand to flight and
two can put ten thousand to flight when the Lord is involved
(Deuteronomy 32:30).
The Power of Corporate Faith
The word greater could also refer to the strength of
many people believing in unity, the strength of corporate faith.
Jesus referred to this when He said, Again I say to you that if two

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of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done
for them by My Father in heaven (Matthew I 8:19).
We have many examples of corporate faith today.
When thousands come to great healing crusades with the
expectation of being healed actively believing and moving
in faith thousands are healed. When one person gets out of a
wheelchair, it helps other people in wheelchairs have faith,
and many more are healed. One day in Columbia, South
America, A.L. saw a hundred people get out of wheelchairs
all in a matter of minutes, and an untold number of people
dropped their crutches and took off their braces. In Brazil, a
lady who went back to the arena to take care of some closing
business the day after a healing crusade said she was awestruck when she saw a huge pile of wheelchairs, crutches, and
braces in the center of the arena where they had been piled by
the clean-up crew.
When we add our faith to the faith of others, we are
truly operating as the body of Christ, and there is a powerful
level of faith in which countless miracles can happen.
Different Works
Another interpretation of greater is different. If
Jesus and the disciples were riding on a bus or an airplane
today, and Satan tried to cause an accident taking their lives,
what would Jesus do? Would He allow the accident to take all
their lives, or would He do a different work than He did in the
time He walked on this earth?
The apostle John wrote, And truly Jesus did many other
signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book;
but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the
Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name (john
20:303 I).
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We have two examples of different works in the

book of Acts. About Peter, we learn, Multitudes of both men and
women.., brought the sick out into the streets and laid them on beds and
couches, that at least the shadow of Peter passing by might fall on some
of them. Also a multitude gathered from the surrounding cities to
Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were tormented by
unclean spirits, and they were all healed (Acts 5:1416).
And we read about Paul, Now God worked unusual miracles
by the hands of Paul, so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought
from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits
went out of them (Acts 19:1112).
We have no recorded incidents of cloths being taken
from Jesus for healing or of Jesus shadow bringing healing.
They may have happened, but Matthew, Mark, Luke, and
John didnt write about them.
Jesus has commissioned us to do the works that He
did, and even greater works. He has given us the
responsibility of doing the works that He did. And today, God
is raising up an army of mighty believers ready to step out in
faith and do these works.

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Chapter Four

The Dunamis Power

Dont Let It Be Speaking in Tongues!
A.L. previously had not been able to work more than a
few hours at a time. But God supernaturally moved us into a
new position managing a Christian bookstore in California,
and within two weeks of receiving his new health, A.L. was
working twelve to fourteen hours a day.
Soon we noticed that there were certain people we
were drawn to people who seemed to have a special
relationship to God people we would ask to pray about our
various needs people who had a special joy about them. We
began to do a little detective work. It wasnt the churches they
went to. They didnt seem to know each other. What was it?
Finally, we got up our nerve and asked first one and then
another, Do you speak in tongues? And they all answered
yes.
0 God, we would pray, we want all that you have
for us, but please dont let it have anything to do with
speaking in tongues. Youve given us our job, our church, and
our friends. Surely you dont want us to give all this up.
We worked for a Christian company a noncharismatic company. A.L. was teaching the adult Sunday
school class in our church, a non-charismatic church. Our
friends were non-charismatic. Our families were noncharismatic. We could be as on fire for God as we wanted,
but if we were to speak in tongues, we would lose our jobs,
our church, and our friends, and the relationships in our
family would certainly be strained. God, You know it
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wouldnt do! we would say. But the hunger for more of God
grew and grew.
Some friends had received the baptism in the Holy
Spirit, and they were going to be speaking at a church in
Orange County one Sunday. We agreed to meet them there
and have dinner with them after the service.
As they gave their testimonies, our spirits were saying,
Yes, thats the way were feeling. Thats our prayer. But
our minds were saying, Dont cross the line. Youll lose
everything. They gave an invitation for those who would like
to receive the filling of the Holy Spirit, and hundreds went
forward. We didnt! But since we were going to eat with our
friends later, we waited for them outside the prayer room.
A.L. was curious, and several times he looked into the
room expecting to see something wild and out-of-order going
on. Everything seems to be in order, he would report when
he came back.
Finally, we looked up and one of our friends was
running toward A.L. Everyone Ive laid my hands on tonight
has received the baptism in the Holy Spirit. Are you ready?
she asked.
A.L. was known for his diplomacy, and I was
wondering how he was going to get out of this situation. But,
he raised his hands and said, Zap me!
She put her hands on both sides of his face and said,
Jesus, baptize my brother in your Holy Spirit. A.L. fell
back a few inches against the wall with his eyes closed, and
he began to speak softly, like a foreigner. He was speaking
whole sentences and paragraphs.
Whats happening? I asked myself Its like I dont
even know this man!
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Our other friend came to me and asked, Do you want

to receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit?
I dont even know what youre talking about, I said.
And I didnt. Nothing that was happening was like the stories
we had heard. He put his hands on my head and prayed, and
I felt a warmth, like warm water, move from my toes all the
way up my body until I was immersed to my mouth and two
or three syllables came out.
Coming from our background, we had looked at the
baptism in the Holy Spirit as limited to speaking in tongues.
Until we received His presence and His power that night, we
never knew there was more than that. We have written this
incident from that point of view, but we soon found there was
so much more!
Our friends told us that night, From this time on, you
will feel a love for God like you have never felt before. You
will find yourselves drawn to His Word. You will have more
love for people, and you will experience power in your life.
And we did.

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One day when Jesus was talking to the disciples, He
said, Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go
away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I
depart, I will send Him to you (John 16:7).
Take a moment to picture this day in your mind. The
disciples loved Jesus. They lived with Jesus. They saw the
miracles He did. They sat and listened to Him teach. And yet,
now they heard Him say, Its better for you that I go away.

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How their minds must have fought with this! How

could it be better for them? Everything within them must
have demanded that Jesus stay.
And Jesus even said, Its to your advantage that I go
away; for if I dont go away, the Helper will not come to
you. It was better for them, and for us, that Jesus leave,
because He would send the Holy Spirit. This was Gods plan.
Jesus could only be in one place at a time, but the Holy Spirit
would be in believers all over the world.
Jesus Operated in the Power of the Spirit
We know that Jesus operated on this earth in the
power of the Holy Spirit. In Matthew 4:1 and 12:28, we read,
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit, and, If I cast out demons by the
Spirit of God.... In Luke 4:1, we find, Then Jesus, being filled with the
Holy Spirit.... In Acts 1:2, we read, He, through the Holy Spirit.... And in
Hebrews 9:14, we read how Christ through the eternal Spirit offered
Himself....
After we read that Jesus was baptized and filled with
the Holy Spirit, immediately we read, Then Jesus, being filled
with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit
into the wilderness (Luke 4:1). He didnt go there through His own
knowledge; the Spirit led Him.
The gifts of the Holy Spirit flowed through Jesus.
Remember He had laid aside all His rights and privileges as
God. But when He was talking to the woman at the well, He
still knew about her past. How did He know? Through the
word of knowledge.
We know Jesus operated in the discerning of spirits
because He called evil spirits by name: Deaf and dumb spirit, I
command you, come out of him (Mark 9:25).
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When the woman with the issue of blood pushed

through the crowd and touched the hem of Jesus garment,
Jesus, immediately knowing in Himself that power had gone
out of Him, turned around in the crowd and said, Who touched
My clothes? (Mark 5:30).
Jesus did not know, as the Son of Man, who touched
Him. He stopped and asked, Who touched my clothes?
But lets look at the first part of this verse, Knowing
power had gone out of Him. The Greek word translated
power is dunamis. It is the most expressive word for
explosive power in the Greek language. Its the root word
from which we take our English word dynamite.
The word dunamis was used several times in
connection with the power in Jesus. It was also used in
connection with the apostle Paul, who wrote, My speech and my
preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in
demonstration of the Spirit and of power [dunamis] (I Corinthians 2:4).
The apostle Paul ministered in the same power as Jesus, in
dunamis power, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Its not hard to believe that Jesus operated in the
power of the Holy Spirit. Its not even too hard to believe that
the great apostle Paul operated in the same power. And, yes,
we can even believe that the other apostles also operated in
this same power. But what does that have to do with us
today?
We Are to Operate in the Power of the Spirit
When Jesus was getting ready to leave this earth, He
said, But you shall receive power [dunamis] when the Holy Spirit has
come upon you (Acts 1:8).
The same word for power that was used in describing
the healing power in Jesus and in Paul was used to describe
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what was going to happen to 120 believers in the Upper

Room.
We find the word dunamis several more times after
the Holy Spirit came on the Day of Pentecost. It was used in
connection with the apostles. And with great power [dunamis] the
apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus (Acts 4:33).
It was used in connection with Stephen. And Stephen,
full of faith and power [dunamis], did great wonders and signs among
the people (Acts 6:8).
But lets look at the first part of this verse, Knowing
power had gone out of Him. The Greek word translated
power is dunamis. It is the most expressive word for
explosive power in the Greek language. Its the root word
from which we take our English word dynamite.
The word dunamis was used several times in
connection with the power in Jesus. It was also used in
connection with the apostle Paul, who wrote, My speech and my
preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in
demonstration of the Spirit and of power [dunamis] (I Corinthians 2:4).
The apostle Paul ministered in the same power as Jesus, in
dunamis power, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Its not hard to believe that Jesus operated in the
power of the Holy Spirit. Its not even too hard to believe that
the great apostle Paul operated in the same power. And, yes,
we can even believe that the other apostles also operated in
this same power. But what does that have to do with us
today?
We Are to Operate in the Power of the Spirit
When Jesus was getting ready to leave this earth, He
said, But you shall receive power [dunamis] when the Holy Spirit has
come upon you (Acts 1:8).
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The same word for power that was used in describing

the healing power in Jesus and in Paul was used to describe
what was going to happen to 120 believers in the Upper
Room.
We find the word dunamis several more times after
the Holy Spirit came on the Day of Pentecost. It was used in
connection with the apostles. And with great power [dunamis] the
apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus (Acts 4:33).
It was used in connection with Stephen. And Stephen,
full of faith and power [dunamis], did great wonders and signs among
the people (Acts 6:8).
It was used by the apostle Paul: Now to Him who is able to
do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to
the power [dunamis] that works in us (Ephesians 3:20).
As Spirit-baptized believers, we have the same
dynamite power in us that was in the early believers.
Doesnt it make sense that if Jesus did miracles through the
power of the Holy Spirit, that if the disciples did miracles
through the power of the Holy Spirit, that if we have the same
Holy Spirit, we can do the same miracles?
How Does the Holy Spirit Operate Today?
How does the Holy Spirit operate in the world today?
The manifestations of the Holy Spirit are what we call the
gifts of the Spirit. They are tongues, interpretation of tongues,
prophecy, discerning of spirits, words of wisdom and
knowledge, the gifts of faith and healings, and the working of
miracles.
In studying the gifts of the Holy Spirit, many of us
have looked at them as special gifts for special times. We
havent realized they are a way of life for us all the time.
They are not just to operate on Sunday morning between the
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worship time and the announcements. In fact, that isnt the

New Testament pattern.
One hot summer day, A.L. and I were getting ready to
do a seminar on the Supernatural Gifts of the Holy Spirit. As
we were praying together before the meetings, I suddenly saw
the most beautiful Christmas tree you can imagine. It was at
least two stories high and was in an impressive entranceway
to a very prestigious home. A beautiful staircase curved down
from the floor above. There were beautiful presents stacked in
abundance under the tree, some wrapped and some open. It
was as if I were standing in the doorway, with the joyful
anticipation of a mother waiting for the children to come
running, down the stairs to see the tree and open their gifts.
And then I heard the most sorrowful voice you can
imagine. My people are not opening their gifts, God said. I
felt so much anguish that tears began to flow down my face.
Weve been given so much. Weve been given the
presence, leading, and power of the Holy Spirit, plus the
wonderful gifts of the Holy Spirit. And yet, how many times
have we left these gifts sitting under the tree unopened?
How it grieves the Father that this is so! The gifts of
the Holy Spirit are not for just a few believers. The gifts of
the Holy Spirit are a way of life, for every believer, for every
day.
How do we know what the will of the Father is in any
situation? We hear or we see in the Spirit-realm through the
supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit. We hear from God
through the revelation gifts of the discerning of spirits, the
word of knowledge, and the word of wisdom.
And when we have heard from God, and we
acknowledge we have heard from God, faith is released, and
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we move into the power gifts of the Holy Spirit. The gift of
faith, the working of miracles, and the gifts of healings come.
There is another gift of the Holy Spirit that is so
important but so maligned the gift of speaking in tongues.
Jesus said that speaking in tongues is a sign that will
accompany those who believe. The apostle Paul wrote more
about speaking in tongues than anyone else. When instructing
the Corinthians believers on the proper use of spiritual gifts,
he said that he spoke in tongues more than they did. I thank my
God I speak with tongues more than you all... (I Corinthians 14:18).
Paul wrote thirteen books of the New Testament. That
means the man who, according to his own words, spoke in
tongues more than the rest, wrote almost one-half of the New
Testament.
Paul also said, He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself (I
Corinthians 14:4). The Greek word for edifies is oikodomeo,
and means to be a house builder, to construct, or to
confirm. The person who speaks in tongues builds himself
up in the Spirit.
Paul said tongues are a sign for unbelievers. Therefore
tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe but to unbelievers (I
Corinthians 14:22). And he warned us, Therefore, brethren...do not
forbid to speak with tongues (I Corinthians 14:39).
In our own lives, we have found that speaking in
tongues is the entranceway to the supernatural. It is the way
we move ourselves from the natural to the supernatural, from
the natural way of thinking to the Spirit.
When we hear from God, the gifts of faith, healings,
and even the working of miracles become the normal things
to do.
One time A.L. was overseas, and I was driving home
alone late at night. As I had fastened my seat belt, I had asked
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the Lord for protection on the car and on me. And then I had
prayed, as I usually do, Lord, dont let me bring harm to any
person or car. I had gone a few miles on my way and
changed from one road to another. The new highway was
wide. There was no traffic, and I quickly accelerated up to
speed and pulled into the right lane to be ready for the next
turn. The Lord spoke sharply, Get out of this lane! I jerked
my car to the left, and immediately I passed a car stopped in
the right lane. Its lights were off, and a man was changing the
rear tire. In the natural, I never would have seen this man in
time to avoid hitting him.
Through a word of wisdom, a horrible accident was
prevented. I wasnt in a highly anointed, special meeting. I
hadnt sung song after song of praise and worship, creating a
super-anointed atmosphere. I was just driving home, but I had
asked the Lord to be involved in that ordinary time of driving.
The Holy Spirit and His dunamis power are in us. He
wants to manifest Himself through us at all times for our own
protection, the protection of our families, and for others. The
gifts of the Holy Spirit provide a whole new miraculous way
of living for the Spirit-filled believer.
Even as Peter climbed out of his boat and walked on
the water to Jesus, we are to step out of our comfort zones
of natural living and walk on the supernatural water. We are
to live in the Spirit, walk in the Spirit, and operate in all nine
of His supernatural gifts in our daily lives.

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Chapter Five

The Greatest Miracle of All

A Supernatural Communion
A group of intern pastors and their wives were using
our vacation home in the mountains, and they had asked A.L.
to serve communion. As we drove to the house on the Friday
after Thanksgiving, A.L. was praying about how the Lord
would have him do this. He understood that we were each to
break off a piece of bread and share it with at least three
others, saying, This is the body of Christ, which was broken
for you.
There were over forty people in the room, and when
the elements of the communion were brought out, we saw that
they had prepared a small roll of bread about five inches in
length and an inch and a half thick. But A.L. knew he had
heard from God, so he continued with his instructions to
break off a piece and share it with at least three others. We
were all obedient but, seeing the size of the loaf, were all
breaking off the smallest possible pieces that we could share.
Soon we were all laughing and sharing very tiny pieces of
bread.
We shared with this person and that person, and this
person and that person came to share with us. Without
thinking about it, we kept on sharing the body of Christ
with one another for about forty-five minutes. Then another
person came over to me with a piece of bread, and when I
broke off a piece, I realized that the piece I now held in my
hand was about one fourth the size of the original loaf.
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What was happening? We all realized the same thing

at about the same time, and an awesome silence filled the
room. Each of us gazed at the bread in our hand. Where had
it come from?
Still, with no one saying a word, we walked back to
the table and started putting the remaining bread back on the
silver tray. The tray couldnt hold it all, and soon pieces of
bread were spilling across the table. We looked with
amazement at the pile of leftover bread as we realized we had
all shared with everyone else in the room. Again, Jesus had
multiplied the bread as He had with the multitudes.

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Our miraculous communion was not the greatest
miracle that can occur. Jesus performs the greatest miracle of
all from the time He walked on this earth to our day when
people are born-again!
Miracles Are Signs
Jesus said to them, Fill the water pots with water.
And they filled them up to the brim. And He said to them,
Draw some out now, and take it to the master of the feast.
And they took it. When the master of the feast had tasted the
water that was made wine, and did not know where it came
from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the
master of the feast called the bridegroom. And he said to him,
Every man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and
when the guests have well drunk, then the inferior. You have
kept the good wine until now! This beginning of signs Jesus did in
Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory; and His disciples believed in
Him (John 2:711).
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Have you ever wondered why the first miracle Jesus

did was to turn water into wine? Was it that important to keep
the host of the wedding feast from being embarrassed? To
fully understand a truth in the Bible, we must go back to the
first mention of that truth. So why is turning water into wine
important to us? How does this miracle relate to every other
miracle performed by Jesus?
Jesus took the natural element (water) and turned it
into that which was supernatural (wine). John wrote that this
miracle was the beginning of signs. But, what is a sign?
What Is a Sign?
Signs are miracles that bring revelation and
communicate truth. Signs point to something beyond
themselves. Signs are not to call attention to the people
through whom they come, and they are not just for
amazement. They are for the purpose of revealing truth.
The Miracle of the New Birth
When Jesus turned the water into wine, He gave us a
visual picture of the new birth. Turning the water into wine
was a sign pointing to the complete transformation of lives
through the miracle of the new birth, a transformation from
that which is natural to that which is of the Spirit.
In the third chapter of John, Jesus explained the new
birth to Nicodemus, who was a ruler of the Jews. This man
came to Jesus by night and said to Him, Rabbi, we know that
You are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these
signs that You do unless God is with him.
Jesus answered and said to him, Most assuredly, I
say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the
kingdom of God.
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Nicodemus said to Him, How can a man be born

when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mothers
womb and be born?
Jesus answered, Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is
born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That
which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is
spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, You must be born again (John
3:27).
Being born of the Spirit is the most important miracle
in any persons life. Before we can experience being filled
with the dunamis power of God, we must be born again. Only
then can we enter into a new realm and experience the other
miraculous provisions of God.
When we are born again, we become new creations.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things
have passed away; behold, all things have become new (2 Corinthians
5:17).
What do we mean when we say people have been
saved, converted, or have accepted Jesus as their
personal Savior? Many of us are still back with Nicodemus.
Were still pondering, How can a person go through the
birth process again? But thats thinking in the natural! Jesus
said that being born again is a birth of the Spirit.
Just as water being turned into wine is a picture of the
new birth, it is also a picture of a person moving from the
realm of the soul, or flesh, to realm of the Spirit, from the
natural to the supernatural. Wine is a biblical symbol for the
Holy Spirit.
Paul wrote, But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if
indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the
Spirit of Christ, he is not His (Romans 8:9).
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He also wrote, Now we have received, not the spirit of the

world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things
that have been freely given to us by God.. . . But the natural man does
not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to
him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned (I
Corinthians 2: I 2, 14).
Salvation is beyond comprehension! Thats why it can
only be received by faith. In the natural, there is no
understanding of the complete meaning of being born again.
God is Spirit. We are created in His image. We are born of
the Spirit, and we become His children. That means we are
spirit too.
Paul referred to this as the Spirit of adoption when
he wrote, For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of
God. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you
received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, Abba, Father. The
Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God
(Romans 8:1416).
Jesus said, God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must
worship in spirit and truth (John 4:24).
God Is in Us
At the moment of salvation, Jesus comes into us!
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and
opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me
(Revelation 3:20).
The Holy Spirit is in us! Do you not know that you are the
temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? (I Corinthians
3:16).

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Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy
Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your
own? (I Corinthians 6:19).
God is in us! One God and Father of all, who is above all, and
through all, and in you all (Ephesians 4:6).
We keep hearing people say, Im just a normal
believer. There is no such being. If we are believers, God is
in us, and thats not normal! At the moment of salvation we
move out of the arena of normal, and we become the
children of God. We move out of the realm of the natural and
into the realm of the supernatural.
The greatest miracle of all is God, through His Son
Jesus, bringing the gift of salvation. God taking the
prostitutes, the pimps, the murderers, the alcoholics, the
despondent, the drug addicts, the hard-driving businesspeople,
the young, the old, people from all nationalities, and turning
them into living spirits, His children thats the greatest
miracle of all.
Hearing and Communing with God
The first thing new members in the family of God
need to know is how to hear from God. He is Spirit, and we
must come to Him in the Spirit. Many times, when we have
prayed, we have been talking at God. We havent been
conversing with Him.
When I was little, my mother used to sing the words
to the hymn, I Come to the Garden Alone: I come to the
garden alone, While the dew is still on the roses... And He
walks with me, and He talks with me, And He tells me I am
His own.
This song painted such a wonderful picture in my
imagination. I remember one day asking my mother why we
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couldnt do that. Why doesnt Jesus walk in the garden with

us?
She replied, Jesus is in heaven, and were on earth.
He cant come and walk with us anymore. He only talks to us
through the Bible. Seeing my stricken expression, she
continued, with longing in her voice, It would be wonderful
if He could.
How sad! As a little girl, I was reaching out to know
God in a personal way, but I was told it wasnt possible. And
even though I had asked Jesus to come into my heart, I didnt
know we could have a personal relationship with Him.
Without my realizing it, that conversation became one
of the guiding points in my life. To satisfy my inner desire to
know Him, I became a student of His Word, but I never
expected it to come alive to me. I prayed, but I never
expected Him to answer, certainly not with words that I could
hear. I talked to Him, but I never listened for His reply. I
loved Him, but I never expected to feel His love in return.
What an empty, one-sided relationship I had with God.
But that day, when God supernaturally stopped our
car, He became alive to us. He wasnt just in heaven. He was
all around us. He was in us!
When we were baptized in the Holy Spirit and lost our
jobs, our church, and most of our friends all at one time, it
was hard. I went through a period of grief. When things
seemed about to overwhelm me in the natural, I would
wonder what my spirit was doing and would be able to listen
inside myself, and I would hear my spirit singing praises to
the Lord.
I had known intellectually that I was spirit, soul, and
body, but for the first time, the reality that I have a spirit was
more than just words to me.
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In the natural, were in touch with our bodies. They

tell us when theyre cold, hungry, or hurting with no problem.
But some of us have never come in contact with our spirits.
You may be saying, Well, this sounds good, but how do I do
that?
You Dont Listen!
When we received the baptism in the Holy Spirit, A.L.
immediately began to hear God speaking. God even gave him
the outline for whole sermons, reference by reference.
I wasnt hearing from God, and I became very
frustrated about it. God, why dont I hear from you? I
prayed many times. Finally, one day when I was praying
another variation of this prayer, I heard from God. It was so
exciting to me!
What did I hear God say the very first time I knew His
voice? He said, You dont listen!
My Sheep Know My Voice
Jesus said, My sheep know My voice.
Its a fact. His sheep know His voice.
Once, when we were in the Colorado Mountains, we
looked way across the valley and saw a shepherd leading his
sheep along the trail. He was walking ahead of them,
crooning to them. His voice was soft, but when we listened,
we heard it all the way across the valley. Of course, his sheep
knew his voice. They heard it every day, all day.
In Jesus time, the sheep from a whole village were
brought together into a safe place with walls for the night. In
the morning, the sheep were mixed together. But each
shepherd would call to his own sheep, and they would follow
their shepherds voice out of the sheepfold.
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Sheep know the voice of their shepherd, because they

spend time with him, and because he talks to them.
Take Time
Soon after we received the baptism in the Holy Spirit,
a friend gave us a message from God in a song with the
words, Take time to listen.. .Take time to pray. . .Take time
to hear from Me.. .Open your spiritual ears.
We hear Gods voice when we come into a personal
relationship with Him, when we spend time talking with Him
(not praying at Him in a one-sided conversation), when we
study His written Word expecting Him to make it come alive,
and by meditating on His Word.
Many times we want to hear from God when
everything is a mess and we are desperate for direction. At
those times we may be too anxious to hear clearly. Its far
better to learn to hear from Him in the quiet times, so that we
will know His voice in times of stress.
One of the best ways to become quiet before God is to
pray and praise Him in the Spirit. When we do that, we stop
trying to tell Him our desires and our plans, and we hear from
Him.
Many times God awakens us in the middle of the
night to talk to us. During the day, our minds have been busy
and full of natural thoughts, and we havent taken time to get
quiet and listen to Him. At other times, we hear Gods
thoughts of guidance for the day when we first wake up in the
morning. And often throughout the day, God interrupts our
natural flow of thoughts and speaks to us.

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The Miracle of Relationship with God

Again, the greatest miracle of all is God bringing us
into His kingdom. It is God changing us from the natural to
the supernatural. It is God bringing us into a new relationship
with Himself, a relationship in which we have rights and
privileges, a relationship in which we can talk to the Creator
of the whole universe and He answers, a relationship of deep
and intimate communion with God.

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Chapter Six

The Church Begins in Power

A Village Turns to Jesus
The sun was setting over a beautiful beach area in
southern India. The people had never seen electric lights such
as the portable generator was making possible, and
thousands gathered to see this wonder and to hear the music
that was also coming from our system. These people had
never heard the name of Jesus. They had never seen a Bible.
Soon A.L. was preaching, and he couldnt say, The Bible
says... because they didnt know what a Bible was. Why
would they believe him?
He taught the Gospel in the simplest terms he knew.
And then, at the prompting of God, he said, God wants to
confirm my words. He wants you to know that Jesus is His
Son. And so that you will know He is the one and only, true
and living God, He is going to heal all of you!
A.L. was shocked at his own words! He had been
meditating earlier that day on the times in the Bible when
Jesus healed them all, and it was as if these words
unintentionally slipped from the verses he had been
meditating on into his preaching.
God is so faithful. As hundreds came forward, A.L.
and others with him ministered to them, and everyone was
healed! Backs were healed. Lungs were healed. Eyes were
healed. As they ministered healing that night, they all knew
there was no miracle too big for God.
After the people were healed, A.L. asked them to sit
back down. He talked to them again about Jesus being the
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Son of God who was sent to earth to bring them salvation. He

told them they must renounce all other gods. Thinking there
might be a small number of them who would do that, he asked,
Is there anyone here who would like to accept Jesus as
Savior?
They all stood up!
A.L. thought, I must not have made it clear enough.
He asked them all to sit back down. Again he explained it,
being even more careful to make it clear. Again he asked if
anyone would like to renounce their gods and accept Jesus as
their only God and Savior.
They all stood up!
Thinking they had still misunderstood him, A.L. had
them all sit down. He went through Gods plan of salvation
and the necessity of renouncing all other idols for the third
time! He was even more clear in explaining every area of
salvation.
Again, they all stood up to accept Jesus as Savior! A
whole village passed from death to life because God had
confirmed His Word with signs and wonders.
The Indian pastors who were with A.L. on that visit
immediately made plans to start a church in that village.

^^^
The Church Age began in the midst of many
miraculous signs and wonders. In Acts, chapter three, we read
of the lame man who was healed in the name of Jesus, and
how, as a result of that miracle, five thousand believed and
were saved!
Following this, what did the religious leaders
demand? Stop using the name of Jesus! What did these
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believers do? They prayed for even more boldness to keep on

speaking in the name of Jesus with manifestations of healings,
signs, and wonders.
Paul declared that his teaching and preaching were
accompanied by demonstrations of the Spirit and the power
of God. This was evidenced throughout his ministry when
God worked extraordinary miracles through his hands. It was
repeatedly evidenced when people were healed and delivered
from demons even when handkerchiefs and aprons were
taken from Pauls body and laid on the sick and demonpossessed.
What an example the apostle Paul is to us! As he
taught the Word to the believers in Ephesus and signs and
wonders confirmed the Word he preached, everyone in Asia
Minor heard the Word of the Lord.
Jesus didnt say these signs would follow only the
apostles, evangelists, or other preachers. He said these signs
would follow those who believe.
Signs accompanied Philip, who was a deacon in the
Jerusalem church, when he preached in Samaria. Demons
came out screaming, and the paralyzed and the lame were
healed, resulting in great joy in that city. God was working
with him, confirming His Word with signs.
Gods plan for His people hasnt changed. We are all
commissioned to believe His Word and share the Gospel with
the lost. We are to expect Him to work with us, confirming
His Word with signs wherever we go.

I Will Build My Church

Jesus said He would build a church, not churches. He
didnt say He was going to build an early church full of faith,
power, miracles, signs, and wonders, and then later build
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another church full of programs, entertainment, and

committees. The church that we see in the book of Acts is the
same church He is building today.
For too long, mankind has been trying to build the
church with methods and programs, and this church has failed
to reach the world with the true Gospel of Jesus.
The book of Acts is not to be studied as just the
history of the early church. It was written as a supernatural
pattern for our lives, ministries, and churches today. TI the
traditional patterns for our churches dont agree with these
patterns, we need to lay aside our traditions and say, Please,
Jesus, build Your church in our midst!
The story of the church starts with the book of Acts,
and it starts with power. In Acts, chapter one, the believers
were given two promises. One was the coming of the Holy
Spirit, and the other was the return of our Lord and Savior.
When the disciples saw Jesus go up into the clouds, the
angels came and gave them the message of His coming again.
None of these things are of the natural human nature.
They cannot be understood in the natural. They must be
accepted by faith.
Jesus came as a baby born in a manger, but the Holy
Spirit came in power. He came with the sound of a mighty
rushing wind, with divided tongues of fire giving power,
boldness to be witnesses, and new languages to 120 believers.
Immediately after being baptized with the Holy Spirit,
Peter, who had just weeks before denied Christ three times,
was out on the street preaching to the multitudes, and three
thousand people were saved.
Then in Acts, chapter three, we are told about the
miracle of the lame man being healed. In the name of Jesus,
rise up and walk! Peter said. And the man went walking,
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leaping, and praising God. What was the result? Five

thousand souls were added to the church.
The Power of the Spirit
Flowing Through Believers
The phrase Miracle Evangelism is strong, and it is
an apt description of the early church. The New Testament is
the story of the power of the Holy Spirit flowing through
believers.
Peter walked in power. God opened the prison doors
for him. Multitudes were healed by his passing shadow.
Ananias and Sapphira dropped dead at his word. What was
the result?
Great fear came upon all the church and upon all who heard
these things. And through the hands of the apostles many signs and
wonders were done among the people... .And believers were increasingly
added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women (Acts 5:1112,
14).
Through Peters prayers, Dorcas was raised from the
dead, and it became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed on
the Lord (Acts 9:42).
Peter received a vision from God on a rooftop in
Joppa that set him free from legalistic traditions that would
have hindered him from reaching the Gentiles with the
Gospel.
God has a supernatural plan, a power plan, for the
growth of His church. It is the same plan that we see
happening in the book of Acts. It is easily found. Jesus said, I
will build My church (Matthew 16: 18).
The church was not to build itself. Jesus was, and is,
to build it, and it will be a church of power. It will be a
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church of believers, operating as commissioned by Jesus and

empowered by the Holy Spirit.
Jesus plan includes every believer. His followers are
to be witnesses. You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has
come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all
Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth (Acts I :8).
They are to do the things Jesus did. They are to preach,
to proclaim, to share the Gospel.
According to Ephesians, chapter four, believers, not
just ministry leaders, are to be discipled and equipped to do
the works of the ministry. The leaders are to train and equip
all believers, and all leaders and believers are to do the works
of Jesus. Leaders cannot fulfill the Great Commission by
themselves, and believers cannot fulfill it without being
equipped.
Lets go back to the life of Paul. It was certainly filled
with the power of the Holy Spirit. We have the accounts of
his marvelous conversion on the road to Damascus and his
being filled with the Holy Spirit through the hands of Ananias.
We read how he was blind for three days, but was healed
through the laying on of hands.
When Elymas the sorcerer tried to prevent the
proconsul from hearing the Gospel, Paul, filled with the Holy
Spirit, looked intently at him and said, 0 full of all deceit and all
fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not
cease perverting the straight ways of the Lord? And now, indeed, the
hand of the Lord is upon you, and you shall be blind, not seeing the sun
for a time. And immediately a dark mist fell on him, and he went around
seeking someone to lead him by the hand. Then the proconsul believed,
when he saw what had been done, being astonished (Acts 13:912).
Paul spoke to the lame man in Lystra, Stand up straight
on your feet! And he leaped and walked (Acts 14: 10).
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Paul brought deliverance to the slave girl possessed

with the spirit of divination.
Locked in a Philippian dungeon, he was set free by a
supernatural earthquake.
While Paul was preaching, Eutychus went to sleep,
fell from a third-story window, and died! But Paul rushed
down the stairs, fell on him, embraced him, and brought him
back to life.
On the island of Malta, a venomous snake bit Paul,
but he shook if off into the fire and was unharmed.
That was the beginning of the church, but what about
the church today?
Churches to Be Built
In a desire to be seeker friendly, many churches
have laid aside the gifts of the Holy Spirit, the signs, wonders,
and miracles, so as not to offend. Many have even forbidden
speaking in tongues in the church. But Jesus said speaking in
tongues is a sign that will follow those who believe. And Paul
wrote, Therefore tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe but to
unbelievers. To be even clearer, he continued, Do not forbid to speak
with tongues (I Corinthians 14:22, 39).
The things of the Spirit are foolish to the natural mind. The
natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are
foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually
discerned (I Corinthians 2:14).
The natural mind thinks we should forbid speaking in
tongues because unbelievers would be offended. And yet, on
the Day of Pentecost, when 120 believers were all speaking in
other tongues, three thousand people were saved.
The natural mind thinks people would be offended if
our lives, ministries, and churches were full of signs, wonders,
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and healing miracles. But Jesus said that laying our hands on
the sick and seeing them recover would be a sign that would
follow those who believe. These healings would be important
signs to confirm His Word.
In past moves of the Spirit, singular mighty men and
women of God have been used to exhibit signs, wonders, and
healing miracles. However, a major shift is taking place in
evangelism. Believers are beginning to understanding that
every believer can do the same works that Jesus did! God is
extending miracle evangelism from the hands of anointed
healing ministers into the hands of ordinary Spirit-filled
believers.
Its easy to let the supernatural gifts of the Spirit drift
away when we become busy with our church programs and
the daily affairs of life. But Gods Word admonishes us,
Therefore we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have
heard, lest we drift away (Hebrews 2:1).
Paul wrote to Timothy, Therefore I remind you to stir
up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of
my hands (2 Timothy 1:6).
When Jesus commissioned us to go into all the world
and preach the gospel to every creature, He said, These signs
will follow those who believe (Mark 16:15, 17).
What are the signs He mentioned? They include
casting out demons, speaking in new tongues, and laying
hands on the sick with the sick recovering. Jesus also said
these signs were given to confirm Gods Word when we
preach the Gospel in the power of His Holy Spirit.
The church that Jesus is building isnt to be built on
our traditions or what seems reasonable to our natural minds.
Its to be built on demonstrations of the Spirit and of the
power of God.
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Chapter Seven

Weve Been Conned!

Turning the Storm
We had joined some very good friends for a series of
meetings in San Diego, California, and we had seen
wonderful healing miracles in the meeting that night. We
were excitedly sharing one miracle after another in their
hotel room.
But somehow, my attention was drawn to the news
being given on television. There had been weeks of rain in
San Diego, and that day they were showing pictures of houses,
caught in awful mudslides, sliding down the hillsides. The
news commentator continued telling about another storm that
was going to hit the city that night.
You know, I said, we can stop that storm. But no
one heard me. They hadnt joined me when I had turned my
attention to the news.
We can stop that storm! I tried again. But I still
didnt make myself heard.
That storm must not hit San Diego, I stated
emphatically. But still they continued talking excitedly about
the miracles that had happened.
By now, I felt such urgency in my spirit that I couldnt
wait to get anyone to join me. Turning in my chair and
pointing in the direction of the ocean and the storm, I started,
In the name of Jesus...
Silence filled the room for a second, and then all three
of them joined me. In the name of Jesus, storm, I take
authority over you! You cannot hit San Diego!
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The headlines the next morning read, Storm Veers

Suddenly to the North and Misses San Diego.
Why was I so concerned, when the others were not?
Why did I feel an urgency to take authority over that
storm? The answer is simple. I had heard from God.
Oh, the marvelous things that God can do as believers
start actually hearing and doing the works of Jesus!

^^^
When we read of the exploits of the early believers,
we should have a burning desire to know God in the same
way they did. Where is the courage of Stephen to face
martyrdom? Where is the strength of the apostle Paul to face
the continuous hardships of ministry? Where are the miracles
we read about in the book of Acts when believers took the
message of Jesus to the world?
Satan has infiltrated the church. His deceptions have
been taught for so long that believers actually feel more
comfortable accepting these things as truth than they do in
believing the Word of God.
In the past, A.L. and I were taught that the Bible
doesnt mean what it seems to say in many places and that we
must understand the original language to know what God
meant. And yet, we declared, We believe the Word of God.
How often we have heard Christians (notice were not
using the word believers here) make statements like, Oh, I
couldnt heal a flea. I wouldnt presume to say I could heal
the sick. Im not that proud. Jesus wants us to be humble.
But Jesus commanded, Heal the sick! These same words
are recorded one time in Matthew and two times in Luke
(Matthew 10:8; Luke 9:2; 10:9).
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When we insist we cannot do what Jesus said we are

to do, we are in rebellion against the Word of God. Of course,
most of us are not doing this in deliberate rebellion. Weve
been convinced, in mistaken humility, that we are just poor
lost sinners saved by grace. The truth is that we were poor
lost sinners, past tense. But once we have accepted Jesus as
our Lord and Savior, we are new creations. We have come
into a personal relationship with God.
The church of our tradition was so busy telling us
what we couldnt do that we never heard what we could do.
Being evangelistic in nature, our pastors continuously
preached to the sinners. We read our Bibles, we went to Bible
school, but somehow the words we read, which didnt agree
with our doctrines, were never noticed. Our doctrines blinded
us to the truth.
Statements saying we can never do the works of Jesus
are expressions of false humility. They are a lie of Satan. The
Bible says we can.
Another belief Satan has propagated throughout the
church is the division between the ministry and ordinary
believers. We have been led to believe that only certain
ministries can do certain things.
First, Jesus sent the twelve out to heal the sick, cleanse
the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons (Matthew 10:8). Oh, we
can say, were not one of the original twelve disciples. This
verse couldnt apply to us.
But Jesus also sent out seventy believers to heal the
sick there, and say to them, The kingdom of God has come near to
you (Luke I 0:9). Well, we might reply, thats not in our time.
That was in a different dispensation.
And then, just before Jesus left this earth, when His
church was about to be established, He said to them, Go into
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all the world and preach the gospel to every creature... .And these signs
will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons;
they will speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they
drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands
on the sick, and they will recover (Mark 16:15, 1718).
To whom was Jesus speaking? Those who believe. If
we are believers, Jesus was speaking to us!
Satan has effectively tied believers into knots by
reminding them of all the horrible things they have done in
the past. He has put guilt, shame, and condemnation on them.
He has gotten them so preoccupied with all the problems in
their own lives that they have had no time to reach out to the
world with the wonderful message of salvation provided
through Jesus.
In looking at their own problems, they have lost the
joy of their salvation. And in losing their joy, they have lost
the very thing the world is meant to see and hunger for.
We used to quote the saying, Gods in His heaven,
and alls right with the world. But all isnt right with our
world. Distress, sickness, and disease are all around us. We
are the body of Christ on earth, and we are to minister to
those we come in contact with.
God Wants His People
to Move in the Supernatural
God desires that every believer move in the
supernatural. There were many incidents of God being
involved in our lives before He supernaturally stopped our car
in 1968, but we never recognized them as such. Our
erroneous doctrines had become blindfolds hiding the truth
from us.
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About 11:30 one night, when we were getting into bed,

I suddenly knew a terrible thing was about to happen to
A.L.s dad. A.L., I shouted, somethings going to happen
to your dad. Call him right now! The ringing will stop it!
A.L. leaped out of bed and ran for the telephone, and I
stayed in bed asking God what was wrong. How could the
ringing of the telephone help?
Now, as I look back, I know I was seeing in the Spirit
when I saw what looked like a black tornado by a certain
window in A.L.s parents home. I saw the silhouette of Dad
coming out of their bedroom with a gun in his hand. Then I
heard the telephone ring and watched the evil tornado (the
intruder) flee in the opposite direction.
Perhaps the would-be intruder thought a neighbor had
seen him and called to warn the family. Perhaps he knew the
family would now be awake. Whatever the reason, I knew the
ringing of the phone had prevented a tragedy from happening.
After A.L. called, Dad checked each window in the
house to be sure it was locked. He found one unlocked
window, and that was exactly where I had seen the danger.
Satans plan was to kill Dad that night, but God
intervened!
Faith Is More than Facts
The transition from mental belief in Gods Word to
moving in His Spirit was not an easy one for us. We had been
trained all our lives that it was what you knew that was
important.
We had been taught facts, but we had never been
taught faith. We would read verses, but if they didnt line up
with our theology, we didnt see them. And we didnt even
realize we were doing this. All during this time, we stated
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often, We believe every word of the Bible. We called

ourselves believers, but we spent most of our time being
doubters.
We called ourselves children of God, but we missed
the importance of a relationship with Him. For the most part,
we studied the new birth as an escape from the judgment of
hell and so that we could go to heaven when we died.
We didnt understand that, at the moment of salvation,
we were literally born again. We passed from being in only
the natural realm, to also being in the supernatural realm. We
passed into the realm of the Spirit.
We Can Change the World
Because of Who We Are in Christ
Too many of us still picture ourselves in the book of
Isaiah. We are all like an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are
like filthy rags; we all fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind,
have taken us away (Isaiah 64:6).
Yet, the apostle Paul wrote, Therefore, if anyone is in
Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all
things have become new (2 Corinthians 5: 17).
The old filthy rags are gone. We have gotten rid of our
iniquities, and all things have become new.
Paul continued, For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin
for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him (2
Corinthians 5:21).
What a marvelous exchange! Jesus took our sins so
that He might give us His righteousness! He took our
inabilities and gave us His abilities. He took our judgment
and gave us His authority. He took our weak human bodies
and made us part of His body.
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When Satan says to us, You cant do that! we reply,

Yes, we can! We can do all things through Jesus Christ who
strengthens us (Philippians 4:13).
We can see miracles happen because Jesus said we
could. Its not in our strength, but in His. Its not in our
righteousness, but in His. We can change our world, not
because of who we are in ourselves, but because of who we
are in Him!

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Chapter Eight

Moving in the Supernatural

Supernatural Travel
Soon after we received the baptism in the Holy Spirit,
we went to our church one Sunday morning, and then we
were planning to join my sister and her family for dinner
afterward. During Sunday school, I felt normal, but when I
walked into the auditorium for the church service, an
unbelievable pain hit my head. I stopped walking, and A.L.
turned to me and asked what was wrong. I barely whispered,
Please take me home.
When we got there, I crawled into bed and went to
sleep almost instantly. Our children were in Childrens
Church, so A.L. went back for the service and to pick them up.
At ten minutes to twelve, the Lord woke me up. Get
up and dressed, He said.
When A.L. came home with the family, he was
surprised to see me dressed and ready to go. We can call
them and cancel, he said. But God had told me to get ready.
I felt fine while we drove to their home, but when I
walked in their front door, the same pain hit me again. This
time, it hit so hard I staggered into their living room. What
could be wrong? This wasnt a normal headache.
This was the same living room where A.L. had been
healed several years before, and the four of us immediately
started praying for my healing. As we prayed, a strong heat
burned through my body, and it continued to burn for several
hours. It was uncomfortable, but not painful, and I was
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completely healed of whatever had caused the terrible

headache.
The children kept touching me to feel the heat. It was
radiating off my body and could befit about afoot away. The
rest of the family had dinner, but I was in a world of my own.
I knew what was going on, but I didnt seem to care.
Later, we were talking in the living room, the heat was
still in me, and God said, Go home. Immediately, we called
our children and left. The day had been so unusual. God
didnt usually tell us when to leave, and A.L. made a special
note of the time as we climbed into the car.
I was still in my own world while A.L. drove home,
and didnt notice anything unusual. Neither did A.L., until he
was pulling into our driveway. As he stopped the car, he
thought, I cant remember much of the drive home. I
remember pulling onto the freeway, but nothing after that
until I pulled into our driveway. He looked at his watch, and
it was just twelve minutes later than when we had left my
sisters home. A trip that usually takes about an hour had
taken twelve minutes!
We had been supernaturally translated, much like
Philip in the book of Acts. We read in Acts, Now when they came
up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, so that
the eunuch saw him no more; and he went on his way rejoicing. But
Philip was found at Azotus (Acts 8:3940).

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Elisha walked with Elijah. He knew Elijah. He saw
him perform miracles. And his prayer became, Let me have
double the anointing. Let me do twice as many miracles.
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What did Elijah tell him? If you see me leave, you

will have the double anointing. That seems hard. If you see
me go, you will have your prayer answered.
Why did Elijah tell him that? Was it just to make it
hard for Elisha? No. Why, then? I pondered this question for
many years, but when the answer came, it was very simple.
Miracles happen in the supernatural realm, in the
realm of the Spirit. If Elisha was going to receive the double
anointing, he had to see into the Spirit-realm. He had to hear
from God and know what was going to happen in the future.
Two times, Elisha told the sons of the prophets that he knew
Elijah was going to be with the Lord that day.
What did he cry out when the chariot of fire appeared
and Elijah left? My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its
horsemen! (2 Kings 2:12). He saw them. He saw into the Spiritrealm. He had moved from the natural to the supernatural,
and he received the double anointing he had asked for.
Later, Elisha prayed that the eyes of his servant might
be opened. And when the servant of the man of God arose
early and went out, there was an army, surrounding the city
with horses and chariots. And his servant said to him, Alas,
my master! What shall we do?
So he answered, Do not fear, for those who are with
us are more than those who are with them.
And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray, open his eyes
that he may see. Then the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and
he saw. And behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire
all around Elisha (2 Kings 6:1517).

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Lord, Open Our Eyes

Our prayer has become, Lord, open our eyes so that
we may see. Let us view our lives from your viewpoint. Let
us view our problems in the light of all eternity.
There is the natural realm, where we live, move,
breathe, study, work, and have our families and friends. This
is all temporal. Its limited by time. And there is the
supernatural realm, the Spirit-realm, where eternity is.
We live in the temporal for a certain number of years,
and then we die and move into the Spirit-realm for all
eternity. Because we see and experience the natural, we tend
to think its the most important. Perhaps it is, because we
certainly make decisions in the temporal realm that will affect
us for all eternity.
But entering the new birth means that we move from
being only in the natural realm to also being in the Spiritrealm. From the moment of salvation on, we have dual
citizenship. We are part of the natural, but we are also part
of the supernatural.
The new birth means coming into a new family, the
family of God. It means coming into a relationship with God.
The Role of Faith
The new birth means coming to the place where we
can say, Abba, Father.
This relationship cannot be understood with the
natural mind; it must be accepted by faith. It is hearing and
reading the Word, realizing Gods Word is true, and giving
mental assent to it. But it is more than this. It can only be
experienced when we move into the Spirit-realm of God.
It can only be experienced when we stop trying to
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writer of Hebrews wrote, Now faith is the substance of things hoped

for, the evidence of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1).
The word substance has meanings that we may be
missing. This verse could be restated in these ways: Faith is
the firm foundation; faith is that which has actual existence;
faith is real; faith is a steadfastness of mind; faith is firmness,
courage, and resolution.
Faith is given to every human being. Paul wrote, God
has dealt to each one a measure of faith (Romans 12:3).
Paul also wrote that our faith can be increased: . . . as
your faith is increased, we shall be greatly enlarged by you in our sphere
(2 Corinthians 10: 15).
The writer of the book of Hebrews said, Without faith it
is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that
He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him
(Hebrews 11:6).
But, you may be asking, how do we get faith?
The apostle Paul answered that question, too: So then faith
comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God (Romans 10:17).
In the Greek language, the word that we hear that
brings faith is rhema. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing the
rhema of God. As we read, study, and meditate on the logos,
that is, the written Word of God, suddenly God speaks a
personal rhema into our spirits. In that instant, faith leaps into
our spirits.
Too many times we have read the Bible to prove what
we believe. We have read it from the viewpoint of our own
convictions. Instead, we are to read it and say, Yes, Lord.
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The apostle Paul wrote of this when he said, For all the
promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God
through us (2 Corinthians 1:20).
The word faith is used 227 times in the New
Testament. Living a life of faith living a life of believing in
God and in His Word is the entranceway to moving into the
supernatural.
Doubt and unbelief are the enemies of faith. Jesus had
perfect, undiluted faith, and yet even His works were limited
by the doubt and unbelief of others.
Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honor
[or esteem] except in his own country, among his own
relatives, and in his own house.
Now He could do no mighty work there, except that He laid His
hands on a few sick people and healed them. And He marveled because
of their unbelief (Mark 6:46).
Because they knew Jesus in the natural He was one
of them they didnt accept Him in the supernatural. Their
unbelief kept Him from doing miracles in their midst.
Jesus marveled at the centurions faith. He told the
woman with the issue of blood that her faith had made her
well. He told the blind men that it would be to them
according to their faith, and they were healed. He spoke to the
Canaanite woman, 0 woman, great is your faith! Let it be to you as
you desire (Matthew 15:28).
Several times, Jesus chided the disciples for their lack
of faith. He said, 0 you of little faith. He even asked them,
Where is your faith? And one time, Jesus pointed out to
them that they were reasoning instead of believing: He said to
them, 0 you of little faith, why do you reason among yourselves...?
(Matthew 16:8).
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Move into the Supernatural

Realm Through Faith
Doubt is sin. It is contrary to the Word of God. Worry
is sin. It is contrary to the Word of God. Unbelief is sin. It is
contrary to the Word of God. Its time we recognize these
human frailties for what they are sin and confess our sins
before God so that we can go on to live a life of faith.
We can only move into the supernatural realm of God
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Chapter Nine

The Choice Is Ours

Miracle in the Basement
A.L. was out of the country, and I was on an
aluminum ladder putting plastic over a window down in the
basement.
I was using a staple gun that you swing much like a
hammer and making good time on the project, when I looked
back and realized I had missed an area of stapling. Rather
than climbing down and moving the ladder over, I stretched
back and swung the stapler. The force of it hitting the beam
caused me to lose my balance, and I started to fall.
The human mind is such a marvelous instrument. In
times of danger, it can work at unbelievable speed. Of course,
I grabbed for the ladder, but it was of such a light weight that
it started falling with me. I looked at the concrete steps where
I would land. I was alone there was no telephone in the
basement and it might be days before anyone would miss me.
These thoughts were racing through my mind while I was still
falling.
I remember making a decision. In the natural, it made
no sense at all. But I decided, Im not going to fall!
The next thing I knew, I was back standing on the
ladder. It was standing upright once more, and I was shaking
violently from head to toe.
I hadnt fallen!
I cant tell you what happened when I said, Im not
going to fall! But I do know that God had once again
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When God created Adam and Eve, He created them
with the ability to make choices. He did not create them to be
robots, to operate automatically without
original thoughts. He did not create them to be
puppets on a string, completely controlled by a Higher
Being.
When God put the Tree of Knowledge of Good and
Evil in the Garden and told Adam he could not eat from it, He
gave mankind the ability to choose. They could obey Gods
instructions or disobey. God gave them each a free will.
As we know, they chose to disobey God, and the
world has been in trouble ever since. From that time until
now, everything in life has been a choice.
God created the world, and then God created man in His
own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He
created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, Be fruitful
and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of
the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves
on the earth (Genesis 1:2728).
God has given us the ability to choose, and He has
given us the right to rule on this earth.
Choose for Yourselves This Day
Joshua made a great choice when he said, And if it
seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day
whom you will serve,.., but as for me and my house, we will serve the
LORD (Joshua 24:15).
It was written of Moses, By faith Moses, when he became
of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaohs daughter, choosing
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rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the
passing pleasures of sin (Hebrews I 1:2425).
David wrote, I have chosen the way of truth; Your judgments
I have laid before me (Psalm 119:30).
Well, you might say, what about people all around
the world who are being imprisoned because they are
Christians? That is still a result of their choices, good
choices. They have chosen to serve God no matter what the
cost.
Job didnt understand what was happening in his life.
He blamed God for what Satan was doing, and yet he still
said, Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him (Job 13:15). Job had
made a choice to trust God.
In talking to Mary and Martha, Jesus said, Martha,
Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things. But one thing is
needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken
away from her (Luke 10:4142).
Consequences of Our Choices
Not all choices are good. What about Jonah saying,
Im not going to go to Nineveh, and getting on a ship
heading in the opposite direction? The storm came up; he was
thrown overboard and went to live in the belly of a huge fish.
We could all say, Bad choice, Jonah. But what happened
when he repented? God had that fish vomit him right out on
the shores of Nineveh!
We tend to think of the apostle Paul as a saint, as one
who could make no errors in judgment. But lets look at the
choice he made in chapters twenty-one and twenty-two of
Acts. First, we read that in Tyre, they [the disciples] told Paul
through the Spirit not to go up to Jerusalem (Acts 21:4). The Holy
Spirit warned Paul, Dont go to Jerusalem.
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Then, later, while Paul was in Caesarea, we read, As

we stayed many days, a certain prophet named Agabus came down from
Judea. When he had come to us, he took Pauls belt, bound his own
hands and feet, and said, Thus says the Holy Spirit, So shall the Jews
at Jerusalem bind the man who owns this belt, and deliver him into the
hands of the Gentiles (Acts 2 1:1011).
God sent a second warning to Paul and told him what
would happen if he did go to Jerusalem. He even sent one
recognized as a prophet to come from another city.
But Paul answered, I am ready not only to be bound, but also
to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus (Acts 2 1:13).
Agabus didnt say Paul was going to die. He said he
would be bound.
So when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The
will of the Lord be done (Acts 2 1:14).
Paul went on to Jerusalem, and he did present Jesus to
the crowds, but lets listen to his own words: Now it
happened, when I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in
the temple, that I was in a trance and saw Him saying to me,
Make haste and get out of Jerusalem quickly, for they will not receive
your testimony concerning Me (Acts 22:1 718).
God warned Paul the third time! Get out of Jerusalem
quickly! But what did Paul do?
So I said, Lord, they know that in every synagogue I
imprisoned and beat those who believe on You. And when the blood of
Your martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by consenting to his
death, and guarding the clothes of those who were killing him (Acts
22:1920).
God is so faithful! He spoke to Paul one more time.
We read again in Pauls own words, Then He said to me,
Depart, for I will send you far from here to the Gentiles (Acts 22:21).
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God said, Dont go to Jerusalem. And then He said,

Get out of Jerusalem, and He even continued to tell Paul
His plan for his life.
But Paul still chose to go to Jerusalem in spite of the
warnings he had received from others who had heard from
God. He chose to stay in Jerusalem even when warned again
in a dream. And that was the beginning of Pauls many years
of imprisonment.
We can see the mindset of Paul in several of his
statements. The first was when he went from Agabus
warning of being bound to saying, Im ready to die for the
name of Jesus. Then when he argued with God in the dream,
he said, I imprisoned others. I was there when Stephen was
killed.
It appears Paul felt that since he had killed other
believers, he deserved death. He was ready for death, but God
had another plan for his life. God didnt need the Roman
soldiers to arrest Paul to bring him to the Gentiles. That
happened as a result of Pauls choices. God had said to Paul,
I will send you far from here to the Gentiles.
Its exciting to learn that, even though it looks to us
that Paul made the wrong decisions and therefore was
imprisoned first in Jerusalem, then in Caesarea, and finally in
Rome, God was with him and used him at every step of the
way. Gods purpose for his life was still carried out. He still
went far from Jerusalem to the Gentiles.
A Personal Choice
I made a bad choice years ago, and I didnt learn
about it for several months, until God brought it back to my
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words were, God, where did I open the door? I didnt ask
myself. I didnt ask A.L. I asked God, and He answered.
Instantly, it was as if I were back several months
earlier, standing in my own living room. I had just purchased
some luggage I had wanted, and it was spread out around me.
I was figuring out how to use it, when I said to myself, I dont
know why I bought that luggage. I dont want to travel. And I
had then gathered it together and put it in the storage room.
Now I had cancer, and God took me back to that day.
God, I thought, surely that decision wasnt serious enough to
open the door to cancer!
Repentance Overcomes Rebellion
God had led us to travel, and I had made a statement
that I didnt want to travel. That was rebellion. Because I had
opened the door through disobedience, cancer came as the
result. Of course, if I had cancer, no one would expect me to
travel.
I decided at once that I would change my mind. I
would travel. I repented of my attitude and of being in
rebellion. Immediately, I asked for forgiveness, and God
wonderfully, graciously forgave me and healed me of the
cancer.
When we make decisions, we dont always understand
the consequences.
Good Choices
But thats enough about bad choices. Lets think some
more about the good choices. When we were driving up the
mountain and A.L. was praying about the communion service
where he was going to minister, God showed him the way He
wanted us to take communion. When they brought out the
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small loaf of bread, A.L. had a choice. He could have thought,

I guess I made a mistake. It couldnt have been God because
He knew how small the loaf would be. He didnt do that! He
went on with what God had said, and we all got to share in a
special miracle.
Miracles are often missed because we havent moved
into the supernatural, because we havent heard from God and
obeyed Him.
God Doesnt Condemn Us
for Our Bad Choices He Forgives Us!
In teaching about choices, we know from experience
what Satans attack against you will be. At this point, he will
probably be trying to put you under condemnation for the bad
choices you have made in your life. The apostle John wrote,
God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that
the world through Him might be saved (John 3:17).
If the choices we have made in the past, like Pauls,
have not always been the right choices, we may be bearing
the consequences of them. But we can go on to live fulfilled
lives, if we forgive others, forgive ourselves, and receive
Gods forgiveness.
God has given us such a wonderful promise, We know
that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those
who are the called according to His purpose (Romans 8:28).
God has given us free will. He has given us the right
to choose, and He will never violate that right, even when He
knows we are making a bad choice. If God did violate our
wills, we wouldnt be free. We would be like puppets on a
string.
When the children of Israel decided not to go into the
Promised Land, God let them make that decision and wander
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in the wilderness for forty years. It certainly wasnt the best

use of their lives. All but two of them died in the wilderness.
But still, God let them do what they chose.
When we read Gods Word, the choice is ours. We
can see and believe the miracles, or we can pass over them.
We can see the Bible as a wonderful Book of the supernatural,
or we can continue to read it as history. We can come into a
wonderful personal relationship with God, or we can worship
Him from afar.
We can believe healing is for our time, or we can
believe the gifts of healing have ceased. We can believe and
receive healing, or we can doubt and do without healing.
There is no condemnation either way.
God was speaking to the children of Israel when He
said, I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore
choose life, that both you and your descendants may live (Deuteronomy
30:19).
Choose Life
Lets choose life. Lets choose blessings for both our
children and ourselves. Lets say with Joshua, As for me and
my house, we will serve the Lord.
Lets choose faith. Every day is a new day with God.
The past can be forgiven, and there is always a new path
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Chapter Ten

Ingredients to a Miracle
The Expectancy of Faith
Some good friends of ours were out of work, and they
were driving a terrible car. If you stepped on the brakes too
hard or hit a bump in the road, it would shudder and pull
sideways. The only way you could stop the shaking was to
come to a complete stop. It used almost as much oil as it did
gasoline, and you could hear it coming from over a block
away. It did get them around, and they were thankful for it,
but it was a continuous reminder of how things were for them
financially.
One evening, in our home prayer group, they asked
A.L. to pray for the gas mileage of that car to be improved
and for it not to use so much oil. We all bowed our heads
expecting A.L. to pray. No, he said, Im not going to do
it!
What? We always pray when people ask. We all
opened our eyes and looked at him in shock. Leon, he said,
God doesnt want you driving that old car. It isnt even safe!
What kind of car would you like to have?
Any car, Leon answered. Any car that would run
better!
No! A.L. replied, Not any car! If you had your
choice, what car would you like to have?
Finally, Leons wife, Betty, replied, Ive always
wanted a Cadillac.
No, Leon interjected. What if God has a different
car for us?
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What color? A.L. asked Betty.

Any color God has! Leon answered.
Ah. . .1 always wanted white, Betty put in softly.
Okay, A.L. said, now we can pray.
Lord, we know that car theyre driving isnt safe,
and we ask that you give them a white Cadillac.
That was on a Tuesday night. On Sunday night, A.L.
said, Lets go see Betty and Leons car. We drove to their
home, and the car wasnt there.
Leon, A.L. said, wheres your white Cadillac? Did
you put it in the garage?
Uh. . .no. We havent received it yet.
Thats no problem. You will, A.L. answered
confidently.
Tuesday night, we were waiting for them to drive up
in their new car, but soon we heard the rumble of the old one
approaching. When they came in, A.L. asked, Wheres your
new car?
I wish I knew! Leon responded.
Then another member of the prayer group stood up,
walked across the room, and handed the ownership papers of
a beautiful white Cadillac to Leon and Betty. None of us knew
they had a white Cadillac in their garage that they almost
never drove. We had never seen it before.
God had used this time of specific prayer to show
them He wanted them to give their car to Leon and Betty.
In discussing this later, I had to admit to A.L. that my
faith had never been as strong as his for the new car.
Really? he replied in surprise, I heard from God. I knew
they were going to get that car!
Betty, Leon, and I were trying to believe. But because
he had heard from God, A.L. believed.
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^^^
Wow, you may be saying by this time. I want
miracles like this to happen in my life! How do miracles
happen? Sometimes we believe and pray for them, and
sometimes they seem to happen spontaneously. But what
allows a miracle to happen? What must we do to set the stage,
or create the atmosphere, where miracles can happen?
Lets go back to the story of Jesus turning the water
into wine at the wedding feast, the first miracle He did. Are
there lessons in this event that will help us move into a
miraculous way of living?
Identify the Problem
Now both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the
wedding. And when they ran out of wine, the mother of Jesus
said to Him, They have no wine (John 2:23).
Mary identified the problem.
One of the first ingredients to a miracle is to be clear
about what we need. Many times when we pray, we arent
specific. Our prayers are so general that when they are
answered, we dont recognize the answer.
Hearing and Obeying God
Then His mother said to the servants, Whatever He says to you,
do it (John 2:5).
There are two ingredients to a miracle in this short
sentence. The first is to hear from God Whatever He says.
Notice that we arent necessarily to understand it. The second
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Jesus said to them, Fill the water pots with water. And
they filled them up to the brim. And He said to them, Draw some out
now, and take it to the master of the feast (John 2:78).
When did the water actually turn to wine? The Bible
doesnt say. In the natural, the servants had filled water pots
with water. Now came the real test of obedience: Take it to
the master of the feast. If one person had hesitated and tested
the miracle I think Ill take a little sip to be sure doubt
and unbelief would have come in, and the miracle most likely
wouldnt have happened. The servants had to be obedient and
take it to the master of the feast. They had to act in faith.
And they took it. When the master of the feast had tasted the
water that was made wine, and did not know where it came from (but
the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast
called the bridegroom. And he said to him, Every man at the beginning
sets out the good wine, and when the guests have well drunk, then the
inferior. You have kept the good wine until now! (John 2:810).
Jesus was, and is, our most wonderful example of a
man, the Last Adam, working miracles. He gave us a strong
indication of how we can work miracles, when He said, Most
assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He
sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like
manner (John 5:19).
We see what the Father is doing through the
operation of the revelation gifts of the Holy Spirit. Sometimes,
God will speak a few words into our spirits, and those few
words will give us the next step. Sometimes, He gives us
complete understanding of a situation. Sometimes we see, in
the Spirit, ourselves or someone else doing something. The
ways God speaks to us are endless.
Through the word of wisdom, we know or see that a
miracle is going to take place before it happens. This releases
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the gift of faith. We boldly begin to do what we heard or saw

God doing through us. And that is the working of miracles,
another gift of the Holy Spirit.
Pray Gods Will
Another ingredient to a miracle is to pray Gods will.
The apostle James wrote, You ask and do not receive, because you
ask amiss (James 4:3).
When the disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to
pray, He said, In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in
heaven, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done
on earth as it is in heaven (Matthew 6:910).
For miracles to happen, we cannot be concerned with
what we want, with our own wills and desires. We must be
concerned with His will.
So many times, when we pray, we are giving God a
blueprint of how we think a situation should work out. Our
prayers are: God, please do this, and please do that.
But Jesus said we are to pray, Our Father. .Your will
be done.
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Steps to a Miracle
Over the years, A.L. and I have put together our own
steps to a miracle, and we are including them here.

Understand There Are Causes and Effects

Most things dont just happen. If we dont understand
the cause of our situation, we need to ask God for
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Facing ourselves honestly is important. We need to

ask God, Why am I in this situation? Have I been
disobedient? How did I miss You? What do I need to learn,
repent of, or change in my life?
David wrote, Search me, 0 God, and know my heart; try me,
and know my anxieties; and see if there is any wicked way in me, and
lead me in the way everlasting (Psalm 139:2324).
Forgive Others and Ourselves

Forgiveness is an act of the will, not an emotion. We

choose to forgive, regardless of how hurt we have been, how
despicable the other person or persons are, or how tragic the
situation is. We must forgive others and ourselves. We may
even have to consciously release anger or bitterness that we
have been harboring against God and ask His forgiveness for
it, if we feel He let something happen that He could have
prevented.
Jesus said, Whenever you stand praying, if you have anything
against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive
you your trespasses. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in
heaven forgive your trespasses (Mark I 1:2526).
We cannot walk in the miraculous power of God and
have unforgiveness in our lives. One is contrary to the other.
Meditate on Gods Word Regarding Your Need

To meditate means to spend time thinking about, to

ponder, and to contemplate. It means to think about what the
Word has said and to ask yourself, What does this mean to
me? How do I apply it to my life? It means to visualize
Gods Word working and becoming a reality in your life.
The Lord said to Joshua, This Book of the Law shall not
depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that
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you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you
will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success
(Joshua 1:8).
Ask for Direction Expecting to Hear from God

Instead of rushing headlong into a situation, we

should first ask God what we are to do. The Word says that
God hears our requests for His help and that He answers us,
so we need to develop an attitude of expecting to hear from
God.
David wrote, The steps of a good man are ordered by the
LORD, and He delights in his way (Psalm 37:23).
And the Lord says to us, I will instruct you and teach you in
the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye (Psalm 32:8).
Take Time to Listen and Hear Gods Voice

Just as we must stop in the rush of life to hear what

another has to say, we must stop and take time to listen to
God. We can hear the voice of God through His Word, and
also when He speaks to our spirits.
Isaiah wrote, Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying,
This is the way, walk in it (Isaiah 30:21).
Faith Comes by Hearing Gods Word

Faith comes by hearing, and hearing the Word of God.

True faith isnt based on what another person says. A
persons testimony brings hope, but faith is based on knowing
what Gods Word says about our situation.
Abraham is our greatest example of faith. Not being
weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he
was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarahs womb. He
did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was
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strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that
what He had promised He was also able to perform (Romans 4:1921).
Believe What God Has Spoken

What God has written in the Bible is for you, for me,
for each individual. Take Gods Word and apply it to your
own situation. Meditate on a verse, and reword it to apply to
yourself. For example, Jesus said to me (Kathy or Joe or
Alice), If you can believe, all things are possible to you when you
believe. (See Mark 9:23.)
Write Down What God Has Spoken

When we take time to write down what God has said

through His Word or personally to us, and how it applies to
us, it makes that word more a part of our being.
The prophet Habakkuk wrote, Then the LORD answered
me and said: Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may
run who reads it (Habakkuk 2:2).
Boldly Declare What God Has Spoken

When faith comes, it speaks. It tells others. Faith

doesnt keep quiet in case it doesnt work.
Paul wrote about faith speaking, But the righteousness of
faith speaks in this way... But what does it say? The word is near you,
in your mouth and in your heart (that is, the word of faith which we
preach): that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe
in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth
confession is made unto salvation. (Romans 10:5, 810).
Obey! Act! Do It!

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We read in Deuteronomy, It is not in heaven, that you

should say, Who will ascend into heaven for us and bring it
to us, that we may hear it and do it?
Nor is it beyond the sea, that you should say, Who will
go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?
But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart,
that you may do it (Deuteronomy 30:1214).
Then Samuel said: Has the LORD as great delight in burnt
offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to
obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed than the fat of rams. For
rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and
idolatry (I Samuel I 5:2223).
Have Patience

Most of the situations we have gotten ourselves into

didnt happen in a moment of time, and they may take time to
change. Many times, this is because it takes us time to change.
If we were to receive an instant answer, we might do the
same thing again. He will use the situation to change us
before He changes the situation.
God has spoken to us often through the following
Scriptures. Wait on the LORD; be of good courage, and He shall
strengthen your heart; wait, I say, on the LORD! (Psalm 27:14).
Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which
has great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that
after you have done the will of God, you may receive the
promise: For yet a little while, and He who is coming will come and
will not tarry (Hebrews 10:3537).

Give Thanks
We should start giving thanks to the Lord at all times,
not just when we see miracles. Giving thanks before the
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answer comes is an act of faith. It helps us to see how small

our problems are in light of who God is.
The Psalms are full of praise. It is good to give thanks to
the LORD, and to sing praises to Your name, 0 Most High (Psalm 92:1).
Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His mercy
endures forever... .Oh, that men would give thanks to the LORD for His
goodness, and for His wonderful works to the children of men! (Psalm
107:1, 8).
Your Miracle Will Come!
The Bible makes it so simple. All that is evil comes
from Satan. All that is good comes from God. Thats what
Jesus said.
The thief [the Devil] does not come except to steal, and to kill,
and to destroy. I [Jesus] have come that they may have life, and that
they may have it more abundantly (John 10: 10).
God desires only the best for us! In His redemptive
work, Jesus has already provided every miracle we need in
our lives. The apostle Paul wrote, Blessed be the God and Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in
the heavenly places in Christ (Ephesians 1:3).
God wants to bless us with miracles more than we
want to be blessed. In fact, He has already blessed us with
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Chapter Eleven

Supernatural Guidance
The Bombs Exploded
A.L. was making flight plans for a ministry trip to Asia.
He was talking over different flight options with me and said,
If I fly though India, it will take almost a day more, but we
can save several hundred dollars.
I replied, Dont save the money.
Dont save the money? Are you kidding? We always
take the less expensive route. My instant answer was so
totally unlike my usual thinking that it shocked us both. We
started laughing and A.L. said with wonder, I think we just
heard from God. Im not going to save the money. And he
booked his tickets in a different direction.
The day A.L. would have been in the International
Airport Terminal in Madras, India, terrorists bombed the
airport, and many people were killed and injured!
Thats not the only terrorist act God has saved us
from. Once, we checked out of a hotel in Manila, and the next
day the restaurant on the first floor was destroyed by a bomb.
For three days, our friends and we had been in that
restaurant having breakfast at that exact time.
Wow! What a mighty God we serve!

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How are we to know what we are to do, where we are
to go, who we are to talk to? We all need to listen for Gods
step-by-step directions for our lives.
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There was a lady in Orange Country, California, who

prayed in the morning and then started about her usual day.
Usual for her, but not for most of us! Okay, Lord, she
would say, Im ready. Tell me who You want me to witness
to today.
As she drove down the road, she would listen for God
to speak. Turn here, He would say. Stop at that house.
And she would do it. She would walk boldly up to the door,
knock, and when the person who lived there answered the
door, she would say something like, God just told me to stop
here and pray for you. Miracles happened. People accepted
Jesus as their Lord and Savior. It wasnt unusual for her to
come to church on Sunday morning with as many as fifteen
new believers.
Our friend Nancy lives in the Northwest. She and her
husband had spent an evening together with another couple,
and as they were parting, someone suggested that they pray
together. I was so embarrassed, she said. They were ready
to leave, and I began to speak in tongues. I closed my eyes
and went on and on speaking in another language. It was like
I couldnt stop.
My mind was arguing with what was happening.
Lord, its late. Theyre waiting to go home. But the message
continued on and on. I dont know how long I spoke. It was
maybe as long as thirty minutes.
Then, suddenly, it just stopped. I opened my eyes,
and no one was with me. I turned around, and they were
sitting at the table, writing on every scrap of paper they had
been able to find.
Wow, they said in wonder, you just gave us the
entire itinerary for our trip. You have been speaking in
Russian, and you have given us the dates we are to be in
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various cities. The names of the people we are to contact.

Everything! And God finished by telling us that this would be
the last trip we would be able to make into Russia, because
we were getting much too well known to continue smuggling
Bibles into that country.
That is an awesome example of supernatural guidance.
But God is not always that definite.
Waiting on Gods Leading
In 1968, when God had just healed A.L., our lives
were still a mess. We didnt know what we were to do. In
Houston, we had operated a Christian bookstore, but we both
knew we couldnt go back. Going home would be like going
back and facing death and defeat. And yet, we still had a
family to support and house payments to make.
We had a personal friend who lived in the Los
Angeles area, and Al. set a time to get together with him.
Before A.L. left for the meeting, we prayed that God would
give us leading through this conversation, and we waited
anxiously to hear what would be said.
When A.L. came home, he said, He didnt give me
any advice! He did suggest I might want to talk to a couple
who have a chain of Christian bookstores, since were in the
same business and have been thinking of starting a chain store
operation in Texas.
We had asked the Lord for guidance in that
conversation, and so we followed the slight suggestion that
was made. The next day, we met with the couple, and they
asked us if we would be interested in managing one of their
bookstores. We didnt know if we should be. What was God
saying? All we knew was that we needed to look into it.

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Our store in Houston was located in a shopping center.

It had beautiful red carpet, white walls, and cherry wood
fixtures. As you walked toward it, you could see that the
aisles were wide. The store was neat, beautiful, and clean.
The stores appearance drew the customers in.
In contrast, when we walked up to the store they had
offered us, the windows were so dirty you couldnt see
through them. When we went through the door, the interior
was dingy and dark. Merchandise was literally hanging from
the ceiling. The aisles were so narrow that you had to turn
sideways to get through them. Books were stacked two and
three rows deep. To get into the music section, you had to
duck down into a tiny room where there was one light-bulb
hanging from the ceiling. But when we walked about three
feet into that store, a mantle of peace descended on both of us.
It felt like we were wrapped in a warm, cozy blanket that we
couldnt see.
In the natural, we never could have reasoned out the
right choice of moving from what we had to what we were
being offered, but God led us supernaturally, and we made
the change.
We took our knowledge of what a Christian bookstore
could be and changed that store. We worked twelve-and
fourteen-hour days, six days a week. We cleaned, organized,
built new fixtures, added light, and painted. That year, the
sales were double what they had been the previous year. And
in less than two years, A.L. was promoted to being the
general manager over twenty-one stores.
Gods guidance in this situation came to us in the
form of a slight suggestion from a friend. And then, when we
obediently followed that, God was more definite in His
leading.
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Gods Vacation Plans

Several years later, we were thinking about buying a
vacation home in the mountains. With so many managers
reporting to A.L., our telephone rang day and night. We
needed a place to be alone with our children, a place to get a
little rest. As we looked and looked, working with various
realtors, the cost of the homes we were looking at went up
and up. Did God want us to have a vacation house, or was it
just a desire of ours?
Finally, one evening, we prayed about it and made
some definite decisions. We would pay a certain price, no
more. We had so much for a down payment, no more. And
we could afford a monthly payment of a certain amount, no
more.
The next morning when we were leaving for the office,
I told our son, John, who was taking care of our daughters
that summer, Stay around the house today. We may be going
to Big Bear.
A.L. looked over at me. Joyce, he said, I think we
have a lot of work to do at the office.
I laughed. Boy, are you right! But John, stay close to
the house today.
The morning flew by, and we went to lunch. When we
walked back into the office, I said to A.L.s secretary, If a
collect call comes in from Monty (a realtor we were working
with then), accept the call. A.L. shook his head and walked
on into his office even as the telephone started ringing.
It was Monty. You wont believe the house that has
just come on the market, he told A.L.
As he described it, A.L. knew the price must be way
beyond what we had decided the night before. Finally, he
asked, Monty, how much is this house?
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Thats what you really wont believe, Monty replied.

Its listed at much less than its market value. The amount
was what we had set the night before, to the penny.
Ah, how much would they need for the down
payment? Again, it was the amount we had set, to the penny.
Monty, what would our monthly payments be?
Again, right to the penny.
By the time he was off the phone, I had my desk
cleared, my purse in my hand, and had asked our secretary to
call John and tell him and our daughters to get ready. We
were going to Big Bear. It took about two hours to pick up
our family and make the drive, and we were as excited as
children on Christmas morning. I remember saying, A.L.,
we have to keep our feet on the ground and be sure this is
what God is saying before we buy the house. I was
concerned that our excitement would make us vulnerable.
The house Monty took us to was large. A window was
broken; the interior wasnt completely finished, and it was
filthy. But when we walked a few feet into the living room,
peace descended on us. And I turned to Monty and said,
Well take it!
But, but, but, he sputtered a bit and asked, dont
you want to see it first? A.L. was laughing at what Id said,
after I had spent so much time on our drive up warning him
that we shouldnt do that. But we both knew this was our
house. And that vacation home, purchased in 1972, is our
permanent home today.
Miracles seem so easy when we tell about them. Its
hard for us to convey the time of turmoil and of prayer that
has often gone on before the answer came. The time when we
were desperately waiting for God to speak, yet not hearing a
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thing was the time that God used to develop our faith
muscles.
Walk in Confidence
That You Can Hear Gods Voice
God doesnt want His people to be in bondage. We
dont need to anxiously ask Him what to do at every turn in
the road. Instead, we should walk in confidence, in faith, that
He will tell us what is important, believing that we can hear
His voice.
In the Psalms, we read, The steps of a good man are
ordered by the LORD, and He delights in his way (Psalm 37:23).
David prayed, Uphold my steps in Your paths, that my
footsteps may not slip. I have called upon You, for You will hear me, 0
God (Psalm 17:56).
And in Proverbs, we find, Trust in the LORD with all your
heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways
acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths (Proverbs 3:56).
We must move ahead in faith and confidence that He
will order our steps and direct our paths. We must not be
paralyzed for fear that we might make the wrong decision.
Instead, we must move, believing we will hear from God
when we need to make a change.
It is impossible to steer a ship that is sitting motionless
in the water. However, when its moving under power, the
slightest movement of the helm will change its course.
As a friend and I were driving down a freeway toward
Los Angeles to a specialty store, we were discussing how to
know the will of God. We both were in a time of transition in
our lives and knew God was going to be making some
changes. I said to her, Its like Im driving on this freeway
and youre going to tell me how to get to the store. I dont
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slow down at every exit and ask if I get off there. I trust you
to tell me.
Then I realized that I didnt know where I was going.
I had been to the store several times, but A.L. had been the
one doing the driving. I didnt know which exit to take, and
that was before the days of cell phones. Laughing, I said, I
dont know which exit to take. Lets listen to the Lord, and let
Him tell us where to go.
She looked at me as if I were crazy, and I felt a little
crazy, but I drove several more miles down the freeway.
When I saw a certain exit coming up, I heard the Lord say,
Take that one. I did. At the traffic light, the Lord said,
Turn right. I did. Two or three blocks later, the Lord said,
Turn left, and I did.
Then when we were right in front of a little
convenience store, the Lord said, Now, go in there and ask
for directions. We werent in a very good area of town, and I
did question my hearing a bit when I looked at the shabby
store, but I went in and asked for directions.
The man began to laugh. I just took my wife there
yesterday, he said, and he drew a map for me. I had just a
few blocks to go, but the way the streets intersected was
confusing.
Why didnt the Lord lead me all the way? Certainly
He could have, but in looking back on that day, I think I
would have had trouble staying in the Spirit and hearing Him
clearly. Perhaps I would have been like Peter when he walked
on the water, and then began to look around. I was out there, I
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Follow the Leading of the Holy Spirit

We know that the Spirit led Jesus into the wilderness
to be tempted. And sometimes, God will take us into hard
places. That is the time we need to know we are exactly
where He wants us.
We have a wonderful example of the leading of God
in the story of Paul going to Macedonia in Acts, chapter
sixteen. Now when they had gone through Phrygia and the region of
Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in
Asia (Acts 16:6).
They were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the
word in Asia! Dont you wonder why and how?
After they had come to Mysia, they tried to go into
Bithynia, but the Spirit did not permit them (v. 7).
The Spirit would not permit them. Again, we would
like to know more. They may have been getting a little
frustrated by this time. Travel wasnt easy, and they didnt
even know where they were going. They just knew where
they couldnt go.
So passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas. And a
vision appeared to Paul in the night. A man of Macedonia
stood and pleaded with him, saying, Come over to
Macedonia and help us (vv. 89).
Now, finally, they have direction. They have seen a
vision, and they have heard a voice.
Now after he had seen the vision, immediately we
sought to go to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had
called us to preach the gospel to them.
Therefore, sailing from Troas, we ran a straight course
to Samothrace, and the next day came to Neapolis, and from
there to Philippi, which is the foremost city of that part of
Macedonia, a colony.
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And we were staying in that city for some days (vv.

1012).
Do you feel a little discontent in those words? Or
perhaps we are feeling a little of how we would be reacting in
a similar situation. Okay, Lord, we thought this was where
you wanted us, but a number of days have passed, and
nothings happening. We saw the vision. We heard the voice.
We obeyed. Now what?
And on the Sabbath day we went out of the city to the
riverside, where prayer was customarily made; and we sat
down and spoke to the women who met there (v. 13).
They did the possible; they went where they knew
people would be and spoke to them, and God put together a
divine connection.
Now a certain woman named Lydia heard us. She was a seller
of purple from the city of Thyatira, who worshiped God. The Lord opened
her heart to heed the things spoken by Paul. And when she and her
household were baptized, she begged us, saying, If you have judged me
to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay (Acts 16:1415).
Through Lydia, they had a place to stay and an
entrance for ministry into the community.
Some friends of ours who were missionaries were in
Asia years ago, and they wanted to go back to a village where
they had been before. But the political situation had changed,
and they would not be allowed to enter the country. There
was even a strong possibility that they would be imprisoned if
they did enter. Their missionary friends said, Dont go! But
if you must, go after dark when the checkpoint might be
unmanned. They prayed and felt impressed to leave at once,
and they arrived at the checkpoint at about two in the
afternoon. Normally this was a busy time of day, but there
was no one on duty, and they just drove on through!
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Two days later, they were ready to leave the country,

but now it was even more dangerous to cross the border since
they werent officially there. This time, God impressed on
them to leave early in the morning. And once again, the
checkpoint was unmanned, and they just drove out of that
country.
Walking in Guidance Is
a Process of Hearing and Obeying
Walking in supernatural guidance is a process. Its
hearing from God and obeying. But the answer isnt always
instantaneous. Often, there are days, weeks, months, even
years, between the vision and its fulfillment. If God gave us
all the direction at once, we might be tempted to say, Okay,
God, I can take it from here. We would probably begin
walking in faith, but we might soon turn to walking by sight.
Walking in supernatural guidance can only be done in
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Chapter Twelve

Supernatural Power and Protection

I yelled, Jesus!
It was late at night, and we were driving home. There
was very little traffic, and A.L. was following another car
down the highway. Both cars were going about seventy miles
an hour.
We had been listening to a tape on the power of the
name of Jesus, and I was meditating on the words we had just
heard. Words like, The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the
righteous run to it and are safe (Proverbs 18:10).
Could it be that if we just said the name Jesus, it was
a complete prayer? When we exclaim, Jesus, in faith, are
we actually saying, God save us?
As I was drifting between meditating and sleeping, I
heard A.L. gasp. My eyes flew open to see a police car racing
down a road that intersected with ours. His lights were
flashing. His siren was wailing. But there was no time for the
car in front of us to stop, or even to slow enough for the
police car not to hit it. There was going to be a terrible
accident! And there was no way A.L. could avoid piling our
car right into theirs. In the natural, there was no way out.
I wasnt even sure if I was awake or asleep, but I did
exactly what I had been thinking about. My hand flew up and
I pointed at the police car coming at us. Jesus! I yelled.
At that second, the police car was suddenly going
down the road in the same direction we were going. He didnt
swerve in a quick turn. He was instantly traveling in a
different direction.
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^^^
What a storm it must have been on the day Jesus
calmed the sea! Mark wrote, And a great windstorm arose, and the
waves beat into the boat, so that it was already filling. But He [Jesus]
was in the stern, asleep on a pillow. And they awoke Him and said to
Him, Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?
Then He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea,
Peace, be still! And the wind ceased and there was a great calm (Mark
4:3739).
How could Jesus speak to a storm and have it obey
Him? Perhaps He did this one miracle in His power as God.
Perhaps, just for a short time, He took back His rights and
privileges as God. But that doesnt agree with what is written.
Remember how we read that Jesus made Himself of no
reputation, taking the form of a servant and coming in the
likeness of men?
Remember how He laid aside His rights and privileges
as God so that He could come to earth to live and die as a
human being? How He did this is beyond our limited human
understanding, but that He did it is not. Everything Jesus did
on this earth He did as the Last Adam, as the man Adam was
created to be.
When God created mankind, He gave them dominion
on this earth. It is recorded in John that it was not because
Jesus was the Son of God that He was given authority on
earth; He was given authority because He was the Son of
Man. For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to
have life in Himself, and has given Him authority to execute judgment
also, because He is the Son of Man (John 5:2627).

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Its so important to understand that everything Jesus

did on earth, He did as a man. That means just like He said
We can do it, too!
Referring back to the storm, we see that Jesus chided
the disciples even in the midst of this miracle of calming the
elements. He said to them, Why are you fearful, 0 you of little
faith? Then He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was
a great calm (Matthew 8:26).
What didnt they have faith in? They knew Jesus
could protect them. When they became afraid, they did the
right thing. They came to Jesus. Was Jesus rebuking them for
not having faith in Gods power to protect them?

God Has Given

Mankind Authority over the Earth
A.L. and I have written two books on the authority
God has given to mankind. The following is a brief summary
of this subject.
When God created Adam and Eve, He gave them
authority over all the earth and everything that was in, or on,
the earth. Adam and Eve surrendered that authority to Satan
when they sinned, but Jesus came to take it back. He lived
every day, moment by moment, by the laws He had set for
Adam and Eve, so that He could, by His death, be our
Substitute, our Redeemer, and take the keys of authority back
from Satan.
These are the same keys of authority Jesus said He
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Supernatural Protection in the Bible

The Bible gives us many accounts of supernatural
protection. God protected Noah, his family, and all the
animals during the great judgment on all the earth.
When the children of Israel were at the shore of the
Red Sea, God sent the pillar of fire and cloud between them
and the Egyptians. It provided light for the Israelites, but was
darkness to the Egyptians.
So it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of
Israel. Thus it was a cloud and darkness to the one, and it gave light by
night to the other, so that the one did not come near the other all that
night (Exodus 14:20).
And consider the fact that it was a cloud by day,
protecting them from the heat of the desert, and a fire by
night, providing warmth.
There were five kings of the Amorites who came up
against Gibeon, and the Bible says that the Lord routed them
and that He cast down large hailstones as they tried to flee,
and they died.
When a great multitude, consisting of the armies of
three nations, came against Judah and Jehoshaphat, God sent
confusion on them, and they utterly destroyed each other.
Gods Supernatural
Protection Is for Todays Believers, Too
Gods supernatural protection was not just for the
children of Israel during the time of the Old Testament. It is
for us today. Remember the storm that veered suddenly to the
north in San Diego? That was not our first experience in
moving in authority over the elements of our earth to bring
protection.
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Especially when we are speaking in authority, we

must hear from God first. He must give us permission and
instructions to move in this area.
Jesus said, I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and
My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will
of the Father who sent Me (John 5:30).
We must be careful not to try operating in authority to
fulfill our own wills, our own desires. We must be doing the
will of the Father, just as Jesus did.
Then Jesus said to them, When you lift up the Son of Man,
then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing of Myself; but as
My Father taught Me, I speak these things (John 8:28).
In the seventies, California was experiencing a time of
drought. Water was rationed, and our lakes were drying up.
We flew over some of them, and they were just dry, cracked
mud with a little water in the center. The situation was getting
desperate.
We dont know how many times we asked the Lord,
Can we pray for rain? Every time, we heard, No, not yet.
That answer was encouraging, because it meant the time was
coming when we could pray, and we were persistent in asking
permission.
Then one Sunday morning, God answered, Today,
you can pray for rain.
A.L. shared this with our pastor, and he said, That
confirms what God said to me. That morning, the whole
church stood and asked God for rain, and on Tuesday, we had
the first of several heavy rains, and that was the beginning of
the end of the drought.
Just before the rains came, the hillsides were so dry in
Southern California that any spark could set them on fire. The
grass was so high that, when it burned, the heads of the grass
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would become firebombs driven by the wind over the fire

lines. You have probably seen some of these horrible fires on
the television news over the past years.
We were involved in the leadership of a ranch for
abused children located in a picturesque canyon surrounded
by meadows and trees. It was a wonderful, restoring
atmosphere for children who had been so battered.
As I came out of the dry cleaners with our dry
cleaning in one hand and my purse and car keys in the other, I
looked up at the hillside above this ranch, and it was on fire. I
knew instantly exactly what Satans plan was. It was to burn
this home and the surrounding buildings to the ground.
Somehow, I got everything in one hand, and with the
other, I pointed at that fire. Oh, no, you dont, Satan! In the
name of Jesus, I command this fire to go out! In the name of
Jesus, I say, you cannot continue burning!
I didnt plan my words. I didnt think about what I
was going to do. I saw the fire and knew what Satan planned.
I dont remember transferring the things I was carrying from
one hand to the other. I simply pointed at the fire, and the
words came out.
David wrote, I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of
the land of Egypt; open your mouth wide, and I will fill it (Psalm 81:10).
Thats what happened to me that day. I was standing
in the middle of the parking lot, but I wasnt conscious of the
cars around me until I had spoken those words. Almost in
shock, I got into the car and drove home, wondering what had
happened. The next morning, the headlines of the newspaper
reported, Fire in Anaheim Hills Mysteriously Quits
Burning! The article speculated about how this could have
happened, but the firemen had no answer. With hundreds of
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men fighting this fire, it still had been out of control, and then,
they said, The fire mysteriously quit burning.
The Believers Authority
A.L. was teaching on the authority of the believer in a
large church in Texas one Sunday morning. Every day, the
news carried stories of a huge oil slick that was traveling
across the Gulf of Mexico to the beaches of Texas. Every day,
they painted a picture of the devastation that was coming to
our beaches. But this Sunday morning, A.L. stopped teaching
and talked to the class about the oil slick.
We have authority, he said, to stop this oil slick
from coming on our coasts. Everyone who can believe with
me, stand and extend your hands toward the Gulf. Most of
the people stood, and A.L. took authority over that oil slick. I
remember how he paused, searching for the right word in his
spirit. Dissipate, he said. 1 command this oil slick to
dissipate in the name of Jesus.
By now, you know the rest of the story. The
newspapers reported, Oil Slick Mysteriously Dissipates.
The scientists couldnt explain it. It just disappeared.
The news media made fun of Pat Robertson several
years ago when he said that he, or several people praying
together, had stopped a hurricane from coming into Virginia
Beach. We believe it! It sounds just like our God.
Years before, the staff of Campus Crusade,
headquartered at that time in Southern California, took
authority over a horrible forest fire that was raging toward
their property. They said, In the name of Jesus, you cannot
touch our property. Right at their fence line, but not touching
the fence, the wind reversed, and the fire went in another
direction.
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A friend of ours had been to A.L.s seminar on the

Authority of the Believer, and she called to tell us about
standing on her porch in a flood situation and commanding
the water to stop rising. She watched while the water stayed
piled up in the center of the road. The neighbor across the
street from her came over the next day and said, Boy, am I
glad we live across the street from you! I know you stopped
the water from coming any higher!
Another friend in Southern California told us about a
fire burning up the hillside toward their home. She had heard
our testimony of the fire that went out, and she stood by her
house and took authority over that fire. Fire, in the name of
Jesus, you cannot burn our property. The fire kept coming,
but she stood her ground. Fire, I command you in the name
of Jesus, you cannot burn our property! The fire kept coming,
but she continued to stand her ground, getting more and more
certain of her faith. Finally, just when the fire reached the
edges of their property, the wind turned, taking it in another
direction.
One day, A.L. was driving our family down a rainslick road, heading for church. We heard the loud squealing
of brakes. It was a car sliding out of control. It crossed the
center lane, and was coming right at us. Jesus! we cried,
and the car hit what looked like a gold, but transparent,
cowcatcher on the front of our car and slid, unharmed, back
into its own lane.
We were sitting in the service when, all of a sudden, I
realized, Theres no cowcatcher on the front of our car! I
had seen it there in the Spirit, and it had been so real that I
didnt even think about it not being a part of our car until an
hour or so later.
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If youre of the younger generation and dont know

what a cowcatcher is, its the metal grille or frame that
projected from the front of the old steam locomotives, and
served to clear the track of obstructions.
Once, I was driving down the center lane on a freeway
in Houston, Texas, and I heard a loud bang. Someones tire
had a blowout, I thought. But when I pulled ahead of the
other cars, I realized that the flapping sound I was hearing
was from my tire. I signaled to move right, drove off the
freeway, and parked my car at the curb. I got out and walked
to the rear of the car just in time to see the tire go flat.
It wasnt until years later, when I was listening to a
lady tell about God protecting her that week when she had a
blowout, that I realized what a miracle I had experienced.
After the service, I asked A.L., What is the loud
banging sound you hear when you have a blowout?
Its the air exploding out of the tire, he explained.
Now I picture an angel flying alongside my car and holding it
up until I changed lanes two times, drove normally off the
freeway, and parked my car.
What Wonders Can Occur
God worked wondrous miracles of protection for His
people throughout the Bible, and He is still working them for
people today. We have just shared with you some of the
miracles of protection and power that we know about. If we
were sitting together around the table, we are sure you would
be sharing with us similar miracles from your own
experiences.
Oh, what wonders can occur when believers stop
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Chapter Thirteen

Supernatural Provision
A Supernatural Feast
Some close friends of ours were ministering to Indians
in New Mexico. They lived near the reservation in a small
camping trailer.
One Thanksgiving, they invited the Indians to their
place for dinner, assuming a dozen people might show up and
that everyone would bring food and there would be plenty for
all. Charlie had measured their tiny oven and bought a turkey
that would just fit. He and Norma had fixed some dressing,
potatoes, gravy, and corn. But, of course, they were cooking
on a small camping stove in small pans, and the amounts they
prepared were small.
The Indians came in response to their invitation, and
they were surprised to see about eighty people. None of them
brought food, and Norma and Charlie knew they were in
trouble. They didnt have enough food! What could they do?
There wasnt money to go and buy food. There wasnt even
time to buy food, even if there had been money, and they had
invited these people to come to Thanksgiving dinner.
Charlie said, God, we need a miracle, and while he
continued praying in the name of Jesus, he began slicing their
small turkey. He filled cookie sheet after cookie sheet with
turkey. Norma began filling bowl after bowl with potatoes,
dressing, gravy, and corn.
Charlie and Norma were still in awe when they told us
about this miracle. The people were even folding the food
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never ran out of any item!
What an awesome God we serve!

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We all know the story about Jesus taking the loaves
and fish provided by the little boy and feeding the multitude.
This incident is so important that it is recorded in all four
Gospels, and we have included Matthews account here.
When it was evening, His disciples came to Him, saying, This is
a deserted place, and the hour is already late. Send the multitudes away,
that they may go into the villages and buy themselves food.
But Jesus said to them, They do not need to go away. You give
them something to eat.
And they said to Him, We have here only five loaves and two
fish.
He said, Bring them here to Me. Then He commanded the
multitudes to sit down on the grass. And He took the five loaves and the
two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke and gave the
loaves to the disciples; and the disciples gave to the multitudes.
So they all ate and were filled, and they took up twelve baskets
full of the fragments that remained. Now those who had eaten were
about five thousand men, besides women and children (Matthew 14:15
21).
Whenever we read an incident in the Bible, we ask
ourselves, Why is it recorded? Why is it important to me? By
choice, were believers. We believe the Word of God is true,
but beyond that, we have a hunger to understand why it is
there for us to read. Our response has become, Yes, this
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happened, but Lord, why is it important for us to know about

it?
Can believers today enter into supernatural provision?
Is there a secret we need to understand for the time in which
we live? Was this supernatural provision of food for the time
of Jesus only? Was this a onetime supernatural intervention
of God?
No, we read of Jesus feeding four thousand men, plus
the women and children, with seven loaves and a few fish a
short time later.
When Hagar and Ishmael were wandering in the
Wilderness of Beersheba, their water was gone, and, in the
natural, they had no hope. But they cried out to God, and we
read, Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she
went and filled the skin with water, and gave the lad a drink (Genesis
21:19).
Weve already told you about the supernatural
communion when God multiplied the bread, but weve
experienced more miracles of provision in our lives.
When we received the baptism of the Holy Spirit, we
were working for a Christian company, but they didnt
believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit. A.L. was teaching
the adult Sunday school class in a church that didnt believe
in the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Most of our friends were
non-Pentecostal. And we were in for many changes in the
next few months.
The Holy Spirit inspired the writers of the Bible, and
in the months following our baptism, He wonderfully began
to open the Word of God to our understanding.
The Holy Spirit also told us of things that were going
to happen, but we couldnt seem to understand them. We met
over breakfast with a prophet of God, and he began to speak
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into our lives. He gave us the time frame in which these

things would be happening. He used the same verses God had
given us and explained them. First, there would be three
months of verbal assault, then three months of silence; then
there would be three months of being without work before we
found our new way.
Three months without work! Even in our worst
financial crises, we had always had work! How would we
live? We had three children, a car, two houses, and bills!
What were we to do? We didnt understand faith, beyond
faith for salvation. We hadnt even heard much about it.
During the first six months, we saved about one-third of
everything that came in. We were diligent in preparation for
what lay ahead.
We wish we could tell you of our marvelous faith
during this time. How we walked in peace through these
months; but we cant, because we didnt. Our faith was very
up-and-down. But we can tell you about the wonderful
presence of God we felt when we were asked to leave our
church, when our friends suddenly didnt seem to know us,
and when we were fired from the Christian company where
we worked. During this time, God was showing us His
presence in supernatural ways.
For years, we had instant protein for breakfast. Each
day, I dumped five scoops of protein powder into the blender,
along with milk and seasoning. A two-pound can of protein
lasted less then a month.
It wasnt my habit to look into the can each morning. I
pulled it forward on the shelf, which was a little above my
eyesight, scooped out the protein I needed, and pushed it back
into place. For three months, I took out five scoops of protein
each morning, arid the can never went down in content. The
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morning A.L. joined the staff of a large charismatic church in

Southern California, I reached into the can of protein with my
scoop, and my hand went all the way to the bottom of the can.
I picked it up, turned it over, and was able to shake just
enough protein for that day into the blender.
We enjoyed Gods supernatural provision during this
hard time. We praised Him continuously for being with us.
Also, we drove a Buick sedan, and we knew from
experience that we could drive to our place in the mountains,
around the lake one time, and home on one tank of gas. For
three months, we made the same trip and used half a tank of
gas. Our gasoline mileage doubled.
During this time, we made a trip from Whittier to
Sacramento, California, to join some friends for a time of
ministry. As we left home, we thanked the Lord for what he
had done to multiply our gasoline and asked Him to continue
stretching our mileage. We drove there on one tank of
gasoline, when normally it would have taken at least two.
We werent destitute. We had money in savings. We
could have purchased these items, but God was showing us
that He has supernatural provision for His people.
The Great Multiplier
I was pondering this time of multiplication a few
years ago, and I asked the Lord once again to show me His
supernatural provision. We used a special healthy sweetener,
and I felt we were paying way too much for it. I thanked the
Lord for multiplying that sweetener each time I used it. And
we used the same little container month after month until the
plastic wore out and collapsed in my hand!
We were sharing some of these miracles with a
worship leader, and he shared with us about his childhood.
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His mom was a single mother with several children, and

many times there was no money for food. They would go all
day with one meal, or even no meal. But each night, before
they went to bed, his family gathered together and began to
sing praises to the Lord. He said, We never went to bed
hungry. Each night, when we praised and worshipped the
Lord, God would fill our stomachs, and we went to bed full!
Lets read the words of David and listen to the heartcry of God. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land
of Egypt; open your mouth wide, and I will fill it....
Oh, that My people would listen to Me, that Israel would walk in
My ways! I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn My hand against
their adversaries....
He would have fed them also with the finest of wheat; and with
honey from the rock I would have satisfied you (Psalm 81:10, 1314,
16).
We tell about miracles in order to raise our faith level.
Remembering what God has done encourages us. Knowing
what God has done for us and others should encourage you.
God is no respecter of persons (Acts 10:34 KJV). That means
He doesnt show partiality to one person over another. What
He has done for one person, He will do for another who
believes.
Supernatural Provision in the Bible
Supernatural provision is not a one-or two-time deal
in Scripture. There is an account in 2 Kings that we
overlooked for many years.
Then a man came from Baal Shalisha, and brought the man of
God bread of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley bread, and newly
ripened grain in his knapsack. And he said, Give it to the people, that
they may eat.
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But his servant said, What? Shall I set this before one hundred
men?
He said again, Give it to the people, that they may eat; for thus
says the LORD: They shall eat and have some left over.
So he set it before them; and they ate and had some left over,
according to the word of the LORD (2 Kings 4:4244).
In addition, the ravens fed Elijah, and then the widow
fed him. Lets read that account.
Then the word of the LORD came to [Elijah], saying, Arise, go
to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. See, I have
commanded a widow there to provide for you.
So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the
gate of the city, indeed a widow was there gathering sticks. And he
called to her and said, Please bring me a little water in a cup, that I may
drink. And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, Please
bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.
So she said, As the LORD your God lives, I do not have bread,
only a handful of flour in a bin, and a little oil in a jar; and see, I am
gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself
and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
And Elijah said to her, Do not fear; go and do as you have said,
but make me a small cake from it first, and bring it to me; and afterward
make some for yourself and your son. For thus says the LORD God of
Israel: The bin of flour shall not be used up, nor shall the jar of oil run
dry, until the day the LORD sends rain on the earth.
So she went away and did according to the word of Elijah; and
she and he and her household ate for many days. The bin of flour was
not used up, nor did the jar of oil run dry, according to the word of the
LORD which He spoke by Elijah (I Kings 17:916).

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What a miracle of provision this was! Elijah was sent

to a widow, a widow with a son, and he said, First you feed
me, and then God will multiply your food.
She didnt know God. Notice that she said, The Lord
your God. Elijah could have been tricking her out of the last
of her food, but in believing and giving, she received.
Moreover, for the children of Israel, God sent manna.
He sent quail. He provided water in the desert.
The Secret Is in the Sharing
In our special communion, when we broke bread
together, the bread was multiplied. It was far more than
enough. When Jesus fed the multitude, He broke the loaves,
and they were multiplied. It seems that the secret of
supernatural provision is often in the sharing.
So often we think of Gods promise in Luke as
pertaining to money, but Jesus said, Give, and it will be given to
you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will
be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will
be measured back to you (Luke 6:38).
We wonder if Joseph was actually able to store
enough food for the whole world for seven years, or if,
because he was obedient and did what God instructed, God
brought the increase.
Another area of contemplation concerns Noah and the
ark. Was Noah able to store enough food for all the animals
for the length of time they were in the ark? Or did God
provide substance supernaturally?
Let Your Faith Be Stretched
We challenge you. Step out now in this area of faith.
Believe God for supernatural provision for something small
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Chapter Fourteen

Miracles Are Still Happening!

The Clouds Divided
A.L. had taken a group of people to Israel, and one
night he was praying concerning the time he would be
speaking to them. The Lord showed Him the Holy Spirit
coming on the group and many of them receiving the baptism
in the Holy Spirit. They would be in the ancient Roman
coliseum in Caesarea. That was the city where Peter came to
the house of Cornelius and the Holy Spirit fell, for the first
time, on the Gentiles.
The next day, they went to the coliseum. It was a
beautiful setting, and the group was looking out over the
Mediterranean Sea. As A.L. spoke, they could see a terrible
storm coming up behind him. The other tour groups were
running for their buses, but A.L. continued teaching. He knew
what God had shown him, and he wasnt moved by what was
happening around him. The people stayed with him. If he
wasnt running, they werent either. But it got darker and
darker, and the storm became even more threatening.
Then A.L. said, The Holy Spirit is going to fall on
you in power! He raised both hands into the air exactly as
he had seen himself doing the night before. And when he did,
the Holy Spirit fell, and everyone began to speak in other
tongues, including many who at that moment received the
baptism in the Holy Spirit.
Also, at the same instant in which he raised his hands,
the clouds divided right above them and fled in two directions.
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overhead.
For the rest of their tour, their Jewish guide said, over
and over, I cant believe it! The clouds just parted!

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Writing Miracles Are Still Happening has been a
special endeavor for us. We have enjoyed going back over the
years and thinking about the wonderful things God has done.
We havent written about the days and nights of grieving over
lost dreams that we have gone through the times of
questioning God the times we have felt lost in the middle of
the ocean the defeats that seemed to suffocate us. The reason
is simple. Over the years, those times have become less and
less important to us. They have become harder and harder to
remember. They have been worth the changes God has
brought about in our lives.
We have made this a life-long habit: Forgetting those
things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are
ahead, (we) press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God
in Christ Jesus (Philippians 3:1314).

Any Miracle in the Bible

Can Happen to You Today
Our desire in writing this book has been to encourage
you to step into the miraculous. We firmly believe that any
miracle found in the Bible can happen in any believers life
today. God never changes! He may be calling someone to be
a Moses to his family, or to his people. He may be calling
someone to be a John the Baptist, crying in the wilderness,
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Repent! He may be calling someone to be an

evangelist like Philip, or a martyr like Stephen. He may be
calling someone to be a modern-day apostle like Paul.
But we know, beyond any doubt, that He is calling
believers, as they go about their normal days, to say, The
kingdom of heaven is at hand (Matthew 10:7). He is calling every
believer to move in the wonderful gifts of the Spirit to heal
the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, and cast out
demons. He is calling every believer to do the works of Jesus.
Our pasts have been forgiven. The Son of God has
commissioned us. We have been empowered by the Holy
Spirit. Its time we raise our heads, throw off the shackles of
our old lives, and say with Jesus, The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me,
because He has anointed Me to preach [to bring the good news of] the
gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to
proclaim [to bring the good news of] liberty to the captives and recovery
of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed (Luke
4:18).
In reading about one miracle after another, as you
have done in this book, you may have begun to think,
Greater is He thats in Joyce and A.L. than He thats in me,
but thats not true!
God gave us wonderful encouragement when John
was inspired to write these words of Jesus: You are of God, little
children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater
than he who is in the world (I John 4:4).
You have been reading about miracles that have
happened to us over more than thirty years. The only reason
we have shared them is to encourage you to step into a
supernatural way of living yourself.
Soon after we received the baptism in the Holy Spirit,
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mornings. We would hear testimony after testimony that

challenged our faith. Weve never forgotten one lady who
told about seeing a terrible accident. She told how the truck
driver was lying all crumpled up, some distance from his
truck. The people around him said he was dead, but she asked
them to make room for her. She knelt in the grass beside him
and commanded him to live in the name of Jesus, and he did!
She wasnt a pastor or an evangelist, and she certainly wasnt
an ordinary believer. She was a supernatural, Spirit-filled
believer who was at the right place at the right time. She was
a believer operating in the supernatural gifts of the Holy
Spirit.
Hearing testimonies of the supernatural were a great
help to us when we were struggling to move from our natural
way of living to the supernatural. We were with people who
prayed for parking places, openings in traffic, promotions on
the job, healing, finances, and new cars and trucks; and they
shared with us the answers to their prayers. We learned to
pray about everything, all the time. We prayed about where to
eat, and even sometimes about what to wear. We got into the
habit of talking to God just as though He was with us, and it
worked! He is Immanuel God with us!

Any Miracle Is a Big Miracle

There are no such things as big miracles and little
miracles. Any miracle that happens to us is big. One
missionary who has gone on to be with the Lord used to say,
Im trying to think of something to ask God for that is so big
He would have to move His little finger to accomplish it.
You could probably record miracle after miracle of
the things that have happened to you your miracles of
protection, guidance, and provision.

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For too long, many of us have felt intimidated by

others. If we talk about the supernatural, what will people
think? Will they think were strange? Will they laugh at us?
People Are Looking for
the Supernatural Power of God
When we look around us, we see people involved in
New Age, the occult, sances, and witchcraft. We see people
searching for answers in all the wrong places. They are
looking for the supernatural power of God. We should have
the answers. We should have the power of God flowing
through us.
As we share our miracles with others, they will be
encouraged to start seeking God in a new way. Others will be
challenged to step into a supernatural way of living
themselves.
Miracles Are Happening Today
One day, with our friends in the car with us, we left
San Diego right at the peak of traffic. Our friends were
speaking in Escondido, and we had been delayed at the
Christian television station. We came over the overpass onto
the center lane of the freeway, and when we did, we could see
that the traffic ahead was moving very slowly. In the natural,
we would never make it to the meeting on time. There were
six of us in the car, and as we saw the situation, no one said a
word in English. At the same instant, we all pointed to the
traffic ahead and began to speak in tongues. We drove mile
after mile at the speed limit, watching turn signals come on
and every car in our lane move to the right, getting out of our
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After several minutes of this miracle, we were coming

to a small red sports car, and it didnt seem to be moving over.
I said to A.L., in English, How do you say little red sports
car in tongues? It was as if he answered me, still speaking
in tongues, and that car, also, quickly moved out of our way.
For forty minutes, A.L. drove without one time
touching the brakes, and we were able to get our friends to
their meeting on time.
Ive always wondered what those drivers saw. Did we
appear to them as an emergency vehicle with a flashing red
light on top?
Sweet Memories
A.L. and I love to talk about the supernatural things of
God. We get into the most interesting conversations with
people that way. One memory triggers another, and one
miracle after another pours out of ordinary believers,
excited about sharing what God has done for them.
A pastor friend told us about a time she was driving
an older car, and God told her not to drive the car up the last
two steep blocks to her boys school. But her boys had
pleaded with her not to make them walk, and she had agreed
to drive the first block, but not the second. As she started
down the hill, her brakes went out. God, forgive me for not
listening to you! were her first words.
Her emergency brakes didnt work. She turned the
motor off, but even without power, her car was gaining more
and more speed. She tried scraping the tires against the curb,
but the car jumped the curb and she had to pull it back onto
the street. The car blasted through a crosswalk. People were
yelling at her. There were children on both sides of the road.
God, she cried out. What can I do?
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Turn right! God said. There was a small street there,

and she turned her car to the right into that street.
Immediately, her car was stopped. She didnt hit anything.
She didnt feel the force of the car suddenly stopping. The car
was just stopped!
A man told us about a time when he was in seminary.
He was driving a long distance to the church where he was
ministering one Sunday morning. He was traveling about
seventy miles an hour, when an eighteen-wheeler pulled out
from a side street, right in front of him, blocking the road. He
was so close to the truck that he was looking under it. There
was no way he could stop in time. He told us how he cried
out, Jesus, because he thought he was going to die. But
instantly, he was on the other side of the truck looking at it
in his rearview mirror. Oh, he said, Ive never told anyone
about this before. Who would believe me?
Exciting things are happening as we drive our cars!
But praise God, He is just as active in the rest of our lives.
Some friends of ours were in a refugee camp in
Thailand when a two-year-old girl drowned in a baptismal
pool. The father was holding her upside down by one foot and
slapping her on the back, but nothing was happening. She was
dead. She had turned blue, and there was no pulse or
heartbeat. Our friends took her little body and rebuked the
spirit of death. The Lord told one of our friends to blow into
her mouth, and after five deep breaths, she began to move her
arms, and her eyelids fluttered. After five more breaths, her
eyeballs came back into place, and she began to cry. They
were able to place her into her mothers arms! When they
were back in the refugee camp six months later, they looked
up this family, and the little girl was fine. There was no brain
damage.
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Another friend was on the beach in the Caribbean

when there was a loud lamenting, and a large crowd began to
gather. She ran over to see what had happened and found that
young man had just drowned, and they had pulled his body
out of the water. She knelt in the sand beside his body and
commanded life to come back into it, and it did.
Betty and her sister were in the kitchen getting lunch
when they heard a terrible scream from outside. Knowing that
their husbands were working on their car, they ran to see what
had happened. The car, a 56 Ford Fairlane, had fallen off the
jack, and Bettys husband was trapped underneath. Her
brother-in-law was trying to lift the car up, and they joined
him, but nothing was happening. Betty yelled, God, weve
got to have some help!
She writes, The car just slowly went up. I went
around and pulled Carl out from under it. Then, we all looked
at our hands, and there were no marks of having done any
kind of heavy lifting. God had just stepped in and lifted that
car off Carl.
A friend in Houston, Texas, was walking into a dry
cleaners when he heard God say, Tell her that the God her
mother prays to has sent you this morning. He was obedient.
The God your mother prays to has sent me to you, he said
immediately. The young lady began to cry, and soon she was
praying and getting right with God.
A doctor in Malaysia told us about a young boy dying
in his clinic. This was a very dangerous thing to have happen,
since the young boy was of a different religion and the doctor
could have ended up in prison. The clinic would have been
closed. There seemed to be no medical reason for the young
mans death. He had just stopped breathing. God, the
doctor prayed, You know what his death here can mean to
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me and this clinic. I ask You in the name of Jesus to bring

this young man back to life. And immediately, he came back
to life.
A couple from California took their vacation time
each year and ministered in Mexico. They werent ministers,
and they didnt speak Spanish, but they ventured out by
themselves, doing whatever the Spirit led them to do. One
day, they came to a village, and the people motioned them
into a small home. When they went in, they saw, and they
smelled, an older lady who was lying on the bed, dead. It
looked as if most of the people from the village were crowded
into that room, mourning her passing.
They walked up to the bed and, standing beside the
dead lady, began to speak in the Spirit. (Later, they realized
they had been speaking in Spanish.) They spoke on and on,
and suddenly the wife realized she had put her hand on the
forehead of the dead womans body and the body was
moving!
The ladys family came back to the village carrying
her casket and found her alive. She walked through the
village for three days, and everyone in that village came to
Jesus! And then, she lay back down and died.
We didnt know this couple. A.L. overheard their
story one day when he was eating in a restaurant. They had
just come back to the States and were marveling about what
God had done, Of course, A.L. introduced himself and asked
for all the details.
Notice that only two of the miracles in this chapter
happened to us. People are beginning to talk about the
wondrous things they have seen God do. Miracles are
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Jesus has appeared in mosques. He has appeared in

counseling clinics. He has appeared in the clouds. He has
appeared in the eyes of people reaching out to us in love.
Just Do It!
God is speaking to His church today, Just do it! So
many of us have been waiting for the right time the right
education the right position the right financial situation or
the right group to believe with us. We have been talking
about what we are going to do in the future. To all of us, God
is saying, Just do it! Start!
A good friend, who has gone on to be with the Lord,
used to say, Do something, lest you do nothing!
The secret of seeing miracles is, first, being born of
the Spirit and coming into the family of God; second, being
filled with His Holy Spirit and allowing the Spirit of God to
flow through us in power; and third, walking in faith, in
expectancy that God will work miracles on our behalf.
Jesus said, He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said,
out of his heart will flow rivers of living water (John 7:38).
Look for opportunities to pray. Listen to the news and
to God at the same time. Let Him tell you how to pray in
situations that have nothing to do with you, but are ones in
which He wants you to get involved in the Spirit.
Read through the Gospels and the book of Acts again
and again, taking time to visualize yourself doing exactly
what Jesus and the apostles did. Picture yourself doing the
works of Jesus. Imagine yourself working miracles. As you
read each miracle, boldly declare, If Jesus did it, I can do it,
too.
Pray in the Spirit everywhere you go, expecting God
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Scripture References for Bible Miracles in

Miracles Are Still Happening

Note: This is not meant to be an exhaustive list of biblical
miracles, but rather a convenient list of references to the
specific miracles cited in this book, in the order in which they
are mentioned. In some cases, only one reference is given for
a miracle, even though it may be found in more than one
place in the Scriptures. Most Scriptures already referenced
within the text of the book are not repeated here.
Chapter One: Miracles, Miracles, Miracles
Creation Genesis 1:12
The Flood Genesis 6:19:1
Sarah Giving Birth to Isaac Genesis 17:1519; 21:13
The Translation of Enoch Genesis 5:2124
Miracles in the Life of Moses:
Life preserved in basket on Nile Exodus 1:152:10
Called through the burning bush Exodus 3:14:17
Rod turning into a snake Exodus 7:10
Plagues in Egypt Exodus 7:1412:36
Parting of Red Sea Exodus 14
Supernatural water Exodus 17:16; Numbers 20:711
Supernatural manna and quail Exodus 16:1135
Clothing and shoes not wearing out Deuteronomy 8:4
Supernatural pillars of cloud and fire Exodus 13:2122
Ten Commandments written by finger of God Exodus 31:18
Miracles in the Life of Joshua:
Parting of Jordan River Joshua 3:717
Commander of Lords army appearing Joshua 5:136:5
Hail destroying armies at Gibeon Joshua 9:110:11
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Sun standing still Joshua 1:1214

Walls of Jericho falling down Joshua 6:1220
Gideon and the Fleece Judges 6:3640
Miracles in Samsons Life and Death Judges 13:216:30
Dagon Falling before Ark of God 1 Samuel 5:14
David Defeating Goliath 1 Samuel 17:451
Jonah Swallowed by and Kept Alive in Great Fish Jonah 12
Miracles in the Life of Hezekiah:
Healed of fatal sickness 2 Kings 20:17
Shadow of sun going back ten degrees 2 Kings 20:811
Miracles in the Life of Elijah:
Rain stopping and starting 1 Kings 16:2917:1; 18:145
Fed by ravens 1 Kings 17:2-6
Feed through multiplication of oil/flour 1 Kings 17:816
Widows son brought back to life 1 Kings 17:1724
Fire falling from heaven 1 Kings 18:1739
Parting of Jordan River 2 Kings 2:8
Translation to heaven 2 Kings 2:912
Miracles in the Life and Death of Elisha:
Parting of Jordan River 2 Kings 2:1314
Multiplication of oil for widow and sons 2 Kings 4:17
Prophecy of birth of Shunammites son 2 Kings 4:817
Son brought back to life 2 Kings 4:1837
Poisoned pottage made good to eat 2 Kings 4:3841
Iron ax head made to float 2 Kings 6:17
Healing of Naamans leprosy 2 Kings 5:114
Leprosy coming on Gehazi for his sin 2 Kings 5:1527
Opening of blind eyes 2 Kings 6:823
Bones bringing life to dead man 2 Kings 13:2021

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Chapter Two: Jesus Performed Miracles

Miracles surrounding Christs Birth:
Angel appearing to Mary Luke 1:2638
Angel appearing to Joseph Matthew 1:2021
Angels appearing to shepherds Luke 2:814
Wise men guided to Jesus by star Matthew 2:111
Wise men warned about Herod in dream Matthew 2:12
Joseph warned to flee to Egypt in dream Matthew 2:13
Jesus Miracles of Healing:
Noblemans son . John 4:4654
Leper Matthew 8:23
Paralytic let down through roof Mark 2:112
Infirm man at Pool of Bethesda John 5:29
Man with withered hand Luke 6:60
Woman with issue of blood Mark 5:2534
Demon-possessed, blind, and mute man Matthew 12:22
Two blind men Matthew 9:2731; 20:3034
Blind man at Bethsaida Mark 8:2225
Man born blind John 9:17
Bartimaeus, the blind beggar Mark 10:4652
Centurions servant Matthew 8:513
Syro-Phoenician womans daughter Mark 7:2430
Ten lepers Luke 17:1219
Man with dropsy Luke 14:14
Ear of servant of high priest Luke 22:4751; John 18:111
Incidents of Jesus healing all Matthew 12:15; Luke 4:40;
Matthew 14:36; Mark 6:56; Luke 6:19; Matthew 15:3031
Jesus Miracles of Deliverance:
Demoniac in Capernaum synagogue Mark 1:2127
Demoniac in region of Gadarenes Mark 5:117
Bent-over woman with spirit of infirmity Luke 13:1017
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Jesus Miracles in Nature:

Water turned into wine at Cana wedding John 2:111
Feeding of five thousand John 6:514
Feeding of four thousand Mark 8:19
Miraculous amounts of fish Luke 5:111; John 21:111
Fish with tax money in mouth Matthew 17:2427
Storm stilled Mark 4:3541
Fig tree cursed Matthew 21:1822
Walking on water John 6:1621
Jesus Miracles of Raising the Dead:
Jairus daughter Mark 5:2243
Widow of Nains son Luke 7:1117
Lazarus John 11:145
Chapter Four: The Dunamis Power
Jesus Knowing Past of Woman at Well John 4:529
Jesus Knowing Names of Evil Spirits Mark 9:25
Tongues as Sign of Those Who Believe Mark 16:17
Peter Walking on Water to Jesus Matthew 14:2232
Chapter Six: The Church Begins in Power
Healing of Lame Man/Five Thousand Saved Acts 3:14:4
Sick and Demon-possessed Healed by Handkerchiefs
and Aprons from Apostle Paul Acts 19:1112
Healings, Salvation, and Deliverance from Demons
through Philips Ministry Acts 8:513
One Hundred Twenty Believers Baptized in Spirit
with Power at Pentecost Acts 2:111
Three Thousand Saved thru Peters Preaching Acts 2:1441
Peter Miraculously Delivered from Prison Acts 5:1720
Multitudes Healed by Peters Shadow Acts 5:15
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Ananias and Sapphira Dying at Peters Word Acts 5:110

Peter Receiving Vision on Rooftop in lop pa Acts 9:4310:48
Paul Converted, Baptized in Spirit, Healed of Blindness Acts
9:118
Slave Girl Delivered by Paul Acts 16:1618
Paul Freed from Dungeon by Earthquake Acts 16:1940
Eutychus Brought Back to Life by Paul Acts 20:712
Paul Unharmed by Poisonous Snakebite Acts 28:15
List of Signs Following Those Who Believe Mark 16:1718
Chapter Eight: Moving in the Supernatural
Elishas Knowledge of Elijahs Going to Heaven 2 Kings
2:3,5
Chapter Nine: The Choice Is Ours
Jonah Surviving Being Swallowed by Great Fish Jonah 12
Chapter Twelve: Supernatural Power for Protection
Protection of Noah and Family during Flood Genesis 6:19:1
Destruction of Five Kings at Gibeon Joshua 10:127
God Sending Confusion on Armies of Three Nations;
Armies Destroy Each Other 2 Chronicles 20:129
Chapter Thirteen: Supernatural Provision
Elijah Fed by Ravens 1 Kings 17:26
Israelites Provided with Manna
and Quail in Desert Exodus 16:1135
Israelites Provided with Water
in Desert Exodus 17:16; Numbers 20:711
Feeding of World through Joseph in Egypt Genesis 41
Preservation of Noah, His Family, Animals Genesis 7:723

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About the Authors

A.L. AND JOYCE GILL are internationally known
speakers, authors, and Bible teachers. A.L.s apostolic
ministry travels have taken him to over sixty nations of the
world. He has preached in person to crowds exceeding one
hundred thousand, and to many millions more by radio and
television.
Their top-selling books and manuals have sold
millions of copies in the United States. Their writings, which
have been translated into many languages, are being used in
Bible schools and seminars around the world.
The powerful, life-changing truths of Gods Word
explode in the lives of others through their dynamic
preaching, teaching, writing, video and audio tape ministry.
The awesome glory of the presence of God is
experienced in their praise and worship seminars as believers
discover how to become true and intimate worshippers of
God. Many have discovered a new and exciting dimension of
victory and boldness through their teachings on the authority
of the believer.
The Gills have trained many believers to step into
their own God-given supernatural ministries with the healing
power of God flowing through their hands. Many have
learned to be supernaturally natural as they are released to
operate in all nine gifts of the Holy Spirit in their daily lives
and ministries.
Both A.L. and Joyce have Master of Theological
Studies degrees. A.L. has also earned a Doctor of Philosophy
in Theology degree from Vision International University.
Their ministry is solidly based on the Word of God, centered
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on Jesus, strong in faith, and taught in the power of the Holy

Spirit.
The Gills ministry is a demonstration of the Fathers
heart of love. Their preaching and teaching are accompanied
by powerful anointing, signs, wonders, and healing miracles,
with many being slain in the Spirit in waves under the power
of God.
Signs of revival and awesome manifestations of Gods
glory and power are being experienced by many who attend
their meetings.
The Gills are available to minister at your church,
seminar, conference, or revival meetings. You can learn more
about their ministry through their website:
http://www.gillministries.com
You may contact them through their office at:
Gill Ministries
P0 Box 6969
Big Bear Lake, CA 92315
E-mail: [email protected]

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