THE SECRET TO THE POWER OF HOLY SPIRIT by Kathryn Kuhlman

This is tape number KK1 in the Springs

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Anything can happen in this place today.

You know it.

That's the truth. Anything can happen in

this auditorium this afternoon.

It's the truth. Some of you are sitting

there with your coats on. Take your

coats off. It's going to get hot before

we get through with this afternoon.

Anything.

And I'll tell you right at the

beginning, right now that I'm not going

to preach.

I'm going to just talk to you.

And it's just like that.

I'm not going to preach.

Sometimes I think that we've had enough

preaching. If preaching would have done

it, the world would have been converted

to the Lord Jesus Christ years and years

ago.

It's putting into practice that which we

already know.

The power of the Holy Spirit is in this

place this afternoon.

The person of the Holy Spirit is here

now.

When you learn this wonderful secret,

when you understand

regarding the person and the power of

the Holy Spirit being present with us.

When you catch this glorious vision,

it'll be the easiest thing in the world

for you to pray, to receive the healing

for your body, to be filled with the

Holy Spirit, to receive anything from

him. The easiest thing in the world.

When you realize that seated upon his

throne now, this very moment

is God Almighty.

The one

who said to Moses, "Tell the Moses."

When Moses asked, "Who shall I say sent

me?"

Tell the Moses, tell them that the great

I am that I am hath sent to thee.

the mighty God of this universe.

Our poor little puny minds cannot fathom

the power of our God, the greatness of

our God, seated upon his throne,

holding with him upon his hands the

destinies of nations, the destinies of

statesmen.

He still controls all things. Believe

me,

at his right hand, Jesus Christ, his

only begotten son in position of great

high priest, our great mediator,

your savior, my savior, our redeemer.

And remember, there's power in the name

of Jesus. Never forget it. There's power

in his mighty matchless name. There's

power.

There's power in the very name of Jesus.

And in this place right now, in this

auditorium,

if only somehow,

I had words

to tell you

how real is the presence of the Holy

Spirit.

This mighty third person, the Trinity,

he is here now. He's in this place.

You feel his presence.

You feel his wonderful presence. It's

something strangely different. You don't

understand. Someone just coming into a

place like this cannot understand what

it is that's so strangely different.

It's his presence. It's something you

can't describe.

That's the reason folk are healed just

sitting

in a place like this.

You don't need me to lay hands on you.

You don't need me to pray for you. Not

really.

There's power in the very presence of

the Holy Spirit.

His presence is here now to fill you

with himself. His presence is here right

now to heal that sick body of yours.

There's enough of his presence and not a

single unconverted person

anywhere in this building. And I pray

that there shall be folk in this very

building who've never stepped on the

inside of this dining room who will be

converted before the benediction of this

afternoon service. That's possible.

But this is what I want you to see.

Sometimes

I think that we get so involved in

doctrine.

Sometimes we get so involved with

controversial things.

Sometimes we get so involved with some

hobby

that we forget

the all important one. Jesus.

Jesus.

Beloved, the Holy Spirit is wonderful.

There's not a person in the world.

There's never lived a saint of God

who's ever been more sold on the Holy

Spirit

than I am. I can't tell you how I feel.

I can't tell you.

My poor old mortled tongue does not have

the ability to tell you

what I feel about the Holy Spirit.

I'm so sold on this mighty third person

of Trinity

because I know better than anyone else

the secret

of the success of this ministry.

I know better than anyone else from I've

come. I know better than anyone else

that I have nothing. I know better than

anyone else in the whole world.

Nothing that you could say

would flatter me. Nothing that anyone

would ever say. I tell you very frankly,

I am so completely detached from the

whole thing. Katherine Kumman is so

completely detached

from that which is happening in this

ministry.

Because it's not Katherine Cooney. It's

the power of the Holy Ghost.

I know better than anyone else.

I know

the secret of the power in this vessel.

I'm not afraid of man or devil. And I do

not say that boastfully.

I can use the same weapon on Satan that

Jesus used. It is written.

I can use the same weapon. And he and I

have had many a go around and many

about. Believe me, he's real. And the

more you do for God, the more he'll

fight. He's real. But I don't talk about

him.

I would rather talk about Jesus.

There's only one thing I fear lest I

grieve the Holy Spirit because I know

good and well that if I grieve the Holy

Spirit,

if he is no longer pleased to work

through this vessel of claim that I am

sunk, I know that better than anyone

else.

I know that better than anyone else.

I want you to know first of all how sold

I am on this mighty third person the

trinity.

He knows

I know

we're so close

that I become sensitive to him and

everything that I do. That's all that I

know. You see

here's

where Mr.

Peterson,

there was a time when I could have been

very envious of him because of his

wonderful education.

I haven't had the education that he's

had.

I don't have anything else to fall back

on.

I don't have a crutch to lean on.

I have to lean completely on him

and all that I know he has taught me. I

don't know anything else.

I don't know anything else.

He's my teacher.

He's been my teacher all the years.

Everything I know he has taught me.

But in knowing him so intimately,

in following him so closely, and I've

also learned a long time ago that he is

a person, a power that I cannot use. He

must use the best of. I only follow.

I only follow. But I've learned

something about him.

It's one of the greatest secrets that

I've learned. And I pray to God that

everyone in this great auditorium will

learn the same thing and see it and

catch the vision. Lest we lose the

vision of the one lest we forget the one

who is all important and that's Jesus.

You see,

when it comes to this precious book, the

very word of God, it's the revelation of

one person,

the Bible. It's the revelation of one

person, the person of Jesus.

It's all about Jesus.

That's the message of the church,

beloved.

That's the message of the church. That

has always been the message of the

church. It'll be the message of the

church right on down the line.

The message of the church is still

Jesus, the son of the living God.

The message of the church is still

Jesus, the crucified, resurrected

Christ, the great high priest, the great

mediator.

It is the blood that maketh an atonement

for the soul. It's still Jesus.

It's the message of every Christian.

Believe me, beloved, it's the message of

every Christian. Jesus Christ, the very

son, the living God. We dare not lose

sight of the one who is all important.

Jesus.

Jesus.

The Bible is not two books. Not really.

We speak of the Old Testament and New

Testament, but in reality, it's one

book.

One will confirm the other

and it's a revelation

of Jesus.

Something happened

at that great conference table. The

three sat down, the father, the son, the

holy spirit.

And when Jesus offered himself through

the holy spirit to come,

they had an agreement whereby the holy

spirit said, "All right,

I'll be the power.

I'll be there revealing you to the

hearts of men and women.

The Holy Spirit has kept that agreement.

Whenever the Holy Spirit is spoken of in

the Old Testament, you'll always see him

either directly or indirectly

promoting

Jesus

rooted in that light. It's glorious.

It's thrilling.

If you think that you and I are sold on

the son of the living God, the Holy

Spirit

was even more sold on him. He never has,

he never will work separate and apart

from the son of the living God. Neither

did the son ever work separate and apart

from the Holy Spirit.

Neither did Jesus ever work separate

apart from God the Father.

watched the ministry of the Holy Spirit.

And he had a ministry even in the Old

Testament.

And constantly

he was revealing the one who was to come

in the future,

the son of the living God. Watch him,

beloved.

Jesus understood.

Jesus understood perfectly

when in speaking of the Holy Spirit he

said

he will glorify me

when he comes. He will magnify me.

He will not speak of himself.

He will glorify

me.

In those last moments

before Jesus went away

and his feet left the Mount of Olives,

you know as well as I do those last

words.

I quoted them thousands of times. I've

relived it 10 thousands of times.

When he said, "And ye shall receive

power after that the Holy Ghost has come

upon you." Power for what? Power to

witness.

Power to witness of whom? To witness of

Jesus.

The Holy Spirit

was never given the believer. This

glorious promise

of the Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit, the

third person, the Trinity was never

given for you and for me to just enjoy.

Oh, I enjoy the things of the spirit.

Beloved, I enjoy the things of the

spirit. You know what I'm talking about.

Alone quick place. You know what I'm

talking about.

You know what I'm talking about.

You ask me how I keep going.

I've almost learned how to live without

sleep.

You ask me how it is possible

for one to do the work that I do. The

physical body can stand just so much and

no more.

[Music]

A doctor said to me the other day in the

city of Pittsburgh, he's on the staff at

Shady Side Hospital. I don't mind

telling you that. He called me the other

night

and said, "Miss I'm not going to

let you die."

I won't let you die. And he didn't say

it just like that either. He had a few

swear words in with all the rest of it.

If you knew who that doctor was, you'd

be shocked.

Makes no religious profession

whatsoever.

He's a surgeon.

He said, "You can't work the way you're

working. No human body can take it." But

what he didn't know but what you know

there is a place alone.

There is a place alone.

Alone

when he comes upon you.

You talk about being filled with the

Holy Spirit that experiences marvelous.

But beloved, there is a constant and a

continually

refilling and infilling.

Constantly,

constantly, constantly.

And as you give and as you pour out, he

continues to pour in. He continues. He

continues to give life. He continues to

give life.

That's where I can stand on the platform

five and 5 and 1/2 hours and walk off of

that platform just refreshed as though

I'd had four long hours to sleep.

I know what I'm talking about. When you

talk about the refreshing of the Holy

Spirit, when you talk about what the

Holy Spirit does for you as an

individual, when you talk about those

times of rejoicing, when you talk about

those times when the Holy Spirit takes

every part of your being and you worship

and you praise and adore him. But

beloved, it's all for one purpose and

one purpose only, for service.

for service.

He was never given for the believers to

have a spiritual picnic. Never.

He was never given a believer to go off

in some little corner and say to the

whole world, we have a corner on him.

Ye shall be witnesses.

Jesus is saying the same power, the

secret of power in my life, the same

glorious secret of power

and the power of those that remember

that when Jesus walked this earth, he

was as much man as though he were not

God. That was a body of flesh.

As much man as though he were not God.

He knew the secret of his power.

He knew the secret of those miracles. He

knew. He knew. He understood.

That's the reason when he went away, we

shall receive that same power.

I'll go a little deeper. And something

that for years and years I wondered

about

like I told you.

You see everything that I know and

everything that I have that I get I have

to get right from the headquarters. I

don't have any place else to go.

It's like somebody said to me the other

day, "You don't act like a preacher." I

said, "Well, I don't know how preachers

act

because I don't hear anybody preach."

There is something that for years I

wondered about and I can tell you I know

the place. When there's something in the

word of God that I I I I don't have the

answer, I talk it over with him.

Sometimes I have to wait and sometimes

he gives me the answer in a hurry.

Verily, verily I say unto you, it's

Jesus speaking. And you and I both know,

remember he says verily, it's most

important.

He that believeth on me,

the works that I do shall he do also.

We know what those works were. Go back

in the life and the ministry of Jesus.

Go back. Every miracle that you can

think of

so far as the healing of the human body

took place in his ministry as the Holy

Spirit, the mighty power of the Godhead

walked through and manifested himself

through the ministry and life of Jesus.

And before Jesus went away, he said,

"Now look,

look, verily, verily, I say unto you, he

that believeth on me, the works that I

do shall he do also."

But don't stop there.

Don't stop there. And gater works shall

ye do.

Greater works. Why?

because I go unto my father. Greater

works. The greater works is something

that bothered me for so long. As a

little child, I came before the throne

and said,

"If there's more, I wanted."

And I tell you the God's truth. If you

take the lid off of hearts in this place

today, you'll find the one talking to

you

as hungry as anybody in this place

hungry for more.

I never walk out of a miracle service. I

never walk out of a miracles. I never

Yesterday

walking off the platform in Carnegie

auditorium

out of that miracle service.

Nobody but the heavenly father knew how

I felt on the inside.

When during that service that couple had

come all the way from Quebec,

Roman Catholics

had never been inside another church.

Roman Catholics from Quebec.

They came to Pittsburgh

because they had read of all places.

In that little magazine, it was called

Fate.

How I ever got in fate, I'll never know.

But it wasn't fate that I got in there.

I'll tell you that. I found that out

yesterday.

God works in wonderful ways, believe me.

And when they read about the ministry in

Fate magazine,

she said to her husband,

"I wouldn't have gotten this out of her

except I said, "How'd you happen to come

here?"

"Did you hear us on radio?" "No." "Did

you hear us on television?" "No."

how'd you happen to come? She said in

that fake magazine.

She said, "Both of us have been so

hungry. We've been so hungry.

We knew we needed something more than

the Catholic Church was giving us,

but we didn't know where to go. We

didn't know what to do."

And she said in Fate magazine,

she said, "When I read it, I said to my

husband, this is it.

This is it."

And they traveled over 800 miles one

way,

got into Pittsburgh, didn't know where

to go. They went in Carnegie Music Hall,

the wrong one down in Oakland.

When they got down there, they found the

room service going on in Carnegi Side. A

meter maid

found them

and on her lunch hour

brought them to Carnegi Auditorium North

Side yesterday and the service was

almost over with.

There are those in this place today who

will verify that

they have not been on the inside

30 seconds.

He says, "I thought my wife was

fainting." Fainting nothing was the

power of God struck her.

Roman Catholics from Quebec, never been

in the Protestant service.

She was instantly healed by the power of

God.

instantly healed

and they came walking up the aisle and

told the story after they'd been on the

inside the place for 15 minutes and were

ready to close the service. And when she

told her story and I explained to her

the best way that I could

salvation and how to be boring again,

she says, "That's what I've been hungry

for."

and her husband looked and said, "That's

it.

That's it.

That's what we want."

And in that moment,

they were born again.

The power of God came upon both of them.

First thing I knew when I opened my

eyes, they were both flattened out under

the power.

I wonder what their priest would have

thought had he seen them.

And when they got up, and the amazing

thing is, my friend, the amazing thing

is the first thing and happened every

time when she got up, she says, "We're

going to bring our whole church down

here."

God,

I said, "Well, bring father, too." And

she says, "Oh, that's going to be a

little more difficult."

When I walked off of that platform,

you'll never know how I feel.

If only you and I knew how better to

cooperate with the Holy Spirit.

If only we knew how to cooperate with

the Holy Spirit.

He is the one

and greater things shall he do.

What beloved, what is greater than the

healing of cancer? What is greater than

the raising of the dead? Jesus did. He

spoke and Lazarus came forth. He says

than greater things,

what is greater? What could be greater?

Then when he spoke the father and said

to him, "Go thy way, thy son liveth,"

what is greater than the casting out of

demons, what what what is greater and

greater things shall he do because I go

to my father? What happened, beloved?

When Jesus left, the Holy Spirit came

upon believers.

Beloved,

there was one thing Jesus Christ could

not do.

There was one thing he could not do.

There was one thing.

The perfect son of the living God,

spotless

absolute perfection.

He could stand and steal the waves.

He could speak peace to the troubled

waters.

He could stand and say, "Thy sins be

forgiven thee.

He could cast out the demon.

He could say, "All power is given unto

me in heaven and earth."

But there was one thing he could not do.

He could not stand before a lost and

dying world and say,

"Look upon me,

a sinner

saved by the power of God.

Look upon me and see an example of the

transforming power there is in my shed.

He couldn't. He couldn't. He couldn't.

He couldn't.

Even though he had all power in heaven

and earth,

even though he was equal with the father

and equal with the Holy Spirit,

and even though he has the power to

forgive all sins

in position this very moment of great

high priest and great mediator

and one day, the one who will be our

perfect judge.

did not have it in his power and could

not say, "Look upon me and see

the transforming power

of my shed blood." For sin had never

touched that life.

He was absolute perfection and remained

perfection.

And ye shall receive power

after that the Holy Ghost has come upon

you.

And ye shall be witnesses.

[Music]

Witnesses of whom?

Witnesses of the one that Jesus sent.

Oh beloved, beloved,

I pray somehow the Holy Spirit give you

this vision just now.

I pray the Holy Spirit just now

will let you see your responsibility.

It's marvelous

to see cancers healed.

Oh, the power of the Holy Spirit

manifesting himself and his power in the

healing of the physical. That's

wonderful. And I too am human enough to

thrill to it.

It's moreless

to see the physical.

But beloved,

it's only secondary.

Any physical healing is only secondary.

It's only secondary.

Greater things shall he do.

Yes.

Greater than the healing of a sick body.

First of all, beloved,

he has saved me.

to be a living testimony of his saving

power.

[Music]

You look upon me

as Katherine Kman, the preacher.

Beloved,

my ministry would mean nothing.

Nothing.

If first of all the sinner cannot see

through my life the transforming power

of Jesus Christ.

My first duty to him.

My first obligation to him

is to show to the whole world his

wonderful transforming power in this

light mind.

I'm conscious of that constantly.

constantly.

Oh, sure it's wonderful to preach to

thousands, but beloved, I can't preach

to thousands

unless the little news boy on the street

who yells at me.

Hi, Catherine.

My responsibility to him is that he sees

something different in my life. He sees

Jesus in my life.

Oh, sure it's wonderful to preach to

thousands, but my friend, it's when I

drive that car in the garage

and those men, some of them are Catholic

and some of them are Protestant

or that little waitress. That's my first

obligation to him. That's my first

obligation to him.

Oh, sure. Those miracles of healing are

marvelous. Sure, that's wonderful. I'm

not belittling them. Believe me, I'm

not.

The Lord knows that I'm not.

But my friend,

far greater than any physical healing or

any miracle of healing

is the transformation of a life.

And when that life is transformed by the

power of God, every one of us, every one

of us, if you've been born again, if

you've been born again,

you're obligated to do something that

Jesus could not do for himself,

you're obligated

to do something that's far greater than

any physical healing you show to the

whole world. the transforming power of

Jesus Christ and the power there is in

his own shed blood

and beloved you who've been filled with

the spirit and you were filled with the

spirit and that's exactly what I see is

happening that's exactly and I believe

that that is exactly why

God is calling out these businessmen I

believe it I believe it

in these last days But he's pouring out

his spit upon all flesh. I believe it. I

wouldn't be standing here today.

I wouldn't be standing where I am this

very moment if I didn't believe it.

I see something and I pray to God that

you men and women will see it.

There's nothing more convincing

than a man or a woman living the life 24

hours a day.

A living witness, a living testimony.

All right. Now, watch something.

Watch something.

I not only believe in the Holy Spirit,

I not only believe that when one is

filled with the Holy Spirit,

the Holy Spirit takes that life and

makes it a power, a power in lifting up

Jesus and witnessing to Jesus.

Witnessing I believe in the gifts of the

spirit.

I believe in the gifts with every atom

of my being. I'll go further than most

folk when you talk about the nine gifts

of the spirit. I would not even limit

the limit the Holy Spirit to just the

nine gifts of the spirit. I believe that

those were just an example of some of

the gifts of the spirit. Don't let's

limit him. Whatever you do, don't. We've

limited him too long.

We try to bring God down to our level

for so many years. And there's so many

many this very hour who are trying to

bring God down to man's level. We're so

small in our thinking. We're so small in

our vision. We're so small in our

vision. My God, I pray that the Holy

Spirit will give to the full gospel

businessmen a vision as men have never

had.

A vision. who were asking for a

full and the ocean remains. We're asking

for a nickel. I'll never forget the day.

I'll never forget the day. The last

conversation I ever had with my papa

before he was killed. I'll never forget

his hand was on the clothesline

in our backyard. The last conversation I

ever had with papa last time I ever saw

him alive.

He said, "Baby, you know when you were a

little girl,

you were so little,

you'd stand on the rung of the chair,

the back of the chair,

and you'd put your arms around my neck,

stand on tiptoes,

and you'd say, "Papa, give me a nickel."

Well, they didn't come that fast.

I'd lean over and kiss him and say,

"I've got the most wonderful papa in the

world." You know, sometimes it would

take 15 minutes.

Then he'd put his hand down and up it

come.

Last time I ever saw papa, last

conversation,

him in the clothesline, our backyard in

Cardi, Missouri. He said, "You know,

baby,

I was baby. Even my legs got so long,

you'd carry me and my feet would be

big."

He'd say, "You know,

the nicest memories I had in my life

when when you were a little girl and you

to stand on the run of a chair and say,

"Papa, give me a nickel."

He said,

"I would just as gladly have given you

every copper I had

as the nickel that I put over the

shoulder.

I'm just as gladly

I've given you every I had

somehow.

Oh,

we're asking so little.

Our vision is so small.

If only we could cooperate with the

spirit. If only we knew how to cooperate

with the spirit.

If only

if only

I walked off the platform yesterday and

these people had come over 800 miles

from Quebec out of the Roman Catholic

Church had come all its way just to be

born again. left 15 minutes later, the

happiest people in the whole world. And

Maggie said, "Won't you stay for

Sunday's service?" I said, "Oh, no. We

got what we came for. We got what we

came for.

We got what we came for. We're going

back now for others."

Oh, God. The world is so hungry.

The world is so hungry.

And time is running out. Don't you

understand? Time is running out.

The church is about to be raptured. And

what we do, we've got to do quickly.

We've got to do quickly. It's running

out.

Please stop your machine at this point

and turn the cassette over.

[Music]

If only we knew how better. He's pouring

out of his spirit upon the Jew. He's

pouring out of his spirit upon the

Gentile. He's pouring out of his spirit

upon the Roman Catholic. He's pouring

out of his spirit upon the unchurched.

And he's passing a lot of the church

right by cuz he can't get in and do

anything. But so he just keeps right on

going.

And he and he's looking for empty

vessels.

I kill you. So help me God. You don't

have to have talent. You don't have to

have anything but just

willing to do nothing. I know cuz I'm

one of them. I know in the natural I

don't have a thing.

I don't have a thing. That's the reason

I had to be so dependent on the Holy

Ghost.

I don't have anything.

I've just been willing to be nothing,

my friend. Surely I believe in the gifts

of the spirit. The gifts of the spirit.

Oh, the gifts of the spirit. The gift of

wisdom, the gift of knowledge, the gift

of faith, the gift of miracles, the gift

of right on down and on and on and on.

And I believe in them and I believe in

them. And they're all being restored

again in these last days. We're making

this complete cycle. This complete

cycle. He's winding it up. We're coming

to the end. We're coming to the end. The

grand finale. And when the church goes

out is going out in great glory. It's

going out. And this glorious body of

Christ is going out. When the church

goes out, it came in in glory. And when

it goes out, it's going out in great

glory.

And all of the fruits and the gifts of

the spirit are again being evidenced.

All of them. All of them. All of them,

my friend. All of them.

And again, he's pouring out of himself

upon all flesh. And again, the gifts are

being restored.

But beloved, I'm going to tell you

something. Whatever you do, whatever you

do, be very careful. Oh, be careful.

Never get boastful. Whatever you do,

never get boastful. Please, please,

please. I become so frightened when

someone boasts of some gift of the

spirit. Be careful. Be careful.

Be careful.

Be careful.

Be careful.

For he's given you that gift. It's a

holy, it's a sacred trust. It's

something that's sacred. There's some

things you and I don't talk about. There

are some experiences that I've had I

wouldn't talk about from a public

platform.

There are some things I know that I dare

not speak of. They're sacred.

There are some things that you do not

tell outside of your own home. There's

some things as a man and a wife you

don't talk about promiscuously and tell

the whole world. There's some things

that are so sacred and these sacred

trusts

and you know it isn't of yourself. It's

something that the Holy Ghost has

entrusted you with.

And the responsibility

is so great.

The responsibility is so great

that it's overwhelming.

Sometimes

you almost wish he had called someone

else.

It would have been so much easier.

For the more he gives you, the greater

is the responsibility.

The more he entrusts you with, the

greater is the responsibility.

But remember when the gift is given

it's for one purpose and one purpose

only

to glorify and magnify Jesus.

To glorify

and to magnify

Jesus.

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to glorify

and magnify Jesus.

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He will glorify me.

Lord God,

beloved,

be careful

how you use that which is given unto

you.

Don't let's get so involved with

doctrine.

You would grieve the Holy Spirit

should you put him first.

For the Holy Spirit will not speak of

himself. He will glorify

Jesus.

That's what it's all about.

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It's why Paul said, "I came to you with

fear and trembling. Much fear, much

trembling."

He knew how dependent he was on the Holy

Spirit.

Somehow, oh dear God, it's somehow

somehow

this Saturday afternoon,

the Holy Spirit would come upon our

waiting hearts in this dining room.

If somehow the Holy Spirit would give

each of us some vision,

somehow

somehow somehow

I am absolutely incapable of telling you

of doing it. I wish I could. I can't

because beloved, I'm just like you are a

sinner saved by the grace of God. And

these things only come through spiritual

revelation.

And they only come and he only uses us

as we yield ourselves unto him.

But somehow within the confines of these

four walls, the Holy Spirit would give

you a vision.

Somehow you would feel your

responsibility

and you could know your great obligation

to him.

Somehow somehow somehow somehow

If you and I could learn how to

cooperate with him,

then we would use these gifts that he

has given us in wisdom, the wisdom of

God.

If leaving this place today,

each of us could go out of here

witnessing

for our Christ.

The world can't see him.

The world cannot see him.

He's at the right hand of God the

Father.

But he can see you.

He sees you.

The unregenerated man sees you.

He sees me.

And we represent him.

We represent him.

I am a Christian before I am a preacher.

I represent him

before the unregenerated, before my own

family,

before my own family.

I've got to live it before I can preach

it.

Stop it. You talk about the upper room

and we relived it. We relived it. We

relived it.

When they left that upper room, I'm

going to tell you, my friend, they went

out of that upper room different than

they were when they entered it. Believe

me,

and 120 shook Rome to its very

foundation.

We can go out of here this Saturday

afternoon.

The men, the women

in our neighborhoods, in our

communities, and the place where you

work. That's it. That's what it's all

about. The church has lost the true

vision.

There is nothing greater than that.

We can shake the world for God

if we could only catch this vision.

The why of all things.

Sit there just a minute and let the Holy

Spirit come upon you just now.

Father, we're individual to you. This is

a personal thing. This is a very

individual thing.

One of these days when we stand in your

presence, each of us must give an

account

of that with which you've entrusted us.

I pray that just now the Holy Spirit

should come upon this people.

Will you do something just now? Will you

stand everywhere? Just stand. Will you

stand? Eyes closed.

Stand with your eyes closed. Not an eye

open the auditorium.

Father, I stand here.

I renew every vow that I've ever made to

you.

Father, I go back to Twin Falls, Idaho.

That old blue bedspread and the old blue

walls

and the old blue worn carpet.

And I made some bows that day.

And I tried to keep them the best that I

could.

Vows that only you and I know.

And I stand here all over again this

Saturday afternoon. And I renew every

vow and every promise I ever made to

you.

And whether it's for a day, whether it's

for two days, whether it's for a week,

as long as there's breath in my body,

and as long as you keep the old heart

beating, I vow to give you every ounce

of strength there is in my body.

When I stand in your presence,

I know already what I'm going to say.

When I see you face to face,

I know already what I'm going to say.

Dear Jesus, I tried.

I didn't do a perfect job.

It isn't because I didn't want to. It's

because of my own stupidity.

It's because I didn't know any better.

Forgive my stupidity.

Forgive where I failed.

But I've tried

standing right now. You know the battles

you've made. You know the promises

you've made. You know you you you know

your experiences.

And he holds us responsible.

He holds us responsible. My friend, you

can't do

just whatever you want to do with that

with which he's given you. There's a

responsibility with it.

You speak of your wonderful experiences

in the spirit. That's wonderful. But

don't forget the responsibility that

goes with it. It carries a

responsibility.

Know that

the power of the Holy Spirit just

flowing through somebody's body right

now. Father, I rebuke that sugar

diabetes in Jesus mighty name. There's

somebody getting healed for sugar

diabetes in this place right now. I have

to be obedient to this spirit. Paul's

just one minute. Just a second. Just a

second. Right now, somebody's getting

that healing for sugar diabetes in this

place. Every trait of that sugar

diabetes leaves that body right now. It

goes in Jesus mighty name. The very

power of the Holy Spirit is going

through bodies right now. He's honoring

his word.

He's honoring his word. I worship you.

There's somebody near the front that has

received the healing for a heart

condition. There's somebody near the

front. I worship you. There's a healing

for a heart condition. The power of

God's on that one.

Where is it?

The sugar back there. Jesus, I worship

you. The power of God just goes through

that body

as the power of the Holy Spirit goes

through that body right now. Every trace

of that sugar goes,

every trace of it. There's Jesus I

worship. There's somebody near here in

the front with a heart healing. Somebody

has a heart condition. Where is that

heart condition?

Jesus I worship you. The power of the

Holy Spirit. Come here, honey. Just a

minute. The power of the Holy Spirit

just goes to that body. She just told me

sister that just before the service she

told me she had a heart condition. Glory

to God.

Upon the Holy Spirit of God worship

wonderful all the truth that body that

flows the mighty resurrection and power.

The power of the Holy Spirit goes to

that body. I worship you Jesus. I

worship you. I give you honor. I give

you praise. I know you are with me right

now.

yourself. Take a turn. Take it, my

brother.

There's somebody with arthritis in life.

I don't know where it is. Somebody's

getting healing for arthritis. The

spine,

it's completely healed. Wherever it is,

it's the power of God. Where that

arthritis,

it's

every trace of it gone. I give you

praise. Wonderful Jesus. I know where

that arthritis. I've got to get it in

just this moment. There's another

seating for arthritis of the spine. Tell

me where it is.

There's another seating for arthritis in

the spine.

It's completely gone. Wherever it is,

where is this?

Lord,

a shoulder healing. It isn't completely

healed. There's something way in the

back of the auditorium.

Way in the back. There's another healing

for an arm back there. It's way in the

back of the auditorium.

Somebody's received the healing for a an

arm healing. It's in the back. It's

arthritis to the arm and it's in the

back. It's the arm and the shoulder.

I don't know where it is, but in the

back of the auditorium.

If you raise your arm, you'll find it's

completely gone.

Where is it?

I know it's way in the back. Is it

completely healed?

And there's somebody else almost in

direct line with me in the back. There

is a second one. Somebody got the

overflow from it. And it's arthritis

through the arm and the shoulder.

It's

It's what?

Lord, I receive. Take it all over this

place. Lord,

I receive. Take it all over the place.

There's another

There is the presence of the Holy Spirit

in this place.

There's a third one way back there.

There's another heart healing. I don't

know where it is. There's another heart

healing. Honey, take it right now. The

power of God right now. Take it right

now. The power of the Holy Spirit on

that one. Come here, Holy Ghost. The

power of Come here. The power of the

Holy Spirit. Take it. I'm going to take

it right now. Take it right now. All

about

I receive

there's another spine at somebody.

There's still another spine. I give you

praise.

Right through here. There's a spine

healing. It has to do with a ruptured

disc.

It's through here. It had to do with the

ruptured disc. That's all that I know.

And the person has been completely

healed. I give you praise. Wonderful

Jesus.

I give you honor. I give you honor. I

give you glory.

Wonderful Jesus.

I give you glory.

I've got to get this rupture disc. Where

is it?

Come here. Will a Will a person come

here right now? Here's your rupture disc

healing. I know. I give you praise.

You're wonderful. And somebody that has

a cataract on the eye and the and the

cataract is beginning to slip. That's

all I know. Somebody is getting a a

healing. And this is the rupture disc.

Yes. And she's had an operation and

she's been clear over.

Bend over right now. Just bend

completely over.

There goes the power of the Holy Spirit

just goes through that body.

I give you praise. The power, this is

power in here. This is the power of the

Holy Spirit. There is a I give you

praise. I give you honor. I I know. And

there is a nerve hitting that somebody's

receiving. What is this right through

here?

Jesus is right now the power of the Holy

Ghost

right now.

A cataract is sitting in somebody's uh

on somebody's eye. That's all that I

know. Bend over right now, sir. Just

bend completely over.

What ear was open? Somebody's ear was

open. I'm not getting cuz the hearings

are coming so quickly. Somebody's ear

would open and there's somebody here

scheduled for an operation and you're

not going to have that operation and

you're scheduled for this next week and

you're not going to have the operation.

Hallelujah.

You're not going to have it.

Tell me where the person is.

Where is the person?

Come here. Wherever the person is. It's

so definite. Will the person come here

just a minute?

The come here. And somebody's ear was

open. Somebody's ear. Hold your good ear

tightly closed because what what uh the

person hears me perfectly. The ear has

been opened wherever you are and the

person here you may not been expecting

you open for an ear but the ear has been

opened and the person is where is she

coming now? The one who's scheduled for

an operation. Come here if you will

please.

Wonderful Jesus. Come on bring her up

here if you will. on the side. Come on

up here. On the side over here. And

there. What is this?

Does she hear perfectly?

And she has perfect hearing out of the

ear.

Hallelujah.

Everybody just reverently say, "Praise

the Lord."

Praise the Lord.

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