Mat 17:15 Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore (kakos diseseased misearable) vexed: (patho feeling suffering) for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water.
Mat 17:16 And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.
Mat 17:17 Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless (apistos unbelieving untrustworthy) and perverse ( dee-as-tref'-o to distort corrupt: - turn away) generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.
Mat 17:18 And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour.
Mat 17:19 Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?
Mat 17:20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: (ap-is-tee'-ah faithlessness, disbelief unfaithfulness (disobedience): for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
Mat 17:21 Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
Matthew 17:20 Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you!
Matthew 19:26 But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, Woth men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
Mark 10:27
Luke 1:37 For with God nothing shall be impossible.
God can!
God can because He says, and what He says He can.
See that star, God spoke that star into existence. It is 170 million miles away.
The light you will see tonight, left that star when Abraham Lincoln was a little boy.
God’s word at work!
Hear that baby cry?
That is the handy work of God!
God spoke and made the bumble bee.
God said bumble bee fly away, and the bee has flown ever since.
God stooped to the earth, He got some dust in His hand,
God made a masterpiece when He created man.
The Preacher was in a crisis, Evil people had vowed to destroy him and his work.
God spoke to a little bird and commanded the bird take the Preacher food for his nourishment.
Later God spoke and told the widow woman to release her family’s last meal.
And God spoke and sustained her.
God spoke and Daniel did not worry.
Daniel slept in the lions’ den, while the King in the palace was sleepless.
Daniel placed his trust in the prayers already offered.
God spoke and those that opposed Daniel perished before their corpse touched the ground.
The battle was sore, the tide changed and victory was at hand.
God held the sun back so a total victory could be won.
God spoke and asked a Mother to trust Him and make a basket of love and faith.
God rewarded that Mother and had her paid to breast feed her own son!
Only God could do that!
As Pharaoh passed a law to kill all the male children of Israel,
God laughed and spoke and made the same Pharaoh that had ordered the deaths,
To pay for the education and training of God’s future worker.
God spoke the word and the Red Sea parted right before Moses, God’s man.
Then Pharaoh’s army drown in the deliverance of God’s people.
God spoke in another battle, Aaron and Hur stepped forward to be the LIFTER of the ARMS,
And a mighty God again wrought a great victory.
God spoke and a valley full of very dry bones came to life
And God became a Great GIVER of HOPE!
God spoke as an army ran in great fear.
They pitched a dead body on to the grave of an old Preacher,
And the soldier jumped up and ran to victory.
God spoke and made a great fish. God told that fish to follow the ship.
As the fish swallowed that old tough Preacher,
God ordered that fish to turn and swim toward Ninevah.
For three days and three nights that fish swam carrying the Preacher to a great revival.
God spoke and an old woman named Miriam danced before the Lord.
As this lady danced and played her tambourine before the Lord,
Miriam caught the vision of the Holy God, and danced, sang, and worshipped for hours in
the Presence of the Great Deliverer.
God spoke and trained a little boy.
The boy stepped out and killed a bear and a lion, all training steps.
God will use this same boy again
As David steps up above the complaining, grumbling crowd.
This little lad will hear the taunt of the heathen.
This lad will step forward and leave a headless giant laying in the dust of defeat.
God spoke and told Esther, Honey, I made you for a time like this.
Esther and her Uncle Mordecai’s faith will redeem the seed of the Messiah!
God speaks and a little lady released all that she had into the offering box
in the Sanctuary, she gave more than them all.
God speaks and a little boy invested his minnows and biscuits
into the hunger of the fainting saints.
Jesus speaks and the fishermen trust the carpenter,
Nevertheless, at THY WORD,
The fish were so bountiful the ship begins to sink.
Jesus speaks and the storm without cannot grow to be a storm within ---
Peace, be still, and the storm and waves obey the Master’s voice.
Jesus speaks, negative news comes to Jairus:
She is dead, why bother the Master?
The crowd mocks and laughs ---
But Jesus speaks --- ARISE my little daughter,
And the little girls arises and raises her own family.
Jesus sees a tree that is all leaves, no fruit.
Jesus speaks and within hours the fruitless tree is withered away.
Jesus speaks and tells John, Take care of Mom.
John hears and accepts his duty at the foot of the Cross.
Jesus speaks to our enemy, the Devil.
Jesus says: Hey, there, my work is finished and so are you!
The gates of hell cannot prevail against those that hear me!
Jesus speaks to you and asks you:
What are you going to do?
Are you going to stand by MY MAN to support and encourage him?
Will your light shine as a city on a hill?
Or are you going to sulk over the same old ball game?
John 6:66 After this many of Jesus’ disciples drew back and
(returned to their old associations) and no longer associated with Jesus.
Sometimes the words and the way get hard, the suffering becomes apparent,
The volume increases in the whispers of the negative words.
This cannot be God’s plan, snd in unison the crowd will turn and walk away.
Where are you going? Are you going too...???
Can you remember the free food?
Can you remember the signs?
Can you remember the signs of the time taht are alarming all around you?
Beware, the sounds of compromise will ring in your ears.
Hear the cry of unborn babies?
Hear the cry that is trying to undermine the families?
The Father has a plan.
Deliverance and healing still freely flow from the despised place at the Foot of the Cross.
There is glory free flowing from the rejected hill called Golgotha.
There is untouched, unused power to bind the broken hearted, proclaim liberty to the captives,
To open the prisons of bondage, to Preach the good news.
I have promised to be near them that are of a broken heart.
Why are so many crying, wearing spiritual black?
There is great depth to the well that I have placed before you this day.
Why all the unforgiveness, and the lack of forbearing?
I am the Lord your God that promised to be with you ---
With you forever. Lo, I am with you always.
Your self doubt? Your wallowing in the mud of the pig pen?
Your heart that harbors grudges from the long past?
Your giving ground to the belly aches of the dying have hindered
My ability to rule and be let loosed with My Ultimate Plan for you.
It is My desire to lift you to Lofty Heights,
As you reach down below where you are to lift others.
I have promised this trail of tears to turn into JOY!
This is the morning I have promised to turn and bring change.
Yet you are content to fall into the habitual pattern of the negative crowd of doom and gloom?
Where is the cry, "LORD GIVE ME MY MOUNTAIN?"
Where is the cry of my people seeking advancement to what I have called them?
Why are you imprisoned by the limitations of the past?
Why do my people’s emotions and zeal grow dim?
Stir the fires that remain! Fan the flame!
Step up in faith while there is opportunity,
The open door is before you!
Reach out to the lost! Bring hope to the hopeless!
How can you give what you do not have?
Get HOPE!
DREAM!
Dream afresh!
Reach beyond your abilities!
Move in the realm of the Lord’s Domain!
Dismiss the sting of disappointment else the infection of doom
will hinder the growth of God’s Plan!
Why accept your limitations?
Hear the voice of God!
The same God that spoke to Esther, Ruth, Daniel, Moses, Paul,
and the hero’s of faith is still speaking today!
The ground on which you stand is HOLY GROUND!
But you must hear My Voice!
You must accept!
You must receive!
You must not be idle or fruitless!
You must hear and do, and perfect what you do!
Release!
Release!
Saith the Lord of Host!
Flow in my blessings!
Break the chains that bind!
Grow in compassion!
Trust in My Word!
Press forward, dream again! Dream!
Do not be detoured or deterred or sidetracked!
Grow a true desire for the Heart and Presence of God!
Come to the fountain!
Come for a personal connection to the awesome Presence of the Most Holy.
Come not for a visit, but to forever dwell in the Land of Divine Possibilities.
