YOUR MIRICAL IS IN THE HOUSE!
Mk. 2:1-12
Tell your neighbor “Your miracles in the house!”
Jesus came to Capernaum and entered a house.
Q- Who’s house was it?
Nobody knows.
I’d love for Jesus to come to my
· House
· Job
· Family
· Church
If we can get Jesus into the house, we’ll have no problem filling the house!
Jesus filled the house without
· Singing
· Microphone
· Bozo the clown, or Foo-foo the dog
Ill.-Call a church prayer meeting, 2 or 3 will show up
Call a church dinner, meet people you haven’t seen in months
CEO Christians (Christmas Easter Only)
Church, lets get Jesus back in the house!!
The Bible says that Christ came in and He preached.
Q- Wouldn’t you love to hear Jesus preach?
People got hooked on His preaching.
Peter said, “…where can we go…you alone have the words of life.”
His preaching caused cities to be filled, till they had to go to the desert for lack of room.
Jesus spoke with authority and with power.
He preached till
· Storms were slain in the Spirit
· Dead men came leaping out of the tomb
He was the greatest of all preachers.
Not because of His delivery, but because of His results.
Results are the mark of real preaching.
Not style, not great swelling words, not the inflection of your voice with every adjective and adverb.
1Cor. 2:4 “…my speech and my preaching was not in enticing words of mans wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and power.”
Lord, give us a demonstration today!
This man on the stretcher was in great need. He was afflicted with palsy, paralyzed, he could move or help himself.
Q- Is there anyone here today with a great need?
I can just hear this man talking to his four friends.
“Guys, I’ve heard that Jesus is down at ______ . And I know that I can’t get there myself. But if you all will get me there, I know I’ll be healed.”
Q- Who were these four men, four friends?
The Bible doesn’t name them. But in my spirit, I can hear the paralyzed man call out their names.
These are four friends we need to employ today. Four friends that we need to get to know, or reacquainted with. Four friends that will always get us to Jesus.
Four Friends Of Faith.
1. Aymoon
This guy was always talking crazy.
He was always calling “…those things that are not, as though they were.”
His name in Hebrew meant faith.
This man said “Faith will get me to Jesus!”
You see friend, if you can get hold of faith nothing will be impossible to you!
(Have someone read Mk.11:23,24 and Isa. 46:9,10)
Faith has a voice!
Tell somebody “Faith has a voice!”.
You have to speak to the mountain of
· Sickness
· Divorce
· Lack
· Debt
· Poverty
· Confusion
Your mountain will never move till you activate your faith with your voice!
Mk. 11:23
· Saith three times
· Beleiveth one time
You’ve got to do three times the speaking your faith, than believing your faith.
It may sound foolish to those who are not facing mountains, to speak to mountains. But to those of us who are- it works!
Our faith takes us to our miracle!
(Have someone read Heb. 11:6 and Jude 20)
Q- How many here need your faith built up?
Throw your hands up and begin to pray in the Holy Ghost!
2. Rhema
This guy was always speaking the Word.
His name in Greek meant revelation of Gods Word, coming alive in your spirit.
Without the Word in you, you will fail every time you try to reach your miracle.
The paralyzed man knew that the Word would work, and he let the Word carry him to Jesus.
Your words have power!
“…power of life and death are in the tongue.”
When you get a Word on the problem your facing, it is the Word that unlocks the door to your
· $ Breakthrough
· Families salvation
· Spiritual deliverance
· Physical healing
Ill.- Betty Baxter story. Born with a curve in her spine. Every vertebra was out of place, the bones were twisted and matted together, her mother read her a scripture, “…all things are possible to them that believeth…”, eight words built faith in her heart to believe for her healing, later that month Jesus came to her and said “I am going to heal you completely August 24th, Sunday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock.”, tried to tell her mother but the Lord had already told her the same thing, “Mom, listen to me. I haven’t had a dress on or shoes on my feet since I was a little girl. I have worn these nightclothes all these years. Mom, when Jesus heals me Sunday afternoon I’m going to church Sunday night. The stores are closed on Sunday. Mom, if you really believe Jesus is going to heal me, will you go to Fairmont this afternoon and get me some new clothes?”, people from her church came that afternoon to her house and were praying, at precisely 3:00 o’clock Jesus came in her room- laid his hands on her- the bones cracked and popped- she stood upright and healed.
Just eight small words caused her to believe.
You may say, “Brother, my need is so great, I don’t have time for eight words. Have you got seven?”
· 7, Lk. 7:14 ”Young man I say unto thee arise.”
· 6, Jn. 4:50 ”Go thy way thy son liveth.”
· 5, Mt. 8:3 “I will be thou made clean.”
· 4, Mt. 12:13 “Stretch forth thine hand.”
· 3, Jn. 11:43 “Lazarus come forth.”
· 2, Lk. 8:54 “Maid arise.”
· 1, Mt. 8:32 “Go!”
There’s power in the Word of God!
Let it come alive in you right now. Lift your hands and declare the Word over your situation.
3. Hallel
This guy was always leaping, and shouting, and dancing, and lifting his hands to God.
His name in Hebrew meant praise, celebrate, to act foolishly clamorous, to dance and to leap.
This is one friend that a lot of so-called church members need to get re-acquainted with.
Too many people let their need keep them from praising God.
“Well Bro. Greg, I just don’t feel like praising God.”
Q- You what?
After all God has done for you, after all the hell He’s pulled you out of and you say you don’t feel like praising Him.
The church for too long has misunderstood what praise accomplishes in the spirit realm.
“…He inhabits the praise of His people…”
Your praise is warfare, your praise does battle in the heavenlies, it sets ambushments up in the devils camp.
The reason we don’t get many of our needs met is because we fail to give God the praise “…according to His excellent greatness.”
Ill.- The angels before the throne of God, constantly praising and worshipping the One Who sets on high, till one day God says
“Shhh. Hold on angels. Be quiet. I hear someone praising Me. Shhh! It’s my children. Listen to them praise Me.”
And when we silence the angels of heaven, our praise looses them to
· Get my stuff back
· My children back
· My marriage back
· My finances back
· My health back
· My joy
· My dance
Raise your hand and praise God for His excellent greatness. Loose the angels right now to go get your stuff!
4. Bereeth
This guy was always blessed, prosperous, and highly favored.
His name in Hebrew meant covenant, mutual agreement, legally and spiritually binding.
Covenant.
· Between two parties
· “All of mine is yours, all of yours is mine”
· “Your enemy, is my enemy.
· “Your friend…”
· “Your need…”
· “Your blessing…”
Ill.- Western cultures closest example is marriage.
The New Testament church has, for the most part, lost it’s relationship with this powerful friend and ally that will always get us to Jesus.
In the Old Testament they understood covenant.
They understood that you could make a draw on the covenant partner.
Ill.-Widow woman of Zarepheth, obeyed the prophet, meal and oil lasted through the famine.
Ill.-Shulimite woman, gave to the prophet- man of God, her son died, made a draw on the covenant, came to the prophet, and when asked she confessed that “…it is well”, received her sons healing.
Ill.-Mary and Martha, gave into Jesus’ ministry- shelter- food- money, in the hour of their greatest need (Lazarus’ death) they made a draw- demand- on the covenant.
Ill.- Bro. Ronnie and Stephanie Harrison, during her pregnancy, doctors tested her, said babies bowels growing on the outside of her body, said abortion was the only option (“That’s not an option.”), they drew out all their savings account, got a significant seed for a significant need, went to their Pastor (Rod Parsley), placed in his hands, made a draw on the covenant, nine months latter “Rylie Jade Harrison” was born, perfectly normal.
Ill.- Mike and Sheri, HHC members, drove older car, couldn’t fit all seven kids in, sowed seed for a new car, her employer took her to dealership, worked a price on a new Expedition, asked Sherrie “How do you want your name on the title?”, they lived in a two bedroom apartment, sowed seed again for a house, one day her boss asked to see her apartment, told her way too small, asked to see the new house Sherrie had told her about, went in it (2500 sqf., 4 bed, 3 bath) made an offer it agent of $150,000, asked Sherrie “How do you want your name on the deed?”
Say with me “It’s not about money, it’s about covenant!”
You might say “Brother Greg, I don’t give to God so I can get from God.”
Then you have made yourself a walking offence to Him.
Q-Why?
What your saying is that it’s alright for you to keep up your end of the covenant with God (tithes and offerings), but it’s not alright for God to bless you.
I don’t think so!
God has sent me here to tell you that it is His hearts desire to see you blessed in every part of you life.
“…that thou mayest prosper and be in health…”
Alter call.
