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PLEAD YOUR CASEBy Kenneth E. Hagin Chapter 1 PLEAD YOUR CASEI,
even I,
am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and
will not remember thy sins. Someone said, "It is more important that men learn to pray than to gain a college education. " Notice he did not say that a college education is not important. He said learning to pray is more important. People go to great effort and expense to gain a college education. We may have to go to some effort, but it won't be expensive to learn to pray. I feel so sorry for people who don't know how to pray when the crises of life come. They know how to say words, but just spouting words off into the atmosphere isn't praying - there is a vast difference. In the 18th chapter of Genesis, we find Abraham praying: GENESIS
18.23-25 23 And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy
the righteous with the wicked? 24
Peradventure there he fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also
destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are
therein? 25
That he far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous
with the wicked: and that the righteous should he as the wicked, that
he far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? Prayer is joining forces with God the Father. It is fellowshipping with Him. It is carrying out His will upon the earth. John Wesley, founder of Methodism, said, "It seems like God is limited by our prayer life. He can do nothing for humanity unless someone asks Him to do it." You might ask, "Why is this?" You see, God made the world and the fullness thereof. Then He made man and gave man dominion over all the works of His hands. Adam was the god of this world. Adam, however, committed high treason and sold out to Satan, and Satan became the god of this world. I-le is called that in the New Testament (2 Cor. 4.4). God doesn't just move in on top of Satan. If He did this, Satan could accuse Him of doing the same thing he did. But God devised a plan of salvation and sent His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, whom Satan could not and did not touch. Through Jesus, God redeemed mankind! Now authority has been restored to us through Jesus Christ, and when we ask God, He can move! That is why it seems He can do nothing unless someone asks Him to. Here in Genesis, -God refused to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah until He had talked it over with Abraham, His blood covenant friend. Abraham's prayer is one of the most suggestive and illuminating prayers of the Old Testament. Abraham was taking his place in the covenant that God had made with him ... the Old Testament ... the old covenant. Abraham
had, through the covenant, received rights and privileges which we
under- stand very little. The covenant Abraham had just solemnized
with the Lord, Jehovah, gave him a legal standing with God. Therefore,
we hear him speaking so plainly as he intercedes for Sodom and
Gomorrah, "Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?"
All through the Old Testament we find men who understood and took their place in the covenant. Joshua could open the Jordan. He could command the sun, moon, and stars to stand still in the heavens. Elijah could bring fire out of heaven to consume the altar as well as the sacrifice. David's mighty men were utterly shielded from death in time of war as long as they remembered the covenant. When you read of them in the Old Testament, you think you're reading about "Supermen." Practically all the prayers of the Old Testament are prayers of covenant men. They had to be answered. God had to give heed to their petitions. Now let's discuss praying under the new covenant. The believer today has covenant rights, just as those in the Old Testament had covenant rights. In fact, the Bible says we have a better covenant established upon better promises (Heb. 8.6). We ought to be able to do all they did and more because we have a new covenant, a better covenant, established upon greater promises. Chapter 2 ACCEPT THE CHALLENGEHere
is the challenge from a covenant- keeping God to Israel. It also is a
challenge to the Church: ISAIAH 43.25,26 25
1, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own
sake, and will not remember thy sins. 26
Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou
mayest he justified. First, God says, "1, even 1, am He who blotteth out your transgressions, and will not remember your sins." God does not remember that you have ever done anything wrong, so why should you remember it? If you can come to the Lord without a sense of sin-consciousness, you can come with faith and boldness and get your prayer heard and answered. Do you see what confidence that gives you? As long as you come under condemnation and with a sense of spiritual inferiority, you are going to come tongue-tied and fear-filled, and you won't get anywhere. God said, "I will not remember thy sins." He has no knowledge that you have ever done anything wrong (provided you have been horn again and provided that since becoming a child of God when you have faded you have confessed it). We are told in the New Testament, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (1 John 1.9). Many
people say when praying to receive the Holy Spirit or to
receive healing, "I don't know if the Lord will hear me. I've
failed. I'm such a failure." Well, He doesn't know you are a
failure, so don't tell Him. He plainly said here, "I will not
remember your sins. " He does not remember that you have
done anything wrong, so why should you remind Him of it? It is not
good taste to remind Him. To remind Him that you have done wrong is to
accuse Him of being a liar. He does not remember, so don't you
remember. Then with confidence you can come before the throne of
grace! Second,
He
said, "Put me in remembrance. " What does He mean by that?
In other words, we are to remind Him of His promises in regard to
prayer. When you pray, stand before the throne of God, remind Him of
His promises, lay your case legally before Him, and plead it as a
lawyer. A lawyer is continually bringing up law and precedent. You
bring His Word - His covenant promises. He said here, "Put me in
remembrance: let us plead together.. declare thou [or as the
margin of the King James Version says, 'Set forth thy cause'], that
thou mayest be justified. " God is asking you to bring His
Word, to put Him in remembrance. He is asking you to plead your
covenant rights. Here is a challenge from God to lay your case before
Him. If your children are unsaved or whatever it is you are praying
about, find the Scripture that covers your case and lay the matter
before Him. Be definite. Find the Scriptures that definitely promise you those things you need. When we come according to God's Word, God's Word does not fail. Chapter 3 STAND ON HIS WORD...
Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning
the work of my hands command ye me. -
Isaiah 45.11 This Scripture is Prophetic and quite start- ling. It does not apply to Israel. It is yours. Israelites were servants of God. We are sons (1 John 3.2). This verse in Isaiah has reference to us, and it is in perfect harmony with the following Scripture from the New Testament. JOHN
15.7 7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what
ye will, and it shall he done unto you. You do not command in tones of arrogance, but as a partner - a worker together with Him - you lay the case before Him. You call His attention to His part in the drama of life. ISAIAH
55.9-11 9 For as the heaven@ are higher than the earth, so are my ways
higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. 10
For as the rain cometh down, and the snow
from heaven, and retumeth not thither, but watereth the earth, and
maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and
bread to the cater: 11
So shall my word he that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not
return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which 1 please, and
it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. The
eleventh verse is a Scripture you should continually use in prayer.
It is the very backbone of the prayer life. No word
that has gone forth from God can return unto Him void. God
said, ". . . 1 will hasten my word to per- form
it" (Jer. 1.12). The margin of the King James Version reads,
"I will watch over my word to perform it." He will make His Word good if you dare stand on it! Chapter 4 PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS1 followed this procedure exactly in an experience you may have heard me relate before. In the last church 1 pastored, the Sunday School superintendent, a pumper in the East Texas oil fields, fell off the engine house down into the machinery. As 1 drove through town, someone stopped me and said, "Did you know that Brother Haynes is dead?" 1 said, "No, he isn't dead. 1 was just out on the lease fifteen minutes ago talking to him." "Well, after you left, he climbed up on the engine house and fell down into the machinery, and he is dead." 1 hurried back to the lease and made my way through the crowd to the engine house, where Brother Haynes lay on the ground. 1 knelt beside him. Dr. Garret, the physician who had been summoned, said to me, "Reverend Hagin, 1 thought he was dead; however, he isn't quite dead yet. But he is dying. He will never regain consciousness. We can't move him; he will die lying right here. 1 wish you would take Mrs. Haynes aside and prepare her." 1 took Sister Haynes by the arm to lead her to one side, but before 1 could say a word to her she said, "Dr. Garret doesn't think Daddy will live, does he?" "No, he doesn't," I answered. She looked up and smiled through her tears and said, "Isn't it wonderful that you and 1 have 'inside information'?" I said, "It surely is!" We prayed. He kept on living. The ambulance waited about an hour and a half. Finally, Dr. Garret said, "Well, let's try to get him to the hospital. 1 didn't think he would live this long." 1 rode in the ambulance with him to the hospital, some thirty miles away. Three specialists were waiting when we arrived. To
make a long story short, we had been there two days and were facing
the third night when one of the doctors said to me, "Reverend, 1
will tell you the truth about it, we don't even know
the extent of his injuries, because we can't move him. How he has
lived this long, we don't know. We do know his left lung is deflated;
however, we don't know what internal injuries and hemorrhaging he may
have. He is still in shock, and we can't bring him out. There is no
chance of his making it." Sister
Haynes' faith was slipping. When you sit with a person over a period
of hours and grow tired physically, it is easy for your spirit and
your faith to be affected. So 1 knew 1 had to get her out of her
husband's hospital room, and 1 did. This
was the third night 1 had been up with very little sleep, and at about
2 o'clock in the morning, 1 began to fall asleep. The special nurse
awakened me as she stirred around the bed. The way she looked, 1 asked
her if Brother Haynes was dead, and she replied, "I thought he
was, but he isn't quite yet. 1 know I'm not supposed to talk this way
to you, but he will never make it till 7 o'clock in the morning when
my shift ends." I
got up and went out into the corridor, and at 2 o'clock in the morning
in that hospital, I did
just exactly what 1 suggest you do. 1 did just exactly what God said
to do. He said, "Put me in remembrance. " He said, "Let
us plead together. " He said,
"Set
forth thy cause that thou mayest be justified. " So
1 said to the Lord, "Lord, 1 am not going to let him die. First
of all, he is only 49 years old, and a man 49 years old is not old
enough to die." I
reminded Him, "You promised us in Your Word at least 70 or 80
years. "Second,
he is our Sunday School superintendent. He usually endeavors to
visit every absentee himself. He is really the best Sunday School
superintendent 1 have ever had in all of the churches 1 have pastored.
There is not another man like-minded in our church. This isn't my
church; it is Your church. 1 am the under-shepherd, but You are the
Great Shepherd. What 1 need, You need. 1 need him. "Third,
He is my deacon. He always stands solidly with me, and all the other
men follow him. 1 need him. If 1 need him, You need him. "Fourth,
he has influence for good in our town. The businessmen and practically
"Fifth, he gives 30 percent of his income to the church. If we lose that, we will be almost bankrupt. 1 know You can meet every need, but your ways of meeting needs are through men." (God
is not going to rain money down out of heaven. He is not a
counterfeiter. God's way of doing things is through men. Remember that
Jesus said in Luke 6.38, "Give, and it shall be given unto you;
good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over,
shall men give into your bosom. . . . " Shall men give.) So
1 said, "This is not my church. We are the Body of Christ. You
are the Head. What the Body needs, the Head needs. Lord, we need him.
The church needs him, and so 1 am not going to let him die. "Besides
that, death is of the enemy. It is of the devil." (Death is an
enemy. It is not of God. Death is the last enemy that shall be put
under foot, the Bible says. However, God has taken the sting out of
death for us.) 1 said, "I rebuke death and 1 command it to leave his body in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth." 1 went back into the room. Brother Haynes was breathing well and his color looked good. The nurse was reading a magazine. 1 sat down, became sleepy again, and fell off to sleep. The special nurse awakened me as she moved about. When 1 first looked at Brother Haynes, 1 thought, "My, 1 have gone to sleep and let the devil come in here and take him, and he has died." 1 got up and went through the same procedure again. 1 argued my case the same way. 1 did that the third time before he rested well. At 8 o'clock the doctor came in. The moment he listened to his heart, he said, "Nurse, get the stretcher. We are going to take him to X-ray." He turned to me and said, "This man has come out of it. He is out of shock. He might make it now." Thank God, he did make it! When
he came back to church, he testified. (1 had never told him or anyone
how 1 had prayed.) He said, "Folks, don't ever feel sorry for
Christians who die. The last thing 1 remember was falling. 1 never
remember hitting the
machinery. The next thing 1 knew 1 woke up in the hospital. They tell
me it was several days. It seemed like only a few minutes. When 1 did
wake up, 1 never did hurt. 1 never had any pain. It was most amazing. "The
only thing 1 can remember while 1 was unconscious is that 1 must have
died. 1 went up to heaven, and 1 saw the angels. 1 heard them sing:
oh, such singing as you have never heard! 1 saw the saints robed in
white. 1 stood among them, and 1 saw Jesus. He came to me. "I
was just about to fall down before Him to tell Him how much 1 love and
appreciate Him when He pointed His finger at me and said, 'You're
going to have to go back.' I said, 'I don't want to go back. Again He
pointed His finger at me and said, 'You are going to have to go back.'
1 said, 'I don't want to go back.' He said the third time, 'You are
going to have to go back to the earth.' And 1 said the third time, 'I
don't want to go back to the earth.' "He reached around as a person would if he were standing by a window. It seemed that He pulled back a curtain, and when He did, 1 heard Brother Hagin say, 'Lord, I'm not going to let him die. I'm not going to let him die.' "Jesus said, 'See, you are going to have to go back. Brother Hagin won't let you come yet.' " (1 always have believed we have more authority than we think we have!) 1
stood before the throne and pled my case like a lawyer. Praise God, we
can! We have Scripture for it: "Put me in remembrance,
" God said. "Let us plead together.. declare thoz4 that
you may be justified," In 1950 my father-in-law had an operation. He never had asked anyone to pray for his heal- ing, but he asked me to pray with him, and 1 did. Nineteen days after the operation, he was stW in the hospital. Complications had set in. My mother-in-law had stayed with him night and day. When she saw that he wasn't going to make it, she had a nervous collapse. My wife had gone home with her. 1 was there with him, and he was unconscious. Incidentally, the Lord revealed to me exactly what was happening to him physically. 1 mentioned this to the doctor, and he looked at me in amazement and said, "How did you know
that? That is exactly what is happening to him, but a person would not
know that unless he wore medically trained." 1 am glad the Lord
knows everything! As
1 stood there 1 prayed quietly to myself (as there were others in the
room), "Lord, do You want me to curse this death and command it
to go? Shall I command this sickness and physical condition to be
made well? 1 believe 1 will just do it." Immediately, the Lord said to me, "No, don't do it!" (Notice
the text says, "Let us plead together. " You can talk
to Him, and He will talk to you.) The
Lord began to plead His case. He said, "Now he is 70 years
old. He is ready to go. I-le hasn't always been ready to go, but he is
now. He has all of his business settled. Financially, materially,
spiritually - everything is ready. He never will have a better time to
go than now. You leave him alone and let him go." Immediately,
1 replied, "All right, Lord, on one condition: You let him come
out of this death
and leave a good testimony, and I'll let him go. 11 1
had not gotten those words out till he opened his eyes. He looked at
me and said, "Kenneth." 1
said, "Yes sir, Mr. Rooker." He said, "I'm dying."
1
said, "I know." "The sooner the better," he said.
"I know what I'm doing now." The
doctor said afterwards, "I would not have believed that if
another doctor had told me. If 1 had not seen it with my own eyes, 1
would not have believed it." I-le gave me some medical term. He
said that he wasn't exactly dead, and he wasn't exactly alive, but
about halfway between the two. He told me he had never seen anybody
come back when they were out that far. That
night we had a great time. Mr. Rooker sat up in bed, and we brought
our children in. He sat up and laughed and talked, and you would have
thought he was going on a vacation the next day. He kissed those
grandchildren - the only ones he had - goodbye without a tear. The next afternoon at about the same time he had regained consciousness, he become unconscious again. 1 knew that when death fastened its final throes upon him, he would regain consciousness momentarily, because 1 had been there several times myself. When he came to that point, 1 saw that look of consciousness flash across his face. He quickly fastened his eyes on me and said, "Kenneth, I'm dying." 1 said, "I know, Mr. Rooker, but you are not afraid. " "No, I'm not afraid." "Just lie back on the pillow and let her go." He just lay back, bless God, and went to sleep. A smile flickered across his face, and he went to be with Jesus. He had told me the night he had regained consciousness, "There has been a man right up there for the last two days. Every now and then he will motion to me to come on." He had said to the angel, "Sir, 1 don't rightly know who you are, but I'm not quite ready yet. You will have to wait a little while." 1 still believe that we have more authority than we have ever used upon the earth. God said, "Let us plead together. " There may he times you will plead with God and He will plead with you. You can see that this was the best way to handle Mr. Rooker's case. God did answer my prayer: Mr. Rooker came out of it immediately, and he left a good testimony. PSALM
78.41 41
Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of
Israel. Can
you limit God? The Bible says that Israel limited Him. The marginal
rendering reads, "And they turned again and tempted God and
limited the Holy One of Israel." We have limited Him. We have limited Him with our prayer life. We have let the great promises of fellowship and cooperation with God go by untouched and unrealized. But, thank God, we can act upon His Word. Chapter 5 NEW TESTAMENT PRAYER PROMISESVerily
1 say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind
on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall
loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again
I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching
any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my
Father which is in heaven. For
where two or three are gathered together in
my name, there am 1 in the midst of them. This Scripture is amazing! ". . . Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am 1"! We often quote this verse in regard to a church service. It has no reference to a church service. However, it is true the Lord is there. He is saying that wherever two believers agree, He is right there with them. That would be an executive meeting, so to speak, with the Master.
We come together to do business - sit- ting in His presence, planning,
discussing, and then praying. For He said, "if two of you
shall agree...." Unless you do some planning and discussing,
you won't know what you are agreeing on. The
group may be small: perhaps just a husband and wife. But if they
agree as touching anything they ask, it shall be done. It shall be done!
This is a challenge! We
never have fathomed the depth of what this Scripture can mean to us.
And we will not until we act upon it. Where
two agree in prayer, the power of the two increases tenfold over one.
The Bible says that one shall put a thousand to flight, but two will
put ten thousand (Deut. 32.30). You can be mighty in prayer alone, but
you can be mightier in prayer united or joined together with some- one
else. Every "believer" should find an "agreer" -
someone to join with him or her in prayer. We
should lay out a program of prayer, making a list of subjects and of
people to lay intelligently before God the Father. JOHN
15.7,8 7
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye
will, and it shall he done unto you. 8
Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye he
my disciples. "If
ye abide in me. . . " If we
are horn again, we do abide in Him. If He had just
said that and that alone, we would have had it made. But He
adds, " '. . AND my Words abide in you. . . " His
Word abides in us in the measure that it governs our lives - in the
measure that we act upon it. If
His Words abide in us, we are bound
to have faith, because the Bible says, "So then faith cometh
by hearing, and heating by the word of God" (Rom. 10.17). It
would he an impossibility for His Word to abide in us and for
us not to have faith. Unbelief (or doubt) is a result of ignorance
of the Word of God. If
we are living the Word, then when we
come to pray, that Word dwells in us so richly that it will
become His Word on our lips. It will be as the Father's words were on
the lips of the Master, Jesus. JOHN
15.16 16 Ye have not chosen me, but 1 have chosen you, and ordained
you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit
should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my
name, he may give it you. JOHN
16.23,24 23
And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verify, 1 say unto
you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it
you. 24
Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive,
that your joy may he full. Prayer is addressed to the Father in Jesus' Name. This is divine order. And this statement, ". . . whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it yoz4 " has within it the ability to bring God into our circumstances, our families, our homes, our nation or whatever it is that we are praying about. We are not praying to Jesus. We are praying to the Father in the Name of Jesus. That's the way Jesus said to do it. You
can fellowship with the Master and talk things over with Him. But when
it comes to prayer
based on legal grounds, it Is to be addressed to the Father in the
Name of Jesus. Jesus
really gives us the power of attorney. That means that what Jesus can
do, we can do. That means that Jesus' Name gives us the right to
go into the presence of the Father God and receive answers to our
prayers. Jesus backs our prayers! He makes them good. 1
JOHN
6.14,15 14
And this is the confidence [boldness] that we have in him, that, if we
ask any thing according to his will, he beareth us: 15
And if we know that he bear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we
have the petitions that we desired of him. The
believer, walking in fellowship with the Word, never will ask for
anything outside of the Father's will (outside of the Word). We need
not worry about that. (If the believer is not walking in fellowship
with the Father, or with the Word, he is not going to get anything
anyway.) You
see, friends, we can find out God's will in the Bible, for it is His
will, His covenant, His testament. It is His will for us to have what
He We know that saying the lost is His will - for this end He died. We do not pray, 'God, save my mother who is lost - if it is your will. Don't let her go to hell - if it is your will. If it is not your will, let her go on to hell." No! Why don't we pray that way? Because we read in God's will, His Word - 'For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life' (John 3.16). We know that saving the lost is God's will, because the Bible also says, 'The Lord is not ... willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance' (2 Peter 3.9). Saving the lost is His will. We
know that healing the sick is His will, because God's Word tells us, 'Who
his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being
dead to sins, should live unto righ- teousness: by whose stripes ye
were healed' (1 Peter 2.24). And because His Word says, '. . .
Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses' (Matt. 8.17). It is God's will that
we
have what Jesus bought for us. We know that praying for finances to
meet obligations is God's will, according to PhWp- pians 4.19, "But
my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by
Christ Jesus. " In this fourth chapter of Philippians he is
taudng about finances. It
is His will that our needs be met. God said to Israel, "If ye
be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land" (Isa.
1.19). Of course, you can't walk in disobedience and enjoy the good
things of God. But if you are willing and obedient, God wants you to
have the best. He is not a rniser or a tightwad. He didn't put
everything here for the devil and his crowd. Some
people have the idea that you should never have anything financially
or materially if you are a Christian - that you should go through life
with your nose to the grindstone. Jesus
said, "If ye the?4 being evil know how to give good gifts unto
your childrer4 how much more shall your Father which is in
heaven give good things to them that ask him?" (Matt. 7.11). Oh,
He wants to. He wants to. But people won't cooperate with Him and lot
Him. How
many of you parents desire that your children go through life sick and
afflicted, down- trodden, down-and-out, poverty-stricken, nose to the
grindstone? None of you! Jesus
said, "If ye the?4 being evi4 know how to give good gifts unto
your children, HOW MUCH MORE...." How much more! He wants us
to have the best. God wants us to prosper and have the good things of
this life. No,
He does not want us to be covetous. That is wrong. In fact, the Lord
said to me once, as He sat down by my bedside and talked to me for an
hour and a half, "My Spirit will lead all of my children. The
Bible says that as many as are led by the Spirit, they are the sons
God, and the Spirit leads by an inward witness. 1 will lead you and
not only you, but any child of God. "
1 will show you what to do with your money. 1 will show you how to
invest it. In fact, if you will listen to me, 1 will make you rich. 1
am not opposed to my children being rich. 1 am opposed to their being
covetous." Someone
could be covetous and not have a
dime.
Some misread and say, "Money is the root of all evil." The
Bible does not say that. It says, "For the love of money is
the root of all evil ...." (1 Tim. 6.10). It is all right to
have money. It is wrong for money to have you. We can pray that ministers will speak in the power of the Spirit. We can pray for the lost in heathen lands. All this is in His will. What
boldness we have, then, to come to God. This is the confidence that we
have in Him: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears
us. (All of these things are according to His will, so we know that
when we pray about them, He hears us.) And we KNOW if He hears us, we
KNOW we have the petition we Mk of Him. We KNOW we have it! We KNOW
it! Praise God! MARK
11.24 24
Therefore 1 say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray,
believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. MATTHEW
21.21,22 21
Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I
say 22
And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye
shall receive. Believe
it first; then you shall have it. If you believe you have something,
you are going to thank God for it. Faith
actually is thanking God for something you possess that has not yet
materialized. However, you know it is yours and you possess it without
seeing it. MARK
9.23 23
Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to
him that believeth. All things - all things - are possible to the man who cooperates with the Lord, who fellow- ships with the Lord, who is a co-laborer of the Lord. A
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