HAND OF FAITH

IT IS I BE NOT AFRAID CHICAGO IL 54-0720E

E-11 011 Now, Moses had less than the boy. The boy had some food; Moses had a dry stick in his hand. In Moses' hand it was nothing else but a stick that he'd picked up, perhaps, on the desert. But once, when that hand of faith taken a hold of that stick, it become God's judgment rod to the world. That dry stick became the judgment rod. Remember, Moses stretched that rod. He stretched the rod over the sea; he stretched it in the air. It was God's judgment rod.

Those Egyptians could've ever get that rod from Moses, they'd had had the Israelites whipped. And that's what takes today, as the rod was in Moses' hand, so is the Name of Jesus Christ in the Church hand. If the Church will hold that Name of Jesus, esteem It and honor It, and quit using It in slang, and so forth, and use It in power and reverence, It'll conquer every enemy that God's got on earth. "In My Name they shall cast out devils; in My Name they shall lay hands on the sick," all these things in His Name.

IT IS I BE NOT AFRAID CHICAGO IL 54-0720E

E-12 012 It sounds ridiculous to the world, but could you imagine, how ridiculous that scene sound, before we leave it. There was Moses, an old man eighty years old, going down into Egypt, could you imagine, with this old stick in his hand, his wife with two children, one on each hip, setting astraddle of a mule. Here he goes, his head back, smiling, just a rejoicing. Somebody said, "Moses, where you going?"

"I'm going down to Egypt to take over." A one man invasion, going to Egypt. Could you imagine such a thing as that? The world would look and said, "Ridiculous." But the great thing about it, he did it. Why? God said so. No matter how ridiculous it seems and how little, that stick in Moses' hand of faith, with the Word of God behind it, was more than all the armies Pharaoh could produce. Amen.

ONENESS JEFF IN 62-0211

26 016 Now, the Word of God is a Sword. Hebrews the 4th chapter says so, Hebrews 4:12. Now, It is a Sword. And a sword is perfect dormant if it isn't yielded by a hand or a power. And it... But it takes a hand to hold the Sword. And the--take... The hand that holds this Sword is the hand of faith.

Now, that hand of faith, it depends on how strong it is. This hand of faith might just be strong enough to cut a little hole through the darkness and say, "By faith I'm saved." That's a great cut, but then if that's all the stronger that hand is to yield that Sword, that's all it can cut. But if it's a strong hand, it'll cut plumb through everything the Devil can put out there, and make every promise of God shine forth in the power of His resurrection. If it's a strong hand of faith, "The days of miracles... Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever," cut its way through. It depends on the power of the hand behind the Sword.

ONENESS JEFF IN 62-0211

241 124 Now, you that's got strength enough to yield a Sword, now that you've got understanding enough in God's Word to claim It to be your personal property, who can pick up the Word of God now in your hand, hold It out in the hand of faith, and say, "I take my side with the Lord. I'll be oneness with my God from this on. I'll yield this Sword of the Spirit in this Word, and I'll cut the Devil 'till every promise that God promised me."

If you believe that with all your heart, I ask you then sincerely with all my heart, in the Name of Jesus Christ, stand to your feet and accept it. Do you mean it? Are you sincere? Is the Word in your hand? Is your hand your faith? Raise your physical hand to God, say, "God, by this, by my uplifted hand I pledge all my life. I pledge my soul; I pledge my thinking; I pledge everything to the Word of God. Let the Holy Spirit take my faith now and give to me the thing. Cut every doubt away from me. And by faith I receive the promise that I asked for this moment...?..."

If you believe it, say "Amen" now. [Congregation says, "Amen".--Ed.] Say, "Amen" again. Amen, and amen, and amen. Then if you mean that with all your heart, in the Name of Jesus Christ, I promise you what you asked for. Amen. You believe it with all your heart. God bless you. Brother Neville.

PERSEVERANCE JEFF IN 62-0218

173 088 This Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword, even a Discerner of thoughts of the heart. And what? It can only be handled by one hand. A sword is dominant. It--it has nothing in it unless it's handled by a hand. And when a hand of faith can pick up God's Word, it'll do the same thing Jesus did. "The works that I do shall you do also."

Maybe you can cut just a little, maybe you got a weak hand of faith, you can cut enough off to say, "Well, I can see enough daylight to see I'm saved." But what about the other promises? If you got a strong hand of faith, pick up the full Word of God and cut right on through every darkness (Amen.), until the Light of God shines in, and look face to face with God, standing on His Word. Amen. Hmm.

GREATEST BATTLE EVER FOUGHT JEFF IN 62-0311

57-5 188 What do we do? Take the Sword, which is the Word of God, pull It with what? A hand of faith, strong hand of faith, the two-edged Sword. The Bible said in Hebrews 4, It's--It's a two-edged Sword, cuts both coming and going.

Brother, what does he do? Take the Word... Take the Spirit, let the Spirit come into your heart, open up your mind, say, "Thy Word is Truth." (And you do this, sister.) "Thy Word is Truth. Lord, I ain't going to pay attention to how I feel, what anybody else says; I'm stopping up; I'm blowing out every one of my avenues. All the flusterations, and doubts, and unbeliefs that I've ever had; every feeling you ever had; all the sickness I ever had; everything else I ever had; I'm blowing them all out; I'm bypassing all them and coming right straight to my Spirit."

PERSEVERANCE CHICAGO IL 62-0520

E-42 042 You know, somehow faith finds a source that others don't know nothing about. No matter how much they try to say, "Don't go," they go anyhow (See?), 'cause faith finds its source. Others don't see it. That's right. Now, she knowed His Word. And the Bible said in Hebrews the 4th chapter and the 12th verse, that, "the Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword, cutting even to the--the asunder of the--the soul, and a discerner of the thoughts of the heart." That's what the Word of God does. It discerns even the thoughts that's in your heart.

Listen. Faith is the hand that can yield that Sword. No other hand can do it, no ecclesiastical hand, no organizational hand, no group hands, no national hands. It takes the hand of faith to do it. And depends on how strong that hand is. You might cut enough away from you to see that you're--you're free from sin. Then if it's strong enough, you can cut into healing. You can cut into anything that God promises. It's all out there. As He told Joshua, "Everywhere the soles of your foot sets, that's possession." Depends on how strong that hand of faith is that yields that Sword of God's Word.

TAKE ON THE WHOLE ARMOR OF GOD SANTA MARIA CA 62-0701

E-105 105 Here not long ago a man said he dreamed that the devil kept going, "Boo, boo." And he'd jump back. And the devil'd get bigger and he'd get little. He knowed he had to fight him sooner or later, so he grabbed the Word. And every time the devil would say, "Boo," he said, "Boo" right back, and the devil got little. That's what it is. It takes the hand of faith to hold the Word. Hallelujah.

KEY TO THE DOOR JEFF IN 62-1007

39 024 A vision is the same way. I know nothing to say to the church at this time concerning a vision. But if the Holy Spirit would show, first, me a vision, then I transmit that vision to the one that it's directed to. So it was not my, me, the vision was not me, I; it was God gave the vision, and I acted as a transmitter to bring forth the message of the vision to the people.

Now, a key is the same thing. Pardon me. The key is only to be held in a hand that unlocks the door. See, it's got to be hand. Now, and in the key I'm going to speak about tonight, is only one hand can hold this key, and that's the hand of faith. It's the only thing can--can hold this key. And hands hold other keys, and it takes a hand of faith for that.

PERSEVERANT CHICAGO IL 63-0802

110 048 Now, if I can push his back, with my handle, the blade, like that, where am I at? I'm directed right straight to his heart, 'cause I'm on the right side, at his left. And then when I am pressing with faith with the Word, "Satan, Jesus Christ commissioned me to do this," and we lock, and raise up with that hand of faith, and say, "An Angel of God met me yonder and said It's so." The first thing you know, throws the sword right straight in, and he's conquered. "I come to challenge you. And THUS SAITH THE LORD." That's the believer when he has faith to handle the Word.

Now, if you're just a little denominational weakling, you better keep away from it; you'll go around, talk about it, and say it can't happen, because you don't know nothing about it. But that man who's handled it, and seen it conquer that enemy, he knows what it'll do.

PERSEVERANT DALLAS TX 64-0305

67 030 His Word is a sword. The Bible said so. You want reference to that, it's--it's Hebrews 4:12, as I got the text wrote down. The Bible said, "The Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword." This sword's got to be held by a hand of faith. A hand of theology won't do it. It's got to take a hand of faith, trained in spiritual things, that knows God.

Again, might, as I might say this. How do you believe that Jesus looked upon the audience and perceived their thoughts? Because He was the Word. Let's quote the rest of the Word here, "Sharper than a two-edged sword, a Discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." He was the Word. That's the reason He could discern the thoughts that were in their heart.