LIVING THROUGH HIM, YOU'RE UNLIMITED !

LIVING THROUGH HIM, YOU'RE UNLIMITED ! When you put limitations on yourself, you limit God; When I heard that, it dawned on me: that's where those old, religious traditions come from ! That's why some denominations go through the ritual of blessing people ! The ritual begin with believers who understood they were distributors of God's BLESSING. Through the years and even generations, the ritual has become, for the most part, a part of godliness that denies the power thereof. But it started with folks who believed they had been commissioned by God to BLESS people by ministering to them His burden removing, your destroying power. Even, when someone sneezes we have been telling people God BLESS you ! It's rare to find Christians who believe in and minister THE BLESSING like that today because, for the most part, the devil has taken the church out of it. He has sold us such a religious song and dance that most people would consider it almost a capital offense, for example, if an ordinary believer said, "I heal this sick body in the Name of Jesus." They can't see how anyone but Jesus Himself could say the words I heal. Yet, that's almost exactly what Peter said when he healed the lame man at the temple gate. He didn't say, "Well now, I'm just nothing. I'm a little nobody so don't pay attention to me. Only Jesus has the power to heal so let's just ask Him to help us." Quite the opposite ! When Peter and John begin to minister healing to that man: Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us. And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them. Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk (Acts 3:4-6). Because of religiously induced fear in people, we have to be cautious about ministering to them that way today. If we say, "I'm going to heal you," they're likely to become so scared or not willing to receive, because they look at you and me as mere men ! They won't let us touch them. They go away wondering, who does he think he is ? But even if we don't declare it so bluntly that it frightens people away, we can still walk in that kind of authority. We can minister healing or deliverance to people by faith in the fact that Jesus has already brought and pay for their healing or deliverance. It is part of THE BLESSING. And as John and heirs of that BLESSING, we've been sent to deliver it. If that were the foundation of our faith when we prayed for the sick and laid hands on them, things would be much simpler. We what it think we had to pray for three days, crying and begging God to get someone healed. We could just smile, put our hands on them and say, "God BLESS you, man or woman ! In the Name of Jesus, be healed." Most of us don't have any qualms about praying with that kind of simplicity for someone to be born again. We don't think it's strange at all to just say, "come on, brother or sister. Let me lead you in prayer and you can be saved." Years ago, people would have fainted at that idea. They thought you had to jump through all kinds of religious hoops before God's word save someone. But, thank God, we've learned better than that now where ministering the new birth is concerned, and we're beginning to learn the same lesson in the area of healing and deliverance.