With God, nothing is impossible! Daniel 11:32 says, ‘Those who know their God will be strong and do exploits’ – the most amazing incredible things ever seen on the earth – ‘exploits’! Bigger than anything you can imagine! You should be doing more than anybody else! Church, we’ve got to get on FIRE! If you’ve got no fire, get the Holy Ghost!
The world has to see God’s power! He’s a God of power and authority, a God who enables me to do exploits! Jesus said to His disciples, “You see the miracles I do, but when I go to Heaven, you’re going to do bigger!” (John 14.12.) Are you seeing bigger miracles than Jesus? But that’s what we need! We need a baptism of fire and power! The fire of God, the power of God – that’s the challenge. God has called us to receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit and do exploits! There is a song, ‘God raised me up to stand on mountains, He raised me up to walk on stormy seas’ – God raised YOU up to stand on mountains, He raised YOU up to walk on stormy seas! God raised YOU up to heal the sick, raise the dead, work miracles and preach the Gospel – and He sent the Holy Spirit to do this through YOU! When you’ve got the Holy Ghost, God does everything! – Because it’s the Holy Spirit who gives you the gift of faith to do it!
In 2002, God gave me a new powerful vision to evangelise Russia. Realising that still less than half of one percent of the Russian population are baptised believers, I was discouraged. This was the challenge God gave: to go into the cities with the largest churches in Russia, to evangelise in a sport-hall/stadium – AND to buy air-time on TV, to broadcast the WHOLE evangelistic meeting live, reaching the ENTIRE region – between 1 and 5 million every time – via terrestrial TV – direct into every town, every village, every home, every apartment – using the TV system set up by the communists for propaganda! In the first fourteen months of launching this programme, we held twenty Live-TV crusades, double the number we had originally planned!
The live crusade programmes showed the praise and worship, the unedited preaching, call to repentance, and, in the last twelve minutes, healing miracles! Outside the big cities, in the regions, there were usually only one or two TV channels, so that the programme has a great impact: the majority of people within the whole region, if they switch on their TV, would see the programme – many got healed and give their lives to Christ. Some of these then come into the actual crusade meeting in the following days to give their testimony!
Christian, you need to receive the Holy Spirit. Jesus said, 'You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.'
When I received, it was a manifestation of fire, of power, speaking with tongues like they did on the Day of Pentecost – and miracles soon began to follow. What a baptism of Power and of Fire I received that day! I received the Holy Spirit, all the mighty Power of God, everything. Now that powerful anointing which before had been outside of me, that third person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit, was now IN ME! There is only one Holy Spirit – HE is IN me! Not outside, I am not waiting for another Holy Spirit – HE, the Spirit who raised up Jesus from the dead, who was in Paul and Peter, that mighty, miracle-working power of the Great God I am boasting about, is in me now, and HE has been in me for 80 years! I cannot receive any greater power than that I already have, in me now!
In the Old Testament, in Leviticus 6.9,12-13, God gave the command to the priests: when you bring the meat offering to the altar – you light a fire and it burns the sacrifice. But the command of God was that THE FIRE ON THE ALTAR MUST NEVER GO OUT! Today, if you want to receive this Fire from God, then your life needs to be the sacrifice on the altar of service to God, then I believe that the command given thousands of years ago still applies today, that fire must NOT go out. I’m over 90 years old and this is the secret: what the priests had to do to keep the fire burning on the altar was to KEEP ADDING TO THE SACRIFICE! You’ve got to keep putting more sacrifice on your altar, more and more – that’s what we need today! The tragedy today is that too many believers claim they are baptised in the Holy Ghost – but where is the evidence of the fire?!