ANDREW WOMMACK: IMPORTANT MESSAGE: You have the POWER inside of YOU! #andrewwommack #truth #jesus

0:00 felt like the Lord told me that this is what I need to talk about you know I have people come to me all the time and they believe that God is real I'm sure that you do that's the reason you're here on a Thursday night you came out here because you you aren't your nod to God crowd that just goes one hour a week on Sunday fulfilling an obligation I mean you're out here because you're Fanatics amen are you were are you were drug here by a fanatic but did you know most Christians even though they love God and even though they're excited about God and even though they believe that God can do anything they don't understand the power and authority and they are constantly approaching God in a

0:46 sense saying oh God we are nothing we have nothing we can do nothing but we know that you can do all things would you stretch forth your hand would you heal this person would you touch me would you heal my finances and we are in a passive position of asking the Lord to do things and I think that one of the most uh common things that I deal with is people who believe God can do anything but they think that it's just God performing these Miracles they don't understand that everything we receive from God comes through us and that's that causes a lot of problems there's a lot of people when somebody dies they think why did God allow that you know God's God and if he

1:33 wanted to he could have healed this person you don't understand Authority you don't understand that God is bound himself by his word there's people that think why is God taking so long to heal me you don't understand Authority I can tell you this is one of the most misunderstood things in the body of Christ now I don't know uh Dwayne and I hadn't talked I don't know what he'll teach on but I know Dwayne we are really close and I know Dwayne is going to be telling you about who you are in Christ that'll be part of his ministry regardless of what he titles it amen and uh so that's what I'm going to be talking about too but I'm going to be focusing on the authority that God has given us and I just want to use this example in Acts chapter 3 to kind of highlight this this is something that

2:18 you've probably read many times but you know what most people become so familiar with this that they don't really know what it says I want to point out some things here that are just really different than the average Christian today in Acts chap 3 in verse one it says now Peter and John went up together into the temple at The Hour of Prayer being the ninth hour and a certain man lame from his mother's womb and we find out in the next chapter when he is being grilled before the scribes and Pharisees that he was 38 years old at this time and so a certain man lay from his mother's womb for 38 years was carried whom they um laid daily at the Gate of the temple which is

3:04 called Beautiful to ask alms of them that entered into the temple who seen Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms and Peter fastening his eyes upon him with John said look on us and they gave heed unto them expecting to receive something of them then Peter said Silver and Gold Have I None some people use that to say that see the disciples were poor it just means they didn't have their billfold with them there's times that I don't have any money with me but it doesn't mean I'm broke he just says 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 and he took him by the right hand and lifted him up and

3:51 immediately his feet and ankle bones re receive strength and he leaping up stood and walked and entered with them into the Temple walking and leaping and praising God and there is so much in these verses that I could Minister on but I'm wanting to just focus on this that Peter said Silver and Gold Have I None but such as I have such as I have give I unto thee and then he didn't even pray a prayer he didn't say oh God I can't do anything for this man but I know you can do anything all things are possible to you you would you stretch forth your hand would you touch this man see that's the way it's done today that's a chicken

4:37 prayer that's a safe prayer in other words you're saying well it's not up to me we're just going to pray and if you jump up well Jesus gets all the glory and if you don't get up well must not be God's timing yet maybe God wants to teach you something you can't lose with that kind of a prayer but Peter said such as I have give I unto you and then he didn't even pray a prayer he reached out and grabbed him by the hand and lifted him up and immediately his feet and ankle bones receive strength and he leaping up stood and went walking and leaping and praising God Peter said such as I have did you know that that would get you kicked out of 99 point something per of all churches today to come in and say I have

5:25 the anointing the power of God in Me and if I lay hands on you you will be healed people would look at that and be arrogant and it could be I guess in a way but you know what it's it's not you bragging on yourself it's you bragging on what Jesus did Jesus gave us power and authority on this Earth and it is listen to what I'm saying don't turn me off until I have time to explain this but it's not Jesus who's not healing people today it's us who aren't healing people and it's us who aren't reaching out and taking what is rightfully ours and instead we are coming before God as

6:11 Beggars we are coming before God not realizing what he's done for us and God is not going to violate his word I'll be teaching on this all week weekend long and I've got a lot to say so I I probably won't cover all of this but if you were to go back to Genesis you'll find out that God is the source of all power and all authority and he gave authority over this world to man and he didn't put any qualifications on it he didn't say as long as you do with it what I tell you to do you have power and authority no he gave us Authority and then we turned it over to the devil and God listen to this God would have been unjust to come down here and Wipe Out

6:57 the Devil and say how dare you do this to my creation and I'm going to just destroy you because he gave authority to us and and uh in Psalms chapter 82 I believe it is verse 6 Jesus quoted this verse and God said are you not all gods not capital G in the sense of divinity but rulers small G he gave us control over this Earth Psalms 115 verse 16 says the heavens even the heavens of the heavens are the Lord's but the Earth hath he given to the sons of man God gave control over this Earth to us and we are the ones that empowered the devil we turned it over to him and if God

7:44 would have come down and have just dealt with the devil like that he would have been untrue to his promise he says you have authority you rule you subdue it and so God because he is Holy because he is has exalted his word above all of his name Psalms 138:2 Psalms 89:34 says my Covenant will I not break nor alter the thing that has gone forth out of my lips When God Says something it's a covenant with God God never violates his word Hebrews chap 1 verse3 says that he is the brightness of his glory the express image of his person and he upholds all things by the word of

8:30 his power God created this world through words words are what created everything physical that we see the the universe you and me we were all created by words and words hold everything together he upholds all of creation by the word of his power if God was to break one of his promises the world would self-destruct the universe would self-destruct it's held together by the Integrity of his word and so when God said you this is yours you rule you do with it as you want did you know that that excluded God that excluded his Direct Control man I'm bumping up against

9:16 something right here that I could spend weeks explaining but what in my estimation I believe the worst Doctrine in the body of Christ is an extreme interpretation of the sovereign of God that God just sovereignly controls everything that whatever he wants done is going to be done whether you or I pray or do anything that God just sovereignly moves he is in control well I believe that God is Sovereign if you will define sovereign the way the Bible defines it as being first in rank order or authority God is absolute but to say that he controls everything that is denying and not understanding that he delegated authority to us God does not

10:03 control what goes on on this Earth matter of fact the Bible says in James chapter 4 verse 2 from whence come Wars and fightings among you come they not hints of your own lust that war in your members you lust and kill and desire to have and yet you have not because you ask not that verse right there makes it very clear that the reason we have wars are not because God starts all of the wars it's because God gave us control and we are not using it properly and this is the reason things happen I actually heard a woman on a television program who her and her daughter were abducted at gunpoint taken out to a remote area they were both raped and then he made them lay face down and shot them both in the back of the head and

10:49 killed the daughter the mother lived through it she had some physical problems but she did survive and she was on television talking about that we know that God works all things together for good that God had a purpose in this and she was blaming God for the death of her daughter the Abduction the rape and all of this stuff that is wrong that is ungodly to blame God for that God does not control everything if you're sick it's not because God allowed it God doesn't allow sickness we allow it God allows what we allow we're the ones that have authority and power and it's because we ar using the authority that God has given us and we're approaching him as a beggar as if he has done

11:35 nothing when the Bible says by his stripes we've already been healed 1 Peter 2:24 God has already done his part and he has put this power on the inside of us and if we aren't seeing the power of God manifest it's because we aren't believing and exercising The Authority that God has given us and instead we are coming advocating our Authority and saying oh God we can do nothing but you can do everything that is opposite what Peter did Peter came and said such as I have give I unto thee and then he reached down and grabbed the man and lifted him up and I guarantee you you don't do things like that if you don't understand that God has given you the authority and the power to

12:21 heal over in Matthew chapter 10 let me just read this one to you some of you wouldn't believe this is in the Bible if you don't read it Matthew chap 10 in verse one it says and when he had called unto him the 12 disciples he gave them power that word power there is a word dunamis it means miraculous power and authority God gave his disciples which it isn't limited to those original 12 it's been passed on to all of us we are now the Disciples of the Lord and it says that he gave gave them power against unclean spirits to cast them out and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of

13:09 disease all in the Greek that word all means all all I've had people come before and say well I know God healed things but what about cancer what about AIDS all Jesus is exalted above every name every name has to Bow if you can put a name on it Jesus is above it and he has destroyed it and he gave every Born Again believer in here power over all of the uh power and authority of the devil over all sickness and all diseases and then going down to verse um verse 7 it says and as

13:55 ye go preach saying the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand which if you look that up in the Greek it just means it's present it's now it's not soon to come it's already come it's here the Kingdom of Heaven is here and then he says heal the sick cleanse the lepers raise the Dead cast out Devils freely you have receive freely give he didn't say pray for the sick he said heal the sick there's a difference again to say oh God would you heal this person we're ask that that's not going to get people healed he told you to heal the sick it's not your power it's God's power but it has been given

14:42 unto you and you have this Authority and power that's what Linda Deeds was testifying about tonight I didn't pray for her she heard the truth and her husband and her agreed and then she stood up and took her Authority and acted and because of it she was delivered of arthritis and all these other things that we're affecting her every person in here has the power and authority over whatever it is that Satan is fighting you with but the problem is we aren't using our power instead we're saying oh God we have nothing you can do it oh God would you heal me well yes it's his power but it's already done by his stripes you were healed first Peter 2:24 God has already done his part Jesus is now seated at the father's right hand

15:27 Jesus is not healing people tonight we are healing people with his power it's his power it's not my power but it's in me and unless I use it and speak in Authority it's not going to get done God will not flow with out flowing through people look at here's another verse you need to see Ephesians chap 3: 20 that verse says now unto him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all we ask or think how many of you believe that that's wrong I quoted it the way people believe it it says now unto him who is able to

16:14 do exceeding abundantly above all we ask or think according to the power that works in us if there's no power working on the inside of you you limit God you stop God you know come back tomorrow Dwayne is encouraging Dwayne will make you feel good he [Applause] will but I'm tell I'm I'm saying this in love that brothers and sisters it's us that's limiting God God is not limited in himself but he will only do according to the power that works in you if you aren't seeing God's power manifest it's

17:01 not because God hadn't answered your prayer it's because you haven't taken it by faith and used your Authority thank you for that one puny clap I know some of you are thinking man this is not what I came for you're saying it's my fault yeah that's what I'm saying and some people well that that bothers me you you're you're hurting me to say that it's my fault that I'm struggling well do you want to say it's God's fault do you want to say that God's the one who's letting you suffer for years and letting you be poor and letting your emotion are you going to blame

17:48 God that's what most people do that's what religion does and they come up with these elaborate doctrines to say well God you know it's not time yet he wants you to suffer a little bit long longer you're made perfect through what you suffer and and they come up with all these doctrines no that's not God God is not the one who's not answering your prayers God has already given you everything that you need before you even had the problem before you had the problem God had already supplied the need it says by his stripes we were healed God doesn't wait until you're sick and then heal you he put Supernatural raising from the dead power on the ends inside of you when you got born

18:33 again and you already have the same power that was released when God the father raised Jesus Christ from the dead that power is already inside of you and you don't have to pray and ask God to send it down see this is where so many wrong doctrines come from the spiritual warfare people which again there is a place for spiritual warfare but the way it's been taught I believe is primarily mistake it's empowering the devil and decreasing our Authority and giving him way too much credit and they're saying that the devil's over Orlando and there's demonic powers that are blocking our prayers and keeping them from getting up to heaven and we got to pray and get a hole in the atmosphere so our prayers can reach heaven that's

19:19 literally taught there are people that literally rent airplanes and fly up high because there's demons in high places a iians 6:2 and so they rent airplane just come to Colorado we're at 8600 ft up there amen you won't have to rent a plane that's just crazy that your prayers won't get you know people say well your prayer didn't get above the ceiling you don't need your prayers to get above your nose God lives right here that's the reason you bow your head when you pray so that you can look at God this whole doctrine of demons are blocking our prayers they will use Daniel chapter N9 and chapter 10 and yes

20:05 in the in the 10th chapter of the Book of Daniel the Prince of Persia blocked Daniel's prayer but he was an Old Testament man It also says in Isaiah chapter 64 I believe it's verse 6 where it says Ren the heavens and come down and people pray that I've heard this praying in prayer oh God Ren the heavens and come down oh God send your power down and they beg God to move move that's an Old Testament prayer God rent the heavens and came down in Jesus and Jesus said I'm never going to leave you comfortless I will send the Holy Spirit and now when you get born again you got the Holy Spirit and you don't have to get your prayers up past the ceiling pass through some hole in

20:51 the Demonic Realms God lives here and all you got to do is just say father and instantly you're right right there amen and people say well if I've got this power well then how come nothing's happening because you have to have it according to the power that works in you you have to get it out of your spirit and through your mind that's what the renewing of your mind is all about that's why we're having a conference this weekend is to be sharing truths with you that if you would receive these truths you will know the truth and the truth will make you free but it's only the truth you know that makes you free and if you are saying oh God would you please heal me well you may not be malicious about it you may

21:38 not be mean about it but you are denying the fact that the Bible says by his stripes you were healed and you're saying no I'm not because you can't see it you can't feel it the doctor can show you that you still have some problem but all they can do is search the physical part of you the emotional part of you but in the spirit you got the same power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead Ephesians chap 1 verse 18 he prays that your eyes of your understanding would be en lighten that you would see what is the hope of his calling and the exceeding greatness of his riches towards us who believe according to the same power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead you now have the raising from the dead power of Jesus on the inside of

22:25 you it's not out there that you have to pray down it's in you but you got to believe it and you know the things I've already said I know that there's lots of people just saying how can this be it's like you cannot Embrace this because it's so contrary to everything we've been taught and I've got a teaching out there entitled Spirit soul and body Dwayne's got a book entitled Identity Thief that deals with these same things when you're looking for this power it's not in your physical body it's not in your solish mental emotional part it's in your Born Again Spirit and the Bible says that that which is flesh is flesh and that which is spirit is Spirit you can't know spiritual things

23:11 by feelings you can't see it in a mirror a doctor can't probe your spirit and see what's in your spirit but according to the word of God Jesus said in John 6: 63 the words that I speak unto you they are spirit and they are our life this Bible is a perfect representation of what's in your spirit and this says that you have the same power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead that you have been given power and authority over all sickness and over all diseases to cast them out therefore go heal the sick cleanse the lepers raise the Dead cast out Devils that's what this says it's in your spirit and you can't see it perceive it

23:57 in any physical natural way you have to perceive it by faith faith comes by hearing hearing by the word of God Romans 10:17 you just have to take the representation of God's word and believe that this power is on the inside of you and it's a process however old you are that's how long you've been taught that you are nothing except natural you're just human Lord I'm only human I'm just a man One Day at a Time Sweet Jesus that's all I'm asking of you that song will kill you I'm not just human I'm not just a man onethird of me is wall to wall Holy Ghost I've now got the supernatural power of God in Me and you've got to

24:43 start seeing yourself in Christ and recognizing the power and the authority that you've got and I'm telling you brothers and sisters this is where most of us are missing it is because we don't see ourself in Christ we don't have our identity and who we are in Christ we are we are just looking on the outside and seeing what we don't have we go by what the doctor report says and it is only going to tell you what's in the Physical Realm it's not going to tell you what's in the spiritual realm the only way to access that is through the word of God through just believing this report that God's word gives you but I'm telling you you are loaded you are loaded you have everything that you will ever need you

25:29 don't need more you need less less unbelief less doubt less focus on your natural self you know when the Lord touched my life and called me I had never been good at anything I'd never been a success at anything and so it was easy for me to just turn my life over to the Lord because I had nothing to let go of I didn't have any trophies I didn't have any awards I didn't have anything and so it was easy for me to just find myself in Christ those of you that have all of these great talents and abilities in a sense I feel sorry for you because it's hard for you to just

26:16 find your new self man I was looking for me I hadn't established who I was yet and so I was looking and when the Lord showed me these things it was easy for me to transition to it but there's a lot of people that you are just steeped in your successes and in your failures and you don't really know who you are in Christ but I'm telling you that in Christ you're identical to Jesus you're a new creature you can do anything anything that God calls you to do you have Supernatural ability on the inside of you and very few Christians are using this Supernatural ability most people are living way below their

27:02 privileges they aren't even shooting for greater things because they feel like who am I to do this you need to recognize that when you got born again God gave you super natural power and ability greater is he that's in you than he that's in the world the devil trembles at you cuz he knows what your full potential is but most of us don't know what our potential is I'm telling you brothers and sisters you have power and authority over whatever it is that Satan is coming at you with I don't have time tonight but I'll get into this sometime tomorrow and show you that the devil cannot do anything to you without your consent and

27:52 cooperation and at first many of you are going to say well that's not encouraging well it really is you're the one that's in authority and you may think well I didn't ask for this sickness I didn't believe for this sickness no but if you just sit there and accept that I'm only human and that you know I humans get sick it's just flu season it's time to be sick it's flu season if you just think natural like that you have cooperated with the devil because you don't know your power and authority you you don't know the verse or if you know it you don't ear living in it the verse that says no plague will come nigh you're dwelling only with your eyes will you see and behold the reward

28:37 of the wicked but man you don't have to be sick you don't have to be poor this is not what the world is saying but it's what the word of God says who always causes us to Triumph in Christ Jesus and sad to say even religion isn't preaching this they will sit there and say well you know you just have to suffer and we're further along we know all about it I'm just a poor wayfaring pilgrim of trudging through this world below and we glorify our inadequacies Dwayne mentioned this this morning when we were with our Bible college students and he said that we have been sitting here having selfimprovement things is what our church has got into

29:23 is self-improvement trying to get you to feel better about yourself you need to you need to deny yourself you need to get out of yourself and into your Born Again self this isn't Jesus didn't come to change your life he came to exchange your life to give you a new life you are already a new person in the spirit you don't need to grow and get complete you are complete in the spirit the growth in the Christian Life is right here between your ears Renewing Your Mind and getting out of this carnal way of thinking that limits God and begin to start saying and seeing and thinking about yourself the way that the word of God says and I tell you there's not very

30:09 many Christians that do that again the average Christian has been taught to glorify their weaknesses now Paul did say that I glory in my weaknesses but not because he just stay there but when I'm weak then I'm strong when I recognize that I can't do it then it pushes me Beyond Myself to say God you can do it I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me people will say well without Jesus you're nothing John 15 verse 5 Jesus said that without me you can do nothing and they'll sit there and I'm nothing without J well that's absolutely true but I'm never without Jesus he never leaves me nor forsakes me in myself I am nothing I can't heal a net

30:57 but I'm not by myself and I've been born again you have too and you've got the supernatural power of God on the inside of you and we need to start living like it we need to start talking like it I prayed with a man tonight who had problems with his memory and he says I'm struggling to remember things and God just spoke a word to me Proverbs 18:21 death and life are in the power of the tongue and I said you got power right here in your tongue I said from now on don't you ever talk about you not being able to remember things you start saying the memory of the righteous is blessed that the holy spirit will bring back to

31:43 my remembrance all things of G and I said start using this power but see most people oh God I'm losing my mind would you please help me the Bible says God didn't give you a spirit of fear but of power and of love and of a sound mind you start speaking it use your Authority if you see something that's wrong in your life talk to it take your Authority and start speaking and I know some of you think boy you are one arrogant person I'm talking about what Jesus did for me it's not my power but it's in me and until I start realizing that and quit approaching God as a beggar

32:28 and I start coming as a son and using my authority I'm not going to see the supernatural power of God manifest you know I had a friend Dave Dell who we ministered together for decades and Dave Dell was this Wild guy that spit on people and blew on people and if you didn't fall down he'd push you down and he was a wild guy but anyway he went over to Nigeria and he held a meeting and they saw some blind eyes open they saw deaf ears open he saw great miracles happen and so the next day uh he was waiting on the evening service and he was walking through the marketplace and of course Nigeria they were all black in Nigeria and he was a white guy walking through there and so he stood out people

33:15 recognized him from The Crusade the night before and so they started running up to him and you know just begging to touch him and his first reaction it was that old religious thing he wanted to say no no it's not me it's not me don't worship me but before he could get that out the Lord spoke to him and he says Dave and he said yes and he says what would you have thought when I entered into Jerusalem and I was riding on that donkey and they took palm branches and threw them in the way and took their coats off and laid them down and they were singing hosana Glory to God in the highest what would you have thought if that donkey would have said it's not me it's not me he says nobody's praising

34:02 you he says you're just like the donkey that Jesus rides on when somebody comes up and says you know thank you for healing me I've had people say that before and I don't heal anybody it's always Jesus power that does it but when they come up and if I go oh it's not me don't say don't you know give all the glory to God you know what that I'm the only one who thinks it's me everybody else understands it's God's power and it's just flowing through me but we have all of these religious cons I'm telling you you're loaded you got the supernatural power of God and you need to quit going around like a loser and you need to start taking your

34:50 Authority and power and using it it's as simple as what I'm saying but it's not easy because the hardest thing you'll ever do is renew your mind to who you are in Christ and what you have in Christ and start using it instead of begging God that's you know what would happen if I went to your house and I was in your kitchen and one of your your children or your grandchild was to come in and fall on the floor and say oh I'm not worthy I know I haven't done everything right I know I didn't make my bed today I know I haven't done all of the things all of my chores weren't done but I'm thirsty

35:35 would you please give me something to drink I know I don't deserve it but just a little bit of water you know if that's the way that your child approached you I'd say you are having a bad relationship with your child those kids they just come in and say hey Mom give me something to drink I'm thirsty and you do it not because they're superior but because you love them they are just reaching out and they know that you love them and they know that everything you have is theirs and they just are making a demand on it you know this is the way Jesus told us to pray Our Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done on Earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread he didn't say oh God please could

36:23 we have a crumb no it's it's it's a command give us this day our daily bread now please don't misunderstand I'm not saying that we're commanding God and that he has to obey us but God through love has made everything that he is and everything that he has available to you it's on the inside of you already and instead of approaching God as if we have nothing we need to start recognizing the power and the authority that God has given us and we need to start using it and we need to take thatth Authority and use it and this is where the vast majority of Christians are missing it today because they are approaching God as if he has done nothing he could do

37:08 anything but he has done nothing and so we're asking God to move God's not the one who needs to move God's already moved God's not stuck it's us that need to move Faith doesn't move God faith appropriates what God has has already provided through Grace that's a mouthful right there it took me 20 years to get to where I could say that God has already provided it by grace before you ever had the need look at this passage over in Genesis chapter 1 this will illustrate what I'm talking about Genesis chapter 1 he created the heavens and the Earth he created all of

37:54 the trees the plants the grass he created created all of the animals in the sea and on the land he created us he did all of these things and then in Genesis CH 1 and in verse 30 it says to every beast of the earth and to every fowl of the air and to everything that creepeth upon the Earth wherein there is life I have given every green herb for meat and it was so and God saw everything that he had made and behold it was very good and the evening and the morning were the sixth day and I'm not going to take time to go through all of this but the Lord waited until the end of creation to create man create mankind not because we were last we were

38:43 actually the goal of creation we are the crowning Jewel of God's creation he created all of this Earth and all of the animals and everything for us and we are the rulers over this so why didn't God created us first because it wasn't ready for us did you realize it was 3 days I think before it created land if he would have created us first we'd have had to tread water for three days and then he created all of the trees and the hills and all of this and trees were popping up they didn't start as little tiny plants he created them full grown with the seed in thems you know which came first the chicken or the egg the B says the

39:28 chicken and the seed was in the chicken so God created Everything full grown and if we would have been here we' have been dodging trees as they came up and plants and grass and all of these things he created us last not because we are last but because he prepared everything before he created us did you know that he didn't have he didn't create us and then Adam says oh God I'm hungry what do I eat and God says oh I need to get you something to eat and so he creates fruit for them to eat no he anticipated did you know that he has never created any more food on this planet since creation there was enough food on this planet in creation weak to

40:16 feed the entire population of the world you talk about abundance he didn't you know Adam didn't have to say God I can't breathe and God had oh I've got to make some air no he anticipated this he created air he created food he created everything that we need everything was perfect nothing has caught God by surprise and this is one reason it's not the only reason but it's one reason that I don't buy into the um environmental stuff about a fragile Earth and we're destroying the Earth and that we're going to ruin everything and I think it's this um I can't pronounce this new uh

41:02 representative's name Alexandra Cortez Cortez whatever I can't pronounce her name but I think she made a prediction that in 12 years it's going to be the end of the world because we're destroying here see that that means that God didn't anticipate what a mess we were going to be and so we took him by surprise no God has anticipated everything that's not to say that we go out and trash the Earth I'm not into littering and doing stuff but I'm saying that I the Bible tells us how the world's going to end and it's not going to end by us uh putting CO2 emissions in the atmosphere amen God anticipated every need every need people are saying we're running out

41:49 of oil you know they've just found new oil reserves in the United States we are now the largest uh exporter of oil in the world and they say with just the known oil reserves that we have it's enough to power the whole world for over a hundred years at any Pace we want and it wouldn't it depleted but even if it did God's anticipated what this is about and there's other ways of doing it I've got an employee that works for me that has run a car over a 100,000 miles on water wow I guarantee you there is no lack of anything God anticipated everything we

42:36 ever need and we've got now over 7 billion people if we go to 14 billion people there's a way to handle everything we just need to draw on the wisdom of God nothing catches God by surprise when you get sick it's not like oh oh god I've got to have you move and do something no God's anticipated anything that would ever come your way and he put on the inside of you more than enough power to heal anything that would ever come against you he's put on the inside of you more than enough anointing to accomplish whatever it is he's put on the inside of you the power it says in Deuteronomy 8:1 18 you shall remember the Lord your God for it is he who gives you power to get

43:22 wealth he doesn't give you wealth he gives you power anointing you got an authority is what that's talking about to be wealthy every one of you and yet there's a lot of people well I I'm just living off of Social Security well that's because you've limited God you think that that's all you can do is just Social Security you know Jamie and I had a woman in our uh church or in our Bible study in Lamar Colorado who struggled financially she had I think four kids and there was times that we were struggling but we helped her helped us this woman struggled financially and she heard me talking along these lines that God has given you power to get wealth and so she was praying and saying

44:08 God we we can't even buy food what can I do what what have you given me and she was cooking clay for her children cuz she didn't like the store bought clay because it it was toxic sometime it would stick to the carpet and things and so she had her own formula that wouldn't stick to anything thing it wasn't toxic they could have eaten it and she was cooking this clay up and she says God what could I do and the Lord told her he says take this clay and start packaging it and she put it in little Ziploc bags and put five little rolls of clay in there different colors and started taking them to these uh craft fair things and within a short period of time had 89 people working for her and she's the lady that if you ever saw shark tank that they had this little board that

44:54 looks like a skateboard except on the bottom it has a bubble and you just twist like this on it uh she's that lady and she went on Shark Tank and she's made millions of dollars doing that and she told us that the last time the next time that she gets a royalty check it could be a billion dollars is her royalty check amen and this is a woman who was so hungry that she couldn't eat and she just started believing I've got power to get wealth God has given every person in here the ability to be wealth everyone you can be filthy stinking dirty rich if you desire to be I'm not preaching that God is going to do that for everybody because not everybody's capable of it you your

45:40 heart's not right the Bible says if you desire to be rich you pierce yourself through with many Sorrows which drown men in hurtful lust and and God's got a working you to get to where you can handle riches and some of you you couldn't handle it right now but I'm saying that you have that power you have this the power to get wealth there is nothing limiting you but you and again a lot of people well this isn't blessing me because you take great Delight in saying God why haven't you done this and you pass the blame we we won't accept responsibility but I'm telling you it's our fault that we aren't seeing the power of God manifest January the 31st

46:27 2002 the Lord spoke to me Psalms 78:41 that says in their heart they turned back and tempted God and limited the Holy One of Israel Psalm 78:41 I don't know what I said but that's 7841 they limited the Holy One of Israel some people think well God is Sovereign God just does whatever he wants to do no you can you can stop God you can limit God the Israelites limit God it wasn't God's will for them to spend 40 years in the wilderness that's because they would not obey God and they believed the the 10 spies instead of the two spies and they operated in unbelief and it cost them 40 years in the wilderness and that was not God's will for them they limited

47:13 God God spoke that to me and I knew what God's will for my life was I've known since 68 or shortly thereafter that God wanted me to be touching people all over the world and take the things that he's shown me and share them with people all over the world and I knew it and I was headed in that direction but at a very slow pace and I started on television January the 3rd of 2000 and we were seeing increase but the Lord spoke to me and said you're limiting me by your small thinking and so I repented and I've got a series out there entitled don't limit God you can read more about it but there was reasons I I was fearful of

47:59 success and some of you think well man why would you fear success I've seen success ruin a lot of people I've seen people that when they're when they're struggling they seek God because there is no other way but when success comes they quit seeking God and success has ruined more people than hardship ever has success is hard to handle and I was afraid that if I really started seeing God use me that it' change my heart somehow or another that I'd lose my relationship with God and I didn't want to do that and you know what part of it is just lazy it's easier to you know a dead fish can float Downstream but when you turn the corner and start swimming Upstream against the

48:45 current man that takes effort and I knew that if if God increase this ministry it was going to be a lot more work on me and I'd have to start doing more and I was just enjoying for the first time in my life having our needs supplied and us not going hungry and I didn't want to stretch myself and start believing more and also people have a fear of failure they think if I start believing big I might fail and there's people that honestly would rather live a meaty ochre life than to start thinking big and run the potential of failure don't look at me in that tone of voice there are many of you in here that

49:30 are shooting at nothing and hitting it every time you aren't believing for anything beyond yourself you are just doing what you are confident that you can accomplish in your own ability and I can guarantee you if all you are doing is what you feel qualified to do in yourself you have missed God I can guarantee it God is going to call every person in here to do something that is bigger than you something that's bigger than yourself so that you will trust in him we serve a big God and God is looking for people that will release him and and he loves it says in uh 2 Chronicles or maybe it's 1 Chronicles 169 the eyes of the Lord run to and fro

50:17 throughout the entire Earth seeking to show himself strong in behalf of those who are perfect in his sight did you know that the eyes of the Lord are in this AIT orium tonight and God is looking and saying is there somebody who will receive what Andrew is saying and go beyond themsel and take the limits off and go to believing for something big God will pass over everybody in Florida to find one person in here they would say man God don't look any further here I [Music] am but the average person is just playing it safe just working hoping that you'll have enough for retirement so so you can just go out and fish play golf do nothing the rest of your

51:03 life man that's not living I'm not God's not against retirement but man you don't ever retire from ministering to people you need to be busy doing the Lord you need to be changing people's lives and I guarantee you if you don't have something bigger than yourself to live for that's one of the reasons that you aren't happy if you're all wrapped up in yourself you make a very small package if you're just living by your own steaming power it's it's no good you know there's adrenaline flows when you're out there in the Supernatural out on the limb like God if you don't come through I'm dead that's a fun way to live it's an addictive way to live you

51:48 know what my biggest temptation is is is getting bored when I don't have something God's told me to do that's rough on me but man when I got this huge goal out here that is so big that man I got to be seeking guy I just love that I love the adrenaline rush some of you don't know what I'm talking about do you know in the last six and a half years we built $75 million worth of buildings debt-free above my normal expenses and when we started that process six and a half years ago I didn't have anything did you know six and a well let me go

52:35 back a little bit further to 2002 when the Lord told me I was limiting him in 2001 our total Ministry income was $2 million and this last year it was $75 million I think in that shorter period of time and we are moving much more than that God I've got at least 150 to $200 million worth of things that God has told me to build debt-free and some of you immediately start oh you can't do that well you just tide and watch it will come to pass I'm telling you brothers and S God's big people feel like they're imposing on

53:21 God I had a guy in a prayer line one time and he says I've got pain in my neck and and it goes all the way down my spine my hips are bothering me I've got uh uh nerve pinched and I've got pain all the way down my leg and then he Des described his feet he had pain in his feet so from head to toe he had pain he named all of these things and then he says but you know if God would just heal the pain in my neck I could live with the rest of it so I looked at him and I said well I understand what you're saying I said you don't know if we ask God to heal your neck neck your spine your hips your nerve and your feet the lights in heaven might dim I'm not sure God's got enough power to pull this off and this guy just looked at me and

54:08 he says that was kind of dumb what I said wasn't it I said it was real dumb I said you aren't you aren't imposing on God you aren't making it hard for God you know Elijah when he went and had the duel with the prophets of Baal he poured water on the sacrifice and did it three times until everything was saturated just to make it hard just so that there wouldn't be any uh confusion about this being spontaneous combustion he just soaked the Altar and everything that's a man who knew his authority that knew that God was coming through but there's some of you in here that well God if I could just get this bill paid I can live poor the rest of my life I got a mansion in heaven and I can

54:53 just struggle through why are you believing so small now I will agree that you can use the things I'm saying for greed just so that you can have millions and millions of dollars worth of stuff that's not godly I'm not saying that God Minds you having things but we ought to prosper not so that we could just have things but so that we can be a blessing he told Abraham he says I will bless you and make your name great and you shall be a blessing you can't bless bless other people if you aren't blessed I'm not talking about believing for great amount of money so you can live in a$1 million home and do all of this stuff I mean God's not against

55:38 anything like that but it's not about you getting stuff it's about you being empowered so that you can be a blessing you know we give away hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars every month plus we give away free tapes and teachings and on and on I couldn't do that if I wasn't blessed the reason I believe for Prosperity is not so I can drive a fancier car or live in a bigger house it's so that I can be a bigger blessing your motive has to be right but I'm telling you God is not limited until we limit him my personal testimony is that when God spoke that to me that was on the uh January the 31st on February the 11th I called my staff together I had 24

56:24 employees at that time Janu uh February the 11th 2002 and I called them together and I said look I've been limiting God and I don't know how long it takes to change the image that's on the inside I don't know if it takes a week a month a year 10 years I don't know what it takes but I said I'm going to change and I am going to take the limits off of God and I will do what God called me to do and I told my staff and did you know that was in 2002 and we had 24 employees in we now have 650 employees we have 16 offices around the world we have 70 Bible schools we are seeing people's lives Chang by the millions and I'm not saying that to Pat me on the back I'm saying

57:11 that man I was limiting God by my small thinking and did you know that when the Lord spoke that to me it took me two months to pray about it and come up with a letter to write to my partners and to let them know about what God had spoken to to me it took me two months to come up with a letter write it had it prove and then have it produced and then ship it out uh bulk to our partners so for two months nobody knew about it and during those two months our income nearly doubled without me telling anybody just changing the way I thought on the inside it wasn't in response to my great letter that I sent out it was when I changed something on the inside we had tried to go on dayar

57:56 television network for two years and I had been on television with Marcus and Joanie lamb at least four or five times and they love me and we had a great relationship and yet every time I asked them about going on television they they wouldn't let me they had a rate card and they would quote me a price that was higher than the price that they gave everybody else it's like they didn't want me on and I couldn't figure out why I couldn't get on there you know what it was is cuz I was thinking small I was letting Satan hinder me and when I Chang my thinking within two days I got a letter from Marcus and he says why aren't you on dayar he says you send us the programs we will put you on on Monday and I

58:42 guarantee you we will give you a rate that will that you can afford and he gave us like half price to get started and that's I didn't tell him I didn't call him I changed the way I thought and all of a sudden everything out here begin to change you know what I some of you think I'm um putting myself down that's not what I'm doing I hadn't got time to explain what I'm doing but I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer if I was God I wouldn't have chosen me and I'm aware that I'm not the best person that God could have used and because of that I just couldn't see myself reaching people and doing some things and being accept you know Dwayne and I have talked about

59:28 this Dwayne and I are so much alike it's scary it's like we were twins separated at Birth of course I'm the better looking one but Dwayne and I share a lot of same things and I just couldn't see myself being accepted by these people who were famous that just wasn't me I'm I was nobody I was nothing and you know what that was limiting God I if you can't see it on the inside you can't see it on the outside and I couldn't see myself reaching people I knew that that's what God called me to do but I couldn't see I wouldn't let myself see it because I thought that would be operating in

1:00:13 Pride and anyway when the Lord spoke this to me you know what I had to change on the inside and now it is phenomenal I've had if I was to start naming names I can guarantee you every person in here would know who I'm talking about and the people have come to me and and they they want to meet with me and so I meet with them and I say uh so what do you want and they just say we want to help you what can we do to help you and these people who are world famous one of them that came to me is the most quoted man in America every one of you know and he just says what can we do to help you and I'm just sitting there like where did this come from God just started doing things when I took the limits off of God when I

1:01:00 started recognizing who I was and the authority that I have in Christ and I can guarantee you I don't know if you related to what I'm saying but every one of you in here have limits that you've placed on God because you don't understand the authority that he's given you you don't understand who you are in Christ and I'm telling you you God has such a great plan for your life that it's bigger than what you're thinking I've seen God do some great things in my life but I guarantee you I have not tapped God out God spoke to me January 31st 2002 and told me I was limiting God and then he spoken that to me I bet you a dozen times since then and if I live long

1:01:45 enough he'll speak it to me another dozen times you don't ever get to where you have done everything that God has for you if your life isn't Supernatural it's superficial you ought to be able you ought to be able to look at your life and say there is no justification for what's happening in me it's just God I can't explain it I can't explain why God's blessing me the way he's blessing me it's certainly not because of me it's God the only thing I've done is I'm letting that power work on the inside of me I've quit limiting God I'm dreaming big and thinking big and I guarantee you God it's just tremendous it's like there was a Dam

1:02:32 built here and all of the things that God was wanting in my life had been stopped behind that Dam and when I broke the dam and quit thinking small then all of the blessing and the power of God begin to flow and it's the same thing for every person in here God's will for you is absolute Victory he doesn't want anybody just tolerate in and treading water and just surviving and getting by I ask people sometimes how are you and they say well not too bad under the circumstances you need to get out from under the circumstances you're supposed to be above only and not beneath the head and not the tail God's got big things planned for you but the power is in you it's not out

1:03:21 there that you got to pray and beg God and ask God to release his power that power is on on the inside of you and you have to start acknowledging it philimon 1 verse 6 Paul was praying a prayer for his friend phiman and he says I pray that the communication of your faith would become effectual that means begin to work by the acknowledging of every good thing that is in you in Christ Jesus the thing that makes your faith begin to work is when you start realizing who you are and what you have and I'm telling you brothers and sisters if you are born again you are loaded if you are baptized in the Holy Spirit you now have the same power that raised

1:04:06 Jesus Christ from the dead