A better site than this one

 

 

INTRODUCTION

 

 

If you want to learn how Christianity works
then read through the, long list of webpages
on the home page.

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But, if you want to learn how to do Christianity,
then choose one of the dozen or so biblical teacher-healers
on this webpage (that’s what I call them anyway)
and follow their teaching.

 

The teacher I recommend the most is Andrew Wommack’s
(first on this webpage).

 

Andrew’s site, YouTubes, & books, teach you
how to miraculously heal yourself & others.

 

A close second is Mark Hemans:,,
        who extends from a third the way down this webpage
        to half the way down
        (i.e. as far as Smith Wigglesworth,
        the next biblical teacher on my list).

 

        I’ve also made two overflow webpages
        of my paraphrased notes of some of his preaching
        because, in my opinion,
        (like Smith Wigglesworth)
        Mark’s more of a talker than a writer.

 

If you are ill now, especially terminally ill,
then consider going to one of Mark Hemans’ meetings:
        He tours, so he may (soon) be in your country.
        Or go to one of his online zoom meetings.

 

        Or go to another such, quality, minister.

 

        As Andrew says, the purpose of
        ministries like Mark’s
        is that you may not have time
        to learn to heal yourself.

If you’re not ill, or if your healing is not urgent,
then you’d do well to learn Andrew’s teaching:

 

        For example, see Andrew’s all-in-one teaching:
        YouTube: – Andrew Wommack
,,                 If You Need Healing You watch this video
,,                 it will help-you. ,,,

 

Personally Andrew’s my favourite because:
        He teaches by subject.  This led him to
        write articles & books by subject.

 

        All of which make Andrew’s teaching
        more compatible with my philosophical work
        (more compatible than other 
        biblical teacher-healers’ teaching).

 

 

I reckon that the differences between
Andrew Wommack and Mark Hemans
are as follows.

 

 

Andrew Wommack (& Dan Mohler, & other ‘Bapticostals’)
have the right concept:

 

        Jesus, on the Cross,
        took all human sins: past present & future.
        So sins do not exist any more:
        not sins, not our wrongs towards God.
        Though our wrongs towards each other still remain.

                 Perhaps see: THE TWO ACCOUNTS. ,,,

 

        So we believers stop doing wrong:
            Out of gratitude.
            Out of the gospel activating our hearts
            and our hearts then renewing our minds
            to be like Jesus’ mind.

Whereas Mark Hemans, & other Pentecostals,
have the wrong concept:

 

        Jesus himself got rid of all sins, of all humans.
        God has made all of us right with himself.        (True)
,,        ,,        (But do you believe it?  And do you want it?)

 

        But we can still sin, not wrong but sin,
        can still make ourselves (temporarily)
        not right with God.                                        (False)

        Also see my notes in:
        YouTube – Spiritual sight and praying for the sick. ,,, 

 



Andrew Wommack (& Dan Mohler, & other ‘Bapticostals’)
have a complex modus operandi:

 

        One should have belief:
                 faith = belief acting,
        but should not have unbelief:
                 no doubts, in the mind, 
                 due to medical knowledge etc.

 

Mark Hemans (& other Pentecostals)
have a simple modus operandi:

 

        God always knows more than we do
        and always knows best.
        So, however knowledgeable you are,
        even in the things of God,
        simply listen to God’s Spirit and obey him.

 

 

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Over the years Andrew Wommack established two sites
(like this site, Andrew’s sites work better on a PC
than on a smartphone).

 

His first site is  Andrew Wommack Ministries (awmi).

 

His second site is  Andrew Wommack Ministries Europe (awme).

 

 

His first site includes:

 

        Teaching Articles: ,,        ,,        (all subjects: written, condensed). 

 

        Audio Teachings: ,,         ,,        (all subjects: audio). 

 

        Healing Testimonies: ,,         (some subjects: videos, very encouraging,
,,        ,,        ,,        ,,        ,,        ,,        ,,        ,,        ,,        ,,        works best/only on PC or laptop).

 

        Event Video Archives: ,,     (some subjects: videos).

 

        Bible Commentaries: ,,         (mostly New Testament: written).

 

        All TV Archives: ,,     ,,        ,,        (all subjects: easy watching, videos).

 

 

Andrew has put many of his audio teachings
into book and e-book form:

 

        I particularly recommend his book:
                 A better way to pray.

 

        I also recommend his books:
                 Insights into faith.
                 God wants you well.
                 You’ve already got it.
                 The believer’s authority.

 

Reading his, relatively brief Teaching Articles ,,,
is a good way to see, generally, what he’s about.

It’s also a good way to see
which Audio Teachings (all free) to listen to
or which books to buy.

 

(I’ve listened to all of his audio teachings.)

 

 

Andrew teaches how to command a healing, in Jesus’ name,
so as to heal yourself and others.

 

You may say:
        The kingdom of Heaven is built on love,
        not selfishness.
        So healing yourself is wrong.

 

I say:
        The kingdom of God is built on:
                 God’s love – for all of us.
                 Not our love – for each other.

                 So: you – healing yourself
                 (or rather: God’s Spirit in you – healing you)
                 is right.

 

 

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I do not agree with absolutely everything Andrew says . .

 

    1) I disagree with Andrew, and many other Christians,
        on the subject of homosexuality:

 

                 Hear Andrew’s view on homosexuality in:
                 AW's Audio Teachings /
,,                           Christian Philosophy /
,,                           Homosexuality.

 

                 Read my view on homosexuality in:
                 MORE ON HOMOSEXUALITY 
                 and its two subsections
                 and the links within them. 
                 (This link does not open a new tab.)

 

                 and, immediately after it:
                 GOD’S WORDS ON SIN 
                 and the links within it.
                 (This link does not open a new tab.)

 

 

    2) Andrew is right as to who Jesus is
        (only begotten Son of God)
        but wrong as to what Jesus is
        (he says Jesus was created).
        See:  THE WORDS THAT THE FATHER CONTRIBUTED
,,                           FOR THE CONCEPTION OF JESUS. ,,,

 

        And he made a similar error
        regarding the origin of humans.
        See: CREATING MATTER, BUT MAKING HUMANS.

 

 

    3) Unlike Andrew Wommack, and indeed many Christians,
        I do not think that all non-Christians go to Hell.

 

                 I wrote the webpage:
                The two ways God sorts us:
,,                           Judgment & Forgiveness , , ,
                 and the ten webpages after it
                 to address this matter.



    4) I disagree with Andrew in:
        GOD’S SPIRIT GROANING,,,
        and:
        I DIFFER FROM ANDREW WOMMACK
,,             AS TO WHY JESUS GROANED. ,,,

 

                 Mind you, I’d have nothing to write
                 if he hadn’t introduced me
                 to this, rarely taught, subject.

 

 

    5) I disagree with Andrew, though only technically,
        in: Why I sometimes use the word ‘Punishment’
,,                   instead of ‘crucifixion’. ,,,

 

                 When Andrew says that our healing is in the past
                 he is wrong from a technical point of view.
                 But, from a practical point of view, he is right.

 

 

    6) Jesus said, regarding his parable of the soils:
                 Matt c13 v3-8  &  v19-23,,,
                 and
                 Mark c4 v3-8  &  v14-20,,,
                 and
                 Luke c8 v4-15,,,
        that if you can’t understand this parable,
        you won’t understand any parable.   Mark c4 v13

 

        Andrew concluded that Jesus must have said this
        because it is a fundamental parable.

 

                 See Andrew’s two, written (& audio), teachings:
                     It Begins with a Sure Foundation,,,
                 and:
                     God’s Word – The Seed Of His Blessing,,,

 

        But I reckon that Jesus said this
        because it’s a straightforward parable.

 

 

    7) Andrew is subjective regarding our spirit, soul & body
        whereas I am more objective, even diagrammatic.
 

 

. . but, so strongly do I approve of
the rest of Andrew’s teaching
that I have zero passion for disagreeing with him.

 

 

Conversely, Andrew, and indeed many Christians,
may have grave misgivings about my thinking
(the long list of webpages on the home page):

 

        o   I do not think
            that only Christians go to Heaven.
            Perhaps see point 2), previous cell.

 

        o   I am not only biblical.
            I am also logical, even scientific.
            Perhaps see: MY ATTITUDE TO THE BIBLE. ,,,

 

Whereas all the Christians on this webpage
are purely biblical.

 

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If you think miracles can’t happen today (dispensationalism),
so that the last miracles that ever happened were in Acts,

 

and if you also:

        believe Jesus’ statement:

 

        Matt c24  v24    (Mark c13  v22):
        For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets,
        and shall shew great signs and wonders;
        insomuch that, if it were possible,
        they shall deceive the very elect.   KJV

 

        but do not believe Jesus’ many statements
        that believers can do miracles,

 

then you are cherry picking Jesus’ words
according to mere experience.

 

I too believe the above warning,
about false Christs:
        See third cell (starting Using their own imagination)
        of HOW DEMONS ARE ABLE TO DO THINGS.

 

But, I also believe Jesus
when he said that we, in his name, with faith in his name,
can do miracles (‘do’ is the verb used in the KJV).

 

        See: WHY GOD’S WORDS HAVE POWER,,,
        and the links within it.
        (This link does not open up a new tab.)

 

        See fourth cell (starting But the problem these days)
        of: BAPTIZED IN GOD’S SPIRIT LATER?.

 

        See: TRICKS & MIRACLES.
        and the links within it.
        (This link does not open up a new tab.)

 

        See: Gospel leaflet  and  Christian healing leaflet.,,,,,

 

Some people ‘accuse’ Andrew of being a word of faith man.

        I.E. If you say it, with faith, & no unbelief,
        and it’s in accordance with the Word
        i.e. in accordance with the Bible,
        then God will do what you say.

And he is, indeed, ‘guilty’ of this (as am I).

However, the only reason word of faith can be wrong
is that, on its own, it is a human in charge of God.
(Some, other, biblical teacher-healers
may indeed be guilty of this.)

However, Andrew (& I, & many)
also believe in:
        God’s overall leadership,
        his guidance overruling our ideas & plans,
        his kingship,
and that addition changes everything,
changes word of faith from a vice to a virtue.

Jesus told his disciples to heal the sick, cleanse the lepers,
raise the dead, cast out devils.  Matt c10 v8,,,,,
His disciples (& later, as apostles) did as he told them
(and when they failed, asked him for correction).
        God: on top.
        Disciples / apostles / other believers: in the middle.
        Sickness / death / demons: at the bottom.
That’s the power structure.

Remove the top layer and you are indeed
as proud and conceited as Satan & demons.

 

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KNOWLEDGE: SO WHAT

 

My material
(the long list of webpages on the home page)
is stuff you can merely know, in your mind.

 

But knowledge, on its own, is inadequate:

 

        Paul, though he himself was an intellectual, Acts c26 v24,
        wrote that we need more than just intellect & knowledge:
            1 Cor c8 v1    and    1 Cor c13:
            Any moral quality, without love,
            equals nothing.   my abbreviation
,,        ,,        ,,        [charity is old English for love]

 

        Peter, too, wrote that we need more than knowledge:
            2 Pet c1 v5-8:
            Make every effort to have faith, goodness,
            knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness,
            brotherly kindness, and love.  my abbreviation

 

        And, finally, Paul wrote:
            1 Cor c2 v5:
            ctd … your faith should not stand
                     in the wisdom of men,
                     but in the power of God.   KJV

 

As for the activity of thinking:

 

        It usually takes too long, and is unnecessary,
        for you to compute a situation to know what to do.
        It’s quicker, simpler, and more reliable,
        to listen to, and to obey, God’s Spirit.

 

        Just believe, and renew your mind.

Mind you, thinking can be of value after the event:
        for analysis of the event
        and for studying Christianity generally.

 

        Perhaps see: STUDYING AND DOING.

 

        Perhaps see: THINKING TOOLS THAT I USED. ,,, ,,,

 

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ABOUT ANDREW WOMMACK

 

Andrew (and indeed everyone on this webpage)
is a biblical teacher-healer,
as compared to a biblical preacher-healer.

 

        A biblical preacher-healer:
                 preaches & heals
        rather than:
                 preaches & teaches & heals.

 

        (My uses of the words ‘preach’ and ‘teach’ are biblical.)

 

                 Perhaps see:
                 What’s the Difference Between
,,     ,      ,      ,      Preaching and Teaching?
,,     ,      ,      ,      By Andrew Wilson | Monday 13 May 2013. . . .

 

Andrew has read little else other than the Bible.

 

Hence he, and most/all others on this webpage,
have little scientific knowledge.
 

This works to their advantage.

 

        Scientific knowledge (e.g. medical knowledge):
                 in the mind, next to the mind’s belief,
                 given significance alongside the mind’s belief,
                 so that it counteracts the mind’s belief,
        constitutes:
                 unbelief,
        and unbelief hinders the miraculous.

 

        Perhaps see: UNBELIEF and its subsections.

 

However, if, like me, it’s too late for you,
if, like me, you already have scientific knowledge,
then add, to that knowledge, belief:
        Belief that the Creator is also the Constructor.
        Hence he must build, fix, love.
        And indeed, has loved,
        loved us,
        by way of his Son having suffered in our place,
        putting us right with his Father
        so that we can have his powerful Holy Spirit.

 

Andrew is neither a grace teacher nor a faith teacher.
He is a grace through faith teacher.

 

        Eph c2 v8:
        For by grace are ye saved through faith;
        and that not of yourselves:
        it is the gift of God:   KJV

 

        Perhaps see Andrew’s short written article
        Living in the balance of grace & faith.

 

Andrew describes himself as a Bapticostal
(I reckon because he has cherry-picked
from the Baptists and from the Pentecostals).

 

I think it’s a good description.

 

Andrew’s style is:

 

    o   Thorough.  Comprehensive.
        But sometimes slow.
        Even repetitive if he feels he’s not got his point across.
        Hence you may prefer his books & written teachings
        to his speaking.

 

    o   Logical rather than emotional,
        passion hidden (so, more British?).

Andrew lacks political correctness and earthly theatre.
So he tells what’s wrong in our lives, and how to fix it,
even if he offends.

 

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MY TIPS ON LISTENING TO ANDREW WOMMACK

 

I listened to his MP3 files on a portable MP3 player
while doing simple, non-distracting, tasks.

 

While listening, I’d make a note of the time-mark
at the points that interested me.

 

I’d later revisit those points,
on a computer, in MS Media Player,
to listen more carefully and make proper notes.

 

Andrew, in all but his early teachings, has a Texan drawl.
So, when I revisited on a computer, I’d speed him up.
(I’ve got Windows XP on a standalone computer.)

 

You may find his more recent Audio Teachings
better than his older ones.

 

But, if the material, or indeed the subject, is new to you,
then listen to it, even if he recorded it decades ago.

 

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ABOUT BIBLICAL TEACHER-HEALERS
GENERALLY

 

As well as Andrew Wommack I’ve got a dozen or so other
biblical teacher-healers on this webpage.

 

As I wrote earlier, I recommend:
        Andrew Wommack’s teachings the most.
        Mark Hemans’ a close second
        (find Mark a quarter the way down this webpage).
        Dan Mohler’s third.

 

Dan Mohler is a popular speaker
but he prefers to speak to small, attentive, audiences.

 

He doesn’t record many of his teachings
so his website, Neck Ministries, is pretty bare.
But his audiences put up lots of YouTube videos
of him teaching, and he’s fine with that.

 

(Last I heard he didn’t even have a mobile phone.
Yet he’s one of the most switched-on people I’ve seen.)  

 

In the following list
I include some of Todd White’s miracles.
(Dan led Todd to the Lord
and they taught together for a while.)

I include God doing miracles through Todd
but not Todd’s teaching.  He’s more passionate than
intelligent – which distracts you from
the, otherwise probably good, points
that he’s making.

My comments under the links.

 

        YouTube: – The Gospel, straight up, no additives 
        Teaching & testimonies.  Vital.

 

        YouTube: – Best description of the Gospel - Dan Mohler 
        Teaching & testimonies.  Vital.

 

        YouTube: – Dan Mohler - How to Pray 
        Teaching & testimonies.  Vital.

 

         YouTube: – What believing the gospel 
,,                 really means - Dan Mohler 
        Teaching & testimonies (half an hour).  Vital.

 

        YouTube: – The Sinful Nature - Dan Mohler
        Teaching & testimonies.  Vital.

 

        YouTube: – Dan Mohler - Free from Guilt, Shame,
,,                 and Condemnation
        Teaching & testimonies.  For you – perhaps vital.

 

        YouTube: – Healing, the bible’s way…legit… - Dan Mohler
        Teaching & testimonies.  For you – perhaps vital.

 

        YouTube: – Why Didn't it Work - Dan Mohler
        Teaching & testimonies.

 

        YouTube: – Why do only some get healed?
        Teaching & testimonies. 
        God’s Spirit answered this question for Dan, with:
                 “Be a steward, have integrity,
                 have true faithfulness to the New Covenant,
                 because this gospel is for the sold-out,
                 the surrendered, the completely dead
                 [this refers to the healer, not to the patient].”

 

        YouTube: – Dan Mohler - How to Resist the Devil
        Teaching & testimonies.

 

        YouTube: – Meeting God - Dan Mohler
        Teaching & testimonies.

 

          YouTube: – Tips of the Trade - Dan Mohler
        Teaching & testimonies.

 

          YouTube: – Dan Mohler - how to put off the old man
,,                 & put on the new man
        Teaching & testimonies (half an hour).

 

          YouTube: – Dan Mohler - getting rid of selfcentred thinking
        Teaching & testimonies.  Good stuff.

 

        YouTube: – Dan Mohler on Fear
        Teaching & testimonies.

 

          YouTube: – Dan Mohler & Todd White -
,,             Is God in control of everything?
        Teaching & testomonies.

 

          YouTube: – Satan’s Strategy Dan Mohler  
        Teaching.

 

          YouTube: – Dan Mohler - Why does it seem harder
,,             to receive healing for myself than others?
        Teaching & testomonies.

 

          YouTube: – Dan Mohler - Impartation. Is it scriptural?
        Teaching & testomonies.

 

          YouTube: – Dan Mohler - Dating and marriage
        Teaching & testomonies.

 

          YouTube: – Dan Mohler - Manifestation.
,,             Some have a lot. Some have none. Why?
        Teaching & testomonies.

 

          YouTube: – Dan Mohler and Todd White -
,,             Praying with the Right Heart & Thinking
        Teaching & testomonies.

 

          YouTube: – Excuses and Contending- Dan Mohler
        Teaching & testomonies.

 

          YouTube: – Repentance, it's simple... -Dan Mohler
        Teaching & testomonies.

 

          YouTube: – Dan Mohler - first demonic experience
        Teaching & testomonies.  Good stuff.

 

         YouTube: – Knowing Your Authority
,,             & Staying in Faith by Dan Mohler
        Teaching & testomonies.

 

         YouTube: – Strongholds and Deliverance Dan Mohler
        Teaching & testomonies.

 

        YouTube: – Todd White – Reading their Mail
        Miracles.

 

        YouTube: – Todd White – Healing on the Streets
        Miracles.

 

        YouTube: – Todd White – More Healing on the Streets
        Miracles.

 

        YouTube: – Todd White – Radical Healing of Ears
,,             in Jesus’ Name
        Miracle.

 

        YouTube: – Todd White – He was in unbelief of healing ..
,,             Watch as Jesus shows up!
        Miracle.

 

        YouTube: – Powerful Miracle at Fire16 
        Miracle.

 

        YouTube: – Todd White’s story
        Todd’s testimony & background.

 

Here are three of Dan’s longer teachings:

 

        YouTube: – Dan Mohler - HC - Faith is a perspective -
,,             1 January 2016 
        Teaching & testomonies. 
        and:
        YouTube: – Dan Mohler - HC - Faith is a perspective -
,,             2 January 2016 
        Teaching & testomonies.

 

          And, if you want more:
        YouTube: – OUTSTANDING MESSAGE!!!
,,             WOW WOW WOW!! TRANSFORMING! 
        Teaching & testomonies.

 

And, a shorter teaching, repeated from earlier:

 

         YouTube: – What believing the gospel
,,             really means - Dan Mohler 
        Teaching & testimonies (half an hour).  Vital.


The above four teachings
propose a new, fourth, phase to Christianity.
A phase that, actually, is a return to
the biblical phase, the original phase:

 

    1) Original phase:    I am a servant:
                                         I, and God’s Spirit in me,
                                         do natural & miraculous good.
                                         Matt c13 v44-46

 

    2) Oldish phase:      I am a servant:
                                         I do natural good.

 

    3) Recent phase:     I am a consumer:
                                         God does miraculously good
                                         to me.

 

    4) New phase:         I am a servant:
                                         I, and God’s Spirit in me,
                                         do natural & miraculous good.
                                         Matt c13 v44-46  


Andrew Wommack, too, teaches this fourth, new, phase:
        in ch13 & ch14 of his book A Better Way To Pray
        and elsewhere.

 

Likewise Bill Johnson teaches that God has given much
to believers, but as tools, to do miraculus good, to serve.
YouTube: – Bringing Heaven to Earth.   

 

My conclusion:
        God does indeed bless believers.    John c10 v7-10 
        But he also gives believers power
        to naturally, and miraculously, serve others. 

 

Here are some more of Dan’s long, but good, teachings:

 

        YouTube: – Dan Mohler - Knowing the Father
        Teaching & testomonies. 
        He addresses much that’s wrong
        with most Christians’ lives:
        gives a picture of how it should be.

 

        YouTube: – Dan Mohler – The Power of Fasting
        Teaching & testomonies. 
        Some good, practical, stuff, later on, in this teaching.

 

        YouTube: – Dan Mohler 2016 The Power of Love
,,             WOW WOW WOW!!!
        Teaching & testomonies. 
        Getting free from yourself, free to love.
        (This was at Andrew Wommack’s Charis Bible College.)

 

Here are Dan’s & Todd’s websites:

 

        Lifestyle Christianity (Todd White’s website)
        Perhaps click on the Events tab or Power & Love tabs.

 

        Lifestyle Christianity Church
        Teaching & testomonies.

 

        Neck Ministries: Dan Mohler’s website
        Teaching & testomonies.

 

        I listened to all the teachings on Dan’s website.
        Unfortunately Dan seems to have had a clearout
        including the 19 I recommend.

        However, they can still be found at:

 

            New Covenant NEW CREATION New Life
,,                    Dan Mohler - Older teachings - Mix

 

            To play the file:
                 click anywhere on the bar.
            To download the file:
                 click on the black ♪ symbol at the end of the bar.

 

            My comments (or Dan’s) in white.

 

            FFH 7-28-2009 - The Truth that sets you free
            Encouraging testimonies peppered with teaching.

 

            Establish Your Heart
            Snapping our chains that stop answered prayers.

 

            Faith Revealed
            Practical, educational, breakdown of how faith works.

 

            Intimacy With God - 3-2008 (Part 1 of 2)
            Practical teaching – ends with educational testimony.

 

            Intimacy With God - 3-2008 (Part 2 of 2)
            Happy Dan - encouraging us to get alone with God.

 

            It's Relationship, Not a Method - 4-10-2008 (Part 1 of 2)
            Relationship or method, faith or medicines: consider.

 

            It's Relationship, Not a Method - 4-10-2008 (Part 2 of 2)
            Relationship or method, faith or medicines: consider.

 

            LCF - 3-12-2009
            Visit the healer, or know God and become a healer.

 

            LCF - 4-2-2009  (Particularly 29m 28s – 38m 20s)
            Five mins chatter, then it’s: belief & love, not effort.

 

            LCF - 4-3-2008  (Particularly 41m 0s – 1h 2m 40s.)
            Spiritual manifestations without the loony-ness.

 

            LCF - 7-17-2008
            Commanding healing, much teaching.

 

            LCF on return from Miss - 1-2009
            Love is the only motive, great testimonies.

 

            Lords and Ladies
            How religion stops people being miraculously healed.

 

            Loving Them Back To God 2-2008
            How to deal with marital betrayal & suchlike.

 

            Mulliken's - 6-19-2008 Baptism
            Remain an open channel for God,  
            also, why water baptism is vital.

 

            Our Created Value
            God, not me/problem/fear-centred-life, and praying.

 

            Straight Shooting  (Gets going 10mins in.)
            Stay in God’s hand or stay in fear,
            your righteousness is proportional to
            God’s Lordship in your life.

 

            The Fence
            Come boldly to God for his help,
            so it’s confidence, not pride.

 

            WV
            Your relationship with God renews your mind.

 

Dan taught:
        As God led him.
        And, therefore, according to the needs of his audience.
Hence Dan’s teachings are pretty subjectless.

 

Andrew, too, taught as God led him.
But, though he had been a pastor in the past,
his teachings he recorded in a studio.
Hence he had no audience.
Hence he was able to teach by subject.

 

This, later, lent itself to writing books on each subject.

 

Dan’s style is:
    o   Sharp & fast.
    o   Passion shown.

 

Andrew’s style is:

 

    o   Thorough.  Comprehensive.
        But sometimes slow.
        Even repetitive if he feels he’s not got his point across.
        Hence you may prefer his books & written teachings
        to his speaking.

 

    o   Logical rather than emotional,
        passion hidden (so, more British?). ,,,

 

.

 

 

Mark Hemans, Australian.

 

I like Australians.  Unlike other cultures,
even many non-Christian Australians
tend to be WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get),
i.e. they don’t have a side.
They also dislike unnecessary sophistication:
something that many of the rest of us like to hide behind.

 

Mark’s:
    o   The laying on of the foot
        (like the laying on of hands).
    o   Having the prayer helpers wear workman’s hi-vis vests
        with ONLY BELIVE printed on the back.
    o   Anointing his prayer helpers   John c7 v37-39,,,,,
        so that they can do whatever he does.
    o   Blowing the anointing through the microphone.
    o   Etc.
are all very Australian I reckon:
        thoughtlessly practical,
        unselfconsciously cultureless.

 

So it seems that God, who loves variety,
is making the most of Australian:
        lack of convention 
        and lack of limiting solutions.

 

Mark is a good biblical teacher-healer.
As far as I can tell, he uses the NKJV
so I’ve made all links to his Bible references NKJV.

 

I’d have more thoughts on his ministry
and more links to his material
but I only discovered Mark last of all, in August 2021.

 

    o   Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, Pentecostal,
        was the first biblical teacher-healer I discovered.
        (In 2008 I went to his first UK meeting).
    o   I discovered Andrew Wommack second,
        just months later.  Bapticostal is what Andrew
        calls himself (good description I reckon).
    o   I discovered all the other biblical teacher-healers
        since then.
    o   Mark Hemans last of all (2021).
        I’m sure Mark is Pentecostal
        but he ministers in any church that invites him
        including Roman Catholic.

 

I reckon God’s made me discover Mark last of all
because:
        The way God’s Spirit works through Mark
        is so subjective & practical
        that it’s hard to link, in any way,
        his teaching to this objective site
        (as compared to Andrew’s teaching).

        God’s Spirit told Mark to minister the way he does.
        Mark says that others should listen
        for the Holy Spirit’s instructions, for them,
        and never merely copy
        another minister’s methods & manner.
        [I add: God is constructive, so he loves variety.]
        See 7m 33s into:
        YouTube: – PRINCIPLES OF DELIVERANCE MINISTRY:
,,             authority & power, divine order, the Blood of Jesus.,,,,,

 

        To the above, I add that, if you want your ministry:
            not so as to serve God & people, Mark c10 v35-45,,,,,,
            but out of vanity, or for power,
        then it will come, at least partly, from demons.


Mark is, or became, a people person.
He is also intelligent and keeps himself unworldly & humble.
Hence God works through him
and through whatever congregation he is with.
In my opinion he shows how Pentecostalism should be done.

 

When he anoints prayer helpers,   John c7 v37-39,,,,,
so that the anointing flows through them too,
I assume (perhaps wrongly)
that it’s merely a temporary anointing.
Like the anointing Jesus gave his disciples
in the gospels, as compared to in Acts.

 

Mark insists that people declare that
Jesus did their healing, not him.

        The verb, ‘to do’, and phrasing, that’s used in the KJV
        shows that the Christian does a miracle.
        But Mark’s way is more practical
        because it ensures that people
        do not see him as the answer.
        They go away and seek God
        to the degree that they feel they lack anything.

        Technically, we Christians can do miracles only because
        Jesus put all of us right with his Father.
        Hence his Father was able to become our Father too.
        Hence, also, his Father was able to offer, to all of us,
        his powerful Holy Spirit, on a permanent basis.
        (Hence any Christian does miraculous healing
        only in Jesus’ name, often declaring as much.)

 

        So, while Mark is wrong technically,
        he is right practically.


There’s no Wikipedia for Mark, yet, 
so I’ve written the following:

 

        Mark has two degrees in theology
        (though, with hindsight, he does not value them:
        dispensationalism nullifies faith for the miraculous).
        He was a pastor for a while 
        before/after he was a missionary in Paraguay.

 

        Mark started his first run of mission trips in 2004
        as shown in his old website:
                 Encounter Ministries,,,,,
                 (click on Mission Trip Reports).

 

        In 2011 he stopped his mission trips because he lost
        his health, indeed lost everything [demonic attack?]:
                 YouTube: – WHO ARE YOU REALLY ON THE INSIDE?
,,                           The REAL YOU in Christ
,,                           is more important than appearances ,
                 at 30s – 1m 50s.

 

        Mark’s testimony:
        YouTube: – MY STORY: 9 YEARS BATTLE & VICTORY

            over STAGE 4 MELANOMA.

            How faith and repentance brought healing. ,,,,,

 

,,        ,,        (You may also find the following two minute video useful.
,,        ,,        It explains the the difference between prophesy and words of knowledge.
,,        ,,        YouTube: – Prophetic Word vs. Word of Knowledge
,,,,           // Katia Adams // Vineyard Insights.) ,,,,,

 

        In 2016 Mark made his new website:
        Jesus Encounter Ministries,,,,,
        by building it on top of, but not linked to,
        his old website:
        Encounter Ministries,,,,,,
        and started his mission trips again,
        but this time posting videos of them on YouTube.

 

        He now holds a pair of mission trip meetings each week
        (Friday & Saturday) in any church or meeting hall
        he’s invited to.
        E.G. Over 3 weeks he does 3 towns/cities in one country
        then moves to the next country, and so on;
        then back to Australia
        to do some zoom meetings online.

        Yes.  Miracles still happen even through Zoom!
        I.E. Even across the internet!
        (I reckon it’s another Australian example
        of not overthinking something, just doing it.
        I’d have instantly dismissed the idea as impossible
        if I’d thought of it.)


For more about Mark see:
Jesus Encounter Ministries / About.,,,,,

 

Mark’s YouTube channel is:
        YouTube: – Mark Hemans ,,,,,
and, as I mentioned earlier, his website is:
        Jesus Encounter Ministries. ,,,,,

 

        SOME SHORT VIDEOS OF:
        MIRACLES & TESTIMONIES
        WITHOUT ANY PREACHING OR TEACHING.

 

        YouTube: – INCREDIBLE! DEFORMED FEET STRAIGHTEN,
             cartilage & muscles GROW, years of pain GONE
            in JESUS NAME.
        Short, 10m, video of a fast progressing miracle
        (ignore the woman laughing if you’re not used to it).

 

        YouTube: – The FIRE of the HOLY SPIRIT comes down:
            Peterborough UK revival meetings.
        A short, 13m, video of the miraculous.
            I suspect that all the burning
            was build up, or somesuch,
            to the ‘demon wrapped around the head’ deliverance
            at 8m 38s.
            At 10m 56s, ‘That your joy might be full’ lesson
            makes sense to me.
            John c14 v1-11   John c16 v23-24   1 John c1 v1-4,,,

 

        YouTube: – FROM LIP READING to HEARING A WHISPER.

            Neck problems, brain lesions, grinding teeth, migraines.
        Miraculous healing & testimony.

 

        YouTube: – GIRL'S BACK OF THE HEAD GREW 15 mm,

            jaws and ears realigned!.
        Miraculous healing and testimony.

 

        YouTube: – AUTISTIC BOY HEALED!

            While asleep sees Jesus & golden castle in heaven.
        Miraculous healing & testimony.

 

        YouTube: – 100% INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED
            unable to toilet or dress by himself,
            or show affection. A MIRACLE!.
        Miraculous healing & testimony.

 

        YouTube: – Teenager demonized by using an occult game.
        Words of knowledge and casting out demons.

 

        YouTube: – UNABLE TO FUNCTION with ADD all her life.

            1 year later shares her incredible testimony.
        Testimony of a miraculous healing.

 

        YouTube: – SURPRISE! Day after prayer she weighs less.
        Word of knowledge, miraculous healing, & testimony.

 

        YouTube: – Girl sees Jesus
            and smells the heavenly flowers, set free of fear.
        A delightful miracle, and very educational.

 

        YouTube: – A MIRACLE: brain damage,
            suicidal, slurred speech.
        Miraculous deliverance, healing, and testimony.

 

        YouTube: – THE MIGHTY POWER OF JESUS CHRIST

            BLASTS THE DEMON OUT OF HER.
        Brilliant video.
        At  2m 30s  Mark compares casting out a demon
        to loading & firing a gun.

 

        YouTube: – Doctor: 'SAY GOODBYE TO YOUR KIDS'.

            Gina had a badly perforated stomach.
        Testimony of a healing of multiple illnesses.

 

        YouTube: – EX-LESBIAN SHARES HER STORY
            of a changed life.
        This includes a fascinating instance
        of God's Spirit working through a photo!

        [Perhaps also see my own section
        MORE ON HOMOSEXUALITY,,,,
        and its two subsections.]

 

        YouTube: – 13 year old GIRL BLIND
            IN LEFT EYE can read! Jesus still heals the blind.
        Miraculous healing & testimony;

        includes lessons on waiting on the Lord, and on faith.

 

        YouTube: – SHOCKING! BLIND, STABBED in the EYE with a fork.

            Perfect vision in Jesus Name.
        Miraculous healing & testimony.

 

        YouTube: – Spiritually blind from a demon in the eyes.
        Casting out a demon and a testimony.

 

        YouTube: – CAN'T FIND THE METAL in his fused back.

            IMPOSSIBLE TO BEND OVER!! Bends over in Jesus Name.
        Miraculous healing & testimony.

 

        YouTube: – HOW DEMONS CAN STOP

            the EXPRESSING or RECEIVING OF LOVE,

            damaging family & marriage relationships.
        Miraculous healing & testimony;
        Mark gets someone to help him
        by way of that person casting out their own demon!

 

        YouTube: – MOTHER GETS HER BOY BACK
            from demon: drugs, hatred, sex addiciton.
        Miraculous healing, prophesy, and testimony.

 

        YouTube: – DEAF & MUTE FROM BIRTH HEALED:
            mission to the persecuted church.
        Miraculous healing, prophesy, and testimony,
        and:

        YouTube: – GOD’S HEALING POWER
            ON THE DEAF & MUTE.
        What it says on the can, wonderful miracles.

        YouTube: – TESTIMONIES of those

            WATCHING THESE VIDEOS

            Also healing from a prayer cloth.
        Testimonies of miracles
        that occurred over the internet.

 

        YouTube: – A MIRACLE!

            Delivered, healed and WALKS by the power of.
        Healing miracle.  At 6min Mark says that

        God’s love for your body,
        his wanting to heal your body,
        cannot compare to his love for your soul,
        his wanting to heal your soul.

 

        YouTube: – PROPHECY REVEALS:
            FLIRTING, MARRIAGE VIOLATION,
            GIRLFRIEND OBSESSION, & DIVORCE PAIN.
        Extremely interesting video.
        &:
        YouTube: – PROPHECY REVEALS HIDDEN SECRETS
            of abuse, violence, witchcraft.
        Another extremely interesting video.

 

            Jesus, as well as miraculously healing people,
            would have had to have counselled people,
            just like Mark Hemans did in the above two videos,

            so as to prevent relapses etc.

            E.G. John c5 v5-14.

        There are more videos like these on YouTube.


You may ask: “Why do so many Christians, of all people,
have demons that need to be cast out of them?”

I suspect that people, who have a demon in them,
believers & unbelievers, sense there’s something wrong:
something doctors don’t detect or diagnose satisfactorily.
So they intuitively go to church, perhaps becoming believers,
or perhaps having been believers for years.

Indeed, I reckon that most people have a demon:
        hanging around them,
        waiting to encourage them in their wrongdoing.
Also that, whenever someone responds positively
to the demon’s encouragements:
        they are inadvertently encouraging the demon
        to continue to hang around & speak.
        It’s the converse of: Jam c4 v7.,,,,,

 

Also that, those who do this a lot
are unwittingly allowing the demon
into their lives & minds even more.  1 Cor 10 v3-5.,,,,,

 

As Mark demonstrates,
demons manifest (do something obvious) 
only when they see someone about to cast them out.
It’s a last ditch effort to make the minister fearful:
for even a little fear constitutes unbelief (doubt, in the mind)
and unbelief counteracts belief (in the heart & mind).
Perhaps see: UNBELIEF IS A BREAK IN THE CIRCUIT.


Indeed, one distinct thing about Pentecostal practices

is that God’s work is visible, therefore clearer to follow:
        o   When God’s Spirit is in you,
            healing you, physically or mentally,
            you may: feel God’s Spirit in you, shake, fall,
            laugh with joy, feel hot:  Matt c3 v11  Luke c3 v16.
                 (In: Mark c5 v24-34 v31,
                 the people would not have been so confused
                 had they been falling over.)
        o   It takes time to cast out a demon
            (though no more than minutes)
            and the person feels it.
            There may be demonic poison vomitted out at the end
            (perhaps that’s an attempt at:
            ‘if I can’t have him/her then no-one can’).
        o   People actually see:
                 Jesus,
                 the glory cloud,
                 angels,
                 demons,
        o   Etc.

 

        None of these events needs to be visible.
        But God making them visible
        is, in my opinion, edifying and useful.

        (Christians who have only ever seen the natural
        may well disagree with that.
        They may well not be able to discern between:
                 God’s supernatural
                 and demons’ supernatural,
        would be suspicious of anything supernatural,
        even not be able to tell if a supernatural healing
        was from God or demons.

        Perhaps again see: TRICKS & MIRACLES.
        and the links within it.
        (This link does not open up a new tab.) )


With non-Pentecostals
(Andrew Wommack, Dan Mohler, etc):
        The same things happen
        but you don’t usually see it or feel it.
        (Though sometimes you do,
          YouTube: – Dan Mohler - first demonic experience.)


The key difference, is that, with non-Pentecostal ways:
        The healer, who has a renewed, God-like, mind,
        largely directs God’s healing,
        largely decides what happens,
        with the exception of a few words of knowledge.
But with Pentecostal ways (e.g. Mark Hemans):
        God directs the healing; indeed directs everything.

 

(Andrew Wommack has a joke that,
in case his students think:
“I won’t pray [or command] for people unless I feel led”
he gives them each a lump of lead, to keep in their pocket,
for just such an occasion.
Andrew explains:
        “It’s true: we are indeed led at times.
        But don’t restrict yourself to doing nothing
        until you are.”)



As I mentioned earlier,
Andrew’s teachings and Mark’s ministry
complement each other.

As Andrew sometimes says:

 

        o   Meetings such as Mark’s
            can be few and far between.
            Hence Andrew teaches you
            how you can miraculously heal
            your own sicknesses.

 

        o   Conversely, it can take weeks, months, even years,
            to learn Andrew’s material.
            Hence terminally sick people
            may need to get to meetings such as Mark’s.

 

        THREE LONG VIDEOS OF:
        MARK’S PREACHING & TEACHING
        FOLLOWED BY MIRACLES & TESTIMONIES.

 

        YouTube: – Holland Revival Miracle Meetings
            powerful anointing, demons manifest,
            miracles, God's fire, drugs.,,,,,
               Very impactful ministry.  Watch all of it.
               At 39m 50s  Mark says that he used to think that, somehow,

               he’d have to press-in to come into God's presence,

               but that, one day, the Lord showed him that the way is open

               because of the Cross.  Also – many great miracles.

 

        YouTube: – Sunshine Coast Highlights:
            Bulimia, visually impaired, fibromyalgia,
            walking sticks, demons cast out.
               At  21m 05s  Mark speaks of his missionary days
               in Paraguay, about sowing in faith.
               From:  32m 50s  to  35m 09s  Mark tells us to
               not be afraid of failure, and then expands on that. 
               At  38m 16s  Mark explains, using  John c5 v1-9,
               his practice of locating people,
               or rather, the Spirit locating people.
               At  42m 00s  Mark explains why he
               blows onto the microphone.
               From then on a load of amazing miracles.

        YouTube: – ADELAIDE HIGHLIGHTS
            have you EVER SEEN a meeting like it?

            joy, miracles, deliverance, fire baptism!.

               The preaching & teaching starts well
               then gets even better.
               At  35m 20s  to  39m 40s,  there is the unusual miracle
               of someone's soul being given strength:
               being changed, to do God's work.
               At  44m 44s  Mark tells a man to obey the Holy Spirit,
               even the little instructions,
               because they may be vital steps
               on the way to big events, to miracles.
               From   1hr 15m 10s   to   1hr 16m 44s
               Mark explains why his services are the way they are.

        I have more videos of Mark’s preaching & teaching,
        followed by miracles & testimonies,
        in an ‘overflow’ webpage:
        More Mark Hemans’ teaching & ministry.,,,,,

 

        TWO MEDIUM LENGTH VIDEOS OF:
        MARK’S PREACHING & TEACHING,
        BUT WITHOUT MIRACLES & TESTIMONIES.

 

        YouTube: – MAKE NO PROVISION FOR THE FLESH.

            There is victory over sin.
               An extraordinarily enlightening teaching.
               Part of it (10m 39s   to   11m 44s)
               is Mark explaining how he does what he does:
                      Mark says that the fear of God
                      is the basis for obeying him.

                      [I see the New Testament as more important
                      than the Old Testament, not equally important.
                      Hence, for me, it’s the fear of God’s absence
                      rather than the fear of God’s presence
                      that’s the basis for obeying him.]


                      Mark loves Jesus, doesn’t sin, stays holy,
                      and doesn’t bother with the world.
                      Hence the Holy Spirit lives in him
                      fully and continuously.
                      So Mark then merely says or does
                      whatever the Holy Spirit tells him to say or do:
                      no more, no less, simple.
                      [Australians are already uncomplicated people.]


        YouTube: – Walking in the Spirit
            is to surrender to Jesus in our daily decisions.,,,,,
               Vital teaching.
               At 3m 22s Mark asks us if we’d ever done something
               that seemed right to us, at the time,
               but it turned out a total failure?

               Yes?

               Mark then adds that it was because we needed
               the principle of the book of Acts: Acts c15 v28.

                             For it seemed good to us
                             and to the Holy Spirit.

               Mark adds that, when it seems good to you,
               you should ask the Lord if it seems good to him too.

               Mark adds the warning to be careful of filtering his voice
               through your own fleshly desires,
               what you’d like to happen.

               At 14m Mark recounts how a pastor once asked his advice
               about pastoring a church.
               Mark replied “Don't please people.  Please God.”

               At 14m 40s Mark insists that, if you're really sick, say with cancer,
               have some backbone:
               stand up to all the unbelievers in your family
               who are expecting you to drop dead,
               who are planning your funeral.
               Believe the word of God.

               He finishes this point by saying that he’s speaking
               from personal experience.

               Likewise, at 15m 9s, Mark advises young unmarried believers,
               whose girlfriend/boyfriend wants them to have sex,
               to be strong and say: “No”.
               To please God, and wait until you’re married.

               Continuing on the subject of intimate control,
               at 21m, Mark says to beware of ‘prophetic manipulation’:
                      people wanting you to do
                      what they want to do
                      but they put it in the form of “God spoke to me”.

                      Consider what their motive(s) might be.

               Bottom line:
                      Don't let other people make your decisions for you.
                      Be directed by the Holy Spirit.

               At 25m 21s Mark says that God’s not going to act, in your life:
               in a way that feels nice, all the time.

                      The Son of man had nowhere to lay his head,
                      and got tired & thirsty,
                      even though he was doing his Father’s will.

                      Likewise, while you are doing God’s will,
                      you too could find life hard
                      and be persecuted.  [John c15 v20],,,,,

        I have more videos of Mark’s preaching & teaching,
        where he didn’t include miracles & testimonies,
        in an ‘overflow’ webpage:
        More Mark Hemans’ teaching.,,,,,

 

        JESUS ENCOUNTER MINISTRIES (JEM)
        WORSHIP TEAM

 

        YouTube: – PRAISE & WORSHIP:
            Jesus Encounter Ministries (JEM)

            worship team. Meeting 8.

 

        There are more such videos on YouTube.

 

.

 

 

Smith Wigglesworth, 1859-1947, Pentecostal.
Smith seems to have been only a preacher, not a teacher.
        Perhaps again see:
        What’s the Difference Between Preaching and Teaching?
,,             By Andrew Wilson | Monday 13 May 2013.

 

But if you read (or listen, on YouTube) to his preaching:
        not in an earthly frame of mind
        but in God’s frame of mind,
then you realise that he taught much.

 

You just have to read between the lines.

 

        See my deductions
        in last four cells
        (starting This is how Smith Wigglesworth lived)
        of section: PRAYING & FASTING.

 

        YouTube: – God's Generals Series - Smith Wigglesworth.
        Teaching & testomonies.

 

        YouTube: – Kenneth Copeland retells
,,             Smith Wigglesworth raising a man from the dead
        Testimony.
,,        ,,        I don’t include, in this list, Kenneth Copeland himself
,,        ,,        for reasons I give later, on this webpage,
,,        ,,        but this testimony is very interesting.

 

        YouTube: – Ultimate Documentary On Smith Wigglesworth
        Valuable teaching: from 33m to 46m.

 

        YouTube: – Insider view of Smith Wigglesworth
        Interview with Smith’s great grand-daughter, a believer.

 

        AZ Quotes of Smith Wigglesworth
        Some revealing, powerful, tips.

 

        Wigglesworth: his sermons
        Teaching & testomonies.

 

        Smith Wigglesworth: his life
        Testomonies.

 

        Smith Wigglesworth’s two books:
            Ever Increasing Faith [some of his sermons]
            and 
            Faith That Prevails [some of his sermons]
        are, in my opionion, both vital reading for Christians.

 

        Smith’s biography:
            Smith Wigglesworth: Apostle of Faith.
            by Stanley Howard Frodsham
        is extremely encouraging.

 

        Abbreviated combination of the above three books:
            Wigglesworth – The Complete Story.
            by Julian Wilson,
        is also extremely encouraging.

 

,,        ,,        Perhaps get the above four books from a Christian site;
,,        ,,        I bought one copy from Amazon and it was wrongly assembled!

        Smith was powerful, but simple.

        Hence, when he flatly refused to pray twice for someone,
        saying: “Once is faith.  Twice is unbelief”
        I personally suspect that:
                 it was certainly true for him, there & then,
                 but it need not (yet) be true for others.

 

        Bethel Church, Redding, California.
        Miracles & teaching. 
        American.
        Entirely biblical, emotional and logical.
        Bill Johnson is the senior pastor at Bethel.

 

                YouTube: – Bill Johnson -
,,                           Creative Miracles At Bethel - Part 1
                 Miracles.

 

                YouTube: – Bill Johnson || DECEMBER 11, 2017 -
,,                           What Jesus Accomplished Now || Teaching Truth   
,,        ,,        ,,        ,,        37m 15s   to   47m 30s   are particularly pithy.

                 Good teaching – ‘Jesus redefined what a king is’.

 

                YouTube: – Bill Johnson -
,,                           Creative Miracles At Bethel - Part 2
                 Miracles.

 

                YouTube: – Bringing Heaven to Earth
                 God gives us much
                 so that we can do good:
                 naturally & miraculously.

 

        YouTube: – Bill Johnson Preaches a Powerful Sermon
,,             After Wife's Passing,,,,,
        Bethel Church has seen many powerful miracles.
        So it was a shock when Bill, the senior pastor’s, wife,
        Beni, died of her sickness, despite much prayer.

 

        I remember Dan Mohler had a similar problem
        and concluded that it’s due to having:
                 faith in a good record of answered prayers
        rather than having:
                 faith in God.

 

                 So the thing to do is to make:
                         every one
                         of everyone’s
                 prayer on a matter
                 to be as if it were
                 the first prayer on that matter.

 

        Bill is one of a list of people I’ve learnt a lot from
        (Andrew Wommack, Dan Mohler, Mark Hemans,
        Smith Wigglesworth, etc).

 

        Bill is an actual pastor & preacher.
        I am only a philosophical Christian.
        So some may think it bad taste
        for me to critique his sermon on his wife’s passing.
        But I reckon it could be helpful, so here it is,
        or rather parts of it.

               Bill's questions, spoken and unspoken, are about God.
               When they should be about:
                      o      himself,
                  o      his wife,
                  o      those who were meshed not only in prayer for her
                              but also in communication with each other,
                  o      and perhaps circumstances.

               And his questions should be about belief and unbelief:
                      Belief in God’s great love for us
                      during this Church Age.
                      Unbelief, doubts in the mind,
                      from the world and from nature.


               At 8minutes I find it sad that Bill says:
               "I want to give him [God] the most priceless gift I can give him:
               and that is:  joy - in loss: celebration - in pain.
               That is: giving up my right to understand.”

               We should never give up the right to understand
               (the disciples ever questioned Jesus, and he didn’t rebuke them for that).

               In 1940 C S Lewis wrote The Problem of Pain
               in which he wrote: ‘Pain is God’s megaphone to a deaf world’,
               [what a wrong statement].
                      C S Lewis was an intellectual Christian.
                      He wrote the brilliant Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters.
                      But, to my knowledge, healed no-one.

                      Later, in 1960, sadly, his wife died of cancer.
 
               I often wish that, earlier in his life, he'd met Smith Wigglesworth.
                      Smith had the mustard seed of faith.
                      But he was uneducated - and made sure he stayed that way
                      (read only the Bible, did nothing but pray, spoke only of God, etc)
                      so he had zero unbelief.

                      He raised a number of people from the dead
                      as well as doing very many healing miracles.


               14m 38s Bill says:
                      “Mourning will either take you
                              to the Comforter,
                              into the presence of the Holy Spirit,
                      or will take you
                              to unbelief.”
               That’s an educational distinction.

               Then Bill reads: Matt c5 v4  NKJV,  
               that you’re blessed if you’re mourn
               because you’ll be comforted.
               (As far as I can tell, Bill uses the NKJV,
               so I’ve made my links to his Bible references to be NKJV)
               and adds:
                      “Answers won't fix the problem, presence will.”

                      I reckon answers do help with such problems
                      though not always completely. 


               At  24m 57s Bill says:
                      “If I praise him, without surrender,
                      I was just making a business deal.”
               I like that.

               At 25m 19s Bill says:
                      “Great faith doesn't come from striving,
                      it comes from surrender.”
               I want that on a poster for me
               and a banner for my church.

               Then Bill reads: Heb c12 v1  NKJV,,,,,,
               about a cloud of witnesses and running the race,
               and adds:
                      “Remember the verse that goes:
                             Death, where is your sting?
                      No-one, who is conscious of eternity,
                      can find the sting in death.”
               I love that.

               Then Bill reads: John c12 v24  NKJV,,,,,,
               about a grain of wheat needing to die in the soil
               so that much more wheat can grow.

               Then, regarding the cloud of witnesses reference,
               Bill says:
                      ”We're not alone, and it's not about us."
               I want that on a poster too.

               Regarding Bill's point about God using a crisis as a grain,
               to produce an increase:
                      I'm sure it’s true.
                      And it's unique to God (the world sees loss as loss).

                      But is Bill wanting to find worth in his wife's death
                      having not found answers?

                      Certainly God doesn't need a crisis/loss to produce.
                      He can produce in any situation and none.

        Ahh, it’s clearer now (time of writing, March 2023,
        about eight months since Bill’s wife, Beni, died).

 

        A book Bill’s just promoted, The Physics of Heaven,
        shows that he was once into New Age,
        [was, presumably, impressed with its manifestations,]
        and thought [& still thinks?]
        that New Age can contribute to Christianity.

 

        But I reckon that carnality/the flesh, and demons,
        tolerate miracles, perhaps even like them,
        providing the gospel doesn’t come with them.

 

        Hence the music of Bethel [& Hillsong & Elevation ?]
        is usually good, sometimes excellent,
        and there’ll be some miracles.
        But you’ll sometimes/often
        need to add the gospel to them,
        because it’s missing, 
        if you’re going to see the complete kingdom of Heaven.
                                                          John c15 v5  NKJV 

 

        Many churches:
                 have comfort & excitement
                 but no gospel
        for reasons other than New Age thinking.

 

        Conversely, some churches
        have the gospel,
        and so should see miracles,
        but don’t
        because they don’t believe in miracles.

 

Heidi Baker, Mozambican (though originally American).

 

        YouTube: – Nov 16, 2017 Women on the Frontlines
,,             HEIDI BAKER — Being FULLY FILLED With GOD's GLORY!
        Vital teaching & testimonies. The Bible reading
        and the preaching start at 30m 40s.

 

        YouTube: – "Knowing The Ways Of God" - Heidi Baker
        Vital teaching & testomonies.

 

        YouTube: – Heidi Baker: Intimacy for Miracles - CBN.com
        Teaching & testimonies,  2008.

 

        YouTube: – 700 Club Interactive:
,,             Follow Your Dreams - March 20, 2014
        Teaching & testomonies.

 

        YouTube: – Heidi Baker on Sid Roth's It's Supernatural! |
,,             Reckless Devotion
        Teaching & testomonies.

 

        YouTube: – Heidi Baker - Intimacy with God
        Teaching & testomonies.

 

        YouTube: – Heidi Baker's Testimony
        Teaching & testomonies.

 

        YouTube: – Heidi Baker( Nov 11, 2017) -
,,             Being Closer To Jesus And Knowing Him
        Teaching & testomonies.

 

        YouTube: – Heidi Baker( Nov 16, 2017) We Are Anointed
        Teaching & testomonies.

 

        There’s more of Heidi on YouTube.

 

Heidi’s website is:
        Heidi Baker  ( IRIS )
        Teaching & testomonies.

 

Isabel Chapman, Scottish.

 

        God's Word To Women: Testimony of  Isabel Chapman
        Testimony & teaching.

 

        The above is the only internet presence
        that I can find of Isabel.
        But I recommend her book: Arise & Reap.

 

        Don’t underestimate women biblical teacher-healers.
        Of all the biblical teacher-healers on this webpage
        God told only: Isabel Chapman, Heidi Baker,
        & Mark Hemans, to do missionary work
        in dangerous places.

 

        God told Isabel to go to the Philippines,
        to its inaccessible jungle areas,
        to preach to, & to miraculously heal,
        the head-hunting tribes there.
        But she didn’t yet know how to miraculously heal.

 

        So, when she arrived, in Manila,
        a young Kenneth Copeland was having a big
        healing meeting there.
        She attended, not because she was ill, but to learn.

 

        Many people were healed & saved at Kenneth’s meeting.
        But it was Isabel, not Kenneth, whom God had told
        to carry on travelling – to the head-hunters.

        (Their initiation into manhood was to bring back
        the head of a member of another tribe.
        They also worshipped idols & used black magic.)

 

John Mellor, Australian.

 

        YouTube: – Severely disabled boy miraculously healed
,,             'Today Tonight' National News - John Mellor Miracles
        Testimony.

 

        YouTube: – Child in wheelchair suffering from painful
,,             Köhler disease healed & runs - John Mellor Miracles
        Miracle.

 

        YouTube: – Disabled woman in wheelchair
,,             with cerebellum brain injury
,,             healed & walks - John Mellor Healing
        Miracle.

 

        YouTube: – Blind, disabled man in wheelchair healed
,,             'Today Tonight' National News - John Mellor Miracles
        Miracle.

 

        YouTube: – Keratoconus blindness miracle healing
,,             John Mellor Australian Healing Ministry
        Testimony.

 

        YouTube: – Autistic child totally healed -
,,             John Mellor Healing in Jesus' Name
        Testimony.

 

        YouTube: – Child born blind miraculously healed
,,             & vision restored after prayer - John Mellor Healing Ministry
        Testimony.

 

        YouTube: – John Mellor - ‘Position Yourself
,,             To Receive a Miracle’ Part 1
        Teaching.

 

        YouTube: – John Mellor - ‘Position Yourself
,,             To Receive a Miracle’ Part 2
        Teaching.

 

        YouTube: – Healing teaching and demonstration -
,,             John Mellor Ministries
        Miracle & teaching.

 

        YouTube: – John Mellor teaches on faith -
,,             'Don't stop believing'
        Teaching.

 

        YouTube: – John Mellor teaching on healing -
,,             what voices are you listening to?
        Teaching.

 

        YouTube: – John Mellor teaching on
,,             persistent faith - never give up!
        Teaching.

 

        YouTube: – Some of the blockages to being healed -
,,             John Mellor Ministries
        Teaching.

 

        YouTube: – Teaching about healing prayer -
,,             John Mellor Healing Evangelist
        Miracle & teaching.

 

        YouTube: – Healing seminar teaching with demonstration
,,             healing of painful spine - John Mellor Miracles
        Miracle & teaching.

 

There are more  ‘John Mellor teaching’ videos on YouTube.

 

Pastor (Doctor) Kay Ijisesan, American?

 

        YouTube: – Kingsword Everywhere ,,,
        Worship, testimonies, preaching & teaching, miracles. 
        Watch from 2hr 20m onwards
        for preaching & teaching, then miracles.

 

        There’s more of Dr Kay on YouTube.

 

        Kingsword is the group of churches
        that Pastor Kay established.

 

Tom Fischer, American?

 

        YouTube: – Tom Fischer:
,,             The Uncensored Street Healing Movie
        Miracles & teaching.

 

        YouTube: – Wonderful encounter on a NJ boardwalk
        Miracles & teaching.

 

        There’s more of Tom on YouTube.

 

        Thomas Fischer - Living the Miraculous
        All about the man and his ministry.

 

        Cardboard Box Church, Tom’s YouTube channel. ,,,

 

Pete Cabrera Jr, American?

 

        YouTube: – Get up and walk out of that wheel chair
,,             in Jesus name
        Miracle.

 

        YouTube: – Dead arm comes to life in Jesus Name
        Miracle.

 

        YouTube: – Busted ankle restored
        Miracle.

 

        YouTube: – Streets of Frankfurt Germany with Pete Cabrera Jr
        Miracles.

 

        YouTube: – Dorthie get up and walk WOW!
        Miracles.

 

        YouTube: – What no Doctor could do JESUS!!
        Miracles.

 

        YouTube: – 16 rods in her back
        Miracles.

 

        YouTube: – How to start living in the Spirit made simple
        Teaching.

 

        There’s more of Pete on YouTube.

 

        Pete Cabrera Jr’s YouTube channel.

 

Tom Loud, American?

 

        Pete Cabrera Jr (see previous cell)
        has inspired a pastor called Tom Loud:

 

        YouTube: – The day I learned NOTHING from Pete Cabrera Jr !
        Teaching.

 

        YouTube: – Pain level 10, Doctors couldn't heal her,
,,             so Jesus Did!!!!
        Miracle.

 

        YouTube: – Breast Cancer Tumor Vanishes in Jesus Name !
,,             - Tom Loud
        Miracle.

 

        YouTube: – Wrist with metal rod healed; soul saved;
,,             Jesus Glorified ! -Tom Loud
        Miracle.

 

        There’s more of Tom on YouTube.

 

        Tom’s church:
        Shoreline Full Gospel Fellowship. ,,,

 

Nathan Morris, British.

 

Nathan Morris is an inspiring biblical preacher-healer
(I say preacher-healer because I haven’t found
any teaching yet.  But there may be some somewhere):

 

        YouTube: – Face to Face with Nathan Morris
        Life story, testimony, & more.

 

        YouTube: – Nathan Morris/Blind girl begins to see
,,             @ Bay Revival, Ohio
        Miracle.

 

        YouTube: – Woman Gets Healed
,,             After Being Paralyzed For 23 Years
        Miracle.
        and:
        YouTube: – Delia Knox Testimony
,,             at Bay of the Spirit Revival Pt 1.
        and:
        YouTube: – Delia Knox Testimony Part 2.

 

        YouTube: – Deaf Woman Healed in Creative Miracle
,,             @ Bay of the Holy Spirit Revival
        Miracle.

 

        YouTube: – Blind boy healed
,,             at Bay of the Holy Spirit Revival
        Miracle.

 

        YouTube: – Baby Boy healed in Lake Charles.mov
        Miracle.

 

        YouTube: – Deaf baby healed at Bay of the Holy Spirit Revival
        Miracle.

 

        YouTube: – Mother & daughter both healed @ Bay Revival
        Miracle.

 

        YouTube: – Young boy with cancer touched @ Bay Revival
        Miracle.

 

        YouTube: – Young deaf boy healed @ Bay Revival
        Miracle.

 

        YouTube: – Young girl with heart arrhythmia
,,             & on a feeding tube
,,             healed @ Bay Revival, Ohio
        Miracle.
        Also see: AVERTING DISASTERS. ,,,

 

        YouTube: – Woman who had 5 strokes
,,             is healed @ Bay Revival
        Miracle.

 

        YouTube: – Alanna's Story from the Bay Revival
        Miracle.

 

        There’s more of Nathan on YouTube.

 

        Nathan Morris - Shake The Nations Ministries, 
,,             his YouTube channel. ,,,

 

This cell is an assortment of
biblical preacher/teacher-healers.

Some I’m familiar with, some not.
Some have a big media presence, some not.
Some seem to heal just by themselves, some seem to
heal only when they’ve got a congregation there.

        Pastor Chris Oyakhilome PhD:
,,             his TV channel’s site (Loveworld UK)
        Miracles & teaching. 
        Nigerian.
                In 2008 I went to his first UK meeting
                 and saw miracles, just like on TV.
                I liked his books: Praying The Right Way
                 and None Of These Diseases,
                 which were the start to my
                 understanding of doing miracles
                 (‘do’ is the verb used in the KJV).
        Pastor Chris has since divorced which is unfortunate.
        (The culture of many a nation
        is often, at least partly, counter to Christian culture
        and Nigerian culture is no exception.)
        Also try YouTube.

 

        Evangelist Rambabu -Rambo - Home | Facebook
        Teaching/miracles.
        Indian.
        Also try YouTube.

 

        Wisdom Ministries (Nasir Siddiki)
        Teaching.
        Canadian.
        Entirely biblical, but also logical (rather than emotional).
        Also try YouTube.

 

        New Creation Church (Joseph Prince) 
        Click ‘video messages’.
        Teaching.
        Singaporean.
        Entirely blbilcal, yet also logical.
        Also try YouTube.

 

        Prophetic Vision (David Hathaway)
        Miracles & teaching.
                 British.
                Also try YouTube.

 

        John & Carol Arnott.  American?
                YouTube: – John & Carol Arnott LIVE with Sid Roth
                Teaching & testimonies.

 

                YouTube: – AIMG TV - Miracles & Healing Night -
,,                           april 14, 2018 with John Arnott
                Teaching, miracles, & testimonies.

 

        Christ for all nations: Reinhard Bonnke & Daniel Kolenda
        Reinhard: German, 1940-2019.  Daniel: Zimbabwean.
        Simple but effective, big-meeting evangelists/preachers.

 

                YouTube: – Blind Woman Healed
,,                           in front of 200,000 People!  (Daniel Kolenda)
                 Miracle.

 

                YouTube: – Deaf Muslim Healed in Jesus' Name!
,,                           (Daniel Kolenda)
                 Miracle.

 

                YouTube: – Watch This Miracle! Regina Atta.
,,                           (Reinhard Bonnke)
                 Testimony.

 

And here’s some historical material:

 

        YouTube: – God's Generals,
,,             Why they Succeeded and Why Others Failed
        Historical teaching & testimonies
        compiled by Roberts Liardon.
                A five-hour video of historical
                 biblical teacher-healers:

 

                 Starting with: Smith Wigglesworth
                 (video repeated from earlier).
                 Kathryn Kuhlman.   A. A. Allen.   Jack Coe.
                 Evan Roberts.   John Alexander Dowie.
                 John G. Lake.   Maria Woodworth Etter.
                 Oral Roberts.   William Branham.
                 William J. Seymour.   Charles F. Parham.

 

                 Or, if you want to see all the above
                 but broken down into individual programmes,
                 then see the videos in:
                 YouTube: – Roberts Liardon God's generals.

 

                 Perhaps also see:
                 YouTube: – Kathryn Kuhlman
,,                           How to Be Filled and Controlled By the Holy Spirit.

 

        YouTube: – AIMEE SEMPLE MCPHERSON ||
,,             POWER OF FAITH || SERMON VAULT  
        Teaching.

 

                 YouTube: – Aimee Semple McPherson  
                 Historical teaching & testimonies
                 compiled by Roberts Liardon.

 

                 Wikipedia: Aimee Semple McPherson. ,,,

 

        YouTube: – Azusa Street Revival
,,             Eyewitness Accounts-Pentecostal History
        An 18 minute interview with people who were there.

 

I’m sure there are many other biblical teacher-healers,
with or without a media presence, that I haven’t mentioned.

 

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I don’t include Kenneth Copeland, Benny Hinn, etc,
because they love money, which is just plain wrong:
1 Cor c9    Philippians c4 v4-13    1 John c2 v15-17.

 

        I do not like the prosperity gospel 
        because it’s true but it’s not the whole truth.
        It encourages selfishness,
        and selfishness is:
                 earthly at best, demonic at worst,
                 not heavenly, not of God.

        Prosperity preachers may preach Forgiveness
        and may miraculously heal.
        But they also say:
        “If you want God to heal you
        and to give you money
        then give me your money.”

This contrasts with Jesus and the Apostles.

This also contrasts with:
        Andrew Wommack, Dan Mohler, Mark Hemans, etc,
whose only passion is for:
        Father, Son, & Spirit; the Bible;
        healing, Forgiveness, & freedom
        for the sick, the unforgiven, & the demon-tormented;
pay being irrelevant:   Matt c6 v24-34.

I notice that Wommack, Hemans, Mohler, etc,
don’t need to be jolted into the Spiritual Realm each day
(as, say, Benny Hinn does)
because they have both feet out of the world all the time.

        1 John c2 v15-17:
        Love not the world,
        neither the things that are in the world.
        If any man love the world,
        the love of the Father is not in him.
        For all that is in the world,
            the lust of the flesh,
            and the lust of the eyes,
            and the pride of life,
        is not of the Father, but is of the world.
        And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof:
        but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.   KJV

 

I don’t include David Hogan in this webpage because:

 

        He preaches & teaches little or nothing
        of Jesus’ powerful and lovely words.
        Indeed, very little from anywhere in the Bible.

 

        He lacks grace, rather he is merely humanly forceful
        on a congregation that usually doesn’t need it.

 

        In the light of his accounts of him healing very many
        and resurrecting many, there should be
        some powerful healings, with testimonies,
        at the end of his YouTube’d meetings.
        But there aren’t any.

 

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Many churches use secular methods to advertise the gospel:
social events, entertainments, novelty guest speakers, etc.

 

Jesus used miraculous signs & wonders.

Paul, likewise, went into a town,
did a miracle, attracted a crowd,
preached the gospel, was persecuted out of the town,
then moved on to the next town.

His first missionary journey was doing the above
over & over again.
 
His second missionary journey was revisiting
each of those towns, encouraging the churches
that had formed in his absence.

Paul started with a miracle each time
(just like Peter did, in Acts c3).

We should do the same.

        Eph c1 v19-23    and    1 Cor c12 – c14   combined:
        Jesus is now the head
        and you, the church, are now the body.
        Hence you, like Jesus,
        have been given the Spirit
        so that you too can have the gifts of the Spirit
        including doing miracles.   my abbn

 

        Perhaps see: CONTINUING THE SON’S WORK.,,,

 

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WHICH KIND OF CHRISTIAN ARE YOU?
(THE THREE KINDS OF FRUIT)

 

 

Some Christians on this webpage do miraculous healing.
But they do it in odd ways, in ways that Jesus did not do.

 

And we must keep a look out for the demonic.
        Perhaps again see: TRICKS & MIRACLES.
        and the links within it.
        (This link does not open up a new tab.)

 

However, if you are not doing miracles, at all,
(‘do’ is the verb used in the KJV),
then be careful not to throw out the baby
with the bathwater.

 

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In a Christian – the gospel produces three kinds of fruit:
    a) Stop doing bad   1 Cor c15 v9  
        (needless to say, this includes stopping doing supernatural bad   Acts c8 v5-13).,,
    b) Do natural good.   Acts c2 v45  
    c) Do miraculous good.   Acts c3 v1-8   

 

Hence there are six possible combinations:
    a)  Stop doing bad.    

    b)  Do natural good. 

    c)  Do miraculous good.

    a)  &  b)  Stop doing bad.  Do natural good. 

    a)  &  c)  Stop doing bad.  Do miraculous good.

    a)  &  b)  &  c)  Stop doing bad.  Do natural good.  Do miraculous good.

 

    Perhaps again see: CONTINUING THE SON’S WORK. ,,,

 

    Hence a Baptist Christian
    might complain about a Pentecostal meeting 
    where repentance (stopping doing bad) wasn’t preached.

 

            For example:
            YouTube: – Street Preacher Confronts
,,                    John Kilpatrick & Nathan Morris
,,                    at Bay of the Holy Spirit!,,,,,

 

    But a Pentecostal Christian might reply
    that their congregation had stopped doing bad long ago
    and had now started doing miraculous good.

 

    Indeed, to do miraculous good,
    you need to have stopped doing bad.

 

            See Mark Hemans’ (a Pentecostal)
            really good teaching on stopping doing bad:
            YouTube: – Living for the glory of God.

                 Giving Jesus our best.

                 Mark Hemans preaching Dallas Friday Revival,,,,,,
            at top of overflow webpage:
            More Mark Hemans’ teaching.
            (This link does not open a new tab.)

 

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    Baptists (& others) are focussed on:
            Stopping doing bad.
    And so also on:
            Doing good.

 

    Hence they are used to:
            Doing natural tasks.
    Are not used to:
            Stopping doing natural tasks.

 

    Hence they don’t let go of miraculous tasks either:
            Have many people praying.
            Work hard at praying.
            Don’t let go of the problem so that God can take it.

 

            They have little belief and much unbelief.

 

            They know that God’s love and power are true
            but they know more strongly
            that doctors and medical science are true.

            See: UNBELIEF, & KEEPING YOUR HEALING,  
            and the links within it.
            (This link does not open a new tab.)

 

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WHY BIBLICAL TEACHER-HEALERS DO IT

 

Biblical teacher-healer’s teaching is usually corrective.

 

    You may ask:
            “What is there to correct?”

 

    I say:
            “Much Church of England liturgy, prayers, & hymns
            repeatedly ask God to
                     forgive us,
                     come to us,
                     heal us,
                     give to us,
                     help us,
                     etc.

 

            But God cannot do these things
            because he has already done them,
            all of them, for all of us,
            by way of Jesus being crucified in our place
            so that we can have God’s Holy Spirit.

 

            But do you believe it
            and do you believe it applies to you?

 

            Repeatedly asking
            shows that we don’t believe.

 

            Indeed, repeatedly asking
            reinforces that we don’t believe.

 

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UNBELIEF, & LACK OF BELIEF,
WITHIN THE CHURCH

 

The gospel is the good news
that Jesus was Punished in place of all of us:

 

        His Punishment made all our sins (before God) vanish
        even though all our wrongs (before each other) remain.

 

        Perhaps see: THE TWO ACCOUNTS. ,,,

 

You become a Christian:
        not when you only know the gospel, in your mind,
        but when you also believe the gospel, in your heart. 
                                                                      Rom c10 v10   

        On believing – your heart becomes grateful
        and so renews your mind:
            1) Duplicates its belief into your mind
                 so that even your mind believes.
            2) Establishes:
                     the pattern of that belief,
                     the pattern of the gospel, agape love,
                     throughout your mind.

 

        then:
                 your heart
                & your mind
                 & God’s Spirit inside you
        will be alike,

        then all three can live & work together
        instead of getting in each other’s way.

 

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THE THREE MAIN FEATURES
OF BEING A CHRISTIAN

 

1) Jesus’ crucifixion put all humans right with his Father.
    Hence his Father gave his Spirit to all humans.

 

    Mind you, even though God gave his Spirit to everyone:

 

            Only those who’ve accepted Jesus’ sayings:
                     “forgive all who’ve hurt you”,
                     “love your (personal) enemies”,
                     etc,
            will accept help to do those things,
            namely from God’s Spirit.

 

            Only those who’ve accepted the Son
            also accept the Spirit.

 

            The Spirit makes no sense to unbelievers.

 

            John c14 v16-17:
            And I will pray the Father,
            and he shall give you another Comforter,
            that he may abide with you for ever;
            even the Spirit of truth;
            whom the world cannot receive,
            because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him:
            but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you,
            and shall be in you.   KJV

 

            Perhaps read the whole of John c14.

 

 

2) You can pray for
    miracles healings & blessings:  Matt c7 v7-11
            By believing, in your heart,
            that Jesus made everyone right with his Father.
            And by your heart then
            renewing your mind accordingly,
            so that your mind also believes
            though without doubting*.
            So that all of you, heart and mind,
            contains God’s Spirit
            and has faith in Jesus’ name.  Acts c3 v16

    and your prayers will be
    immediately/soon answered.

 

3) You can command
    miracles healings & blessings:
            By believing, in your heart,
            that Jesus made everyone right with his Father.
            And by your heart then
            renewing your mind accordingly,
            so that your mind also believes
            though without doubting*.
            So that all of you, heart and mind
            contains God’s Spirit
            and has faith in Jesus’ name.   Acts c3 v16

    and what you’ve commanded will
    immediately/soon happens.

 

Perhaps see: WHY GOD’S WORDS HAVE POWER. , , ,

 

All this assumes that:

        You have renewed your mind, think like God thinks.
        You obey God’s Spirit whenever he speaks to you.

        Hence you act out of an agape love towards everyone.

 

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*Christians often use the word doubt.
But unbelief is the technically correct word:
        You can have doubts about all sorts of matters
        but unbelief is specific to you doubting about God:

 

        Only believers can have unbelief.
                 (Only believers can doubt in their mind
                 what they believe in their heart.)

        Unbelievers cannot have unbelief.
                 (Unbelievers cannot doubt in their mind
                 what they believe in their heart
                 because they don’t believe in their heart
                 in the first place.)

 

        Perhaps see: UNBELIEF. ,,,

 

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UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

 

Believing that the Son was crucified in our place
is good, indeed it’s vital.


But believing is not, in any way,
paying-your-way.

Hence:

 

        Jesus’ act of God’s love towards us, his crucifixion,
        and the good results of it,
        are, in effect, unconditional.

 

        Luke c15 v11-32:   my abbreviation
        God is like a father who loved his two sons.
        One son asked for his inheritance in advance
        but then wasted it all on wild, immoral, living.
        Hungry, he returned home to apologise deeply.
        But his father’s very warm welcome
        drowned out his apologising.
        The other son, though his inheritance was still intact,
        was angry at his father’s welcome for his brother.
        His father tried to reassure him:
        told him that he loved them both, equally, unconditionally.
        But the son wouldn’t have it, didn’t understand such love,
        saw only that he should be loved, not his brother.
        His isolation from his father & brother
        had become vivid.   my abbreviation

 

You may say:

 

        “But there are other parts of the Bible
        that say that God’s love is conditional:

 

        1 Cor c6 v9-10   Gal c5 v19-21   Eph c5 v5   Col c3 v5 

 

        Heb c13 v4   Rev c21 v8   combined,  my abbreviation:
        The following won’t go to Heaven:
            Fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, effeminate,
            abusers of themselves with mankind,
            thieves, the covetous, drunkards, revilers,
            extortioners.  Those who practice, or who have:
            sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,
            idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy,
            fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions,
            divisions, envy, orgies.
            Whoremongers, the (morally) unclean.
            Those having: inordinate affection,
            evil concupiscence, anger, wrath, malice.
            Those having: blasphemy and filthy
            communication come out of their mouths.
            The abominable, murderers, liars.   my abbreviation”

 

But I say:

 

        “Much of the Bible stars, and is even written by,
        people who had actually committed such crimes.

        Admittedly they repented, became good.
        But they’d still done those crimes, in the past.”

 

        See:  FOR A WHILE THE SOUL MAY BE
,,                           THE OPPOSITE OF THE HEART/SPIRIT. ,,,

 

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God, in this Church Age, this New Covenant Age
(i.e. 33ad to now), is loving, not just:

        In the KJV:
            The Old Testament contains 29 instances
            of the word justice.
            The New Testament contains 0 instances
            of the word justice.

        Similarly, last time I looked,
        Smith Wigglesworth’s online sermons contained:
            0 instances of the word justice
            277 instances of the word love.

,,        ,,        ,         Smith’s sermons are rotated by the site owner.

 

If your response:
        to God being absolutely loving,
        and to the Cross being unconditional,
is to say:
        “Then what’s to stop us sinning?”
then it shows you haven’t yet believed
and so have insufficient gratitude:

 

        To only know, in your mind,
        that God no longer takes note of sins,
        without also believing it, in your heart,
        would indeed make you sin more.

 

        Or perhaps you do believe, in your heart,
        but your heart has not yet renewed your mind accordingly:
                 you are not grateful throughout,
                not certain of your salvation throughout.

 

        Rom c6 v1-2     Rom c6 v15     1 Cor c6 v12-20

 

        &     Gal c2 v16-21:
        Did God Forgive us so that we can sin (more) freely?
        Absolutely not.   my abbreviation

 

        But if you do believe, in your heart,
        and if your heart has renewed your mind accordingly:
                 1) Duplicated its belief into your mind
                     (so that even your mind believes).
                 2) Established the pattern of that belief
                     the pattern of the gospel, agape love, 
                     throughout your mind.
        then you would think and act
        like God currently thinks and acts:
        completely constructively.

 

        That includes (due legal process aside)
        forgiving all those who’ve hurt you
        however great the hurt.

 

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