Blessings like healing, walking in divine health and being set free from sickness and disease. Financial blessing, walking in prosperity and in abundance. And then having favor with other people, developing good relationships.

Now, why is it that we lose out on these blessings? Is it because the Lord is withholding them? Now, I believe that it's because we're ignorant. Oh, you say, now you're insulting me right at the beginning of the message already. Now, I didn't say you were stupid.

I said you were ignorant. And that's what Jesus said to the Pharisees. They came with some silly argument.

And he said, you know, you guys are in error. You got it all wrong. Because there's two very important things that you're ignorant about.

You're ignorant about what the scriptures teach. And you're ignorant about the power of God. And I would say if you are losing out on the blessings that God has for you as a believer, it's for the same reason.

You are ignorant about what the scriptures teach. And you're ignorant about the power of God that is there to bring those blessings to you. You need the two Ps.

And I like to just use alliteration like that just to help you settle in your mind. The two Ps, principles and power. Principles and power.

Now, very often we have the one. And we think that's enough. You say, well, I've got the principles.

I know enough about the word. I've studied some very good teachings. And I know how it works.

You know, I've been with these GBM people. And I've studied the new way of blessing parts one and two. And I really know the stuff.

I really fully understand and comprehend the principles of what it is to walk in blessing. But somehow, I just can't seem to get the principles to work for me. You're being there.

Many years ago, as I got turned on to counseling and helping people in their spiritual problems. And probably the main reason I did that is because I had so many problems myself. And one of the problems I had was an inner insecurity and inferiority and weakness.

And, you know, I went into the counseling principles. I went into the word. And I found the answers.

I found the solution to overcoming my problem. But you know what? I was still insecure and weak. In my mind, I knew what I should do.

But somehow, I couldn't make it work. Somehow, I couldn't break free of this thing that was holding me back. And then one day, God led somebody to pray for me.

And he didn't even know what he was doing. But he laid hands on me. And pow, something happened.

Power of God came on me. And both of us kind of looked at each other and said, well, something happened there. What was it? And the other guy said, well, yeah, I feel what God is saying is He took some weakness out of you and He's put some strength back in again.

And I said, well, what is that? But you know, from that moment, suddenly, the thing that I've been struggling with for so long and tried to apply the principles to overcome, it just happened. And I was set free. Well, the principles weren't enough.

I needed the power of God. You see, now, it was good that I knew the principles. Because the power of God works through the principles.

And God always works through His word. It's always the spirit and the word together, working hand in hand. Let's not throw out the principles.

Let's not just go for the glory and the power. Let's stick to the stability of the word and give a channel for the Holy Spirit to work in. But once you've laid the channel, then you need to get the power to come down that channel.

Once you've connected the wires, you need to throw the light switch and electricity flow. You see, we need both of these together. Now, I'd like to look tonight very quickly.

At how we come to know the principles, at how we come to know the power, and how we put the two of them together. And when you can do that, you can start to walk in the blessing of the Lord. And all of these things that you've desired for so long will suddenly start to become a reality in your life.

Well, how do we get to know the principles? Well, Jesus already laid that out. He said, you need to know the scriptures. Because the scriptures, the word of God, contain every principle.

Everything that pertains to life and godliness, the scriptures say, is contained in the word. Everything. So, what's the starting point? You need to know the word.

You need to know what you believe. And you cannot know what you believe until you've studied the word and chosen to accept what the scriptures are telling you. Oh yes, now I know and I believe the word.

And when I believe the word, faith is born in my heart. So, how do you do it? Get into the word. And there's another way.

Start listening to the preaching of the word. Get yourself into position to listen to some good preaching and teaching. Because sometimes the word is just like this wild jungle and we can't make sense of it.

And you need a preacher to come and gather all of one species of plant together in one place and explain to you what it looks like. It's good to be subject to good preaching and teaching. You say, well, I don't have time to go and watch preaching.

You know, if I make it on Sunday to church, that's long enough. And hopefully, for that one short time, your minister or preacher or whoever is giving you something that's going to feed you. But it's not enough.

You need to get into the word yourself. And then you need to go beyond that. And you need to start making yourself open to receive preaching and teaching from others.

There's so many resources out there. There are books that have been written. There are videos.

There are audios that are available. Things that you can download right from the internet. And in this ministry alone, we've offered such a wealth of resources that are available to you.

You know, we invite people to come and receive these. And, you know, I go in and I check every day because I can see who's coming in and what people are accessing. I get full stats of what is being read and watched.

And I can't believe how little people who are being offered this freely, how little effort they can make to go and take the time to read or to watch a good preach or to listen to it on audio, whichever way you can. We offer all of them. And we can't be bothered to take the time.

And then we want to cry. And people write and they say, please pray for me. I'm in trouble.

Well, do you know the principles? Don't you bother to fill yourself with the words? Well, you know, I really have quite a busy life. You know, I have long hours that I have to work and so many things that I have to do. Well, do you have time to suffer? Do you have time to be sick? You have time to be poor? Or why don't you make time to get healthy and time to get wealthy by getting into God's Word, by getting into the resources that are available that will build up your faith and cause you to rise up and say, yes, I'm going to go out and I'm going to do it.

And we're going to lay hold on the promises of God. Stop making excuses. There's no excuses anymore.

You're not living in a country where they banned the Word of God and you can't get it. On the internet today, it's available everywhere. Even if you can't afford to go buy a Bible, you can read it online.

You need to know the principles. And then you need to go beyond that. You need to know the power of God.

It's not enough to know the principles where they'll get you going in the right direction. I mean, you know the principles, the desires will be built in you and you'll say, yes, yes, this is what I want. Lord, I need it now.

Lord, I reach out to you. You're going to have to reach out. You're going to touch God now.

We can't do that for you. We can show you the way. We can help you.

We can point you. And we can even pray for you. And we can even speak the anointing of God on you.

But it's for you to reach out and take it from God. It's between you and him. You need to get to know the Holy Spirit.

The moment you were born again, he came to live inside of you. Have you ever met him? Do you know him? Have you heard his voice speaking? Well, no, no, no, no, I haven't really. How much time do you spend in prayer? How much time do you spend meditating on the word? How much time do you spend waiting on him? Jesus said he was given to be the comforter, to replace Jesus, to teach us and to lead us into all truth.

While you're reading the word, the Holy Spirit is sitting right next to you there. And all you need to do is when you can't understand the word, turn to him and say, I don't understand this. Please, can you explain it to me? And he's there to teach you and to help you.

But he's there to do a whole lot more than that. He's there to actually anoint you with power. He's the giver of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, which are all manifestations of the power of God.

And he's there to bring you into a relationship with the King of Kings. The risen Jesus who's seated on the right hand of the Father. He's there to bring you into the very presence of the Father himself.

And as he brings you to Jesus, Jesus will say, come on in. Let's go and meet the Father. Well, that's your source of power.

Are you looking to the world? You're getting sick, you're running to the medical system of this world, which cannot heal, can only treat symptoms. When you need financial provision, you're going to the ideas of this world to see how you can make better money. You're running to find out who can employ you and give you a job.

Somebody out there who's learned how to create wealth and has created a business. And now you're dependent on them to provide you a job so that you can have income. You're a child of God.

You should have better ability than the person who has all the money running the business. If you knew the principles of the Word of God concerning wealth and prosperity, you could rise up and be the owner of your own business. And you could be the boss employing others.

Well, I don't know how to do that. We've got lots of teaching on it. Check out our resources.

They've been available for a long time, many of them free. And for a very small financial commitment, you can put your hands on all of them. The principles are available there.

Once you've got those principles, reach out and say, okay, Holy Spirit, teach me, show me the way, reveal Jesus to me. And as you come with the knowledge of the scriptures and a relationship and a knowledge of the Holy Spirit, who is the source of power that God has given us, then you'll be in the place where you can start putting these together. And when you put them together, you're going to get an explosion.

It's going to be like two chemicals that when they combine together, react. It's going to be like two winds, which when they come together, become a hurricane or a tornado. That's the way it works.

That's the way it works. Well, how do we put the two together? You're going to have to do it using the one powerful force that God has given to us. The one key to tapping into everything that God has for us.

And it's the F word. Faith, faith. Well, how do we get faith? Well, you could start by reading the word, because the scripture says, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the revealed word of God.

And if you fill yourself with the word long enough, the word will start oozing out of you and become so real to you, it'll start to produce faith in you. If you think you're going to develop faith without a knowledge of the word, I've got news for you, it's not going to happen. You know what your faith is going to be? Your faith is going to be in the world system.

Your faith is going to be in the medical systems of this world. Your faith is going to be in the financial systems of this world. Your faith is going to be in the psychological systems of this world, which do not include the Lord, which are contrary to the word of God, and which do not embrace the power of God.

You wonder why you're failing. Faith comes by hearing the word preached. And I hope by the time I'm finished with this message, some faith will have been created in you, that you can rise up and begin to embrace what God has for you.

You say, I don't have faith. Go and listen to some good faith-filled preaching. There's lots of it around.

God always works through faith. So many people have preached on faith, and still so few people understand it. So few people understand it.

We make it so big and complicated, that faith is actually even more difficult than getting the things we're looking for. It's even more difficult for me to get faith than it is to get healed. It's even more difficult for me to get faith than it is to prosper financially.

That's because Satan doesn't want you to know how simple and easy faith is. We've taught on this, and it's available. In my series on the new way of blessing, I've explained faith in some detail.

And we have much teaching out on faith. Faith is very simple. Faith means, firstly, to be fully convinced.

Until you come to the place that you are fully convinced, without a doubt, that God wants to bless you. That God wants to heal you. That God wants to prosper you.

That God wants to give you that partner of your dreams. That God wants to give you new friends and relationships. Instead of you being alone at home and lonely.

Until you come to the place where you are fully convinced that God wants these, faith has not started. And until faith starts, you're not going to get them. Because the scripture says, without faith, it's impossible.

But firstly, faith means being fully convinced. How do we get faith? By listening to the word until eventually we begin to believe it. You know, if you're told a lie often enough, eventually you'll begin to believe it.

It just takes repetition. Well, the word of God isn't a lie, it's the truth. Are we listening to the lies of the world for so long that we began to believe them? And our faith is in what the world says.

It's time you get into the word. You spend more time in the word than you spend watching that television set. Less time than you do surfing the net.

Filling your mind with the influences of this world. And true faith will be born in your heart. You'll start coming to the point where you say, yes, I believe it.

I know now, without a doubt, that God wants to bless me. That's a good starting place. And then faith means healing fully to him.

Faith doesn't mean, well, I rise up now, okay, I believe that this is supposed to be mine, so I'm just going to reach out in my arrogance and demand it. Well, you know, he promised that he'd better give it to me, what kind of God is he? We get angry with him when he doesn't give it to us. You know, faith involves total submission, total yielding to his will.

Total submission to him and saying, Lord, I'm yours. Here I am. Then faith means reaching out and taking what he promised.

I like to imagine that the Lord gave me this picture of this hand that I, I got my physical hand, but like inside me in my spirit, there's this other hand. Because you see, we can't touch God physically, we touch him with our spirits. And deep in your spirit, there's another kind of hand, like third hand, if you want to call it.

Okay, that hand must reach out and touch God. You say, well, I'm waiting. I'm waiting for God to touch me.

I'm waiting for him to touch me. Well, you know, the chances are God's waiting for you to reach out and touch him first. Because you see, God will never impose himself.

The Lord never imposes his will on any of us. He won't even bless us unless we really want it. So we got to come to a place where we say, okay, I believe your word, Lord.

I believe this. I'm fully convinced. I submit myself fully and totally to you in spirit, soul, and body.

And now by faith, I reach out and I receive the blessings that you have for me. Well, where are those blessings? The scripture says, God provides our needs according to his riches in glory. See, the blessings are coming from the heavenly realm.

Where is Jesus right now? Well, little child, you say, Jesus is in my heart. Yes, the Holy Spirit came to dwell in your heart and to bring Jesus there. But Jesus physically is seated on the throne of heaven in the heavenly realm.

And he's got the name that is above every other name. And he has the power and authority to grant everything that you have. Your blessing is going to come from up there.

So you're going to have to take this third hand of yours and reach it up into heaven. And say, okay, Lord, I believe your word. I submit myself fully to you.

And now I reach out and I thank you. And I receive from your hand the blessing that you have for me. And then once you've received it, you've got to release that faith.

And there's only two ways to release what we've received in our spirits. You see, you've received it spiritually. We now want it physically.

We want it in the natural realm. So you reached out, you pulled it out of heaven, and it's now inside your spirit. And now you must let it out.

You must let it out and make it manifest in this world. And there's just only two simple ways you can do that. By the words that you speak and by the things that you do.

We do it with words and with actions. I thought faith was really complicated. No, it's not.

Faith is not complicated. Faith is just continuing to fill yourself with his word. And to listen to the preaching of his word.

And to be exposed to things that will give us confidence in God. Submitting ourselves fully to him and then reaching out and saying, Lord, I'm taking it now. Because I know you want me to have it.

Thank you, Lord. I receive it now. And then I open my mouth and I begin to say, I have.

I am blessed. I am walking in divine health. My sickness and disease have been dealt with on the cross of Calvary.

Jesus has paid the price. I don't have to be sick anymore. Jesus made poor that I can become rich.

I don't need to be poor anymore. He gives me favor. The scripture says that when we are in favor with him, he'll make even our enemies to be in favor with us.

All of these promises you will find in his word. Start speaking them. Start speaking the scriptures out loud.

Start speaking the word. Start confessing and saying, I have this. This is mine.

Thank you, Lord, for it. No, I can't see it with my physical eyes. I believe it.

I believe that I am healed. I believe that my needs are met. I believe that I walk in prosperity.

I believe that I have friends. I believe that I have my life partner. You'll be amazed at the power that gets released.

When you do that, what does it take? Walk in the blessings of the Lord. All you need to know, firstly, is what the word teaches. And then you need to come to experience his power by coming in relationship with him and allowing the Holy Spirit to move upon you.

And you know, as you reach out and receive and begin to speak and act, what happens is the Holy Ghost begins to come upon you and he causes your body to be healed. God will, most of the time, actually, he will do it through somebody else. He'll send somebody else who he has anointed with the gift of the Spirit.

And that person will pray with you and your healing will come. God will move in your circumstances to change your finances. God will move upon people to come and give you opportunities or even to physically give you money or possessions to provide your need.

God will cause people to come across your path that you will meet to develop new relationships and have favor with others. What you need to do is know his word, know his power, receive the blessings by faith. You want to walk in the blessings of the Lord? Do you desire that? As I've been speaking now, I've been giving you some of the word.

I've been giving you some of the principles. Faith should already have started to rise in your heart. You should have already started to become convinced that yes, it's true.

God does want me to be blessed. He doesn't want me to be sick. He doesn't want me to be poor.

He doesn't want me to be alone. Now, I want you to use that hand of faith. And I'm going to pray now.

And as I pray, I want you to reach out. I want you to imagine you're reaching into the heaven around to touch the Lord and to receive. And as you do that, I want you to begin to thank him.

I want you to begin to speak out loud and say, thank you, Lord, for healing me. Thank you, Lord, for paying my bills. Thank you, Lord, for meeting my needs.

Thank you, Lord, for dealing with all these people that are against me and opposing me. Thank you, Lord, for giving me favor with them. Thank you, Lord, that they view me in a different light.

Thank you, Lord, for new friends and relationships and new contacts. Thank you, Lord. And as you do that, you will be releasing that power.

And what I'm going to do is I'm going to stand on the outside and I'm going to ask the Lord to use me to release some power from this end, to release his power to come upon you. Can you do that? Right, we're going to go into prayer now. And as we do that, I want you just to think in your heart and mind what it is that you need from the Lord, what blessings you need.

I want you to just reach out and say, Lord, I believe that you want to give these to me. I want you to do that right now as your head is bowed. Lord, I believe that you want me to be well.

I believe that you want me to be financially prosperous. I believe that you want me to have favor with many people, to be popular instead of unpopular, to have friends instead of being alone. Lord, I believe that you want me to have this.

And Lord, I reach out now. I want you to imagine. Now you're reaching with that arm of faith.

I reach out now, Lord, and I touch you. And I see that you're holding all of these things in your hands. As you're sitting up there in the throne of heaven, you're holding all these things in your hands.

And Lord, I'm reaching out now. And I see you giving it to me out of your hands, putting into my hands. Can you see it? He's giving you what you've desired of him because you're reaching out in faith.

Now grab it. Grab it by faith and pull it down and make it yours now. It's yours now.

I want you to start to thank him for it. I want you to start to thank him knowing that he has done it, even though it hasn't manifested, even though you may not feel any better, even though your circumstances are not changed yet, you have received this by faith and it is going to manifest in your life right now from this moment forward, change is going to begin to take place in your life. So Jesus, I ministered your word as you gave it to me.

And I thank you for your child who has received your word now. I thank you, Lord, for this person who has reached out to you in faith. And Lord, you will never deny us when we reach out in faith.

And so I ask you to grant what was asked. I speak forth healing now on those who need a touch. I don't care how serious your sickness or disease is.

I don't care what the doctors have told you. They are not your creator. He is the one who made your body and he knows how to fix your body.

And he has the power to do that. And I want you to reach out now and believe God as his power comes upon you, because his power is coming upon you right now in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus, right now, Holy Spirit, move upon each one that is watching this right now.

Move upon them now and touch their bodies from head to toe. Touch every organ, every cell in the body that is diseased. In the name of Jesus, remove every pain, remove any conflict in the body, every confusion in the chemical imbalances of the body, the nervous system, the endocrine system, every single part of the body that you made to function together in harmony.

I command harmony to be restored now. I command every spirit of strife, every spirit of destruction, every spirit of theft that has been stealing good health. I command you to leave now.

You will. Yes, you will in Jesus' name. You will bow your name to Jesus.

God did something there. And I want you to reach out now in action and put your faith into action. I want you to try and do something you couldn't do before.

If there was a stiffness that you're asking God to heal, reach out and see if that stiffness is gone. Act it out. Act out your faith.

Try to do what you couldn't do before because as you do that, that very action can release the power of God to bring your healing. Reach out and do it right now. Right now.

Thank you, Lord. You're touching them right now. Thank you, Lord.

You're touching people right now. You're healing them right now. You're setting them free.

Many, many different diseases. In Jesus' name. His power is upon you right now.

Trust Him. Trust Him. Thank you, Father.

I command all pain to leave now. I command you to leave now. I believe God has touched people that have watched this message.

And as an extra act of your faith, I'd like you to write me and share with me what God did with you as you watch this message. And as you make your testimony, that alone will release the power of God in your body. Now we're going to look at the finances.

Oh, Satan always uses finances to get us down, doesn't he? He uses finances to discourage us, make us want to give up and wonder whether it's even serving the Lord. And we look in envy at the world, at how they prospering. And everything seems to fall into their laps.

And yet, we who are trying to serve God, lack. God doesn't want that. God is not the author of poverty.

God gave His people in time past the promised land. It flowed with milk and honey and abundance. God has that for you right now.

The first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to pray for you for the cancellation the debt that's hanging over your head. Because that's the biggest bondage that you have right now. It's like a sickness, a disease in the body.

It's preventing you from walking in health. In the same way, these debts are preventing you from walking in financial liberty. We're going to break those debts first now in the name of Jesus.

And so I want you to begin to thank the Lord for removing that cloud of debt that's hanging over your head. In the name of Jesus right now. In the name of Jesus right now.

By your power. By your power, Lord. Lord, in Jesus' name.

I come against this load of debt that's hanging over your people. That's causing them to be in bondage to the world. I take authority over it now.

I bind it. I cut the cords. And I command that heavy load that's on the back of your child to roll off.

And to roll down the road and disappear. In a miraculous way, God is going to do it. Don't try and figure out in your mind how he's going to do it.

Don't try and give him a hand. He knows how to do it. Only help he needs from you is your faith.

And as you reach out and trust him. As you reach out and confess it. As you reach out and begin to act like you don't have debt.

By that I don't mean go and get more debt. But he's got to set you free from that bad habit as well. God's going to give you abundance.

Thank you, Lord, for removing the debt. Now I ask you, Lord, just to shower down the gold. I see like gold coins dropping from the sky as God's prosperity comes upon you.

And you know the terms that the scripture uses is that God's blessing will come upon you and overtake you. It's going to come behind you like this great big river. And the river's just going to go past you and ahead of you.

See you floating in it. It will overtake you. God doesn't only want to provide your needs.

He wants to provide more than you could ever spend on needs. So you'll have an abundance to give out to others that you can have abundance to use to do what he's called you to do and to extend the kingdom of God in the earth. I ask you, Lord, for prosperity upon your people.

I ask you for abundance now. I ask you for debt cancellation now. By your power, by your power, in the name which is above every other name, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I set you free financially.

And I speak the blessing and the prosperity of God upon you. And you shall know abundance that you've never known before, says the Lord. You don't have to be lonely anymore.

You don't have to hide away at home in despair. Wondering where there's any gain to be had. Anybody will come into your life who would ever look twice at you or show interest in you.

First thing you're going to have to do is take your eyes off yourself and look around you and see who you can be a blessing to. As you reach out to God and you've filled yourself with his word and you've reached out and touched his power, why don't you take some of that power to others? Why don't you think of looking for other people out there who need prayer and offer to go and pray for them? Why don't you think of other lonely people out there who need encouragement and think about how you could go and encourage that person? Instead of thinking of your own needs. Because you see, faith is released also through love.

You say, but I don't have anybody who loves me. Who do you love? Apart from yourself? Who do you love? Who are you pouring love into? You know the amazing thing is that when you pour love into somebody, they somehow feel obligated to pour it back. Ever noticed that? If you make an effort to be a blessing to others, don't you notice somehow they feel they want to bless you back again? Instead of sitting at home wallowing in loneliness, get out.

Walk out of your front door. And you're going to go right in your car. Get out of the car door.

Go try walking down the streets. Look around you. At work, wherever you go, look around you and look for people.

The world is full of lonely people. And even in the midst of a crowd, there are lonely people. Instead of looking at your own little loneliness, why don't you start looking out at all the other people out there that could be encouraged just by you going and saying a positive word to them? When you do that, you'll be releasing your faith through actions as well as through words.

And before you know it, you'll be so busy working with so many people and you'll have so many people around you and so many people who want to be with you that you'll have forgotten what it's like to be sitting all alone with nobody. Then you'll have something to give out. And oh, what a blessing it is to give out.

So much greater than it is to receive. Until you come to the place where every time you give out, God gives you back more. And you give out again, he gives you back more.

Eventually, you're going to say, okay, Lord, you've given enough. It's coming in too fast. I can handle that problem, can't you? Can you handle too much money coming in? Anybody ever had that problem? Can you handle too much health? You know, I'm so healthy, I don't need to sleep so long anymore.

I wake up early. I would get out there and conquer the world. Anybody have a problem? I don't have a problem with that.

Can't have too much of that. God wants to bless you with that. Father, I thank you for favor.

I thank you for favor. I thank you for friendships. I thank you for new contacts, new relationships.

And I commission the angels of God, even now, to begin to arrange new contacts. New people that will cross your path. Keep your eyes open.

It's going to happen. You're going to bump into new people without expecting it. At times that you least expect it, be ready for it.

Because God is going to start working on your behalf. The angels are already starting to work on your behalf. Before you know it, you're going to start meeting people that you never knew before.

You're going to start bumping into people and making friends that you never had before. You're going to be busy. Because that's the blessing of the Lord.

And take the principles and the power and put them together. And you're going to go forward and live the life of blessing the Lord has for you. We're going to continue to stand in prayer with you.

And I want you to write us and share your experiences. And if you need us to stand in prayer with you specifically, if you need special counsel in any of these areas, if you need to know what materials you should read, feel free to write us. We can tell you.

We'll point you in the right direction. We'll help you and take you by the hand until you begin to enter into all that the Lord has for you. May the Lord bless you.

Amen.

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