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I remember a similar story about Aimee Semple McPherson. She was in a meeting one time ministering to the sick with a number of other preachers and they were praying for a little boy who was so crippled his legs just hung limp, like noodles. The preachers laid hands on him and prayed, then they tentatively set him down to see if he was any better. He wasn’t, so they prayed for him again. Finally Sister McPherson, who’d been standing nearby watching, walked over. She grabbed the boy and said, “In the Name of Jesus, be healed!” Then she threw him on the floor and he hit the ground running. “But Brother Copeland, that’s really going out on a limb.” No, it’s not. It’s stepping out by faith with all boldness in the Name of Jesus. It’s believing and acting as if what He said in John 14 is true: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son” (verses 12-13). The Greek word translated ask also means “to demand or require.” It can refer to a request made in prayer or to the kind of thing that both Sister McPherson and the Apostle Peter did to heal the cripples they encountered. They both made a demand in the Name of Jesus. They didn’t demand of Jesus, they demanded in His Name that the work of the devil be overturned and the will of God be done. That’s the kind of thing Jesus told all of us, as believers, to do. He told us to go everywhere, share the gospel and use His Name as if it belongs to us—because it does. Jesus’ Name is our Name! It’s ours by covenant. It’s also ours by birth. We inherited it when we were born again of “the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named” (Ephesians 3:14-15). So, let’s put that Name to work and advance the kingdom of God. Let’s enforce the devil’s defeat and show people all around us that they can be healed, delivered and set free by the mighty Name of Jesus. It truly is the Name above all names! V ************************************** ************************************** Do the Wise Thing by Mac Hammond In Proverbs, Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, wrote, “Wisdom is the principal thing” (4:7). Not faith. Not grace. Not love. Those things are all vital in the life of the believer and should have a prominent place in your daily walk. But wisdom, Solomon wrote, is the principal thing. How did he know? He found out firsthand. In 2 Chronicles 1:7-12, he asked God for wisdom and look what happened: "In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him, Ask what I shall give thee. And Solomon said unto God,… Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people.… And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth or honour, nor the life of thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king: Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honour, such as none of the kings have had that have been before thee, neither shall there any after thee have the like." * * * * article continues on p. 10 * * * * BVOV : 9

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