BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

Because they wouldn’t receive Him, they couldn’t receive the power of the Father that was in and upon Him. “And he could there do no mighty work” (Mark 6:5). It Happened Before…It Can Happen Again We see this same principle operating in the ministry of the disciples. When they went into a city to preach in Jesus’ Name, if they were received in that city with respect, they could heal the sick there. If they weren’t, they had to leave and go minister somewhere else. As Jesus said to them when He sent them out, “He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me” (Matthew 10:40). Nothing about this changed after Jesus completed His earthly ministry and ascended back to heaven either. The principle remained the same. According to the book of Acts, when the apostles and the disciples in the early Church ministered in the Name of Jesus, people who received and respected them and that Name, could connect with the Anointing of God as if Jesus Himself were there. Those who didn’t could not. This is why the ministry of Peter was so powerful. People regarded him as a representative of the Lord and responded to him just like they had responded to Jesus. “Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them. There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one” (Acts 5:15-16). Could that same kind of thing happen again today? you might wonder. Certainly it could! And it does! The Lord spoke to my heart about it many years ago. He told me when I first began to learn about healing that if we, in the Church today, would start receiving Jesus’ ministers the same way we’d receive Jesus Himself, it would unleash His power in our midst at a whole new level. We’d step into the greatest move of healing we have ever seen. Even now, that great move of healing has already begun. So let’s do what it takes to step into it even further. Let’s throw off old religious traditions about not giving honor to any man. Before we go to a healing meeting anytime, anywhere, let’s learn to pray: Heavenly Father, I want You to know I receive and respect the men and women of God You have sent to me. I believe Your power is in them and upon them and You will work through them. When they lay hands on me in Jesus’ Name, I expect to receive just as I would if He were here laying hands on me. That’s what Jesus said would happen and, like the woman with the issue of blood—who was healed—I believe it, I’m saying it, and I’m going to act on it. When the minister of God touches me, I SHALL BE MADE WHOLE! V BVOV : 31

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