God Is Restoring Our Years
by Bill Winston
The first thing you should do once you’ve been born again and filled with the Holy Ghost is develop your faith. Why? Because faith is the tool you’ll need to accomplish anything as a believer.
Yes, you’ll need the anointing, but faith is the key to getting the anointing to function (Mark 5:25-34).
When I first started preaching in Chicago, we had a prayer meeting in our little storefront church. A lady came bursting through the front door while we were praying and demanded to talk to me.
“The drug dealers have taken over our block,” she said. “The kids can’t play. All the parents are afraid. What are you going to do about it?”
Now understand, the neighboring streets in Chicago at that time were like Dodge City. And because the church was there, it became my jurisdiction.
I said to the lady, “OK, get in this prayer circle.”
We got in a circle, prayed in the spirit, and then I received wisdom from God. I said, “God is telling me to take this bottle of oil, bless it, and tell you to pour it down your street.”
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