Revelation 11:6

6 These [two witnesses] have power to shut up the sky, so that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying (their prediction of events relating to Christ's kingdom and its speedy triumph); and they also have power to turn the waters into blood and to smite and scourge the earth with all manner of plagues as often as they choose. 

We have seen the Four Horseman be empowered to kill off a fourth of the earth. We have seen that natural disasters are affecting a third of the earth. We have seen that a spiritual war will kill off a third of all mankind, and now we see that plagues are being spoken out by God’s two witnesses. These two first speak and the things that we have read about happen. They clearly tell the world that the wars are coming and they do. They tell the world that the natural disasters are coming and they do. Can you imagine how these two will be hated by the world for being used in this way? And we will be empowered by the Holy Spirit to agree with them, so imagine how we will be hated as well! The anti-christ and false prophet will be trying to grab all of the worlds power during this time. At every turn these two witnesses will be used by the Holy Spirit to proclaim an event of wrath is coming from our Father and what they are used to proclaim will happen and it will hinder every effort of the anti-christ. These two will proclaim it, we will agree with it, and the world will hate us for it. 

The thing to remember here is that our Father released the Four Horseman. God released the seals, the Angel of the Abyss, the Four Angels at the Euphrates River, and now we are shown that our Father is controlling, through the Holy Spirit, these two witnesses. This is our Father’s wrath and He is in control and His wrath is not against His own body. We are fed by Jesus, covered by Jesus, and find clean water by Jesus. Our sins, sicknesses, and diseases are borne now by our Lord and Savior, and they will be borne during the Great Tribulation by Him as well. Even during the Great Tribulation, Jesus is greater within us then he that is in the world! Also remember that John was told of the speedy victory of Jesus. For the wicked this will be a long 3 1/2 years, but for the Body of Christ it is speedy!

Faith In The Power Of Signs

“So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” Romans 10:17 “And ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free.” John 8:32

We need to hear the Truth that Jesus said that those who believe will have these signs following them: casting out devils, speaking in tongues, no deadly thing harming them, and being used by God to perform miraculous healings. The Truth of the power of God that is within us and that is for us will set us free! The Truth will set us free from fearing gifts like tongues. The Truth will allow us to see why we have them, what they are, and that it is God within us doing all of them! Faith comes from hearing the Truth and the Truth sets the world free! The great Truth about the signs of God, the signs that will follow us, is that they are only happening because it is God within us doing them. Through the power and freedom that Jesus’ sacrifice has provided, God can now do all things through us! There are no limitations for God any longer; He is now free to work through us completely as He worked through Jesus completely. “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” Philippians 4:13 Christ, the Anointing of God, allows us to be used by our Father to do all things and it is the Father within us, He is doing the works! Christ allows God to do all things through us, and the world will see God through us, and the world will accept Him, not just because we talk about Him, but by the signs that He performs through us! There will be no doubt as to the One Who is working through us; the works will go beyond man’s abilities, and God will be glorified by them! We should all eagerly desire the love of God, which manifest itself in the signs He performs through us. We should all eagerly desire that God use us as vessels of His honor and that the sick are healed by His power working through us, that He uses our mouths to utter exact prophecies in whatever language that is needed, and that because of Him and the signs that are an evidence of His presence, multitudes come to believe and be saved!

Jesus is Lord and this is the day that He has made and through His glorious presence within our lives we will rejoice and be glad in it!

Why Signs?

“And Jesus said unto them, Go into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In My Name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak in new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” Mark 16:15-18

Why did Jesus say signs? He could have said works, but Jesus said signs! Jesus said that signs would follow us because we are the living testament that God is real and that He has come to dwell as one with man! People see God through us; they see works and actions that man is incapable of! God does His miraculous works through us and only God can perform the works of God. “Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of Myself: but the Father that dwelleth in Me, He doth the works.” John 15:10 Jesus told the people clearly that it was not Him alone doing the works, but that it was God doing the works through Him! And then to confirm His testimony, Jesus told the people to look at the works that were happening through Him. “Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me: or else believe Me for the very works sake.” John 15:11

We should say the exact same thing as we are ministering. “People believe that we are saved and believe that we are in God and that He is in us through Jesus Christ our Lord; or else believe that we are saved and united with God because it is God working within us and we are not harmed by deadly drinks or snakes. Believe that we are saved and united with God because devils flee from us, believe because we speak in new tongues, and believe because God leads us to lay hands on the sick and they recover!” Jesus told the people to believe because of the works they saw God performing through Him, and Jesus tells us that we will see the works of God being performed through us. Signs prove to the world that we are saved: signs both for us and for the entire world to see. “Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on Me through their word. That they all may be one; as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that Thou hast sent Me.” John 17:20-21 We are one with God, just as Jesus is One with God. Now stop right there, we are one with God just as Jesus is One with God, when you think of Jesus and God, you too should think of you and God. That is why Jesus came, so that we could enjoy the exact same unity with our Father that our Lord and Savior enjoys! That is why Jesus freely went to the Cross! Jesus went to the Cross so that all separation between man and God would be eliminated. And as Jesus was used by God as a sign of His presence and His love, so shall we be used as a sign! Jesus didn’t come and minister with just Words, even though His Words are eternal. Jesus came in action and in deed, and God doesn’t change, He is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow! “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.” Hebrews 13:8

Signs will follow all who believe and are saved!

What Jesus Has To Say About Signs

“And Jesus said unto them, Go into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In My Name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak in new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” Mark 16:15-18

If we have been empowered to believe in Jesus as Lord and are baptized with God’s Holy Spirit, we shall be saved; no questions, no doubts, and no maybes about it, it’s an absolute Truth, and if we don’t believe in Him, we shall be damned! It doesn’t get any clearer than that! God would that all men be saved and He has given all of us the measure of faith to accept and believe in Jesus as Lord, so that we all can be saved! “For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.” Romans 12:3 The Truth will set us free and faith comes from hearing God’s absolute Truth! “Who will have all men saved, and come to the knowledge of the Truth.” 1 Timothy 2:4

The Truth is this, all who believe in Jesus as Lord and who are saved will have the signs that Jesus spoke of in Mark 16 following them! Jesus doesn’t lie and Jesus said that signs will follow us; no questions, no qualifications, and no doubts. If we believe that Jesus is Lord and are baptized with the Holy Spirit these signs will follow us, it’s an absolute Truth! That is the awesome thing about our Father, He is absolute and His Word is absolute and eternal! Heaven and earth will pass away, but the Truth that God’s signs will follow all who believe will still be around!

Signs and wonders can not help but follow us; we are one with Jesus and signs and wonders follow Jesus wherever He is! God will use us as members of His body to cast out devils! Our Father will empower us to speak with new tongues! Poisonous snakes and deadly drinks will not harm us, because they cannot harm Jesus! And in the authority of the Name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, we will be used by God to lay hands on the sick and they will recover, just as God used Jesus to heal the sick 2000 years ago, He will use all of us who are one with Jesus today to heal the sick! All who believe in Jesus as Lord shall have these signs following them, all of us who believe! These signs will not just follow preachers or evangelist; all of us will be used by God to have these miraculous signs following us! Because it is God within all of us doing the works of His righteousness and these signs follow God!

God Uses Miracles To Confirm His Witness

"God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to His own will." Hebrews 2:4

It is our Father's will that His witness through us is verified through signs and wonders! He uses the same tool with us as He used with Jesus, His very own Spirit, the Holy Spirit! Our Father cannot be something that He isn't, and God is miraculous and He is powerful. He showed the world just a fraction of His power through Jesus and Jesus said that God wanted to do even more through us, John 14:12! Our Father’s will is to serve mankind mightily and His will is to use us as the vessels of His honor!

So many times we think that it is us performing the works. If it were us working then there would always be the fear of failure. But the Truth is that it is our Father working through us and there is freedom with that Truth. Faith comes from us hearing that it is God’s will to work His signs and wonders through us by the power of the Holy Spirit. Faith comes from knowing that it brings glory to Jesus and faith comes from hearing the Word! These verses are the will of our Father. They are His eternal Word and they bring life and peace to all that truly hear and are empowered to accept them! Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, He changes not, and we are now one with Him, and as He is, so are we in this world! A-men!

The Gospel Goes Beyond Words

"For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake." 1 Thessalonians 1:5

Our Father uses us to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ with much assurance and with much power! There should be no doubts when we confess the Truth, there should be none of this, “we can agree to disagree!” The Gospel of God is in power; it’s in the power of the Holy Ghost, and the power of God changes things! Peter walked through the streets and the people just wanted to get close to him, and if they did they were healed! Our Father is not double minded and we now have the mind of Christ! Our Father is a God of absolutes. Jesus proclaimed that God would perform signs and wonders through us, Mark 16, and that the world would follow us as we are led by Him in the paths of righteousness! Jesus proclaimed that our Father would do the works through us that He did through Him. Jesus also taught us that our Father would do even greater works through us! God has spoken that His kingdom is one of power. These are Truths and whether the world accepts them or rejects them makes no difference! If we have truly been empowered to say yes to Jesus and make Him the Lord of our lives, then these things will happen through us. If they don’t, then our Father would have lied and our Father is not a man that He should lie!

We will absolutely be used by God to proclaim His Truth’s with power and with much, praise God much, assurance! Greater is He that is within us than He that is in the world!

Our Kingdom Is Powerful

"For the Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power." 1 Corinthians 4:20

We should have power, God’s power, working through us! Just as Jesus had God’s power working through Him!

“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.” John 14:12

The Kingdom of God is in power, it’s in doing the works that Jesus did and even greater ones. Now that is some power! Jesus doesn’t hymn hall around with this statement either! Jesus said we shall be used by our Father to do miraculous works, no questions about it! Jesus spoke with certainty and with authority about God working through all of us who believe! It’s the power of our Father working through us that allows people to look beyond man, beyond some fancy words, beyond poetic speeches and cunningness and see the Truth, and the Truth will set them free! People need to know that our Father still heals. They need to know that He still gives wisdom and knowledge, peace and joy that pass all understanding. The world needs to know that He understands us and knows our needs, even before we ask. The world needs to know that God is willing and able to do the absolute perfect things in every situation for us! Jesus said that if we believe on Him, then we absolutely would do the works that He did. The Truth is this: if we truly have been empowered by the Holy Spirit to accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, then God absolutely will work through us. He will work through us as He worked through Jesus and our Father will even work greater things through us, because the sacrifice of Jesus has allowed Him to! The hindrances of the price of sin are gone. The Blood of Jesus has destroyed them and the Old Covenant is finished! Our Father is able to work through us with the freedom of the New Covenant, where sin and the wages of it have been destroyed and removed from us. Our Father can now work freely through all of us! Look at what God was able to do with just the one body of Jesus. Now He has millions of us! Faith comes from hearing this Truth!

Father I ask You in the Name of Jesus, that you use each of us, so that the Church will finally walk in the full and complete power that you have provided for us through Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior! A-men!

Faith In The Truth Of Signs

“So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” Romans 10:17

“And ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free.” John 8:32

We all need to hear the Truth. We all need to hear that Jesus said that those who believe will have these signs following them: casting out devils, speaking in tongues, no deadly thing harming them, and being used by our Father to perform miraculous healings. The Truth will set us free! The Truth will set us free from fearing gifts like tongues. The Truth will allow us to see why we have them, what they are, and that it is God within us doing them! Faith comes from hearing the Truth and the Truth sets the world free!

The great Truth about the signs of God, the signs that will follow us, is that they are only happening because it is God within us doing them. Through the power and freedom that Jesus’ sacrifice has provided, our Father can now do all things through us! There are no limitations for our Father any longer; He is now free to work through us as He worked through Jesus.

“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” Philippians 4:13

Christ, the Anointing of God, allows us to do all things and it is the Father within us, He is doing the works! Christ allows our Father to do all things through us. Because of this the world will see God through us, and the world will accept Him. They will accept our Father not just because we talk about Him, but they will believe by experiencing the signs that He performs through us! There will be no doubt as to the One Who is working through us, because the works will go beyond man’s abilities, and God will be glorified by them! We should all eagerly desire the love of God, which manifest itself in the signs He performs through us. We should all eagerly desire that God use us as vessels of His honor and that the sick are healed by His power working through us. We should desire that our Father uses our mouths to utter exact prophecies in whatever language that is needed, and that because of Him and the signs that are an evidence of His presence, multitudes come to believe and be saved!

Jesus is Lord and this is the day that He has made and through His glorious presence within our lives we will rejoice and be glad in it!

The Sign Of Tongues

“And these signs shall follow them that believe; In My Name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak in new tongues;” Mark 16:17

Jesus taught us that we would speak in new tongues if we believe and are saved. “And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.” Acts 2:4 Notice that on the Day of Pentecost, all of the believers were speaking in new tongues, not just the Apostles, but all 120 people, both women and men. All of the believers who were there spoke with new tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance! Jesus said the sign of speaking in new tongues would follow all who believe. Speaking in tongues is a sign of the presence of our Father. Whether we are speaking in an earthly language that is not our own or a heavenly one, it is the Spirit that gives us the ability to do so, and it is a sign that our Father is real, that He is alive, and that He dwells within us.

“Eagerly pursue and seek to acquire [this] love [make it your aim, your great quest]; and earnestly desire and cultivate the spiritual endowments (gifts), especially that you may prophesy (interpret the Divine will and purpose in inspired preaching and teaching).” 1 Corinthians 14:1 Amplified Bible. Tongues are a gift of God that acts as a sign to the world, a sign that proves that our Father is real, and since it does, we should eagerly desire it. Should we desire tongues above the other gifts of the Spirit, no; but we should desire it.

Think of never needing an interpreter to preach the Gospel. How awesome, regardless of which nation we will be in, the power of the Holy Spirit will give us exactly the Words that God wants spoken, exactly when they should be spoken, and exactly how the people hearing them need to hear them spoken. Through the power of the Spirit we can speak to a person, even if we have never spoken their language before, exactly as God would speak to them. Think of the intimacy and understanding that our Father has, and that is exactly how we may be used to speak to them! Awesome, absolutely awesome! Think of praying in tongues, speaking the language of the Angels. The Spirit of God giving us the utterance, so that we are praying exactly what needs to be prayed, exactly how it needs prayed, and all through the power of God Himself! Jesus said that we all would speak in new tongues and the Holy Ghost inspired Paul to write that we should all eagerly desire it! The gifts of our Father are not to be feared, we haven’t been given a spirit of fear, but of power; God’s signs should be desired by all of us.

There is also now no condemnation for us. Tongues is a gift. So if you haven't received the gift yet, there is no condemnation. It just means that our Father hasn't yet given you the gift. He will, when He is ready for you to have it. It will be in the perfect time and you will be used perfectly to use it.

Why Signs?

“And Jesus said unto them, Go into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In My Name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak in new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” Mark 16:15-18

Why did Jesus say signs? He could have said works, but Jesus said signs! Jesus said that signs would follow us because we are the living testament that God is real! People see our Father through us; they see works and actions that man is incapable of! Our Father does His miraculous works through us and only He can perform the works of God. “Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of Myself: but the Father that dwelleth in Me, He doth the works.” John 15:10

Jesus told the people clearly that it was not Him doing the works, but that it was God doing the works through Him! And then to confirm His testimony, Jesus told the people to look at the works that were happening through Him. “Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me: or else believe Me for the very works sake.” John 15:11 We should say the exact same thing as we are ministering. “People believe that we are saved and believe that we are in God and that He is in us through Jesus Christ our Lord. Or believe that we are saved and united with God because it is our Father working within us and we are not harmed by deadly drinks or snakes. Believe that we are saved and united with God because devils flee from us, believe because we speak in new tongues, and believe because God leads us to lay hands on the sick and they recover!” Jesus told the people to believe because of the works they saw God performing through Him, and Jesus tells us that we will see the works of God being performed through us.

Signs prove we are saved: signs both for us and for the entire world to see. “Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on Me through their word. That they all may be one; as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that Thou hast sent Me.” John 17:20-21 We are one with God, just as Jesus is One with God, and as Jesus was used by God as a sign of His presence and His love, so shall we be used as a sign! Jesus didn’t come and minister with just Words, even though His Words are eternal. Jesus came in action and in deed, and God doesn’t change, He is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow! “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.” Hebrews 13:8

Jesus Has Taken Away All Of Our Sin

"If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us." 1 John 1:8-10

Let me start right now by confessing to all who will ever read this, that without Jesus Christ in my life, I am nothing but sin! Apart from Christ and without the power and glory of our Father working through me, even the good works that I did, were sinful works! Everything that I ever did before accepting Jesus as Lord was sin! God is not a man that He should lie; I have sinned! And let me also confess that the only reason I have been able to accept Jesus as my Lord and make Him my Savior, is because He first Authored and Finished the faith within me to do so, and it is God’s will that all men be saved! Now here is the awesome part, Jesus has empowered me to confess this and because He has, He has now cleansed me from all unrighteousness! Hallelujah, Jesus has placed Himself within us, and Jesus is the Word of God, and He has made us one with the Word, and through our unity with the Word, we are perfect, and the world will believe and be saved! Jesus doesn’t lie, every last one of our sins has been forgiven us, and we are now clean from all unrighteousness!

"Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for His seed remaineth in him, and he cannot sin, because he is born of God." 1 John 3:9

Once we were born of God, we no longer could sin, that power that held us captive was destroyed, our old self was crucified with Christ and our body of sin was destroyed, Romans 6:6! God’s Seed, His Incorruptible Seed, now remains within us, 1 Peter 1:23! We don’t stand sovereign in this freedom, it’s not by our own works, it’s completely accomplished by Jesus’ works! It’s the Blood of Jesus that has paid the price for us and Jesus has cleansed us, and it is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit that empowers us! Jesus has cleansed us from all sin!

"And He is the propriation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world." 1 John 2:2