Brother Jude, in his letter to the Church, charges us to contend for the real faith that was delivered to us. “Don’t let it be watered down. Go for the real thing that was given to you,” he says. In other words, don’t settle for substandard Christianity!
We can’t win the world for Jesus without proof. The power of the Spirit of God must be manifested in your life. People have said that I preach miracles but I disagree. I don’t preach miracles, I preach Jesus! This is the message that brings the healings and miracles that we see in our ministry. The Bible says “How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him” (Acts 10:38). So, the message of Jesus is the message of Christ; meaning that it is the message of the anointing. When it’s preached, burdens are removed and yokes are destroyed because of the anointing that is present (Isaiah 10:27).
In Acts 19:1-20, Paul went to Ephesus, a city that was wholly given to idolatry, to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. He preached for about three months with little success. But when the people saw mighty miracles he performed in the Name of Jesus they believed. In Acts 19:11-12 the Bible says, “And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.” The presence of God was awesome in the land such that “...fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. And many that believed came, and confessed...” (Acts 19:17-18). Amen!
I made up my mind a long time ago to contend for the faith that was once delivered to the saints. Without the miraculous, there’s no other way to validate our claims that Jesus is alive.
