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T.L. and Daisy Osborn were teammates in evangel-

ism for over half a century, proclaiming the gospel
of Christ and sharing His love with millions of
people, face to face, in more than 70 nations. Here
they rejoice together on the final day of another
triumphant soulwinning crusade.
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B IBLE QUOTATIONS in this book may be per-

sonalized, paraphrased, abridged or conformed
to the person and tense of their context in order
to foster clarity and individual application.
Various language translations and versions
have been considered. Biblical references enable
the reader to compare the passages with his or
her own Bible.
The Author

ISBN 0-87943-139-3
Copyright 2021 by LaDonna C. Osborn
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CONTENTS
Introduction— COME BACK FROM THE DEAD ............... 11
1. GOD’S GOOD PLAN ................................................. 23
2. CONNECTED WITH GOD ........................................ 27
3. SEEDS OF DIVINE LIFE ........................................... 30
4. GOD AT WORK ...................................................... 34
Part I – India, Jamaica and This Book ............. 34
Part II – When The Light Turns On ................... 36
Part III – Making New Discoveries ..................... 41
5. WITHOUT CLICHÉS OR BIGOTRY ............................ 44
6. THE QUEST FOR TRUTH ........................................ 48
Part I – Questions to Ponder.............................. 48
Part II – Problems and Solutions ........................50
7. RISING TO A NEW LEVEL ....................................... 54
Part I – The Way to God’s Rich Blessings ...... 54
Part II – The Decline —The Recovery .............. 57
8. PREVIEW OF SEVEN BLESSINGS ............................ 60
Part I – What Redemption Means .....................60
Part II – Encapsulation of The Issues .............. 62
SECTION I
9. DIGNITY RESTORED .............................................. 113
Part I – The Remedy for Guilt ............................ 113
Part II – Free Again .............................................. 115
Statement of Faith ............................................... 118
SECTION II
10. PEACE RECOVERED ............................................. 123
Part I – With God —With Others —With Ourselves .. 123
Part II – Exonerated ............................................ 125
Statement of Faith .............................................. 129

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SECTION III
11. SIGNALS REFOCUSED .......................................... 133
Part I – Inner Conflict .......................................... 133
Part II – No More Separation ............................. 135
Part III – Delivered From Deception ................ 136
Part IV – Your New Guide ................................. 138
Part V – Staying On Course ..............................139
Statement of Faith ..............................................140
SECTION IV
12. HEALTH RENEWED .............................................. 145
Part I – No Longer Victimized........................... 145
Part II – The Destructive Decline ..................... 147
Part III – The Healer ............................................ 149
Part IV – Sickness Was Never God’s Plan .....150
Part V – Your Debt is Abolished ...................... 153
Part VI – Your Health is Paid For ..................... 154
Part VII – Christ’s Life is Your Life ................... 158
Statement of Faith .............................................. 159
SECTION V
13. PROSPERITY REGAINED ....................................... 165
Part I – God’s Abundance ................................. 165
Part II – The Beautiful Design ...........................166
Part III – Re-Birth of Divine Worth ....................169
Part IV – God’s Material Blessings ................... 175
Part V – His Best For You ................................. 178
Part VI – Faith For Abundance .........................180
Part VII – Adopting a New Life-style ............... 182
Statement of Faith .............................................. 185
SECTION VI
14. FRIENDSHIP RESUMED .......................................... 191
Part I – Know Your Identity ................................ 191
Part II – The Search —The Discovery .............193
Part III – God’s Open Door ................................ 195
Part IV – You Can Trust Me! I Will Trust You! .....198
Part V – The Way Home.................................. 200
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Part VI – Never Alone Again ............................205

Part VII – God’s Plan to Open The Way ........208
Part VIII – In God’s Presence Again ................ 213
Statement of Faith .............................................. 217
SECTION VII
15. VICTORY RETRIEVED ...........................................223
Part I – You Are Made to Win ..........................223
Part II – What You Know Makes The Difference .224
Part III – Christ Our Captain .............................. 227
Part IV – Legacy For Living .............................230
Statement of Faith .............................................232
SECTION VIII
16. TRIUMPH IN CHRIST .............................................237
Part I – Imagery That Misses The Mark .........237
Part II – Daniel’s 21 Day Delay .........................239
Part III – A Belligerent Society .........................242
Part IV – Witnessing With Courage ................244
Part V – Intercessory Prayer + Witnessing Action .249
Part VI – Options: Believe or Do Not Believe ...254
SECTION IX
17. VICTORIOUS PRAYER..................................... 261
Part I – Biblical Essence of Prayer .................. 261
Part II – Prayers That Bear No Fruit ................265
Part III – My 24/7 Prayer Guide........................270
Part IV – This Is How I Pray ............................. 274
Part V – Fables And Fantasies ........................278
SECTION X
18. THE FIGHT OF FAITH......................................285
Part I – God’s Word or Satan’s Wiles ..............285
Part II – The Right of Choice ............................. 291
Part III – Devils Are No Problem .....................296
Part IV – Warfare Intelligence ...........................301

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SECTION XI
19. WILES OF THE DEVIL..................................... 305
Part I – The Fight of Faith—Against What? ... 305
Part II – Wiles And Devices Defined .............. 307
Part III – Faith Against Fraud ............................ 310
Part IV – Bedazzling Chicanery...........................312
SECTION XII
20. ARMOR OF GOD .............................................. 317
Part I – Truth ........................................................ 317
Part II – Righteousness ...................................... 318
Part III – Peace ....................................................320
Part IV – Faith .....................................................324
Part V – Salvation ..............................................327
Part VI – The Word ............................................333
Part VII – Prayer .................................................339
Part VIII – Victory Is Won..................................348
Part IX – Pass The Good Word to Others .....354
THE MISSION OF CHRISTIANITY.........................359

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I DEDICATE THIS book to those—

WHO are weary of condemnation,
insecurity, confusion and guilt;
WHO feel alone and without personal value;
WHO want a new lifestyle of happiness, health,
purpose and blessing;
WHO face problems, pressures and dilemmas,
and who crave practical answers;
WHO desire forgiveness for wrongs committed
against God, against others,
and against themselves;
WHO have been frustrated by doctrines
of evil spirits in Christians and need
to know they are secure in Christ;
WHO need healing for the whole person,
mental, physical, and spiritual.

———
THIS BOOK publicizes a rich legacy of
Seven gifts,
Seven blessings,
Seven treasures,
Seven revelations
for real LIVING
The Foundation of our MESSAGE to the World
Our MANIFESTO of Biblical Faith

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COME BACK
FROM THE DEAD
F OR ALMOST SIX decades, we have spoken to
millions of people, face to face, in nearly a hun-
dred nations. This book contains the seven pre-
eminent truths that we have shared.
I have titled this book, THE MESSAGE THAT
WORKS because what we have taught has cre-
ated a better world. Millions have been lifted out
of despair, disease, hopelessness and confusion.
As you read this book, these biblical concepts can
enrich your life too.
Concepts That Work Wonders

There is no magic about these concepts. They

work because they are strategic, dynamic, prag-
matic—and biblical. They can work in your life
from the time you embrace them, in the same
way that good seeds grow from the time someone
plants them in good soil.
This book contains seven dynamic truths to
meet the seven basic needs of your life. Then
follows a section about Triumph in Christ, another

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on Victorious Prayer with my 24/7 Prayer Guide,

one on The Fight of Faith, another about The Wiles
of the Devil, and a final section on the seven essen-
tials of The Armor of God. These seed-truths can
procreate dynamic blessings in your life while
you read them.
Bible References

The Bible quotations that are included in this book

may be personalized, paraphrased, abridged or
conformed to the person and tense of their con-
textual application in order to foster clarity and
individual acceptance. Various language transla-
tions and versions have been considered. Biblical
chapter and verse references enable the reader to
compare the passages with his or her own Bible.
The dynamic concepts shared in this Manifesto
of Biblical Faith can help you experience a fresh
rapport with God. If religious confusion and spiri-
tual despair have corroded your courage or impov-
erished your hope, you can receive the greatest
miracle of all. You can come back from the dead!
In our worldwide ministry, we have observed
the dehumanizing influence of despair. To counter
the futility that results, these truths have revived
hope and inspired new life in millions. Dejected
and defeated people have re-discovered real Life.
What we have shared is so simple that religious
professionals often miss it, yet these powerful,
but simple truths have literally given new life to
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multitudes. Perhaps destiny is at work in your de-

cision to read this book.
Facts That Are Global
Spiritual apathy can be a killer. To come back
from the dead, one needs facts—the kind that are
global, that work in any village, family or society,
that are international and not Americanized; one
needs facts that reveal God in the present, at your
side, full of love, eager to bless and lift you so that
you can experience His miracle Life and share it
with others.
You may be Hindu, Muslim, Animist, Buddhist,
Shintoist, Catholic, Jew, Protestant, or you may
espouse no religion; you may live in a village or a
refugee camp, a city or a town, a hut or an apart-
ment, a straw shelter or a mansion; you may be
male or female, rich or poor, lord or peasant, citi-
zen or president. Whatever your social, economic,
national or religious status, these seven cardinal
concepts can engender in you a new perspective
of God’s new kind of Life.
Our Awakening Began In India
Most of the multitudes we have addressed have
been in non-Christian nations. Our global odyssey
began in India as young missionaries. That was
before we understood Christ’s miracle Life, power
and love. We were unable to convince the people
of ancient, Eastern religions about the Christian
gospel.
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In less than a year, we returned to America,

profoundly disheartened, feeling we had failed.
Within a few months, we experienced four vi-
sions that profoundly affected our lives.
Our first vision: We heard the Rev. Hattie
Hammond, who was the conference speaker at
the Assemblies of God Campmeeting in Brooks,
Oregon. She was ministering in the place of Dr.
Charles S. Price following his demise. Her subject
was: If You Ever See Jesus, You Can Never Be The
Same Again.(Inspired by the gospel of John, chapter one.)
We drove home that night, wiping tears to see
the road. The next morning at six o’clock, Jesus
walked into our bedroom—not on the floor, but
in the air. I saw Him like I see any person. I was
unable to move a finger or a toe. Water poured
from my eyes, yet I was not conscious of weeping.
After a long while, I was able to move myself
onto the floor where I remained, face down be-
fore the Lord, in prayer, until the afternoon. When
I was able to stand again and come out of that
room, it was like I had been re-born.
In India, we had witnessed the emptiness of re-
ligion without Divine Life. But beholding the Lord,
I knew that we were not representing an empty
religion, but a living, resurrected Christ. In that
first vision, I saw JESUS.
The second vision: Gordon Lindsay organized a
trans-evangelical gospel campaign in Portland,
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Oregon. William Branham was the evangelist who

preached and prayed for the sick. Hundreds of
people accepted Christ and we witnessed, for the
first time, great healing miracles. In that second
vision, I saw Jesus at work IN A PERSON.
The third vision: Following that meeting, my
wife and I returned to our house and talked for
hours. We wept together and pledged, “We shall
read the Gospels as though we never heard of
them before. Whatever Jesus says He will do, we
shall expect Him to do it. Whatever He says we
can do, we shall act on His Word and do it.” In
that third vision, I saw Jesus IN HIS WORD.
The fourth vision: Following that experience,
we invited the public to bring sick people to Mon-
tavilla Tabernacle, the church we pastored in
Portland. The place was packed. We preached,
then prayed for the sick, and it seemed that eve-
ryone we touched was instantly healed. That was
the fourth vision: I saw Jesus at work IN ME.
Our New Beginning

We sold our possessions and began our global

saga, informing multitudes of the power and love
of Jesus Christ. More than six decades have now
come and gone.
My beloved wife, Daisy, transcended her mor-
tal life in 1995. I had to choose between the suffo-
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continue sharing Christ’s gospel with the un-

reached. My daughter, Dr. LaDonna, and I de-
cided that the only way to experience the healing
we so desperately needed was to engage ourselves
in bringing Christ’s healing love to others.
Within a few weeks after Daisy’s commemora-
tion service, we flew to Russia to begin an ex-
tended period of miracle ministry and of teaching
the gospel in ten major centers of the ex-Soviet
Union. Every auditorium was packed with thou-
sands of people. Through healing others, we were
able to realize healing in ourselves.
In Novosibirsk, Siberia, I began to write a book in
Daisy’s memory. The title: LIFE— TRIUMPH OVER
TRAGEDY (WHY?)—A True Story of Life After Death.
I knew that almost every married couple would
be separated someday. So I wanted to share the
lessons that I have had to learn—lessons that sus-
tained me through the dark valley of loneliness—
lessons that stabilized me as I sought to discover
who this man, T.L. Osborn, is—without Daisy.
It has been calculated that she and I may have
preached to more people in non-Christian nations
and may have witnessed more healing miracles
than any couple in history—not because of spe-
cial faith or special anointing, but because we
proclaimed the gospel together to so many mul-
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Java or Columbia· The Same

A elderly gentleman visited our recent crusade

in Colombia, South America. He had been a part
of our 1954 crusades in Djakarta and Surabaya,
Java. Those powerful events ignited the great
spiritual awakening that swept across Indonesia
in the fifties and the sixties. This gentleman was
impressed that our recent Colombia Crusade
seemed to him to be the same as those Java Cru-
sades so many years ago—the same anointing, the
same message and the same miracle confirmation.
The gospel worked in 1954, and it worked the same
over a half century later. That is why we entitled
this book, THE MESSAGE THAT WORKS.
Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today and
forever.Heb.13:8 The gospel is unchanged. The same
apostolic ministry witnessed in Bible days is
God’s will for today. He says, I am the Lord, I
change not.Mal.3:6
JESUS — Unique Spiritual Teacher

Leaders often ask me, “What is the secret of the

long success of your global ministry?”
I always respond: “We teach Good News. Our
message is simple but fundamental. We acquaint
people with: 1) Their origin in God, 2) Satan’s
deception, 3) Christ’s death and resurrection and
what that means, and 4) The reality of His Life
today in believers.”
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No non-Christian religion offers forgiveness for

sins, healing for diseases, security for fear, hope
for despair, solutions for problems, relief for pain,
Life for death—TRANSFORMATION. These blessings
comprise the essence of Christ’s gospel. That is
why people of all religions are attracted to our
meetings. They listen, they believe and they are
blessed.
JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONE AND ONLY SPIRITUAL
TEACHER AND LEADER who willingly gave His life
to prove His great love for every person on earth.
JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONE AND ONLY SPIRITUAL
TEACHER AND LEADER who came back from the
dead to give proof of His noble teachings.
JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONE AND ONLY SPIRITUAL
TEACHER AND LEADER who performs signs, mira-
cles and wonders to give proof of His powerful
words. The founders of ancient religions are dead.
They cannot confirm their teachings from their
tombs or burial sites.
JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONE AND ONLY SPIRITUAL
TEACHER AND LEADER who is alive in the present.
God raised Him from the dead and He is alive
NOW. Other religious founders, regardless of
their nobility, belong to the past. They have been
dead for centuries.
JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONE AND ONLY SPIRITUAL
TEACHER AND LEADER who shares His Divine Life
NOW with His followers. Dead founders of re-
ligions cannot share life that they do not possess.
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All religions of the world are concerned with

the past. The Divine Son of God, is alive in the
present. That is why the message of the gospel
WORKS. Christ is alive NOW.
Millions live in a quandary about God. They
seek peace and consolation through religion, phi-
losophy, incantations, self-sacrifice, penance, su-
perstition, and other means of spiritual quest.
Thousands of times we have witnessed that
when people comprehend the truths expressed in
this book, new hope and happiness, new life and
love and new peace and power are birthed in
them. They come back from the dead with a new
beginning for real living. That can take place in
you as you peruse these pages.
The Message · The Power
The message of the gospel—in its simplicity—
is the only answer to the religious dilemmas
2Cor.11:3

and delusions of millions of insecure people.

Humanity experiences seven basic needs. God
reveals Himself in seven ways to meet those
needs. Each provision He offers is made available
by the death of Christ. They are available to every
person of every race, color and nationality.
In the first seven sections of this book, chapters
nine through fifteen—Sections I through VII, we
have set forth seven fundamental human needs
and God’s seven redemptive provisions for those
needs.
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Each of those first seven sections delineates one

of the seven human deficiencies resulting from
Adam and Eve’s sin, and then it expounds the re-
demptive work of Christ that provides for each of
those seven inadequacies.
Christ has ransomed humankind from their
fallen state and has reconciled people to God as
His friends and partners. In accomplishing this
great salvation, Heb.2:3 each human need has been
supplied by God’s grace for everyone who be-
lieves in the wonder of Christ’s redemption.
Each of these seven special sections begins in
the Garden of Eden because each human dilemma
has its roots in Adam and Eve’s sin. Then each of
those seven sections ends in our reconciliation
with Christ through His vicarious work of re-
demption on our behalf.
Four Facts That Comprise The Gospel

My life has been dedicated to informing mil-

lions of un-evangelized people about the four facts
that comprise the essence of the gospel: 1) God’s
Creation, 2) Satan’s Deception, 3) Christ’s Substitu-
tion, and 4) Our Restoration or Salvation. Paul said,
The gospel IS the power of God unto salvation to eve-
ryone that believes.Rom.1:16
Announcing these gospel facts transmits God’s
power into people. When these truths are heard,
faith is born.Rom.10:17 When they are embraced and

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acted upon, God’s Holy Spirit confirms them Mk.16:20

and miracles result.
That can take place in you as you read these
pages. You need not try to make it happen any
more than a farmer tries to make the seed grow
that he has planted. BY GOD’S OWN LAW, SEED PRO-
CREATES ITSELF. If you ponder these truths rever-
ently and embrace them spiritually, the seed will
be planted in the soil of your spirit. That seed will
procreate its miracle-harvest in your life.
Whether you hear truth or read truth, its power
is the same. Jesus said, You shall know the truth and
the truth shall make you free. Jn.8:32
The Seed·Better Than The Touch

In our ministry to multitudes, we never touch

people when we pray for their healing, although
it is scriptural to do so.Mk.16:18; Lu.4:40 Trying to lay
hands on suffering people in a multitude can poten-
tially provoke public injury, panic, and even riot.
We announce the facts of the gospel. The people
listen. Faith is created in their hearts by the good
seeds that are planted in their lives. When they
embrace Christ as Savior, their lives are trans-
formed, and in tens of thousands of cases, their
sicknesses and maladies are miraculously cured.
The seed procreates its own harvest in the lives of
those who believe the truths that they hear.
Do not try to have enough faith to receive mi-
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raculous blessing through this book. Just read it—

just allow the seed to be planted. It will produce
its harvest in your life. You can experience your
miracle while you are reading and pondering
these truths.
This book contains the essence of what we have
proclaimed around the world.
It is THE MESSAGE THAT WORKS.
T.L. Osborn

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Chapter One

GOD’S GOOD PLAN

G OD CREATED Adam and Eve and placed
them in a garden of abundance where everything
that He made was pleasant and good.Gen.1:31; 2:9 They
were His companions and they experienced His
fullness.
In God’s redemptive plan for human lives, He
still wants every person to have happiness and
pleasure, energy and strength, peace and love,
tranquillity and joy, health and dignity, and an
abundance of real living.
But a tragedy interrupted rapport between God
and people. The result is that now this world is
filled with people fighting depression, struggling
to meet obligations, plagued by disease and lone-
liness, abandoned, insecure and frustrated by
problems without solutions.
Many have made irreparable mistakes and have
engendered enemies. The psychological diseases
of resentment, animosity, pride, jealousy, dishon-
esty and hatred have obstructed success and de-
stroyed happiness in millions of lives.

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Start A Miracle Today

God has made provision for every need or de-

sire that you can experience. Start believing that
He cares as much for you as He does for anyone
else. Despite whatever makes you seem to be un-
worthy, God is on your side. A small grain of
faith can start a miracle in your life today.
The Garden of Eden exhibited the life-style and
circumstances for which God designed you.
On these pages, you will discover the road that
leads back to the paradise that was forfeited so
long ago by Adam and Eve, but which has been
made available again through the sacrificial love
of God’s Son.
Jesus Christ came to re-demonstrate what God
wants us to have. He opened to us the door of His
limitless mercy and abundance, through His death
on the Cross. Every miracle He performed was an
example of what God wills for every other person
in similar circumstances.
Jesus —The Way Back to God
Satan —The Deceiver, The Killer
When Jesus encountered people who were trou-
bled by sins committed against themselves, against
their neighbors and against God, He performed a
spiritual miracle in their lives. He forgave them.
Mk.2:5-7; Lu.7:47-48; 19:8-10; Jn.8:3-11

When He came in contact with people who were

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suffering diseases or who were crippled or para-

lyzed, He performed physical miracles. He healed
their bodies.Mat.8:16-17; 9:35; Mk.6:55-56; Lu.4:40
When He found people who faced material
needs, He performed material miracles. He pro-
vided for them—even when it required a creative
miracle.Mat.14:15-21; 17:24-27
Jesus said, Satan’s purpose is to steal, to kill and to
destroy. My purpose is to give Life in all its fullness.
Jn.10:10LB

STEALING is taking something that belongs to

someone else. Satan has done that by condition-
ing people’s minds to accept poverty, fear, sick-
ness, defeat and problems. Through this negative
process they have been cheated out of God’s boun-
tiful provisions.
KILLING is cutting short someone’s life. The
devil has done that to millions through disease
and fear, want and distress, tension and failure.
DESTROYING means to spoil and render use-
less something of value. The plagues of loneliness
and poverty, of sickness and evil, of fear and in-
security have destroyed the influence and happi-
ness of millions whom God intended to be blessed
with His fullness.
Jesus came to reveal God to us, Jn.5:30; 6:38; 14:8-9 and
to show us the kind of life He wills for us. He came
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our diseases, to give us success, to walk with us,

to surround us with good things, to give us energy
and to fill us with His Love and real Life.
Spiritually, God wills that we have peace, tran-
quillity, faith, hope, love, creativity and abundant
living.
Physically, He wills that we enjoy healing, en-
ergy, physical strength and vigorous health.
Materially, He wills that we experience success,
achievement, prosperity and access to the Divine
Source of all material provisions.
Through His death on our behalf, Christ became
The Way Jn.14:6 for us to come back to God, and for
Him to come home to us so that He can share
with us His abundant Life. Jn.14:23; 2Cor.6:18

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Chapter Two

CONNECTED WITH GOD

T RADITIONAL RELIGION has fostered a lim-
ited concept of God’s relationship with people. It
suggests that intimacy with Him is reserved for
those who live in poverty and self-abasement.
The seed-truths in this book can extricate you
from the religious syndrome of mediocrity that
has been handed down from negative pontificates
of past centuries.
To fulfill God’s plan in life, one needs to grasp
His purpose—His will as Jesus did, and learn to be
aware of one’s infinite value. Fifty-seven times in
the gospel of John—in every chapter except three
—Jesus spoke of how he was sent by the Father. His
life had divine purpose. Ours does too.
When Jesus Christ lives in us, He becomes our
new Life-source that not only engenders blessings
in our own lives, but also in the lives of those
around us.
Our thoughts and our words have the mysteri-
ous power of creating the situation that sur-
rounds us. They are the seeds that we sow. They
inevitably procreate of their kind.
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This book can help you to become aware of

God’s high opinion of you. You can discover your
roots in Divine Royalty. You can learn to think of
yourself as God thinks of you, and to talk of your-
self as He does—in the Bible. You need not try to
make this happen. It will take place as these
truths take root in your thinking.
As you read this book, be conscious of God’s
love and of the ransom He paid for you. Be sensi-
tive to how much it has cost Him to make His Life
available to you. Respond with a hearty “Yes!” to
each truth as you grasp it.
These concepts will render ridiculous the out-
dated religious notions that link poverty to godli-
ness, burdens to humility, and suffering to saint-
hood. Life can be fresh, empowered by God’s ide-
als. New, miracle energy can flow into your being
as you gain knowledge of the remarkable life-
style that He wills for you. (Get my book, THE GOOD LIFE.)
ItÊs Not Too Good To be True
When Moses was ready to possess the rich land
that God prepared for His people, he sent twelve
spies to investigate.Num.13: Num.14:
The majority of them took one look at that
wealthy land and fled. They said in essence, “It is
too good to be true! It flows with milk and honey!
It is too rich for us! Besides, giants are there! We
saw them! We felt like grasshoppers! They could
destroy us!”
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They thought that way. They talked that way.

They acted that way. Consequently, they reaped
that crop. They never inherited the blessings God
intended for them to share. They died in despair.
Only two men saw things like God sees them.
Caleb and Joshua saw a land of blessing. Their as-
sessment was: “This is a good land full of abun-
dance. Since we are God’s people, we can take it.
He wants us to be enriched by His best.” The
source of their faith was God’s spoken word. They
acted on it and they inherited the Land of Promise.
Caleb and Joshua believed that rich land be-
longed to royalty. They were not content to leave it
in the control of wasters. They were connected with
God by their faith—and He prospered their way.
That can happen to you. If embraced, these seeds
of truth will grow in the soil of your heart and
will produce a rich harvest in your life.

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Chapter Three

SEEDS OF DIVINE LIFE

SMALL FAITH CAN SEED BIG VICTORIES

Ipossessed
N THE LAND of the Gadarenes, a demon-
man lived. The Bible says: No one could
bind him, not even with chains which he plucked asun-
der and broke.Mk.5:3-5 Demons gave him super physi-
cal strength.
David said, The Lord is the strength of my life.Psa.
27:1 If devils could make a man physically strong

enough to break chains and fetters, the Lord can

impart physical strength to His children.
When you receive Jesus Christ, you are endowed
with new energy. Learn the power of His pres-
ence. You cannot lose when God is your friend.
The gates of hell cannot prevail against you Mat.16:18
because God is on your side. Open the doors of
your mind to God’s way of thinking. He owns
everything. And you are His kind of being.
In the past, you may have been conditioned to
conformity and indigence, to sickness and failure,
to depression and despair, to loneliness and de-
jection. Break the grip of these destructive influ-
ences and move ahead with God by identifying
with His redemptive blessings.
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Your small faith is enough to displace the nega-

tive and futile influences that surround you.
Your enemy never wanted me to write this book,
and he certainly never wanted you to read it, be-
cause the truths it contains can lead you to the
blessed realm of happy achievement.
Each of the first seven sections of this book
(chapters 9-15) ends with a STATEMENT OF FAITH.
As you read them, they can imprint your spirit
with these powerful concepts and you will auto-
matically adopt new thought patterns and new
human behavior.
You will strike a gold mine of values that can
enhance your quality of life. Happiness, success,
health and blessing can begin to materialize
around you. The Bible says: Blessings shall come
upon you and overtake you.Deut.28:2RSV If you travel
forty miles per hour, these blessings will travel
fifty miles per hour to overtake you.
Words, Thoughts and Deeds
Are The Seeds of Your Life

The situation that slowly but inevitably mate-

rializes around you is the harvest of the seeds that
you have planted. What you THINK, SAY and DO
are the seeds that you constantly sow.
Wise and successful people understand the prin-
ciple that, to change their environment, the change
must begin inside themselves.
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God has provided for you every blessing that you

can need or desire—in seed form. All you have to do
is plant those good seeds—first in yourself, (that
will happen as you read this book), then in other
lives around you by what you think, say and do.
Thoughts precede both words and actions, so
change begins as one’s thinking is reformed. Paul
urged: Be transformed by the renewing of your mind,
Rom.12:2 being conformed to the image of Christ Rom.8:29

by the light of the knowledge of gospel.2Cor.4:6

When new thoughts are formed within our
minds through learning new truths, they work
their way and wield their influence outwardly,
from within. Change results from the knowledge
that we plant within ourselves, not from outside
influences that surround us.
We can never change others. We can only seed
others for change. But we can change ourselves. Im-
provement takes place as we take into ourselves
positive, biblical information. Automatically we
become what is planted in our spirits. The seed en-
genders and produces of its own kind. It procre-
ates itself—in us and around us.
THE MYSTERIOUS POWER
The wisest man who ever lived said, My child,
attend [apply your mind] to my words; incline your
ear to my sayings. Let them not depart from your
eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart.Prov. 4:20-21

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The blessings of happiness, success, health and

peace are given to us by God in seed-form. His
seed-truths have the miraculous power to procre-
ate themselves—always in multiplied form.
You can realize health instead of living in mal-
ady and disease. You can prosper instead of liv-
ing in penury.
You can be a winner instead of a loser. Sickness
will give way to a new source of invigorating
health. Destructive and negative thoughts will
yield to the positivism of a believer with faith in
God.

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Chapter Four

GOD AT WORK
Part I
INDIA, JAMAICA AND THIS BOOK

W E HAVE SHARED the miracle-love of God with

multitudes of tens of thousands of people, during
more than six decades.
We have proven, repeatedly, that God is what
He says He is, that He will do what He says He
will do and that the Bible is real and that what it
says is true. IT WORKS.
The Christian religion has become formalized
by theological traditions derived from medieval
concepts. As a result, much of society relegates
God and miracles to legend or to superstition.
Instead of applying the message of Christ to the
practical needs of our hurting world, religious
promoters usually limit Him to the ambiance of
their church sanctuaries. (By “religious,” I mean
people involved with the rituals of Christianity
without the reality of Christ’s living presence.)
Every time I see cancers healed, cripples walk,
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unhappy lives changed, unbelievers transformed,

or poverty-stricken families discover God’s abun-
dance, I SEE GOD AT WORK—I see the miracle of
His divine seeds procreating themselves. I see
His Love and Life in action. His message works.
India Changed Our Perspective

When my wife and I went to India as young

missionaries, we wanted to share the blessings of
Christ with those who had not heard His gospel.
We had not yet learned the secrets of miracles to
confirm our teaching, so we did not succeed.
Although we left India deeply discouraged, the
experience had a positive affect on our lives. We saw
the masses of people benumbed by religion with-
out hope or Life. We yearned for God’s solution.
Then the Lord Jesus Christ appeared to me and
the Bible became a living book. We discovered
the principles of God’s redemptive plan and how
His miracle power is contained in the gospel seeds
that He has given us to plant in people.
Following the Lord’s appearance to me, our lives
were re-focused and our next mission abroad was
to the Caribbean Island-nation of Jamaica.
For thirteen weeks, we ministered there. We
counted a hundred and twenty-five deaf-mutes
who were healed, over ninety totally blind people
who received their sight, hundreds of lame and
crippled people who were restored, and most sig-
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nificantly, we counted nearly ten thousand peo-

ple who accepted Jesus Christ as Savior. Miracles
made the difference.
Since that venture of faith in Jamaica, we have
communicated the gospel to millions of people,
not only in the Westernized Christian world, but
in scores of non-Christian nations, experiencing
the same miraculous results that are recorded in
the Acts of the Apostles.
When I recall the signs, wonders and miracles
that we have witnessed globally, I become so
happy that I want to tell everybody in the whole
world about God’s Good News. The Psalmist
urged, Make known His deeds among the people.Psa.105:1
That is the reason for publishing this book. It is
our way of sharing with you the blessings that
you would receive if you could be in the midst of
our mass evangelism crusades abroad. But the
Good News is that these same blessing can blos-
som in your life as you read this book.

GOD AT WORK
Part II

WHEN THE LIGHT TURNS ON

I WISH ALL the world could know how good God
is. The Bible says, The Lord is gracious and full of
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compassion.Psa.86:15; 111:4; 112:4; 145:8 Jesus was everywhere

moved with compassion.Mat.9:36; 14:14; 18:27; Mk.1:41; 6:34 An-
other Bible verse says, His compassions fail not.
Lam.3:22 Thirty-three times in the book of Psalms it

is stated, His mercy endureth forever.

Another remarkable verse states: For you, Lord,
are good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy
unto all them that call upon you.Psa.86:5
God says, I will rejoice over you to do you good…
with my whole heart and with my whole soul. Jer.32:41
God has a very big heart and soul, and it all re-
joices over you to do you good.
Many people think of God as a dominating mas-
ter who lords it over people with a whip, afflict-
ing and punishing them with sickness, suffering,
poverty and failure.
This is not true. God wills that people enjoy
His Life-style of happiness, success and blessing—
physically, emotionally, spiritually and materially.
By reading this book, I believe you will forget
the negative way you may have formerly thought.
The biblical concepts in this book can obliterate
from your mind out-moded and negative thought-
patterns. You will be transformed by the renewing of
your mind.Rom.12:2 Your understanding will be enlight-
ened and you will know the riches of His inheritance in
His followers and the greatness of His power to us who
believe—the power that was wrought in Christ when
God raised Him from the dead.Eph.1:18-20
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God created Adam and Eve,Gen.1:26-27; 5:1-2 to be

like Himself. That is why people search for some
form of spiritual connection with what they may
call The Creator, The Divine or Omnipotent or Uni-
versal or Cosmic One. They search through mysti-
cism, philosophy, empty religion, self-negation,
penitence, or other ceremonial rituals, both se-
cretly and publicly.
This book shows The Way Jn.14:6 to friendship, fel-
lowship, and partnership with God.
The Global Search

Around the world, whether on the busy streets

of Paris, New York or Bogotá, or in the villages
and cities of the Philippines, India, China and Af-
rica, humanity searches for a supreme deity. It is
written on their faces and expressed in the way
they walk. They would give anything to know
that God is real or to see evidence that He cares
about them.
A Hindu business man said, “I would like to
believe that there is a god of some kind, some-
where, but I have no reason to think that one ex-
ists, nor that It would help me or would even
know about me.”
An Eastern philosopher said, “There is no way
for human persons to know The Universal One.
It is un-manifest, un-thinkable, and un-approach-
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A Hindu teacher said, “If there were an Om-

nipotent Being, He would be too impersonal to be
of any use to me, and I really think it would be
the greatest of sins to disturb Him on my behalf.”
A noted Hindu philosopher and a Hindu univer-
sity professor—both searchers for truth—earnestly
investigated the truth of Christianity in formal,
historic church organizations in India. One of them
said: “What a tragedy that Christianity has bro-
ken with Christ.” The other said: “There would
be a world awakening if Christianity and Christ
could reunite!”
A young Hollander remarked: “We do not men-
tion Jesus Christ any more in our denomination
because we believe that he belongs to the past.”
These statements express the heart cry of mil-
lions. We have journeyed abroad and have looked
into the faces of confused and despairing multi-
tudes around the world. Our mission has been to
share with them the simple but powerful truths of
God’s Love. We call it the Good News, the gospel.
I have watched the light turn on in tens of thou-
sands of faces as they have been made aware that
God cares for them.
Psychological Infirmities
That Destroy Human Persons
God is not a destroying deity who sends infir-
mities and pain.Lu.9:56; Psa.34:8; 145:8-10; Nah.1:7; Rom.2:4 He
does not ordain poverty and lack in people’s lives.
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His fullness is for all who follow Him. Jer.2:7; Joel 2:26;
Ecc.5:18-19; Mat.25:29; 1Sam.2:7-8; Prov.8:17-18; 10:22; 28:19-20; Psa.34:10; 68:19;
104:24,28; 112:1,3; 3Jn.2; 1Chr.29:11-12

People plagued by guilt and inner fears poison

their own systems and often seed themselves for
disease and deterioration. They permit their lives
to be devastated by the psychological traumas of
hatred, jealousy, envy and greed, which are ruth-
less forms of self-abuse and of self-destruction.
Their lack of faith in God, in their neighbors,
and in themselves causes them to attract defeat,
confusion and decadence.
Capable and talented people permit their lives
to be wasted. The plague of poverty curses millions
who live in a world of abundance.
Bodies that should be vibrant and healthy in
service to God and others, deteriorate by inactiv-
ity, disease and depression.
The gnawing, noxious cancers of negativism,
resentment, remorse and despair poison the lives
of thousands who could otherwise be channels of
love and blessing to humanity.
God is good and He wills only good for people.
He is Life and He yearns for them to share His
Life. He created human persons in His own image
Gen.1:26-27; 5:1-2 so that makes you and me HIS KIND

OF BEING.

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GOD AT WORK
Part III

MAKING NEW DISCOVERIES

NOTHING IS MORE vital to a person’s self-es-
teem than to discover one’s own value.Lu.12:6-7; Psa.8:
4-6 Every human is a creation of God.1Jn.4:8,16 Peo-

ple are the product of Divine Love. This is why

hatred and fear are so destructive in human lives.
There is no fear in Love; but perfect Love casts out
fear.1Jn.4:18
Every human person has divine purpose. God
paid a great price for each individual. He wants
people near Him. He believes in people just as
they are.Mat.6:26; 12:12; Jn.3:16; 1Cor.6:20; 1Pet.1:18-19; Rev.1:5 He
has opened The Way Jn.14:6; Ac.18:26; 19:9,23; 22:4; 24:14,24; Rom.3:17
for you and me to be successful, happy, productive
and blessed.
Some imagine that the process will be painful.
In one sense it may be, because for many people,
it is traumatic to adjust thinking, to adopt new
ideals and to reform language and action pat-
terns. Those things can be painful if change seems
threatening, offensive or unsettling.
People often develop life-styles and attitudes
which result in harmful habits and thought pat-
terns. They decide who and what are to blame for
their problems, almost always excusing them-
selves. It is difficult for them to realize that their
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own thoughts, words and deeds are the seeds of

their own successes or failures, of their own envi-
ronment, pleasant or painful, and even of their
own physical conditions.Prov.6:2; 21:23; Psa.141:3; Jas.1:26; 1Pet.
3:10; Col.4:6; Prov.15:23; Phil.4:7; 2Tim.1:7; 2Cor.10:5; Phil.4:8; Isa.26:3

By adjusting one’s thinking, vocabulary and ac-

tions, anyone can recreate their own environment.
Adapting to His Way

With a fresh look at life from God’s viewpoint,

you can discover the wonderful Life that He wills
for you. Then as you adapt to His Way, you can
experience real Life as God planned it for you.
This book is written to show you The Way. Jn.14:6
The greatest insurance on earth is to be con-
nected with God. You cannot fail with Him as
your partner.Isa.41:10; 54:17; 55:10-11 His covenant guar-
antees His blessings.Deut.28:1-4; Psa.89:34; 1Kg.8:56
The stock market may crash. Wars may rage.
Tragedies may occur. Famines, droughts, or ma-
terial crises may ravage society. But when you are
in tune with God, you will not be defeated be-
cause He wills His best for His children.
Resolve to embrace these concepts: 1) God is
good, rich and loving; 2) He does not punish with
disease, pain or failure; 3) He never desires pov-
erty, lack or need; 4) He longs to share His love,
health and abundant Life with people; and 5) He
believes in you—just as you are.
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Re-Focused Outlook

By the time you have finished the first seven

sections of this book (chapters 9-15), your per-
spective can be re-focused. The blessings of God’s
abundant living will become evident in and
around you because of the good seeds you will
have planted in yourself. They will produce their
good harvest in your life, and in the lives of others
around you.
That is what our world ministry is all about,
and it is the reason for this book that publicizes
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Chapter Five

WITHOUT CLICHÉS
OR BIGOTRY

A FRENCH TEACHER, spending her vacation

in America, visited our International Headquar-
ters in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Since she spoke practically no English, the re-
ceptionist called our French translator to host the
lady on her tour of our premises.
Impacted by her visit to this world ministry, she
began to pose questions about our “programme
d’évangélisation, religion et doctrine.”
Our translator took advantage of the questions
to witness about Christ. She explained the sim-
plicity of our faith: It is Jesus, not a religion, but a
Person, the Son of God, who died for our sins, who
was raised for our justification, and who gives us
Eternal Life. She emphasized that we can have
daily fellowship with God in our lives now.
Questions From France

To the French lady, this seemed too simple to be

valid. Her questions were typical of today’s world:

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“Why evangelize people of other lands such as

Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims? They are content in
their own religions. How do we know that ours is
any better?
“How can we know that God exists, that Jesus
is His Son, or that He was born of a virgin? Why
was His death any different from that of any
other good man, or His blood any more divine
than that of any other prophet or sadhu or holy
man? How can we be sure that He was raised
from the dead?
“Doesn’t it seem that life is without purpose
and leads to final nothingness? How can one be
sure that there is any truth to the Bible?”
She Assured Us That She Was Not a Pagan

Then, of course, to reassure her hostess that she

was not a pagan, she explained, “You know, I
have my religion. I feel it’s important for children
to receive their ‘First Communion.’ After all, we
aren’t savages! But anyone who thinks or reads or
has average intelligence, must ask questions. You
see, I’m a divorcee with two children to raise. I
wonder about raising them without a father to
face an unfortunate future. Why not just end it,
once and for all?
“But if there is a God, and if He is good, why
does He permit so much misery and sickness?
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pled, etc.? If God can do miracles, why does He

not cure everyone? Probably there is a devil. That
would explain a lot of things! But ‘original sin by
Adam and Eve’? Isn’t that the issue of sexual rela-
tions between men and women?
“The Bible talks of a tree whose fruit was for-
bidden, of how Adam and Eve deliberately chose
to disobey God and of how they ate the forbidden
fruit. Consequently, sin, evil and suffering are the
results. I suppose that’s logical.”
Hope In Jesus ·The Way

“But, if I simply follow your counsel and ask

Jesus to come into my heart and guide me and
live in me day after day, what are the prayers I
should recite? What are the sins I should abstain
from? To just come to Jesus, as I am, and ask Him
to come and live in me? Is that all? It seems too
simple. I think one should first improve oneself.
As a divorcee, am I automatically condemned by
the church? Can I be helped?
“In my predicament, are you saying I can pray
and know God and talk to Him as a friend? As a
father? And He will help me? Are you sure?
“Why has no one told me this before? I’ve been
confused for many years. Every time anyone talks
to me about religion, I get the impression that
they want to enlist me in their church or their de-
nomination. But you! You’ve talked to me with-

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out clichés or religious bigotry. I have the feeling

that there is hope for me, that Jesus Is The Way
that Christians talk about, that the gospel is put in
true perspective, and that my life can now have
purpose.”
She left focused on a newly found life-pattern
or model in the person of Jesus Christ. The New
Testament would be her guide. Our books in
French given to her by our translator would for-
tify the decision she had made to follow Jesus.

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Chapter Six

THE QUEST FOR TRUTH

Part I
QUESTIONS TO PONDER

T HE WHOLE WORLD is searching for purpose

in life, for reality about God, for evidence that the
Bible is true—and if so, how to make a practical
application of it.
Society asks: Why is the cross of Christ so im-
portant and what does it mean? Why the constant
guilt of sin and wrongdoing? What is The Way to
find peace with God?
If God is good and if He created man and
woman in His own image,Gen.1:26; 5:1-2 as the Bible
says, why are the hearts and minds of many peo-
ple evil, full of hatred, jealousy, envy and murder?
What is the reason for so much poverty? Why
are there so many prayers not answered? Why so
many religions with so little righteousness? Why
so much knowledge with so few answers?
What causes loneliness, depression and suicide?
Why are there so many wars, family disruptions,
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divorces, violence and brutality? Why is it virtually

impossible to keep the Ten Commandments?
Can what the Bible calls Salvation be a real,
practical experience? Can a human person be re-
born? Can one enjoy health, happiness, success
and material blessings in this life?
Must one live in poverty in order to have true
humility and be close to God? Can sickness and
pain be the will of the Heavenly Father when
earthly parents never want their children to be sick?
Reject Religious Restraints
Religious tradition has programmed society to
believe that God is complex and mysterious. Spiri-
tual uncertainty prevents the majority of Chris-
tians from fulfilling the purpose God intends for
them in life.
The business world believes in solving prob-
lems. But in the world of “religion” one may be
counseled to ignore questions of logic and to con-
tinue a blindfolded march toward an uncertain fu-
ture to face an ambiguous God, committing one’s
life to blind fate.
As a result, millions of people abandon their
faith, relegating God, Jesus Christ and the Bible to
primitive or medieval delusion and superstition.
It is time to reject religious limitations and see
God as good, as big, as loving and as powerful as
His Word says that He is.
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O Lord God! Behold, you have made the heaven and

the earth by your power and stretched out arm, and
there is nothing too hard for you. Jer.32:17

THE QUEST FOR TRUTH

Part II

PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS

WE HAVE BEEN privileged to proclaim the
Good News of Jesus Christ to millions of people.
Tens of thousands of lives have been lifted from
despair to the discovery of new Life and peace.
Neither science, industry, religion nor philoso-
phy can satisfy humanity’s quest for God. When
faith in Him is repudiated, people despair of faith
in others and, consequently, no longer believe in
themselves. They become apathetic and pursue
life without meaningful purpose.
Without faith in God, people are psychologi-
cally vulnerable. They feed on philosophies that
seem logical but that lead to emptiness and futil-
ity. Solomon said, There is a way that seems right to
people, but its end is the way of death.Prov.14:12
Those who live in boredom and despondency
may turn to lawlessness, destruction, murder and
even suicide in their desperate search for some-
thing to fill the void in their lives.
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With Modern Science

Is There Any Need For God?

Ecclesiastical orthodoxy has complicated the

simplicity of God and His plan with a litany of re-
ligious rituals and incantations that offer little or
no spiritual satisfaction.
A young Parisian collegiate asked, “Who needs
God in our industrialized world of science?” Yet
our most rudimentary problems remain unsolved.
A young businessman in London quipped,
“Why do people cling to religion and believe in
fables called miracles? Who needs them when we
have the modern genius of medical science?” Yet
many ordinary illnesses, such as the common
cold, remain without a cure.
A young Brussels philosophy major ridiculed
faith in God as she reasoned, “We enjoy the great-
est psychological discoveries ever known. We are
penetrating the complexities of the human mind
until the ills of society can all be cured through
the miracles of psychoanalysis.” Yet there is a
higher rate of suicide, per capita, today than ever
before in human history.
The Toxin That Kills

People are at war within themselves. Emotional

and psychological factors are destroying more hu-
man lives than ever before.

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A psychiatrist at the world-famous Johns Hop-

kins Hospital reported that sixty percent of the
patients require mental and spiritual treatment,
rather than physical.
It is estimated that fifty to eighty-five percent of
people are simply transmitting their mental and
spiritual sicknesses to their bodies.
A management professional who takes over fal-
tering businesses and gets them back on their feet
estimates that ninety-five percent of the problems
he encounters are not in the businesses but are in
the persons who manage them.
People become disoriented in life and transmit
their inner confusion to their own circumstances.
They are perplexed or confused inside themselves
and before long, their businesses reflect those mala-
dies. When business managers are re-oriented and
re-stabilized on principles of biblical integrity and
virtue, their business dilemmas are soon resolved.
Problems in marriages, in families, between
neighbors, and in communities reside and smol-
der inside individuals.
Solve the Problem·Begin at Home
When your own life is in order, your husband
or wife and family or neighbors will be changed
as though by a miracle. It is a psychological fact
that what we think we hate in others is really
what we despise in ourself. In fact, it is what we
tend to impose upon others.
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We can be jealous of only what we secretly de-

sire to be or have or do. Jealousy is a self-confes-
sion of what we passionately envy.
The problem in one’s home or family or job or
neighborhood is ones own self. Get that person
re-oriented and he or she will discover that they
hold the power to re-shape their world. (Get my teach-
ing series: FAITH TO CHANGE YOUR WORLD.)

THIS BOOK IS written to seed blessing in the

reader. A spiritual refinement can embellish your
life as you peruse these pages, preparing you for
the powerful seed-truths (beginning at chapter
nine) that can become integral to your life.

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Chapter Seven

RISING TO A NEW LEVEL

Part I
THE WAY TO GODÊS RICH BLESSINGS

L EARN TO LIVE on the good side of life. One

optimist said, “If you can’t see the bright side of
things, then polish the dull side!”
Instead of being angry at society or relatives or
friends, discover that God has created a paradise
of blessing for you. This book can lead you into
God’s fullness and blessing. Here is the essence of
Sections 9-15, and of what we tell our world.
I. Dignity Restored

INSTEAD OF living with condemnation be-

cause of sin, discover that God has a plan to trans-
fer to your account the righteousness and dignity
of the greatest Life ever lived—that of Jesus Christ.
II. Peace Recovered

INSTEAD OF living in torment with yourself

and out of harmony with family and friends; in-
stead of transferring mental anguish to your own
body, your business, or your environment; instead
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of poisoning your own health and destroying your

happiness, discover God’s miracle plan that can
change you. Let Him transfer His peace, tranquil-
ity and harmony to you, making you His friend
and partner.
III. Signals Refocused

INSTEAD OF existing in confusion, making

wrong decisions, stumbling into failure and every
conceivable trap of defeat, discover that God has
a perfect and simple plan to give you direction
and guidance in life so that you will enjoy suc-
cess, blessing, and material abundance.
IV. Health Renewed

INSTEAD OF resigning yourself to disease and

sickness, living vulnerable to the physical plagues
that ravage human society, discover God’s provi-
sion of abundant Life and miracle power to heal
you not only of diseases, maladies and infirmities,
but also to keep you and your house in health,
physical fitness and long life.
V. Prosperity Regained

INSTEAD OF acquiescing to poverty and want;

instead of considering yourself a victim of circum-
stances; instead of consenting to a hand-to-mouth
existence, discover that God created all the wealth
of this world to facilitate your blessing and His
work. Embrace Him in partnership for life and
learn to appropriate His fullness.
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VI. Friendship Resumed

INSTEAD OF surrendering to loneliness, dis-

couragement and depression, discover that God
wants to become your personal friend and that
He wants to live at your house so that you can ex-
perience happiness, companionship and comfort
with Him as an integral partner in your life.
VII. Victory Retrieved

INSTEAD OF trying and failing in life, instead

of accepting defeat, disappointment and frustra-
tion, never savoring the exuberance of victory and
success, make the glorious discovery that God is a
winner, and when He is your intimate partner
and friend in life, He wills that you always win
the prize. Refuse to spend your days drinking the
dregs of leftovers.

THINK AS BIG and as good as God is big and

good. Think health, blessing, success, love and
abundant living because this is God’s redemptive
plan for your life.

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RISING TO A NEW LEVEL

Part II

THE DECLINE · THE RECOVERY

ADAM AND EVE sinned against God in the be-
ginning and allowed Satan to interdict their fel-
lowship, communion, health, happiness, blessing
and abundance with God.Gen.3
Because God is righteous, He could not cohabit
with sin, and He still cannot. Adam and Eve were
banished from God’s presence in the Garden of
Eden Gen.3:23-24 and were separated from Him by
their sin.Isa.59:2
They subjugated themselves to Satan, their new
master, when they believed his lying suggestion
that God did not mean what He said.Gen.3:1,4,6 Then
followed the terrible consequences of sin which
devastate human lives today.Rom.5:12
HumanityÊs Demoralization

1. Instead of FORGIVENESS, there is hatred, mal-

ice, suspicion and judgment.
2. Instead of PEACE with God, there is unrest,
guilt, inferiority and condemnation in the spirits
of people.
3. Instead of the Lord’s GUIDANCE and direc-
tion, there is delusion, deceit and perplexity.
4. Instead of HEALTH and energy, there is dis-
ease, sickness and physical suffering.
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5. Instead of ABUNDANCE, there is poverty, des-

titution and indigence.
6. Instead of God’s PRESENCE, there is loneli-
ness, estrangement, reclusion and even hostility.
7. Instead of achievement and VICTORY, there
is disappointment, intimidation, defeat and en-
slavement.
GodÊs Redemptive Solution

But God so loved the world that He gave His only

Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish
but have eternal life. Jn.3:16NIV
Jesus said, The thief [Satan] comes only to steal and
kill and destroy; I have come that you may have life
and that you may have it more abundantly. Jn.10:10 The
Amplified Version of the Bible says: that you may
have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance—to the
full, till it overflows. God’s redemptive plan is that
we be the beneficiaries of all that He IS.
When Jesus Christ died in our place, He suf-
fered the penalty that the law of eternal justice
prescribed for you and me—death and separation
from God! The soul that sins shall die.Eze.18:4,20 The
wages of sin is death.Rom.6:23 Jesus Christ paid our
fine for us when He gave Himself a ransom for all
1Tim.2:6 and when we were reconciled to God by the

death of His Son.Rom.5:10

We are sanctified through the offering of the body of
Jesus Christ once for all…By one offering He per-

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fected forever them that are sanctified…Where remis-

sion of sin is, there is no more offering for sin.Heb.10:10,
14,18 Our sins and our transgressions have been

punished in Christ. He paid enough to reconcile

us and to restore us to God.
Christ did it For Us.

We need never suffer again what Christ suf-

fered in our place. He died as our substitute. We
are forever free. That is the Good News. And when
we believe it, God’s power confirms it in our lives
by miracles of His grace and love.
Through Christ’s death on the cross in our
stead—in our name, He paid the full price to
provide for each of our seven basic needs. He
reconciled us to God. 2Cor.5:18-19

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Chapter Eight

PREVIEW OF
SEVEN BLESSINGS
Part I
WHAT REDEMPTION MEANS

T HE CHAPTER DISPLAYS a brief of human-

ity’s basic needs along with God’s redemptive pro-
visions for those needs. They are expressed so that
as you read them and believe them, His power
can actualize or manifest them in your life.
The number seven, according to Bible scholars,
represents completeness and perfection. There are
seven fundamental human needs. God’s seven-
fold nature and blessings are revealed by His
seven redemptive names. Christ’s provision is sev-
enfold. Redemption is sevenfold.
We call these redemptive provisions because they
are bought and paid for by the vicarious death,
burial, resurrection and ascension of our Lord
Jesus Christ.
Our fallen, sinful nature died and was buried
with Christ so that now we can share His new,
resurrection Life. Paul said, We are buried with him
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by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised

up from the dead by the Father, even so we should
walk in newness of life.Rom.6:4
The Bible says of Christ: You have redeemed us to
God by your blood.Rev.5:9 You loved us, and washed us
from our sins in your own blood.Rev.1:5 You purged us
from our sins.Heb.1:3 The Son of man came…to give his
life a ransom for many.Mk.10:45
When Christ’s work of redemption was accom-
plished on our behalf, He sat down on the right hand
of the Majesty on high.Heb.1:3 Our redemption was
fait accompli. Now the benefits of that redemption
are offered to us in the seeds of His living Word.
Jesus said, The words that I speak unto you are Spirit
and Life, Jn.6:63and the seed is the Word of God.Lu.8:11
Faith comes by hearing…the Word of God.Rom.10:17
Rising To A New Level of Life

The sections of this book can make you aware

of God’s provisions for your needs. When you
know these truths, they will make you free. Jn.8:32
This is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if
we ask anything according to His will [or His Word
of promise], He hears us: and if we know that He hears
us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the peti-
tions that we desired of Him.1Jn.5:14-15
The master key to receiving God’s redemptive
blessings is to realize that they are each bought and
fully paid for. You can receive His blessings be-

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cause Christ laid down His life to pay for them in

your name and on your behalf.

PREVIEW OF
SEVEN BLESSINGS
Part II
ENCAPSULATION OF THE ISSUES
GOD’S SEVEN REDEMPTIVE provisions in the
first seven sections of this book follow the order
noted in the Scofield Bible, page 7, item (4) under
the commentary on Genesis 2:4. Seven Redemptive
Names of Jehovah.
In the New Testament, God revealed Himself
by sending His Son to show us what He is like,
and to show us what we can be like.
But in the Old Testament, God revealed Him-
self through His Redemptive names. They became
the signals for redemptive faith in God.
The Bible records many other names of Jehovah-
God, but only seven redemptive names, and they
are never referred to except in His dealings with
people. The notable F.F. Bosworth, author of the
living classic book, Christ The Healer, points out:
“There are seven redemptive names—the perfect
number, because He is the perfect Savior and His
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redemption includes the perfect provision for

every human need. Since it is His redemptive rela-
tion to us that these names reveal, they must each
point to Calvary where we were redeemed.”
Each of these seven redemptive names an-
nounces a special expression of God’s nature and
of His will for His children. Each blessing is pro-
vided by Christ’s redemptive death on the cross.
And that is the reason—the only reason—that you
and I may receive them. THEY ARE PAID FOR.
The facts of the gospel are utterly simple. Relig-
ion is what has complicated them. Paul urged us
to avoid being corrupted from the simplicity that is
in Christ.2Cor.11:3
Before reading these seven sections that unveil
God’s seven redemptive blessings, here is a précis
to focus the essence of each provision.

DIGNITY RESTORED

1. OUR NEED FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

Sin condemns us. We want God’s forgiveness.
PROVISION: The Lord [is] our righteousness—
Jehovah-TSIDKENU. Jer.23:6 Jesus bore our sins on
the cross; therefore, the gift of righteousness Rom.5:17
is ours.

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BASIS FOR FAITH: Christ was made sin with our

sins and bore the punishment that we deserved
so that we will never be condemned but can have
His righteousness imputed to us.
PRAYER-CONFESSION: Lord, you took my sins to
the cross. Your blood was shed for their remis-
sion. I am restored to dignity with God.

PEACE RECOVERED

2. OUR NEED FOR PEACE.

God has forgiven us so we must forgive our-
selves. We struggle adjusting to this New Life.
PROVISION: The Lord is our peace—Jehovah-
SHALOM. Jdg.6:20-24 Jesus made peace through the
blood of His cross.Col.1:20
BASIS FOR FAITH: Christ endured our punish-
ment and absolved us from all guilt, in order to
give us His peace.
PRAYER-CONFESSION: Lord, you bore my judg-
ment and made peace by the blood of the cross.
My account was absolved. I embrace your peace.

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SIGNALS REFOCUSED

3. OUR NEED FOR GUIDANCE.

We need direction in life to avoid deception, de-
lusion, failure and betrayal.
PROVISION: The Lord is my shepherd— Jehovah-
RAAH.Psa.23:1 Jesus said, My sheep hear my voice,
and they follow me; a stranger they will not follow.
Jn.10:27, 5

BASIS FOR FAITH: Christ laid down His life to be-

come our Good Shepherd so that we would never
have to go, or be led astray.
PRAYER-CONFESSION: Lord, I follow you. I know
your voice. I cannot be misled when you are my
guide and my Shepherd.

HEALTH RENEWED

4. OUR NEED FOR HEALING.

Pain, disease, weakness and sickness ravage hu-
man society.
PROVISION: God says, I am Lord who heals you;
or I am your physician—Jehovah-RAPHA.Ex.15:26
Jesus Christ paid for our healing when He took our
infirmities, and bare our sicknesses,Mat.8:17—when He
took the stripes by which we were healed.Isa.53:4-5

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BASIS FOR FAITH: Christ suffered our diseases

and bore them for us in His death so that we can
have His Life, physically as well as spiritually.
PRAYER-CONFESSION: Lord, you suffered my
diseases for me so that I need never suffer them.
My health is provided and I accept it now.

PROSPERITY REGAINED

5. OUR NEED FOR MATERIAL SUBSTANCE.

Material privation, destitution, and indigence
demoralizes humanity in the midst of a world of
abundance.
PROVISION: The Lord will provide—Jehovah-
JIREH.Gen.22:8 My God shall supply all your needs ac-
cording to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.Phil.4:19
BASIS FOR FAITH: Christ became poor, that we,
through His poverty, might be rich.2Cor.8:9 He supplies
all of our needs.
PRAYER-CONFESSION: Lord, when you gave Jesus
for me, you also freely gave me all things. Rom.8:32 I
claim what my present needs require.

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FRIENDSHIP RESUMED

6. OUR NEED FOR GOD’S PRESENCE.

Loneliness, reclusion and estrangement foster
despair and hopelessness. We need a friend who
sticks closer than a brother or sister.Prov.18:24
PROVISION: The Lord is there [or present]—
Jehovah-SHAMMAH. Eze.48:35 because we were made
nigh by the blood of Christ.Eph.2:13
BASIS FOR FAITH: Christ died to bring us back
into God’s household as members of His Royal
Family.
PRAYER-CONFESSION: Lord, you expunged my
sins that separated me from you. Now I am no
longer alone but am restored as your friend and
partner.

VICTORY RETRIEVED

7. OUR NEED FOR VICTORY.

Defeat, intimidation, fear and discouragement
demean and deprecate people, interdicting suc-
cess and achievement in life.
PROVISION: The Lord [became] our banner or
victor or captain—Jehovah-NISSI Ex.17:15LB when
Christ triumphed over principalities and powers,Col.2:15
and delivered us from darkness.Col.1:13
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BASIS FOR FAITH: Christ died to destroy all the

works of the devil. 1Jn.3:8 He now becomes our vic-
tory and unfurls His banner over our lives.
PRAYER-CONFESSION: Lord, you removed Satan’s
authority over my life and translated me into
your kingdom. If God be for me, who can be
against me? Rom.8:31 Now I share your victory.

NOW YOU ARE READY to experience the di-

vine impact of God’s seven redemptive provisions
for your life. As you comprehend and embrace
these significant truths, they will bring a new
spiritual stamina to your spirit.
Do not try to make this happen. Just read, and
let each divine seed-concept procreate itself in
your life. The fundamental biblical truths that you
are about to read constitute the foundation for
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T.L. and Daisy Osborn were teammates in global

evangelism for over half a century, proclaiming the
gospel of Christ and sharing His love with
millions of people, face to face, in more than 70
nations. Here they rejoice together on the final
day of another triumphant soul winning crusade.
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Osborn Mass Evangelism Crusades

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AFRICA

S. AMERICA

INDONESIA

CARIBBEAN

PHILIPPINES
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Over 100 gospel vans, equipped with Evangelism Tools, have

been provided by the Osborn Ministries for national church
organizations worldwide, to facilitate them in reaching their
nations with the gospel message of Jesus Christ.

OSBORN CRUSADE – OSBORN CRUSADE – OSBORN CRUSADE – OSBORN CRUSADE –

Bogota, Colombia Accra, Ghana Holland Nigeria

Hundreds of tape players and thousands of the Osborns’ gospel

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The Osborns’ books and tracts are published in

132 languages (their DocuMiracle crusades on
current audio and video formats in scores of lan-
guages). These are scattered throughout the
world, and are among the most effective
Tools for Evangelism known, communicating the
gospel to millions of people.

OSBORN CRUSADE – OSBORN CRUSADE – OSBORN CRUSADE – OSBORN CRUSADE –

Uyo, Nigeria Kinshasa, DRC W. Africa Calabar, Nigeria

cassettes, in 67 languages, witness to millions of souls worldwide.

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From the beginning of their over half-century of

ministry together, T.L. and Daisy Osborn
pioneered Mass Miracle Evangelism as an
effective way to demonstrate the gospel in
NON-Christian nations. They may have shared
Christ with more UN-evangelized people,
witnessing more conversions and healing
miracles than any couple in history.
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10 Osborn Books in Russian

Top row, left to right: By T.L. 1) The Good Life 2) Soul Winning 3) God’s Love Plan 4) The
Best of Life 5) Receive Miracle Healing. These are the very best of T.L.’s writings, now in
Russian, being sown nation-wide.
Bottom row, left to right: By Daisy 1) Woman Without Limits 2) 5 Choices For Women Who
Win 3) The Woman Believer 4) New Life For Women 5) Women & Self-Esteem – Dr. Daisy’s
best, now in Russian.

With great care and appreciation, young Russian Gospel ministers unpack T.L. &
Daisy’s powerful books which have arrived from Belarus, by the Trans-Siberian
railway, and have been trucked to the Osborn Miracle-Life Conference at Moscow.
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“The Seed is the Word of God”

Thousands of T.L. & Daisy’s dynamic books are shipped from the press in Minsk,
Belarus, for presentation to believers at each of the ten major Miracle-Life
Conferences conducted by T.L. & LaDonna Osborn.
Each book is considered a “Treasure” by the young Russian churches. Jesus said
that when the seed falls on “good ground,” it will “bring forth.” The people of these
ex-Soviet republics are fertile soil.

The precious gift of 10 Osborn Books, in Russian, are presented to every

preacher, pastor, evangelist, missionary, Bible Teacher, and Gospel worker who
has come to the Osborn Miracle-Life Conferences, many traveling vast distances.
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The Osborn Ministries have utilized available technology since

the 1950s, to express and propagate the Gospel of Jesus
Christ. Transitioning into new methods to reach our world moti-
vates Dr. LaDonna Osborn to press forward in this digital arena.
Now our Gospel materials in many languages are available on
flash drives and donated to church leaders globally.
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Dr. LaDonna shares time with one of her great grandsons, part
of the new generation that uses modern technology with great
ease. The Osborn Ministries are reaching into 195 nations with
the Gospel via the internet, offering online training classes,
equipping believers and soul winners with Gospel materials,
teaching, inspiring, praying and making Christ known.
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Dr. LaDonna’s lifetime involvement in mass mira-

cle evangelism has equipped her to minister with
ease and great authority, as shown here during
the Osborn Festivals of Faith & Miracles in
Kupang, Waingapu and Palangkaraya, Indonesia.

LaDonna Osborn Gospel Seminar & Book Distribution

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LaDonna Osborn Festival of Faith & Miracles –

Kupang, Indonesia

LaDonna Osborn Festival of Faith & Miracles –

Waingapu, Indonesia

LaDonna Osborn Festival of Faith & Miracles –

Palangkaraya, Indonesia

Waingapu, Indonesia
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T.L. & Daisy Osborn Mass Miracle Crusade – Hyderabad, India

T.L. Osborn Teaching Conference, Uppsala, Sweden

T.L. Osborn preaching at 50th Anniversary of the

Holy Spirit’s power in Bangkok, Thailand.
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T.L. Osborn & Daisy Osborn were the first to bring

the miracle ministry to the nation of Thailand in 1956.
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The Osborn gospel literature is published

in 132 languages. Here Christian workers
in Thailand unload a large shipment for
soulwinning outreaches there.
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T.L. and Daisy Osborn conducted Evangelism

Seminars for Christian workers around the
world, like this one in the capital city of
Bangkok, Thailand. Photos–Top: United in
prayer after a strategic teaching session.
Bottom: Posing for photograph on the final day
of the seminar. Center and opposite page:
Equipped for soulwinning outreaches
nationwide.
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WOMEN’S NATIONAL CONFERENCE – E. AFRICA

Daisy Osborn seeds the women of the world in

her national women’s mass rallies abroad.

INDONESIAN WOMEN’S DAY – SURABAYA

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WOMEN’S NATIONAL MIRACLE DAY – KAMPALA

AUSTRALIAN
CONFERENCE
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T.L. & DAISY OSBORN CRUSADES. For over a half-century, they were
pace-setters in mass-evangelism, sharing Christ with more people in non-
Christian nations than any couple in history. Since Daisy’s demise in
1995, T.L. continued his ministry across Russia, Poland, Belarus,
Ukraine, Lithuania, Eurasia, Latin America, French speaking Africa and
India, until his passing in 2013.
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CARIBBEAN – Ponce, Puerto Rico

AFRICA – Kinshasa, Zaire

INDONESIA – Surabaya, Java

MEXICO – Monterrey

PHILIPPINES – Cabanatuan
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Largest Soulwinning Seminar in Kenya’s history, conducted by the

Above: Tons of Osborns’ Soulwinning Tools for African church leaders.

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Osborns. 5,000 national church leaders attend from seven nations.

Below: The Osborn Soulwinning Seminar, under big Bamboo Cathedral.

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Osborn Mass
Evangelism
Crusades
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WEST AFRICA – Accra, Ghana

MEXICO – Ciudad Juarez

AFRICA – Kampala, Uganda

CARIBBEAN – Ponce, Puerto Rico

TRINIDAD – San Fernando

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For over seven decades, the Osborn family has shared with multi-
tudes of people in over 100 nations, the principles of THE GOOD LIFE
for which God created humanity. It is believed that the Osborn family,
as messengers of Good News, may have proclaimed the gospel of
Jesus Christ to more non-Christians, and may have seen a greater
number of conversions, than any other family in the world. Every
outreach of their world ministries addresses women and men
equally, and emphasizes the Good News that Christ has come so that
YOU may have LIFE –– more abundantly. Jn.10:10
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Dr. LaDonna includes in her ministry the legacy of her mother

(Dr. Daisy Washburn Osborn) by occasionally ministering
especially to women. This Women’s Conference in Nigeria
encourages women in ministry from various nations of the world.

The spiritual landscape of nations around the world is

being impacted by the rise of women who are proclaiming
the GOOD NEWS of Jesus’ love and healing power.
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Just as in Bible days, Dr.

LaDonna goes and preaches
everywhere, the Lord working
with her and confirming the
word through the accompanying
signs. (Mk 16:20 paraphrased)
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The cripples walk. The blind

see. The deaf hear. Cancers
disappear. Hundreds of
physical healing miracles are
confirming the message of
God’s love and saving plan
for people.
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Throughout the world,

Dr. LaDonna Osborn
teaches men and
women the successful
ministry methods that
have marked the
Osborn Ministries for
over seven decades.

Dr. LaDonna presents redemptive teaching courses in

Russian during the first International Women’s
Conference in Russia where delegates gathered from
212 regions, republics and areas of the former Soviet
Union.
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Everywhere that
the Gospel of
Jesus Christ is
proclaimed, His
living power is
demonstrated
through count-
less testimonies
of miraculous
healing and
deliverance.

These materials, in conjunction with miracle

crusades, are the seed that has enabled the Osborn
Ministries to effect change and produce a broad
harvest in nations around the world.
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Continuing the ministry of Jesus is the noble

task and privilege of every Spirit-filled
believer. Through Osborn Ministry Training,
the Osborns teach others the biblical
principles that they have proven for over 70
years.
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Portable sound systems are provided

to trained evangelists. Each system is
equipped with Dr. T.L.'s "BIG TEN"
evangelistic sermons in the local language.
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T.L. listens to his grandson,

World Evangelist Tommy O’Dell
as he recounts triumphs during
his gospel crusades abroad.

Tommy & Elisabeth O’Dell’s ‘Frontier

Evangelism’ ministry organization ministers the
gospel for over 30 years in more than 80 nations.
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Jesus opens the eyes of the

blind in this Tommy O’Dell
Crusade in Natitingou, Benin.
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“Last night when I was

coming from my home I
could barely walk. On the
advertisement it said that
Evangelist O’Dell was
going to pray for the sick.
I went to the crusade and
after the Evangelist
prayed I was free! And
this morning I was more
free than yesterday!”
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BLIND RECEIVES SIGHT

MUTE
SPEAKS

CRIPPLED HEALED,
RUNS AS PROOF
DEAF EARS OPENED

TUMOR VANISHES

DEMONS
FLEE
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Evangelist Tommy O’Dell preaches

(left) and prays (right) for the people
who attend his meetings. (Below) A few
of the mass crusades that have assem-
bled in his ministry to over 80 nations.
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OSBORN MINISTRIES –
• Angola
• Argentina
• Armenia
• Australia
• Austria
• Azerbaijan
• Bangladesh
• Belarus
• Belgium
• Benin
• Bermuda
• Bolivia
• Botswana
• Brazil
• Bulgaria
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi

• Cambodia
• Cameroon
• Canada
• Central Afr. Rep.
• Chad
• Chile
• China
• Colombia
• Congo (Dem. Rep.)
• Congo (Rep.)
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Denmark
• Dominican Rep.
• Ecuador
• Egypt
• El Salvador
LEGEND • England • Georgia
Nations in which the Osborns
have proclaimed the Gospel • Estonia • Germany
in face-to-face ministry.
• Ethiopia • Ghana
• Finland • Guatemala
• France • Haiti
• Gabon • Honduras

And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, an

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OVER 70 YEARS – OVER 100 NATIONS

• Russia
• Rwanda
• Hong Kong • Senegal
• India • South Africa
• Indonesia • South Korea
• Ireland • Spain
• Israel • Sri Lanka
• Italy • Sweden
• Ivory Coast • Switzerland
• Jamaica • Taiwan
• Japan • Netherlands • Tajikistan
• Kazakhstan • New Zealand • Tanzania
• Kenya • Nicaragua • Thailand
• Kyrgyzstan • Nigeria • Togo
• Laos • Norway • Trinidad
• Liberia • Pakistan • Uganda
• Lithuania • Panama • Ukraine
• Luxemborg • Papua N.Guinea • United States
• Madagascar • Paraguay • Uruguay
• Malawi • Peru • Uzbekistan
• Malaysia • Philippines • Venezuela
• Mexico • Poland • Vietnam
• Mongolia • Portugal • Virgin Islands
• Myanmar • Puerto Rico • Zambia
Mk. 16:15
rld, and preach the gospel to every creature.
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The ministries of the

Osborns have made an
unprecedented impact on the
world. They are considered
by church leaders worldwide
to be among the great
soulwinners of our epoch. Dr.
T.L. Osborn (1923-2013), Dr.
Daisy Washburn Osborn
(1924-1995) and Dr. LaDonna
Osborn have ministered in
over 100 nations.
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DIGNITY
RESTORED

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RIGHTEOUSNESS

God reveals Himself by His redemptive

name, Jehovah-Tsidkenu, translated „ The
Lord our Righteousness.‰ Jer.23:6 FORGIVE-
NESS is a redemptive blessing, paid for on
our behalf and in our name when „ Jesus
Christ his own self bore our sins in his
own body on the tree,‰ 1Pet. 2:24 opening the
way for every person to receive „ the gift
of righteousness.‰ Rom.5:17

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Chapter Nine

DIGNITY RESTORED
Part I
THE REMEDY FOR GUILT

E VERY MAN AND every woman needs God’s

righteousness and forgiveness. Since the original
sin in the Garden of Eden,Gen.3 the divine dignity
that Adam and Eve were created with was com-
promised, and could never be recovered until
Jesus gave His life for us when we were brought back
to God…as His friends [so that now] He is living
within us again.Rom.5:10LB
Unless you have believed on Christ and have
accepted His salvation by faith, the sins that you
have committed separate you from God and con-
demn you before Him.
People’s sense of guilt and unworthiness before
God causes them to feel inadequate to pray and
unworthy of receiving answers.
Indignity and Ignominy

Sin-consciousness destroys faith in God, in the

Bible, in others and most of all, in one’s self. This
sense of inadequacy discourages initiative. It en-
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genders an inferiority complex. People become

snared by negativism and nourish a sense of spiri-
tual inferiority, so they search for someone else to
pray for them because of their own sense of in-
dignity and ignominy before God.
In their vain search to find peace, people try
church attendance, benevolence, penance, prayers,
fasting, confessions, good works, abstention from
pleasures and bad habits, self-denial, pilgrimages,
even flagellation and other forms of self-inflicted
punishment.
But this search never ends because, being cre-
ated in the image of God—in His likeness,Gen.1:27; 5:1-2
each human person is made to walk with Him
and to fellowship with Him, like Adam and Eve
did in the Garden of Eden. People were created
for God’s righteousness, to share His nature and
to express His dignity. When sin entered the hu-
man race, righteousness was forfeited and the hu-
man species has been lost and bewildered.
The Way Of Recovery
To regain this sense of righteousness before God
is the reason for religions—non-Christian ones as
well as those of the cultured and industrialized
worlds. (When I speak of religions, I mean rituals
and ceremonies without divine Life.)
God has provided The Way Jn.14:6 for us to redis-
cover the rapport with Him that was lost in the
Garden of Eden. He has opened The Way for us to
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be restored as His children, Jn.1:12 regaining all of the

privileges of being re-born into His Royal Family.
But the tormenting consciousness of sin, guilt
and unworthiness persists as long as we remain
uninformed about God’s plan of Salvation. (Get my
book, GOD’S LOVE PLAN.)

Christ gave His life to bear the penalty of our

sins so that we can be saved from death and sepa-
ration from God. We can receive God’s right-
eousness and stand again in His presence without
the consciousness of sin, guilt, fear or inferiority.
That is what humanity craves. This haunting sin
and guilt complex must be expunged. God’s right-
eousness is the only answer.

DIGNITY RESTORED
Part II

FREE AGAIN
THE BIBLE SAYS: The Lord [is] our righteousness.
It teaches that our sins have been transferred
Jer.23:6

to the account of Jesus, and that His righteous-

ness has now been credited to our account.2Cor.5:21
The Living Bible says: For God took the sinless
Christ and poured into Him our sins. Then, in ex-
change, He poured God’s goodness into us.2Cor.5:21LB

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Being justified freely by His grace through the re-

demption that is in Christ Jesus whom God set forth to
be a propitiation [effecting reconciliation] through
faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness for the
remission of our sins.Rom.3:24-25
Many people wonder how this is possible.
Good News ·Restoration
God has provided for our restoration to Him.
We can regain the personal relationship with Him
that was abrogated when Adam and Eve dis-
obeyed His Word. The price has been paid for the
restoration of our own human dignity. It is all
summed up in the word righteousness.
The message of the gospel is that God has charged
our sins to Christ’s account, and has now credited
His righteousness to our account.2Cor.5:21 Conse-
quently, we can stand in God’s presence with all
the legal rights of a Royal Family Member—a child
of God. Jn. 1:12
The Living Bible says: God showed His great love
by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sin-
ners…and now He has declared us not guilty…Since,
when we were His enemies, we were brought back to
God by the death of His Son, what blessings He must
have for us now that we are His friends and He is liv-
ing within us! Now we rejoice in our wonderful new
relationship with God—all because of what our Lord
Jesus Christ has done in dying for our sins—making
us friends of God.Rom.5:8-11LB
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Peter wrote: Who His own self bare our sins in His
own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins,
should live unto righteousness.1Pet.2:24
Debts Can Only Be Paid Once

Since no debt can be paid twice nor can anyone

be legally punished two times for the same crime,
when Jesus suffered the sentence of our sins, if we
believe that He did it as our substitute, we are
forever absolved.Mat.26:28; Heb.10:18
With no sins laid to our charge, there is no more
record of our iniquities to separate us from God.
Rev.1:5 He imparts to us His own righteousness
Rom.3:22-26; 1Cor.1:30 and welcomes us back into His

presence.Eph.2:13
We can now live in God’s Holy Presence as
Adam and Eve did before they sinned. All we
have to do is believe the Good News and confess
our faith before God and before people Rom.10:9-10
by our words and actions.1Cor.1:18,21
That is the message of the gospel. All we need
to do is only believe.Mk.5:36; Rom.1:16 Believe what? Be-
lieve what the Bible says: God made Him [Christ] to
be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made
the righteousness of God in Him.2Cor.5:21 The Lord [is]
our righteousness. Jer.23:6
In GodÊs Presence Without Fear

Since Jesus bore our sins when He died on the

Cross, therefore, the gift of His righteousness can now
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be imputed to us.Rom.5:17 He paid for it. Our sins can

no longer condemn us because Christ has put
them away forever. The penalty of our transgres-
sions against God has been endured by our Lord.
1Pet.2:24 The full payment has been made. You and I

are now free—forever.Rom.6:18,22

God offers us His righteousness.Rom.3:25-26 We can
now stand in His presence without the conscious-
ness of sin, fear, guilt, or inferiority.Rom.8:32-34
OUR DIVINE DIGNITY IS RESTORED.

STATEMENT OF FAITH
WHEN GOD GAVE His Son and when Jesus
gave His life to ransom us from the dominion of
Satan, that was proof that God loves us and wants
to share His Life with us.
That is the only basis on which we can approach
God, knowing that His pardon has been granted
and that He wills to impart to us His own right-
eousness when we believe. Knowing this, you can
come to Him right now and pray this prayer:
DEAR LORD: I have sinned against you.
I was condemned to eternal death because
your Word says the soul that sins shall die
Eze.18:20
and the wages of sin is death.Rom.6:23
Because I was condemned, Jn.3: 18 I was
separated from your presence.Isa.59:2 I could
not approach you without the sense of guilt.
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Now I understand that Jesus died in my

place, suffering the judgment of my sins.
1Pet.2:24
He paid for my rebellion. The wages
of sins is death but Jesus died as my sub-
stitute, taking my place in death.
I KNOW THAT no crime can be pun-
ished twice. When a debt is paid, it cannot
be paid a second time. It no longer exists.
Since Jesus Christ suffered in my place,
there is no more punishment for me to
bear.Rom.8:1 You now give to me your own
righteousness.1Cor.1:30 I accept your gift of
Life and righteousness.Rom.5:17-18
NOW I HAVE Jesus Christ in me.Gal.2:20 I
can now stand in your presence without the
consciousness of sin, guilt, fear, or inferior-
ity, because I am your child Jn.1:12 and you
are my Father.Gal.4:6
Your righteousness is mine. I am re-born.
I can walk and live with the dignity that
you created me for.
Thank you Lord. My divine DIGNITY IS
RESTORED. Amen!

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SECTION II

PEACE
RECOVERED

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PEACE

God reveals Himself by His redemptive

name, Jehovah-Shalom, translated „The
Lord our PEACE.‰ Jdg.6:20-24 God's PEACE
is a redemptive blessing, paid for on our
behalf and in our name when „the chas-
tisement of our peace was upon him‰ I sa.
53:5 and He
„made peace through the
blood of his cross‰ Col.1:20 for everyone
who believes.

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Chapter Ten

PEACE RECOVERED
Part I
PEACE WITH GOD ·WITH OTHERS
WITH OURSELVES

I N SECTION ONE, we showed how God’s right-

eousness replaces human guilt and restores Di-
vine Dignity. The result is PEACE with God through
our Lord Jesus Christ.Rom.5:1
When the Savior was born, angels announced,
Peace and good will toward people.Lu.2:14 The mission
of our Lord to this world was to bring PEACE.
This section emphasizes why people need this
peace, how God identifies Himself as the God of
peace Rom.15:33 and why (and how) His peace can be
embraced now.
Peace and harmony are part of God’s nature. He
created man and woman to share His divine Life
and His immeasurable Love. But sin entered the
human race. Its evil seed produced violence, un-
rest, rebellion, fear, hatred and death.

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The Troubled Sea

Unless we have been born again, embracing the

righteousness of God by faith, the harmony be-
tween people and Him that was disrupted in the
Garden of Eden cannot be restored. Human na-
ture is like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose
waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace, says
my God, to the wicked.Isa.57:20-21
Void of God’s peace, society is depraved and
perverted by destructive influences. Fear torments
people, demoralizing them and diminishing their
potential.
Harmony with God is the only thing that can
dispel the turmoil and assuage the conflict that
prevails in the human spirit when it is out of tune
with its Creator.
People may seek to alleviate fears and insecu-
rity with education, philosophy, religion, pleas-
ures, entertainment and sensuality. But without
communion with God, there can never be peace.
The search will never end.
Wars, family discord, community violence, in-
sane acts of brutality, hatred, abuse and murder
are all due to the lack of peace with God in the
human heart.
Disease, tension, emotional conflict, bitterness,
shame, physical deterioration and suffering are
rooted in people’s lack of peace with God.
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Peace With God ·With Ourselves

When we are not at peace with God, we are not

at peace with our family, our neighbors, our na-
tion nor ourselves.
Jesus said: From within, out of the heart of a per-
son, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornication, mur-
ders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lascivi-
ousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All
these evil things come from within, and defile the per-
son.Mk.7:21-23
But once peace is born in the human heart, it is
the most powerful force for healing and harmony,
for love and kindness, and for success and achieve-
ment in this world.

PEACE RECOVERED
Part II

EXONERATED
GOD ANNOUNCES, Behold, I give my covenant of
peace.Num.25:12 Paul says of Christ, He is our peace.
Jesus said, My peace I give unto you. Jn.14:27
Eph.2:14

God’s will for humanity in this turbulent world

is an abundance of His peace. He is the God of
peace.Rom.15:33

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The Meaning of PEACE

The Bible meaning of peace in both Hebrew and

Greek is to be well, happy, healthy, prosperous,
restful, safe, whole, secure, quiet and at one again
with God. This is the glorious and harmonious
state of being that He wants you and me to enjoy.
When humankind transgressed God’s Law, they
could not remain in fellowship with Him and
were therefore expelled from His presence to be
subjugated by Satan and to live under the domin-
ion of the Killer. In this fallen state of banishment
from God, there could be no peace.
But God, who loved us so much that He was not
willing that any should perish,2Pet.3:9 made a way for
us to be ransomed from the slavery of Satan and
restored to the position for which He created us,
so that His peace could once again reign in our
hearts.
He sacrificed His only begotten Son.Jn.3:16 Jesus
took upon Himself our sins and our transgres-
sions 1Pet.2:24 that had separated us from God.Isa.59:2
Our Substitute

Jesus committed no sin. Instead, He assumed

the guilt of our sins.2Cor.5:21 He made himself ac-
countable for our transgressions, then He endured
the penalty of our sins so that nothing could be
laid to our charge.Rom.8:33 Christ’s death on the Cross
made peace with God for all by His blood.Col.1:20LB
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He declared us not guilty any more. He exoner-

ated us.Rom.5:9LB He freely took away our sins and gave
us His glorious Life instead.Rom.5:16LB
That message is what the Bible calls the gospel of
peace Rom.10:15 and we are encouraged to tell it to
the whole world.Isa.61:1; Mk.16:15; 1Cor.15:1-2
It is the message that we have announced in
nearly a hundred nations during almost six dec-
ades. It is THE MESSAGE THAT WORKS. When we
believe this, we realize that there is no more en-
mity between us and God.Eph.2:15-16
Peace And Restoration

When people embrace Christ as their Lord and

Savior, He actually comes into their lives.Col.1:27;
Gal.2:20 His peace becomes their peace. His Life be-

comes theirs. The Prince of Peace reigns inside

them and they are restored to Him. Jesus becomes
their Lord.2Cor.6:18
All of this is the work of God’s grace—of His
unmerited favor. No one deserves it. It was God
who initiated the work of redemption on our be-
half. He believed that if people knew the price
that His Son paid for their salvation, they would
respond and would be as eager to be at peace with
Him as He is to have them near Him.
Now these Bible verses will be meaningful.
In Christ Jesus, you who sometimes were far off are
made near by the blood of Christ. For He is our peace.
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Having abolished in His flesh the enmity [between

God and people],…so making peace, that He might
reconcile both to God…by the Cross.Eph.2:13-16
The punishment for our peace was upon Him Isa.53:5
when He made peace through the blood of His Cross
…to present you holy and unblamable and unreprov-
able in His sight.Col.1:20,22
No longer do we need to fear judgement for our
sins. Jesus suffered our penalty. Our past is like a
debt that has been paid. It is expunged from the
record. This is salvation—the truth that brings
peace.
Unblamable Unreprovable

The record of our sins no longer exists to con-

demn us. Jesus made peace by the blood of His Cross.
Col.1:20 Our account has been expunged. The law of

sin and evil can no longer dominate us when we

are restored to God. He is now our peace.
Peace Is Recovered

When a great man of God in the Bible met an

angel face to face, the Lord said, Peace be unto you,
fear not…Then Gideon built an altar there to the Lord
and called it Jehovah-shalom, which means, The Lord
is our peace. Jdg.6:23-24
When the heavenly host announced the birth of
Jesus, the message was: Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace, good will toward all people.Lu.2:14

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Jesus said: Peace I leave with you, My peace I give

to you…so let not your heart be troubled, neither let it
be afraid.Jn.14:27 He is our peace.Eph.2:14
That is why our ministry consists of preaching
[or teaching or telling of] peace by Jesus Christ,
Ac.10:36 because people can only know peace by

knowing what Jesus did for them and by know-

ing the price that He paid to give them His peace.
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with
God through our Lord Jesus Christ.Rom.5:1
OUR PEACE IS NOW RECOVERED.

STATEMENT OF FAITH
KNOWING THAT CHRIST has redeemed you,
make your prayer a statement of your faith in Him
who is your peace. Say this, aloud to Him:
DEAR LORD: I confess that without you,
I was tormented by fear and condemnation.
My world was a restless ocean of dishar-
mony.
I know that all have sinned and come
short of the glory of God, [and that] there is
no peace…to the wicked.Isa.57:21
Now I have discovered the gospel of peace.
I know that my transgressions have been
punished and my penalty has been paid by
Jesus Christ, on my behalf and in my name.
The punishment that I deserved was en-
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dured by Him because He became account-

able for me.
I needed to be at peace with you so that I
can be at peace with myself, my family, my
neighbors and my world.
O LORD, what a miracle of grace that my
sins have been abolished through the blood
of Jesus Christ. My account is paid in full. I
am redeemed.
You and I are at peace now. The conflict
ended at the Cross. I can now stand in your
presence without condemnation. My death
and judgment are past. My debt is paid. I
am saved. I am reconciled to you.
PEACE IS RECOVERED. Amen!

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GUIDANCE

God reveals Himself by His redemptive

name, Jehovah-Raah, translated „The Lord
is my SHEPHERD.‰ Psa.23:1 GUIDANCE is
a redemptive blessing , paid for on our be-
half and in our name when Jesus Christ
„ laid down his life for the sheep, ‰ Jn.10:14-15

to redeem us to Himself as our Guide and

Shepherd.

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SIGNALS REFOCUSED
Part I
INNER CONFLICT

Ishowed
N THE FIRST two sections of this book, we
you The Way back to God, and how
Jn.14:6

to have His dignity and peace restored in life.

In this section, you will discover how to be
guided and directed by your Lord so that you will
escape the confusion and instability that perplex
and bewilder so many lives.
To succeed, you must make right decisions. The
Bible says, The Lord will guide you continually.Isa.58:11
God will guide you with His counsel.Psa.73:24
GodÊs Rhythm Is Beautiful

You and I were created to know God, to fit into

His divine plan and to accomplish His design.
Gen.1:28 Like the orbit of the stars or the rhythm of

the seasons, God’s plan for each life is to be syn-

chronized with His—to be beautiful and fruitful.
Jas.1:17

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Garden of Eden, sin dominated their lives and the

lives of their descendants. People became subser-
vient to another master, Satan.
Every good, pure, beautiful and successful de-
sign for life became ambiguous. Motives became
devious; objectives distorted. Direction was lost
and guidance was confused.Rom.1:21; Jer.50:6; Lam.4:14; Mat.
13:14-15; Ac.28:27; Eph.4:18-19

Pathways Became Pitfalls

Human hearts were menaced by terror. Dreams

were shattered. Happiness and success became
elusive. There was endless struggle instead of
fulfillment, drudgery instead of pleasure. Every
lifestream was stained by crime. The air was cor-
rupted. The cup of life became bitter. Life’s path-
ways were filled with pitfalls and danger. People
lost their way.Psa.53:5; Isa.53:6; Rom.3:23
Achievement and success were subverted. Un-
derstanding was obscured. Confidence was bro-
ken. Where velvet was promised, there was a
shroud. Bondage instead of liberty became the
master. Gall instead of nectar became life’s por-
tion. Sackcloth took the place of silk.Isa.1:4-6; Jer.8:22;
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Part II

NO MORE SEPARATION

IN THIS LABYRINTH of human disillusionment,

people desperately needed to recover God’s di-
rection for life. His ideals are constructive. His mo-
tives are pure and loving.Psa.19:7-9
But ever since the fall of human nature, a vi-
cious driving-force has hurled people into the tur-
bulent stream of insecurity. It has catapulted them
over the precipice into darkness, confusion and
separation from God.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned
everyone to his or her own way.Isa.53:6
Lost Signals ·Human Trauma

With divine signals scrambled or lost because of

the crafty Deceiver, humanity experienced the trau-
matic dilemma that Solomon wrote about: There is
a way that seems right to people, but in the end it leads
to death.Prov.14:12; 16:25
The Bible says that because people have uncer-
tain goals and confused motives, they are tempted,
drawn away by their own lust, and enticed. Then when
lust has conceived, it brings forth sin; and sin, when it
is finished, brings forth death. Jas.1:14-15

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Because the ominous barrier of sin separates

people from God, His signals cannot direct the
course of their journey. They miss the road; they
crash the reef; they drift off course; they sheer the
bridge; they hit the mines. Every worthwhile
dream sooner or later fades into an empty mirage.
They need God’s direction—His divine guidance
for true fulfillment in life.

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DELIVERED FROM DECEPTION

THE PSALMIST DAVID said, The Lord is my Shep-
herd.Psa.23:1
It is God’s desire to lead in the details of your
life so that you can enjoy fruitful and rewarding
success and happiness.
Jesus said, I am the good shepherd, and I know my
sheep. Jn.10:14 He said, the good shepherd gives His life
for the sheep. Jn.10:11
Jesus became your shepherd and guide by giv-
ing His life for you. He died for you in order to
abolish forever your sins which separated you
from God. Now He wants to show you The Way
to real living.

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The Crafty Plunderer

People have lost their direction because of sin in
fallen human nature. Rebellion against God opened
the way for Satan to subjugate people, misguid-
ing them with all that is deceptive, crafty and illu-
sory. Being separated from God by sin, confusion
and delusion have supplanted His divine leader-
ship and direction.
We Were Never Left To Drift
But God loved us too much to leave us adrift at
sea without a compass. He sent His Son to die in
our place so that we could find The Way back into
His family.
His Word says, Your iniquities have separated be-
tween you and your God.Isa.59:2 But Jesus destroyed
the middle wall of partition between us and God Eph.2:14
by bearing our sins in His own body on the tree.1Pet.2:24
His blood was shed for the remission of sins Mat.26:28 and
now sin shall not have dominion over us who believe Rom.
6:14 because we have been made free from sin.Rom.6:18

Now the signals between us and our Good Shep-

herd are refocused. We are re-tuned, re-connected,
re-aligned with our Creator. Once again our com-
munications are clear. The static and interference
have been eliminated. Our rapport with Him is
no longer obstructed by friction and conflict.
With our sins washed away through the blood of
Christ, (See: Col.1:14,20) there is nothing more to separate
us from God. (See: Eph.1:7; Lev.17:11; Heb.9:22; 10:18)
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The Good Shepherd gave His Life for the sheep.

He said, I am the Way, the Truth and the Life: no one
comes to the Father, but by me. Jn.14:6 He is The Way
There is no deceit in Him.1Pet.2:22

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YOUR NEW GUIDE

WHEN JESUS CHRIST endured the punishment
for the sins of humanity, our debt was paid in full.
This ended Satan’s authority over us.Eph.1:20-22; Rom.5:17
The Enemy no longer has the right to confuse,
deceive and misguide us.Rom.6:14 Once we give
Christ the reins of our life, the Deceiver no longer
has the right to distort our guidance signals.
Rom.6:22 Our Shepherd takes control. Jn.10:27-28 We no

longer need to be vulnerable to the enemy’s delu-

sions. Jesus died to tear down the wall of separa-
tion between us and God.Eph.2:13-14 Now we are re-
stored to Him. We know The Way. We follow our
Shepherd. Our signals are refocused.
The Good Shepherd In Charge

Before receiving Christ, we served a lying, crafty

and insidious slave-driver. But when Christ be-
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Good Shepherd. He is given charge of our lives

and the signals between us are no longer distorted.
He makes us to lie down in green pastures.
We fear no evil.
He prepares a table before us in the presence of our
enemies.
Our cup overflows.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow us all the
days of our life.Psa.23:2,4,5,6

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Part V

STAYING ON COURSE
NO ONE WAS MADE to walk life’s pathway
alone. There are perilous mountains scarred by
deep ravines and gulches. There are rampaging
rivers, avalanches, slides, enemies, storms and
other hazards.
But the Good Shepherd knows every pitfall. When
He takes charge of our lives, we can confess with
David, The Lord shall preserve me from all evil.Psa.121:7
Our dreams will know fulfillment. Our road will
be lighted all the way when we walk with God
and trust His direction as our Shepherd.
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The Lord shall guide you continually.Isa.58:11

The steps of a good man or woman are ordered by the
Lord.Psa.37:23
Your Word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto
my path.Psa.119:105
The Lord is my shepherd.Psa.23:1
Jesus said, My sheep hear my voice…and they fol-
low me; Jn.10:27 a stranger will they not follow. Jn.10:5
Built-In Guidance System

Jesus, alive in you, is your built-in guidance sys-

tem that is always reliable. He paid for the privi-
lege of leading you. He gave His life for the sheep.
Jn.10:11

God wills that you have distinct, clear guidance

so that you can discover and enjoy His best. The
enemy has no further right to confuse and de-
ceive you. Believe that the Lord is guiding you.
You have welcomed Him into your life. YOUR
SIGNALS ARE NOW REFOCUSED.

STATEMENT OF FAITH
HAVING REALIZED THAT the Good Shepherd
gave His life to ransom you from the jurisdiction
of Satan, count on Him to give you guidance in
every decision of life that you make.
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Confess this to Him aloud and reverently:

DEAR LORD: Before I knew how you
gave your life in order to direct me, I was
misguided and adrift without a rudder.
Hopes became disappointments. Ambi-
tions ended in failures. Instead of joy, there
was unhappiness, boredom instead of ful-
fillment.
Promises were broken. Dreams were shat-
tered. Storms clouded my skies. Accomplish-
ments eluded me.
My signals were coming from the wrong
source. My decisions were miscalculated be-
cause I was on the wrong wave length.
BUT YOU SAW ME bewildered and con-
fused. You cared for me enough to shine
your light on my pathway and to guide me
back to you.
You saw how I served the designs of Sa-
tan, chasing his rainbows, misguided by his
craftiness. Your signals of love could not
reach me because my sins had raised a wall
of separation between us.
I THANK YOU, DEAR LORD for paying
the price for my rebellion. You made your-
self an offering for my sins.Isa.53:10; Eph.5:2; Heb.
10:10
You became my sacrifice—the Lamb of
God that takes away the sins of the world.
Jn.1:29
You bore the punishment for my sins.
Isa.53:5-6
You proved how much you wanted
to guide and direct me toward happiness,
peace, health and fulfillment.

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NOW MY LIFE IS YOURS. You are at the

helm of my ship. You will guide my feet
into the way of peace.Lu.1:79 Your Spirit will
guide me into all truth. Jn.16:13
Now I can truly enjoy the redemptive
blessing of living a life that is guided by
you to fulfill your plan. My SIGNALS ARE
REFOCUSED. Amen!

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PHYSICAL HEALTH

God reveals Himself by His redemptive

name , Jehovah-Rapha , translated „I am
the Lord that healeth thee‰ or „I am the
Lord your Physician.‰ Exo.15:26 PHYSICAL
HEALING is a redemptive blessing, paid for
on our behalf and in our name when
Jesus Christ „ Himself took our infirmities
and bare our sicknesses‰ Mat.8:17 so that
there could never be a doubt about His
will to heal us.

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Part I
NO LONGER VICTIMIZED

O NE OF THE MOST urgent human needs is

for physical health. In human society, minds are
distorted, disease and suffering are rampant, de-
spondency and disillusionment reigns, hospitals
are over-run. Psychiatrists and psychologists are
often as bewildered as their patients are.
A great majority of people psychologically trans-
mit their spiritual and mental problems to their
physical bodies so that, in spite of the achieve-
ments of medical science, they become incurable
from a human point of view.
The Source Of Sickness

You may be in need of physical health, as-

saulted by an incurable illness. Many people think
it is normal to live subject to disease and suffer-
ing, and never question the source of this menac-
ing dilemma. If a symptom appears, they rush to
their doctor, then to their pharmacist with fore-
boding apprehension.
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Many assume that God may be using sickness

for some mysterious purpose in their lives. Or
they may think that it can teach them some lesson
in patience, humility, endurance or submission.
God provides physical health for you so that
you can be at your best for Him, for others and for
yourself. You need good health to realize accom-
plishments, to fulfill your duties and desires in
life—among your family, on your job, in your
business and in your neighborhood.
Is It God·Or Fate?

There is a power greater than disease. God has

bestowed His healing love upon all who embrace
Him as Savior. Be receptive to the Great Physician
who will come to you as He has to multitudes
worldwide.
The truths of healing expressed in this section
can be as alive as God is because His Words are
Spirit and they are Life. Jn.6:63
As we have proclaimed the truths of God’s
healing love worldwide, tens of thousands of sick
and suffering people have been miraculously
healed while listening. Jesus said, the truth will
make you free. Jn.8:32
We did not know about their cases any more
than we know about yours. We did not lay our
hands on them and pray for them individually
any more than I can lay my hands on you and
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pray for you now. They simply heard and believed

God’s promises, and He made His Word good in
their lives. That can happen to you as you con-
tinue reading these pages.

HEALTH RENEWED
Part II

THE DESTRUCTIVE DECLINE

GOD CREATED Adam and Eve perfect, physi-
cally, mentally, spiritually, and He placed them in
the Garden of Eden amidst His abundance. They
were not sick or incapacitated by disease.
God’s plan for those whom He created in His
own image and likeness Gen.1:26-27; 5:1-2 never included
disease and infirmity. His will is to show you The
Way back to the paradise enjoyed before Adam
and Eve sinned. His plan for humanity has never
changed. He wills His best for all who believe in
His Love for them.
Satan, the tempter, persuaded Adam and Eve to
doubt God’s Word. The cunning question that he
posed to them was: Has God said? Gen.3:1
His deceitful suggestion was: Did God mean what
He said? Adam and Eve concluded that He did not
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the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it:
for in the day that you eat it, you shall surely die.Gen.2:17
Disobedience to God sets into motion the awful
process of deterioration and death. Adam and Eve
disobeyed the Lord, and were consequently ban-
ished from the paradise that He created for them.
From that day, the beautiful people whom God
created in His own image and likeness began to de-
teriorate and die. Adam and Eve were subjugated
by Satan and their descendants exhibited the sad
results of doubting God’s Word. The process of
death continues today. With every sin committed,
something dies in the one who sins.
Subversion Of Faith

Happiness degenerates into sadness; love, into

hatred. Life is plagued by disease and eventual
death. Beauty turns to ashes. Faith is subverted by
distrust, and confidence is displaced by decep-
tion. Healthy bodies become subject to the de-
structive power and influence of Satan who came
to steal and kill and destroy. Jn.10:10
The twin evils, sin and sickness, have marched
hand-in-hand throughout all generations since
Adam and Eve. The human mind and heart have
degenerated through sin and corruption.
In spite of the prodigious achievements of mod-
ern science, incurable diseases continue to plague
and to kill millions of victims globally.
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Is there an answer? Has God abandoned us to

this plight? Is physical healing part of His re-
demptive plan for humanity?

HEALTH RENEWED
Part III

THE HEALER
GOD ANNOUNCES. I am the Lord who heals
you—[I am the Lord your physician]. Ex.15:26
You may find it difficult to reconcile this with
so much sickness in our world, with so many in-
nocent people suffering, and with so much nega-
tive religious teaching about disease.
If you are cognizant of God’s redemptive plan
for humanity, you will know that His will is for
you to have physical health as well as spiritual
salvation and material blessings.
John wrote, I wish above all things that you may
prosper [be helped, to succeed in affairs] and be in
health, even as your soul prospers. 3Jn.2
When Jesus Christ died on the Cross, the Bible
says that He bore our physical diseases in the
same way that He bore our sins and our iniqui-
ties. So the question is not: Did He bear our physi-
cal diseases? The question is: Why?

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The same verb in both Hebrew and Greek that

is used to state that Jesus Christ bore our spiritual
iniquities is also used to state that He bore our
physical diseases.Isa.53:4-5; Mat.8:16-17; 1Pet.2:24
ChristÊs Vicarious Intervention

Why did Christ bear them? He did it so that you

do not have to do it. He did it as your personal
substitute. That is why you can be healed.
He bore your diseases so that the Life also of Jesus
might be made manifest in your mortal flesh, or body.
2Cor.4:10 That is THE MESSAGE THAT WORKS.

HEALTH RENEWED
Part IV

SICKNESS WAS NEVER GODÊS PLAN

GOD NEVER INTENDED for His people to suf-
fer pain and disease. That plague came about af-
ter Adam and Eve bowed to Satan’s temptation.
Sin was conceived. And when it was finished, it brought
forth death. Jas.1:15
This beautiful couple whom God created in His
own image and likeness Gen.1:26-27; 5:1-2 had to be ban-
ished from His presence because He cannot co-
exist or cohabit with sin. Humanity began to de-
teriorate and die.
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The wickedness of people was great in the earth, and

every imagination of the thoughts of their hearts were
only evil continually.Gen.6:5-6 The lifestyle of people
deteriorated into a veritable breeding ground for
disease and decay that poisoned every fiber of the
human spirit, including the physical body.
God Planned Redemption

Deuteronomy, Chapter 28, outlines the destruc-

tive harvest of disobedience to God. It enumerates
a forbidding litany of physical diseases which hu-
mankind suffers: Pestilence, vexation, consumption,
fever, inflammation, extreme burning, mildew, the botch
of Egypt, emerods, scab, itch, madness, blindness, as-
tonishment of heart, oppression, violence, smiting in
the knees and in the legs, sore botch, hunger, thirst,
nakedness, want of all things, distress, plagues, sick-
nesses [and so much more].Deut.28:15,20-22,27-29,35,60-61,65-67
Then a comprehensive footnote is added to the
gruesome catalog: Also every sickness and every
plague which is not written in the book of this law.v.61
But God, who is Love and Life—God who cre-
ated man and woman in His own image and like-
ness Gen.1:26-27; 5:1-2—could not abandon His dream.
As Adam and Eve were banished from His
presence to be subjugated by Satan’s scourge of
depravity and despair, God was conceiving His
plan of redemption to bring them back into His
presence. He made The Way to rescue and legally

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deliver you and me from Satan who had de-

frauded us.
God’s Law decrees that those who sin will reap
the harvest of their sins. The soul that sins, it shall
die.Eze.18:4,20 The wages of sin is death.Rom.6:23
But all have sinned.Rom.3:23; 5:12 Wherefore, as by one
person [Adam] sin entered into the world, and death
by sin; so death passed upon all, for all have sinned.
Rom.5:12 So the harvest of sin was inescapable. All

would suffer, degenerate and die.

Only an innocent, sinless One could take our
place and assume our judgment on our behalf. If
someone without sin would assume and endure
all of the punishment that our sins deserved, then
we could be exonerated and declared NO LONGER
GUILTY. But since all had sinned, no substitute
could be found.Isa.59:16; 63:5
Then God’s Love-idea prevailed. He gave His
Son as a ransom for us.1Tim.2:5-6; Mk.10:45 Jesus Christ,
the innocent One, suffered the penalty that you
and I deserved, so that we could be acquitted and
He could declare us not guilty.Rom.5:9LB
That is the message that we declare around the
world. It is THE MESSAGE THAT WORKS.

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HEALTH RENEWED
Part V

YOUR DEBT IS ABOLISHED

THE GOSPEL IS Good News. What Good News?
It is the Good News of what Jesus did for you and
me on the Cross. He bore the punishment of our
sins so that we do not need to be punished. By ex-
punging our record, He delivered us from the
consequences of our sins, which included disease.
The great redemptive chapter of Isaiah 53 says,
Certainly He has borne our sicknesses and carried our
pains.v.4 When Jesus suffered our penalty on the
Cross, He was being wounded for our transgressions,
bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace
was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed.Isa.53:5
If Jesus suffered our diseases and bore our pains,
then logically we are healed.
This is like saying: “Your friend paid your debt,
and by his payment, your debt no longer exists.
So you are free.” Your debt is wiped from the re-
cord, once it has been paid. You have no more
debt. You cannot pay the same debt twice. ONCE
PAID, YOUR DEBT IS EXPUNGED.
The Message Confirmed

That is God’s message of Good News. Jesus

said, “When you know that truth, it makes you free.”
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nounced or taught or preached or written or re-

corded, then heard, it (the gospel) is the power of
God unto salvation.Rom.1:16 It (the gospel) is the mes-
sage that Christ confirms.Mk.16:20 He will confirm
this truth today, in your life, as you read with
faith and reverence.
Jesus announced: For the Lord has consecrated me
and sent me with Good News for people, to heal the
brokenhearted, to tell the prisoners they are free, to
tell captives they are released.Isa.61:1Moffat
Announcing these facts puts God’s miraculous
power to work among the listeners. This is what
we have experienced worldwide. We proclaim
these facts. People hear them and believe them,
and God actualizes them in their lives.

HEALTH RENEWED
Part VI

YOUR HEALTH IS PAID FOR

THIS MESSAGE OF Good News is, as we stated
above, the power of God for the salvation of everyone
who believes it.Rom.1:16
I cannot explain how Jesus suffered our dis-
eases, bore our pains, and endured the judgment
of our sins on the Cross so many years ago, but I
believe it. It is not logical. That is why the preach-
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ing of the Cross is to them that perish foolishness: but

to us who are saved it is the power of God.1Cor.1:18
When we believe in our hearts and confess with our
mouths what the Bible says that Jesus did for us
through His vicarious death on the cross,Rom.10:9-10
then God confirms it by His miracle power. Jesus
said, Only believe.Mk.5:36
Christ paid for our complete healing when He
died. He is the Lord Jehovah who heals all our dis-
eases.Psa.103:3 He paid for our healing when He car-
ried our diseases and suffered our pains, taking the
stripes by which we were healed.Isa.53:4-5LT
It is finished now. Jn.19:30 Our health is paid for.
Our diseases were laid upon Christ.Mat.8:17 He took
them away forever. Healing belongs to us now. It is
God’s gift. This is why the Lord reveals Himself as
the Lord who heals us—[the Lord our physician].Ex.15:26
SATAN HAS NO RIGHT TO LAY ON US WHAT GOD
LAID ON JESUS CHRIST AT THE CROSS.
Redemptive Facts For Faith

The Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.Isa.53:6

For the transgression of people He was stricken.v.8
It pleased the Lord to bruise Him…and make His
soul an offering for sin.v.10 For He shall bear their iniq-
uity.v.11 He bore the sins of many.v.12
He was wounded for our transgressions. He was
bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace
was upon Him.v.5
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Certainly He has borne our sicknesses and carried

our pains.v.4LT With His stripes we are healed.v.5
Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.
Why? So that we do not have to—so that
Mat.8:17

we can be healed and enjoy health and strength to

serve Him by serving people.
He Himself bore our sins in His own body on the
tree. Why? So that we, being dead to sins, should live
unto righteousness. What is the result? By His stripes
we were healed 1Pet.2:24—spiritually, mentally and
physically.
SatanÊs Deadly Toxins
GodÊs Life-Giving Gifts

When sin entered the human family, its conse-

quences included physical sickness, malady, suf-
fering and death.
The devastation of deceit and evil, the deca-
dence of lust and envy, the noxious gangrene of
hatred and vengeance and the morbid corruption
of sin and rebellion all impose their destructive
toll on the human body as toxic fall-out.
Salvation and healing are free gifts from God to
rescue and to heal human persons, not only from
the evil of sin in their hearts and spirits, but from
the terrifying physical effects evidenced in the
nerves, organs, tissues, bones and glands of their
bodies.

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This Great Salvation

Jesus Christ Himself bore our sins,1Pet.2:24 SO THAT

WE MAY BE SAVED AND FORGIVEN. He took our in-
firmities, and bore our sicknesses,Mat.8:17 SO THAT WE
MAY BE HEALED AND MADE WHOLE.
Forgiveness of sins and physical healing are
both part of salvation. Spiritual and physical heal-
ing, according to God’s Word, are to be received
together. Salvation includes physical as well as
spiritual health. Jesus always healed both.
Total Healing

Who forgives all your iniquities; who heals all your

diseases.Psa.103:3 Which is it easier to say, Your sins are
forgiven you; or to say, Arise, and walk? Mat.9:5
For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears
dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed: lest at
any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with
their ears, and should understand with their heart, and
should be converted, and I should heal them.Mat.13:15
Is any sick among you?…The prayer of faith shall
save the sick, and the Lord shall raise them up; and if
they have committed sins, they shall be forgiven. Jas.5:14-15
The Great Physician offers total health—spiritu-
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HEALTH RENEWED
Part VII

CHRISTÊS LIFE IS YOUR LIFE

SINCE JESUS CHRIST bore the sins and diseases
of the whole world, He now wants to enter peo-
ple’s lives and become their Savior and their
Healer—their Lord.
He said that when we love Him, the Father will
love us, and they would come to us, and make their
abode with us. Jn.14:23
He says, I am come that you may have life, and that
you may have it more abundantly. Jn.10:10 This new life
is for whoever believes.
When you accept Jesus, His abundant and mi-
raculous Life becomes yours. It is not His will that
you suffer either sin or disease.
Paul said that the Life of Jesus might be made mani-
fest [not only in your spirit, but] also in your mor-
tal flesh.2Cor.4:11 Christ’s life becomes your life. His
righteousness becomes yours. He and the Father
make their abode with you. Jn.14:23 You are built for an
habitation of God,Eph.2:22 whose house you are Heb.3:6
because Christ dwells in your heart by faith. Eph.3:17
You are the temple of God, and the Spirit of God dwells
in you.1Cor.3:16 Your body is the temple of the Holy
Ghost.1Cor.6:19 Jesus Christ is in you.2Cor.13:5; Col.1:27 Paul
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Paradise Of Blessings
When humanity’s sins were punished and the
account of our rebellion was wiped out, anyone
who would embrace Christ could then be recon-
ciled to God and restored to the paradise of bless-
ing which He created for people.
Jesus came to the level of our needs and became
accountable for our sins. He suffered the punish-
ment we deserved. His blood was shed for the remis-
sion of our sins.Mat.26:28; Lu.24:27; Rom.3:25 It washed our
record clean.Rev.1:5; Eph.1:7
As soon as any person understands and be-
lieves this, the Lord is ready to enter their life. He
wants to be their Lord and Savior,(Sect.I) their Peace,
(Sect.II) their Shepherd,(Sect.III)—and their Physician. (Sect.IV)

He wills that His Life be manifested in you and in

me, physically as well as spiritually.
The Bible says, With long life will I satisfy them
and show them my salvation.Psa.91:10,16NRSV
OUR HEALTH IS RENEWED.

STATEMENT OF FAITH
NOW THAT YOU REALIZE where sickness came
from and that it was never the design of your
Heavenly Father that His children suffer physi-
cally, make this statement of faith to Him in hu-
mility and in faith.
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He invites you: Call unto me, and I will answer

you.Jer.33:3 Ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may
be full. Jn.16:23-24 For everyone who asks receives.Mat.7:8
Say this to Him aloud:
DEAR LORD: You are the Lord, my Phy-
sician.Ex.15:26 Your plan for me includes
physical healing. I had thought that there
was no escape from physical disease.
Now I know that sickness is part of the
result of Adam and Eve being banished
from your presence because of their sin
and rebellion. They were subjugated by
Satan whose purpose is to kill, to steal and
to destroy them. Jn.10:10 After Adam and Eve
disobeyed your Word, we all deserved to
die. But you sent your Son to be the pro-
pitiation for the sins of the whole world.
Rom.3:24-25

I NOW UNDERSTAND that Jesus suf-

fered not only the punishment of my sins,
but also the consequences of my fallen
nature, part of which is physical disease
and pain.
Now I know that Jesus Christ of a cer-
tainty took upon Himself all of my diseases
and suffered all of my pains Isa.53:4-5LT so that
I can be completely healed.
Lord, your body was beaten beyond rec-
ognition. Your visage was marred more than
any other man.Isa.52:14 Your back was striped.
When they beat you, they plowed your
back: they made long their furrows.Psa.129:3
You were bruised and torn.Isa.53:5 Now I
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know that my sicknesses were laid on you.

Mat.8:17
You suffered them for me so that I
could be healed.
I THANK YOU LORD, for sending me
this message of Good News. I receive your
miracle life in me, here and now. By your
stripes I have been healed.Isa.53:5; 1Pet.2:24
The grace and Life of Jesus Christ which
now abides in me, heals me of both sin and
disease. I am saved and healed—I am free.
Satan has lost his dominion over me. No
sin can subjugate or condemn me. No sick-
ness has the right to destroy my body which
is now the temple of the Holy Spirit.1Cor.6:19
JESUS, YOU ARE MY LORD. From today,
I appropriate the blessing of physical heal-
ing because you are my Life. You are with
me and in me now! Jn.14:17
My HEALTH IS RENEWED. Amen!

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PROSPERITY
REGAINED

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MATERIAL
BLESSING

God reveals Himself by His redemptive

name, Jehovah-Jireh, translated „The Lord
will provide.‰ Gen.22:8 MATERIAL BLESS-
INGS are redemptive blessings; they were
paid for on our behalf and in our name
when Jesus Christ died as our substitute.
by His grace, „though He was rich, yet for
our sake He became poor , that we through
His poverty might be rich.‰ 2Cor.8:9 Since He
died for us, „how shall He not with Him
also freely give us all things?‰ Rom.8:32

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PROSPERITY REGAINED
Part I
GODÊS ABUNDANCE

W HEN GOD CREATED Adam and Eve, He

placed them in a world of material abundance.
He commanded the waters and the ground to
bring forth abundantly.Gen.1:20 After creating all liv-
ing creatures for the land, fowls for the air and fishes
for the sea, He blessed them saying, be fruitful and
multiply.Gen.1:22 And God saw that it was good.Gen.1:25
Then He placed Adam and Eve in the midst of
this garden of bounty, to dress it and to keep it. Gen.2:15
But Satan’s deceitful intervention enticed Adam
and Eve to sin against God. Their disobedience
resulted in their being separated from His pres-
ence,Isa.59:2 exiled from His rich garden of abun-
dance. God said unto Adam: Cursed is the ground
for your sake; in sorrow shall you eat of it all the days
of your life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth
to you;…in the sweat of your face shall you eat bread,
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When Rhythm And Harmony Were Lost

That was when material poverty and want

became the plight of the human race. Depri-
vation, destitution, indigence, drought, deficiency
and famine have plagued every generation that
followed.
The rhythm and harmony of people and of their
environment was disrupted, resulting not only in
physical disease, but in distrust, loss of integrity,
mismanagement and abuse of principles that
causes material poverty and destitution.
Humanity has struggled since the fall of Adam
and Eve to recover what was forfeited.
Now you can understand the reason for human
destitution and material lack—and why God made
a way for you to be reconciled to Him so that you
can recover the material blessings He originally
planned for you.

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Part II

THE BEAUTIFUL DESIGN

THE ECONOMIC PROBLEMS which exasperate
people are the issue of the deeper problem of es-
trangement from God.
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The typical family struggles to meet basic mate-

rial needs. This is Satan’s strategy to break their
will and to keep them subjugated.
God never created His children for enslavement
and poverty. You and I were not born for mate-
rial lack and penury.
Material Abundance

The Garden of Eden was a paradise of material

abundance. It was the ambiance and lifestyle that
God designed for you and me to live in. It was
His dream of contentment, harmony, and bless-
ing for those whom He created in His own image.
But then Satan posed his deadly question. Adam
and Eve yielded to his temptation to not believe
what God had said.Gen.3:1 Through their lust of the
flesh and pride of life,1Jn.2:16 they partook of the for-
bidden fruit which God warned them not to eat,
and thereby forfeited the abundance He created
for them.Gen.3:23-24
Estranged from God’s presence, the seed of sin
which had been planted in their spirits began to
produce its foreboding harvest Jas.1:14-15 in human
lives.Rom.1:21-32
Greed and evil, lust and deceit resulted in a de-
praved human society where the strong domi-
nated the weak and the rich manipulated the poor.
Lords ruled over peasants, males over females.
The venom of resentment, envy, hatred, venge-
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ance and murder continued to smolder in the

spirits of the depressed, while a ruthless passion
for power and dominance gnawed at their oppres-
sors like a cancer.
Pleasure gave way to anguish. Happiness and
love turned to discontentment and lust. Physical
health became poisoned by disease. Abundance
and material blessing degenerated into want and
destitution. God’s dream for people had to be
suspended until The Way of legal reconciliation
with Him could be effected.
No Slavery In GodÊs Family

Jesus explained it all when He said: The thief

[Satan] comes only to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.
Jn.10:10 But God is not willing that any should perish,

but that all should come to repentance.2Pet.3:9

God never intended for any human person who
was made in His image and likeness, to be a slave.
Who is like unto the Lord our God, who dwells on
high? He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts
the needy out of the dunghill.Psa.113:5-7
O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the one
who trusts in Him.Psa.34:8 He delivers and rescues, and He
works signs and wonders.Dan.6:27; 2Cor.1:10; Heb.2:15; 2Tim.4:18
You and I were born to be heirs of God—joint-
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Tap In To The Big Source

Since Adam and Eve yielded to Satan’s tempta-
tion, his deception has touched every fiber of hu-
man life until many people have accepted pov-
erty and misery, succumbing to insolvency.
Church society has been brainwashed to believe
that material abundance breeds pride, that spiri-
tual and humble people must live in material pov-
erty, and that physical suffering refines character.
But God’s redemptive plan provides for abun-
dant blessings of material prosperity, success, hap-
piness and achievement.
What is the secret to enjoying these blessings?
How can one tap into this source? If it is not in
God’s plan for us to live in a state of material
need and indigence, what can be done about it?

PROSPERITY REGAINED
Part III

RE-BIRTH OF DIVINE WORTH

GOD CREATED THE heaven and the earth.Gen.1:1 He
created Adam and Eve Gen.1:27 and breathed into them
his breath of Life and they became living souls.Gen.2:7
By Him all things were created, that are in heaven,
and that are in earth, visible and invisible.Col.1:16
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It pleased the Father that in Christ should all full-

ness dwell.Col.1:19
The Holy Scriptures assure us that God, the
Creator and Author of Life, is our limitless and
miraculous source for all that we could ever need
or desire.
God’s dream for you and me is that we be full
of His Life, that we enjoy the abundance that He
has provided, and that we abound with happi-
ness, health and material blessings.
Sin disrupted God’s plan, so that His rich leg-
acy of blessings was forfeited in exchange for a
world that would be cursed with disappointment
and despair, with depravity and deterioration,
with indigence and material insufficiency.
The Price Is Paid

But God’s immeasurable love drove Him to

make a way for people to regain their lost para-
dise and, once more, experience the blessings of
His abundance, materially as well as spiritually
and physically.
Once our sins were punished, there was noth-
ing left to stand between us and God. When we
believe the Good News of what Jesus did for us at
the Cross, then God welcomes us back into His
Royal Family.
Jesus said: I have come that you may have Life, and
have it more abundantly. Jn.10:10 The French Bible says
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that Christ has come that we might have Life, and be

in abundance.
With sin and rebellion out of the way, we can
walk together with God again. He wills no pov-
erty, scarcity, lack or penury. His redemptive plan
guarantees abundant material blessings.
Jesus Christ came to destroy the works of the devil,
which include sin and every evil conse-
1Jn.3:8

quence that weakens and demoralizes humanity,

including material poverty.
Merchandising For Filthy LucreÊs Sake

I am including a long listing of Bible promises

and statements about God’s material blessings for
your encouragement and faith.
Much abuse has been made of certain verses by
people who, with feigned words make merchandise
of the public,2Pet.2:3 teaching things…for filthy lucre’s
sake.Tit.1:10-11
Because of the popularity of “prosperity” celeb-
rities via public media, I must remind the reader
that biblical teaching about prosperity never en-
courages heaping up riches Psa. 39:6 or laying up treas-
ure for one’s self without being rich toward God.Lu.12:21
Before listing Bible statements that encourage
material blessing, one must observe that the nega-
tive influence of material riches is also biblical
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Jesus spoke of the deceitfulness of riches,Mat.13:22

and Paul said the love of money is the root of all
evil—not money itself, but the love of it—then
added, which while some coveted after, have erred
from the faith, and pierced themselves through with
many sorrows.1Tim.6:10
Another alert from Jesus concerned how the ca-
res of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the
lusts of things can choke the Word so that it becomes
unfruitful in one’s life.Mk.4:19
One day the Lord looked around, and said to His
disciples, How hard it is for those who have riches
and…for those who trust in riches…to enter the king-
dom of God! Mk.10:23-24
Jesus warned, Woe unto you that are rich! for you
have received your consolation.Lu.6:24 That can hap-
pen if one seeks material wealth for prosperity’s
sake, laying up treasure for one’s self, and not being
rich toward God.Lu.12:21
The Apostle Paul reminded Timothy and the
believers at Ephesus, They that will be rich fall into
temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and
hurtful lusts, which drown people in destruction and
perdition. Charge them that are rich in this world, that
they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches,
but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to
enjoy.1Tim.6:9-17

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A Prosperity-Phobia

Traditional Christian theology emphasized

negative texts (like those above), warning against
material prosperity, until believers embraced the
discriminating ideas that poverty implied spiri-
tuality and material wealth was a sure sign of
ungodliness. These concepts condemned material
blessings and hindered the spreading of the gospel.
Christian believers are members of God’s Royal
Family. We are commissioned and trusted by our
Lord 1Tim.1:11; 1Th.2:4 to give the gospel to every crea-
ture in all the world.Mk.16:15 That requires material
prosperity among believers, and that is why God
wills that His children prosper materially in the
same way that their souls prosper spiritually.3Jn.2
Abundant Promises

With a balanced and biblical perspective of mate-

rial blessings, these statements that follow can
nourish your faith for God to prosper you as a
believer whose heart is set on propagating the
Good News to the un-converted.
O fear the Lord, you His saints: for there is no want
to them that fear Him.Psa.34:9
They that seek the Lord shall not want any good
thing.Psa.34:10
My God shall supply all your need.Phil.4:19
I wish above all things that you may prosper.3Jn.2
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(This word, prosper, implies general prosperity in

life, including, but not limited to, material pros-
perity.)
For the Lord…has pleasure in the prosperity of His
servants.Psa.35:27
The Lord will make you plenteous in goods, in the
fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and
in the fruit of your ground.Deut.28:11
The Lord will open to you His good treasure.Deut.28:12
The blessing of the Lord brings wealth.Prov.10:22NIV
The Lord shall command the blessing upon you…in
all that you set your hand to.Deut.28:8
The Only Condition

The condition is to only believe Mk.5:36; Heb.11:6 the

gospel message that Christ redeemed you from
your sins and from their effects,Gal.3:13 part of
which is material indigence.
Christ’s salvation means deliverance from the
power and influence of Satan—freedom from the
death sentence of sin, from the plague of disease,
from material lack, and from all the works of the
devil.1Jn.3:8
That is what we have taught multitudes for
nearly six decades, worldwide. That is the mes-
sage that Christ confirms.Mk.16:20
That is THE MESSAGE THAT WORKS.

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PROSPERITY REGAINED
Part IV

GODÊS MATERIAL BLESSINGS

NOW YOU CAN experience Life in friendship
and fellowship with God. You can experience
His material blessings and have the honor of be-
ing a part of carrying out His plan.
When you understand His ideal for your life,
you experience a re-birth of self-worth. You real-
ize that He wills that you enjoy material as well
as spiritual and physical blessings.
Bible Verses That Build Faith

Here are more verses from the Bible for your

encouragement. You may be surprised by how
much is said about material blessings. All the
wealth of our world is the creation of our Father.
It is deposited in our earth, not to be manipulated
by the un-converted, but for the material blessing
of His children for carrying out His plan.
Honor the Lord with your substance, and with the
firstfruits of all your increase: so shall your barns be
filled with plenty.Prov.3:9-10
He challenges you to bring your tithes [bring of
your money] to Him, and to prove Him with it
now…to see if God will not open you the windows of
heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall
not be room enough to receive.Mal.3:10
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For the Lord God says…the barrel of meal shall

not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail.1Kg.17:14
For the earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof.
1Cor.10:26

Riches and wealth are the gift of God.Ecc.5:19

You shall make your way prosperous, and you shall
have good success.Josh.1:8
Seek first the expansion of God’s Kingdom worldwide,
and all these things shall be added unto you.Mat.6:33RV
The Lord is your Shepherd, you shall not want.Psa.23:1
No good thing will He withhold from them that walk
uprightly.Psa.84:11
Blessed is anyone who fears the Lord, who delights
greatly in His commandments…wealth and riches
shall be in his or her house.Psa.112:1, 3
You shall remember the Lord your God: for it is He
who gives you power to get wealth.Deut.8:18
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine.Hag.2:8 All the
earth is mine.Ex.19:5 The land is mine.Lev.25:23 Every beast
of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.
Psa.50:10 How excellent is Your loving kindness, O God!

Therefore…people put their trust under…Your wings.

They shall be abundantly satisfied…for with You is the
fountain [source] of Life.Psa.36:7-9
The blessing of the Lord makes rich, and He adds no
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O Lord, how manifold are Your works…the earth is

full of Your riches;…You open Your hands, they are
filled with good.Psa.104:24,28
Those who seek me early shall find me. Riches and
honor are with me; yes, durable riches and righteous-
ness…that I may cause those who love me to inherit
substance; and I will fill their treasures.Prov.8:17-18,21
Blessed are You, Lord God,…for all that is in the
heaven and in the earth is Yours…both riches and
honor come from You.1Chr.29:10-12
Walk in God’s ways…that you may prosper in all
that you do and wherever you turn yourself. 1Kg.2:3
Blessed is the Lord, who daily loads us with benefits.
Psa.68:19

A faithful person shall abound with blessings.Prov.28:

20; Deut.29:9

I am come that you may have Life, and that you may
have it more abundantly. Jn.10:10
Abounding Evidence

The world of material wealth that God has cre-

ated around you is proof that He wills material as
well as spiritual and physical blessings for His chil-
dren.
There is no one who has left house, or brothers, or
sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or
lands, for my sake, and the gospel’s, but she or he shall
receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and
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loved ones and lands,…and in the world to come eter-

nal Life.Mk.10:29-30

PROSPERITY REGAINED
Part V

HIS BEST FOR YOU

SINCE OUR SINS were put away by Christ, He
offers us His Life. By a miracle of His grace, we
have been redeemed out of the jurisdiction of Sa-
tan and we are now restored to God’s Royal Fam-
ily who says, I will receive you, and will be a Father to
you, and you shall be my sons and daughters.2Cor.6:17-18
Jesus said: If you then…know how to give good
gifts to your children, how much more shall your
Father who is in heaven give good things to them who
ask Him.Mat.7:11
No good thing will He withhold from them who walk
uprightly.Psa.84:11
The Bible says: Like a parent pities [Hebrew mean-
ing, “loves or shows compassion for”] its children,
so the Lord pities them who fear Him.Psa.103:13
Can you imagine a parent who does not desire
material blessings for his or her children? God,
your heavenly Father, desires that you enjoy His
best in this life, materially as well as physically
and spiritually.
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Poverty And Sickness

Eulogized As Blessings

If people had not been brain-washed to believe

that prosperity produces pride and that poverty
fosters humility, then it would make good sense
to say: “God is good and rich and abundant. He
created all of earth’s riches. He loves His children.
And He desires that they be blessed materially.”
But poverty is like sickness. Tradition has erro-
neously eulogized both of these plagues as in-
struments of God’s mysterious “blessing” which,
many say, will produce humility, patience, sub-
mission and obedience to Him.
Many people have made a religion of both their
suffering and of their poverty. I learned long ago
that people will fight to defend their religion, so I
know to be careful about what I say or write
about these two issues.
I also learned that if people relate their poverty
to piety in any way, then before they can experi-
ence God’s material blessings, they need a new
perspective of material wealth.
From God’s big viewpoint, the riches He cre-
ated and placed on our planet Gen.2:9-14 are not for
the unbelieving world to monopolize, but they
are created to facilitate His people who carry out
His commission as Christ’s witnesses in this world.
I have included this section in this book to pro-
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ject God’s attitude about His material provisions,

so that Christian believers will have faith 1) to ap-
propriate the wealth that God has placed here, 2)
to enjoy the lifestyle that He wills for His chil-
dren, and 3) to use His material wealth to fulfill
His Love-plan for our hurting world.

PROSPERITY REGAINED
Part VI

FAITH FOR ABUNDANCE

HERE IS A PREVAILING Bible principle: To re-
ceive any blessing that Christ died to provide, you
must believe that He wills that you receive it. We
call this faith.
All of His blessings come to us through faith.
Without faith it is impossible to please Him: for who-
ever comes to God must believe that He is, and that He
is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.Heb.11:6
That is why Jesus said, Only believe,Mk.5:36 and
Whatever you desire, when you pray, believe that you
receive it, and you shall have it.Mk.11:24
Our Part Is To Only Believe

Even though Christ died to open The Way to His

blessings, in order to receive them we must be-
lieve His Word. To do that, we must be convinced
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that the blessings that Christ died to provide are

available to all persons for whom He died. There
are no exceptions. Redemption is for all.
Convinced that Jesus Christ died on our behalf,
we express that faith by receiving Him, by con-
fessing Him publicly, Rom.10:9-10 and by expecting to
receive the blessings that He died to provide.
Satan, who continues to be our malicious en-
emy, seeks to defraud us and to influence us to
question God’s promises. He maneuvers situations,
distorting facts and plotting negative thoughts, to
suggest that God does not mean what he says in
His Word.
To discredit the validity of God’s promise is Sa-
tan’s subtle strategy. That is sin—the original sin
that separated Adam and Eve from God’s pres-
ence and blessings. Satan has no new strategy, no
new deception. He simply lures new people into
his age-old traps of unbelief by suggesting that
God’s Word is not to be taken seriously.
Satan is a liar. Jn.8:44 He despises and disparages
faith in God. He is like a dishonest lawyer who
defrauds people of their legal inheritance.
Faith ·Not Frustration

Satan will steal all of God’s redemptive bless-

ings from you if he can. He does it by lying to
you, by tricking you and by confusing you with
negative suggestions and traditional teachings, by
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causing you to look at symptoms more than at

God’s Word, by instilling fear that you might be-
come proud or arrogant if you are blessed, and by
other deceptive lies contrived to steal, to kill and to
destroy you and the blessings that God wills for
you to enjoy. Jn.10:10
That is why Paul encouraged us to fight the good
fight of faith.1Tim.6:12 In other words, we are to stand
up and believe God’s Word. We are to claim and
possess the blessings He has provided. We walk by
faith, not by sight.2Cor.5:7
In Christ’s redemptive death, He took our sins
and bore their consequences. He wills that we live
in the abundance of His blessings.
That is His plan for YOU. That is the Good News
that Christ confirms by miracles, signs and won-
ders. That is THE MESSAGE THAT WORKS.

PROSPERITY REGAINED
Part VII

ADOPTING A NEW LIFE-STYLE

TO COMPREHEND THE intimate friendship
and partnership that God wills for you is of su-
preme importance. Since He is Love, understand
that the principle of Love is to GIVE. God so loved
that He gave. Jn.3:16
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Giving is planting. The law of seedtime and har-

vest Gen.8:22 guarantees two things: 1) When we sow,
then we shall reap a harvest of the same species
that we sowed.Gal.6:7 2) And we shall reap from
what we sowed, in multiplied form.2Cor.9:6
The seeds of God’s Life-style are planted in us
as we embrace His Good News. Then we become
planters of those seeds in the lives of others to
produce His blessings in them too.
Planting Always Brings Harvest
We plant kindness, then more of it comes back
to us. We plant service and help, then we reap a
harvest of the same. We plant praise and encour-
agement, then those virtues flow back to us in
multiplied form. We plant money in God’s work,
then He returns to us a harvest of material bless-
ings. That is His law of sowing and reaping. It
cannot fail.
We plant in faith the same as a farmer who
sows the seed believing that a harvest will result.
Then we claim God’s abundant return and His
law of sowing and reaping brings it to pass.
We refuse to give credit to contradictory evi-
dence. We do not listen to negative reasoning. We
resist the snare of pious tradition that glorifies pov-
erty as producing humility. We rebuff, in prayer
and in faith, any attempt by Satan to prevent us
from receiving material, as well as spiritual or
physical blessings.3Jn.2
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We adopt God’s new Life-style of Love. We dis-

cover the blessing of giving, because what we
give is what we plant and what we plant is what
produces our harvest.
We learn why the Lord Jesus said it is more
blessed [productive] to give than to receive.Ac.20:35
Jesus said, Give, and it shall be given unto you;
good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, shall
people give into your bosom.Lu.6:38
Solomon said: Honor the Lord with your substance,
and with the firstfruits [not leftovers] of all your in-
crease: so shall your barns be filled with plenty.Prov.3:9-10
You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise
the name of the Lord. Joel 2:26
Money For GodÊs Purpose

Christians see money and material blessing not

only for their own lives, but more importantly, as
provisions for the Lord’s work. That is why God
has provided the wealth of this planet, and it is
why He wills that His children utilize it for both
their own blessing and for the blessing of sharing
His Love and His Life with others.
Certainly when people love silver, they shall never
be satisfied.Ecc.5:10 But Christian believers learn that
the most worthy purpose for material blessing is
to help carry out God’s plan of sharing Christ
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The rich fool who ignored God and stored up his

goods for himself was condemned,Lu.12:19-20 and so is
any person who lays up treasure for himself or her-
self. Lu.12:21
Learning to plant, then to harvest more, is learn-
ing to be a partner with God, serving Him by serv-
ing people—giving the gospel to every creature.Mk.16:15
That is what we have taught millions, and I can
tell you, it is THE MESSAGE THAT WORKS. God’s
power is back of His Word to make it good for
whoever believes it. I am the Lord: I will speak and
the word that I shall speak shall come to pass…I will
say the word, and will perform it.Eze.12:25
The blessing of PROSPERITY IS REGAINED.

STATEMENT OF FAITH
THE ONLY REASON we can inherit God’s mate-
rial blessings and be certain that He shall supply all
of our needs Phil.4:19 is that Jesus Christ redeemed us
from sin and its consequences (part of which is
material indigence).
Since God created this world of abundance for
His children, it is His will that we enjoy it.
So bring your material and financial needs to
the Lord who promises to supply all your need.Phil.4:19
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miracle like feeding the multitudeMat.14; Mk.6; Lu.9; Jn.6

or turning water into wine Jn.2:3-10 or causing the
cruse of oil to flow 2Kg.4:3-6 or the meal not to
cease.1Kg.17:14-16 His miraculous power is not lim-
ited to spiritual wonders. He performs physical
and material miracles too.
Make this statement of faith to Him, aloud:
DEAR LORD: I thank you for your prom-
ises of material abundance for my life. You
do not will poverty and need, any more than
you will sin and sickness.
I am thankful to know that your great
salvation Heb.2:3 delivers me not only from
my sins, but from their consequences—
from all the works of the devil 1Jn.3:8 that
have been sent to steal, kill and destroy my
heritage. Jn.10:10
When you created material abundance in
this earth, you demonstrated that you want
your children to enjoy it and to utilize it.
You placed rich treasures here,Gen.2:9-14 not
for un-believers to monopolize, but for the
prosperity, facility and blessing of your
children who carry out your will among
people.
THANK YOU, LORD. Your Word says, I
shall not lack any good thing.Psa.34:10 You
shall supply all of my need.Phil.4:19 You wish,
above all things, that I prosper and be in
health, even as my soul prospers.3Jn.2
THANK YOU, LORD, that you have pleas-

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ure in the prosperity of your servants. Psa.35:27

Thank you for your promise to make me
plenteous in goods.Deut.28:11 I believe that you
have commanded your blessing upon me…in
all that I set my hand to.Deut.28:8
I believe that Christ redeemed me from the
curse Gal.3:13 of poverty and evil, of lack and
destitution.
I WILL, FROM THIS DAY, honor you
with my substance and with the firstfruits
[not leftovers] of all my increase: So shall
my barns be filled with plenty.Prov.3:9-10
I now know that the earth is the Lord’s
and the fullness thereof. 1Cor.10:26 I realize now
that riches and wealth are the gift of God.
Ecc.5:19
So long as I do not love money 1Tim.6:10
or seek to store it up, or to trust in riches,
Mk.10:24; 1Tim.6:17
you will make my way pros-
perous, and I shall have good success. Josh.1:8
I will bring my firstfruits (my first and
my best), my tithes and my offerings to you
for your work, as you commanded,Mal.3:10
and I shall prove your Word by acting upon
it. I believe you will open heaven’s win-
dows and pour me out blessings and har-
vests of much more than I bring to you, ac-
cording to your promise.Mal.3:10
I understand that loving is giving, and
giving is planting, and whatever I sow, I
shall also reap—more.Gal.6:7
I WILL BEGIN planting. I know that even
if it requires a material miracle, like multi-
plying the boy’s lunch to feed a multitude,
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Mat.14; Mk.6; Lu.9; Jn.6;

you will do it to guarantee my
harvest. Your Word cannot return to you void
Isa.55:11
and the Scriptures cannot be broken.Jn.10:35
I now realize that the suffering and pov-
erty around me is Satan’s work—not yours.
You do not will these evils anymore than
you will that we live in sin.
I AM YOUR CHILD. You are my Father.
I have my roots in Divine Royalty.2Cor.6:16;
1Pet.2:9
I have adopted Your new Life-style.
You were rich, yet for my sake you became
poor, that I through your poverty might be rich
2Cor.8:9
…materially, physically and spiritually.
You are my Creator and you live in me. I
am a blessed member of your Royal Family.
My PROSPERITY IS REGAINED. Amen!

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FRIENDSHIP
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COMPANIONSHIP

God reveals Himself by His redemptive

name , Jehovah-Shammah, translated „The
Lord is there‰ or „The Lord is Present.‰ Eze.
48:35 FRIENDSHIP WITH GOD is a redemp-

tive blessing, paid for on our behalf and

in our name because „we were made nigh
by the blood of Christ ‰ Eph.2:13 Who prom-
ised, „I will never leave you, nor forsake
you.‰ Heb.13:5

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FRIENDSHIP RESUMED
Part I
KNOW YOUR IDENTITY

T HE UNIVERSAL need among human persons

is to be acquainted with God, to be at peace with
Him, to have fellowship with Him, to share His
Life and love and to know that He is present in
their lives.
Whether you have thought about it or not, this
craving is in everyone. It is born in you because
you are the offspring of God, created in His image
and likeness.Gen.1:26-27; 5:1-2
It is as normal for people to share Life with God
as it is for fish to swim in water or for birds to fly
in the sky.
You are a God-person. You are His kind of be-
ing. God’s breath of divine Life which is in you
makes you a living soul,Gen.2:7 created in His image.
Our Natural Habitat

You were created to be a partner and friend

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your natural habitat. You are created to walk with

Him. Without God, your potential in life can never
be realized.
Each year tens of thousands of people take their
own lives, rather than continue in their confused
jungle without God.
Each year millions of dollars are spent on for-
tune tellers. Frantic seekers pay misguided peo-
ple to give them answers that do not solve prob-
lems, and comfort that does not assuage confusion.
Despite the flood of contemporary entertain-
ment, boredom plagues human society.
But why are people apathetic, lonely and empty?
It is because they do not know God who created
them to be His friends and partners. They can
never know fulfillment apart from personal friend-
ship with Him.
You were designed to walk with God.
Gods That Do Not Satisfy
People who do not know God inevitably create
gods after their own imaginations. When the liv-
ing God is not at the center of life, then people
look for other gods to usurp His place. Some may
even become gods unto themselves.
Rather than honor the Creator, people seek their
own way, then become bored with the way they
seek. They do as they please but are not pleased
with their doing.
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Discover your roots—your Creator, and respond

to His plan of redemption. Then you can inherit
the abundant benefits of His Love and Life.

FRIENDSHIP RESUMED
Part II

THE SEARCH·THE DISCOVERY

WITHOUT GOD, people are lonely. They need
someone they can love and trust. They search for
purpose and meaning in life. They need someone
to believe in and someone who believes in them—
someone they can share with, who will not betray
or accuse or judge them. They need to be loved
and trusted. They are the offspring of God Who is
Love.1Jn.4:8,16
Companionship is basic to human need. When
people develop no rapport with other people, they
often engage in one-sided conversations with ani-
mals, or surroundings, or with themselves or even
with plant life.
Grasping Cheap Substitutes

To satisfy this fundamental craving for friend-

ship with God, innumerable forms of religion have
been conceived: communion with spirits, worship
of the sun, moon, stars and trees; worship of fly-

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ing creatures, animals, insects—even of precious

stones and of carved or sculpted forms.Rom.1:21-23
All of this depicts humanity’s innate search to
rediscover God their Creator. As a suckling child
yearns for the solace of its mother’s bosom, so
every person senses a yearning for God.
One’s search may express itself in philosophy
or education, in amusement or in some kind of
religion. It all represents a pathetic quest for iden-
tity, for self-value and for purpose in life.
Emptiness Expressed In Body Language
Without God and His companionship, people
betray their loneliness by the look in their eyes
and by the way they walk. Their body language
broadcasts their need. Their vain use of leisure
time announces their aimlessness. Their quest for
pleasure reveals their emptiness.
Something gnaws inside all human beings who
have not identified with God through His plan of
salvation. Life for them becomes a bewildering
dilemma and a vexing enigma.
Youth may express this longing by destructive
rages, promiscuity or by belligerent escapades.
People may become vengeful, reactionary—even
violent toward their family, instructor, employer,
government, or toward themselves.
Bankruptcy, incurable physical diseases, emo-
tional cop-outs and suicide can be symptoms of
one’s unfulfilled search for rapport with God.
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The Offer Of A New Beginning

There is Good News. Somebody loves you very

much. Greater love has no one than this, that you lay
down your life for your friends. Jn.15:13
Jesus did that for YOU. God so loved you that He
gave His best for you. He gave His only begotten Son.
Jn.3:16 He wants to become your lifelong compan-

ion and partner from this very day. He wants to

be present in your life, and He promises to never
leave you nor forsake you.Heb.13:5

FRIENDSHIP RESUMED
Part III

GODÊS OPEN DOOR

AROUND THE WORLD in nearly eighty nations,
we have dealt with people of all ages and all
classes of society—from jungle villagers to uni-
versity graduates, from privates to generals,
from beggars to Heads of State, from teenagers to
octogenarians.
We have ministered to multitudes of people rep-
resenting almost every major religion in our world
and we have observed that they are searching and
probing for deeper meaning in life.
Their perpetual quest is never gratified until
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they discover that God created them in His own

likeness so that they can share His Life with Him.
Although this lofty privilege was forfeited by
Adam and Eve, Jesus Christ opened The Way for
every human person to be redeemed to God and
to be miraculously restored to live in His pres-
ence with peace and happiness.
Paralyzing Pessimism

This generation has more knowledge and more

facilities for assimilating that knowledge than
any other in history. But because the idea of God
is often disdained, the more that people learn, the
more they seem to be adrift without a rudder.
Neuroses, hypertension, fear and paralyzing pes-
simism dominate much of human existence.
Without God, there are no answers to the basic
questions of life. As long as people exclude God
from their knowledge, despair, confusion and in-
security dominate society.
The Westernized world’s modern technology,
mechanical automation, luxurious living, high-
powered automobiles, color television, plus satel-
lite and laser-beam communications can never
satisfy the inner longings of humanity for God.
Only when people are restored to their Creator,
as His friends and companions, drawing their sub-
stance from Him—their true Source, can they be
satisfied and re-discover true fulfillment.
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When you dwell in the secret place of the most High,

you shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. Say
of the Lord, He is my fortress; in Him will I trust. He
shall deliver me. He shall cover me. I shall not be
afraid. No evil shall befall me. He shall give His angels
charge over me. He will deliver me. With long life will
He satisfy me and show me His salvation.Psa.91
You will show me the path of Life: in Your presence
is fullness of joy; at Your right hand there are pleas-
ures for ever more.Psa.16:11
When you discover your roots in God and em-
brace true friendship with Him, you realize full-
ness of joy.
Companionship: Friends And Partners

Loneliness and isolation are not God’s design

for human life. To be misunderstood and unloved
is not God’s plan. To live without companionship
and friends is foreign to God’s plan for people. To
feel cast aside, excluded, ostracized and without
purpose is demoralizing and destructive.
God has a glorious plan for our lives. He de-
sires our company. He wants to share His Life
with us as our Greatest Friend and Partner.
He loves us and longs for our friendship so
much that He gave His Son to die for our sins so
that every wall of separation between us and Him
could be removed. Jn.3:15; Eph.2:13-14,16
Now He says: Behold, I stand at the door and knock:
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if you hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in

to you, and will sup with you, and you with me.Rev.3:20
Fellowship is drinking from the same cup, shar-
ing the same life. The gospel is the glorious record
of how God opened the door for you and me to
come back into His presence, and of how He sent
His Son to make this possible.
He promises: Lo, I am with you alway.Mat.28:20 His
will is to be present in our lives.

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Part IV

YOU CAN TRUST ME! I WILL TRUST YOU!

WHEN GOD FIRST created Adam and Eve, they
lived in His presence and enjoyed daily rapport
with Him. They had no consciousness of sin or
guilt or fear or inferiority. They were like children
with loving parents.
Their rightful place was at God’s side, sharing
life and daily friendship with Him. They lived in
close relationship. Their lifestyle was a garden of
blessings.
God never planned for His children to cower in
shame, nor for them to be abandoned in loneli-
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planned that they would plead, like indigents, for

His favors, trying to impress Him with sacrifices
or miserable acts of penitence.
God and Adam and Eve were friends. He created
them to be one with Him in populating and de-
veloping this planet. The couple God created was
involved in His purpose. That is His will for you
and me today.
Adam and Eve were never created to be robots.
They could choose His friendship and fellowship
—and we can too. Or, if they did not want to
share Life with Him, then their right of choice
would still be honored—and ours will be too.
The Right Of Choice

God never forced Adam and Eve to love Him or

to share Life with Him. He has proven that He
desires our comradeship but He never obliges or
constrains it. You and I have the right of choice.
He warned Adam and Eve that if they ate of the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil, in the day that
they ate it, they would surely die.Gen.2:16-17 Then He
left them with their freedom of choice.
Unfortunately, they both yielded to the influ-
ence of Satan who suggested that God did not
mean what He had said and added his outright
lie: You shall not surely die.Gen.3:4 Adam and Eve
believed Satan’s lie and questioned God’s Word.
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sin that separates people from God—not to trust

what He says.
The „Deal‰ Was Simple

God’s rapport and fellowship with His children

from the beginning was simple. In essence, He
said, “You can always trust Me! I will always trust
you!” That is still the basis of His friendship and
companionship with us. (Get my book GOD’S LOVE PLAN.)
When Adam and Eve listened to Satan’s lie and
did what the Lord God forbade them to do, they
were banished from His presence. An angel was
placed at the gate of the Garden of Eden with a
flaming sword to prevent any possibility of their
re-entry into God’s presence.Gen.3:24
Now we shall see what God did to impress upon
humankind that His presence cannot be violated
by sin and that He cannot cohabit with unrighte-
ousness.

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Part V

THE WAY HOME

FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, no one could re-
turn to the Holy Presence of God in the Garden of
Eden.
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The abundant Life that flourished there was no

longer accessible. Outside the garden, the earth
was cursed under the feet of those precious peo-
ple whom God had created in His own image.
He said, Cursed is the ground for your sake; in toil
you shall eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns
and thistles it shall bring forth to you; and you shall
eat the herb of the field.Gen.3:17-18
Oftentimes I ponder the enchanting stories that
must have been passed from one generation to
another about the lush abundance and beauty of
that Garden of Eden where foreparents Adam
and Eve once lived, walked and talked with God.
The consequences of sin beleaguered people’s
lives and plagued their journey. Poisonous evils
infected them biologically, erupting in all kinds of
disease, suffering and pain. Death and destruc-
tion swept over them like tidal waves, devastat-
ing the fruits of their labors and obliterating their
fondest dreams.
They had cast their lot with Satan. Now they
were reaping the consequences of their choice.
And that has never changed.
The generations that followed Adam and Eve
could not know God in the way that He had been
known before. People longed for His presence.
They searched for ways to appease Him. But their
choice had been to violate His laws. The penalty for
their sins was death.Eze.18:4,20
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Illustrating Redemption

Generations later, God called a man named

Abraham and made a blood covenant with him.
That agreement would be an illustration of His
plan for the redemption of humankind.
He gave His Law with its system of priesthood
and sacrifices to Abraham’s descendants.
This blood covenant embraced the idea of tem-
porarily atoning for (or covering) the sins of peo-
ple by slaying an innocent animal as a substitute
for the one who had sinned.
The writer of Hebrews said later, It was not
possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take
away sins.Heb.10:4 It served only as a temporary cov-
ering that indicated temporary pardon for people
from their sins.
God formalized this complex, interim system of
offering animals as substitutes for people, to teach
respect for His laws and to impress upon them
the sanctity of His presence. It also provided a
way for them to approach God—even though at a
distance and only through the mediation of a
priest who functioned with a sense of utter fear,
guilt and inferiority.
That ceremony, or covenant, afforded a formal
way to satisfy, temporarily, humanity’s innate pas-
sion for relationship with God. That yearning is
still in evidence today, portrayed by the religions
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and superstitions practiced by millions who have

not heard or believed the gospel.
Everything about those Old Testament rituals
of priesthood and the formalities of animal sacri-
fices was to accentuate the awesome holiness and
righteousness of God’s presence which Adam and
Eve had flagrantly violated by disregarding the in-
tegrity of His Word.
The ceremonial rituals of the Old Covenant Law
constituted a schoolmaster Gal.3:23-25 to impress on
humankind, not only the holiness of God’s pres-
ence, but also—and equally vital—the impossibil-
ity of sin co-existing with Him. This was the first
stage of recovery in the redemption of humanity.
God Amidst The People

Later, Moses who descended from Abraham,

was given instructions to build a tabernacle Ex.25:8-9;
Ac.7:44 where God could dwell within the encamp-

ment of His people—as near to them as His right-

eousness could permit—and where they could
approach Him in ceremonial protocol with scru-
pulous priestly mediation.
Inside that great tent—or tabernacle as it was
called,Ex.33:7 Moses was directed to construct an
enclosure to be known as the Most Holy Place, and
God’s presence was to be there. He promised to
meet the people and to speak to them there.Ex.29:
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No individual could come into that most holy

sanctuary where God’s sacred presence dwelled,
except a certain priest—and he, only once a year.
Ex.30:10; Heb.9:7-8

The Priest With Bells

The priest had to be covered by a cloud of in-

cense as he entered, carrying a basin with the
blood of an animal that had been slain. He sprin-
kled that blood upon the altar in the Holy Cham-
ber to give evidence that an innocent animal had
been slain as a substitute for his own sins and for
the sins of the people he represented.
Bells were sewn to the priest’s garment because,
if he erred in his holy ritual, he would die inside
the Holy Chamber.Ex.28:34-35,43 The ceasing of the
bells would alert the people to what had hap-
pened. [The priest’s] sound shall be heard when he
goes into the holy place before the Lord, and when he
comes out, that he die not.v.35
God was teaching them—and us—that what
had happened in the Garden of Eden must never
be repeated, and that they must comprehend the
absolute sanctity of His presence and the total
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FRIENDSHIP RESUMED
Part VI

NEVER ALONE AGAIN

WHILE THE Old Testament Law and its priestly
rituals served as a schoolmaster,Gal.3:24-25 rituals
could never satisfy the heart of God. As genera-
tions passed, the priesthood degenerated into a
lucrative enterprise. Priests heaped to themselves
personal gain by profaning the offerings of the
people 1Sam.2:13-17 and by seizing for themselves part
of the sacrifices which they could later market.
They trafficked in animals and fowls to be of-
fered upon the altar. Some of them even lay with
the women who came to the temple to offer sacri-
fices.1Sam.2:17,22
Callused by their apostasy,Isa.56:11 they made such
a mockery of those sacrifices that God expressed
in abhorrence: To what purpose is the multitude of
your sacrifices to me? I am full of burnt offerings…I
delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he
goats…Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an
abomination unto me…Wash you, make you clean…
Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white
as snow.Isa.1:11-18
God Could Wait No Longer

In the fullness of time,Gal.4:4 God began His final

plan to bring us back into His holy presence. He
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came to our world in the form of a baby to reveal

Himself in flesh, Jn.1:14 and to illustrate, in a human
body, the Life that He planned for us to be able to
experience.
Jesus Christ was conceived of the Holy Ghost,
and was born of a virgin.Mat.1:23; Lu.1:27
Mat.1:20; Lu.1:35

Since the bloodline of offspring descends from the

seed of the father rather than from the mother, and
since the seed planted in the womb of the Virgin
Mary was created by a miracle,Lu.1:34-35 the blood
of Jesus Christ was divine, not human.Lev.17:11
That is why His blood could be shed for the remis-
sion of our sins.Mat.26:28 That is why He is the Lamb of
God, who takes away the sin of the world. Jn.1:29 That is
why His soul was made an offering for sins.Isa.53:10
That is why Christ put away sin by the sacrifice of
Himself. Heb.9:26 That is why He redeemed us to God
by His blood.Rev.5:9
Jesus Showed Us God

As Jesus grew to adulthood, He shocked every-

one, especially the religious leaders, by talking
about God—and with God—as intimately as a
child relates to its parents.
When He spoke of God as His Father, the peo-
ple of His epoch considered His words to be blas-
phemy and sacrilege.Jn.5:18 He was the first person
to call God His Father.
They tried to stone Him. Jn.10:29-33 They plotted to

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assassinate Him. Finally, through mob-violence,

they obtained authority to have Him crucified.Mat.
27:24-26 They screamed, He makes God His Father;

this is blasphemy, and He must die for it! Mat.26:65-67;

Jn.19:6-7,15-16

This fulfilled the prophecies about Christ.

Religion had so blinded the people
Mat.26:56; 27:35

and their leaders that they failed to perceive what

God was accomplishing. Had they not been ob-
sessed with their own bigotry, they would have
recognized that Christ’s arrest, accusation and
crucifixion had all been foretold by their own
prophets in their own holy scriptures. Jn.5:39
God allowed those prophecies to be fulfilled in
order to signify that Jesus was the Messiah of
whom their prophets had spoken, who had come
to this world as the Savior. Jn.19:28-30,34-37; Ac.5:30-31; 13:23
His life and ministry had fulfilled all that the Law
and the priesthood had illustrated.Lu.24:44-48
The Perfect Sacrifice·The High Priest

Jesus was God’s perfect sacrifice.Heb.5:9; 10:10-14 His

blood was innocent,Heb.9:14 being shed…for the re-
mission of our sins.Mat.26:28
He was the High Priest who took His own blood
into the Holy of Holies in heaven, into the sacred
presence of God, Heb.9:11-12,14,24-26 and His sacrifice was
so total and perfect, on our behalf, that God de-
clared (in essence): It is enough! The sins of all have

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been justly and fully punished. Nothing more can be

required. My Son’s death is enough. Now, whoever
will believe that He died for them shall be forgiven,
ransomed and reborn to the abundant Life that I cre-
ated him and her for.
From that day, The Way back to God has been
open Heb. 10:18-22 for all who believe. Jn.3:16 Men and
women can now come back into His sacred pres-
ence to live as His friends and partners, never
again to be alone.

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Part VII

GODÊS PLAN TO OPEN THE WAY

REMEMBER THE priesthood and the sacrifices
of the Old Testament; and remember what was
accomplished by Jesus Christ through His vicari-
ous death for us on the Cross. It all revealed God’s
love—His plan to open The Way for us to come
back into His Holy Presence.
He came to our level, in human flesh, to open
The Way for us to re-enter the realm of His pres-
ence. This required the punishment of our sins.
Since all had sinned,Rom.3:23 and since the wages of sin
is death,Rom.6:23 the guilty could not bear their own
punishment and live.
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So God gave His Son to assume the judgment of

our sins in order to clear us of all guilt and con-
demnation. Jn.3:16; Rom.8:1
The Way Back To God

Through Christ’s vicarious death on the Cross,

He opened up The Way back into God’s presence.
That is why He said, I am The WAY. Jn.14:6
Those who followed Jesus Christ came to be
known as followers of The Way.Ac.19:9,23
The great persecutor of early Christians, Saul of
Tarsus (known as Paul after his conversion), went
about with authority to arrest any that he found who
were of The Way.Ac.9:2
We are told of some who rejected this gospel of
Christ and spoke evil of The Way.Ac.19:9
The Bible speaks of a great stirring among the
people concerning The Way.Ac.19:23
Another verse speaks of two Christians witness-
ing to a man about Jesus and what His death on
the Cross meant and they expounded unto him The
Way of God.Ac.18:26
In Paul’s testimony he told about how he perse-
cuted The Way unto death.Ac.22:4
In another testimony he said, After The Way
which they call a sect, so serve I…God.Ac.24:14
Why was it called The Way?

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The book of Hebrews explains, The Way into the

Holy Place [or presence of God] had not yet been
made manifest, while the first tabernacle was yet stand-
ing.Heb.9:8 This refers to the tabernacle that Moses
built in the wilderness Ac.7:44 as a teaching system
or schoolmaster Gal.3:24-25 concerning God’s holiness.
Until our sins were remitted by the death of
Jesus Christ and expunged by His shed blood,
there was no way that we could be reconciled and
restored to live in God’s Holy Presence because it
was not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could
take away sins.Heb.10:4
Now The Door Is Open

But Christ came,…not with the blood of goats and

calves but with His own blood, and He entered the
Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
Heb.9:11-12

Now this verse makes sense: Where remission is,

there is no more offering for sins.Heb.10:18
So the results are: Now we can have boldness to en-
ter into the holiest [the presence of God] by the blood
of Jesus, by the new and living Way, which He conse-
crated for us, through the veil, that is to say, His flesh.
Heb.10:19-20

This new way which the early Christians fol-

lowed was The Way back into God’s Holy Pres-
ence that was opened by Jesus Christ through His
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from dead works to serve the living God.Heb.9:14 As a

result, we can now have boldness to enter into the
holiest by the blood of Jesus.Heb.10:19
Paul explains that through the body of Christ’s
flesh, through His death, He presents us holy and un-
blameable and unreproveable in God’s sight.Col.1:22
This is Redemption. This becomes a personal real-
ity from the moment we know it, believe it and
embrace Christ as our Lord.
The Awesome Illustration

The opening of The Way was illustrated by an

historic and miraculous phenomenon that took
place inside the Jerusalem temple at the precise
hour that Jesus cried aloud and yielded up the ghost
Mat.27:50 on the Cross: The veil in the temple was rent

in two from top to bottom.Mk.15:38

Historians tell us that this veil, which separated
the people from the Sacred Presence of God in the
Holy Place, was woven so thick, and of such
extraordinary material, that it would have required
six yoke of oxen pulling on each side to tear it apart.
Only once a year, the high priest entered this
Holy Place of God’s presence, with scrupulous
caution and prudence, because if he had sinned,
or if he had erred in his mediatorial ritual, he
would die.Ex.28:35
With the blood of an animal that had been slain
on behalf of the sins of the priest and of the peo-
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ple,Heb.9:7 he entered this awesome sanctuary of

the presence of God amidst a cloud of incense to
make yearly atonement for the people; the Holy
Ghost signifying by this, that The Way into the holiest
of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first
tabernacle was yet standing.Heb.9:8
No More Separation

At the very hour that Jesus cried with a loud voice

and yielded up His spirit in death for us, (See: Lu.23:46)
God’s angel descended into the temple at Jerusa-
lem and ripped asunder that foreboding veil of
separation. Mat.27:51 That divine act publicly illus-
trated that The Way into the Holy Presence of God
was now opened for all, by the redeeming death and
blood of Jesus Christ. (See: Heb.4:14-16)
With our sins expunged, no further sacrifice
would ever be needed.Heb.10:12-14 The Way is open.
All who believe on Christ can come boldly into
God’s presence and live with Him again.
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace,
that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in
time of need.Heb.4:16 We have received grace whereby
we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly
fear.Heb.12:28

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FRIENDSHIP RESUMED
Part VIII

IN GODÊS PRESENCE AGAIN

WE CAN NOW draw near to God, with a true heart
in full assurance.Heb.10:22 No one had done that since
Adam and Eve left the Garden of Eden.
Now, restored to God’s presence, we have con-
fidence. The blood of Jesus Christ was shed for the re-
mission of our sins Mat.26:28 and where remission is, there
is no more offering for sins.Heb.10:18
When a debt has been paid, no more payment
can be made because that debt no longer exists.
When a crime is punished according to the law,
the guilty person cannot be punished again for
that same crime. In the same way, now that our
sins have been expunged through the sacrifice of
Christ, you and I can never be judged for them
again. We can live in God’s Holy Presence with-
out condemnation or fear or inferiority.
Our punishment has been suffered. Jesus en-
dured it in our place. We have been made holy,
unblameable and unreproveable.Col.1:22 God took the
initiative and redeemed us so that He could le-
gally bring us back to His side. He ransomed us
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The Marvel Of Redemption

Our sins were charged to Christ’s account. His

righteousness was credited to our account. 2Cor.5:21
The veil that separated us from God’s presence
is ripped apart.Mk.15:38 We are now welcome again
to fellowship with Him who created us.
That is why there is therefore now no condemnation
to those who are in Christ Jesus.Rom.8:1 Jesus said, We
shall not come into condemnation; but we are passed
from death unto life. Jn.5:24 Instead of guilt, fear and
inferiority, John said that we can now have confi-
dence toward God.1Jn.3:21
We can now come Home. The Way for total res-
toration of fellowship with our Creator has been
opened. Jesus is The WAY. Jn.14:6
Being justified by faith, we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ.Rom.5:1
No More Penalty

We need never again be lonely or feel forsaken

or abandoned. We have a friend who sticks closer than
a brother or a sister.Prov.18:24 Jesus says, I will never
leave you, nor forsake you.Heb.13:5 Lo, I am with you al-
ways, even unto the end of the world.Mat.28:20
Now God says, I will dwell in you, and walk in
you; and I will be your God, and you shall be my peo-
ple…I will be a Father unto you, and you shall be my
sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. 2Cor.6:16,18
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You are the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

You are no more a servant, but a son or daugh-
Gal.3:26

ter, an heir of God through Christ.Gal.4:7

We are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow
citizens…of the household of God.Eph.2:19
Now Jesus says we can abide in Him, and He will
abide in us. Jn.15:4 When we do that, we can ask what
we will and it shall be done to us. Jn.15:7
He promises, If we love him, we will keep His words:
and His Father will love us, and they will both come to
us and make their abode with us. Jn.14:23
The Father’s presence is no longer limited to
some holy sanctuary. Our sin problem has been
settled. We have been given Eternal Life and have
become part of His family. We now abide with
Him, and He abides with us. Jn.15:4
This is the result of God’s divine plan of re-
demption for us.
With the barrier of our sins removed and with
the righteousness of Jesus Christ credited to our
account, we can drink from the same cup.Rev.3:20 We
now have the same righteousness that He has.
His sanctification is ours. We share His abun-
dant Life and the same relationship with God that
Jesus has.Gal.4:6-7; Jn.17:21-23 His Father is our Father.
His Life is ours. We come into His presence with
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Family.Eph.3:14-15; 2Pet.1:4; 1Jn.3:1 We are redeemed.Eph.1:7;

Col.1:14 We are Royalty.1Pet.2:9; Rev.1:5-6

We do not cry, beg and plead as though we were

poor, unworthy indigents hoping for small favors
from God. We are children of His household with
fullness of fellowship and fullness of joy.
The Way Forever Open
We have found The Way. We are not alone. He is the
One who made us acceptable to God; He made us pure
and holy and gave Himself to purchase our salvation.
1Cor.1:30LB We live in daily companionship with Him.

He is the vine, and we are the branches Jn.15:5 so that

we share the same Life source. We are one.
How priceless is this discovery! This is the Good
News. It is THE MESSAGE THAT WORKS.
Fear not: For I am with you; be not dismayed, for I
am your God. I will strengthen you; yes, I will help
you; yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my
righteousness.Isa.41:10
When you pass through the waters, I will be with
you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow
you; when you walk through the fire, you shall not be
burned.Isa.43:2
The Lord Himself does go before you; He will be with
you, He will not fail you or forsake you: Fear not, nei-
ther be dismayed.Deut.31:8
Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, nei-
ther be dismayed: for the Lord your God is with you.
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Josh.1:9 I will be with you: I will not fail you or forsake

you. Josh.1:5
My FRIENDSHIP with GOD is RESUMED.

STATEMENT OF FAITH
AS YOU EXPRESS this statement of faith, re-
member the price that has been paid by Christ to
open to you The Way into God’s presence.
Draw near with a true heart in full assurance of
faith.Heb.10:22 His ears are open unto your prayers.1Pet.
3:12 Through Christ, you now have access by one Spirit

to the Father.Eph.2:18
Say this to Him:
DEAR LORD: I thank you for opening
The Way for me to approach you without
fear. What a comfort to know that you want
to walk and talk with me as you did with
Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden!
You are always a friend to the friendless,
a companion to the lonely, a defense to
those in battle, a shelter to those in danger.
You are always strength to the weak, joy
to the sorrowful, help to the helpless, health
to the sick, righteousness and peace to the
sinful, the source of every supply to the
needy, the Savior to the lost.
I am overwhelmed knowing that you long
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I THANK YOU for helping me to under-

stand your plan for my salvation. Day and
night my heart has longed for you, but I
was afraid of your presence. I felt guilty,
unworthy and condemned. The best I could
hope for was that I might be tolerated as an
unworthy supplicant of small favors.
I never knew that you desired my com-
panionship like loving parents long to have
their children near them.
Even the formalities of religion fostered
the idea that you were afar off and almost
unapproachable. Prayer seemed, at best,
only a ritual, with answers unlikely. I was
constantly made aware of my sins and of
your holiness, and that I could only plead
and hope for small favors.
NOW I UNDERSTAND, dear Lord, that
you created Adam and Eve to be your
friends and companions, but that their re-
bellion required that they be separated from
your holy presence until succeeding gen-
erations could learn the sacredness and
value of companionship with you.
My heart is overwhelmed to see how
you sought a way to remove this wall of
separation between us, so that I could come
back to your side as your child.
I now understand that the Old Testament
is like a schoolmaster Gal.3:24 that teaches me
the meaning of the Cross of Christ and the
sacredness of rapport with you.
You used the old system of animal sacri-
fices and of human priests to illustrate the
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sacrifice of your Son as the Lamb of God

who takes away the sins of the world. Jn.1:29
It teaches me how Christ, as my great High
Priest,Heb.2:17; 4:14 took His own blood into
the Holy Sanctuary of Heaven and sealed
my eternal redemption from sins.Heb.9:12
NOW I CONFESS that Jesus is the Lamb
of God, slain for my sins. Jn.1:29; Rev.5:9-12 When
you paid my penalty, my debt was absolved,
and now nothing stands between you and
me.Rom.8:1
You believed that if you would send me
the Good News, I would respond to your
love by repenting and accepting Jesus as
my Redeemer.
Oh, yes Lord, I do believe the Good News.
I do confess you as my Lord and Master
and as the High Priest of my life. I do
welcome you to make your ABODE with
me. Jn.14:23
NOW, I ENTER your holy presence to
live. The barrier between you and me is
gone forever. The Way is open for me to
live in your presence again.
I am no longer guilty before you. What
wonderful words! I am not guilty any
more. You have declared me not guilty!
Rom.5:9LB
My penalty has been paid by my
Savior, Jesus Christ!
NOW I HAVE your righteousness. A new
Life is in me. I am saved. You and I are one.
Thank you, Lord, for redeeming me. Thank
you for sending me this message. Your love

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dwells in me now. My body is your temple.

You have come to make your abode with
me. We now drink from the same cup.
You are my defense, my protection, my
healing and my peace. You are my right-
eousness and my happiness. You are the
source of Life in me now. You are my
health and my strength. You stand against
my enemies. When plagues and evil threaten
me now, they must deal with you because I
am hidden in Christ. Now I have peace and
tranquillity. I have strength and joy.
My FRIENDSHIP with you is RESUMED.
Thank you! Amen!

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VICTORY
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REDEMPTIVE
VICTORY

God reveals Himself by His redemptive

name, Jehovah-Nissi, translated „ The Lord
our banner.‰ Ex.17:15 VICTORY is a redemp-
tive blessing , paid for on our behalf and
in our name because God „ gives us the
victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.‰
1Cor.15:57 By His sacrifice on the cross, He has
„ spoiled principalities and powers, and has
made a show of them openly, triumphing
over them , ...quickening us together with
Him.‰ Col.2:15,13

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VICTORY RETRIEVED
Part I
YOU ARE MADE TO WIN

M EN AND WOMEN were created to be win-

ners. Failure is not God’s will. He never wants
you or me to bow to the demon of defeat.
Insecurity and uncertainty are not what God
planned for us. He does not propose mediocrity.
His plan is that we be linked with Him as win-
ners—as victors.
A perpetual conflict is waged around us. Right
struggles against wrong. Evil supplants good. Dis-
ease encroaches upon health. Lust plots to over-
throw love. Subservience obstructs success.
Humanity is caught in the crossfire of life’s bat-
tles for achievement. Atheism, cynicism and un-
belief usurp the place of faith. Mistrust and dis-
honesty eat like termites at the foundations of life.
Every man and woman needs a source from which
to draw strength to win in life’s struggle.
Humanity’s adversary, the devil, is relentless. He
seeks, by every cunning device, to thwart the suc-
cess of those who follow Christ.
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The Evil One maneuvers his deceptive tactics to

swindle God’s children out of their rights. He
plots to obstruct their relationship with God. He
accuses or condemns them in order to destroy
their faith. He maligns them with a devastating
sense of inferiority and unworthiness. If he fails
to make Christians doubt God’s promises, he will
suggest that biblical provisions are not applicable
in their case.
Tactics Of The Destroyer

When people are unaware of God’s plan and

promises for His family, they become vulnerable
to the tactics of the Destroyer, and invariably they
succumb to destructive negativism and concepts
of failure.
The Christian believer must resist mediocrity
and subjugation, because failure is never God’s
will for His children.

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Part II
WHAT YOU KNOW
MAKES THE DIFFERENCE
NEGATIVE BOOKS, impugning sermons and
outmoded religious traditions syncretize to con-

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vince people that defeat is more blessed than suc-

cess. Society is often persuaded that submission
and surrender are of greater spiritual value than
achievement and winning.
Christians are urged to accept inadequacy and
indigence and to surrender objectivity. These fa-
talistic influences can cast an oppressive shadow
upon one’s life that triggers demoralizing thoughts,
pessimistic speech and defeatist behavior. It is
Satan’s deadly maneuver for breeding negativism
and humiliation.
If people are not vigilant, religious pessimists
can have them worshipping at the shrine of de-
feat, convinced that problems and poverty are
“blessings in disguise” sent from the loving Father
to teach patience, humility and submission.
The conflict is perpetual. That is why believ-
ers must be convinced that God created them to
be happy, to be blessed, and to be winners—to
succeed!
When Truth Is Not Embraced
What happens to Christians who are unaware
of God’s redemptive provisions for victory?
Very often, fear dominates, impossibilities evolve,
business ventures fail, and dreams are thwarted.
People become frightened, irritated, and angry—
with themselves and with others. Their words be-
come offensive and hostile. The devil wields his
demoralizing influence. They fall into demeaning
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cycles of disillusionment and confusion. Problems

loom and they perceive no solutions.
Satan whispers discouraging and destructive
thoughts suggesting that God is not concerned
about them, that He is perhaps punishing them
with failure or defeat because of pride or some
other negative tendency. He disturbs their nights,
accusing them of shortcomings.
The DeceiverÊs Age-Old Scheme
The Deceiver has never changed his strategy of
temptation and demoralization. His goal is al-
ways to cause people to doubt God’s promises in
the same way that he influenced Adam and Eve
to question what God said to them.Gen.3:1-6
Satan twists the Word of God and preys on hu-
man emotions in times of stress. He is relentless
in his campaign to destroy faith in God. If he can
accomplish that, he knows that people will usu-
ally renounce faith in others, and consequently,
abandon faith in themselves.
Misery, depression, poverty and failure become
the disastrous harvest of this broken confidence.

SO WHAT IS THE ANSWER? Must one struggle

forever? Can there never be victory? Is the battle
never won? Are people doomed to destruction by
this calamitous prospect?
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No! There is victory for you—right now. And as

you continue reading, you will step up to a
higher level where the victory that Christ paid for
can be actualized in your life.

VICTORY RETRIEVED
Part III

CHRIST OUR CAPTAIN

JESUS CHRIST IS CALLED the captain of our
salvation.Heb.2:10 Salvation is the all-inclusive term
that embraces everything that the Lord accom-
plished for us in His death on the Cross.
Rescue, safety, deliverance, forgiveness, protec-
tion, health, prosperity, preservation, freedom, lib-
erty, peace, righteousness, victory.
Both the Greek and Hebrew languages confirm
this all-inclusive scope of what the Bible calls
Salvation.Heb.5:9; 1Pet.1:3-5; Heb.2:3-4; 1Th.5:8-10; Eph.6:17; Ac.4:10-12;
Rom. 10:10 It is God’s abundant living. Jn.10:10; Eph.3:20; Tit.
3:5-7; 2Pet.1:4,10-11; 2Cor.9:8

You were created for triumph and for victory—

to win in life. Adam and Eve forfeited victorious
living when they dishonored and disobeyed God’s
Word in the Garden of Eden.Gen.2:16-17; 3:6-7
SALVATION is God’s New Life Plan by which He
restores to us all of the blessings that were for-
feited by Adam and Eve’s disobedience and lack
of faith.1Cor.3:22-23; Jn.1:16; Eph.4:13; Col.1:19; 2:9-10
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Jesus died so that we might live. Jn.14:19 He took

our defeats in order to give us His success.Col.1:13-
14; 2Cor.2:14; Eph.1:20-21

Discovery For Victory

We are no longer estranged from God, sepa-

rated from Him by our sins and iniquities.Isa.59:2
The righteousness of Christ has been imputed to
us.Rom.3:21-22; 1Cor.1:30; 2Cor.5:21; 1Pet.2:24 Our Dignity as
beings created in God’s image is RESTORED.
We no longer live in fear of God, uncertain
about our relationship with Him.Eph.2:12-14,16 He is
our Peace, and we rest, confident in His salvation.
Col.1:20-23 Our Peace with God is RECOVERED.

We are no longer misguided through confu-

sion and wrong decisions.Psa.32:6-8; 48:14; 73:23-24 The
Lord is our Shepherd,Psa.23:1 and He guides us in each
detail of life.Prov.3:5-6 Our Signals with Him are
REFOCUSED.
We are no longer dominated by sickness and
disease. The Lord is our Physician, our Life.Ex.15:25;
23:25; Psa.103:3 Our Health is RENEWED.

We are no longer doomed to live in destitu-

tion and need.Psa.23:1,5; 31:19; 84:11 God is our source of
supply.Phil.4:19; Psa.36:6-9; 89:11 Our Prosperity, as a mem-
ber of His Family, is REGAINED.
We are no longer alone and in despair. Jesus
Christ is always with us.Mat.28:20; Heb.13:5 He is Pre-
sent. Our Friendship with Him is RESUMED.
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We are no longer defeated in life’s battles.

The Lord is our victory.Psa.18:2; Phil.4:13
1Cor.15:57; 1Jn.4:4

We have been lifted from mediocrity to excel-

lence. We are Winners. Our Victory has been RE-
TRIEVED.
These blessings and provisions are all included
in God’s gift of salvation.Heb.2:3 It is His will that
we have victory—total victory in every phase of
our lives.Rom.8:37
Three days after Christ’s death on the Cross,
God raised Him from the dead according to the scrip-
tures.1Cor.15:4 He rose in total victory over our ad-
versary, Satan.Eph.1:20-22 And when Christ was
raised, we were raised with Him through the faith of
the operation of God, who raised Him from the dead.
Col.2:12

He said, Fear not; I am He who lives, and was dead;

and, behold, I am alive for evermore…and I have the
keys of hell and of death.Rev.1:17-18
Our New Heritage

Now you can value these biblical statements:

You, being dead in your sins…has He quickened to-
gether with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses.
Blotting out everything that was against you…He took
it out of the way, nailing it to His Cross. And having
spoiled principalities and powers, He made a show of
them openly, triumphing over them in it. Col.2:13-15
You and I can say with Paul: Like as Christ was
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raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even

so we also walk in newness of Life.Rom.6:4
We can say: In all these things, we are more than
conquerors through Him who loved us.Rom.8:37 Thanks
be to God, who always causes us to triumph in Christ.
2Cor.2:14 If God be for us, who can be against us Rom.8:31

for we are dead [to sin] and our lives are hid with
Christ in God.Col.3:3
For the Son of God was manifested, that He might
destroy the works of the devil, 1Jn.3:8 and now we are of
God…and have overcome [the devil] because greater
is He that is in us, than he that is in the world.1Jn.4:4
Jesus is our Captain. Our salvation is complete.
He died to provide all that we need or desire. His
abundant Life is now imparted to us. We have the
victory. We are always winners because Christ is
our Captain, our Victory, our Life.

VICTORY RETRIEVED
Part IV

LEGACY FOR LIVING

NOBODY KNOWS, more than Satan himself, all
that Jesus Christ accomplished for us in His vi-
carious death, burial, resurrection and ascension.
As long as Satan can obstruct people from know-
ing about Christ’s triumph on their behalf, he can
beat them in every encounter. In the Garden of
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Eden, he caused Adam and Eve to question God’s

WordGen.3:1,4 and as a result, he was able to enslave
them.
Jesus said, Satan comes not but to steal and to kill
and to destroy. Jn.10:10
The Prowling Menace
The Empty Roar

Peter said, Your enemy, the devil, walks about as a

roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.1Pet.5:8 Note
the words whom—not everyone, and may—or we
could say, may not.
Satan has no power to devour believers, nor is he
able to devour at will. He can only devour those
who believe his lies because they do not know the
victory that Christ accomplished on their behalf
and in their name. They are uninformed so they
naively accept Satan’s lies as fact.
James said, Resist the devil, and he will flee from
you. Jas.4:7 In other words, instead of bowing to his
lying suggestions, believers speak in his face the
facts of the gospel, acting on them, and the result
is that Satan flees.
That is resisting the devil with God’s Word in
your testimony,Rev.12:11 and it puts the enemy to
flight.
That is acting on the victory that Christ won on
your behalf and in your name.
Your VICTORY is RETRIEVED!
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STATEMENT OF FAITH
NOW, MAKE THIS statement of faith before the
Lord, claiming His victory. Say it sincerely:
DEAR LORD: Before I understood why
you died on the Cross, I faced problems, fears,
perplexities and distress. When there was
hope of winning, something always happen-
ed to rob me of fulfillment. Solutions evaded
me. Success was always out of reach.
I realize that my enemy was the same
adversary that robbed Adam and Eve of
their paradise in the Garden of Eden.
Now I know the Truth, and the Truth has
made me free. Jn.8:32 I know that you went to
the Cross on my behalf. You met Satan face
to face and endured the punishment that I
deserved. You paid my account in full.
IN YOUR DEATH for me, you stripped
Satan of his authority over my life.Rev.1:18
Then you rose from the dead and lifted me
out of his domain.Col.1:13 I was translated
into your kingdom and have been made a
member of your Royal Family.Eph.2:19; 3:14-15;
1Pet.2:9

Now, Lord, I have heard this Good News

and I believe it. Rom.1:16 I have opened the
door of my heart for you to come and abide
with me.Rev.3:20; Jn.14:23; 15:4,7 You are the Cap-
tain of my Salvation.Heb.2:10 I have your new
life in me now. Jn.3:36; 1Jn.5:12
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YOUR WORD SAYS, If anyone is in Christ

Jesus, he or she is a new creature: old things
are passed away; behold, all things are be-
come new.2Cor.5:17
My old sins and fears, my confusion and
defeats, my diseases and sicknesses, my
weaknesses and inabilities, my poverty and
financial lack and my distress and failures
are things of the past. They died when you
died for me because you nailed them to
your Cross.Col.2:14
Now instead of sins, guilt and fear, I have
salvation, righteousness and peace.Eph. 1:7-13;
Phil.3:9; Rom.5:1

Instead of confusion and defeat, I have

direction and success.Prov.3:5-6; Josh.1:8
Instead of disease and sickness, I have
health and strength.Psa.27:1; 2Cor.4:11
Instead of weakness and inability, I can
do all things through Christ.Phil.4:13
Instead of poverty and lack, I am rich with
Christ.2Cor.8:9 God, the Creator of all wealth
is my Father who wills for me His success
and material blessings.
Instead of loneliness and fear, you, Lord,
are now making your abode with me and
blessing my life.
Instead of struggles and lost battles, now
I am a winner because you are the Captain
of my Salvation and I cannot lose.
MY LIFE HAS new meaning and pur-
pose. If God be for me [and with me and in

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me] who can be against me? Rom.8:31 The Lord

is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be
afraid Psa.27:1
Nay, in all these things, I am more than a
conqueror through you, Lord, who loved me.
For I am persuaded that neither death, nor
life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor pow-
ers, nor things present, nor things to come,
nor height, nor depth, nor any other crea-
ture, shall be able to separate me from the
love of God.Rom.8:37-39
PRAISE THE LORD, no enemy or power
can separate me from this glorious salva-
tion. I now live in your presence.
You said, as many as receive you, to them
you give power to become the children of
God, even to them that believe on your
name. Jn.1:12 You have given me power to
become your child. Now I have your abun-
dant Life! Thank you for your right-
eousness, peace, forgiveness, and salvation.
You are my Shepherd and my Guide, my
Physician and my Provider. You are my
Source of blessings for all of my needs and
you are ever present in my life, as my
Deliverer and my Victory.
What a wonderful salvation! What an
abundance! What joy unspeakable, and full
of glory! 1Pet.1:8 My VICTORY IS RETRIEVED.
Thank you, Lord, for your message of
truth that now works in me. Amen.

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IN CHRIST

In Christ’s vicarious death and resurrec-

tion, Satan was stripped of authority
over believers.Col.1:12-14; 2:15 The Liar, the
Defeated One, no longer has ability to
interdict the prayers of God’s children.
Jesus says, „Ask and it shall be given you;
...For everyone who asks receives.‰ Mat.7:7-8

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Part I
IMAGERY THAT MISSES THE MARK

A N INFINITE LEGACY is bequeathed to Bible

believers. God’s Word promises, In all these things
we are more than conquerors through Him that loved
us.Rom.8:37
No weapon that is formed against us shall prosper;
and every tongue that shall rise against us in judg-
ment we shall condemn. This is the heritage of the ser-
vants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, says
the Lord.Isa.54:17
Since Bible days, deceivers, seducers, false teachers,
vain talkers, (See: 2Tim.3:13; Tit.1:10) and heretics2Pet.2:1 have
disturbed, confused and disquieted Christians—
those who lack knowledge of what Christ accom-
plished for them. Uninformed believers are vul-
nerable to misguiding voices.
Through worldwide electronic and fiber-optics
media, Christians of this generation are obliged to
cope with an unprecedented bombardment of di-
vers and strange doctrines.Heb.13:9 Occasionally when

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I return from ministering in other nations, I am

bewildered—and at times appalled—by concepts
that I hear pontificated publicly.
Great emphasis is promulgated about “spiritual
warfare.” The label has become lucrative for pub-
lic marketing, motivating countless books, broad-
casts, and digital recordings that proliferate in
our world.
God and Satan Are Not Equals

I quote the term, “spiritual warfare,” because

the words are not used together in the Bible. War
and warfare appear, but demon spirits are not men-
tioned in connection with those two words, since
Christ already conquered them on our behalf.
“Spiritual Warfare” is a concept based on phi-
losophical premises that are unscriptural. The
popular notion misses the objective that Paul had
in mind when he wrote about spiritual conflict
with the Enemy.
“Intercession” is another term that has been
confused. While it is a New Testament term, it
only appears three times: 1) Paul exhorts people
to supplications, prayers, intercessions and giving of
thanks,1Tim.2:1 2) as the ministry of the Holy Spirit,
Rom.8:26 and 3) as the ministry of Jesus, at the right

hand of the Father.Heb.7:25

The “spiritual warfare” term has been generally
misused. Teachers and preachers conjure up im-
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ages of the forces of God (Christians) and the

forces of Satan (evil spirits and rulers of darkness)
pitted against each other as contending powers
that are so nearly equal that the conflict is only
won if Christians engage in “spiritual warfare”
and pull down enough strongholds.2Cor.10:4 This is not
what Paul taught.
Prayer is a biblical and valid ministry in the
Church. Paul emphasized it.Eph.6:18; Phil.4:6 But he
never told Christians to struggle against devils as
though they can impede or interdict access to the
Heavenly Father or as though evil spirits may
take possession of believers. These concepts indi-
cate a limited understanding of redemption.

TRIUMPH IN CHRIST
PART II

DANIELÊS 21 DAY DELAY

DANIEL’S EXPERIENCE in the Old Testament is
cited as an example of how rulers of darkness and
spiritual wickedness in high places can hinder or im-
pede a believer’s prayers from being answered.
Daniel set himself to pray for twenty-one days,
on behalf of his nation. The Bible says that the
prince of Persia withstood him. Finally, Daniel wrote:
Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, and
told me that from the first day…your words were
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heard…but the prince of Persia withstood me twenty-

one days.Dan.10:10-13
This example is used to encourage Christians to
struggle against the prince of the powers of the air
and spiritual wickedness in high places, as Daniel
did. They are told that their prayers may not pre-
vail due to spiritual hindrance by emissaries of
Satan. But, the theory goes, that if they intercede
long enough, then angels may join in the conflict,
as they did for Daniel, and that their prayers can
finally be effective.
Not Under The Old Covenant
That was an Old Testament example. When
Daniel struggled for those three weeks, Jesus
Christ had not yet conquered Satan and his de-
mons. He had not yet wrenched from the Evil One
his dominion over believers.
In Christ’s vicarious death and resurrection,
Satan was stripped of authority over believers.
Col.1:12-14; 2:15 The Liar, the Defeated One, no longer

has ability to interdict the prayers of God’s chil-

dren. Jesus says, Ask and it shall be given you…FOR
EVERYONE WHO ASKS RECEIVES.Mat.7:7-8
Redemption is a finished work: Christ being come
a high priest…by His own blood, has entered into the
holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us
…He is entered…into heaven itself, now to appear in
the presence of God for us.Heb.9:11-12,14,24
Seeing then that we have a great high priest that is
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passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us…
therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may
obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Heb.4:14-16

Demons can no longer prevent our prayers from

being answered. Victory is ours. If we know He
hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the
petitions that we desired of Him.1Jn.5:15
Taking PaulÊs Words Out of Context

This popular concept of struggling in prayer

against evil spirits and powers is based on Paul’s
counsel to Timothy, to the Ephesians and to the
Corinthians.
Fight the good fight of faith.1Tim.6:12
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be
able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but
against principalities, against powers, against the rulers
of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wicked-
ness in high places.Eph.6:11-12
For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal,
but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong
holds.2Cor.10:4
Paul was not speaking to Christians about strug-
gling in prayer against demonic forces inside the
church, among believers within the body of believ-
ers. He was writing to encourage young Chris-
tians concerning their witness of Christ outside the
Church, in an environment that was hostile to the
new Christian “sect” (as society regarded them).
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TRIUMPH IN CHRIST
PART III

A BELLIGERENT SOCIETY
PAUL WAS ALERTING young churches that
when believers went out to witness about the
death, burial, resurrection and ascension of Jesus
Christ, they would face fierce opposition because
the new Christians were considered to be a sect,
officially condemned by the Roman government.
Persecution of Christians was common. It was
politically expedient to collaborate with govern-
ment officials in locating and arresting believers,
so they could be hauled off to prison, torture and
death, as Paul had done before his conversion.
Ac.9:1-2; 22:4-5; 26:10-11; Gal.1:13

The situation was so critical that Paul wrote to

remind believers that they must be prepared to
fight the good fight of faith,1Tim.6:12 and that they
would need to put on the whole armor of God, to
stand against Satan’s wiles, because as Christ’s wit-
nesses, they were wrestling...against principalities,
powers, rulers of darkness and spiritual wickedness in
high places.Eph.6:13,12—referring to haters of Chris-
tians who ruled from high political and govern-
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PAUL WAS USING SPIRITUAL TERMS TO DESCRIBE

RUTHLESS GOVERNMENTAL AND SOCIETAL OPPOSI-
TION TO THE WITNESS OF CHRIST.

Engaged In Warfare
That Is Already Won

Christians who lack knowledge of New Testa-

ment culture may misconstrue Paul’s statements,
applying them to the popularized concept of
“spiritual warfare” among believers.
But when Paul wrote about pulling down strong-
holds, and wrestling against principalities, powers and
rulers of darkness, he was talking about Christians
going out into a dangerous world to bear witness
of Jesus Christ at the risk of persecution, arrest,
imprisonment, physical torture, and death.
That is the WARFARE against spiritual wickedness
in high places in which those early believers were
engaged. And it is the same today. Come with me
to some of the enormous crusades abroad where I
minister to multitudes of non-Christians and I will
show you that kind of WARFARE.
Paul was encouraging young believers, remind-
ing them that Jesus had spoiled those principalities
and powers and had made a public show of their defeat;
that He had triumphed over them. Col.2:15 Knowing
that is what gave them, and gives us spiritual
stamina to stand up against opposition to the mes-
sage of Christ in non-Christian environments.

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PRAYER by Christian believers is vital and bibli-

cal. James said, pray one for another.Jas.5:16 Paul said,
We that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the
weak.Rom.15:1 Christ won the victory over Satan’s
evil influence and now gives us the victory.1Cor.15:57
He always causes us to triumph.2Cor.2:14
What encouragement such words must have
been to those beleaguered believers who were
sacrificing everything and risking their lives to
witness about Christ during an epoch of mali-
cious persecution!

TRIUMPH IN CHRIST
PART IV

WITNESSING WITH COURAGE

TO FIGHT THE fight of faith means to identify

with Jesus Christ in His triumph over Satan.
Christian believers need not struggle to conquer
an enemy that has already been defeated. They
are to carry their witness with boldness and cour-
age, believing that Jesus, who triumphed over Sa-
tan, is at work in them, and that He is greater in
the believer than Satan is in the world.1Jn.4:4
Real spiritual warfare is not fighting demon
spirits within the Church or in other Christians.
Weaknesses, temptations and influences of the
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enemy that any believer may deal with are to be

overcome, not cast out.Rom.12:21; 1Jn.4:4
Satan’s oppressing spirits will relentlessly tempt
and pressure Christians, deceiving them, tricking
them, diverting them by delusions and chicanery.
He will oppress their bodies with pain and dis-
ease and their minds with negative and doubtful
thoughts that contradict God’s Word. The be-
liever’s recourse is to resist the devil [with the facts
of the Word of God], and he will flee from you.Jas.4:7
That is why Paul said: Cast down imaginations,
and every high thing [thought] that exalts itself
against the knowledge of God, and BRING INTO CAP-
TIVITY EVERY THOUGHT TO THE OBEDIENCE OF CHRIST.
2Cor.10:5

Evil Spirits That Cannot Be Cast Out

A believer cannot exorcise evil spirits from a

Christian who persistently entertains negative
and doubtful thoughts that Satan’s emissaries
plant in their minds. A believer cannot exorcise
spirits of discouragement or fear or doubt. Those
symptoms are the result of one’s thoughts—nega-
tive thoughts that contradict redemptive fact.
Such “spirits” must be overcome through a resolve
to embrace the facts of the Word of God.
Christians cannot run to their believing friends
when they feel discouraged or frightened or op-
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of them. Those evil imaginations must be overcome

by steadfastly believing God’s word.
Paul was urging believers to deal with those
negative influences themselves. They concern peo-
ple’s thoughts. Discouragement and fear are the
result of thoughts that contradict God’s word.
When Christians choose to think wrong thoughts,
they can be deluded by the enemy. Everyone has
the right of CHOICE. You can choose to change your
thoughts. Paul said, in essence, “You need not
run to stronger believers, asking them to drive
out the spirit of discouragement or fear. Your part
is to bring into captivity every thought to the obedi-
ence of Christ. You are to cast down fearful imagi-
nations and every thought that exalts itself against
the knowledge of God.” 2Cor.10:5
Thinking GodÊs Thoughts
Analyze your thoughts. If they contradict the
facts of redemption, then simply change them.
Think redemptive thoughts. Think of what God
says. Ponder it. Rejoice in it. Talk it. Communi-
cate it. Believe it. And act on it. Discouragement
will dissipate like a toxic fog before the sunshine.
Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and
the feeble knees; And make straight paths for your feet,
lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let
it rather be healed. Follow peace with all people, and
holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord:
Looking diligently lest anyone fail of the grace of God;
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lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you,

and thereby others be defiled.Heb.12:12-15
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever things are true,
whatever things are honest, whatever things are just,
whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely,
whatever things are of good report; if there be any vir-
tue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Phil.4:8

And be not conformed to this world: but be trans-

formed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may
prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect,
will of God.Rom.12:2
This entire book is written to help you to do ex-
actly that. Each of your basic needs are provided
by God’s redemptive provisions. As you grasp
them, embrace them, speak them, and act on them,
God will confirm them in your life.
No one can experience Christ’s victory who
identifies with and gives credence to negative and
contradictory thoughts sown in their minds by
the Enemy.
To be a winner with God, we are to identify
with Christ’s victory over Satan. When He won,
we won. We are in Him. He is in us. Now He al-
ways causes us to triumph.2Cor.2:14
Pagan Rituals to Exorcise Spirits

I have visited pagan villages in nations abroad,

observing heathen rituals, dances, and ceremonies.
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I have talked with national converts from non-

Christian religions who have confided to me in-
formation about tribal superstitions. The principal
concern of pagan villagers is the appeasement of
evil spirits which they believe are the agents of
spiritual, physical and material evil. They make
vain attempts to pacify “demons” by blood sacri-
fices and the mediatorial incantations of priests or
witchdoctors.
Non-Christian village people engage mediums at
great cost, to offering sacrifices with pagan rituals
for the purpose of exorcising evil spirits from their
homes, villages, markets and businesses.
Having witnessed these practices abroad, I am
astonished when I come home and hear Chris-
tians waging what they call “spiritual warfare,”
fantasizing the pulling down of strong-holds, imag-
ining they are driving out demons from believers
or places of worship or residences or businesses.
They envisage themselves wrestling against prin-
cipalities and powers which they visualize as op-
pressing or possessing Christian believers. To me,
this resembles what pagans do abroad—except
that they use different vocabulary.
Christians who espouse ideas like these have
embraced a concept of “spiritual warfare” that is
incompatible with redemptive truth and inconsis-
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TRIUMPH IN CHRIST
PART V
INTERCESSORY PRAYER
PLUS WITNESSING ACTION
WHEN CHRISTIANS IMAGINE demonic powers
arrayed against them in spiritual conflict, and be-
lieve that their warfare against these principalities
requires long intercessions, then they are dis-
crediting the victory that Christ won through His
death and resurrection.
To visualize Satan’s power pitted against God’s
people in a struggle that may be lost if Christians
do not “wrestle in prayer” long enough, negates
Christ’s victory and gives undue credit to the
Enemy.
Two Concepts Of Prayer

Two notions about prayer contradict the truths

of redemption.
1) The belief that Christians must “wrestle”
against principalities, powers and the rulers of the
darkness of this world WITHIN THE CHURCH. That is
not where these principalities and rulers of dark-
ness exist—unless Christians concede place to
them. Satan has no right to impose his destructive
works in the lives of believers who have been
washed from their sins in Christ’s blood; Rev.1:5 who
have been delivered from the power of darkness, and
translated into the kingdom of God’s dear Son.Col.1:13
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2) The belief that by prayer and intercession,

Christians can wage “warfare” against Satan and
bring down his power in un-converted, non-
Christian areas of the world. We must remember
that Satan has the right to rule his own subjects.
God never imposes His dominion—not over peo-
ple, not over demons, not over Satan. Jesus did
not—could not. Believers cannot.
In the lives of believers, Jesus is Lord. The only
power that Satan can wield against Christians is
the power that they concede to him by embracing
ideas that are not biblical. He cannot impose his
dominion against a believer’s will. Neither can
Christians impose the gospel in the un-believing
world against their will.
In the un-converted world, Satan is the ruler.
The only power that Christians can wield among
his subjects, is to witness to them of the gospel.
When the witness of Christ is given, Satan’s sub-
jects have the right to believe the gospel, or not to
believe it. Satan cannot interdict their right of
choice. If they chose to believe it, then he must
relinquish his rule over them.
By the same principle, Christians cannot enter
Satan’s territory and impose God’s message or His
will on people. If un-believers reject the Good
News, the believer has no option other than what
Paul did when he was rejected—he gave his wit-
ness to someone else, or in another locality.Ac.13:51;
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Even Christ Himself could do no mighty work,

Mk.6:5in His home town of Nazareth because of their
unbelief. Mat.13:58 And when Jesus looked over the
city of Jerusalem, He lamented, O Jerusalem,… how
often I would have gathered your children together, as
a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you
would not! Lu.13:34
Regardless of how many Christians unite in what
is called “intercessory prayer” for a person, an area
or a region, God never imposes His rule against
the will of unbelievers. Christians cannot bom-
bard the heavens with their “intercessions” and
“spiritual warfare” and impose the gospel mes-
sage in an area against the will of the people. Peo-
ple’s right of CHOICE to believe or not to believe
will never be ignored.
In the Garden of Eden, God did not thwart the
will of Adam and Eve to doubt His word and to
believe Satan’s lie. He did not interfere in peo-
ple’s right of choice during the ministry of Jesus.
He did not in the early church. He does not now.
He offers His salvation as a gift. The believer’s
part is to publicize God’s offer, and the hearer’s
choice is to accept or to reject His gift of Life.
When God created people, He gave them a free
will and He never abrogates their right of choice.
Paul said, …to whom you yield yourselves servants to
obey, his servants you are to whom you obey; whether
of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
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the same is he or she brought into bondage.2Pet.2:19 The

Living Bible says it like this: For a person is a slave
to whatever [or whoever] controls him or her.
That is why Christians cannot reform people by
casting evil spirits out of them. What they can do
is teach God’s Word to people, then people can
embrace or reject His truths. They can conform
their thinking to God’s plan and resist the enemy,
overcoming temptations and negative suggestions,
or they can chose to ignore God’s way. That is
their right of choice and no one can impose God’s
Good Life Agenda against their will.
Believers cannot exorcise the “spirit of gluttony”
from someone who is obese because of over-eating,
or the “spirit of drunkenness” from someone who
consumes addicting intoxicants. These destruc-
tive propensities are to be overcome, not cast out.
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good,
Rom.12:21 is Paul’s counsel. He never suggested that

we cast evil tendencies out of people. Those pre-

dispositions are to be overcome, and in doing so,
spiritual growth results.
The Power Of The Gospel

Demons know the gospel and its power. They

know that their only means of resistance is to pre-
vent the gospel from coming to the attention of
their subjects because, if the un-converted comes
to know the truth, the truth will make them free.Jn.8:32

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We do not win lost souls by struggling in prayer

to defeat evil spirits and to bring down Satan’s
strongholds in their lives. We defeat principalities
of darkness by informing people about the deliv-
ering truths of the gospel. That is the power that
pulls down Satan’s strongholds and that opens
the way for the lost to receive salvation.
Un-converted people who are ignorant of the
gospel will not be brought to Christ through the
prayers of believers. They can only be saved through
faith.Eph.2:8 That faith comes through hearing the
Word of God.Rom.10:17 They hear that Word when be-
lievers share the gospel with them.
Paul asked, How can they call on Him in whom
they have not believed? and how shall they believe in
Him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they
hear without a preacher [or messenger]? Rom.10:14
Prayer And Intercession

Paul spoke of helping together by prayer.2Cor.1:11

He was on the front lines and needed the Chris-
tians to help him in prayer. Prayer for what? He
urged the believers at Thessalonica to pray that
the Word of the Lord MIGHT HAVE FREE COURSE. 2Th.3:1
Why? So that the gospel would not be hindered
by society’s political and governmental rulers of
darkness in high places, nor be rejected by the people.
Paul did not engage the Christians to pull down
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They had no authority to demand Satan’s surren-

der so believers could impose the Christian faith.
To bring Christ’s salvation to the un-converted,
Paul knew that he must inform the Enemy’s sub-
jects of the gospel which is the power of God unto
salvation.Rom.1:16
Paul knew that if he could do that effectively,
his gospel witness would have free course and the
people would hear it and believe it. When they
did that, Satan’s strongholds would be pulled down
and his rule over their lives would be ended be-
cause Satan cannot hold people captive against
their will to receive Jesus Christ as Lord.

TRIUMPH IN CHRIST
PART VI

OPTIONS: BELIEVE OR DO NOT BELIEVE

AFTER CHRIST’S RESURRECTION, believers
went forth as His witnesses,Ac.1:8; 2:32; 3:15; 4:33; 5:32 and
many of them which heard the Word believed; and the
number of them [in one area] was about five thou-
sand.Ac.4:4 Those five thousand people exercised
their right of choice to believe the message of
Christ’s resurrection when they heard it.
They did not become believers because some-
one defeated the principalities and powers of dark-
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ness over them by “intercession.” Those early be-

lievers prayed, Ac.4:24-31 but their praying was ob-
jective. They were praying for boldness to speak the
Word of the gospel.v.29 They prayed, but they also
spoke the Word of God with boldness,v.31 among the
un-believing society around them.
Response To ChristÊs Witnesses

Philip went amidst un-believers in Samaria and

publicly told the people about Christ. His message
evidently had free course.2Th.3:1 No doubt, the apostles
and the believers at Jerusalem were praying that
Philip’s witness would be unhindered and have free
course in Samaria.
The believers had been scattered abroad because of
the great persecution against the church, and they had
gone everywhere preaching the Word.Ac.8:1,4 Philip
went to Samaria. The people there believed Philip
preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God,
and the name of Jesus Christ.Ac.8:12
The followers of Christ did not stay in the Up-
per Room to wrestle against the principalities, powers
and the rulers of darkness that hung over Samaria,
pulling down Satan’s stronghold from over that city.
To deliver Satan’s captives in Samaria, the mes-
sage and witness of the gospel had to be taken to
them. The Samaritans exercised their right of choice
and believed. Satan could not prevent them. His
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then, and it is rendered invalid today when con-

fronted by the Good News.
Some Believed · Some Believed Not

Paul went to Thessalonica to preach Christ. They

received the Word with all readiness of mind… and
many of them believed.Ac.17:11-12 Prayer and interces-
sion at Jerusalem would not have succeeded alone.
A believer needed to go and give the gospel to the
people. Satan could not prevent them from choos-
ing Christ when they heard the Good News. The
people believed. They were delivered. The gospel
did its work.
Paul went to Athens and was pressed in his spirit
to testify that Jesus is the Christ.Ac.18:5 But he could
not prevail against the will of the people. They
opposed and blasphemed Paul’s witness, so he de-
parted.v.7 Christians cannot impose God’s deliver-
ance upon those who do not choose to believe the
gospel. Demons, angels and people all have their
right of choice.
Paul went to another residence to witness of
Christ. There, a synagogue ruler believed on the Lord
with his house; and many of the Corinthians, hearing,
believed.Ac.18:8
Then Paul witnessed of Christ in another town,
but his words were rejected and he knew he could
not impose the gospel against their will. When
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of that way…Paul departed from them.Ac.19:9 That was

all he could do. They chose to reject Christ.
After Paul was rejected, he witnessed to some
other people and many of them believed, and con-
fessed, and shewed their deeds.Ac.19:18
While Paul was in Rome under house arrest,
prior to his execution, many came to his lodging to
whom he expounded and testified…concerning Jesus…
and some believed…and some believed not.Ac.28:23-24
That is what Jesus said would take place: Those
who believe shall be saved; those who believe not
shall be damned.Mk.16:16
Prayer must be accompanied by witnessing ac-
tion. Un-believers are saved when believers take
the gospel to the enemy’s territory, getting the ear
of as many as possible, persuading them, as Paul
did Ac.19:8; 28:23 about Christ.

IN THE NEXT SECTION, we will look at the

meaning of Paul’s statements to Timothy, to the
Ephesians and to the Corinthians. Perhaps some
of the confusion—or even delusion about prayer,
intercession and spiritual warfare can be alleviated.

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VICTORIOUS
PRAYER

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VICTORIOUS
PRAYER

We came to realize that the t wo

things we prayed for most, would never
be realized—those prayers would never be
answered by God:
1) Asking Him to do what He already
accomplished through Christ’s sacrifice.
2) Asking Him to do what He already
commissioned us to do.

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VICTORIOUS PRAYER
Part I
BIBLICAL ESSENCE OF PRAYER

P RAYER HAS BEEN complicated and ritualized

by religion. When understood, biblical prayer is
as natural as breathing. But too often, it is an ago-
nizing cry for divine help, a barrage of desperate
pleadings, or a torrent of meaningless verbiage.
For prayer to be meaningful and inspiring, the
redemptive blessings that Christ provided for be-
lievers must become living realities. Our purpose
is to motivate that result. I’ve decided to share how
we were lifted from the boredom of long, monoto-
nous, pleading prayers into a family relationship
with the Father.
PRAYER IN ITS MOST BIBLICAL ESSENCE IS SIMPLY
ONE’S RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. The basic concept
of prayer expressed in Hebrew and Greek scrip-
tures is never begging and pleading for blessings
and gifts; it never suggests “spiritual warfare” or
conflict with evil spirits. When we made that dis-
covery, our prayer times became spiritual feasts
instead of ritual boredom.
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There are hundreds of Bible references that ex-

press a broad spectrum of prayer concepts: pleas
for help, thanksgiving, guidance, deliverance from
distress, danger or disaster, intercessions, claims for
healing or material blessings, plus so much more.
The Apostle Paul mentioned supplications, prayers,
intercessions, and giving of thanks.1Tim.2:1
„The LordÊs Prayer‰
The simplest and most basic concept of prayer—
that even a child can emulate—is when Christ
said, after this manner pray ye.Mat.6:9 His words make
it clear that a believer’s rapport with the Father is
the same as His.
The logic of Christ is simple. He compares prayer
to the relationship between a parent and a child.
To illustrate that, he says: If a child asks for bread,
what parent would give him or her a stone? If they ask
for a fish, would a serpent be given instead? Mat.7:9-10
His concept is fundamental. He says: Ask and it
will be given. Seek, and you will find. Knock and it
will be opened to you.Mat.7:7
Most New Testament teaching about prayer was
addressed to people who were not yet knowl-
edgeable about the blessings provided through
the death of Christ.
The gospel facts that engender steadfast confi-
dence in prayer—in communing with the Father—
are KNOWING ABOUT… 1) redemption, 2) why Christ
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died, 3) what His death accomplished, 4) how His

death and resurrection affect the believer, 5) Christ’s
total triumph over Satan, 6) the meaning of each
fact of redemption to all who embrace the Gospel,
and 7) the believer’s standing before God—holy,
unblameable and unreproveable in his sight.Col.1:22;
1Th.3:13

It required time for Early Church believers to

grasp the significance of these facts and to em-
brace and apply them in their new Christian faith.
Once these provisions are understood and as-
similated, prayer becomes a relationship, a com-
munion and a time of rapport with God. That is
why the prayer that Jesus taught is so simple.
The Lord understood the purpose of His com-
ing and of His death for us; He knew all that
would be provided through His sacrifice. So the
way He taught us to pray was principally attun-
ing our spirit to His will and confessing our rap-
port with Him in His Love plan for the world.
How Jesus Taught Us To Pray
The prayer that Jesus taught is not a torrent of
pleadings and claims for blessings; it is not a
battle-cry against evil spiritual powers in the cos-
mic realm.
Note the simplicity and the broad scope of the
prayer that Jesus told us to pray, then observe the
dignity and the ONENESS WITH THE FATHER that
His words project.Mat.6:9-13
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Mat.6:7 When you pray do not use vain repe-

titions as the heathen do. They think they will be
heard for their much speaking.
8 Your Father knows what you need, even be-
fore you ask him.
9 So this is the way to pray: Our Father who
is in heaven, Hallowed be your name.
10 May your kingdom come. May your will
be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive
our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation, but de-
liver us from evil: For yours is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
Victorious prayer is following His example. His
prayer begins by contemplating one’s relation-
ship with the Father. As His child, created in His
image, we reverence the hallowed Name con-
ferred upon us as believers.v.9 We express har-
mony with His will, agreeing that His Kingdom is
now extended through us.v.10
We confess His faithfulness to provide for our
daily needs. We appropriate His forgiveness by
the measure that we forgive others.v.12 We express
our trust in His deliverance and guidance in times
of temptation and evil.v.13
As we close our prayer, we contemplate three
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we are purged of our sins Heb.1:3 so that He can

now live and express Himself through our lives;
2) His POWER of Love that is now manifested in
our hurting world, in and through us as His in-
terpreters and representatives; and 3) His GLORY
that is bestowed upon us as His co-laborers who
are redeemed so we can continue the ministry
that Jesus began.v.13
There is no hint of pleading for blessings or
power or gifts. There is no suggestion that we
struggle against spiritual powers. His prayer con-
sists of positive statements—mostly of confes-
sions of intimate trust in Him, assertions of har-
mony, confidence, commitment, receptivity, agree-
ment and rapport with Him and His will—never
with a hostile attitude; never suggesting conflict
with demons; never assaulting evil principalities
in the spirit world; never focusing on claims for
blessings.
Ponder these facts afresh as you examine my
own 24 /7 PRAYER Guide that is shared with you
later in Part III of this Chapter 17.

VICTORIOUS PRAYER
Part II

PRAYERS THAT BEAR NO FRUIT

WHEN WE BEGAN our ministry, we spent
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hours on our knees daily, beseeching God for

blessings that He had already provided, and beg-
ging Him to do so many things that He had com-
missioned us to do.
In our passion to please Him and to win souls,
we even went to India as missionaries. But with-
out understanding redemption or the blessings
that Christ’s death provided, we were unable to
convince people of ancient religions about the gos-
pel. Without miracles, we offered little more than
a Christian philosophy.
In less than a year, we returned to the USA heart-
broken and embarrassed by what seemed to us to
be failure in our mission. We had seen the masses,
lost in empty religions, and it was obvious to us
that if they could hear Christ’s gospel and see it
confirmed by miracles—as resulted when the disci-
ples went forth,Mk.16:20 millions of them would be-
come His followers and would embrace His gospel.
Although we spent hours on our knees, our man-
ner of prayer did not harmonize with biblical
truths. For over a year we struggled to reform our
thinking and our attitude about prayer.
As we searched for knowledge concerning the
miraculous, God saw our struggle, and the Lord
Jesus appeared to us. Following that awesome ex-
perience, we began to discover in the scriptures
the blessings that Christ had provided through
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became aware of Satan’s total defeat by Christ

and we learned about God’s promises to confirm
His word by miracles. (Get our books: BIBLICAL HEALING, and
THE GOOD LIFE.)

Prayers That God Will Not Answer

We came to realize that the two things we prayed

for most, would never be realized—those prayers
would never be answered by God:
1) Asking Him to do what He already accom-
plished through Christ’s sacrifice.
2) Asking Him to do what He already commis-
sioned US to do.
These and other biblical discoveries posed a ma-
jor dilemma for us. We were fanatical about prayer.
If we failed to spend hours on our knees each
day, we felt condemned and unworthy to minister.
As we discovered redemptive truths, we real-
ized that our way of praying did not correspond
with God’s Love-plan for people. We were plead-
ing for Him to do things that He was already pas-
sionate to do.
As we grappled with inconsistencies between
our praying and His redemptive provisions, we
resolved to reform our prayer-life, regardless of
how awkward it might prove to be—and it be-
came a very difficult challenge. Why?
Because language becomes routine—automated.

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It flows from our lips almost without thought. We

were pouring out supplications to God with auto-
mated phrases, verbalizing empty, traditional
prayer concepts that were not in accord with the
truths of redemption.
It was embarrassing to interrupt our pleadings
to God and to say, “Wait, Lord. I didn’t mean what I
just said. I was rambling. This is what I meant to say.”
Then I would force myself to articulate exactly
what I had intended to say. What a challenge!
We struggled with our miserable, automated
verbosity for over a year. But by persistence, we
finally conformed our prayer vocabulary to God’s
redemptive provisions. We learned to say what we
meant, instead of rambling in a torrent of sacred
phrases and platitudes like religious gurus.
I am sharing with you our 24 /7 PRAYER Guide
that evolved as we discovered our place in Christ
and our relationship with the Father. This was
seeded in us when we ministered for five weeks
with the renowned F.F. Bosworth, in 1952. He gave
me a copy of the prayer that he wrote and carried
with him, reverently reading it before the Lord, on
his knees, daily.
The simplicity of Bosworth’s prayer made sense
to my wife and me, and the Prayer Guide below
began to take form as the framework for our daily
seasons of prayer and relationship with the Father.

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Principles And Priorities

Prayer is a time of communion and fellowship
with the Father, not a time to besiege Him with a
barrage of solicitations and petitions. Jesus said,
Your Father knows what things you have need of, be-
fore you ask him.Mat.6:8
Prayer is integral to the believer’s relationship
with God—every hour of every day. That is why I
am sharing this PRAYER Guide with you.
As we comprehended the meaning of redemp-
tion and the biblical ministry of the believer, we
faced a serious dilemma: If we did not need to pray
for God to do what He had already accomplished,
and if we did not need to ask Him to do what He
had sent US to do, then HOW WERE WE TO PRAY AND
WHAT WERE WE TO PRAY FOR?
These 24 PRAYER Principles and 7 PRAYER
Priorities have been our guiding light for years.
They have kept us focused on His will. They have
helped us escape the pitfalls of religious boredom.
They have kept us happy, with a positive outlook
and a productive outreach to millions of people
worldwide.(Get my books: NEW MIRACLE LIFE NOW, SOULWINNING,
and THE BEST OF LIFE.)

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VICTORIOUS PRAYER
Part III

MY 24/7 PRAYER GUIDE

MAY THIS PRAYER Guide become the North
Star of direction for your spiritual life. It will pilot
you into the wonders of simple, dynamic, biblical
prayer—without the boredom of formal rituals
and vain repetitions, as the heathen do.Mat.6:7
These twenty-four prayer principles may remind
you of THE PRAYER THAT JESUS TAUGHT (see Part I
of this Chapter 17)—no pleading; no begging; no
spiritual warfare. But communion and relation-
ship with the Father; confessions of His plan and
of His purpose.
Survey these principles and discover a new per-
spective of Life and a fresh relationship with the
Father.

1. PRAYER IS BEING INFUSED by God’s Love,

contemplating His plan and will for people, and
being inspired by His confidence in us as agents
of His grace and compassion. Jer.31:3; Rom.5:8; Jas.1:17; 2Pet.
1:2-4; 1Jn.3:1

2. PRAYER IS PONDERING more and better ways

to be personally involved, actualizing the Lord’s
Love plan in the lives of others.1Cor.3:9; 2Cor.5:20; 6:1; Eph.2:10
3. PRAYER IS EXPRESSING gratitude for being
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chosen as a partner with the Father in His Love

mission to humanity.Ac.1:8; 2Cor.5:14; 1Jn.3:16
4. PRAYER IS ABSORBING our Lord’s compas-
sion and being baptized in His emotions until our
heartbeat is in rhythm with His Love plan.Psa.62:5;
Jn.3:16; 7:17; 1Cor.2:14; 2Cor.4:6-7; 2Tim.1:7-9

5. PRAYER IS SYNCHRONIZING our objectives with

our Lord’s, resolving to give of our best to accom-
plish His purpose among people.Psa.62:5; 1Cor.2:14-15;
2Cor.4:6-7; 2Tim.1:7-9

6. PRAYER IS REFLECTING on what God’s Word

says about our priorities, then it is conforming our
conduct to His ideals.Isa.42:16; Hos.6:3; Jn.20:21-22; 2Th.1:11-12
7. PRAYER IS VISUALIZING and conceiving ways
to CONTINUE today what Jesus BEGAN during His
earthly ministry. Jn.14:12; Phil.3:12-14; 1Th.2:4
8. PRAYER IS HARMONIZING our spirits and emo-
tions with the Holy Spirit, until His plan becomes
our consuming passion.Mat.6:33; Jn.14:21; 15:8; Heb.12:1-2; 1Jn 2:3-6
9. PRAYER IS ASSESSING our ideas, then correlat-
ing them with the facts of Christ’s redemption—
with who He made us to be and what He sent us to
do.Psa.1:1-2; 119:115-117; Rom.8:26-27; 12:1-2; 2Cor.2:14-15; 5:17-18
10. PRAYER IS CONTEMPLATING how CHRIST IN US
affects others through our lives, our words and
our deeds.Mat.5:14-16; 1Tim.4:12; Tit.2:7-8; 1Pet.2:9
11. PRAYER IS ASSIMILATING God’s Love so that
we minister His healing balm effectively in the

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wounds of hurting people around us.Mat.5:44; Mk.12:31;

Jn.15:10; 2Cor.5:14-15; 1Jn.4:10-12,16,19

12. PRAYER IS WORSHIPPING our Lord for all that

He is, for His greatness, for His love and for His
deeds of grace.1Chr.16:29-31; Psa.95:6; 96:9; Jer.32:17; Jn.4:24
13. PRAYER IS EXPRESSING gratefulness to God
for His redeeming plan and for the abundant bless-
ings that He has freely provided for our needy
world.Isa.53:4-5; Psa.103:1-5; Heb.2:14-15
14. PRAYER IS CONTEMPLATING the inexpressible
grace of God toward us while we were yet sin-
ners. Jn.1:14-16; Ac.15:11; Rom.3:24; 5:2,8; Eph.1:7; 2:8; 4:7; 1Tim.1:9
15. PRAYER IS INTERNALIZING Christ’s Life and be-
ing energized by His Spirit for royal ministry to
people. Jn.15:26; 16:13-15; Ac.1:8; 2:28; Rom.6:4; 8:10-11; Gal.2:20; 2Pet.1:3-4
16. PRAYER IS THANKING God for His gifts and
callings; it is listening for His directions about how
to express them for the benefit of others.1Cor.1:26-31;
12:31; 14:12; Eph.1:18-19; 2Th.1:11-12; 2Tim.1:9

17. PRAYER IS UNVEILING our disposition before

Christ, harmonizing our attitude with His, so that
His Love is exhibited through us and not our own
prejudices.Deut.7:8-9; Psa.139:23-24; Ecc.7:25; Isa.41:10; 42:6-7; 52:7-
8,10; 60:19-21; 1Cor.1:9; Col.2:9-10; 2Pet.3:9

18. PRAYER IS SYMPHONIZING our emotions with

the Master, aligning our attitude with His, so that
negative behavior or unconscious discrimination
will never contradict the gospel that we share.
Psa.41:1-3; 112:9; Prov.11:24-25,27; Lu.14:13-14; 1Cor.11:1; 2Cor.9:8-9

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19. PRAYER IS APPROPRIATING Christ’s Faith, Hope

and Love, allowing His dreams to be engendered
in our spirits, then actualized through our lives.
Deut.7:8-9; Jn.14:21,27; Rom.1:17; 8:28; Heb.12:2; 1Pet.1:7-9; 1Jn.5:4-5

20. PRAYER IS BEING IMMERSED in God’s love and

compassion for the unconverted so that no one will
be excluded or marginalized by our conduct or by
prejudicial words in our witness.Mk.12:30-31; Rom.12:19-
21; Cor.5:14,18-20; 1Jn.4:21

21. PRAYER IS BI-DIRECTIONAL COMMUNION with

the Father, expressing our plans and goals to Him,
then listening for His response and guidance so
that His agenda will be fulfilled through us.Psa.73:24-
26; 77:6,12-14; 143:10; Prov.3:5-6; Isa.30:21; Jn.16:13-14

22. PRAYER IS INTERCEDING for the needs of other

believers and ministers, then listening for God’s
ideas about what we can do to be a part of His an-
swer.Ac.12:5; Eph.4:14-19; 6:18; Phil.1:3-4; Col.1:3-5; 2Th.3:1-2
23. PRAYER IS CORRELATING our agenda with
God’s Love plan for the world of people whom
Christ died to save.Isa.43:2-3; Jn.13:34; 15:15-16; Rom.8:28-31; Col.
3:16-17; 2Tim.1:9-10; 1Pet.2:9; 2Pet.1:2-4,8,10

24. PRAYER IS BEING TRANSFUSED by the breath

of God’s Life for loving service in His purposes; it
is resonating to God’s heartbeat and harmonizing
with His dreams. This materializes His fullness in
our lives for the blessing of others.Psa.18:1-3; 145:18-20;
Isa.42:6-7; 52:7-8; Jer.33:3; Mat.6:6-13; 7:7-8; Lu.18:1; Rom.8:26-28

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Part IV

THIS IS HOW I PRAY

EVERYWHERE, PEOPLE question me about my
own prayer life. When I kneel before God’s throne
of grace,Heb.4:16 I drink from His presence and I ab-
sorb His Life and compassion so that I can repre-
sent and interpret His fullness to people. Jn.1:16

My 7 PRAYER Priorities
1. THIS IS HOW I PRAY. On my knees, I worship
the Lord and I commune with Him. I meditate on
His Word and on His ideas. Then I attune my spirit
and my emotions to His Holy Spirit for action in
His will. I align my plans with His.
2. THIS IS HOW I PRAY. I adapt my perception of
people to what His redemption has made possi-
ble for each individual. I absorb His Love so that I
can witness for Him effectively. I thank Him for
His gifts and for trusting me as His interpreter.
3. THIS IS HOW I PRAY. I correlate my spirit with
His attitude toward people. I reform my notions
to harmonize with His Word. I assimilate His Faith,
Hope and Love expressed in the scriptures. I ponder
His dreams to be enacted through me. I contem-
plate how much He needs me and believes in me
as His associate in reaching people.
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4. THIS IS HOW I PRAY. I pour out my plans and

my concepts before Him, then I listen for the re-
sponse of His Word and of His Spirit. I conform
my agenda to His guidance so that I can always
be involved in fulfilling His will.
5. THIS IS HOW I PRAY. I drink from His Spirit. I
am inspired by His vision. His Love and compas-
sion infuse me so that He can speak effectively
through my lips, touch with my hands, walk in
my feet, embrace with my arms, hear with my
ears and see with my eyes. He said, I will dwell in
you, and walk in you;…I will be a Father to you, and
you will be my child.2Cor.6:16,18
6. THIS IS HOW I PRAY. I rejoice in the presence
and power of CHRIST ALIVE IN ME. I re-commit my-
self as His witness knowing that He always causes
us to triumph.2Cor.2:14 This is the way I wrestle against
principalities and spiritual wickedness in high places.
This is how I fight the good fight of faith. This is the
way I prepare myself to persuade people about
Christ, as the Apostle Paul did.Ac.13:43; 18:4,13; 19:8; 28:23;
2Cor.5:11

7. THIS IS HOW I PRAY. I thank the Lord Jesus

for fighting my battles and for winning the spiri-
tual war on my behalf.Isa.40:1-2 He has triumphed in
my name. He has delivered me from the power of
darkness, and has translated me into the kingdom of
His dear Son.Col.1:13-14 He has spoiled principalities and
powers, and has made a show of them openly, triumph-
ing over them.Col.2:15 I rehearse those triumphs and
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I thank Him that as His co-worker and inter-

preter, He has made me more than a conqueror
through Him who loves me.Rom.8:37

PRAYER·A TIME FOR REFLECTION

FOR ME, PRAYER is visiting with the Father
while He conditions my spirit for effective living
and ministry. Prayer is re-thinking His word, visu-
alizing His plan, conceptualizing His objectives,
remembering why Christ came and what He ac-
complished, pondering what he sends me to do,
and contemplating afresh His defeat of Satan.
Prayer, for me, is visualizing the Holy Spirit at
work within me which is what makes my gospel
witness effective. It is recognizing my calling, my
position, my rights, my mandate, my reasons for
believing and for being His partner and friend. Rom.
5:10-11LB; Col.1:21LB

When I witness to the un-converted, I share the

Good News joyously, with Faith, Hope and Love,
because I know that I am transmitting the Person
and the Spirit of Jesus Christ to those for whom
Christ died. That is the mission of the corporate
Church—the Body of Christ, AND THAT IS THE
MISSION OF EACH INDIVIDUAL BELIEVER.

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Transforming Your Prayer Time

To revitalize your prayer time as we did ours,

lay these 24 PRAYER Principles beside your open
Bible. Conceptualize each one of them in your
spirit. Visualize them as you talk to the Father.
Ask Him to brand these concepts in your spirit
until they are actualized in your life.
Then proceed with the 7 PRAYER Priorities that
have guided me in nearly six decades of global
ministry. Take time to absorb each concept. A new
prayer discovery will be engendered in your spirit.
Read these biblical concepts until you internal-
ize them. They will become integral to your faith.
They will flush out negative traditional verbosity
and breed validity in your prayer times.
Remember, it took us over a year to stop praying
for blessings that are already provided,2Pet.1:3-4 and
to stop beseeching God to do what He had already
accomplished, or what He commissioned us to do.
May the concepts of this 24 /7 PRAYER Guide
enrich your life—through every hour of every
day, motivating renewal and transformation in
your prayer times. You will live and pray with
new faith. You will assimilate His attitude and
discover the ecstasy of living and praying in har-
mony with Him, as Jesus did. John Chapters 5, 15 and 17.

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Part V
FABLES AND FANTASIES

A BIG PART OF Paul’s letters were written to

young churches who were bombarded by hereti-
cal and confusing doctrines promulgated by teach-
ers who were antagonistic to Paul’s revelation of
redemption.
Christian believers cannot be both Christ-pos-
sessed and demon-possessed. Our Lord does not
cohabit with evil spirits. God did not in the Gar-
den of Eden. Christ does not in the lives of Chris-
tians today.
Followers of Christ who believe that they are
possessed by evil spirits have been influenced by
teachings inconsistent with redemptive truth. They
are deluded by the Deceiver.
Philosophies And Vain Talkers

The apostle Paul talked of doctrines of men.Col.2:22

He said, some would give heed to…doctrines of devils.
1Tim.4:1 The writer of Hebrews urged that believers

be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines.

Heb.13:9

Paul spoke of some who are proud, knowing

nothing…destitute of the truth.1Tim.6:4-5 He said that
some people turn their ears from truth to fables. 2Tim.

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4:4He mentioned vain talkers and deceivers,…who

subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought
not, for filthy lucre’s sake.Tit.1:10-11
Peter warned against false prophets and false teach-
ers who…with feigned words make merchandise of
people.2Pet.2:1-3
In the Early Church, strange and confusing doc-
trines circulated among Christians. In this genera-
tion, they inundate believers because of digital
media that give pontificates of these misconstrued
theories the ears of millions.
Non-biblical concepts about so-called “spiritual
warfare” proliferate today and are responsible for
great confusion and spiritual insecurity among be-
lievers—and even among Christian leaders.
There are three essential issues about so-called
“spiritual warfare” that need to be understood.
These issues will be discussed in the next chap-
ters. They will provide a better focus and a clearer
perspective of prayer as Paul counseled.
A Conquered Foe
Or a Menacing „Pro‰

Warfare is a term that implies conflict that may

end in victory or it may end in defeat. God never
wills defeat for His children. Paul said, Thanks be
to God who ALWAYS causes us to triumph;2Cor.2:14 who
gives us the victory.1Cor.15:57And he asked: If God be
for us, who can be against us? Rom.8:31 Our enemy is a
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conquered foe. Believers must never forget that

redemptive fact.
Many Christians are so enamored by concep-
tualizing their own conquest of principalities, pow-
ers, rulers of darkness, and spiritual wickedness in high
places that they ignore the fact that Christ has al-
ready won that war.
Real Spiritual Warfare

Our Lord has won total victory over Satanic

power and over his evil spirits. When we take His
message to the un-converted, we proclaim it with
the same power of the same Holy Spirit that
anointed Jesus.Lu.4:18; Ac.10:38 Satan’s slaves are set
free—they are delivered by the power of the gospel.
Our mandate as Christ’s followers is to PREACH
AND TEACH THE GOSPEL.
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon us because He has
anointed US to preach [communicate] the gospel.Lu.4:18
Real spiritual warfare is publicizing the gospel,
and persuading people to embrace the Good News
of Christ and to be saved.
Each Christian’s calling is to give witness of the
gospel to un-believers—to captives of the rulers of
darkness. We seek to get their attention so that
we can inform them of the Good News. That way,
they have a chance to discover what Satan has
blinded them from.
When un-believers hear Christ’s message, they
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can believe it and be delivered and translated into

the kingdom of God’s dear Son.Col.1:13 Or, they have
the right not to believe it and, as Jesus said, to be
damned.Mk.16:16
That is the struggle in which believers fight the
fight of faith and for which they put on the whole ar-
mor of God.
So in these next chapters, we will examine three
essential issues about so-called spiritual warfare.
They are:
1st What the Fight of Faith IS.
2nd What the Fight of Faith is AGAINST.
3rd What the Armor of God IS.
When believers understand these fundamen-
tals, they will minister the gospel successfully to
un-believers.
Christians who espouse the extraneous ideas of
evil spirits ruling over regions, cities or territories,
or of them being present in believers’ lives, in resi-
dences, in businesses, or in places of worship, have
not distinguished fact from fiction concerning these
three basics that we are ready to elucidate for you.

WE SHALL FOCUS on God’s redemptive provi-

sion of spiritual VICTORY—I say “redemptive” be-
cause it is revealed by the redemptive name of
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God (Jehovah-Nissi)—“redemptive” because it is the

victory that has been bought and paid for by
Jesus Christ, who redeemed us to God through His
blood.Rev.5:9
We want to shed biblical light on erroneous con-
cepts of prayer THAT IGNORE CHRIST’S VICTORY
OVER SATAN and that expose a lack of knowledge
concerning redemption.

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THE FIGHT
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THE FIGHT
OF FAITH

We were crucified with Christ. Gal.2:20

We died with Him.Rom.6:8 We were buried

with Him.Rom.6:4 We were justified with
Him.Rom.3:24; 5:1 We were made alive with
Him.1Cor.15:22 We conquered Satan with
Him.Rom.6:6-8 We were raised together with
Him.Eph.2:5-6 Now we live with Him.2Cor.13:4;
Gal.2:20 He is in us and we are in Him. Jn.17:
21,23 Satan and his evil spirits have lost

their dominion over us as believing fol-

lowers of Christ.1Jn.4:4; Rom.6:14; 1Jn.5:18 We
fight the good fight of faith by confi-
dence in the Word of god and by trust-
ing in the triumph of Christ over our
enemy, on our behalf and in our name.

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THE FIGHT OF FAITH

Part I
GODÊS WORD OR SATANÊS WILES

PAUL TOLD US to fight the good fight of faith. 1Tim.

This is our only fight—the

6:12 -
FAITH FIGHT. It
means that we fight to believe what God says
and that we resist voices, imaginations, messages,
circumstances, concepts, false prophesies, and any
other information, factual or illusory, that contra-
dicts His Word.
John says, This is the victory that overcomes the
world, even our faith.1Jn.5:4 Faith in what? Faith in
what God’s Word says—faith in the victory of
Christ over all the works of the devil.1Jn.3:8
To fight the good fight of faith does not mean to
imagine evil spirits beleaguering or harassing
Christians so that they must do battle against
those spirits, as pagans do. That would disclaim
and discredit Christ’s victory.
The BelieverÊs Ministry
In the non-converted world, demon spirits have
authority to rule over people—to enslave, to de-
stroy, to steal, and to kill them. Jn.10:10
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Christians do not have authority to extricate un-

converted people from enslavement to Satan,
against their un-converted will. But what believ-
ers can do is give the gospel to the un-converted.
If un-believers hear Christ’s message and re-
spond to it and if they repent of their sins and re-
ceive Jesus, then those rulers of darkness can no
longer subjugate them because Christ sets them
free by the power of His gospel when He is em-
braced as their Lord and Master.
When people believe the gospel and receive
Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, evil spirits can-
not cohabit with the Lord Jesus. Paul asked, What
concord does Christ have with Belial? Or a believer
with an infidel? He added: You are the temple of the
living God who has said, I will dwell in you, and walk
in you…I will be a Father to you, and you shall be my
sons and daughters.2Cor.6:15-18
Paul explained: When you are in Christ, you are a
new creature: old things are passed away; all things
are become new. You are reconciled to God by Jesus
Christ.2Cor.5:17-18 Satan’s dominion is ended.
The Lord said to Paul, following his conversion,
I have appeared to you to make you a minister and a
witness…and now I send you to the Gentiles [the un-
converted]…to open their eyes, and to turn them from
darkness to light.Ac.26:16-18
Every gospel believer, both male and female, is
chosen by Christ to be His witness in whatever
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way that he or she is inspired to represent Him to

un-converted people.
When un-believers turn from Satan to God, they
receive a glorious heritage by faith in Christ.Ac.26:18
Satan’s authority over their lives is abrogated.
They are delivered out of his power, and are trans-
lated into the kingdom of God’s dear Son, in whom
they have redemption through His blood, even the re-
mission of sins.Col.1:13-14
IDENTIFYING WITH CHRIST
Faith is believing that when Jesus, the captain of
our salvation,Heb.2:10 spoiled principalities and powers,
Col.2:15 we did too. Faith means that we identify

with Him in all of His redemptive ministry on

our behalf.
When Christ was crucified, we died with Him. I
have been crucified with Christ,Gal.2:20 united with
Him in the likeness of His death.Rom.6:5
When Jesus was raised from the dead, He raised
us up with Him, and made us to sit with Him in
heavenly places.Eph.2:6
We were crucified with Christ.Gal.2:20 We died with
Him.Rom.6:8 We were buried with Him.Rom.6:4 We
were justified with Him.Rom.3:24; 5:1 We were made
alive with Him.1Cor.15:22 We conquered Satan with
Him.Rom.6:6-8 We were raised together with Him.Eph.
2:5-6 Now we live with Him.2Cor.13:4; Gal.2:20 He is in

us and we are in Him. Jn.17:21,23 Satan and his evil

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spirits have lost their dominion over us as believ-

ing followers of Christ.1Jn.4:4; Rom.6:14; 1Jn.5:18
When we believe the gospel and embrace Christ
as our Lord, we become one with Him. Peter says,
We become partakers of His divine nature.2Pet.1:4 John
says, Greater is He who is in us, than he [Satan and his
evil forces] who is in the [un-converted] world. 1Jn.4:4
Paul was writing to believers who were involved
as Christ’s witnesses publicly, and from house to
house.Ac.20:20 They witnessed amidst a hostile en-
vironment, under the threat of arrest, imprison-
ment, beatings, torture and death. That was the
kind of government and society under which they
lived and represented their Lord.
Their warfare was not against evil powers in the
lives of other believers. Their warfare was out-
side the Church, out amidst a hostile society that
regarded them as members of the malignant sect
of a dead “ego-maniac” from Nazareth.
The Fight of Faith
in a Hostile World

Paul said, You were sometimes darkness, but now

you are light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
Eph.5:8

Christians do not struggle against this defeated

foe on our own terrain where Jesus is Lord. Those
who have embraced Christ as Savior and Lord are
redeemed. Believers engage Satan out on his own
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territory—out where he is bent on ruling the minds

and lives of people.
Believers fight to make known the Good News
among Satan’s slaves. They fight to penetrate his
curtain of darkness, to get the attention of un-
believers, to make Christ’s message known to
them, and to convince them of the gospel.
The believer’s ministry is witnessing of Christ’s
death, burial, resurrection and ascension. It is mak-
ing the significance of those events known to the
un-converted.Ac.1:8; 5:32 Those early followers of
Christ did that against overwhelming odds. Their
witness seemed like foolishness 1Cor.1:18 to un-believers
of their era. It sounded incredible to society.
The Christian Message·Foolishness?

The people of Paul’s day had been convinced

that Christ’s disciples had come by night, and had sto-
len His body while the guards at the sepulchre slept.
Mat.28:13 The resurrection was considered a false

claim heralded by unlearned and ignorant Ac.4:13 fol-

lowers of the mystic from Nazareth. The preaching
of the Cross was [regarded as] foolishness 1Cor.1:18 to
the people of that era. But Paul bore emphatic
witness that to us who are saved, the gospel is the
power of God.1Cor.1:18
The Christian’s ministry is to spread the mes-
sage of the liberating gospel throughout the world
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principalities and powers, standing against Satan’s

wiles and crafty maneuvers. To do that with suc-
cess, they must put on the whole armor of God.Eph.6:11
Christ Confirms His Gospel

We know, by experience, what it means to fight

the good fight of faith, sharing the gospel out there
in the un-converted world. We know what it
means to stand against the wiles of Satan and to
wrestle against principalities and powers, against rul-
ers of darkness and against spiritual wickedness in
high places.
We know what it is for soldiers to encircle our
meeting and force closure to our gospel event. We
know what it is to be arrested and taken to the
prison house. We know what it is for evil-minded
officials to abrogate their own law and interdict
our ministry. We know what it is for cunning re-
porters to fabricate unkind and abusive lies about
us, to be accused of deceiving the people. We
know what it means to face the wiles of the devil.
But we also know, by experience, that the gospel
is the power of God Rom.1:16 because as we have pro-
claimed it to multitudes around the world, it has
always brought salvation, miraculous healing and
new Life to those who believe it and embrace
Christ.
I could recount thousands of stories of indi-
viduals who have been lifted out of despair and

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who have come back from the dead, spiritually,

in our meetings. We publish this witness that our
Lord always confirms His gospel.Mk.16:20 (Get our book
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO T.L. & DAISY.)

Peter reminded us that Jesus of Nazareth was ap-

proved of God by miracles, wonders and signs.Ac.2:22
And in the same way, Christ promises, I will never
leave you nor forsake you.Heb.13:5 Lo, I am with you al-
ways, to the end of the world.Mat.28:20 He won the vic-
tory over Satan, and now He causes us to triumph.
2Cor.2:14

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Part II

THE RIGHT OF CHOICE

WHEN PAUL SAID to fight the good fight of
FAITH, he never imagined Christians fighting evil
spirits among Christ’s followers. Paul never had
the notion that demon spirits would dominate or
possess members of God’s Royal Family.
Satan has no authority on the believer’s terrain
—unless it is conceded to him. If Christians are
persuaded that demons can over power them,
and if they give place to the devil,Eph.4:27 then the En-
emy can impose his destructive influences in their
lives, but only if his lies are believed, in prefer-
ence to God’s Word.
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When God created people, He gave them a free

will, a right of choice, which He never violates.
He said, I set before you Life and good, death and evil,
blessing and cursing: choose Life, that both you and
your seed may live.Deut.30:15-19 They could choose Life
and blessing, or death and cursing. Whatever they
chose would predetermine their experience.
Adam and Eve, though created in God’s image,
were never obliged to respect His ways and His
Word. They were never forced to believe what He
said. And they made a tragic choice. They believed
Satan rather than God.Gen.3:1-6
Although Christians are rescued out of the dark-
ness of Satan’s domain, they are still free to choose
whom they want to believe, and Satan never stops
trying to influence them to question God and to
choose to believe his lies.
It is the fight of faith to believe God’s Word when
circumstances or voices contradict it. This struggle
never ends. Satan never slackens in his efforts to
harass and deceive God’s people.
Oppression or Possession

If Christians choose to question or doubt what

Christ said or has accomplished for them, they
annul His blessings and open the door to Satan’s
destructive influence. The enemy’s only power to
influence a Christian’s life is when that power is
conceded to him by doubting or questioning the
facts of Christ’s redemptive work.
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Satan’s influence in the lives of real Christians is

mostly in the form of what the bible calls oppres-
sion. He cannot possess believers because they are
Christ-possessed. But by influencing them to doubt
or to question God’s Word, he can oppress them.
Ac.10:38

That explains why Christians sometimes suffer

disease and pain even though Christ bore those
maladies for them. Satan is an oppressor. He pres-
sures believers, attacking them, seeking to wound
or limit or handicap them physically in order to
prevent or to divert them from witnessing.
Sickness is an oppression that affects the physical
bodies of Christians. While Satan cannot possess
their spirits, because they are redeemed to God by
Christ’s blood,Rev.5:9 he may oppress their physical
houses, causing pain and suffering in order to im-
pede or to obstruct their witness of Christ. Sick-
ness is the oppression of the devil.Ac.10:38
Rebuking The Spirit of Infirmity

Ministering to sick people, we might rebuke the

spirits of infirmity Lu.13:11 sent from Satan to oppress
the bodies of believers. When we command them
to leave, that does not mean that we are casting
evil spirits out of believers. We are contending
against Satanic oppression that has assaulted the
physical houses in which Christians live.
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physical house—their body. When one has re-

ceived Christ, Satan cannot possess them, because
Christ has come to make His abode with them.
Jn.14:23 Satan may try to oppress them by physically

assaulting the house in which they live—their

physical body—with disease, pain, injury or other
forms of physical problems, but he cannot possess
their spirit.
If the house where you reside was infected by
destructive insects, you might arrange for it to be
treated or sprayed with insecticide. They would
not treat or spray you. They would treat your
house. The pests would not be in you; they would
be destroying the house in which you live.
In the same way, sickness might assault your
physical body—the house in which you live. Sick-
ness and disease are the enemy’s oppression. Ac.10:38
Following Christ’s example, we would rebuke it
in His name because it has no right to destroy a
believer’s body. We would not be casting an evil
spirit out of you; we would be dealing with the
Enemy’s oppressing infirmity that had affected
your physical house. We would have authority to
do that because Christ Himself took our infirmities,
and bare our sicknesses.Mat.8:17 He bore our diseases
so that we need not bear them.
The Bible says, Jesus went about healing all who
were oppressed of the devil.Ac.10:38 Sickness is the en-
emy’s oppression—not possession. Evil spirits can-
not possess Christian believers, but they may op-
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press their physical houses with pain or disease,

or they may oppress their minds, suggesting
thoughts and imaginations that exalt themselves
against the knowledge of God.2Cor.10:5
Christian believers are taught by Paul to fight
the faith-fight, resisting the devil’s lies and maneu-
vers, choosing to believe what God says instead
of what Satan lies about, and when they do that,
Christ and His Life procreates cure and health.
If Christians choose to believe the symptoms of
Satan’s oppressive sickness more than they be-
lieve in God’s redemptive provision of healing,
then sickness may gain the ascendancy. This is
not because God wills it. It is because Christians
are free to chose in whom and in what they have
the most confidence.
The EnemyÊs Only Access·Choice

Christians will never be free of Satan’s wiles,

devices or strategies that are sent to cause them to
question or to doubt God’s Word. Those tactics
are the enemy’s only access to deceive and to de-
fraud God’s people. If he can persuade them to
question God’s Word, then he can prevail against
them.
Satan’s approach is the same as it was in the Gar-
den of Eden. He must convince people to ques-
tion God in order to open the way for his destruc-
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Adam and Eve to dis-believe God’s Word, and to

believe Satan’s lie that brought about their sepa-
ration from God’s presence in the Garden of Eden.
In the same way that Satan cannot impose his
destructive works on believers against a be-
liever’s will, when Christians witness of Christ in
the world of spiritual wickedness in high places,
Eph.6:12 they cannot impose God’s blessings in the

lives of Satan’s captives against their will.

But what believers can do is inform un-believers
of the gospel. Then the un-converted can exer-
cise their own free will—their right of CHOICE.
They can choose Life and live, or they have the
right to reject it and die.
This is very important for Christian believers to
understand. The right of CHOICE is fundamental to
the members of God’s family and it is equally
fundamental to un-believers.

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Part III

DEVILS ARE NO PROBLEM

WHEN JESUS SENT His followers into all the
world to preach [communicate, express] the gospel
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He promised for confirming their ministry as be-

lievers was essentially: YOU WILL HAVE NO PROBLEM
WITH THE DEVIL. His actual words: In my name you
shall cast out devils.Mk.16:17
Christ assured His followers that when they go
out into the world of darkness to witness about
Him, evil influences might rise up against them
but that His Holy Spirit would be with them and
in them, and that devils would be subject to them.
Jn.14:12 They would have power over evil spirits, to cast

them out.Lu.9:1
That does not mean that believers can impose
salvation and freedom in the lives of un-saved
people, against their will. Salvation comes to them
when they hear the gospel, believe it, and embrace
Christ as Lord. When they do, Satan’s dominion
over them ends. Jesus becomes their Master. Dev-
ils that have ruled their lives must then release
them and surrender their control. If they do not
depart at once, then believers can act in Christ’s
name and command them to leave. In my name
you shall cast out devils.Mk.16:17
In our mass meetings during over a half cen-
tury, we never lay our hands on people to pray
for them. That could cause a riot. We teach each
multitude the truths of the gospel. We announce
the facts of Christ’s life, ministry, death, resurrec-
tion and presence—teaching with faith. We pro-
claim the Truth that sets people free. Jn.8:32 The gospel
is the power of God unto salvation.Rom.1:16 Demon
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spirits cannot resist the presence and power of

Christ in His Word, so thousands of times, they
leave their victims while we are teaching.
Paul speaks of the exceeding greatness of God’s
power for [and in] us who believe, according to His
mighty power, which He wrought in Christ, when He
raised Him from the dead.Eph.1:19-20
Christian believers have no need to fear evil spir-
its because those spirits have been put under Christ’s
feet.Eph.1:22 Believers have authority over them wher-
ever the gospel is preached and believed.
Ministering Amidst Real Demons

Throughout our ministry abroad, we have con-

tended against the powers of darkness that domi-
nate the lives of multitudes of people. In order to
liberate Satan’s captives and to bring people out
of spiritual slavery into God’s new Life-style, we
proclaim the facts about Christ and His gospel.
When people believe and embrace those facts of
truth, God confirms His Word and they are saved
and healed as the miraculous Life of Christ is re-
ceived by them through faith.
We consistently believe that Christ is with us,
that His Holy Spirit is in us, and that demons are
subject to us. Usually, they flee from people while
we are expounding God’s Word. Most of the great
miracles that we have witnessed have taken place
while we were preaching and teaching the gospel.
Jesus cast out the spirits with His Word, and healed
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all that were sick.Mat.8:16 That is exactly what we do.

If demon spirits do not leave the people while we
are preaching, then during our mass prayer for
the multitude, we adjure them to leave—we cast
them out in Jesus’ name.
In nations around the world, insane people,
cripples, paralytics, diseased victims and all kinds
of oppressed and sick people have been instantly
healed while we teach the truths about Christ and
God’s Word.
But we never say or do anything to indicate that
we consider Satan and his emissaries to be a force
on par with the Holy Spirit that is at work within
us. We always triumph—in His name.
When we walk out on a platform amidst an
ocean of people most of whom know nothing
about Christ or His gospel, we fight the good fight
of faith to bring light to those in darkness. We do
our utmost to persuade them about the death and
resurrection of our Lord, and about how those
events affect them.
Then each individual in that multitude has the
right to accept and believe the gospel, to embrace
Christ as Lord and to receive His miracle bless-
ings, or each one has the right of choice to reject
the gospel and the Christ-Life.
Paul talks about persuading people concerning
Christ. 2Cor.5:11; Gal.1:10 James says, Whoever converts a
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It requires a fight of faith to pull down evil

Jas.5:20

strongholds 2Cor.10:4 in non-Christian areas and to

break the power-grip of national or tribal cultures
that often prevail among people.
The same fight between the Good News and
un-belief exists in the modern, Westernized world.
Unbelief is the same in any culture. People of both
developed and underdeveloped worlds have the
same problems, commit the same sins, suffer the
same diseases, and have the same right of choice.
Biblical Warfare

We have witnessed of Christ before millions of

people, face to face. Always, we are surrounded
by a multitude interspersed with the blind and
deaf, the crippled and lame, the lost and bewil-
dered, the hopeless and despairing, and with
agents of sorcery and witchcraft, thugs, terrorists,
refugees, and those tormented by evil spirits.
It was the same in Christ’s ministry. They brought
unto Him all sick people that were taken with divers
diseases and torments, and those which were possessed
with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those
that had the palsy…Mat.4:24
Ministering to a multitude like that is wrestling
against real principalities and powers Col.2:15—not imagi-
nary or fictitious and synthetic spirits that people
sometimes conceptualize in Westernized nations.
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Christian people who know nothing of the

gospel. That is where Christ commissioned us to
take His gospel, to every creature, in all the
world.Mk.16:15 And the gospel always wins over the
power of the enemy because God always causes us
to triumph in Christ.2Cor.2:14

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Part IV

WARFARE INTELLIGENCE
HOW DO WE fight this fight of faith, this fight to
believe the facts of the gospel when they appear
to be foolishness 1Cor.1:18 and when situations seems
to contradict our witness? What do we do?
It is critically important that we know the tac-
tics of our enemy. The victory of any army com-
mander in war depends on the intelligence pro-
vided about his enemy.
Christians acquiesce before Satan’s lies and ac-
cusations because they do not know 1) about Sa-
tan’s total defeat by Christ, 2) about their own de-
liverance from Satan’s power and dominion, and
3) about the fact that they have been brought back
into companionship with God where they stand
unblameable and unreproveable in His sight.Col.1:22
Satan has no legal grounds for accusing or intimi-
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dating God’s people, but he can deceive those who

are not informed about the gospel.
The next chapter in this book exposes the sham
and chicanery of Satan’s emissaries in their cha-
rade before Christians. They have no legal power
over believers. They may threaten, accuse, bluff
and pretend, but there is no substance to their lies.
SatanÊs Restricted Power-Zone

It is indispensable for Christians to know of Sa-

tan’s defeat—to know that he is a deceiver, a liar,
a bluff, a peddler of non-truths, a farce and an
empty noise—so far as believers are concerned. His
power-and-authority-zone is outside the Body of
Christ, out in the un-converted world. He has no
authority among Christians. For them, he is a de-
feated foe—unless, of course, they choose to con-
cede significance to him.

WE WILL NOW look at the truth about our de-

feated enemy. This brings us to the second essen-
tial issue about “spiritual warfare.” This will elu-
cidate and enrich the Christian’s perspective of
biblical prayer:
What the Fight of Faith is AGAINST.

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WILES OF
THE DEVIL

The fight of faith is to stand against

the devil’s wiles —not facts but fraud.
Today’s English Version of the Bible says,
Stand up against the devil’s evil tricks.
The Living Bible calls it, strategies and
tricks of Satan. The New International
Version translates it, the devil’s schemes.
Phillips Modern English translation uses
the term, the devil’s craftiness. The New
English Bible is translated, the devices of
the devil.

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WILES OF THE DEVIL

Part I
THE FIGHT OF FAITH·AGAINST What?

P AUL SAID THAT our purpose in fighting the

faith fight is to be able to stand against the of
WILES
thedevil.Eph.6:11
Never forget that our fight of faith
is against “WILES”—not facts, but lies; not truth,
but fraud; not reality, but delusion.
Believing Christians are not impressed by Sa-
tan’s spurious threats. When they hear him bluff
and intimidate, they systematically cast down imagi-
nations, and every thought that exalts itself against the
knowledge of God,2Cor.10:5 (the Word of God). They
renounce and reject whatever contradicts biblical
intelligence about Satan’s defeat and about their
own righteous standing in God’s sight.
When Satan’s emissaries suggest thoughts or
when situations are confronted that are contrary
to gospel fact and redemptive truth, Christian be-
lievers realign their thoughts, vocabulary and ac-
tions with God’s Word. That is what fighting the
good fight of faith is all about.
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Remember: Our faith is against “WILES”—fraudu-

lence and cunning craftiness—not reality. We are
believing God’s Word in the face of forgery and
deception by the enemy who is a liar and a de-
ceiver.
If a Christian can be intimidated, frightened or
manipulated by the devil’s masquerading maneu-
vers and deception, he or she is believing Satan’s
lies instead of God’s word. That is what Adam
and Eve did in the Garden of Eden and, as a re-
sult, they forfeited the blessed Life-style that God
planned for them.
Tricks And Traps Of The Traitor

When Paul referred to Satan’s strategy, He talked

of the subtiliy of the serpent [Satan],2Cor.11:3 of his
craftiness,1Cor.3:19 of how people can be beguiled,
Col.2:18 and of how Satan deceives the hearts of simple

people.Rom.16:18 He warned the Ephesians of Satan’s

cunning craftiness by which he deceives.Eph.4:14
The fight of faith is to stand against the devil’s
WILES—not facts but fraud. Today’s English Ver-
sion of the Bible says, Stand up against the devil’s
evil tricks. The Living Bible calls it, strategies and
tricks of Satan. The New International Version trans-
lates it, the devil’s schemes. Phillips Modern English
translation uses the term, the devil’s craftiness. The
New English Bible is translated, the devices of the
devil.

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Believers in conflict with Satan are not confront-

ing fact, but fraud. Satan’s bluffing pretense be-
fore uninformed Christians is nothing more than
a masquerade—a flagrant caricature, a charade.
Paul reminded believers that we are not ignorant
of Satan’s devices, and therefore, he shall not get the
advantage of us.2Cor.2:11

Now we will look at what really constitutes the

WILES and DEVICES of Satan. What substance is
there to his threatening lies?

WILES OF THE DEVIL

Part II
WILES AND DEVICES DEFINED

THE PREEMINENT SOURCE for understanding

New Testament vocabulary—acclaimed by Prot-
estant and Catholic theological scholars and by
Hebrew Rabbis alike—is Kittel’s 10-Volume Theo-
logical Dictionary of the New Testament. It defines
the words, wiles and devices thus:
Sensual and mental impressions. Philosophical
perceptions. Purely mental activity having to do
with emotional life and disposition. Sensual

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awareness, all in the mental sphere, as mental vi-

sions, sensations, modes of thought, mysticism.
Echoes of religious mystery. Philosophical reflec-
tions. Corrupt or irrational human thoughts of
persons lacking in understanding. Adverse religious
judgments by those deficient in an understanding of
salvation. Foolishness or folly in the sense of
insipientia and also of dementia. [And much more.]
(Emphasis added.)
Satan’s fraudulent duplicity and craftiness against
Christians is a grand charade, a phony display and
a deceptive masquerade of non-fact. Satan’s trick-
ery works only on those who attribute reality and
substance to his WILES…his deceitfulness.
SatanÊs Only Power Over Believers
Is What They Concede To Him

Satan’s power is only authentic in the non-con-

verted world, not in the lives of God’s children.
Believers have been rescued and delivered out of
the power of darkness, and translated into the kingdom
of God’s dear Son.Col.1:13 How could Satan’s wiles
(un-truths) affect those who are redeemed because
they know the Truth that sets them free—unless they
chose to believe his quackery?
A great degree of incapacitating superstition has
historically confused and frightened church people
who are not grounded in God’s word.
Jesus said, The devil has been a murderer from the
beginning, and abides not in the truth, because there is
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own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. Jn.8:44 That is

very strong language! I cannot imagine how our
Lord could have made it more clear that Satan is
a farce who has no authority in our lives.
To fight the fight of faith and stand against the
wiles of the devil means to believe what God says
instead of what Satan lies about. There is no truth
in him, Jn.8:44 Jesus said. Nothing that he says is au-
thentic. His threats are empty—that is, they are
irrelevant as far as believers are concerned.
THE ONLY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT SATAN THAT ANY
CHRISTIAN SHOULD EMBRACE IS THAT HE IS AN
ETERNALLY DEFEATED FOE, A TOTAL BLUFF AND A
LIAR, STRIPPED OF ALL LEGAL AUTHORITY AND
POWER OVER BELIEVERS, BY JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF.
SatanÊs Rule Is Only Authentic
In The Un-Converted World
Out in the un-believing world, Satan has author-
ity to manipulate the un-converted. Why? Because
they are his subjects. The original sin of Adam
and Eve gave him lordship and supremacy over
every person who does not embrace the redemptive
work of Christ.
Among Christian believers, Satan cannot suc-
ceed because they know truth. Jn.8:32 They do not
believe lies. Jesus is The Way for them. Jn.14:6 They
are the sheep of His flock. Jn.10:14 A stranger they will
not follow Jn.10:5 nor will they be moved or deceived
or tricked by Satan’s attempted manipulations.
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WILES OF THE DEVIL

Part III
FAITH AGAINST FRAUD

THE BELIEVING CHRISTIAN resists the WILES of

the devil because he, or she fights the fight of faith
by believing what God says instead of what Satan
lies about.
We do as Solomon admonished: We attend to
[fix our mind on] God’s words; we incline our ears
to His sayings. We do not let them depart from our
eyes; we keep them in the midst of our heart. For we
know that they are life to we who find them, and
health to all our flesh.Prov.4:20-22
The apostle John described our enemy: that old
serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceives
the whole world. Rev.12:9 Note that he deceives. His
works and his threats are a masquerade, an illusion.
No wonder John wrote with such joy when he
said, I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, Now is
come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our
God, and the power of His Christ: for the accuser of
our brothers and sisters is cast down, which accused
them before our God day and night.Rev.12:10 Satan con-
stantly lies to us, and about us. He is a fraud, an
accuser, a maligner.
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Response To Deception

John said that he heard a loud voice in heaven say-

ing…they overcame the enemy by the blood of the Lamb,
and by the Word of their testimony.Rev.12:10-11
The unrelenting resolve of Christian believers is
to see, to think, to believe and to speak only what
their Lord says in His Word. They are not influ-
enced or intimidated by the liar’s charade of crafty
deception.
Job said, My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor
my tongue utter deceit. Job 27:4 He resolved never to
contradict what he believed was God’s goodness.
He determined that he would never forsake his
integrity before God. Job 2:3
David said, By your words, Lord, I have kept me
from the paths of the destroyer.Psa.17:4
The believer’s fight of faith is not against valid
satanic authority and power. Satan has none, that
is, in relation to those who are committed to Christ.
The only power that he has or can exercise in the
lives of Christ’s followers is the power that they
willingly concede to him.
The serpent Gen.3:1 had no authority in the Garden
of Eden. The Lord told Adam to dress the garden
and keep it.Gen.2:15 Obviously, Adam did not keep
the garden, otherwise the serpent would not have
been able to enter and plot his inducement to con-
travene God’s plan.
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Historic Human Tragedy

and Consequent Enslavement

God said, Of the tree of the knowledge of good and

evil, you shall not eat it: for in the day that you eat it
you shall surely die.Gen.2:17
But the serpent said, You shall NOT surely die.
The tragedy was that Adam and Eve believed
Gen.3:4

the serpent’s lie instead of God’s Word. They vio-

lated God’s trust and acquiesced before Satan’s
deception. That was sin. It is still sin.

WILES OF THE DEVIL

Part IV
BEDAZZLING CHICANERY

WE FIGHT THE fight of faith in order to stand

against the WILES of the devil—against his lies and
duplicity. Jesus said, No truth is in him. Jn.8:44
The Bible contains a long catalogue of manifes-
tations of Satan’s deceitful wiles, such as:
Hidden things of dishonesty, craftiness and deceit.
2Cor.4:2
Sleight [fraud] of men and women [cf. Greek:
Card-playing] and cunning craftiness.Eph.4:14 Vanity
of mind, understanding darkened, alienated from the
life of God through ignorance, blindness of the heart.
Eph.4:17-18
Beguiled through subtilty; minds corrupted.
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2Cor.11:3
Speeches to deceive the hearts of the simple.
Rom.16:18
Imagined devices. Deceit, fraud, mischief, van-
ity, lurking places, murder of the innocent, as a lion
crouches.Psa.10:2-10
Mystery of iniquity, wicked revealed, consumed by
the spirit of his mouth, the working of Satan, deceiv-
ableness, strong delusion that causes people to believe
a lie; damned by not believing the truth.2Th.2:7-12 Shaken
in mind, troubled, deceived.2Th.2:2-4 Pernicious ways.
2Pet.2:2

Believers are to stand against these WILES and

devices of Satan remembering that they are not
facts, not realities, not substance. The Greek mean-
ings include cunning arts, deceit, craft, trickery,
error and being led astray from the right way by
fraudulent means. Jesus said, When he speaks a lie,
he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Jn.8:44

A Christian’s ministry is to witness of Christ, to

make known His truth. Christians are redeemed,
1Pet.1:18; Rev.5:9 free, and saved; restored to God; 2Cor.
5:19LB and delivered out of darkness.Rom.7:6; Col.1:13

The non-converted world is adrift, without hope

and without God.Eph.2:12 They are enslaved by Sa-
tan’s artful deception,Rom.1:21-32 vulnerable to his
signs and lying wonders.2Th.2:9 They can only be de-
livered from his rulership if believers tell them
about Christ and influence them to embrace Him
as The Way, the Truth and the Life. Jn.14:6
So we fight the good fight of faith 1Tim.6:12 standing
against the WILES of the devil, wrestling against rulers

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of darkness in high places.Eph.6:11-12 We fight to rescue

people from the destroyer. We need the whole ar-
mor of God.Eph.6:11
Equipment For VICTORY

Paul said, The weapons of our warfare are not car-

nal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of
strong holds; Casting down imaginations, and every
high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of
God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the
obedience of Christ.2Cor.10:4-5

IN THE NEXT chapters, we shall focus on the

third vital issue that concerns “spiritual war-
fare:” What the armor of God IS and the signifi-
cance of each element of the armor.
Once the believer has fitted himself or herself
with these unbeatable arms, Satan, with all of his
craftiness, is no match.

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OF GOD
Our old nature died with Christ and was
buried with Him; then we came up out of
death with Him into a new Life…He gave
us a share in the very Life of Christ…and
blotted out all charges proved against us
…In this way God took away Satan’s
power to accuse us of sin, and He openly
displayed to the whole world Christ’s tri-
umph at the Cross where our sins were
taken away. Col.2:12-15LB We can stand in the
midst of any temptation or trial or battle
with unshakable faith; we can stand
against all wiles of the devil because we
have PUT ON THE WHOLE ARMOR OF
GOD. Eph.6:11

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ARMOR OF GOD
Part I
· TRUTH ·

T HE FIRST ELEMENT of the armor of God that

we are to put on, is TRUTH. Paul said, Have the
belt of truth buckled around your waist.Eph.6:14NIV When
you know truth, you do not believe lies. Jesus is
the truth. Jn.14:6 Truth is not lies. John said, No lie is
of the truth.1Jn.2:21 Truth is liberating. Jn.8:32 Truth is
enlightenment.Eph.1:18 Truth cannot be deceptive.
Paul said, We gave no place [to Satan’s messen-
gers], no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel
might continue.Gal.2:5
Paul said, The gospel of our salvation is the word of
truth, and after that we believed, we were sealed with
the Holy Spirit of promise.Eph.1:13
Later he said, When we receive the Word of God,
which is truth, it effectually works in us who be-
lieve.1Th.2:13
Truth That Saves

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with the un-converted is because God yearns for all

people to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of
truth.1Tim.2:4
Truth is our strength, our defense. Our loins are
girded with truth concerning Jesus Christ and
what He accomplished for us. We never tremble
before the wiles or devices of the devil because
we know the truth about his defeat, about his au-
thority having been annulled. We are not intimi-
dated or disquieted by the deceiver’s lies or threats.
Our faith is unshakable because of our knowl-
edge of redemptive truth.

ARMOR OF GOD
Part II

· RIGHTEOUSNESS ·
THE SECOND ELEMENT that Paul mentions
that is essential to our triumph over the enemy:
He said, put on the breastplate of RIGHTEOUS-
NESS.Eph.6:14 Now that our sins have been laid on
Christ and He has endured the judgment that we
deserved, His righteousness has been imputed to us,
Rom.4:22,24 credited to our account.Rom.4:5; 5:17-18

The devil endeavors to make us question our

salvation, our security, our identity, our standing
before God in righteousness, our oneness with our

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Lord. We repudiate Satan’s demeaning sugges-

tions because we know in whom we have believed.
2Tim.1:12 We know that we have passed from death unto

life.1Jn.3:14
We can stand in the midst of any temptation or
trial or battle with unshakable faith because we
are believers in the unchangeable Christ. We wear
the breastplate of His righteousness. That is how we
stand against the wiles of the devil.
We know that Christ’s righteousness is ours.
Satan cannot touch us.1Jn.5:18 He only bluffs.
1Cor.1:30

Our righteousness is greater and more secure than

any stronghold of the devil in high places.
Our old nature died with Christ and was buried with
Him; then we came up out of death with Him into a
new Life…He gave us a share in the very Life of Christ
…and blotted out all charges proved against us…In
this way God took away Satan’s power to accuse
us of sin, and He openly displayed to the whole world
Christ’s triumph at the Cross where our sins were all
taken away.Col.2:12-15LB
The Armor of Righteousness

That is why there is therefore now no condemnation

to them that are in Christ Jesus.Rom.8:1
We advance and we triumph by the Word of truth,
by the power of God and by the armor of righteousness
on the right hand and on the left. 2Cor.6:7
No wonder we are winners! The victory that the
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Captain of our Salvation Heb.2:10 bought and paid

for by laying down His life for us, is our victory.
He conquered our enemy then came back from
the dead to live in us and to continue His minis-
try through us.
With this knowledge, none of the phony chican-
ery of the devil can destabilize or exacerbate us.
We are not ignorant of his devices.2Cor.2:11 We wear
the breastplate of Christ’s righteousness. We are armed
against the accusations of the enemy.
The armor of God enables us to stand against the
wiles [the deceitfulness, fakery, empty threats,
fraudulence and lying wonders] of the devil.Eph.6:11
How could any believer imagine that devils
could wield power in their lives? Never! Christ is
our Life.Col.3:4 He is made unto us righteousness.1Cor.1:30
Righteousness is our breastplate.Eph.6:14 We are right
with God.

ARMOR OF GOD
Part III

· PEACE ·
THE THIRD ELEMENT of God’s Armor that Paul
tells us to be equipped with: Have your feet shod
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New English Bible says it like this: Let the shoes on

your feet be the gospel of peace, to give you firm footing.
Adam Clarke’s remarkable commentary dated
1831 says: The metal greaves 1Sam.17:6 “to protect the
soldier’s feet were deemed essential in ancient
armor: if the feet or legs were wounded, a soldier
could neither stand to resist his foe, pursue him if
vanquished, nor flee from him, should he have
the worst of the fight.”
The Feet Of ChristÊs Messengers

Paul speaks of the gospel messenger’s feet, quot-

ing Isaiah: How beautiful upon the mountains are the
feet of those who bring good tidings, who publish peace;
who bring good tidings of good, who publish salvation;
who says to Zion, your God reigns! Isa.52:7
Before exiting Egypt, the Israelites were com-
manded to eat the Passover with their feet shod,
Ex.12:11 to show that they were ready for their jour-

ney. Jesus told His disciples to be shod with san-

dals,Mk.6:9 ready to go and to publish the gospel in
all the world, to every creature.Mk.16:15
Christian believers are like marching soldiers
sharing the gospel of peace with a despairing
world. They need their feet well shod, protected
against gall-traps and sharp sticks in their path-
way that have been concealed there by enemy
agents. If they fell upon them, they would be
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Shod For The Mission

Paul says, Have your feet shod with the preparation

of the gospel of peace. The word translated prepara-
tion is understood to mean that the believer is
ready to witness for Christ. It means firmness and
readiness in the one who believes the gospel enough to
tell it to others.
Paul emphasized that the armor of believers
must include strong, protected feet because their
mandate is to go out, as Jesus said, into the high-
ways and hedges, compelling them [i.e., the un-converted]
to come in.Lu.14:23
The historian, Josephus, tells us that the soldiers
under Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were
shod with strong army boots [caligae] “thickly
studded with sharp nails” (Josephus) to ensure tough-
ness and a good grip. Triumph in battle depended
on soldiers being well shod for long-distance
marches over rough and treacherous terrain.
Remember, we are talking about witnessing of
Christ in all the world, and to accomplish our global
task requires putting on the whole armor of God, to
stand against the wiles [the lies, the deceit, the for-
gery] of the devil.
Believers can only have peace and succeed in
abrogating the lying accusations of Satan when
they know the truth about redemption. With their
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they know that they are reconciled to God 2Cor.5:18

and that the Word of reconciliation has been commit-
ted unto them.2Cor.5:18-19
Their feet are shod with the gospel of peace. They
are right with God and they stand before Him
without the consciousness of sin, fear, guilt or in-
feriority.Col.1:22; 1Th.3:13 With peace, believers are not
destabilized or discomfited by the incriminating
harassment of the devil.
Peace Through Reconciliation

PEACE is knowing that every sin is paid for, that

the judgment of one’s sin has already been suf-
fered by Christ on the Cross, and that there is there-
fore now no condemnation to them who are in Christ
Jesus.Rom.8:1
PEACE is knowing that Christ, the Captain of our
Salvation, has rescued us out of the darkness and
gloom of Satan’s kingdom and brought us into the
kingdom of God’s dear Son, who bought our freedom
with His blood and forgave us all our sins.Col.1:13-14LB
PEACE is knowing that Christ’s death on the Cross
has made peace with God for all of us, by His blood, in-
cluding you and I who were far away from Him…yet
now He has brought us back into the presence of God
as His friends through Christ’s death on the Cross, and
we are standing there with nothing left against us…
the only condition being that we fully believe the Truth
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and never shifting from trusting Him to save us. This

is the wonderful news that…is spreading all over the
world. And we have the joy of telling it to others.
Col.1:20-23LB

Never shifting from trusting Him. That is the se-

cret. That is the Gospel of Peace.

ARMOR OF GOD
Part IV

· FAITH ·
THE FOURTH ELEMENT of God’s Armor that
we are urged by Paul to wear: ABOVE ALL, take the
shield of FAITH, with which you shall be able to quench
all the fiery darts of the wicked.Eph.6:16
Satan is the accuser.Rev.12:10 His demeaning darts
of recrimination, disparagement and slander can
inflict stinging and infectious wounds that would
weaken or destroy confidence if it were not for
well-grounded faith in what Christ accomplished
on behalf of believers.
Paul urged: above all, take the shield of faith.
Most vital for standing against the wiles of the devil
is believing God’s Word. When we choose God’s
Word over Satan’s lies, we repulse the shrewd
suggestions and demeaning accusations of the
devil because we are not ignorant of his devices.
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Without faith it is impossible to please God: for who-

ever comes to Him must believe that He is, and that He
is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.Heb.11:6
Yes, ABOVE ALL…take the shield of FAITH!
Faith Against Fables

Satan mesmerizes the un-believing world with

his fallacious fabrications. But the believer who
is grounded in God’s Word is not swayed by ap-
pearances or illusions that repudiate what the
Lord has said. Biblical faith is believing the Word
of God in the face of all contradictions.
Jesus said, Have faith in God.Mk.11:22 He said, If
you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say
to this mountain, Remove from here to that place; and
it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible for
you.Mat.17:20
The prophet Habakkuk said, The just shall live by
faith.Hab.2:4 Paul repeated those words twice, Rom.1:17;
Gal.3:11 and the writer of Hebrews quoted them. Heb.10:38

Jesus The Faith-Builder

Jesus constantly taught faith. He commended

those who expressed faith, such as the centu-
rion,Mat. 8:10; Lu.7:9 the woman of Canaan,Mat.15:28 and
the woman with the issue of blood.Mk.5:25; Lu.8:48 He
rewarded those with faith like the man with
palsy,Mat.9:2; Mk.2:5; Lu.5:20 the woman in need,Mat.9:22;
Lu.8:48 the two blind men,Mat.9:29 and blind Barti-

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maeus.Mk.10:52 He prayed for Peter that his faith

would not fail.Lu.22:32
Paul urged, Above all take the shield of faith.
Faith in what? Faith in what God has said. Faith
comes by hearing the Word of God.Rom.10:17 If Chris-
tians do not believe what the Bible says about
their relationship with Him and about what Christ
accomplished on their behalf, then they are vul-
nerable to the accusations of the Wicked One.
But believing Christians walk by faith and not by
sight.2Cor.5:7 They are not ignorant of Satan’s devices.
2Cor.2:11 They do not fall for his lying wonders.2Th.2:9

They are like Abraham, fully persuaded that, what

God promised, he is able also to perform.Rom.4:21 Paul
said, we know whom we have believed, and are per-
suaded that He is able to keep that which we have com-
mitted unto Him.2Tim.1:12
We know that our enemy is defeated. Our faith
enables us to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
Eph.6:16 We are unmoved by Satan’s demagoguery

and threatening masquerades of perfidious tactics

to demean, demoralize, deprecate and disparage
us. He is a liar and no truth is in him. We know
that, so we are able to quench his fiery darts.

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ARMOR OF GOD
Part V

· SALVATION ·
THE FIFTH ELEMENT of God’s armor that is es-
sential to our victory against the Enemy: Paul said
to take THE HELMET of SALVATION.Eph.6:17 Many
Christians lack assurance about their own salva-
tion. At the least accusation by Satan, they become
insecure, wondering whether or not they are right
with God.
Paul instructs us never to question our salva-
tion. He said that through the death of Christ on the
Cross, He brought us back to God as His friends [back
into the presence of God] standing there before Him
with nothing left against us…convinced of the Good
News that Jesus died for us, and never shifting from
trusting Him…Col.1:21-23LB
Unblameable ·Unreproveable

To emphasize our standing with God, Paul said

that Christ, in the body of His flesh through death,
presented us holy and unblameable and unreproveable
in His sight.Col.1:22 He said that the Lord wants to
establish our hearts unblameable in holiness before God,
our Father.1Th.3:13
Spiritual insecurity and trepidation before God
is a centuries-old dilemma. Some church denomi-
nations still teach that one cannot be certain of his
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or her salvation; that one can only hope that, at

the end, one will be saved.
John said, We know that we have passed from
death unto life.1Jn.3:14 If we do not know that, we
cannot stand against the wiles [deceitfulness and
accusing maneuvers] of the devil.Eph.6:11
We are talking about wrestling against principali-
ties, rulers of the darkness, and spiritual wickedness in
high places.Eph.6:12 These powers are not within the
Church of believers. The powers that we wrestle
against are in the un-converted world where we
are commissioned to carry the gospel as Christ’s
witnesses and representatives.Ac.1:8; 5:32
Witnessing Among The Non-Converted

Giving witness of the gospel of Christ, we look

into the faces of un-converted people and tell them
that Christ has borne their sins, that He loves
them, that their salvation has been paid in full,
and that their enemy, a liar and a destroyer, has
been totally defeated by Christ. We say that boldly
with faith because, as Paul said, We believe the
truth…we are convinced of the Good News that Jesus
died for us, and we never shift from trusting Him.Col.
1:21-23LB

If we are not confident of our own salvation, we

will live in spiritual indecision and vacillation,
susceptible to intimidation by Satan’s wiles. In
such a state we can never be convincing in our
witness of Christ to others.
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To be Christ’s witness, sharing His Good News

with the un-converted, out where Satan’s princi-
palities dominate as rulers of darkness, we must
wear the helmet of SALVATION.Eph.6:17 In other words,
we must be convinced of our own salvation.
We must be at peace in our own hearts. We must
trust what Christ has done for us. We must believe
that we stand before God holy, unblameable and
unreproveable in His sight.Col.1:22
To wear the helmet of SALVATION means that we
have confidence in our own right standing before
God. Since we have heard Christ’s Word, and have
believed on God who sent Him, we have everlasting
Life, and shall not come into condemnation; but we are
passed from death unto life. Jn.5:24 We believe that. We
are confident.
Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, then we
have confidence toward God.1Jn.3:21 So now, abide in
Him; that…you may have confidence, and not be
ashamed before Him…1Jn.2:28
Knowing The Scriptures
Believing The Gospel

The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I

fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall
I be afraid? Psa.27:1
Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be
afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my
song; He also is become my salvation.Isa.12:2
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Being justified by faith, we have peace with God

through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have
access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and
rejoice in hope of the glory of God.Rom.5:1-2
For by grace are we saved through faith; and that not
of ourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest
anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus.Eph.2:8-10
And [we are] found in Him, not having our own
righteousness,…but that which is through the faith of
Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
Phil.3:9

Jesus said, whoever hears my Word, and believes on

Him who sent me, has everlasting Life, and shall not
come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto
Life. Jn.5:24
No More Condemnation
There is therefore now no condemnation to them who
are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but
after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of Life in
Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and
death.Rom.8:1-2
Who is he that condemns us? It is Christ who died,
yes rather, who is risen again, who is at the right hand
of God, who makes intercession for us. Who can sepa-
rate us from the love of Christ? Rom.8:34-35
For Christ was slain, and has redeemed us to God by
His blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people,
and nation.Rev.5:9
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He loved us, and washed us from our sins in His

own blood.Rev.1:5
The Lord Jesus said, This is my blood of the new
testament, which is shed for many for the remission of
sins.Mat.26:28
Whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have
eternal life. Jn.3:15 And whoever shall call on the name of
the Lord shall be saved.Ac.2:21
John said, If we confess our sins, He is faithful and
just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness.1Jn.1:9
He reminds us that Jesus did many other signs in
the presence of His disciples, which are not written in
this book: But these are written, that you might believe
that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that be-
lieving you may have life through His name. Jn.20:30-31
PaulÊs Witness In
A Superstitious City

Paul understood what this fight of faith is. He

had stood in the vast amphitheater at Athens and
had witnessed for Christ before a people who
were too superstitious,Ac.17:22 dominated by princi-
palities, powers, rulers of darkness and spiritual wick-
edness in high places.
He told the Athenians, The Lord of heaven and
earth does not dwell in temples made with hands; nei-
ther is worshipped with men’s hands…because He
gives to all Life and breath,…and he urged them to
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seek the Lord…and find Him…because in Him we live

and move and have our being,…and we are His off-
spring, so we ought not to think that the Godhead is
like gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s
device. Then he witnessed in that pagan amphi-
theater that God has raised Jesus from the dead.
Ac.17:24-31

In such an ambiance, Paul was fighting the fight

of faith amidst principalities, powers, and spiritual
wickedness in high places.
Those powers and rulers are not inside the
Church, the Body of Christ, among Christian be-
lievers. They are outside the Church in the un-
converted world of the un-saved who know noth-
ing of the redemptive work of Christ.
Paul yearned for believers to be armed for their
ministry of witnessing in the un-converted world
so that they could go amidst perverse darkness
and spiritual wickedness and be able to stand
against the wiles of the devil.
Ministry Of Reconciliation

Paul had the picture in clear focus. To him it

was vital that Christians understand how God has
reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ.2Cor.5:18 That
is our salvation. That is accomplished. We have
peace. We believe that Christ did enough to save
us. We trust totally in His merits for our salvation.
Then, speaking of our reconciliation, Paul con-
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tinues to the next step, which is our ministry. He

says: and God has given to us the ministry of recon-
ciliation.2Cor.5:18-19
The believer’s function in God’s family is to be
Christ’s witness and to reconcile people to God.
That ministry is now entrusted into our hands.2Cor.
5:19; 1Th.2:4; 1Tim.1:11

Paul knew this so he urged us: “Be sure that

you wear the helmet of salvation.” In other words,
be sure that you are confident in your own stand-
ing before God. If not, Satan will accuse you, lie
to you, bluff you, confuse you, deceive you and
defeat you by his cunning devices and wiles.

ARMOR OF GOD
Part VI

· THE WORD ·
THE SIXTH ELEMENT of the Armor of God that
Paul adds to the list for our spiritual success: Take
the SWORD OF THE SPIRIT, which is the WORD OF
GOD.Eph.6:17 He knew it is essential for the Chris-
tian to know God’s redemptive plan—to know what
salvation means and to know the Word of God.
Believers must know four biblical truths that
constitute the biblical gospel.

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1. God’s creation
2. Satan’s deception
3. Christ’s substitution
4. Our restoration
Believers must know that:
a. Our redemption is a fact;
b. Satan is defeated;
c. Christ’s victory is our victory;
d. His righteousness is ours; and
e. As He is, so are we in this world.1Jn.4:17; Jn.17:18; 20:21
Know Yourself In The Scriptures

Believers must know themselves in the Bible—

know precisely what the Bible says about them.
Jesus Christ knew who He was. And beginning at
Moses and all the prophets, he expounded in all the
scriptures the things concerning Himself. Lu.24:27
Jesus could point to the ancient Scriptures of the
Hebrew prophets and identify Himself through-
out the sacred text.
The Jews sought to kill Jesus, because…He said that
God was His Father, making Himself equal with God.
Jn.5:18 He told them, Search the scriptures; for…they

testify of me.v.39
Jesus Himself quoted the ancient Hebrew
prophecies that related to Himself.Mat.26:56; Lu.21:22;
24:44; Jn.15:25; 17:12 His faith in His relationship with

His Father was based on His knowledge of the

Scriptures.

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Christ Came To Show Us ·US

Regarding His faith, Jesus Christ believed the

same Scriptures that we are to believe. They spoke
about Him. They speak about us. His purpose in
coming to our level was to show us who we are—
to show us US—to show us that if we follow Him
and believe on Him, we can share the same rap-
port and relationship with the Father that He has.
Jn.14:12; 17:18,21-23

Numerous prophecies about Jesus are quoted in

the Gospels.Mat.1:22; 2:15,23; 4:14; 8:17; 12:17; 13:35; 21:4; 27:35;
Jn.12:38; 19:24 Jesus knew Himself in the Scriptures.

Many prophecies about the coming Messiah are

recorded in the Old Testament. Christ knew them
all. They were the source of His faith. That was
why He could confront demons and they would
flee before Him, obeying His command. They knew
that He knew who He was in the Scriptures.
Christ’s faith was based on what His Father had
spoken through the Prophets. Our faith is founded
on the Scriptures that speak about us.
Discovering Ourselves In GodÊs Word

You and I must know who we are in the Bible.

Knowledge of truth is the only sure foundation
for faith. Remember, we are talking about Paul’s
counsel to fight the fight of faith, in order to stand
against Satan’s wiles and devices.

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To triumph in this challenge, Paul stressed that

we must put on the whole armor of God, emphasiz-
ing the WORD OF GOD as being indispensable to
our victory. He said, ABOVE ALL, take the sword of
the Spirit—the WORD OF GOD. Why?
We must KNOW what God’s Word says about
US, about Jesus, about Satan, about redemption,
about our standing before God, about our salva-
tion, our dignity, our status before Him. We are
new creatures. We are triumphant.
We must, as John said, KNOW that we are passed
from death unto life.1Jn.3:14 No lying suggestion or
deceptive illusion that Satan conjures up can move
us, intimidate us, or cause us to shift from trusting
Christ Col.1:23LB when we KNOW ourselves in the
Scriptures.
Aware Of The Scriptures

Paul knew who he was in Christ. He testified:

God separated me from my mother’s womb and called
me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might
preach Him among the heathen.Gal.1:15-16
Paul witnessed that the Lord said to him: Rise,
and stand on your feet: for I have appeared to you…to
make you a minister and a witness both of these things
which you have seen, and of those things in which I
will appear to you.Ac.26:16
Paul knew the Scriptures about himself. During
his early years of religious fanaticism, he had been
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blinded by prejudice against Christ. But when the

Lord appeared to him as he journeyed and came
near Damascus, the light from heaven shined round
about him and he fell to the earth.Ac.9:3-4 Paul’s life
was transformed.
Straightway, [Paul was transformed] and he
preached Christ in the synagogues, that He is the Son
of God…confounding the Jews,…proving that this
Jesus is the Christ.Ac.9:20,22 He reasoned with people
out of the Scriptures.Ac.17:2 He mightily convinced
the Jews publicly, showing by the Scriptures that
Jesus was Christ.Ac.18:28
Paul preached that which he also received, how that
Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
And that He was buried, and that He rose again the
third day according to the Scriptures.1Cor.15:3-4
During Paul’s final months, prior to his martyr-
dom at Rome, many came to his lodging; to whom he
expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuad-
ing them concerning Jesus, from both the Law of
Moses and the Prophets, from morning till evening.
Ac.28:23 Paul knew the Scriptures. He knew himself

in the Scriptures.
To stand against the wiles of the devil, we are to
take the sword of the Spirit which is the WORD OF
GOD.Eph.6:17
What We Know By The Scriptures

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from death unto Life.1Jn.3:14 Paul said, Know the things

that are freely given us of God.1Cor.2:12
By His Word, we know the grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ.2Cor.8:9 We know the love of Christ which sur-
passes human knowledge.Eph.3:19
We know Him and the power of His resurrection.
We know whom we have believed, and are per-
Phil.3:10

suaded that He is able to keep that which we have com-

mitted to Him against that day.2Tim.1:12
By the Scriptures, we know that we were not re-
deemed with silver and gold,…but with the precious
blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and with-
out spot.1Pet.1:18-19
John says, we know that we know Jesus Christ.
We know that we are in Him.v.5 We know that
1Jn.2:3

Christ was manifested to take away our sins; and in

Him is no sin.1Jn.3:5
By the Word of God, we know that we are of the
truth.1Jn.3:19 We know that He abides in us by the
Spirit which He has given us.v.24 We know that we
have eternal Life.1Jn.5:13 We know that we are of God.v.19
Faith Is KNOWING
It is by knowing the Scriptures that our faith is
unshakable before Satan’s cunning devices. We can
stand against the wiles [deceitfulness] of the devil be-
cause we are equipped with the sword of the Spirit
which is the Word of God.
Knowing the facts of the gospel and knowing
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ourselves in the Scriptures, we are not susceptible

to Satan’s wiles and devices as we witness of Christ
among the un-converted.
We fight the fight of faith,…equipped with the
sword of the Spirit which is the WORD OF GOD.

ARMOR OF GOD
Part VII

· PRAYER ·

THE SEVENTH ELEMENT of God’s Armor that

Paul says is fundamental to our victory in Christ:
PRAYING ALWAYS…watching with all perseverance.
Eph.6:18 To minister or to witness of Christ effec-

tively in the un-converted world where principali-

ties and spiritual wickedness reign, we must always
do it prayerfully.
Many Christians miss the Bible focus of what
they label “spiritual warfare.” They carry on their
fight of faith within their church sanctuary, “inter-
ceding” for the deliverance of other Christians
from evil spirits. Their imaginations are intro-
verted and self-centered by unbalanced and non-
redemptive teaching.
Jesus never conceived of His followers assem-
bling themselves together and casting evil spirits
out of each other.Mk.16:17 His statement, they shall
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cast out devils, was a miracle sign that would fol-

low believers who would preach or teach the gos-
pel out in all the world Mk.16:15—the un-converted
world.
Jesus assured them that if they met demon-
possessed people such as the man of Gadara Lu.
8:27-33 or the daughter of the Syrophenician woman,
Mk.7:24-29 they could cast them out. His words were

not instructing Christians to cast out evil spirits

from other believers.
Poisonous Drinks

When Jesus told His followers, If you drink any

deadly thing, it will not hurt you,Mk.16:18 He did not
conceive of believers drinking poison in their own
meetings, assuring them that it would not hurt
them.Mk.16:18
Christ was speaking to His followers about
events that might occur as they went out to share
the Good News of Christ, witnessing in the un-
converted world, like Paul did on the Isle of Me-
lita when the viper fastened on his hand, and he shook
off the beast, and felt no harm.Ac.28:1-9
Snake Handlers
Certain cult leaders and their members practice
handling venomous serpents during their “wor-
ship” meetings. They are introverted and self-
centered in their faith, seeking to attract attention
to their own super-spirituality.
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Jesus never conceived of His followers bringing

serpents to their meeting places, then handling
them, being bitten by them, and proving their
“spirituality” by His words, They shall take up ser-
pents.Mk.16:18 This is egocentric, narcissistic and
self- aggrandizing.
It is equally vainglorious and self-indulgent for
Christians to meet together and imagine that they
are casting evil spirits out of each other. To make
such a pretense is to denigrate the miracle of the
new birth and the regenerating power of the Life
of Jesus Christ that is received when a person em-
braces Him as Lord and Savior.
It is spiritually juvenile to consider Christ’s com-
mission concerning “casting out devils” as a min-
istry of “saints” to “saints.” His words were di-
rected to His followers whom He was sending as
His witnesses into all the world.Mk.16:15
Casting Out Devils·In The World
Overcoming Devils·In The Church

Paul counseled the followers of Christ to put on

the whole armor of God, and to fight the fight of faith so
they could stand against the wiles of the devil.
The apostle was not counseling Christians to
pray, to intercede and to struggle in what they
call “spiritual warfare” among themselves, visu-
alizing demons being exorcised from one another,
or fantasizing that they are dispelling evil spirits
from homes or neighborhoods or businesses or
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places of worship or communities—or from na-

tions or regions or cities.
Such concepts are held by persons who have not
matured in their faith, but who have remained
self-centered children in their spiritual lives.
That sort of thing is practicing superstition as
witch doctors do abroad. In un-evangelized vil-
lages, pagans engage witch-doctors to expel de-
mon spirits from houses, areas, business, or from
people who are suspect.
Praying Always ·For What?

The apostle counseled believers that they were

to be Praying always. But praying for WHAT?
Here is the key to Christian ministry as witnesses
of Christ. Pray that utterance may be given to us,
that we may open our mouths boldly to make known
the mystery of the gospel.Eph.6:19
The fight of faith against principalities and powers
is the Christian’s struggle to make known the mys-
tery of the gospel—out in the un-converted world
where rulers of darkness reign, out where opposi-
tion is fierce, out where the believer’s life may be
jeopardized—not among the Body of Christ. Jesus
said, The field is the world—Mat.13:38 not the church.
When Paul witnessed of Christ in Macedonia,
the mob rose up and the magistrates commanded
to beat Paul and Silas and laid many stripes upon
them, casting them into prison.Ac.16:22-23 While in that
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area, Paul wrote to the believers at Thessalonica:

Pray for us, that the Word of the Lord may have free
course…and that we may be delivered from unreason-
able and wicked men.2Th.3:1-2
That is an example of fighting the fight of faith
against principalities, rulers of darkness, and spiritual
wickedness in high places.Eph.6:12 Paul pulled down the
strongholds of Macedonia because he believed in
the power of the gospel that he preached. As a re-
sult of his witnessing, despite being beaten with
many stripes, strong churches were established in
the area. Paul fought the good fight of faith in the
area of Macedonia, and he was triumphant.
Now you can understand why Paul urged that
our armor include praying always with all suppli-
cation and perseverance. For what? That utterance
may be given to us to make known the mystery of
the gospel—where? Inside the walls of places of
worship? No! Outside those walls, out amidst un-
believers. Paul said to pray that the word of the
Lord can have free course—outside the fellowship
of believers in the Body of Christ, out amidst un-
reasonable and wicked people.
Peter urged believers to be ready always to give an
answer to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope
that is in you.1Pet.3:15 That is our ministry—out where
un-believers ask, “Why do you believe this foolish-
ness about Jesus dying for the sins of the world
and being raised from the dead?”

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We are Christ’s witnesses. We must be convinc-

ing. Our utterance must be biblical. We are mak-
ing known the mystery of the gospel. We are
fighting the fight of faith, sharing the message of
Christ out where we must wrestle against evil pow-
ers, out where rulers of darkness reign in high places.
Concepts Incompatible
With Redemptive Truth
Christians who are narcissistic in their view of
spiritual warfare (self-aggrandizing—seeking to at-
tract attention to their own spirituality) miss the
point. They are influenced by voices that contra-
dict redemptive truth and that assert concepts
that are incompatible with Paul’s revelation of the
new creation in Christ.
From Bible days until now, young believers have
been confused and disquieted by the voices of
those who lack knowledge about, or who demean
what Christ accomplished in His death and resur-
rection.
Paul alerted Christians to beware lest anyone spoil
you through philosophy.Col.2:8 He spoke of those who
are proud and…destitute of the truth.1Tim.6:4-5 He said,
Vain talkers…would subvert whole houses…for filthy
lucre’s sake Tit.1:10-11 and would make merchandise of
people.2Pet.2:1-3 They peddle their “super-spirituality”
at great financial gain from the uninformed peo-
ple they deceive, making merchandise of them for
filthy lucre’s sake. And modern, digital media
gives them the ear of millions.
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It is vital that Christians be aware of their rights

in Christ and that they be secure in their knowl-
edge of salvation through faith in God’s un-
changeable Word so that they can stand against
Satan’s deceptions without wavering.
Prayer or Fanaticism
PRAYER IS A VITAL PART OF THE BELIEVER’S AR-
MOR. BUT PRAYER THAT IS NOT BASED ON KNOWL-
EDGE CAN BE FANATICISM.

Pagans pray and cry, scream and pound their

chests as they contend against evil spirits which
they believe they must appease or exorcise. They
offer blood sacrifices with the beating of drums
and emotional dancing, all orchestrated by medi-
ating witchdoctors with their boring incantations,
as they officiate at these tribal rituals.
Almost every religion that we have encoun-
tered in nearly a hundred nations fosters strange
concepts about demon spirits. The people are pre-
occupied with the presence of evil spirits which
they visualize as the source of destructive disas-
ters, diseases and evil upon themselves and upon
their communities.
Their biggest defense against these evil powers
is to bring animals or fowls for a priest or witch-
doctor to sacrifice while they cry, yell, agonize,
rebuke and contend with these demonic powers,
voicing curses against them, interceding and think-
ing to exorcise them from their midst.
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The un-converted world is full of such practices

that express pagan faith in demons. That is why,
when I come home to my country, I am appalled
when I hear leaders preaching or teaching in ways
that breed faith in demon spirits and spiritual
insecurity among Christians.
I am told that there are more witchdoctors in
France than medical professionals. Witchcraft is
inundating Great Britain and Europe. In Euro-
pean nations where faith in the gospel has been
categorized as medieval superstition, those same
cultured, educated, modern people have been
turning pell-mell to witchcraft.
The armor that Paul says for us to put on in-
cludes prayer and supplication. But biblical Prayer
must correlate with the rest of the Armor of God:
1) Truth, 2) Righteousness, 3) Peace, 4) Faith, 5)
Salvation, and 6) God’s Word. Prayer without
knowledge about these other elements can be the
expression of superstition.
But prayer, fused with the knowledge of Truth,
Righteousness, Peace, Faith, Salvation and God’s Word
becomes the vital intercourse between the believer
and his or her Lord.
Futile Prayers Without Knowledge

From the time that Jesus appeared to me and

we began this world ministry, our prayer time
has become a period of harmonizing our agenda
with His, of aligning our plans with His will. Our
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ministry is founded on prayer. We believe in

prayer. We pray.
But before we learned about redemption and
the truths that produce miracles, our hours of
prayer time were ineffective because we were
pleading for God to do what He has already
done, or for Him to do what He told us to do.
Before we launched our first Healing Crusade
in America in 1948, I went into the basement of
our home where I prayed and fasted for three
days (without a drop of water or a crumb of food).
I was interceding for God to heal the sick FOR US
when we would lay our hands on them in our
upcoming meetings.
After three days, I seemed to hear the echo of
my voice. But it was in the form of a question.
“Heal them—FOR WHOM?” I stammered, “Heal the
sick FOR US, O Lord, when we lay our hands on
them.” And the voice came again: “FOR WHOM?”
Then the light turned on in my spirit as I pon-
dered: Two thousands years before we became
interested in healing sick people, God was so
moved with compassion for sufferers that He sent
His Son who gave His back to the smiters. They
ploughed his flesh like a farmer ploughs furrows in a
field,Psa.129:3 and by those stripes we are healed.Isa.53:5
There I was, fasting and praying for God to
have enough interest in sick people to “heal them
for us—FOR US!”—as though He was not as inter-
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ested in them as we were. I was interceding and

fasting, but I was ignoring redemptive truth.
That is an example of how people agonize in
prayer about devils. That is not necessary. Our
part is to give the gospel to our hurting world
and to give it with faith. Then the people have the
opportunity to believe it, and God confirms it.
Salvation is His idea. He gave His Son, and His
Son gave His Life to make possible these redemp-
tive blessings of the gospel.

ARMOR OF GOD
Part VIII

· VICTORY IS WON ·
THERE WILL BE no more lost battles at your
house—nor at ours. Devils may roar and threaten,
but John said that when we are born of God in a
new birth, that wicked one touches us not.1Jn.5:18
When Satan approaches us now, he has to deal
with our Lord. Christ lives at our house. He said,
My Father and I will come to you and make our abode
with you. Jn.14:23
We are no longer losers in life’s battles. Thanks
be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord
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The death of Christ signaled that all of our sins

have been remitted and that Satan can no longer
condemn us—we are translated out of his domin-
ion. Satan knows this and therefore, when we re-
sist the devil, he flees from us. Jas.4:7
If God be for us, who can be against us? Rom.8:31 Who
shall lay anything to our charge as God’s elect? It is
God who has [already] justified us.v.33
When God raised Jesus from the dead, He took
from Satan the keys of hell and of death.Rev.1:18 His
triumph over Satan was our triumph. Now be-
cause He lives, we live also. Jn.14:19
Our adversary, is conquered. Sin and evil, dis-
ease and suffering, poverty and failure have been
defeated by Christ for those who believe His gos-
pel. We are now privileged to be His Partner, His
Associate in life and in ministry.
Overcomers In Victory

Now is come salvation, and strength, and the king-

dom of our God, and the power of Christ; for our ac-
cuser [Satan] is cast down, who accused us before God
day and night. And we overcome him by the blood of
the Lamb, and by the Word of our testimony.Rev.12:10-11
Now we are triumphant. Satan no longer de-
feats us because He whose name is called The Word
of God Rev.19:13 dwells in us Jn.14:17 and we have redemp-
tion through His blood.Col.1:14
Our Lord says, all power [all authority] is given
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unto me in heaven and earth…and lo, I am with you

alway, even unto the end of the world.Mat.28:18,20
So we can say, The life which we now live in the
flesh, we live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved
us, and gave Himself for us.Gal.2:20 All things are ours
…and we are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.1Cor.3:21-23
Jesus came to give us abundant Life. Jn.10:10 He
fought our battles and won our victory. He abro-
gated our enemy’s authority and now, WE ONLY
THINK OF SATAN AS A DEFEATED FOE. His power and
jurisdiction over us are finished. We are delivered.
We are saved. We are free. When Satan tries to
touch us now, he touches redeemed property.1Pet.
1:18; Rev.5:9

The purpose of writing this book—of communi-

cating the redemptive facts of the gospel, is to in-
form people of these provisions—to inform them
that these blessings have been purchased by
Christ’s death on the cross for every creature in all
the world. Mk.16:15
REDEMPTIVE BLESSINGS are now available to all
who believe on Jesus Christ. They are God’s gifts.
REDEMPTIVE BLESSINGS are already paid for, and
are already offered freely.
REDEMPTIVE BLESSINGS are God’s will for all who
believe; they are available now; they are part of
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GodÊs Will Revealed

A Christian believer would never question God’s

will to save someone. In the same way, it is God’s
will to fulfill every provision that has been bought
and paid for through the death, burial, resurrec-
tion and ascension of Jesus Christ.
Seven divine, REDEMPTIVE BLESSINGS are now ours:
1) OUR D IGNITY IS RESTORED Sect. I because
Jehovah-Tsidkenu, “the Lord our RIGHTEOUS-
NESS,” has imputed His divine virtue to all who
embrace Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior;
2) OUR PEACE IS RECOVERED Sect. II because
Jehovah-Shalom, “the Lord our PEACE,” becomes
our PEACE when we believe that Christ Jesus
endured the judgement and paid the penalty of
our sins;
3) OUR S IGNALS ARE REFOCUSED Sect. III because
Jehovah-Raah, “the Lord our SHEPHERD,” pro-
vides perfect guidance and direction for those
who embrace Him as Savior;
4) O UR H EALTH IS RENEWED Sect. IV because
Jehovah-Rapha, “the Lord our PHYSICIAN,” be-
comes the healer of all of our diseases;
5) OUR PROSPERITY IS REGAINED Sect. V because
Jehovah-Jireh, translated “the Lord will PROVIDE,”
has covenanted to supply all of our needs;
6) OUR FRIENDSHIP IS RESUMED Sect. VI because
Jehovah-Shammah, translated “the Lord is PRE-
SENT,” promises: Lo, I am with you always, and I
will never leave you nor forsake you. We are friends
of God.
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7) OUR V ICTORY IS RETRIEVED Sect. VII because

Jehovah-Nissi, “the Lord our BANNER,” gives us the
VICTORY through our Lord Jesus Christ Who de-
stroyed the works of the devil, and Who always causes
us to triumph.
1. God Is Your RIGHTEOUSNESS
Section I of this book

If condemnation or guilt besieges you with accusa-

tions about past sins, remember that you have been
washed from your sins in Christ’s own blood.Rev.1:5 God
sees you only in the light of His RIGHTEOUSNESS.
2. God Is Your PEACE
Section II

If despair overwhelms you and you sense accusa-

tion or confusion about your spiritual standing
before God, remember that Christ is your PEACE.
3. God Is Your GUIDE or SHEPHERD
Section III

Ifproblems arise and decisions must be made,

when you stand at the fork in the road and you
need to know which route to take, Christ, your
SHEPHERD, is always there to provide the guid-
ance that you need.
4. God Is Your PHYSICIAN or HEALER
Section IV

If sickness assails your physical body and you are

threatened by disease that may be incurable, you
count on the Life of Jesus your PHYSICIAN, at
work within you, restoring your health.
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5. God Is Your PROVIDER or SOURCE

Section V

If economic circumstances defy you and you won-

der how to make ends meet, you think about your
Creator, your Father, who is the CREATOR of all
riches and He now lives at your house. His
wealth is available to you as a family member.
6. God Is Ever PRESENT
Section VI

If you feel lonely or afraid, you hear Christ say,

Lo, I am with you always, and I will never leave you
nor forsake you. You know that He is PRESENT as
your best friend and companion.
7. God Is Your VICTORY
Section VII

If the enemy bombards you with lying accusa-

tions and threats of defeat, you remember that the
Lord is your VICTORY. Satan must now deal with
Jesus Christ when he attacks or tempts you.

JESUS IS YOURS. You are His. You and He are

friends and partners. Together, you are an un-
beatable team—INVINCIBLE.
You have become a winner. God’s legacy of
blessings guarantees His best for you.

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ARMOR OF GOD
Part IX

·PASS THE GOOD WORD TO OTHERS ·

NOW THAT YOU have received New Life from
God and have learned about His redemptive bless-
ings, remember that these discoveries are divine
seeds that are being planted in your life. They
will grow and produce their harvest.
Every time you read the seven Statements of
Faith in this book (at the ends of Sections I-VII),
you will be watering the good seeds and they will
procreate of their kind in and through you.
You will begin to see circumstances around you
change. It will be the harvest of God’s seeds that
are in your life and that you will now sow in the
lives of others.
Adapting To The New Life -Style
This book has facilitated your understanding of
REDEMPTION. As you re-read and ponder the sec-
tions, these truths will be internalized in your
spirit. Your thinking and your vocabulary will
conform to God’s way of thinking and speaking.
The language of redemption will become normal
for you. In fact, you will forget how you thought
and spoke before you read this book.
You will be surprised at how quickly a new
world will surround you—because it has been
seeded in you.
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New Life Blessings

Friction and dissension will give way to love,

harmony and fellowship.
Sickness and pain will fade as you learn to
believe in the power of God’s Life at work in you
more than in the power of disease.
Confusion and indecisiveness will dissipate
like a fog as you find yourself with the ability to
think a situation through, to sense God’s direc-
tion and to embark on a straight and good course.
The plague of poverty and unpaid bills will
become a thing of the past because you will come
to see yourself as a child of Royalty. You will be-
gin to function according to God’s laws of sowing
and reaping. As you reach out to bless and help
others, God will reach out to bless and help you.
Loneliness will vanish. You will discover new
purpose as a member of God’s Royal Family. You
will remember that Jesus never leaves you.
Failure and defeat will be swallowed up by
new successes, because the Creator becomes your
Life-Partner.

AS THESE BLESSINGS spring up in your life,

and around you, you will realize how powerful
these good seeds are. You will want to plant them
in the lives of others.
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The richest reward on earth is to plant good

seeds in others and to reap a rich harvest from the
words and action that you have sown. It makes
life worth living. I spend my life doing that. It is
why I am so happy, in my advancing years, and it
is why I stay so busy. The abundant Life of Jesus
Christ is so wonderful that I cannot keep quiet
about it.
Paul said, So everywhere we go we talk about Christ
to all who will listen…this is our work, and we can do
it only because Christ’s mighty energy is at work
within us.Col.1:28-29LB
Sowing And Reaping

So we give our time, our efforts, our money and

our energy in a constant commitment to sow the
good seeds of the Good News in every life we can
possibly influence. As we sow these good seeds
in people, our world becomes better.
Every effort that we make, every gift of money
that we invest and every message that we preach,
record or publish is another seed planted in people.
Whatever we sow, that shall we also reap.Gal.6:7
Only the seeds that a farmer plants can be mul-
tiplied back to him or her in a harvest. Only the
deeds of compassion and the acts of generosity
that one plants in people can be multiplied back
to him or her in a harvest.
Share these good seeds by planting copies of this
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book in the soil of other lives so that they too may

learn about God’s Love and His abundant Life.
PASS THE GOOD WORD ON TO PEOPLE YOU CARE
ABOUT—TO THOSE WHO NEED GOD’S BLESSINGS.

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 THE MISSION
OF CHRISTIANITY
OSBORN MINISTRY OVERVIEW

The GLOBAL mission of Christianity is to witness of

Christ and of His resurrection to the entire world—to
every creature.Mk.16:15
The Apostle Paul said, Whoever shall call on the name of
the Lord shall be saved.Rom.10:13
T.L. and Daisy Osborn shared a world wide ministry
together for over five decades, before her demise in
1995. T.L. continued his global ministry to multitudes
until his passing in 2013.
The Osborn daughter, Dr. LaDonna, is the President and
CEO of Osborn Ministries International. She has served
in this global ministry since childhood. She conducts
public mass evangelism Festivals of Faith and Miracles
and/or trans-evangelical Gospel Seminars on nearly all
continents.
Dr. LaDonna’s expertise is making possible the
expansion of this ministry in nations around the world.
Learn more about the Osborn Global Outreaches
through their website at osborn.org.

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 Drs. T.L., Daisy and LaDonna Osborn have
reached millions for Christ in over a hundred nations
during nearly seven decades. This ministry-brief is
included here to inspire young believers that they,
too, can carry the gospel torch into all the world.Mk.16:15

Mass Miracle Evangelism

Tommy Lee Osborn and Daisy Marie Washburn were
married in Los Banos, California in 1942, at the ages of
17 and 18. In 1945 they went to India as missionaries but
were unable to convince the people of these ancient
religions—Muslims and Hindus—about Christ. They
had not yet discovered the truths about healing mira­cles.
They returned to the USA dismayed and disheartened—
but not dissuaded.
Soon after their demoralizing return home, the
Lord appeared to them both, at different times, as they
searched for the answer to their dilemma.
• They began to discover the Bible truths that create
faith for biblical miracles.
• They had learned in India that for peo­ple of non-
Christian nations to believe the gospel, they must
witness miracle proof that Jesus Christ is alive
today.
• They discovered that signs, miracles and wonders
are essential to con­vincing non-Christian nations
about the gospel.

Jesus was…approved of God among people by miracles

and wonders and signs, which God did by Him in the midst
of the people.Ac.2:22

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 These dynamic truths created in their spirits fresh faith
in God’s Word. With this new lease on life and having
discov­ered the scriptural facts about miracles they,
along with their children, re-launched their soulwinning
saga in 1949—this time in the Caribbean island-nation of
Jamaica.
During thirteen weeks of ministry there, hundreds of
biblical miracles confirmed their preaching.
• Over a hundred deaf-mutes were healed;
• Over ninety totally blind people re­ceived sight;
• Hundreds of crippled, paralyzed and lame
people were restored;
• Most important of all, nearly ten thousand souls
received Jesus Christ as their Savior.
That success motivated their new global ministry,
proclaiming the gospel to mul­titudes. In the era when
developing na­tions were mostly colonized by European
governments, the Osborns pioneered the concept of
Mass Miracle Evangelism. Such methods had not been
witnessed since the epoch of the Early Church. T.L.
and Daisy addressed audiences of tens of thousands
throughout the dangerous years of nation­alism when the
awakening of many de­veloping nations was repulsing
foreign political domination.
Their example inspired national men and women,
globally, to arise from their restrictive past, and to
become leading gospel messengers and church builders
in the unevangelized nations of the world. Many of
them are numbered among the most distinguished and
successful Chris­tian leaders today.
The largest churches in the world are no longer in
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America or Europe. Anointed and talented national
pastors are raising them up. Single churches in Africa
seat 50,000 plus people. To God be the glory.
Drs. T.L. and Daisy’s partial testimony is recorded for
posterity in their 512 page unique pictorial, The Gospel
According to T.L. and Daisy.

Global Evangelism Concepts

During T.L. and Daisy’s unprecedented years as an
evangelism team, they inaugu­rated numerous programs
to reach the unreached. Their concept of National
Missionary Assistance resulted in them sponsoring
over 30,000 national preachers as full time missionaries
to unevangel­ized tribes and villages where new, self-
supporting churches became established globally.
The Osborn literature is published in more than 130
languages. Their Docu­Miracle crusade films, audio and
video CDs and DVDs, and their digital pro­ductions
(including Bible courses), are produced in over 70
languages and are circulated around the world.
They have provided airlifts and huge shipments of
literature and of soulwin­ning tools for gospel ministries
abroad. They have furnished scores of four-wheel
drive vehicles equipped with films, projectors, screens,
generators, public-address systems, audiocassettes
and cas­sette players, plus literature for reaching the
unreached.

Publishing The Gospel

Dr. Daisy’s five major books are pace­setters in Christian
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literature for women—unique examples of inclusive
language that consistently addresses both men and women.
Dr. T.L. has authored over 20 major books. He wrote
his first, Healing the Sick, during their mission to
Jamaica in 1950. Now in its 46th edition, it is a global
favorite, used as a Bible School text book in many
nations.
The publisher calls Healing the Sick—A Living
Classic—a faith-building best seller since 1950. Over
a million copies are in print, circulating healing truth
through­out the world.
Dr. LaDonna’s book, God’s Big Picture is published
in scores of languages and is heralded globally as the
single most important book to make clear the story of
the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. Through this
book, people discover their place in God’s plan.
Some of her other books, such as Chaos of Miracles
and Unknown But Not Forgotten are modern day
accounts of Christ’s ministry in action through her
today as she ministers the gospel among some of the
world’s unreached masses.

Their Global Saga

Following the demise of both Drs. T.L. and Daisy,
their daughter, Dr. LaDonna has continued this global
evangelism ministry to nearly every continent as she
carries the torch of the gospel into this century’s new
frontiers.
Like the Apostle Paul, LaDonna says:

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power of God to salvation to everyone who believes.
Rom.1:16

She believes that:

The World is the Heart of the Church,
The Church is the Hope of the World.
She contends that:
Without the World, the Church is meaningless—
Without the Church, the World is hopeless.

Colonialism Nationalism Globalism/

Evangelism
Dr. LaDonna Osborn knows the min­istry of World
Evangelism. Since child­hood, she has lived on the
front lines of global Soulwinning—from the days of
colonialism, through the turbulent years of nationalism,
and into this century of global­ism, mass evangelism and
national and inter­national Church growth.
Dr. LaDonna holds forth these simple truths:
1. That the Bible is as valid today as it ever was;
2. That the divine calling for every be­liever is to
witness of Christ to the uncon­verted;
3. That every soul won to Christ can become His
representative; and
4. That miracles, signs and wonders are what
distinguish Christianity from being just another
philosophical religion.
To demonstrate these biblical issues is the essence of
the global MISSION of Christianity.
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 Just as with the Apostle Paul, Dr. LaDonna and Dr.
T.L. state:
The ministry we have received of the Lord is to testify to the
gospel of the grace of God;Ac.20:24 to preach the gospel in the
regions beyond.2Cor.10:16
The history of the Osborn Ministries International is
also recorded in their unique and historical 24-volume
Encyclo-Biographical Anthology. It contains more than
23,000 pages, 30,946 photos, 636 Faith Digest magazines,
2,024 pages of personal, hand-written diary notes,
1,011 pages of Osborns’ news letters, 1,062 pages of
unpublished historical data about their world ministry,
2,516 world mission re­ports, and 6,113 Christian ministry
reports.
These 24 giant tomes span over six feet of shelf space
and have taken their place in the archives and libraries
of in­stitutions of higher learning around the world,
including such renowned uni­versities and libraries
as: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England;
Uni­versity of Oxford, Oxford, England; Asbury
Theological Seminary, Wilmore, USA; British Library,
London, England; Central Bible College, Springfield,
USA; Christ for the Nations, Dallas, USA; Fuller
Theological Seminary, Pasadena, USA; Messenger
College, Joplin, USA; National Library, Sofia, Bulgaria;
ORU, Tulsa, USA; Ramkhamhaeng University, Bangkok,
Thailand; Regent University, Virginia Beach, USA;
Universidad In­teramericana de Puerto Rico, Ponce,
Puerto Rico; Université de Cocody, Abidjan, Ivory
Coast; University of Ghana, Legon-Accra, Ghana;
Université de Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Re­
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Maseno, Maseno, Kenya; Université Marien Ngouabi,
Brazzaville, Congo; Université Omar Bongo, Libreville,
Gabon; Univer­sity of Wales, Bangor, Wales; Vernadsky
National Library, Kiev, Ukraine; Word of Life, Uppsala,
Sweden; (plus many more), and the archives of many
leading denominational headquarters.
• LaDonna Osborn’s continuing passion:
To express and propagate
the gospel of Jesus Christ
to all people throughout
the world.
• Her tenet for action:
No one deserves to hear the
gospel repeatedly before
everyone has heard it at
least once.
• Her motto:
One Way—Jesus;
One Job—Evangelism.
• Her guiding principle:
Every Christian believer—
a witness for Christ.
LaDonna Osborn’s witness is expressed best by the
words of the Apostle John:
We bear record of the Word of God, and of the testimony
of Jesus Christ, and of the things that we have seen.Rev.1:2
We…testify of these things and have written them: and we
know that our testimony is true.Jn. 21:24
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