Sunday VT – 02/08/2015

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Speakers:

• Steve Atherton
• Megan Atherton

Scriptures used:

• Hebrews 13:7
• 2 Timothy 3:10
• Mark 16:17-18
• Mark 16:15-18
• John 20:24-29
• John 14:12

Subject:

• The easy way would be to have somebody to follow.  When Megan came to the United States, she didn’t have someone to show her how to keep house, because of the manner of life she grew up in.
• When she had children, it became harder to find time to keep up everything.
• In her great endeavors to keep a clean house, it produced guilt.
• Amongst our fellowship there are those who have done the works in Mark 16.
• Thou hast known my manner of life, doctrine by hanging out with people who have done such things.
• That is the easy way and the Lord has given us that.
• Those who have spoken unto you the Word of God.  They come not with words, but with the power of the Lord, and that is what speaks.
• Those are the ones who believe, whose signs follow, and they are the ones whose faith we follow.
• The hard way is to think that’s not done any more, to fall into and allow things that you don’t have to do, things like sickness and depression.
• Over a period of time you will have a clean house and will be able to keep it clean because you have gotten a new habit.  Hang out with those walking in the power of the Lord.  Find out how you too can walk in that.
• Believing God:  the story of doubting Thomas, who was not with the disciples at Jesus’s appearing.
• Thomas said he will not believe.  The key word is will.  We choose what we believe or don’t believe.  It is an act of our will.
• It is an act of war to believe.  You will have all stuff come against you as soon as you say you believe.
• It is an act of war with your flesh and with the world.
• Jesus came in to the disciples and brought peace between them and His Father.
• Then after He spoke to Thomas, and asked him to reach his hand into His side, and Thomas said “My Lord and my God”, He said blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
• The experiences of people not choosing to believe in Steve’s experience in Northfield.  Those who are willing to receive deliverance and those who don’t, and what happens after – very different from each other.
• People spend their lives not looking at the Word and are never justified in not doing that.  There is no excuse that you don’t have time to read the Word.
• If you believe on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
• Two shalls:  He shall do these works also;  and even greater works shall he do.  To believe on Him means you believe what He said.
• This Word was not written by man.  Yes, he used secretaries, but this Word was written by God through 40 secretaries.
• When we believe this Word, we then do what it says:  serve our parents, our masters, heartily as unto the Lord.
• If you are going to work for someone, serve them heartily as unto the Lord.  Even if they are a jerk.  Believe God and what He says.
• When you start exercising yourself in the faith and start believing God, He shows up.
• Steve met one man, Brother Davy,  who believed God and Steve stuck with him all this time, as Megan had talked about earlier in the service.  He heard the story of how Davy’s daughter was raised from the dead, and he remembered this  when his own son Joseph died, he prayed and the Lord raised him from the dead, it was because Steve believed.
• Belief is a choice.  You have a decision to exercise your will to believe God.  If you will, you will be blessed, it is a guarantee.