Failures
by Lee Stoneking
1994 · The Pentecostals of Alexandria, Alexandria, LA
Kind: conference session
Scripture: Matthew 26:69-75, 1 John 1:9, Exodus 4:10-13, Exodus 4:14, Exodus 5:22, 2 Samuel 12:24, Exodus 14:13-14, Psalm 25:1-10

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thank you so much there is a tragic account recorded in Matthew's gospel chapter 26 it has to do with Peter in Matthew's gospel chapter 26 in verse 69 the Bible says now Peter sat without in the palace and a damsel came unto him saying this also or thou th also was with Jesus of Galilee but he denied before them all saying I know not what thou sayest and when he was gone out into the porch another maid saw him and said unto them that were there this fellow was also with Jesus of Nazareth and again he denied with an oath I do not know the man and after a while came unto him they that stood by and said to Peter surely thou also art one of them for thy speech berth thee then began he to curse and to swear saying I know not the man and immediately the crew and Peter remembered the word of Jesus which sudden to him before the Crow Thou shalt deny me Thrice and he went out and wept bitterly I am sure it was just an ordinary Barnyard rooster but to Peter it was a trumpet of dawn that awakened in him a remorse and a regret that was practically uncomprehended and he wept bitterly in 1 John chapter 1 in verse 9 John wrote and said if we confess our sins 1 John 1 and ver9 if we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins say that's me that's me and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness say I have hope I'm quite sure today that there are many people here who at one time or another you have done something that you wish you had never done I'm quite sure here today that there are people many of you both men and women who feel like somewhere in your effort to live for God you have failed him and memories haunt you and grief and remorse at times overpowers you to those of you who are here like this today this message is affectionately dedicated I simply want to entitle this failures would you lift your hands your hearts and your voices would you pray for just a moment in time lord Jesus today we thank you for what our ears have heard for what our souls oh God have embraced we thank you for Mercy we thank you for truth today we thank you for the love of God the

power and the Majesty of grace and mercy we pray that you we will hear the sandal footfall of The Man From Galilee walk through the corridors of our hearts will you oh Master of the Universe forgive us and lift us and Deliver Us in this place today gloriously we ask it in the matchless resplendant name of the Lord Jesus Christ and everyone said amen thank you for standing so long you may be seated would you clap for just a moment with all of your heart we read in our day a great many biographies and autobiographies and we are impressed with the content and the people's lives that they disclose to us however the truth of the matter is that the Bible biographies that we read from the context of the Holy Rit are much closer to the truth than contemporary biographies about men that God uses today consider with me here today the life stories of Jacob David and Jonah these men who ran these adulterers when we read these stories we are shocked embarrassed and sometimes blush saying God how could you ever have used them how could you have used such men the Bible does not gloss it over whitewash it it's all there in black and white it's in your Bible yet these men rose out of their failures and were men of the spirit we need to take a long look at the glaring failures in in the lives of men that God has used would you consider Moses a failure hardly but let's take a look at this man who waves the rod and plagues an entire nation divides the sea and his armies pass over on dry ground look at his face as it's alive with the glory of God an entire nation at his knees seeking his judgment and advice here's the man who talk face to face with the Almighty God who brought water from the rock who made Bitter Water sweet you would hardly call this man a great failure not until you go behind the scene behind the glory deep into his personal life and then all you find when you look real close is failure upon failure how would you like to begin your ministry with murder for example how would you like to find a clear call of God soured by 40 years alone in a desert hiding from the courts of Justice this man had murdered an Egyptian how would you believe that a man of so many weaknesses would ever be used of God at one time this man was full of fear and unbelief in Exodus 4: 10-13 we find four excuses that this man of God used when God called him Moses said I am slow of speech send somebody else who's this talking now here's the man who angered the Lord in Exodus chapter 4 and 14 the Bible says and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses Moses murmured long before the children of Israel murmured what he said in Exodus 5 and22 and Moses returned unto the Lord and said Lord wherefore hast thou so evil and treated this people why is it that thou Hast sent me neither hast thou delivered thy people at all Moses murmured long before the children of Israel murmured he lost his temper it was his angry Outburst at the smiting of the rock that so angered God that God refused him entrance into the promised land but in spite of these failures the Bible declared quote and Moses verily was faithful in all his house as a servant for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after unquote God makes it clear that the day would come that the testimony of Moses would be faithfulness there you have it this is God speaking of a

failure consider with me Jacob the man who was numbered among the greatest of him the Bible says we serve the god of Abraham Isaac and Jacob who was this man Jacob was he not the prayer Warrior The intercessor Who prevailed with God the man who had visions of angels ascending and descending upon the latter the man who so recognized the presence of God that he said surely God is in this place he who said God spoke to me in a dream saying Jacob Jacob and I said here am I Jacob was trying to tell the world God talks to me personally Jacob was the one who carried with him the blessing of his father Abraham hardly a failure by our standards of success today but Jacob was more than that he was the man of many failures and God never did seek to hide them see him kneel first of all before a blind father in an act of deception that will exceed anything in the whole world see him steal a Birthright and the blessing in this act of deception here's the man who married Leah but was in love with Rachel can you imagine how hard it must have been for his wife Leah God saw that Leah was hated and opened her Barren womb to assist her in winning the love and attention of Jacob a man who did not recognize his responsibility as a husband this man was a failure in his home here is the story of a man cut in deception and graft unfaithfulness polygamy thievery and craftiness yet it is still said of him we serve the god of Abraham Isaac and Jacob the Bible does not hide it now consider David the patriarch was this not the man of God who would not even stand with Sinners nor sit in the seat of the scornful the man who delighted in the law of the Lord who asked the Heathen for a Heritage who preached righteousness to the whole congregation who led the armies of Israel from Victory to victory was David not the Giant Killer the man who provoked the respect of thousands who sang his praises and talked of his exploits was this not the king who was promised that his seed should rain forever was it not said that Jesus was the son of David would you consider David a failure the Bible does not gasp over this man's failure yet they are shocking by any standards here was the man who sent joab into battle with all the armies of Israel while he sunned himself on a rooftop in Jerusalem and according to Nathan the prophet he despised the Commandments of God the man who said the Lord God is my delight Nathan said David you despised it thou Hast killed jiah in essence he said David you are a murderer you've taken his wife thou has despised me you did it secretly if you want to see how shocking it is just picture this great man of God who had become a mighty nation Builder standing at the casket of the Dead illegitimate child standing hand in hand with a stolen wife the enemies of God around the world laughing and blaspheming this man who wrote such beautiful music out of whose lips and heart poured such beautiful praises to God a failure David was a failure by any standard by any stretch of the imagination David had totally failed nevertheless David the Bible says of you Jesus the son of David the Bible saw him God saw him a man after his own heart to be captained over his people David how could Jesus use the murderous Moses the scheming Jacob the Commandment breaking adulterous David how can God use men like this if you look closely these men learned to face their failures they didn't run from them they didn't hide them they didn't gloat in them they learned to live above them they learned how to face it and bring glory to God there are many people today who struggle I hear it everywhere I go people come to me and say brother Stone King I can't live it I don't have the power I've been such a failure there's no use trying if you're here like that today and that is the Cry of your soul I'd like to say to you that you are closer

to God and his kingdom than the man or the woman who tries to hide their sins and never admits their need or their failure I've come here today to tell you that you are closer to God than those Among Us who try to hide their sins and never admit their need of God or their failure would you clap your hands again and would you shout unto the Lord with a voice of Triumph for God is in this house and because Jesus is here anything can happen anything can happen anything can happen from Deliverance to the healing of the violence disease angels are in attendance at this place the holy presence of almighty God resides here I think we can do it better than that we have to be on our feet with our lips and our voices in adoration Hallelujah speak to us oh Master of the Universe Jesus how does a man or woman of God become a man or woman of God in spite of their failures number one you must learn to face your failure and shake off all fears about failure never be afraid of failure I'm here to tell you today he who has never failed has never done anything I don't care what they tell you I don't care what they tell you he Among Us who has never failed has never done anything because none of us are perfect but we're going to be we're going to be we're going to be fear of failure always causes a person to hide themselves from the presence of God it causes the person to run Adam said after he sinned in essence I failed God and I was afraid so I hid myself Peter failed his master what a tragic failure he had to get away from the searching eye of his master so he ran Jonah knew he had failed in his mission and he drove himself farther in fear to Tarsus Adam Peter and Jonah all running in fear away from the presence of God because they had a fear of their failures why do you think Adam Peter and Jonah ran from the presence of the Lord I personally think that Peter never lost his love for Jesus in fact as he stood on the hillside weeping I think he probably loved Jesus more in those moments than he had ever loved him in his entire life Adam in hiding I think he grieved because he knew he had failed God I believe it hurt him Jonah I believe as he ran he kept telling himself I'm not worthy I have failed God I ran so I might as well keep on running Satan carries like a voucher around your personality he works on you and he works on you and he works on you until he finds your weakest link and when he finds your weakest link he begins to drop on that like water dripping on a rock and he'll work at it and he'll work at it until he tries to crack you ladies and gentlemen hear me today you better find out in prayer and fasting what your weakest link is and you better cover with prayer and fasting you better strengthen that link because the devil is there to break it he's there to break it but by the grace of God by the help of God by the glory of the Gospel we can strengthen anything I can do all things through Christ which strenth me the devil is a liar but God is truth say I can do it once once you have failed in any measure the devil uses every lie of hell and tries to tell you that you need to run and to give up Satan will say things to you like God is too holy you're too unclean you're too imperfect you're never going to make it and we as Pentecostals we're really something you know we come into this thing and get the baptism of the Holy Ghost get baptized in jesus' name feel the glory of it all and then we've all done it we set up for ourselves a criteria by which we are going to someday judge ourselves worthy to be mightily and supernaturally used by God and so we begin to do the things we're told to do we come to church and you should we worship and you should we give

them the offerings we pay our tithes we clean the church we worship we do all the things that are asked of us we teach Bible studies we witness to people on the job and we keep climbing and climbing this ladder that we build for ourselves we're going to do everything just right everything perfect and all of a sudden one day we're going to reach the top of this ladder and we're going to step off into some ethereal gossamer mysterious Supernatural realm that will suddenly qualify us to be mightily and supernaturally used by God all right and the devil watches you climb your ladder he watches you go rung by rung and then all of a sudden when you're just about to step off the top rung you do some stupid thing and you either fall clear off the ladder or you fall halfway down the ladder and then we crawl in some corner and we begin to lick our wounds and we say woe is me I've messed this whole thing up I'm unworthy I can't be used of God I'm a failure and when you're in your corner and when you are licking your wounds and when you are whining the devil has got you exactly where he wants you he has rendered you helpless and useless but what we ought to do is we ought to get out of our Corner we ought to somehow pick ourselves up and come out of our corner and say devil I'm going to make you sorry you ever heard my name I'm going to make you wish you had never entangled yourself with me we need to come out of our corners and say devil I'm going to make you wish you had never heard my name I'll make you wish you had never entangled yourself with me because I'm still going to the house of God tonight and when I get there I'm going to sing the songs of Zion I'm going to lift my hands I'm going to dance before the Lord I'm going to worship him I'm going to run the aisles I'm still going to go to the hospital I'm still going to teach Bible studies I'm going to make you wish you had never heard my name and that you had never entangled yourself with me we need to come out of our corners and there are some of you that is spite of everything that has happened here you are still in a corner say I'm coming out say it again again up my corner my corner tap your hands again and rejoice in the presence of mercy and truth and Grace which cannot be comprehended Hallelujah Jesus the devil the devil is such a liar he will constantly try to remind you of where you came from the next time he reminds you of where you came from remind him of where he's going it has a tremendous effect on him I may have come from nothing but Lucifer you're on your way down boy you are on your way down and I'm on my way up I may not be perfect but I'm going to be perfect and when I see him in the Clouds Of Glory I will be change like unto his glorious body and there is nothing the devil can do about it there's nothing he can do about it he can't change it and he can't stop itth he's just got to agonize through itth I'm on my way to a place called Heaven I have been redeemed by the hand of the Lord I am filled with his Spirit his name is engraved upon my soul I Belong To The King of Kings and the Lord of lords I am his a son of God hallelujah hallelujah the devil the devil could not live for God when there was no devil I think in view of that statement we're doing pretty good I think we're doing just fine I think we're doing great he couldn't make it when there was no devil that's how weak he is in fact as far as I'm concerned the Devil is a first class jerk Jeffrey he's a first class jerk he always oversteps himself he always goes too far he always goes beyond where he should he's a liar he gets himself Tangled Up and we've got the power we've got the power we've got the power to cut the limb off he's always on the end of the limb but we got the power to cut the limb off it's in the name it's in the name it's In The Name Of This Man Called Jesus of Nazareth oh clap your hands in Victory shout in Triumph because the

Lord is in this house gloriously upon us today hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah put a tail on that do it again there's something wonderful here there's something wonderful here hallelujah hallelujah and of all the stories I tell I like this one best there was a place in biblical times called Gad there was a man there who was possessed with a legion of devils depending about which authority you read after that can be from 3 to 6,000 Devils so we'll be conservative we'll take 3,000 this man has got 3,000 Devils inside of him and he is naked he has cut himself with stones he walks and lives and sleeps among the dead and anybody who serves the devil lives among the dead he cuts himself but Jesus steps on board the ship and he sets his sail toward gatara and when he lands in gatara the maniac comes running and here's the thing that is incredible to me he's got 6,000 Devils but the man in spite of the habitation or inhabitation of 6,000 Devils his human Spirit wanted to worship and the Bible says the man came and worshiped three to 6,000 Devils could not stop him from worshiping the devil cannot stop you from worshiping if you want to worship he came and he worshiped he came and he worshiped and the Bible says the Bible says in the end of that story that the Maniac was sitting at the feet of Jesus clothed and in his right mind have you ever wondered where he got those clothes I have Jesus when he stepped on board the little boat knew he was there and Jesus brought a change of clothes with him for the maniac of gatara Jesus has a change of clothes for you here today if you are willing to put them on Jesus has a change of clothes for you here today if you are willing to put them on so now now we have a man clothed in his right mind and we have Jesus on this side but over here we've got a Congregation of three to 6,000 whimpering whining devils and they've been talking their dilemma over because evidently they've reported an ambassador between them and this man Jesus because one of them speaks out to Jesus and he says master I like that especially like that Master you have cast us out of this man and we have no place to go would it be all right with you if we went into these pigs over here what I'm saying is this the Bible says that the devil took people over at his will in the Old Testament there was no remedy there was no recipe there was no barrier there was no barricade against demon possession that's why in the time of Jesus Earthly Ministry they came to him and they said to him can you help my son the devil throwe with him into the fire but when Jesus came when Jesus came they that sat in darkness saw a great light and they cried out and the Devils began to tremble and they began to shake and they had to withdraw and they had to back away right what I'm really saying is this the devil had it g his way until Jesus came but when Jesus came they had to get permission from Jesus to go into a hog that to tell you something friend

that to tell you something that means that we've got the devil on a leash we've got him on the leash the devil does not have me on the run I have him on the Run he doesn't have you on the Run we have him on the Run we've got the devil on the Run he had to get permission from This Man Called Jesus to go into a hog Billy Cole that means that I've got him on a lash and I'm going to torment him I'm going to torment him you know how you torment the devil you've seen these brat kids that walk up to people and kick people in The Shins for no reason at all I hate kids like that just enough to make the Rapture you understand I hate kids like that but my attitude is just like there's a there's something in me that wants to walk up to the devil and just kick him in the Shins for no reason at all I want to torment him and I want to keep on tormenting him you know how to torment him I'll tell you how to torment him every time you come to church you torment the devil every time you sing the songs of Zion you torment the devil every time you clap your hands you torment the devil every time you run the aisles you torment the devil every time you preach the word of God you torment the devil every time you write a song you torment the devil every time you jump up and down you torment the devil I come the torment him I want to torment him Jesus do it again I like what I feel in this house today Jesus of Nazareth Hallelujah Hallelujah say I've got it I've got it say it again say I'm out of my corner I'm out of my corner devil devil here I come in Jesus name Inus from the balcony to the floor from the floor to the balcony there is Victory in the house of the Lord because it is written greater is he greater is he that is within you than he that is in the world I've got it I've got it I've got that greater I've got that greater I've got that greater I've got that greater every man every man that I have mentioned here today ran in the face of their failure the Bible said and Moses feared and said surely this thing isn't known we say exactly the same thing surely everybody knows about the failure in my life when in reality the scriptures say there is nothing befallen you but such is common to all men the Bible says think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to tr you the Bible does say be sure your sins will find you out but don't think for one moment that the failure you have faced is unique and that nobody else has ever faced it don't think that you're the only one that has failed in this particular way I'm not here today to excuse sin I'm just trying to rescue you before the devil totally wipes you out most fled and dwelt in the land of Midian and sat down by a well this man sitting by a well is a perfect picture of failure telling himself it's all over I'm washed up I thought God called me and now I have to flee from the court of justice if Moses had believed this lie you would have never heard another word about him it took 40 years for God to drive that fear of failure out of his heart it took 40 years but he learned to believe God in spite of his failure I've gone to God and I've said more than once as much as you are God and as much as I am man that is how much I need you and the need is desperate yeah David in fear after his sin cried out oh that I had the wings that I could escape to the desert I would escape the

fiery blast but he kept on writing he said but where would I flee from his presence where would I hide from his Spirit there is no place to hide there is no place to hide once you have ever as it were made love to him intimately spiritually he is never willing to give you over to another Lover he will hunt after you you will hear us singing in the night you will hear preaching come to you again he'll send people across your pathway he will continue to reach for you because he is a jealous God not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance there is no place to hide there is no place to hide you'll find him at the top of Mount Everest you'll find him in a moonwalk you'll find him at the depths of the sea you'll find him in The Valleys you'll find him in the mountains you'll find him in the plains you'll find him in the cities in the hamlets in the villages in the countrysides he'll be there in the night time when the earth is sleeping he'll be there at High Noon you'll hear his voice above the D of the city traffic and the sirens and the horns he will speak softly to you and once you've heard his voice there is no voice like it I sat on a plane one day on my way to California it was a Night Flight I was tired I slept a while the gentleman beside me was the distinguished man I finally struck up a conversation with him ask him what he would did for a living He said I'm a professional airline pilot he said I was in the military in the Air Force and now I am an airline pilot and he told me things about his duties and his work he said turned to me and he said to me he said and what is it that you do what is your profession your line of work I said to him I am a man of God I have given my entire life to preaching the gospel and to helping as many as I possibly can he turned in his seat and looked at me squarely and then he began to tell me a story he said all of my life until recently I was an atheist I believed that there was no God he said but one night on a solo flight Mission he said I was alone in the cockpit of my plane he said looking through the windows out into the vast expanse of space he said suddenly I became aware of a force a power he said that Force slipped through the wall of my plane and came in and sat down beside me in the seat near the cockpit he said it was then Reverend that I was convinced that there was a God and that I needed him someone said we are such little men when the stars come out have you ever walked out on a dark night a clear night and lifted your eyes to the vast expanse of space there's something that resounds inside the human spirit that says there is a God he said Reverend my wife doesn't even know this he said but I've been going to a little church on the other side of Los Angeles he said it's a black church he said they clap their hands they shout and they get happy he said they're so alive with what they have a hold of I grabbed his hand I said sir that sounds like us that sounds like us because we clap and we shout and we get happy and we do all of those things also if you're happy here today would you give it a little shout would you give it a little happiness Hallelujah Jacob Jacob fled into the desert trying to escape his deed and failure nothing for a pillow but a stone but God brought him to his knees if any one of these men had given up you would never have heard anything about them again but you see Moses Rising again to go to Egypt forgetting his hour of failure the rod of God in his hand you see Jacob

returning to be reunited with his brother having prevailed with the Lord and forgetting his past you see David running into the house of God laying hold on the horns of the altar to return a mighty man of Faith you see Jonah retracing his steps you see him going to Nineveh forgetting his hour of fear and Fa failure and preaching in faith you see Peter going to Pentecost and forgetting that courtroom experience and becoming a man of Victory and Power in the upper room in spite of all failures keep moving on no matter what you've done no matter what is happened don't give up keep moving on I have preached this entire message today to this point to make one statement all right it's always after failure that a man in the Bible did his greatest work for God it's a revelation to me it was always after failure not before that a man facing his failure did his greatest work for God and that's not my ex Jesus that's in the book David kept moving on after his sin after the funeral the boy's body is committed to the ground and this is the very next statement in the Bible concerning David's life in 2 Samuel 13:24 quote David comforted BBA his wife went in and her and lay with her and she bore a son and called his name Solomon and here's the part I like and the Bible says and the Lord loved him out of the ashes of his failure David Rises picks up his army and again goes after the ammonites this is something I cannot understand and I've tried it's the mercy of God Beyond any finite comprehension how that God can bless a man in spite of his failures David was a man after God's Own Heart he was a Shepherd boy King he was a singer he was a harvest he was a Statesman he was a military man he was a poet but David was out of the line of duty and when you are out of the line of duty you are in the way of Temptation and David when he should have been on the front lines fighting was on the rooftop of his house and Below him in the lower City he fastened his eyes upon basba Beautiful basba live pornography and instead of turning his back as the law of God would have commanded he continued to look he lusted after he sent for she came he committed adultery and he covered it covered it he brought Uriah home from Battle thinking that Uriah would surely after all this time go to his own house because he'd gotten word that BBA was with a child at this point he su succumbed to political corruptness but jiah a noble character loving his King he would not go David tried to drunken him it didn't work David found jiah on the steps of his own Palace asleep David sent him back and he sent a note to joab he said put him in the thick of the battle at the front of the Lions David knew he would be killed and he would look safe and it happened as he had plotted

and schemed and euriah fell in battle and the note came the message came that Uriah was dead and David brought Bas Sheba to the palace and it all looked legitimate now until one day the prophet of God came walking in to the court and he told David a story he said David there's a man in your kingdom he has vast herds sheep and flocks he has a neighbor that had only one little U lamb and instead of taking one from his own flock he took the only little U lamb his neighbor had and he slew it and made merry with his friends when company came and now his neighbor is weeping and crying because he had nothing and David was filled with wrath and David said that man shall die and Nathan point a finger in the face of the king he could have cost that Prophet his life but if you're a real man of God you're going to say what thus sayith the Lord I want you to hear me today preachers in this hour are in the most precarious position they have ever been since the beginning of the Gospel preaching because God says say it and the people say I don't want to hear it and we are caught between you and God but if you're a real man of God you have no choice but to say what thus sayith the Lord you don't have a choice you've got to preach it and Nathan preached it he said David Thou Art the man and David David knew that he was uncovered and David reached up and took the crown off his head he lowered it to the floor and then he crawled out of his throne and he stretched himself out upon the floor of his own Palace and he began to pull at his hair and groan in his Spirit but in the heavens God in a place called Heaven There was a God who heard the voice of a Shepherd boy King who was not singing Sweet Melodies but a voice that was agonizing in grief remorse and exposure crying for mercy and God himself Rose from his throne he walked through the gate of the unchanging unmerciful laws that he himself had written he walked through the gates closed the gate behind him and walked down an ivory staircase and walked upon a terrestrial ball and entered into an Earthly Palace and God himself stooped down to a Shepherd boy King a pool of mucus and tears the hands of God scrape through it and pulled this Shepherd boy to his heart and David heard the voice of God through the lips of a prophet that said Thou shalt not die God broke his own laws to save David unbelievable incomprehensible because the law said that by right David should be left broken bleeding and dead under a heap of stones but God broke his own law to save David and basically you're all preachers here today and men in high places within our group and organization I've lived in this for 30 years and I've watched it we have thrown out the Davids and we have harbored the Sauls we have thrown out the Davids and we have harbored the Sauls which do you think that God will

bend to a man or a woman who's made a mistake and they're lying in sackcloth and Ashes begging for God to forgive them claiming every promise in the word to whom do you think the mercy of God will be extended to that man or that woman who has made a mistake and they're crying to God for Mercy or the corrupt politicians Among Us who plot and schem and hurt and inflict wounds I've watched it for 30 years I can tell you and you can tell me to whom the hand of Mercy will be extended God help us I'm here to tell you today if God forgives them you better forgive them if God forgives somebody you better forgive them and you better go to lunch with them too and you better talk to them in public and you better shake their hands and you better call them brother and you better hug their neck because if I know anything about the gospel this is what it's all about this is what it's all about this is what it's all about this is not a museum for Saints this is the hospital for the Broken Oh clap your hands oh ye people people and shout unto the Lord with a voice Triumph and mercy you may be seated but clap again and just chew on that for a moment oh look at Moses going on after 40 Years of Living in failure and fear he was alone and abandoned yet here he stands now at the Red Sea in his finest hour here he comes now to do his greatest work of God after his story of failure the chapter of failure is closed here and we read of him quote Moses said unto the people stand still and see the salvation of the Lord which he will show you today the Lord shall fight for you and you shall hold your peace think of it this man stands with power and dignity in his finest hour after his failure don't give up just because you have failed your greatest Tower is just ahead of you don't give up the Bible says that toward the dawning of the first day of the week women came carrying spices and oil to to anoint the body of one they has hailed they had hailed as the Messiah and in the soft Shadows of dawn they're walking along holding their jars and their spices and as the women walked they were talking do you know how I know they were talking because women like to talk that's how I know they were talking and they were saying things like this they were saying can you believe this happened can you believe that he is dead can you believe that we are going to his tomb we hailed him as the Messiah we watched him heal the lepers he caused the lame to walk the blind saw we he he raised Lazarus from the dead how is it that we are now going to his grave to anoint his body

and then I think the conversation changed and I think it went something like this someone said but when we get there which one of us will be the first one to enter the tomb which one of us will pour oil on his body which one of us will slip these spices under the grave wrappings and do any of us dare to pull the napkin from from his face one more time and look into that marvelous countenance and they stumbled on and then suddenly the big question was asked suddenly one of them blurted out but when we get there who will roll the stone away for us we can't roll that stone away away it's too heavy the Roman soldiers will not roll that stone away for us we can't do it the stone is too heavy it's too large we might as well turn around and go back there's no one to roll the stone away there's no one to help us but thank God they did not turn around and go back in spite of the unsurmountable obstacle in their minds did not turn around and go back they kept on walking and that is the secret keep on walking no matter how big the stone is just keep on walking no matter how impossible it seems to You Keep On Walking don't turn around and go back because some of you if you turn around and go back now you are near to one of the greatest experiences in your entire life no matter matter how impossible it seems keep on walking and they kept on walking and suddenly they came out from underneath those olive tree branches and when they looked at the face of the Tomb the stone had already been rolled away not only had the stone been rolled away it had been lifted out of the Rolling trench and the stone was placed over here in a place apart by its self and an angel of the Lord was seated upon that stone do you know what that means for you and me it means that God can take the obstacles of our lives and he can make them seeds for Angels God can take the obstacles of our lives and he can make them seats for Angels I'm talking to people here today don't turn around and go back don't turn around and go back Keep On Walking come out of your corner keep on walking no matter how impossible it may seem no matter what you have done no matter what has happened Keep On Walking In Spite of your failures keep going back to the altar keep worshiping the Lord Moses in spite of having failed said he is my God and I will prepare him a habitation my father's God and I will exalt him Moses salvation was that he learned to talk to God face to face he learned to have it out with God the Bible says and the Lord spake unto Moses face to face as a man speaketh unto his friend no matter how much the failure keep going back to God and say Lord you are still my friend I still love you if I never feel you again I'm going to keep coming to this house I'm going to keep worshiping I have already felt enough to keep me going until I see you in the Clouds Of Glory I'm going to keep on singing I'm going to keep on doing this was the secret of David's Victory this is why God called him a man after his own heart in spite of the fact that he murdered in spite of the fact he has stolen another man's wife and lived in adultery in spite of all of this man's sins David wrote in Psalm 25 unto thee Oh Lord do I lift up my soul oh my God I trust in thee let me not be ashamed let not mine enemies triumph over me let none that wait on thee be ashamed David waited on the Lord he went

back to the house of God he went back to the horns of the Altar and said God forget the foolishness of my youth and my transgressions and let me not be ashamed because I wait on thee show me thy ways teach me thy paths Lead Me In Truth teach me thou art my God remember thy Tender Mercies thy loving kindnesses remember not the sins of my youth and my transgressions good and upright is the Lord he will teach sinners in the way all the paths of the Lord are mercy and Truth something happened to me in December this past year that has caused me to become violently defensive of Doctrine and Truth after 8 and a half hours of flying I stepped off the plane into an airport in Narita Tokyo Japan but the Lucas picked me up and we began to drive I was so weary we talked about various things I'd never met him before we talked about various things I was so tired I wanted to get to the hotel after a couple of hours of drive driving thousands and thousands of cars people everywhere 29 million people live in Tokyo alone the city's only about 60 M across 29 million people after a couple of hours of driving I said brother Lucas we must be near the hotel he said oh no brother ston King we've got another four hours to go I said you're kidding he said no he take 6 hours to get from the airport to the hotel where you stay I couldn't believe it I couldn't believe it and to make matters worse he said to me it has leaked out somehow that your preacher from the states is coming and there are Japanese people that want to meet you tonight downtown Tokyo in a small room in a magazine publishing house they want to hear about faith Jesus and healing I said brother luas I can't my body is aching I'm exhausted I said if you will just take me onto the hotel and then go back you speak the language you'll do quite well without me but he said brother the stone King if I take you onto the hotel by the time I turn around and come back it'll take so long that the meeting will be over and I'll miss it I said all right I'll go I cannot say that my attitude was right but we got there I've never seen anything like it we sat there they kept coming in all hours a Buddhist explained to us how he believed in 100 gods and the Holy Ghost spoke to me and said 100 three or two it's all idolatry and I was so moved young people kept coming in they had traveled long distances hours to get there and they kept asking that this Jesus they couldn't even pronounce his name they have never heard the name of Jesus 29 million people at least Americans have heard it in cursing and swearing but they haven't even heard it that way they've never heard the name of Jesus they have never seen a Bible they have never seen a nativity set they don't know anything about it and you can't use cliches and fabulous phraseology and all of these things we do in our sermonizing here because they don't have words in the Japanese language to even translate it and so all you've got is just simple statements and the only thing you can depend on is the demonstration of the spirit of God and power there isn't anything else that you can

use there were two people a young man and a man about 35 years of age in that meeting we left there at 1:30 in the morning when I got to the hotel I nearly went to bed with my suit on I have never done that before and I have never been that tired but I told Lucas I said that man second from me where I was seated I feel something about him and on the third night of that little fornight Crusade that man came and sat in the audience and when he sat there they don't move they give no emotion if you raise your hands they'll raise their hands because they're taught discipline and respect if you stand they will stand but they don't feel anything and they're just doing it because they're being honorable and they bow to you continuously it's just their culture they are disciplined but when the spirit of God began to move the man began to look around and he walked down to the front and the Holy Ghost fell on this man and he fell in the floor and curled up in a fetal position and he said to me he could speak a little English I went to him and got down the floor with him he said to me he said I am hurting inside he said there is pain inside and it was a devil letting loose from him but I didn't want to scare him I said that's just sin leaving you I said just stay right in there I'll stay with you and he came out of it speaking with tongues as the spirit of God gave him the arance the second night there was an agan Japanese woman that came to the service and I was so weary they had a platform I took a folding chair and sat on the folding chair at the edge of the platform so I could slide this chair back and forth across the area and help them get the Holy Ghost 16 people got the bapt received the baptism of the Holy Ghost but while I was there this one little Japanese woman aged lady she came and she put her arms around my left ankle and she was weeping and she was speaking something I couldn't understand and she was stroking my pants leg well they're all very grateful and who knows what they're doing and I'm trying to help someone else get the Holy Ghost so we'll just she can work on my leg and I'll help this person get the Holy Ghost so she's working my leg and I'm helping this person get the Holy Ghost but what I didn't know was this she had come with a large malignant cancerous tumor on the outside of her abdomen and when she began to walk to the altar it disappeared totally from her body the thing totally disappeared from her body and she was healed by the power of God God by the power of the gospel and when she saw that she was healed she threw her hands in the air and began to shake and God gave her the baptism of the Holy Ghost when her daughter saw that her mother had been healed her daughter came running and she said this Jesus whatever he is whoever he is I want him and she threw her hands in the air and God gave her the baptism of the Holy Ghost and when I looked at that when I saw it I sat down and I said Jesus I am backslid I am backslid and I don't even know it I have given so much time to things that aren't even important I have given time to things that are relative but they're not vital and God you've got to help me and I'm here today to tell you that as far as I'm concerned I have been a failure and I not sure how to help myself except to do what all of you have preached to me in this conference people there's something in me I've got to be different I've got to be changed I can't live like I used to live when millions are just stumbling through life and they've never heard the name of Jesus they have never seen a Bible they don't even know when they begin to cry they're apologetic they think they're out of order and you have to get down and say to them that's the spirit of God you feel his name is Jesus this is his word Jesus is the true God not Buddha

w I feel like in this place today this is a very easy Spirit to pick up but I feel like the fear of cancer is in this house that there are people both men and women who fear that you have cancer in your body if you will stand right now and lift both hands to the Lord God will heal you and deliver you of that fear instantaneously you will be healed instantaneously you can feel it going you can feel the fear going you can feel it going you can feel it going say where you're at Le and you can have whatever you ask for there are people here on the main floor there may be people in the balcony but there are people here in the main floor that have wrestled with tremendous mental battles you have felt like your mind was going the snap if you will lift both hands and begin to worship God God will lift that from your mind instantaneously and you will be healed forever in the name of Jesus I set you free that's it let your voice out let your voice out let your voice out oh I set you free Jesus Jesus of Nazareth Jesus of Nazareth I Love You Lord if you have something wrong in your body I release to you the gift of faith in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ if you have something wrong in your body no matter how major or how simple if you will also stand if you're not already standing if you will stand and lift both hands to the Lord and call upon the name of Jesus you will be healed of all manner of diseases all manner of afflictions these signs shall follow them that believe that's it you can feel it you can feel healing virtue come down through your arms you can feel the healing virtue come down through your arms now clap your hands and Shout with a shout of victory for healing and deliverance in the name of

Jesus of Nazareth arthritis is leaving people's bodies crippled joints are beginning to become free back pain is leaving your bodies that's it that's it that's it that's it that's it that's it that's it that's it you've got it now give the Lord a shout of praise for what he has done oh I will shout unto the Lord with my voice for the Lord Is A Healer he is a deliverer I set you free now I want you to say one last thing say I am a believer I am a believer these signs these signs shall follow me shall follow in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus I speak with tongues I speak with T I will lay hands on the sick I will make and they will recover and they will Rec now turn to your neighbor take their hand and look in their eyes and say I set you free hallelujah hallelujah clap one last time with all of your might and shout unto the Majesty of This Man Called Jesus hallelujah hallelujah don't let go of it entertain it for just a moment longer don't let go of it healing is in his house Deliverance is in this house you are never going to be the same you are never going to be the same you Hallelujah if you feel God has healed you or delivered you would you shake someone's hand to say I've got it hallelujah hallelujah that's it that's it that's it there is a Law of Confession in your tongue

Hallelujah now I want you to go to someone and lay your hands on them and command in the name of Jesus as a Believer what you feel in your heart for that individual you need to leave you need to leave your Pew and get a hold of somebody climb over pews go after somebody the healer is in the house it's in your hands we have repented we have forgiven we have loved and we have worshiped you're never in a better place you've never been in a better place than you are now to get involved in the realm of the supernatural don't be afraid but go to each other and pray in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ yes Hallelujah that infection out of his body I command to in the name of if you're here today and God has spoken to you and you want to get a hold of an Apostolic Ministry would you come from where you're standing and would you crowd into this Altar and say I'm going to have it I leave this place with Apostolic procedures and Apostolic Ministry would you come anybody everybody you can push your way through Hallelujah that's it that's it that's it that's it that's it that's it that's it you've got a hold of him like you may never have a hold of him again this is what it's all about this is why we came to transmit to each other to give to each other yes we need to scream it out we need to cry it out don't be ashamed Don't Be Afraid here today that's it that's it that's it that's it I will be changed I will be different I will not leave this conference the way I came I will be endued yes that's it that's it some of you are being used right now in Dimensions you've never been used in before that's it brother Cunningham that's it that's it there is a transmission of apostolic Authority and power there is a transmission of apostolic Authority and power it is in the pews it's in the balcony it's on the main floor it is everywhere in this house it is everywhere it is everywhere we are seated in Heavenly places today that's it that's it hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah allelujah everybody ought to be involved everybody ought to be involved lay your hands upon somebody lay your hands upon somebody get involved with someone here get involved with someone here here today that's it that's it that's it that's it I will go back I will go back to the place where I first found him I will renew my commitment I will be a believer I will be a believer everybody ought to have their hands on somebody everybody ought to have their hands on somebody the gift of faith is in this house today it's one massive altar service from top to bottom from bottom to top from left to right from right to left that's it that's it that's it oh

in the name of Jesus this man just came and said I've just been healed I have just been healed can you wave a hand and thank God for that raise your hands again raise both hands and worship Him wonderful wonderful wonderful what I feel wonderful what I hear just raise both hands and worship him it's like the sound of waters it's like the sound of many Waters let your voice out out entertain him entertain this power entertain this Glory entertain this yes yes yes