The Living Word
by T. W. Barnes
1997
Kind: sermon
Scripture: Romans 4:19

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tonight his name is great do you believe it tonight will you worship him praise the lord praise the lord praise the lord i've never in the 60 years of my ministry had happened what's happened in the last month or two for this service tonight i mentioned to the ladies the ladies meeting here that i needed prayer and we needed to pray about this service tonight because i didn't want to come and just preach and go home we're destined to a new day a new hour a new moment and they took it to heart and i have in my office over 200 names that started fasting and praying every day through may through june and into july a hour a day fasting over 200 now that's what's going up for this service tonight and jesus is in this place and the healer is coming down the road and the healer's coming for your chair tonight you can mark that down he's coming to your chair tonight he told me he was it's up to you to receive the miracle he wants you to have tonight

people that don't have faith is about to receive something people that has great faith will get what you want people to have just a little bit of faith is going to get the miracle tonight jesus said to peter when he was thinking oh ye of little faith i thought he had pretty good faith you know he'd walked on the water but jesus said oh ye of little faith but he got his miracle with the little faith that he had amen he reached down and he lifted him up and the storm ceased a little faith saved his life and stopped the storm because a little faith is very powerful the man said lord i've tried all your disciples and they couldn't do anything jesus said oh yeah a little faith bring him to me and he said do you believe the man said kept our man believe he had just a tiny little bit but he got his miracle the secret tonight is use what's he got if it's little or great use it

now the greatest thing it ever happened in america was the great outpouring of the holy ghost in 1900 it has grown and grown and now we are approaching the rapture the coming of the lord is upon us and we're about to step into something new not a new doctrine i love this truth and the organization didn't teach it to me there wasn't any when i got in but everything in that manual articles of faith the first preacher i ever heard preached at all in 1925 we have grown and the lord's blessed us and now i love our organization it's only a vehicle to carry the gospel to the world but the lord asked me the other day he said what if suddenly there was the organization couldn't operate anymore you had no church and you had no place to preach he said what would you do i said lord i'd walk very close to you he said that's what i want you to do and do all the rest of it very close amen that's the call and since we are standing on the front blind facing hell with a name above every name and power over devil we've got to go well it's true we had thousands of hours of prayer days and days and weeks of fasting

and the devil fought me teeth and toenail but this verse of scripture will clean his plow tonight and put him out of business and he'll be gone jesus said the spirit of the lord is upon me you can say that tonight because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor there's nothing greater than preaching the gospel he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted to preach deliverance to the captives and the receiving of sight to the blind to set at liberty them that are bruised oh god help there's a lot of me here tonight to preach the acceptable year of the lord the spirit of the lord is upon me because he hath anointed me now i looked in all of my commentaries and wepts and everywhere else trying to find what anointing means they said i know what well but i want you to know something this is t.w barnes virgin the anointing is the holy ghost and fire hallelujah holy ghost and fire after this you'll receive power what are we going to do with it lay it on the shelf with all the witchcraft new age movement never over the devil you can think of in the world what are we going to do lay it on the shelf are we going to rise up and decline

now before you sit down i believe i mentioned this at the latest meeting the lord i was talking to him and i said now lord why don't you let that happen he said why did you let it happen i said what do you mean he said i gave you my word i gave you my name and i gave you my spirit and i gave you my faith what else do i have to give you get with it why did you let it happen if you got the holy ghost baptized in his name why did some of those things happen you let it happen my text if i can stay with it is the living word now everybody pray with me jesus stretch forth your hand save the lost heal the sick set the captives free open our eyes to the wonders of god let us see your glory tonight we want to see you glory we want to send you glory we've got to see your glory give him a hand man came to be prayed for with cancer just received the holy ghost in the back a man came to be prayed for for cancer just received the holy ghost all it takes to receive the holy ghost right now if you hadn't repented and said jesus forgive me of my sins i'm through with it and i want the holy ghost and lift your hands and receive it now brother are you that just received the holy ghost in jesus name i command that cancer to die you cancerous spirit come out i command every root to die in jesus name all right you can be seated if you want to are you ready for your miracle tonight

amen the words jesus said that i speak their spirit and their life everybody say their spirit and their life now there's a lot of people preaches the bible believes it but it don't work for them there's something about the word the living word has to speak the written word before it becomes the powerhouse in your life and the way that happens is through prayer and fasting amen pray pray pray and i'll say this again i love the truth i love the wonders message and i want to tell you again tonight if the truth won't do it i'm through amen if the truth won't still break revival and crowds i quit amen if the truth won't bring divine healing and deliverance i quit don't wanna go another day amen but i want to tell you tonight the truth hasn't lost his power there's salvation in it there's healing and i got to tell you this if you want god to use your church i know we living in the time of the nicolas tian doctrine the nicoletanes believed that conduct didn't matter if your belief was right that's a lie of the devil these old bodies does count

and they better be holy for more reason than just getting to heaven if you want to help somebody else i want you to remember that jesus christ came to this world in flesh don't forget it he died for our sins in the flesh real genuine blood flesh beat to a pup the body does matter to jesus on the manner of transfiguration the holy spirit within him came through the pores of his skin and his face shined like the sun and his clothes glistened because the power within was flowing out i want you to know that if the old bodies and sin the power within can't blow out will not flow out through the flesh so what i'm saying is be a saint physically be of saint physically because if you don't then they'll come when you won't believe the doctrine well seven to two years of walking around with pentecostals you learn a few things you know you see a lot of good men come we see a lot of good men go we see a lot of great men use mightily and fall over the wayside because when you begin to put the gift ahead of the giver you're in trouble and let me say it again tonight the lord put the nine spiritual gifts of the church to edify the church to bless the church to bring healing to the church but he runs the church through the firefold ministry don't ever forget it

hallelujah hallelujah do you believe it amen amen preacher saint building churches is great but it won't satisfy big crowds won't satisfy and all money just don't satisfy gifts don't satisfy miracles don't satisfy israel had them every day for 40 years and backslid where what are you talking about preacher the little greeks had it down right they said to the disciples we want to see jesus and i'm sure peter might have said well look he's a pretty busy man and here we are we're the big three here peter james is young here we are i got the keys to the kingdom and we can cast out devils and we can heal the sick and all of this why won't we do they said we want to see jesus amen hallelujah gifts will not satisfy the givers the one that satisfies the soul somebody said can you run the church on prophecy no those gifts are to bless the church to edified go back to pastors teachers evangelists and all apostles here's where you see the church moving now we got so many people that want to be real spiritual but not physically i want to ask you if moses had had sin in his flesh do you think the glory of god would have stayed there 40 days uh-uh oh my friend he'd have died properly and he had to wear a veil for 40 days because the spirit was emanating through the pores of his skin when we become holy and clean before god then he can throw out of us he can even flow into that it has cancer and kill it now let me tell you how to work with

your pastor if ever you need to pray for anybody you need to pray for your pastor paul begged the church to pray for him amen you need to pray for him and don't bog him down with a bunch of junk pray for him hold him up hallelujah you can't pray and fast for a fellow very long without loving him amen love you pastor he's the man that's watching for your soul pray for him now i'm praying tonight you remember the scripture and john it said he that believeth on me as the scripture has said don't forget that if a prophet is not according to the scripture dump it amen if your vision don't coincide with the word duff it it's no you just eat too many beans because every time jesus met the devil he would say it's written why don't we learn that when the devil comes trotting in say it's written it's written that if i resist you in jesus name you'll run so get going boy when the devil said you're gonna die without cancer or whatever it is you need to stand upon your two feet and say it's written it's written by his stripes i'm healed when the devil tells you you're too mean to get the holy ghost remind him it's written if you confess your sins he's faithful and just to forgive you

everybody stand and pray with me jesus forgive me of all of my thoughts and failures oh sin and stretch forth your hand and fill souls to the holy ghost and heal sick bodies set the captives free in jesus name it's done it's done clap your hands if you prayed that prayer and minute you're ready for the rapture right now i'm a firm believer that god is the world's fastest forgiver he don't fool around he never has put nobody off if they ask he forgives when they came to him for healing if they asked they got it i know i feel you pulling on me there's some of you going through a dark valley but jesus is going to get in the valley with you tonight and he's going to walk you out amen say it i'm going to walk out of my valley tonight because jesus is with me now

i know right now the devil's good at this starting a storm in your church and some of you got one going i want to ask you a question preachers why did jesus stop the storm naturally he's trying to tell us someday you could speak to the spiritual storms that hell starts if the preachers only realize the power and authority that god has given them they can stop the storm they can stop the devil hallelujah hallelujah there's an old saying you fight far with power there's one thing the devil can't handle that's holy ghost and power and he can't handle faith everybody's saying jesus i believe you're god right now demonstrate your power heal the sick tonight save the lost now lord hallelujah now listen close here's the secret

this is what's going to set it off tonight if you need healing do these things if you need a miracle do these things now the father of faith the greatest man of faith the bible said in romans 4 19 and abraham being not weak in faith why why he considered not his own body neither the deadness of sarah's womb he didn't consider the body he didn't consider the old age gods had spoken and abraham looked away from the body that was getting older further from the miracle to the promise amen he looked away from his body to the promise i call on you to look away from your body tonight to the promise look away from the cancer to the promise look away from the long trouble to the promise the promise is i'm the same yesterday today tonight tonight right now i've received healing

now how to work with your pastor and how to work with me tonight i started on a while ago and got off out of his innermost being if he believes as the scripture said thou flow rivers of living water not just to show these rivers you know i've asked the lord to let at least four flow here the river of faith and the river of salvation i'll pour out my spirit and also the river of healing and the river of miracles i don't know what you want tonight but send your gift up here and let it flow through me into one of these rivers you see right now if you brought somebody you want them to be healed let your faith come into me into one of these rivers and it'll go right back out there to that person we've got to learn when the preacher preaches to get with him but somebody said well i got a gift and i you know i'm just going to sit here and hold out listen when you let your gift flow with the minister that's in the pulpit your gift will grow your gift will go i heard all these young preachers preaching here tonight like a house afar i thought my mama i remember the good old days praise god just like a machine gun that's going here tonight oh full of the holy ghost and power praise god let me tell you young men keep your eyes on jesus and walk with him amen amen don't try to be like me or you probably wouldn't know where anybody else you are you amen there's never been another person like you and never will be you have different fingerprints than any other man or a woman on the face of the earth and someday they'll find out there's things in the subconscious mind that's different from anybody else so you can only be you real good

you can be seated amen how to work with the minister don't forget it what do you need tonight what do you need i have felt it already there is some deep dark dungeon depression i feel it coming at me amen say what can i do preacher it's very simple amen we stammered lips in another tongue will he speak unto these people and this is the rest amen this is the refreshing you can't be depressed and refreshed at the same time get full of the holy ghost and the joy of the lord will bubble up and your depression gone i bind that spirit jesus lame you tore me the devil i hate that spirit that's why i sure wouldn't want to go to hell because it's so depressed i'll tell you about these so-called 30-day witches they know which to be a real witch they born in it they're dedicated as a baby you can't cope with the depression and the fear and all the anxiety that's in the kingdom of satan these people go start crazy in two years time because you can't handle that terrible dark depression that satan's kingdom emanates oh i don't like his old kingdom i don't like his old rock music it's depressing you listen that junk and all the preachers in the world can't help you if they deliver you'll go back and listen to another and get depressed again amen i don't like the blues that's all the devil has is the blues he don't have nothing else to offer you the proof the blues and depression and fear and hate that's all he's got aren't you glad you're free come on say it jesus set me free i'm born again i'm born again to win to win and i am first time he was born you're born to losers but honey i want you to know from the kilgore that second birth born again means we're born to win we're born to win and we will win and we are winning praise the lord praise the lord if faith can remove a mountain

it can remove anything amen the word the living word and in my text it had smallpox the sermon never caught it tonight i i'm trying to follow you folks i'm picking you up out there and feeling you amen hallelujah hallelujah and i want you to know i'm not a peeping tom i don't believe in this getting it coming out of my spirit and go floating around looking in somebody's window i don't believe that jesus didn't do it amen the holy ghost when it reveals things about people's life he's very careful not to show me pornography you know something in their life like that you know he just tells me to tell him to repent and and get right you know hallelujah hallelujah i've had people say i'm afraid you'll look in my life not unless you ask me to praise the lord then i can't unless the holy ghost does and the holy ghost is so sweet so kind and he wants to heal tonight where the healing waters flow i want them to play that some old song i'm fixing to wait a minute right now

everybody has arthritis stand if you have problems with that it never has been god's plan or will one of the greatest preachers in england had great gifts of healing was marvelous with this thing with cripples and arthritis just come in twisted it he just seemed healed but one day he walked to the pulpit with 20 000 people out there and he said now i read this in their book the man it wrote it was his friend he said tonight the world's at my feet and he said he had a strange feeling when he said the world's not at any man's feet it better get at the feet of jesus but this man's ministry faded he come down with arthritis and the man said before he died his head was drawn between his legs he had to lay on the floor and look up in his face and talk to him i want you to know once again never put the gift above the giver amen it's very dangerous now you devil of arthritis put your hands up upon the authority of god's word and in the name of jesus in the name of jesus everybody say it in the name of jesus arthritis come out be healed clap your hands for jesus

how many feel it already wave your hand at me something's happening out there i want you to know something's happening out there god is healing people if you had trouble with depression sin everybody say it in jesus name you spirit of depression come out in jesus name it's gone really saints you've got the holy ghost you've been baptized in his name i asked you what else could he give you he's in there and i don't claim to have anything but the holy ghost but i do feel gifts at times and the gift of healing is moving right now and there's some of you got it but i'll tell you one thing all of you has got the nine spiritual gifts in the holy ghost the bible said all the gifts are in the holy ghost now you may not have an opening to use it like that but for yourself tonight your gift right there right up against that cancer right up against that dip here right up against that blind eye the holy ghost is right there and is your faith reaching for me and i'm reaching to you right now the gifts meet and i be in the minister say in the name of jesus i pray that the gifts of healing will flow out of your body out of your spirit into your body from the top of your head to the bottom of your feet stand up and give the lord a praise

so now if i laid hands on every one of you i couldn't get as close to you as the holy ghost in you is to your problem the holy ghost in you when you get the holy ghost your human spirit is baptized with it your soul's baptized with it and your body's baptized with it it's through and through so the holy ghost is all around it just like the lord said to me why did you let it happen sometimes all we need to do is to say devil get out in jesus name get out of my body turn loose now hallelujah the holy ghost is in your blood it's in your brain it's in your liver it's in your bones it's in the mirror your bones you that has cancer in the bone remember the word goes into the bones and into the marrow into the mouth of the bone now i feel the move here tumors growth waters is about to disappear inside and out are you ready some of your nose will know when it's gone some of you want until the doctor tells you it's not there anymore but jesus is about to speak to gross amen and when he speaks he can make things appear or disappear it doesn't matter his word lifts or puts down whatever he wants to do and everybody say it and there's nothing too hard for jesus and he's here tonight now rebuke those ghosts and tumors and quarters i command them everybody say i command them to vanish in jesus name growth go disappear indeed a slave clap your hands

all right it's gone hallelujah it's gone how many knows that's gone put your hand up come on you wouldn't have thought there's that many around here and there's a lot of you'll know it later they're gone the miracle worker is here tonight the great position is going nigh he's throwing my your chair now now what do you want a miracle in your home a miracle of salvation everybody say brother barnes i'm sending my faith to you and now i'm going to send it to that person out the under that's lost in your home wherever now wait a minute a preacher has the authority to send the word jesus sent his word and healed them amen ever preacher your preacher has the authority he sends the word and have a preacher's got some gifts if you got called to preach you got something they may work different from a lot of other people but you got them you may not stir them up you do have to fast and pray and walk with god to get them stirred up paul told timothy stop the gifts sum up we've got them it's time to stir them up

ministers are you going to pray for your pastor and pass for him that every gift that god's put in his life will swing into operation in your church and whatever you know why some people has to run off somewhere else to get prayed for they don't pray for their pastor he's a fellow can anoint you with all in the prayer of faith shall save the sick and the lord will raise him up if you're going off somewhere else with a grudge in your heart towards your pastor you won't get nothing no way but your pocketbook might i'm meddling i know but i can't help it i can't have it hey man everybody gotta air trouble or eye trouble put your finger in that depth here or your finger on that eye and get ready he created those eyes to see how can we study the bible how can we study the bible unless we can see he wants us to see how can we hear how can we hear unless our ears are well he wants us to hear that's why he gave us ears the very fact you got ears on the side of your head tells you that god wants you to hear because you got an eyeball there in that socket tells you that god wants you to see put your hand up in the name of jesus i command every blind spirit come out lord let the light come to those eyeballs and you deaf spirit that's hindering some of these people from here and their pastor come out come on out

everybody put your hand down if you got healed put your hand up and wave it come on all right there they are i wish we could hear all the testimonies god's working miracles here tonight but now that old cancer several got healed while ago but if somebody's still wrestling don't ever forget abraham didn't consider his body now a hundred years old but he considered the promise look away from the cancer to the living lord tonight you devil of cancer come out cancer is no more with god than a headache nothing to it it's us that let's fear fear take over god help us fear can paralyze faith but tonight there's a lot of folks repented and the greatest miracle now i know some of you are staggered i asked the lord not long ago i said lord how are you going to get us all out of the dirt whenever there's not a bone left everything in the world's gone thousands of years he said well that's where i got you to start with amen and here we are believing in the resurrection the greatest miracle that'll ever happen all the dead in christ shall come out of the grave everything will come into place and we believe that don't we and then why would you stagger about a cancer you believe these old bodies gonna be changed and you'll have a new body but the souls out here that needs the greatest miracle and jesus died on the cross for you he loves you with an everlasting love he's ready to forgive and he's ready to fill how many will walk out of the crowd down here that wants the holy ghost i want to pray back too come on in jesus name here they come here they come come on let's fill this place up the holy ghost is moving now for stammering lips in another tongue will he speak unto this people bring that baby up here i want to pray for it's blind everybody say in jesus name open its eyes heal them lord you blind spirit come out let divine healing flow into these little eyeballs and make them well come on from all over the place the holy ghost is here the holy ghost is moving now if you want somebody to lay hands on you go to your preacher over there you know any of these preachers get a blade handle you don't matter who lays hands on you if he's a man of god amen all right here they come they're still coming come on church some of you good old prayer warriors all the workers come on come on get around these now the bible said in the last days and these are the last days seekers i will pour out my spirit upon all flesh confirm it lord do it lord pour the holy ghost out when you get it there is peace that's it the holy ghost is moving now the holy ghost

that's it has he got it here's one there's one got it here's one over here got it what about over there come on wave your hand if somebody's getting it there's and praise god yes lord yes lord yes lord heal praise the lord one got the holy ghost over there hallelujah raise your hand somebody's getting it there praise the lord that's right repent son repent over here anybody getting the holy anybody ghost here thank you for this miracles in the name of jesus christ heal this pen deliver her from her