Openness — The Key To Miraculous Manifestation
by Wayne Huntley
2007 · The Pentecostals of Alexandria, Alexandria, LA
Kind: conference session
Scripture: Acts 12:11-16, 1 Samuel 14:6

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he can speak to you as an evangelist he can speak to you as a pastor he can speak to you as an executive presar he can speak to you as a member of Home missionary board he can speak to you as a district superintendent he can speak to you as paty's husband he can speak to you as a great deer hunter he just got all kind of things didn't come at you but the main thing is he's anointed of God he's a church Builder and he's got a powerful word for us tonight receive brother Huntley in the name of Jesus and everybody said praise the Lord praise the Lord for the sake of time would you allow me to go directly to the word of the Lord and get right into what I feel tonight for the conclusion of this Dynamic service the hospitality is always impeccable here and the kindness and you always leave better after you've been at because of the times can I get a witness here tonight the book of Acts chapter 12 is where I'd like to turn your attention tonight it's indeed a distinguish honor and a high privilege to stand here and Minister the word of the Lord such a atmosphere of Apostolic power and presence a prepared place we stand in a prepared place and in a prepared moment the book of Acts chapter number 12 and verse number 11 and when Peter was come to himself he said now I know of assurity that the Lord ha sent his Angel and have delivered me out of the hand of Herod and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews come on and when he had considered the thing he came to the house of Mary the mother of John whose surname was Mark where many were gathered together praying and as Peter knocked at the door of the gate a damsel came to Hara named Roda and when she knew Peter's voice she opened not the gate for gladness but ran in and told how Peter stood before the gate and they said unto her Thou Art mad come on I pause to tell you that God wants to do some things that if we were to tell you tonight you would say you are crazy Thou Art mad but she constant affirmed that it was even so then said they it is his Angel but Peter continued knocking and when they had opened the door and saw him they were astonished I would like for you to note out of that 16th verse of Acts chapter 12 that the words the door are in italics in my Thompson Chain King James Bible they are in italics which means they can without damage to scriptures validity be excluded and so the Bible said when they had opened they saw him when they had opened they saw him so I want to preach tonight on the subject openness the key to miraculous manifestation hallu openness the key to miraculous manifestation would you put your Bible down and give the Lord a great big hand clap right now oh hallelujah thank you Jesus

father we bless your name tonight and the church shouted amen am God bless you and may be seated in our consistent Pursuit and total commitment to our desperate need I don't think anybody would have to be a private detective to understand that God has been speaking to us I about our need of the supernatural power in this hour right everybody that has addressed this audience has alluded to the need of the supernatural work of God in the church it is our most desperate need but I'm happy to tell you it's also God's delightful desire to bring his miraculous manifestation that's right and so I would like to address what I feel tonight tonight to be the most compelling restriction of the apostolic church at this time all right let us revisit and get a fresh grip on this reality that which we have ardently desired undoubtedly believed and enthusiastically acted upon shall inevit become reality I felt the spirit of God at the beginning of the new year to say this to our assembly and I want to say it to you tonight God said just because it didn't happen in ' 06 doesn't mean you don't need to talk about it in ' 07 he said you need to say it again you need to declare it again you need to get excited it again you need to believe it again you need to get a hold of it again would somebody shout amen amen there must ever be ever be an unclosable openness regardless of the overwhelming odds regardless of the circumstances and regardless of the situation we must always remain open to the miraculous manifestation and the Divine demonstration and The Sovereign Supernatural ability of God what I'm saying is it's never too late for a miracle it's never too late for a miracle now I ask you to indulge me as we drift off just a little bit here into something you may not be a little bit used to but I want to slip into it it is rare when I preach at a convention that I ever use borrowed material now it may be exceedingly shallow but it's mine but tonight I deviate from my normal practice and borrow a few lines from extraordinary Ministry of incomparable power and presence that has blessed us all so pardon me as I borrow to illustrate this point the words of our dearly beloved bunch and breath see I don't steal much from preachers unless it's the epitome of Excellence so let's give credit where credits due bunch and Breeze may be on the schedule tomorrow so I I borrow from them tonight to say this go ahead and give them a hand man I love them you do too so I borrow from them to say this I don't usually play golf but I happened upon some of my friends that wanted to go and so I conceded to go with them no really it was my idea but the truth of the matter

is we went and since this event I have been told that the chances of a person getting a hole in one in golf is one out of 10,000 and I did I didn't start playing golf till I was 50 because I felt it was an old man's game and since I have arrived I I need a little Fellowship I want to tell you the story in an unadulterated unenhanced unedited way of how it exactly happened all right and I wax bold tonight to even bring into this crime some witnesses my dear friends brother Mark Foster and Brother David henan were with me I fast you seat but I'm fixed to carry out into some real you're going to start ripping your clothes and throwing dirt when I tell you this it was during General Conference ushers don't let them out yet lock the doors it was right after brother Tenny had preached I was in church on Sunday morning we were in church on Sunday morning I heard brother Tenny preach Sunday morning there was a football game in town that night so Church started late it was in Nashville Tennessee and so we had a little time for fellowship and I'll take the blame let's go play nine holes of golf so we went we were at a par three 125 yard shot brother Foster hit his ball he's a good golfer I'm a hacker I hit and then Brother David henan said where did Wayne's ball go Mark said last time I saw it he was headed for the cup that didn't mean anything so brother henan hit his ball and we drove down there and when we arrived at the green I was disgusted because there was only two balls on the Green and I walked across the green and I thought I had something decent going on here I should have known so when I walked by the cup now I got to tell you one more time I'm telling it to you just like it happened folks I walked by Brother keys and I looked down the cup and I said hey somebody left the ball in the cup stay with me now I picked that ball up I said look guys it's the same kind I here I'm telling the truth when I said that in his uncharacteristic way brother Foster came unglued I mean I'm not a golfer one time I was playing with him and I got an eagle and when I got that eagle brother Foster screamed Eagle I said where when he saw that my ball had gone in that cup he just started screaming wait you got a hole in one you got a hold in one I said all right which one of you put that ball in that cup telling the truth and about that time here come this cart sliding up behind us this guy got out he said who got that hole in one he

said they said he did the guy said well I'm the Course pro and I will verify a hoing one cuz I saw it go in the hole but I had so resisted the possibility of such a thing ever happening to me that my mind was totally closed to the most remote possibility that this could and would be true so I set up a defense to struggle against what was really what I never dreamed I'd have all my life that this can't be real I now preach to those Among Us who have come to because of the times with closed Hearts closed minds closed eyes close spirits to the absolutely phenomenal miraculous Supernatural things that God wants to do in your life you got to be open to the possibility that it could happen because openness is the key to miraculous manifestation God is looking for somebody that will dare to step out of the mediocre now the mundane and the common and declare you know what I believe it could happen you know what I believe it will happen you know what I believe it is happening God's looking for somebody that will be open somebody that will be open to the possibility somebody that would be open to the probability somebody that would be open to the potentiality of the power and the promises of God that my God can do anything my God can do it anywhere my God can do it for anybody somebody's got to get open we need a holy ghost deliverance from stinking thinking negativism little faith small Vision low levels of satisfaction and believe that God can do anything I wish somebody would jump up and shout God can do anything Israel sent 12 Spies H 10 came back and we often say they had a negative report but the Bible said they had an evil report right evil because negativism is evil in the sight of God W and evil is fearful because it's one only one letter from the devil you put a d on evil and you got devil and when you get Negative you're getting close to the devil for the promises of God in him yeah area and they are amen if I ask for the name of one of the spies that said we can come on it'd be a real challenge for you tonight that's good to not say Joshua and Caleb right if I ask you for one of the ones that said we can you put them together they're almost Inseparable but if I ask you for one of the names of the

10 come on who said we can't hardly anybody in this room would know you know why who cares who cares about folks who say we can't do it who cares about folks that say it can't be done who cares about folks and says we're going to be destroyed I'm telling you preacher you need to pray and God baptizes your brains with a weak can attitude Jonathan and his armor Bearer were outnumbered they were they were trapped Hallelujah they were surrounded right but in 1st Samuel 14 and6 Jonathan won a major victory over the Philistines come on when he spoke three words small words but giant words when he said to his armor Bearer it may be he said it may be come on and on the power of it may be they won a major victory for the people of God just on three words it may be he introduced us to the power of possibility and introduced himself to the power of possibility because he opened the door to Divine demonstration and the miraculous manifestation of God by simply saying it may be come on it may be it just may be it just could possibly happen it just could possibly take place right here right now and when he did that that's all God needed was somebody that would just say that's all I needed is a possibility she was chosen and challenged by God a youthful virgin named Mary highly favored of God right just a teenager but God chose her to be involved in bringing a savior to her world and to our world and for this to happen she had to be open because God said you're going to have a son she said how can this be I don't know a man but Mary made herself available to a possibility right she said nevertheless Let It Be unto me according to Thy word do you understand that God wanted to do something with Mary that had never happened never and would never happen again Mary had no support groups Mary had no peers Mary had no companions no one could say I know how you feel nobody could say I remember when I was there it should be easy for apostolics to believe God for what we've seen thousands experience there should be no challenge to people receiving the Holy Ghost in our churches

there should be no challenge to people being healed by the power of God in our churches there should be no challenge to a mighty Revival but what I've come to challenge you with tonight is this that I believe God has come to because of the times looking for somebody right that he could do something with and through that never has been done most of our challenge is to keep up with each other on most of our challenge is to stay with the flock to stay with the pack but God said Mary I've chosen you I'm going to give you an opportunity that I'm not giv to just anybody I've chosen you for this opportunity I really believe God has chosen the Apostolic Church in this hour for an unprecedented opportunity of world wide Revival blessings like we have never seen before Miracles like we've never seen before Holy Ghost outpouring like we've never seen before God's looking for some somebody that he would like to do something in them that has never happened before and very possibly would never be done I understand encouragement I understand maturity but I don't think we do anybody a favor by talking them out of their Zeal I don't think we do anybody a favor by tell now look don't expect too much here right off the bat you know it's going to take a long time you let God determine how long it's going to take God may want to do something in your city that never has has been done before and may never ever happen again but somebody's got to be open somebody's not going to be shocked when they see the ball in the cup they're going to say I knew it was going to happen I knew God could do it I knew God was going to bring my miracle I knew God was going to answer my pray stand with me just a moment don't get your hopes up I ain't quitting you know why we don't have Marys among us because we got too many abortionists beside us that's right right we got too many killers right this is a revelation I just got lately and it probably ain't profound to you but I'm seeing it happening that's it a lot of folks want you to do good long as you don't do too good they want you to do good but let's don't do too good CU if you do too good you got to be cheating somewhere can somebody understand Mary I'm going to do something in you that nobody has ever experienced before and I've chosen you that nobody else is ever going to experience it I believe there's people in this room that God wants to do something in that will blow the minds of the apostolic church that will profoundly affect us

I'm going to tell you who the hero in my estimation of the birth of the Messiah was it was Joseph no engaged come on and you're having a baby and I don't understand it but you go girl that's right I know you're pregnant and everything points to unfaithfulness everything says that you've been untrue to me oh my but an angel came Joseph wake up son something's happening that's never been done God's going to have to send some angels in here tonight to let us know it's all right it's all right it's all right it's all right to be the biggest church in town it's all right to baptize the mayor it's all right to baptize the senator it's all right to be on the headlines all right all right so the reason I'm asking you to remain standing is this we need some marries here tonight but more than that I believe we need some Joseph some people that would say I don't understand it what's happening at your church it's beyond me but I am releasing you even though nobody's ever done it that's although no one's ever seen it on I releasing you my brother go ahead and give us a messiah give us a miracle Revival give us a phenomenal move of God I want you to turn around to somebody and say in the name of Jesus I loose you iose in the name of Jesus I loose you my brother go ahead and pack that building out go ahead and buy that property go ahead build that church go ahead and have that miracle I loose you because I believe God can do anything I'm not going to criticize you Mary I'm not going to question you Mary I'm going to Rejoice that prophecy is being fulfilled in you hallelu it's time we quit holding each other back man's tried to have Revival man's tried to lead us and people constantly about to rip his coat off come on back here where we are come on back here where we are he's had to fight for years to get where he's at we need to let each other go let him go and believe God for Supernatural manifestation it's going to happen if somebody will just be hallelujah hallelujah and now I say to the Marys the marry ministry that's here because of the

times is not going to doubt you we're not going to fight you we're going to celebrate you so step out and go ahead and say nevertheless according to Thy word we're going to love you if your church is three times as big as ours we're going to love you if you preach every camp meeting in the UPC we're going to love you if you preach every conference that's coming or going and we just get to watch you but somebody is going to do something and have something that's never been done before if somebody turned that man right there loose yes ain't no telling what that man could be right in the name of Jesus I loose you brother Kenzie and the Miracle Apostolic Ministry that God has put in your mind this church is going to shout with you missionary Hopkins we're going to believe God that God's going to use you like no missionary has ever been used that things are going to happen that are greater than we've ever seen before but we're going to believe it and we're going to receive Itor turn around of somebody and say you know what I'm open to it I'm open to it I'm open to it I'm open to it turn around somebody and say something phenomenal to him and then I want you to answer I'm open to it I'm open to it turn around speak a word to somebody God's going to give us 30 Acres I'm open to it God's going to give us a new building I'm open to it God's going to give us a harvest like we've never seen I'm open to it God's going to give you an anointed Ministry like you've never had in your life but you got to be open to it Hallelujah missionaries I in the name of Jesus in Africa I loose you right now in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus I loose you lynen Sham in China in India and those that are ministering there in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus Pacific I loose you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ Central America and Europe in the midd East missionaries I loose you in the name ofes Jesus to do what God has called you to do don't stand there looking at us like a mule looking in a gate raise your hands right now and begin to magnify the name of the Lord Jesus Christ somebody shout I'm open to it I'm open to it if God wants us to have two services on Sunday I'm open to it if God wants us to move into the Coliseum I'm open to it if God wants us to be the biggest church in town I'm open to it if God wants to give us a thousand Soul Revival I'm open to it brother Mitchell is in the Metro metropolitan area of New

York God is giving him favor I want to go on record that the preachers and wives are because of the time are loosen him to have the ministry God wants him to have to have the Revival God wants him to have hallah lay your hands on somebody and say I loose you to be blessed I loose you to have a miracle I loose you for the supernatural open can somebody start saying it just might happen could somebody start saying it just may be could some might start saying I believe it's possible brother kilar we loose you to bless Houston to be used of the Holy Ghost thank you Joseph thank you Joseph thank you Joseph thank you Joseph you never questioned Mary you believe God you had an Angelic visitation and you help the world get a SA because you were open to it I want a whole missionary to jump out that aisle and say I believe in a year we can have a hundred I believe in a year I can have a 100 you say that's crazy that's what the praying Jew said when Mary when Roa said Peter's at the door my job tonight to is to convince you your answer is here why don't we lift our hands and loose POA to be what God wants them to be God I loose brother Anthony manga tonight to be used in the Holy Ghost like nobody's ever been used and maybe never will be used used for the glory of God let's pray for brother Huntley and Riley that's a man of God pray that God will release Riley right now come on gifts operate church is over 9:00 in the morning now you stay or go but why don't you leave and go preach some flu somebody why don't you leave and let the gifts operate Som now come on get out of where you're going don't head for the restaurant yet come on balcony walk over the other section and release somebody

that's it that's the gifts operating go ahead go speak a word to somebody let the word of knowledge operate right now let the word of knowledge operate right now you may not even know the person go build their faith let's be Joseph tonight go to somebody you don't know go to somebody you don't know and say I release you in the name of Jesus oh