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Old Fashioned Holy Ghost Gospel Sermons
God's Not Dead... He's Still ALIVE!!!! Welcome to Holy Ghost Speak Revival's Old Time Gospel Sermons! Please enjoy these sermons from an era gone by. These giants of the faith have left a legacy of miracles, supernatural healings, and faith. These sermons are meant to build up your most precious and holy faith, and let you know that with God all things are "still possible". Although these people of faith might have passed on to their rewards, our God is still ALIVE, and is not DEAD, as many scoffers, skeptics, and unbelievers would have you to think. So sit back and prayerfully read these sermons that demonstrate the miracle working power of our God at work. "Keep Faith Alive"! Old Fashioned Holy Ghost Gospel Sermons A. A. Allen
SPEAK THE WORD ONLY
“And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him
a centurion, beseeching him, saying, Lord, my servant lieth at
home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. And Jesus saith
unto him, I will come and heal him. The centurion answered and
said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldst come under my
roof; but SPEAK THE WORD ONLY, and my servant shall be healed.
For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me; and I
say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he
cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it. When Jesus
heard it, he marveled, and said . . . I have not sound SO GREAT
FAITH, NO, NOT IN Israel. . . And Jesus said unto the centurion,
Go thy way; and AS THOU HAST BELIEVED, SO BE IT DONE UNOT THEE.
And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour.” (Matthew
8:13).
Few today have such great faith as that centurion!
If they have someone sick in their house, and Jesus should come
and say to them, “I will come to your house and heal him,” they
would say, “That is just exactly what I want you to do. This is
a very special case, and that is what it will take!”
The centurion in this account had more faith than that. He said,
“You don’t have t come to my house!”
It is amazing how many people insist that I must go to the
hospitals, or to their homes, to pray for their sick loved ones.
One man said, “I will furnish you an automobile! Here is a check
for $1000.00, or I will pay all your expenses if you just come
and pray for my wife! It won’t take over six hours!”
I replied, “I can’t go. If I had the time to go, I wouldn’t take
your money! I don’t have time to go pray for your wife. But God
has provided another way whereby your wife can be healed without
my going to her!”
I wish that I had the time to go everywhere people want me to
go. I don’t have time even to pray individually for all the
people who come to my campaigns, to say nothing of going
everywhere to pray for those who don’t have time to come to the
meetings!
Although Jesus was willing to go to this man’s house, (for God’s
Word records that He said, “I will go,” the centurion had so
much faith that he said, “You don’t have to come to my house.
All that you need to do to heal my servant is SPEAK THE WORD
ONLY, and he is going to be healed instantly.”
The split second he said, “Speak the word only,” his servant was
healed!
If all Jesus had to do in days gone by was to speak the word,
and someone a long way off was healed instantly, ALL JESUS HAS
TO DO TODAY IS SPEAK THE WORD! Do you believe that?
Would you believe me if I told you right now that you were going
to hear the voice of God, and that God was going to speak the
word to you and heal you?
Do you want to hear the voice of God? Do you want to hear Jesus
say, “It is done?”
Jesus commended this centurion and said that He had not found
such faith in all Israel. Alone among the thousands who clamored
to Him for their healing, this man realized the meaning of
Christ’s authority. By faith, he understood that, even as his
authority as a centurion made it possible for him to give a
command with full assurance that command would be obeyed, so
Christ’s authority as the Son of God made it possible for Him to
simply give a command, and sickness must flee!
Seeing such faith, Jesus knew that all was needed was to say,
“Go thy way, thy servant is healed,” and having spoken, it
should be so!
If I were to say to you, “Go your way, your sick loved one, your
sick friend is healed,” would you turn around and go to that
person, expecting to find him or her healed when you got there?
If you can believe, now, that Jesus has SPOKEN THE WORD, and
that that is enough, you will be healed, or your loved one will
be healed. The cancer will drop off. The tumor will vanish.
Heart trouble, epilepsy, cataracts and goiters will go! You can
be made completely whole!
Just say, “SPEAK THE WORD ONLY, LORD!”
“WILT THOU BE MADE WHOLE?”
A man lay beside the pool of Bethesda (John 5). He had lain
there for thirty-eight long years, totally helpless. The story
is recorded in the Bible that a certain season, an angel went
down and troubled the waters, and the first one that was put
into the water after the angel troubled it was made whole (God
has always provided means for the healing of His people!)
Jesus one day went to this pool. There, the Bible declares, a
multitude of people were waiting for the troubling of the water;
the halt, the maimed, the crippled. Jesus saw this man lying
there on his bed where he had lain for thirty-eight years. Jesus
said to him, “Wilt thou be made whole?”
Jesus was ready to SPEAK THE WORD and make him whole! But do you
remember what he said?
“I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the
pool; but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me!”
Here was the man standing by his side who was able to make him
whole with a word! And he failed to recognize God’s method of
bringing him healing.
Thousands today don’t even recognize who Jesus is when He stands
at their side, waiting to speak the word and set them free!
For thirty-eight years, the man had waited there beside the
pool, trying to find a way to get in.
Some people; have their eyes on a preacher, on a prayer card, on
an anointed handkerchief, a prayer line, or some specified color
of card.
I am not rebuking you. I am not saying God isn’t using
evangelists, or that it is wrong to use prayer cards. But it
certainly is wrong for you to tie your faith so firmly into that
prayer card that you cannot accept healing unless your card is
called and you get into the healing line.
Don’t say, “Of course I wan to be made whole, but you see, my
card is pink, and I am afraid they are going to call white cards
this time!”
People come from great distances into our Miracle revival
campaigns. We find them discouraged, saying, “I want so much to
be healed. But I didn’t get here in time to get a prayer card.
I’ll just have to wait until I get a prayer card. And then maybe
my card won’t be called!” They are broken hearted, because they
feel they just can’t be healed!
“Wilt thou be made whole?”
Some reply, “I have been prayed for so many times! Brother
_______ or Sister _________ prayed for me, and still I only grow
worse. I have been prayed for by every deliverance evangelist in
the country! Mine is a hard case. There are so many things wrong
with me. Just let me tell you …”
Jesus stands waiting to SPEAK THE WORD ONLY!
Believe Him! Rest on His word! “We which have believed do enter
into rest.” (Hebrews 4:3).
Jesus was standing there by the pool, waiting and wanting to
speak the word that would make that man whole.
Do you know what happened?
Jesus just spoke a few words. He said, “Rise, take up they bed
and walk!”
Immediately, that man was made whole!
He picked up that bed upon which he had been lying for
thirty-eight years, and began running with it.
Jesus didn’t even touch him. He didn’t pray a prayer. All He did
was SPEAK THE WORD! The power of God went through that man and
made him completely whole!
He didn’t have a prayer card! He didn’t go through a healing
line. Nobody touched him. He wasn’t anointed with oil. No one
placed him in the emergency section. No one dropped him into the
pool!
Jesus just SPOKE HE WORD. And after thirty-eight long years of
suffering, he was healed instantly!
You can be healed right now! All you have to do is invite Jesus
to SPEAKTHE WORD!
Raise your hand right now and say, “Jesus, speak the word only!”
Believe that He does it.
Hear me! Jesus speaks the word, and YOU ARE MADE WHOLE!
So many people, like the man at the pool of Bethesda, begin to
find excuses for not being healed, when all the time Jesus is
standing by, desiring to speak the word that would heal them!
There came a nobleman to Jesus, whose son was sick with a raging
fever. He besought Jesus that he would come down to his house
and heal his son. Jesus merely said, “Go they way; they son
liveth.” (See John 4:46-53).
And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him,
and he went his way!
That man knew his son was dying with a raging fever. But he also
knew that if Jesus spoke the word his son would be healed.
What happened?
When he believed the WORD THAT JESUS SPOKE, his son was healed.
As the man was on the way home, one of his servants met him and
said, “Thy son liveth!” He asked the servant when his son began
to amend. When the servant told him, he knew that “it was the
same hour” when Jesus had said unto him, “Thy son liveth!”
JESUS SPEAKS THE WORD TODAY!
Some, bound by doubt and skepticism, may say, “But Brother
Allen, you don’t really believe that Jesus is going to speak
such words in this day, do you?”
If I didn’t believe that Jesus still speaks the word in this
day, I would be wasting my time, preaching a powerless gospel!
But I am not wasting my time. Jesus does still speak the word
today. You can find evidence in every issue of Miracle Magazine
- the pictures and testimonies of many who have received
remarkable healing! To say nothing of the thousands who give
their testimonies under our great tent, and whose testimonies we
never have space to publish!
Just as He spoke the word for the centurion’s servant, just as
He spoke the word to the man who had lain beside the pool for
thirty-eight years, just as He spoke the word for the nobleman’s
son and made him whole, Jesus will speak the word right now that
will make you whole.
Can you believe it?
GOD SPSEAKS THROUGH PEOPLE
“And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil
fail, according to the word of the Lord, which he (the Lord)
spake by Elijah.” (I Kings 17:16).
That little widow could have said, “Ah, that is just that old
bald-headed preacher!” But she didn’t.
She realized that it was God speaking through a choice servant
of His, that it was not just Elijah speaking, but God speaking
to her through him. She had prayed to God to help her and her
son in their distress.
God spoke to her through Elijah, to bring her deliverance. He
said to her, “Make me a little cake first, then go back and make
for thee and thy son.” It wasn’t Elijah speaking. That was God
speaking through him.
She believed and obeyed, and God met her need!
God still speaks through men and women that will yield to his
moving.
God has many ways of speaking to us. He can speak audibly. I
know He can, because I have heard Him speak in such a way.
Then, God speaks in a still small voice. (I Kings 19:12). We
hear it with something inside us, something like a radio
receiving set on the inside receives the message directly from
God.
We can read the Word of God, and that is God talking to us.
We read that He spoke audibly to some, and His voice sounded
like thunder. All the way through the Bible, God has called to
His people, and spoken to them with an audible voice.
“He called unto Moses and said unto him…” (Lev. 1:1, Ex. 3:4, 5
and 19:3).
“He spake unto Joshua, saying…” (Joshua1:1).
“The Lord called Aaron and Miriam…” (Numbers 12:5).
But in I Kings 17:15, God spoke through a man. “According to the
Word of the Lord, which He spake by Elijah. . .”
It was Elijah’s lips, it was his voice, but it was God speaking
through his voice, and “Elijah was a man subject to like
passions as we are . . .” (James 5:17).
God still speaks through His ministers today. If you have lost
confidence in the ministry, you will not have confidence in God
either! That is exactly why some of you are not able to get
anything from God! If you believe me, every one of you can hear
the voice of God, now. And God will do mighty things for you!
Ten men met Jesus. Every one of them was a leper. Jesus was the
only one who could help them. But they dared not even come close
enough for Him to touch them. He didn’t even pray one prayer for
them. He didn’t say, “Come, and I will lay my hands on you.” He
said, “Go show yourselves to the priests.” (See Luke 17:11-19).
As they went they were cleanse!
A little Syrophenician mother came to Jesus. Her daughter was
grievously vexed with a devil. No doubt, she would have liked to
bring her daughter to Jesus, but she could not. Nevertheless,
she believed that if she could get close enough to talk to Jesus
about her daughter, she would be delivered. Jesus didn’t say,
“Have someone get an ambulance and bring her to me,” nor ‘”I’ll
go there and heal her.” Jesus commended her for her faith,
saying, “Be it unto thee as thou wilt!”
I can see that daughter running down the walk to meet her mother
as she returns home, sound, free, delivered! What made her
whole? The words that Jesus spoke!
God is still the same today. He is not dumb. He still speaks the
words of health and healing!
I’ll tell you what makes Jesus speak the word of healing today.
I pray; you pray; we agree, without doubting, and God in heaven
forms the third angle of the triangle! When two of us agree as
touching anything, Jesus speaks the word and says, “It is done!”
Jesus says, in the Bible, “Whatsoever ye bind on earth shall be
bound in heaven; and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be
loosed in heaven.” (Matthew 18:18). But it takes two of us in
harmony and accord with real living, true faith, without a doubt
to move God so He will say, “It is done!”
In a meeting in California about a year ago, I was preaching
along this line.
There was one little woman out there who had an arm six inches
shorter than the other. She looked up to heaven and said,
“Jesus, speak the word only, and this short arm of mine will
grow and both my arms will be the same length!” She believed as
she prayed! Suddenly, the Spirit impressed her to bend over to
touch the ground. As she obeyed God, that short arm was
lengthened. She knew that Jesus had SPOKEN THE WORD!
This woman came running to give her testimony. She had no sooner
finished when another woman ran to the platform. In her hand was
an open safety pin, rusty, and sharp as a needle. She said,
“While you were preaching, God gave me faith to believe for a
miracle. More than a week ago, I swallowed this safety pin. I
have been in pain all week. While you were preaching, I could
feel it there in my stomach. I began to say to Jesus, “Speak the
word only.” I felt it move up into my throat. I kept praying. It
moved up and up. At last it was in my mouth!”
Her prayer to God had been, “SPEAK THE WORD ONLY!” God heard,
and spoke!
He will speak the word today, for YOU!
He spoke the word for the centurion’s servant!
He spoke the word for the man at the pool of Bethesda!
He spoke the word for the Nobleman’s son, and for the
Syrophenician woman’s daughter!
He spoke the word for the starving widow.
He spoke the word for the ten lepers.
He is speaking the word for men and women just like you today,
every day!
WHAT IS YOUR NEED?
All you have to do is say to Him, “SPEAK THE WORD ONLY!” His
word, spoken in heaven, will loose your son or daughter, your
husband or wife, your precious old white-haired mother, though
they may be a thousand miles away from you.
Do you believe it?
In His word there is life and healing. “Surely He hath born our
griefs, and carried our sorrows . . .” (Isaiah 53:4).
“Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.”
(Matthew 8:17).
“He was wounded for our transgressions . . . And with His
stripes we are healed!” (Isaiah 53:5).
That is God’s Word!
If Jesus says you are healed, who are the skeptics, modernists,
infidels, and atheists, to say you are not healed?
If Jesus says you are healed, you make Him out a Liar when you
say you are not!
I believe what Jesus said!
Raise your hand toward heaven now, and tell Him you believe IT
IS DONE!
Health, healing, deliverance, or a miracle can be yours, right
now!
Brother A. A. ALLEN How
to Receive Healing – Oral Roberts 1.
Know that God’s Will is to Heal You
Practically everyone recognizes the fact of God’s healing power.
Mental acceptance is not enough. We must have personal, active
faith in God for our own healing. It is
my sincere belief that Christ’s death on the cross includes all
people everywhere and in all generations. The apostle Peter
writes of Jesus, “Who his own self bare our sins in his own body
on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto
righteousness, by whose “stripes ye were healed.” (I
Peter 2:24). The
prophet Isaiah had known that Christ would be the Savior and
healer over seven hundred years before the crucifixion. Said he,
“But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for
our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and
with his stripes we are healed” (Isaiah
53:5). Both
Isaiah and Peter declare that there is healing in His stripes.
Someone recently pointed out to me that in Pilate’s Hall of
Judgment the Roman scourger of Jesus inflicted thirty-eight
stripes on His back. Also, the medical world says there are
thirty-eight major diseases. If this is true, then for every
disease there is a healing stripe on the flesh of Jesus’ back. We must have personal, active
faith in God for our own healing. The
apostle Matthew tells the story of Jesus as the Great Physician
and at the end of the day’s labor of deliverance he says that
Jesus’ healing power is a fulfillment of scripture. Matthew
writes, “… they brought unto Him many that were possessed with
devils; and He cast out the spirits with His word, and healed
all that were sick, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken
by Esias the prophet saying, Himself took our infirmities, and
bare our sicknesses” (Matthew 8:16,
17 is referring to Isaiah
53:4). 2.
Remember that Healing Begins Within You
reach God and He reaches you through your soul. When God
breathed the breath of life into man he became a living soul.
Jesus declares that: “God is a spirit; and they that worship Him
must worship Him in spirit and in truth.” (John
4:14). Why is
a man dominated by fear? Because he is not using his faith. Why
is he not using his faith? Because he is out of tune and harmony
with his God. There is only one thing that can separate a man
from God, “… your iniquities have separated between you and your
God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not
hear” (Isaiah 59:2). Man’s
most severe struggle is within himself for be is condemned by
his own sins. As long as this is true, faith will not work. “If
our heart condemn us not, then we have confidence (faith) toward
God” (I John 8:21). I
imagine this question presents itself, “Does a Person have faith
whether he is right with God or not?” The answer is, “Yes, he
does.” Everybody has faith for God gives a measure of faith to
every man. The difference is that faith will not work as long as
there is sin in the person’s life. Sin is
a dominating thing and it produces a division in the soul. Faith
lies dormant and inactive (James
2:17). Without the power of active faith the soul
is no match for the grueling grind of life. The body and mind,
keenly responsible to the soul, feel the impact of the soul’s
fears and weaknesses and are easy prey for mental and physical
ills. It
adds up to this; You cannot serve the devil with your life
without losing out in the battle of life. “Ye
must be born again,” says Jesus (John
3:3). The now birth is a transforming spiritual
experience (2 Corinthians 5:17).
Condemnation is lifted. “There is therefore now no condemnation
to them who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh
but after the spirit” (Romans 8.1). 3. Use
a Point of Contact for the Release of Your Faith. God is
the only healer. Doctors perform a good work but they only
assist nature while God can actually bring deliverance. The
authority of Satan’s oppression over human life is in God and in
His children. But God is a spirit and sometimes we are confused
because He is not directly before us in a human body. He does
not come into your room as your family physician with medical
potions and instruments, you cannot see Him with the human eye,
nor can you take a trip to heaven and present your case as you
would go to your doctor’s office. How then can we reach Him? By
establishing a point of contact. Faith
is the meeting ground between your limited self and your
limitless God. A point of contact is given as a means of
steadying and helping you to release your faith. Establishing a
point of contact is like stepping on the starter of your car –
you expect something to happen. The Roman centurion said. “I am
not worthy for you to come under my roof, but speak the word
only and my servant shall be healed.” Speak the word! He went on
to say, “For I (also) am a man under authority, having soldiers
under me, and I say to this man, go, and he goes; and to
another, come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this and he
does it.” (Matthew 8:5- 13).
Remember that the woman with the issue of blood used a point of
contact, which helped her set the time for healing. She said,
“If I may touch but His clothes I shall be whole.” Faith is the meeting ground
between your limited self and your limitless God. There
was no healing in His clothes, but touching the clothes helped
her release her faith and her faith made her whole. That is why
God gives us a point of contact. The book of Acts tells how that
handkerchiefs or aprons were sent from the body of the apostle
Paul to the sick and demon-possessed and how that through these
little faith-cloths deliverance was wrought. These
cloths became points of contact and when placed upon the body of
the sick and afflicted, the captives turned their faith loose
and were set free. I, too, have been impressed and directed of
the Lord to carry on the ministry of healing through cloths so
that we are sending out over 10,000 a month. 4.
Turn your faith loose Now! So
many times I have seen the need of saying, “Believe now and you
may have deliverance.” On the other hand, many captives, when
asked when they expect to get healed, will reply, “Oh, when God
gets ready, I am.” God has been ready all the time. It’s your
move next. Others reply, “I’m expecting God to heal me anytime.”
On the face of that statement is a certain amount of reasonable
value, but I remind you that it in not scriptural. There is a
definite time when faith works and unless you set a time, it in
doubtful if you will ever be delivered. God says, “Today is the
day of salvation” (deliverance). When
you expect healing at no certain time, you are putting it into
the dim, vague and distant future. God wants to heal you now.
The best time is when God is ready; He is ready now! The
woman with the issue of blood set a time: when she touched His
garment. The centurion set a time for deliverance; when Jesus
spoke the word. The ruler of the synagogue set a time: Come and
Lay hands on my child. They expected deliverance at the moment
the Lord did what they asked Him to do. God will respond and
work in our behalf when we believe and set a time. If faith has risen in your
heart, turn it loose, don’t even finish reading this, Believe
God now! This
is a glorious privilege and matchless opportunity. “This very
hour” is what the Lord is saying. The longer you wait to
believe, the weaker your faith will grow; the more quickly you
believe, the stronger your faith will develop. Strike a blow for
deliverance this very minute. If faith has risen in your heart,
turn it loose, don’t even finish reading this, Believe God
now! The time for deliverance is when you can believe. The
secret of deliverance is in instant obedience. 5.
Close the case for victory. When
Bible conditions have been met and you feel the power of healing
surging through your body in answer to the faith prayer, then
close the case: take up the old road you have been traveling and
believe God every step of the way. Burn every bridge between you
and the old affliction. Don’t talk about the affliction except
when God especially impresses you to give your testimony, then
dwell more on His mighty power of deliverance than on what the
devil afflicted you with and how you suffered. Change your
outlook and live on the sunny side of life. 6.
Join yourself to companions of faith. I know
how important it is to have encouragement and an atmosphere of
faith to live in after being healed. A few
days after I had been healed I was feeling extremely weak in my
body. My mother, a devout woman of faith, sensed my
discouragement and said, “Son, you were sick a long time and you
were bedfast when God healed you. You will have to exercise and
do some work to get your strength back.” She saved my healing. I have
often wondered what would have happened to me had not my mother
and father provided an atmosphere of faith for me during those
early stressful days of my healing. I have
asked myself this question: What if I had been a member of a
church whose minister and people were unfriendly toward healing
and to people who had been healed? What would I have done in a
moment of weakness and despondency if these people failed to
encourage me or if they ridiculed me? How can I who have been
healed by a miracle receive help from a church that denies the
possibility and reality of the miracle of healing wrought in me
by faith in God? How would I feel if the minister ridiculed the
people who had prayed the “prayer of faith” for my healing.” There
is only one answer to this problem: those receiving deliverance
by faith in God should by all means, join themselves with the
church that believes in Bible deliverance and that will provide
for them an abundance of faith and hope.
William J. Seymour THE SPIRIT FOLLOWS THE BLOOD. TONGUES AS A SIGN. EXPERIENCE IN TRUSTING GOD FOR
NEEDS.
"Restoring
faith to the churches." Luke 18:8.
"Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever!" - Hebrews 13:8
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