This is Catherine Kuhlman, cassette number K814, side
2, entitled, How This Ministry of Healing Came
Into Being.
If you can once grasp the concept of
the Holy Trinity, many things which may once
have puzzled you will become clear.
The three persons of the Trinity, God the
Father, God the Son, and God the Holy
Ghost are a unity.
There you have the Trinity, the Father, the
Son, and the Holy Spirit.
They are co-existent, infinite, and eternal.
All three were equally active in the work
of creation, and are equally active and indispensable
in the work of redemption.
But although the three work together as one,
each has at the same time his own
distinctive function.
But never forget, God the Father never works
separate and apart from Jesus, who is at
this very moment our great High Priest.
Neither does the Holy Spirit ever work separate
and apart from God the Father or from
Jesus Christ the Son.
There's something that's very fitting to me, and
I shall never forget, when I received this
spiritual revelation, and everything that I know I
have gotten from Him.
He has been my great Teacher.
And everything that I give you regarding the
person of the Holy Spirit, I base upon
the authority of God's Word.
The greatest authority there is.
There is no greater source to whom you
and I can go.
Before Jesus came to earth in the form
of man, before He took upon Himself the
form of flesh, He offered Himself through the
Holy Spirit to be given.
Before God the Father ever gave His only
begotten Son, that you and I might have
eternal life, Jesus, first of all, offered Himself
through the Holy Spirit to be given, and
then it was that God the Father gave
His Son, that He might die on the
cross for man's salvation.
But why did Jesus offer Himself first through
the Holy Spirit to be given?
He knew the mighty power of the Holy
Spirit.
Before He ever came to earth, He knew
that in taking upon Himself the form of
flesh, He would have the weaknesses of man,
that He could be tempted, that He could
yield to temptation.
That is the reason I told you over
and over again, that in those days of
temptation when Jesus and Satan faced each other,
literally came face to face with each other,
Satan knew that Jesus in the form of
flesh, as much man as though He were
not God, could have yielded to temptation, and
Jesus knew that He could have yielded to
temptation, otherwise those temptations would have been a
farce.
When Jesus walked this earth, He was as
much man as though He were not God.
Even those last seconds on the cross, He
could have yielded to the temptations of the
flesh.
He could have lifted His finger and said,
Father God, I cannot go through with this.
Read the scripture.
Now I want you to see something.
And this was in the greatest revelation that
I feel the Holy Spirit has given me,
and I shall never forget the hour, when
the revelation came to me in regard to
the healing of the physical, the healing of
sick bodies.
How often I have said, Jesus has healed
you.
How Jesus is here to heal.
When in reality consider something.
God the Father, this very moment, is seated
upon His throne, and I like to think
of Him as the big boss.
And He is just that.
Seated at His right hand is His only
begotten Son, in position of great high priest,
the one who ever lived to make intercession
for you and for me.
Jesus is not here on earth.
He has a great position.
He is my great high priest.
He is your great high priest.
And when we come before the throne of
God in prayer, we come into that holy
presence through Jesus Christ.
We have a healing through our great high
priest, God's righteous holy Son.
But there is one here on earth now,
the one who Jesus said, it is expedient
for you that I go away.
It is necessary for you that I go
away.
Why?
So that the mighty third person, the Holy
Spirit, the great Comforter, might come unto you.
Of whom is He speaking?
Of the Holy Spirit, the one through whom
He had offered Himself to be given before
He ever came to earth in the form
of flesh.
The same Holy Spirit who descended upon Him
as He came up out of the waters
of baptism.
When Jesus Himself cried forth, This is my
beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.
The same Holy Spirit who performed those miracles
during the ministry of Jesus here on earth.
Read it.
It's found in the 10th chapter of Acts,
the 38th verse.
God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy
Ghost and with power, who went about doing
good and healing all that were oppressed of
the devil, for God was with Him.
Then what was the secret of the power
in the life and ministry of Jesus?
The power of the Holy Ghost.
What was the secret of those miracles of
healing in the ministry of Jesus as He
walked on this earth?
The Scripture gives it.
God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy
Ghost and with power.
Therefore, the secret of the miracles of healing
when Jesus was here on earth in the
flesh was not the person of Jesus, but
it was the person and the power of
the Holy Ghost.
Go a little further.
That is why just before Jesus went away,
He wanted to give His church a gift.
Love is something that you do, you know.
And you can't love without giving.
And in wanting to give His own, in
wanting to give His church the greatest gift
possible, there was no greater gift that He
could give His church than the person and
the power of the Holy Spirit, the one
who did so faithfully in His ministry, the
one who performed those miracles in His ministry,
and this is what He said, and you
shall receive power.
After that the Holy Ghost has come upon
you.
What power?
The same power that had been given Jesus
as He was here on earth in the
flesh.
What person?
The same person of the Holy Spirit whom
God had anointed Him with.
Therefore, the secret of the power and the
healing of sick bodies is found in the
person of the Holy Spirit.
Oh, somehow I could open the understanding of
every man who stands in the pulpit, whether
he be priest or rabbi or a Protestant
minister.
If you are a member of that great
redeemed body, if you are a member of
His church, you're failing to accept the greatest
gift that was ever given to a human
being.
This great gift is yours, this wonderful gift
of the Holy Spirit.
It's a gift that Jesus gave His church.
And we shall receive power.
After that the Holy Ghost has come upon
you in exactly the same way that God
anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost
and with power who went about doing good
and healing all that were oppressed of the
devil.
For God was with Him.
That was 960 a moment ago.
If you can once grasp the concept of
the Holy Trinity, many things which may once
have perplexed you will become clear to your
understanding.
God the Father, Jesus Christ the Son, the
Holy Spirit.
But the Holy Spirit is the power of
the Trinity.
It was His power that raised Jesus from
the dead.
It is that same resurrection power that flows
through our physical bodies today, healing and sanctifying.
In short, when we pray in the name
of Jesus, the Father looks down to the
complete perfection, the utter holiness, the absolute righteousness
of His only begotten Son, knowing that by
Him the price was paid in full for
man's redemption and in Him lies the answer
to every human need.
God honors the redemptive work of His Son
by giving to us through Him the desire
of our hearts.
And thus, while it is the resurrection power
of the Holy Spirit which performs the actual
healing of the physical body, Jesus made it
perfectly clear that we are to look to
Him, the Son, in faith.
For He is the One who has made
all these things possible.
Now, with that as an introduction, let's go
on to this thing of faith.
Volumes have been written, volumes more have been
spoken regarding this, something that's called faith.
And yet, in a final analysis, we actually
know so little about the subject.
And the more that I go spiritually, and
the deeper that I go into the spiritual
things, the more I will have to confess
to you that I recognize the fact that
I know practically nothing about faith.
All that I can tell you is the
fact that faith is that quality or that
power by which the things desired become the
things possessed.
That's the nearest to a definition of faith
attempted even by the very inspired Word of
God.
You cannot weigh it or confine it to
a container.
It's not something that you can take out
and look at and analyze.
You definitely cannot put your finger on it
and positively say, this is it.
To try to explain it is almost like
trying to define energy in one comprehensive statement.
In the realm of physics, we're told that
the atom is a world within itself.
That the potential energy contained within this tiny
world is such that it bewilders the mind
of the average person.
Try to define it.
Try to define electricity.
Attempt to define these things.
You run into difficulties.
And so does with faith in the realm
of the Spirit.
But although it is not easy to define
exactly what faith is, we know what it
is not.
One of the most common errors that we
make in this regard is to confuse faith
with presumption.
We must be constantly alert to the danger
of mistaking one for the other.
For there's a vast difference between the two.
Here's a pebble on the beach, for example.
But the beach is more than the pebble.
And so the pebble asserts that it is
the beach.
Then we say to it, you are assuming
too much.
There are many who mix the ingredients of
their own mental attitude with a little confidence,
a pinch of trust, a generous handful of
religious eagerness.
They proceed to add some belief along with
many other ingredients, mixing it all together in
a spiritual crystal.
They label the total result as faith.
It's likely to be more presumption than faith.
Faith is more than belief.
It's more than confidence.
It's more than trust.
And above all, it is never boastful.
If it is pure faith, Holy Ghost faith,
it will never work contrary to the Word
of God.
Neither will it work contrary to His wisdom
and His will.
Always remember that.
Holy Ghost faith will never work contrary to
the Word of God.
Never.
It will never work contrary to the perfect
will of God.
There have been times when I felt faith
so permeate every part of my being that
I dared to say and do things that
had I leaned it to my own understanding,
my own reasoning, I would never have done
so.
And yet, it flowed through every word, every
act, with such resistible power that I literally
stood in wonder at the mighty works of
the Lord.
And one thing I know, in you and
in me apart from God, there are no
ingredients, there are no qualities, which, however mixed
or combined, will create even so much as
the smallest seed of Bible.
Let us just reason together in a very
simple, understanding way.
If I wanted to cross a lake, and
there were no means of getting across except
by boat, the sensible thing for me to
do would be to secure a boat.
It would be most foolish for me to
seek the other side of the lake when
I needed to seek the proper conveyance to
get there.
Therefore, get the boat.
And if I get the boat, it'll take
me to the other side of the lake.
Now, where do we get the faith that
will take us across the lake?
The answer to this question is positive and
sure.
Faith is a gift of God, or a
fruit of the Spirit.
And whether it be gift or fruit, the
source of faith remains the same.
Faith, it comes from God and is a
gift of God.
If faith is powerless, it's not faith.
You cannot have faith without results any more
than you can have motion without movement.
The thing sometimes called faith is only trust.
And although we trust the Lord, it is
faith which has action and power.
The disciples and the Mass were on the
waters of Galilee.
It was a beautiful day.
The lake was calm and sweet.
There was scarcely a cloud in the sky
when suddenly a terrific storm arose.
The poor disciples were terror-stricken.
The wind was blowing in all of its
fury, and the little boat was about to
capsize.
And they were certain that their very lives
were at stake.
Finally, in desperation, they awakened at the sleeping
Christ.
He wasn't a bit perturbed.
Very calmly, he asked just one question.
Where is your faith?
That's all he said.
Where is your faith?
Where was it?
Had they left it on shore before leaving
the boat?
Had it dropped to the depth of sea
on which the little boat was sailing?
Had it fled on the shoulders of the
storm?
Just where was their faith?
What a question!
And that question came from the lips of
the author and the finisher of our faith.
Their faith had been resting in the stern
of the boat.
Their faith was with them all the time.
It had never left them for one second.
It was right there, in the stern of
the boat.
He was their faith.
But the mistake that they had made was
in forgetting the fact of his presence while
discerning the fact of the storm.
That's exactly what Jesus meant when he said,
Without me you can do nothing.
Why?
He, then, is our faith.
Without me you can do nothing.
I can do nothing without him.
Why?
Because he is my faith.
Without him you can do nothing.
For he, then, is your faith.
When we become defeated, when we fasten our
eyes on circumstances, on our problems, on our
weaknesses, on our physical illnesses, the surest way
in the world to be defeated is to
focus our mind on ourselves.
The storm will capsize our little boat.
Of that I am positive.
If we get our eyes on ourselves, the
storm will capsize your little boat.
And yet the fact remains that our faith
for victory is nearer to us than our
hands or our feet.
No person needs ever be defeated on a
single score.
No person needs to lack faith for the
victory as long as they have their eyes
on Jesus Christ.
He is our faith.
I'm not in the spirit of this moment.
He may be asking you the same question
that he asked the disciples on that day
as they were together in the waters of
Galilee.
When that terrific storm arose, they were terrified.
Afraid.
It was a moment of seemingly defeat for
them.
And then Jesus asks just one question.
Where is your faith?
Somehow, through the darkness to this hour, can't
you hear him asking you the same question?
Child of mine, where is your faith?
You've struggled so long.
You've prayed and yet it seemed as though
nothing ever happened.
The waters have been.
The storm is still raging round about you.
Be quiet.
Be still.
He's asking you the question.
Where is your faith?
Why, bless you, your faith is resting right
there in the stern of a boat.
Your faith is right there.
Closer to you than you ever dreamed.
He is your faith.
Feel his wonderful breath.
Get your eyes off of circumstances.
Get your eyes off of the storm and
put your sights on Jesus.
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