Keys to Receiving Your Miracle: Miracles Happen Today

by Bill L. Vincent

Overview

I believe the price has been paid but there are still a large amount of people afflicted. You are about to discover that it is God's will for you to be healed and God does not put sickness upon His people. This book is going to start out with repentance and then to God's love provide health. The last two Chapters will be what every believer needs. Why don't miracles happen will release some evidence in your life, Church and even family who may deal with this much needed topic? Also what is it that makes miracles happen for some that so many don't receive? This is a smaller book packed with all you need to receive your miracle.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781304488350
Publisher:	Revival Waves of Glory Ministries
Publication date:	09/30/2013
Pages:	93
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Bill Vincent is an Apostle and Author with Revival Waves of Glory Ministries in Litchfield, IL. Bill and his wife Tabitha work closely in every day ministry duties. Bill and Tabitha lead a team providing Apostolic over sight in all aspects of ministry, including service, personal ministry and Godly character.

Bill is a believer in Jesus Christ in the fullness of power with signs and wonders. Bill has an accurate prophetic gift, a powerful revelatory preaching anointing with miracles signs and wonders following.

Bill Vincent is no stranger to understanding the power of God, having spent over twenty years as a Minister with a strong prophetic anointing, which taught him the importance of deliverance by the power of God. Bill has more than thirty prophetic books available all over the world. Prior to starting his ministry, Revival Waves of Glory he spent the last few years as a Pastor of a Church and a traveling prophetic ministry.

Bill Vincent helps the Body of Christ to get closer to God while overcoming the enemy. Bill offers a wide range of writings and teachings from deliverance, to the presence of God and Apostolic cutting edge Church structure. Drawing on the power of the Holy Spirit through years of experience in Revival, Spiritual Sensitivity and deliverance ministry, Bill now focuses mainly on pursuing the Presence of God and breaking the power of the devil off of people’s lives.

His book Defeating the Demonic Realm was published in 2011 and has since helped many people to overcome the spirits and curses of satan. Since then Bill’s books have flooded the market with his writings released just like he prophesies the Word of the Lord.

Bill Vincent is a unique man of God whom has discovered; powerful ways to pursue God’s presence, releasing revelations of the demonic realm and prophetic anointing through everything he does. Bill is always moving forward at a rapid pace and there is sure to be much more released by him in upcoming years.

Read an Excerpt

We will also examine what “Egypt” symbolizes as well as exposing several unholy attitudes that keep healing and miracles from manifesting. Be encouraged as you press into God’s heart for healing! That’s our God! Perhaps you’ve been hearing or reading about some of the wonderful healing miracles taking place over the last three years and you’re saying, “I’ve heard some of the testimonies and I need a miracle, I need healing.”

I’m sure that you are contending for healing for yourself; and you’re praying for your loved ones and other people that you know. So, today, I want to encourage you. Jesus Christ is with you and He is moved with compassion to heal every kind of sickness and every kind of disease among every race, tribe or tongue! His compassion compels Him to heal! You need to believe God for a breakthrough! Allow this Chapter to minister to your heart; it’s really a love letter to you, from His heart to your heart. And along with that message comes my hope and prayer for you today, that you receive a revelation of the Father’s heart. When you’ve got this revelation, you’ve got a revelation of Jesus.

John 14:9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?

My prayer, too, is that you come to a full understanding of His great, big, heart of love for you! Receive this gift from His heart a revelation about repentance; then within that, His mercy; and within that, His healing. His touch for you! And repentance is the key. Now, let’s go on to examine how repentance brings the breakthrough.

Repentance

When we think about repentance we think about John the Baptist.

Matthew 3:2 And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

We think about fire and brimstone, and about somebody preaching hard against sin. I believe in that message, don’t get me wrong! We need to have a message of holiness, separation, and consecration. There’s a place, and there’s a price, for that message. But as we examine repentance here, I’m talking about it in a different way than some people usually think in the context of mercy and healing.

In this context is a revelation that repentance brings mercy, and mercy brings healing. In fact, that revelation illustrates why I love to repent and get right with God! And so I want to help you get into that place of repentance where you pull the rip cord and receive both mercy and healing which is the blessing of God. About the word mercy, it is actually translated from Greek as compassion in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance: #1653 and #1656. When you see the mercy of God you see the compassion of Christ and it’s always in the context of Jesus being moved with compassion, healing every sickness and disease among the people. Mercy and compassion are inseparable. But what brings you into mercy (and compassion) is repentance. So, when you see repentance, you see mercy. And what do you see when you see mercy Healing! Repentance, mercy and healing, which is why I believe that repentance is the most beautiful thing in the Bible it always brings you into a miracle.

The word repent means to turn from sin and dedicate oneself to the amendment of one’s life; to change one’s mind, and to bring forth fruit worthy of repentance (Webster Online Dictionary). Genuine repentance is such a radical change in the life of a person that when you look at their character afterwards, you see fruit worthy of repentance. You can tell that something has happened!

The Lord is Willing!

It isn’t just the will of God to release compassion and mercy; it is the willingness of God. The Lord is willing! Yet, people so often wonder if the Lord wants to heal them.

Matthew 8:2 And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.

For a lot of Christians, even those who believe He is willing, there is still doubt.

Their theology assures them that He is willing but still, in their heart, they react to God with “If” and “Well, God would You?” and “Oh God, could I have the grace to at least bear with it until You give it to me.” We need to come to that place where we have such a solid revelation of God’s heart His compassion and mercy that we see His willingness, not just His will. The thing I love most about the willingness of Jesus is in Matthew 8 (and I call that particular chapter, The Willingness of Jesus). It’s the response of Jesus to the leper. He put out His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed” (v. 3). Immediately his leprosy was cleansed. Next, right on the heels of that miracle was the Roman centurion, a Gentile, pleading with Jesus to heal his servant, who was lying paralyzed and tormented at home. Immediately Jesus was willing!

Matthew 8:7 And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him.

Matthew 8:8, 9 The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest 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.

You know the rest, how Jesus commended the centurion and healed his servant at that moment. Then, as if that wasn’t enough, Jesus walks into Peter’s mother-in-law’s house and sees her lying on the bed with a fever, walks up to her, touches her, and rebukes the fever. I mean it’s just a chapter of willingness! “I am willing, be cleansed.” “I will come and heal him.” Walks into the house, “Awe, look she has a fever got to get rid of that!” touches her, heals her! That’s my Jesus! That’s your Jesus! He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever!

Repentance Releases God’s Nature to Bless You

Let’s take a look at why it’s in God’s nature to be so willing to heal by taking a look at the Word of the Lord that came to the Prophet Joel:

Joel 2:12, 13 Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.

That verse proves that God is good. God doesn’t do a good thing, God doesn’t just have goodness. God is good. God is unchanging. God is eternal. God doesn’t do good things. God doesn’t have goodness. God is good. He can’t be anything else but good. And He’s eternally good. He doesn’t just have goodness and do good things; He is the very substance of goodness.

God doesn’t just have mercy. God is mercy. He can’t be anything else but mercy. It’s who He is; His eternal, unchanging nature is good, and He is mercy. He can’t but be doing good things. He can’t but be merciful. He is mercy and He is good.

Joel 2:13, 14 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?

He is of such a great kindness, that He even relents from doing harm. Who knows if He will turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him? He is willing because He is good and He is mercy.

It’s the nature of God when you repent, turn, make a change, and bring forth the fruit of repentance that He not only forgives you, but in return, He turns your captivity around by redeeming and restoring the effects of what you did in your sin. It’s in the nature of God to bless. He just turns and leaves a blessing. What’s so “above and beyond” is that you might not even feel that you’re worthy of His blessing. You might just be thinking how getting things right and being forgiven is all you want or all there is. But because of God’s love for you and by His very nature, He says, “I just don’t want to forgive you, I want to forgive you because I am mercy and I’m of such great kindness, not only do I want to forgive you, but I want to leave a blessing. I want to turn around and give you that which you don’t even think you’re worthy to receive. All because it’s who I am. Now let Me give you a blessing.” God’s very nature is blessing. He is willing because He is the blessing! God is of great kindness.

You might be still be asking, “Why would God want to heal me?” You might have it down theologically; the theology part is fine. But listen. When your belief partners with faith and with the revelation of God’s kindness and mercy, and you understand that when you repent He relents and leaves a blessing, then you can’t help but realize why God would want to heal you! Hosea 6:1 Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

It’s like God is saying, “I want you to repent because I want to heal you.” When you think about that, who wouldn’t want to repent!

Romans 2:4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

Right now, you may be sensing the Holy Spirit’s touch, drawing you, bringing conviction to you that it’s time to repent.

Allow the Holy Spirit to search your heart, take time with Him to deal with the things that He is pointing out to you. It will be a real key to unlock the mercy of God and His healing touch in your life. The word says not to harden your heart.

Hebrews 3:15, 16 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

God knows what it takes! Keep that truth in mind as we take another look at the Prophet Hosea’s plea to the nation of Israel in Chapter Six, verse one. I’m going to explain more about how repentance brings healing and how God gets us into the right position so that we can receive His healing touch.

The Dealings of God Bring Repentance

On the one hand, their painful reality (being torn and stricken) was the result of their own willful sin.

But on the other hand, the Lord knew what it would take to turn their hearts back to Him. Affliction! Their difficulties, all their pain and suffering, would work in their favor. All because, under God’s masterful hand, it would bring them to their senses so they could return to Him. That’s God’s mercy! If they would return, He would heal them and bind up their wounds “heal us bind us up.” That’s repentance, mercy and healing, in action! Now let’s bring this closer to home. More often than we care to acknowledge, a lot of the time God has to really deal with us before we “get it” and repent. We looked at the connection between the mercy of God and the kindness of God. I explained that the kindness of God leads us to repentance. I want to emphasize that His kindness is also His “dealings” those precise difficulties prescribed by God to help us come to our senses and repent.

Just like the Israelites, God will use all the distressing pressure bearing down on us, whichever form it takes, for our good, if we let Him.

Then, when He is satisfied with what He sees, He will go on and do what He longs to do in our lives. “After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His sight. Let us know, let us pursue the knowledge of the LORD. His going forth is established as the morning; He will come to us like the rain, like the latter and former rain to the earth” What a wonderful promise! Here’s what it looks like. When Hosea spoke about the latter rain and the former rain, not only was he speaking about the blessing of God, fruitfulness, and harvest, he was also speaking into what everyone knew, which was, without rain, there will be no harvest. Without the latter rain, there’s no crop, there’s no reaping. Without the former rain, there’s no sowing. You need the latter and the former for sowing and reaping, so there can be fruitfulness and blessing. The Bible says He will come like rain, like the latter and former rain. The rain brings life. We’re talking about the blessing of the Lord, the rain of His Presence. He will come to us! Wow!

We’re talking about the showers of blessing. We’re talking about the goodness of God. We’re talking about fruitfulness. We’re talking about harvest. He says, “Come, let us return.” That means return in every area where we have rebelled, hardened our hearts, and turned away from God. It means any kind of secret sin, any kind of backsliding, any way that our heart has been cold and we no longer have the passion that we once had for God. It means in any area where we have compromised our standard, the standard we know God wants us to live by, or in any way that we’ve turned from God. Maybe you’re not backslidden all the way but you know there’s even just maybe a small piece of your heart that you’ve hardened and you’re ignoring God. There’s a small piece of your heart that’s in rebellion. There’s a small piece of your heart that’s got a little anger and bitterness to someone that you know God has asked you to forgive. There’s a small piece of your heart that has compromised your commitment to Christ. And now you no longer live as you once lived for God. That’s still backsliding.

By backing away from God even just a little, it means we’ve still fallen away from where we once were. And God is calling us back “Come, and let us return to the LORD.” God is saying (paraphrase): “I want you to return, I want you to repent because I want to bring blessing; I want to leave a blessing behind, My manifold goodness and kindness. I want you to return to Me so that I can bind you up and heal you. If you will return then I can begin to come with the rain of My Presence again. As I begin to turn your captivity around, I want to bring you blessing and fruitfulness. I want you to repent because if you repent, I can give you mercy. And when I can give you mercy, I can give you healing. That is My heart.”

Ungodly Attitudes dry up the Rain of GOD’S PRESENCE

So who wouldn’t want to return to the Lord? What is it that influences people one way or the other?

Let’s examine what happened to King Hezekiah, the consequences of an alliance he made with Egypt, and how the Prophet Isaiah was God’s messenger to turn him back to God. I want you to see how repentance not only brought forth a miracle in his life; it affected the whole nation of Israel. Isaiah 38:1-3 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live. Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.

Something rose up in Hezekiah. Even though he was told to set his house in order because he would die, he humbled himself and contended with God! It’s like he said, “I know that as I weep and repent and turn to the Lord like this, God will turn His face to me because He is merciful.

I’m going to humble myself and God is going to cause me to hear from heaven. He’s going to turn and heal me and He’s going to heal the land!” He could have said, “The word of the Lord has warned me to set my house in order because I’m going to die. Since God said it, I’m going to believe it. That settles it.” But his attitude was: “No. I’m going to repent. I’m going to turn to the Lord. I’m going to cry out to the Lord. I’m going to weep. For some of you, the doctors have come and said your medical condition is hopeless. Maybe a negative report has come that you’re going blind, or that you’re losing your sight, or there’s an incurable disease in your body. Or maybe there is bondage and a torment because the devil has told you you’ll never be free, and so there’s hopelessness and despair on you. Some of you believe that report of the doctor. Some of you believe the accusation of the accuser of the brethren. Some of you have come into the hopelessness and the despair of discouragement and you’re no longer able to believe the promise of God.

My best advice is DON’T GIVE IN!

And the key is repentance. When Hezekiah repented God’s mercy came upon him. But what was it that Hezekiah needed to repent of? I asked the Holy Spirit why he was sick and if there was any sin in his life. What was the door that opened him up to a terminal disease?

2 Kings 18:21-24 Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him. But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem? Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them. How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

But how does this apply to us?

How have we made an alliance with Egypt? We do so when we trust in our own way, in our own strength, and in our own plan. For example, sometimes we trust more in the medical system and what the doctor says than what God says. “I’m going to trust in the arm of flesh. I’m going to trust in the arm of man. I’m going to trust in the fact that if God doesn’t heal me in that crusade, I can always go to the doctor.” Now don’t get me wrong, I value our doctors and medical science. But I believe that if we would turn away from the alliance that some of us have made with Egypt, we will see a greater release of miracles and healing. That means where we need to repent, let’s do it! After Hezekiah turned to the Lord and cried out to him in repentance God told Isaiah to tell him that He wasn’t only going to give him fifteen more years to live, He was going to deliver him and his city from the king of Assyria.

God would confirm it by giving Hezekiah a great sign. He would move the sun back by ten degrees.

What a great deliverance and God wants to bring a great deliverance in your life too! There comes a time when we need to allow the Lord to deal with us. By not doing so, sickness lingers and miracle healing won’t happen. So let’s allow the Holy Spirit to examine our hearts. Maybe there is a bitter root judgment against someone, perhaps a pastor or a leader, and words have been spoken against them. Maybe there is rebellion, jealousy and envy. Ungodly attitudes dry up the rain of God’s presence. Our focus shouldn’t just be about needing a physical healing miracle and concentrating on that fact. A lot of the time it’s more about needing to be cleansed of “spiritual leprosy” because that is the connection and open door to our illness. I believe today God wants us to return to Him. Before mercy and healing, I believe God is saying “I want repentance.” Maybe the Spirit of God has touched the attitude of your heart. Maybe you’ve seen something in your spirit, something that’s been there and God wants to just cleanse the core of your heart.

Is there a cry for holiness and truth in your life? Do you sense God calling you to a deeper season of consecration? He wants to consecrate you. He wants His Presence to consecrate you.

Isaiah 4:4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

Is there a cry in your heart for the spirit of judgment and burning to come to your life?

1 Corinthians 11:29, 30 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.

Such examination isn’t a place of condemnation.

Psalms 26:2 Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.