WORKING MIRACLES WITH GOD - ALBERT ELISHA OBERDORFER - SAMPLE

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GOD IS WORKING.
“FOR IT is God who works in you both
to will and to do for His good pleasure.”
(Philippians 2:13)
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GOD IS A MIRACLE
WORKER.
GOD CREATES life.
Life from the dead.
We have to do with a miracle working
God.
He does what no-one, except Him, can do.
We are dealing with a
“God, who gives life to the dead and calls
those things which do not exist as though
they did ...” (Romans 4:17)
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WE ARE CO-WORKERS
TOGETHER WITH HIM.
MOST AMAZINGLY, God invites us to
co-labor with Him.
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Before God
Can Use Us,
He Needs to
Transform Us
and Make Us
Usable.
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CONTENTS
GOD IS WORKING. 3
GOD IS A MIRACLE WORKER. 5
WE ARE CO-WORKERS WITH HIM. 7
1 ISHMAEL. 13
2 REST AND HE DOES THE WORK. 17
3 IN HIS WAY. 21
4 HUMILITY. 27
5 THE BREAKING OF GOD. 33
6 RECEIVING GRACE. 37
7 SONS, NOT ILLEGITIMATE
CHILDREN. 39
8 STEWARDSHIP. 41
9 INHERITANCE. 45
10 DIVISIONS. 51
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11 THE SPIRIT OF ELIJAH. 59
12 LOVE ONE ANOTHER. 63
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1 ISHMAEL.
ISHMAEL is an example of Abraham
trying to help God in His work.
BY adding human wit to the equation.
Sarah had it all figured out how it could
work out.
Enter Hagar.
And Abraham consented to the deal.
Would he have felt inside that this might
not be the way God wanted it?
So this is the challenge that we are facing.
When God calls us to the work, we still
need to learn to do it in the ability that He
supplies.
In His way.
Not just any way.
But in His way.
This is what Paul refers to when he says
that he who ministers should “wait on
ministering.” (Romans 12:7)
Would this mean that the one called to
minister ought to look to the Lord how He
wanted it to be done?
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I think so.
The danger with patterns and formulas
and set programs how to do things is
always this.
We tend to forget that we need God to be
a part of the equation.
If He is not working, forget about it.
If He is not involved, forget about it.
Otherwise, all you get is Ishmaels.
My spiritual father, Leif Hetland put it
well when he said, and I am paraphrasing,
“It is not about doing things and then
asking God to bless what you are doing.
It is about doing things that He is
blessing.”
We don’t learn this overnight.
That is why we are called disciples.
Learners.
But, bit by bit, we are getting there.
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2 REST AND HE DOES
THE WORK.
PAUL ANG from the Arsenal of Fire
Global Ministries in Singapore has an apt
way of explaining how we can work in the
ability that God supplies.
When His glory rests on you, then it is He
who is doing the work.
Then it is no longer you doing it, but He
(the glory of God) is doing it.
Paul Ang refers to the scripture in
Matthew 11:28-30.
“Come to Me, all you who labor and are
heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take
My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for
I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you
will find rest for your souls. For My yoke
is easy and My burden is light.”
When we learn to minister by the
prompting of the Holy Spirit and the glory
of God rests on us, then everything is easy.
There is no sweat involved.
Because then it is He (the glory of God)
that does the work.
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This is the type of ministry, Paul Ang
says, that we are going to see in these last
days.
A ministry that will transform hardened
followers of a religion, like Paul, into
apostles.
Instantly.
In a flash of light.
It is a kind of ministry that will transform
witches, and wizzards in a split second.
Because the power involved is not human
power.
It is amplified Holy Ghost power.
That kind of power we see in movies like
Star Wars.
Weaponry from the Arsenal of Fire.
Fiery weapons of God that no weapon of
the enemy can stand against.
Because the fire of God is an all
consuming fire.
It is a kind of fire that burns up doubt,
unbelief and addictions in a split second.
A kind of fire that transforms in an instant.
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3 IN HIS WAY.
GOD DOES His work in His way.
To be able to be co-workers with Him, we
need to understand the ways of God.
This requires fellowship.
Times of fellowship with God.
The Israelites saw the workings of God,
but Moses understood His ways.
Psalm 103:7 says,
“He made known His ways to Moses, His
acts to the children of Israel.”
There is a difference between seeing God
working, and understanding how God
does it.
When we do God’s work—or rather when
we let Him work through us—we need to
understand that God is always motivated
by a spirit of love.
God is love. (1 John 4:8)
So He never violates love.
I am often amazed when I read the
scriptures and I see how Jesus behaved.
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Particularly, when He was rejected.
When He was told that He is not wanted
here.
Like in Gadara. (Luke 8: 26-39)
Jesus has just delivered a maniac that was
known by everyone in the region.
A most serious case.
And in the process, the evil spirits had
gone into a herd of swine that then
drowned themselves.
Spirits of suicide.
The man is totally set free.
He is in his right mind.
And people from the nearby village see it.
They ought to have thought,
“If Jesus can do this to that man, this is a
wonderful opportunity for us to draw on
what this Jesus obviously has.”
Power to deliver.
Power to heal.
They could have rounded up all the sick
of the region, as they did in other places,
and brought them to Jesus.
And then see how Jesus brings
deliverance to them.
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But no.
They ask Jesus to leave their place.
This is amazing.
But what amazes me more than that is the
manner in which Jesus leaves.
He just leaves.
He doesn’t discuss.
He doesn’t explain.
He doesn’t complain.
“He got into the boat and returned.”
(Luke 8:37)
That’s all.
Jesus leaves the door open.
He never breaks a relationship beyond the
point of no repair.
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4 HUMILITY.
GOD’S POWER flows through humility.
When a person realizes that it is not their
power, their ability, their striving that
makes things happen.
It is when they don’t take credit for it.
When they give all glory to God.
How easy it is to take a share of the glory.
To say, “Look at me!”
“See what I do for God!”
But highly effective ministers of God
don’t do that.
They know better.
They have learned better.
Moses is an example.
Numbers 12:3 says:
“Now the man Moses was very humble,
more than all men who were on the face of
the earth.”
I am wondering if Moses had always been
like that.
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Most likely not.
Almost certainly not.
His upbringing in the King’s palace would
not have helped in this regard.
So, we see Moses trying to do God’s work
in his own strength.
We see him kill an Egyptian.
In his zeal to help.
But it was misdirected zeal.
It didn’t do any good.
So God had to send him off to the school
of transformation.
To the desert.
But probably the greatest turning point—
the turning point—for Moses was when
he had the encounter with God.
At the burning bush.
There, Moses moved from knowing about
God to getting to know God.
Encounters are were we get to know God.
We move from knowing about Him to
getting to know Him.
This makes all the difference.
And this is what makes people humble.
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So that they become usable.
No one walks away from an encounter
with God—a real encounter—with pride.
You walk away from encounters with
humility.
In awe of the glory of God.
You walk away with the fear of the Lord.
The fear of the Lord cannot be taught.
It is a by-product of encounters with God.
Like the one Moses had.
It made Moses to be the man he was.
“Very humble, more than all men who
were on the face of the earth.” (Numbers
12:3)
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5 THE BREAKING OF
GOD.
WHEN WE see raw power—God’s
power—flow through people, we are often
tempted to want what those people have.
Immediately.
But the people through whom God’s
power flows in copious amounts all need
to learn a lesson first.
They needed to go through a process.
Before God can use you, He needs to
remove your strongest part.
The thigh.
Like in Jacob’s case.
He wrestled with God and won.
By getting pinned.
From this encounter, Jacob walked away
with a new identity as a prince of God.
But he walked from then on with a limb.
Such is the work of God.
He needs to make us useable first.
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He needs to remove our pride.
So that we can receive grace.
An abundance of grace. (Romans 5:17)
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6 RECEIVING GRACE.
GRACE, when it is His grace, is a most
wonderful thing.
It enables you to be and do what you
couldn’t be naturally.
It is divine enablement.
God’s favor is on you.
It makes yoy what you have no business
in being or doing.
Ask any of the heroes of faith.
They will all tell you that in the process,
in their journey with God, they all learned
one thing.
To tap into and to rely on the grace of
God for enablement.
In all things.
Sometimes, people mistake natural ability
for the grace of God.
Natural ability can only get you so far.
But grace can get you all the way.
By His grace, you can be all that He has
made you to be.
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7 SONS, NOT
ILLEGITIMATE
CHILDREN.
WE ARE sons and daughters of God.
Not illegitimate children.
Therefore our Father corrects us.
He teaches us.
Which is a most wonderful thing.
Bu the thing with correction is this.
It is not a pleasant thing.
Because of our natural tendency to take
the easy way out.
God wants us to learn lessons.
We want quick deliverance.
But what if we see a trial in the light of
the goodness of God?
What if we see it as something that is
meant to strengthen us?
Teach us a lesson?
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8 STEWARDSHIP.
THIS CAN be a tough lesson to learn.
God will entrust you with a portion to see
how you handle it.
If you learn how to handle properly what
God entrusts you with, He will entrust you
with more.
If you pass the test, you get a promotion.
If you don’t, you repeat the test.
Until you pass it.
Paul understood this.
He said,
“Let a man so consider us, as servants of
Christ and stewards of the mysteries of
God.” (1 Corinthians 4:1)
And then he tells us what servants need to
be like.
“Moreover it is required in stewards that
one be found faithful.” (1 Corinthians
4:2)
Faithfulness.
To handle faithfully what has been
entrusted to us.
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This is a lesson we all need to learn.
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9 INHERITANCE.
IF YOU are part of a family, you don’t
need to start from scratch.
You can benefit from previous
generations.
This is called inheritance.
Sons have an inheritance.
Illegitimate children don’t.
Psalm 2 gives us a picture of inheritance.
“Why do the nations rage,
And the people plot a vain thing?
The kings of the earth set themselves,
And the rulers take counsel together,
Against the Lord and against His
Anointed, saying,
“Let us break Their bonds in pieces
And cast away Their cords from us.”
He who sits in the heavens shall laugh;
The Lord shall hold them in derision.
Then He shall speak to them in His wrath,
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And distress them in His deep displeasure:
“Yet I have set My King
On My holy hill of Zion.”
“I will declare the decree:
The Lord has said to Me,
‘You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You.
Ask of Me, and I will give You
The nations for Your inheritance,
And the ends of the earth for Your
possession.
You shall break them with a rod of iron;
You shall dash them to pieces like a
potter’s vessel.’ ”
Now therefore, be wise, O kings;
Be instructed, you judges of the earth.
Serve the Lord with fear,
And rejoice with trembling.
Kiss the Son, lest He be angry,
And you perish in the way,
When His wrath is kindled but a little.
Blessed are all those who put their trust in
Him.”
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This psalm talks about The Son: Jesus.
It talks about His inheritance: nations.
When we are in Christ, we share in His
inheritance.
We are co-heirs with Him.
Paul says in Romans 8:
“The Spirit Himself bears witness with
our spirit that we are children of God, and
if children, then heirs—heirs of God and
joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer
with Him, that we may also be glorified
together.” (verse 16-17)
We are joint-heirs with Christ.
We inherit with Him.
So, we need to learn how inheritance
works.
One thing we have said already: an
element of inheritance is sonship.
Because it is only sons (and daughters)
that inherit.
And another factor is stewardship.
How well we handle what is entrusted to
us will determine how much will be given
to us in the future.
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10 DIVISIONS.
THE DEVIL tries to divide us.
As much as he possibly can.
To keep us from the inheritance that
belongs to us.
Together.
As a family.
We don’t inherit individually.
We inherit as a family.
That is the reason why the devil works as
hard as he can to bring divisions.
Strife.
Jealousy.
Bitterness.
And every other evil thing.
Because he wants to prevent us from
inheriting.
We need to understand this.
We need to be aware of his strategies.
We need to be aware of the underlying
force behind all the things that I have
mentioned before.
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Paul says,
“Now whom you forgive anything, I also
forgive. For if indeed I have forgiven
anything, I have forgiven that one for
your sakes in the presence of Christ, lest
Satan should take advantage of us; for
we are not ignorant of his devices.” (2
Corinthians 2:10-11)
Paul says, “ We are not ignorant of his
devices.”
Unforgiveness and bitterness is a big tool
in the tool box of the devil.
He tries to gain a foothold in the life of
believers.
In order to have dominion over them.
We need to be very alert.
He will try to use every foothold he has in
the life of a believer to divide the body of
Christ.
Because he knows that a “house divided
cannot stand.”
This is why Paul over and over
emphasizes in his letters this one point.
Unity.
In the body of Christ.
Paul beseeches us to keep the unity of the
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Spirit.
In almost every letter, Paul will emphasize
this point.
For example, in the letter to the
Ephesians:
“I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord,
beseech you to walk worthy of the
calling with which you were called,
with all lowliness and gentleness, with
longsuffering, bearing with one another in
love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the
Spirit in the bond of peace.” (Ephesians
4:1-3)
Or in the letter to the Philippians:
“Therefore if there is any consolation
in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any
fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection
and mercy, fulfill my joy by being likeminded,
having the same love, being of
one accord, of one mind. Let nothing be
done through selfish ambition or conceit,
but in lowliness of mind let each esteem
others better than himself. Let each of you
look out not only for his own interests,
but also for the interests of others.”
(Philippians 2:1-4)
Over and over Paul will emphasize this
one point.
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Because this is the kind of atmosphere
where the Holy Spirit moves freely.
This is the kind of atmosphere where the
anointing flows.
Copiously.
As David talks about in Psalm 133:
“Behold, how good and how pleasant it is
For brethren to dwell together in unity!
It is like the precious oil upon the head,
Running down on the beard,
The beard of Aaron,
Running down on the edge of his
garments.
It is like the dew of Hermon,
Descending upon the mountains of Zion;
For there the Lord commanded the
blessing—
Life forevermore.”
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11 THE SPIRIT OF
ELIJAH.
THE SPIRIT of Elijah is God’s answer to
the onslaught of the devil.
The Spirit of the Elijah is a fathering
spirit.
“Behold, I will send you Elijah the
prophet before the coming of the great
and dreadful day of the LORD: And he
shall turn the heart of the fathers to the
children, and the heart of the children to
their fathers, lest I come and smite the
earth with a curse.” (Malachi 4:5-6)
We are seeing a restoration of the
Kingdom family movement in the earth in
these last days.
Because the Kingdom of God is about a
family.
We inherit as a family.
Paul says to the Corinthians,
“you have many teachers, but you do not
have many fathers.” (1 Corinthians 4:15)
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“I do not write these things to shame you,
but as my beloved children I warn you.
For though you might have ten thousand
instructors in Christ, yet you do not
have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus
I have begotten you through the gospel.
Therefore I urge you, imitate me. For this
reason I have sent Timothy to you, who is
my beloved and faithful son in the Lord,
who will remind you of my ways in Christ,
as I teach everywhere in every church.” (1
Corinthians 4:14-17)
The Kingdom of God can only operate in
the environment of family.
Paul understood this well.
God works through family.
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12 LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
LOVE IS easier to be written about than
to be lived.
Bob Jones (a well known prophet who
went to be with the Lord in 2014) had a
near death experience in which he went to
heaven.
There he was asked this question,
“Have you learned to love well?”
This is the journey we are on in this life.
Paul understood this so well.
He says, if
“I don’t have love, I am nothing.” (1
Corinthians 13:2)
Learning to do everything in love is not
easy.
“Let all your things be done with love.”
(1 Corinthians 16:14)
This is indeed not easy.
Impossible actually without the Lord’s
help.
So we need the Lord to help us in that
journey.
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We need Him to transform us along the
way.
He does everything in love.
And he wants us to do everything in love.
Otherwise what we are doing is worthless.
It doesn’t profit.
Thank God, we get to practice along the
way.
We are disciples.
Jesus said,
“By this all will know that you are
My disciples, if you have love for one
another.” (John 13:35)
“Lord, help us.”
“Teach us to love.”
“Teach us the love way.”
“So we can learn to be co-workers with
you.”
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