WEBVTT 00:00:00.100 --> 00:00:05.991 Get our Bibles up and out and let's lift them up and wave them around and make Jesus glad, the devil mad. 00:00:05.991 --> 00:00:11.150 Let's say this together Say, heavenly Father, I'm hungry for more of you. 00:00:11.150 --> 00:00:16.010 I draw near to you tonight and you draw near to me. 00:00:16.010 --> 00:00:18.608 Thank God for the Word of God. 00:00:18.608 --> 00:00:33.460 Holy Spirit, shine your light, illuminate my spirit with the truth so that my faith can grow and my spirit can be developed in Jesus' name, amen. 00:00:33.460 --> 00:00:38.051 Let's look at Psalm 34 and also John 14. 00:00:38.140 --> 00:00:39.587 We'll start with Psalm 34. 00:00:39.587 --> 00:00:48.433 Verse one I will bless the Lord at all times and his praise shall continually be in my mouth. 00:00:48.433 --> 00:00:51.713 My soul shall make her boast in the Lord. 00:00:51.713 --> 00:00:53.988 The humble shall hear thereof and be glad. 00:00:53.988 --> 00:01:00.753 O magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt his name together. 00:01:00.753 --> 00:01:07.013 I sought the Lord and he heard me and delivered me from all my fears. 00:01:07.013 --> 00:01:33.611 I want to read that last verse on 34 four out of the amplified classic edition, and it says in verse four I sought, inquired of the Lord and required him of necessity and on the authority of his word, and he heard me and delivered me from all my fears. 00:01:33.611 --> 00:01:36.709 Notice the word inquire and require. 00:01:38.099 --> 00:01:40.849 And then let's look over at John, chapter 14. 00:01:40.849 --> 00:01:55.855 Jesus is speaking on the night before he was crucified and he says in verse 13 and whatsoever you shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the father may be glorified in the sun. 00:01:55.855 --> 00:02:01.572 If you shall ask anything in my name, I will do it. 00:02:01.572 --> 00:02:07.140 If you shall ask anything in my name, I will do it. 00:02:07.140 --> 00:02:19.939 And the word ask there in verses 13 and 14, it means to call for, to require, to demand your due. 00:02:19.939 --> 00:02:25.439 And so tonight, that is what the title of the message is and demand your due. 00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:45.860 And we're not talking about slamming our fist on the on the desk and demanding of God in a disrespectful way, but we're demanding of our covenant, we're making a demand on the anointing, we're making the demand on the word of God, we're making a demand that the devil take his hands off of our blessing. 00:02:48.525 --> 00:02:49.989 I made this comment Sunday. 00:02:49.989 --> 00:02:56.691 You know there's a there's a massive warehouse full of unclaimed blessings you might not have you've got. 00:02:56.691 --> 00:03:11.033 You might have some blessings that you haven't claimed yet, and most of the time the reason that they're unclaimed is because we're having a lot of lack of knowledge of what is available to us, or we don't know how to make a demand. 00:03:11.033 --> 00:03:14.631 We don't know how to cause that to flow toward us. 00:03:14.631 --> 00:03:17.362 And so here we. 00:03:17.362 --> 00:03:23.253 We have a covenant with God, a better covenant than than than David did. 00:03:23.253 --> 00:03:34.789 David, according to his covenant, inquired and required of God, according to his word, some things, and yet we have a better covenant than found upon better promises. 00:03:34.789 --> 00:03:38.090 David's covenant was based on the blood of bulls and goats. 00:03:38.090 --> 00:03:41.129 Our covenant is based on the blood of Jesus. 00:03:41.129 --> 00:03:59.423 We've been talking about, the last couple of Sundays, redemptive realities, and we've got to have faith in what the blood has done, it will do and has done and is doing now, and so that's the key to having a demand met. 00:03:59.423 --> 00:04:06.281 So here we have this superior covenant. 00:04:06.281 --> 00:04:15.556 Our faith should be making demands on our covenant and our faith should be demanding the devil to take his hands off of our blessing. 00:04:15.556 --> 00:04:16.077 Amen. 00:04:16.649 --> 00:04:27.519 And one of the best I think one of the best examples that I find in the Bible is Peter and John at the Gate Beautiful, there in Acts, chapter three. 00:04:27.519 --> 00:04:44.915 They went up to the Gate Beautiful at the hour of prayer and they encountered the lame man who was a certified beggar, certified by the Sanhedrin, and he qualified as one that you could satisfy by giving alms. 00:04:44.915 --> 00:04:48.079 You know, the Jews were commanded to give alms to the poor. 00:04:48.079 --> 00:04:51.759 So he was certified as one that qualified. 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:57.903 If you gave him alms, then you fulfilled your duty to the law. 00:04:57.903 --> 00:05:05.156 And so he was looking for them to give him alms, and Peter a lot of. 00:05:05.255 --> 00:05:08.797 I've heard preachers say, oh, peter was so broke he didn't have silver and gold. 00:05:08.797 --> 00:05:09.800 All they could do was heal him. 00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:11.175 No, he had money. 00:05:11.175 --> 00:05:12.973 Peter had money. 00:05:12.973 --> 00:05:15.177 He didn't have money for him at that time. 00:05:15.177 --> 00:05:16.235 That wasn't the purpose. 00:05:16.235 --> 00:05:17.836 He said silver and gold I have by none. 00:05:17.836 --> 00:05:22.593 In other words, I don't have money for you, but I've got something better than money such as I have. 00:05:22.593 --> 00:05:27.639 Give I thee, in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk. 00:05:27.639 --> 00:05:30.896 So he issued a demand. 00:05:30.896 --> 00:05:36.454 Now, there's no evidence that this man had any faith of himself. 00:05:36.454 --> 00:05:37.458 He's looking for money. 00:05:37.458 --> 00:05:51.298 But since he didn't move right away, peter lifted him up by the hand, pulled him up and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength and he began walking and leaping and praising God. 00:05:51.298 --> 00:05:58.156 And so there you have a situation where Peter and John took Jesus at his word. 00:05:58.156 --> 00:06:03.137 He said he said you show, you know, I'm gonna confirm the word with signs following. 00:06:03.137 --> 00:06:06.218 You're gonna lay hands on the sick and they're gonna recover. 00:06:06.218 --> 00:06:08.411 See, they're out there doing it, they, they. 00:06:08.411 --> 00:06:19.113 This is just not very, very, very long after they were filled with a Holy Ghost, they went about doing good, like Jesus did, and healing all who were oppressed of the devil, for God was with them. 00:06:19.113 --> 00:06:24.021 So they made a demand on their covenant and got this man. 00:06:24.021 --> 00:06:28.235 So, you know, sometimes we can make demands for other people when they don't know their rights and privileges. 00:06:28.235 --> 00:06:36.939 So when Peter acted and jerked him up by the hand immediately, the power of God was released. 00:06:39.029 --> 00:06:43.694 Another one that I love to quote is Mark, chapter five, the woman with the issue of blood. 00:06:43.694 --> 00:06:44.939 Who'd heard about Jesus. 00:06:44.939 --> 00:06:47.855 What did she hear? 00:06:47.855 --> 00:06:50.137 Well, she heard about the Jesus that healed them all. 00:06:50.137 --> 00:06:53.983 And she and she's made her journey. 00:06:53.983 --> 00:06:57.995 She started, she started leaving the house and going to where he was. 00:06:57.995 --> 00:07:13.500 She'd been 12 years in that condition, had grown worse and worse, spent all of her money on doctors, and she continually said if I can just touch the hymn of his garment, I shall be whole, I shall be whole, I shall be whole. 00:07:13.500 --> 00:07:17.401 Every step she took she kept saying it I shall be whole. 00:07:17.401 --> 00:07:38.134 And when she got to him, she had to get on her hands and knees and crawl because the crowd was thronging him and touched the hymn of his garment and immediately she felt in her body that she had been healed of that plague and simultaneously Jesus felt virtue or power go out of his body. 00:07:38.134 --> 00:07:49.992 So at the moment she touched him, he knew nothing of her, he knew nothing of her, of her infirmity, he didn't even know it was her, but he felt and she felt that's what I wanted you to. 00:07:49.992 --> 00:07:52.711 The power flowed, he felt. 00:07:52.711 --> 00:07:54.552 She felt what did she do? 00:07:54.552 --> 00:08:00.338 What did she demand on her covenant, which was the Abrahamic Covenant? 00:08:00.338 --> 00:08:03.038 She made a demand on Jesus' anointing. 00:08:03.038 --> 00:08:06.177 She made a demand on the anointing. 00:08:06.177 --> 00:08:08.375 You know, I just love it. 00:08:09.110 --> 00:08:20.199 We've, for 29 years we've been having this church and we've always had an altar where people could come and have hands laid upon them and they could make a demand on the anointing. 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:23.178 They could make a demand on their covenant with God. 00:08:23.178 --> 00:08:35.664 They could have a place, a place of a point of contact where they can count that they have received their healing or they've received their need, med or whatever it is. 00:08:35.664 --> 00:08:36.549 They come up for prayer. 00:08:36.549 --> 00:08:55.100 Many people come up for healing, but many people come up for other reasons and over all these 29 years we've seen such marvelous results from people getting knowledge, bible knowledge, of what they have in their covenant, and then making a demand on God's power. 00:08:55.100 --> 00:08:57.812 And that power meets that demand, praise God. 00:08:57.812 --> 00:09:01.669 So I just want to encourage you. 00:09:01.669 --> 00:09:05.701 I mean that warehouse full of unclaimed blessings. 00:09:05.701 --> 00:09:07.115 Let's empty that thing out. 00:09:07.115 --> 00:09:18.119 I mean while we, you know this world needs what we have and they're not going to get it unless we give it to them, and so let's get everything that we have come into us. 00:09:18.119 --> 00:09:21.918 Amen, oh, hallelujah. 00:09:22.389 --> 00:09:28.418 I remember one time I was building houses and I had an old Oldsmobile 98. 00:09:28.418 --> 00:09:32.360 It had 270,000 miles on it. 00:09:32.360 --> 00:09:38.797 I had a hundred and say four and 130,000 on them, overhauled engine and transmission. 00:09:38.797 --> 00:09:46.855 So I mean I knew that I was on borrowed time with that car and I had just signed a contract to build a custom home in Rosenberg. 00:09:46.855 --> 00:09:58.596 It was 57 miles each way from my house in spring to that job site and a lot of the miles, the last 15 or 20 miles of the journey, was out in the country. 00:09:58.596 --> 00:10:01.474 It was not in the city, it was out in the country. 00:10:01.474 --> 00:10:12.321 And I drove out there in that car and I looked around and thought, man, it's going to be pretty bad If this car breaks down out here I might be stuck awhile. 00:10:12.321 --> 00:10:26.135 You know didn't have a good sales signal in those days that sales phones weren't like they are now, and so I said I got to have a car and so I just went to the Lord. 00:10:26.135 --> 00:10:32.918 I mean I made a demand on my covenant, not in the way of an arrogance or anything, but I made a legal demand. 00:10:33.029 --> 00:10:38.177 I think a lot of times our prayer has got too much begging and too much whining in it. 00:10:38.177 --> 00:10:44.878 Let's, when we come to God and we need something, we need something done. 00:10:44.878 --> 00:10:56.100 You know, jesus said there in John 14, he said you know, if you ask anything in my name, I will do it. 00:10:56.100 --> 00:10:57.350 What a? 00:10:57.350 --> 00:11:02.999 I mean, it's like a blank check If you ask anything in my name, I will do it. 00:11:02.999 --> 00:11:10.236 And I'm telling this story about this testimony of how I presented my need to God. 00:11:12.049 --> 00:11:24.860 But I was reading recently, brother Hagin was talking about PC Nelson, who was a great leader of the Semblings of God and he was a Greek scholar and he loved to read his Bible in the Greek. 00:11:24.860 --> 00:11:29.479 I mean, he didn't read his King James Bible, he read his Bible every day in the Greek. 00:11:29.479 --> 00:11:35.874 He was a Greek scholar because he appreciated the Greek language as a beautiful language, and the Greek language is what. 00:11:35.874 --> 00:11:36.957 What they wrote. 00:11:36.957 --> 00:11:38.633 The Bible in the New Testament. 00:11:38.633 --> 00:11:47.614 It's written in Greek and and it has idioms that the English language doesn't quite pick up. 00:11:47.614 --> 00:11:55.198 We don't get quite the the fullness of what the Bible is saying unless we can go directly to the Greek. 00:11:56.269 --> 00:12:00.851 And about John 14, 14, if you ask anything in my name, I will do it. 00:12:00.851 --> 00:12:08.832 Really, when you read it in the Greek, it reads more like this if you ask anything in my name and I don't have it, I will make it. 00:12:08.832 --> 00:12:11.596 Come on, lift your hands right there. 00:12:11.596 --> 00:12:15.875 I mean, that's the worth, that's worth the whole price of the message tonight. 00:12:15.875 --> 00:12:19.710 If you ask anything in my name and I don't have it, I'll make it for you. 00:12:19.710 --> 00:12:22.977 Praise God, what a, what an invitation. 00:12:22.977 --> 00:12:27.750 We should empty out the warehouse of unclaimed blessings. 00:12:29.659 --> 00:12:33.688 And so, anyway, here I was and I had this car with a lot of miles on it. 00:12:33.688 --> 00:12:40.224 It was still running, the interior was falling apart, the headliner had fallen down, and I mean it was. 00:12:40.224 --> 00:12:45.549 You know, it's an old car, you know, and I've got to finish this house out in the country. 00:12:45.549 --> 00:12:48.269 I've got to have a dependable transportation. 00:12:48.269 --> 00:12:49.645 My business depends on it. 00:12:49.720 --> 00:12:50.705 So I made my case. 00:12:50.705 --> 00:12:52.105 I said, lord, I've got to have a car. 00:12:52.105 --> 00:12:54.989 It's not a luxury, I've got to have a car. 00:12:54.989 --> 00:12:57.326 I don't need a new car, I need a dependable car. 00:12:57.326 --> 00:13:00.889 I'm not asking for anything specific. 00:13:00.889 --> 00:13:04.264 You know what I need better than I need and you know what's available. 00:13:04.264 --> 00:13:05.984 In a hurry, I can't wait. 00:13:05.984 --> 00:13:10.190 I need, I feel an urgency that I need this car right away. 00:13:11.279 --> 00:13:12.785 And you know I've sown cars. 00:13:12.785 --> 00:13:13.708 I've given cars. 00:13:13.708 --> 00:13:18.606 You asked me to give one time an antique Cadillac 1940 Cadillac to Lakewood. 00:13:18.606 --> 00:13:25.886 I gave it and they sold it and made a bunch of money off of it and put it in the treasury and I sold that seed. 00:13:25.886 --> 00:13:30.628 But there have been other cars that I've given and so I have sown that seed. 00:13:30.628 --> 00:13:35.427 Now it's time for me to receive a harvest, and so I know I've got one. 00:13:35.427 --> 00:13:38.447 I know I and I need one and I need it fairly soon. 00:13:41.065 --> 00:13:42.309 And so I made my case. 00:13:42.309 --> 00:13:43.446 I made a demand. 00:13:43.446 --> 00:13:46.128 I make a demand on my covenant. 00:13:46.128 --> 00:13:49.951 I made a demand on what the blood of Jesus had backed up. 00:13:49.951 --> 00:13:53.184 And the blood of Jesus backed up and it'll be given under you. 00:13:53.184 --> 00:13:56.488 Whatsoever men sow with that shall he also reap. 00:13:56.488 --> 00:13:57.604 I mean, that's the covenant. 00:13:57.604 --> 00:14:00.787 And so I made a legal demand. 00:14:00.787 --> 00:14:07.485 See, that's what we need to learn how to bring to God our request legally, not with a bunch of tears and a bunch of whining and crying. 00:14:07.485 --> 00:14:14.206 Just make a legal demand on the covenant, and so you know, within a 30 day. 00:14:14.267 --> 00:14:17.506 Within 30 days, a young man called me and he had given me. 00:14:17.506 --> 00:14:18.409 He gave me a car. 00:14:18.409 --> 00:14:26.823 It was happened to be a Mercedes 300 diesel and it had 160,000 miles on it, which I knew as a diesel. 00:14:26.823 --> 00:14:29.880 That car was just getting broken in. 00:14:29.880 --> 00:14:36.791 When I finally got rid of it, several years later, it had almost it had right at 300,000 miles. 00:14:36.791 --> 00:14:49.908 I put 140,000 more miles on that diesel and, of course, when I did trade it in I mean it was junk, I used it completely up, but you know it met my need at the time. 00:14:49.908 --> 00:14:54.211 I mean it was such an answer to my demand. 00:14:54.211 --> 00:15:01.842 I'll tell you God delights, and if he doesn't have it, he'll make it for you, praise God. 00:15:01.842 --> 00:15:06.309 So the covenant is everything Jesus bought and paid for. 00:15:06.309 --> 00:15:10.610 And so you know, let's realize it's not about promises. 00:15:10.610 --> 00:15:11.966 God didn't promise to heal us. 00:15:11.966 --> 00:15:13.325 Heal us as a finished fact. 00:15:13.325 --> 00:15:15.986 God didn't promise to meet our needs. 00:15:15.986 --> 00:15:17.546 Our needs are already met. 00:15:17.546 --> 00:15:18.705 He beats everything. 00:15:18.705 --> 00:15:21.087 If you've got a need, there's already a supply. 00:15:21.087 --> 00:15:26.811 So let's begin to make those demands and see God move. 00:15:28.620 --> 00:15:41.289 I'm reminded of Wigglesworth tells a testimony, and he was traveling in his ministry and I think it was somewhere in Wales, and he heard about a man that was very sick. 00:15:41.289 --> 00:15:43.027 They had nicknamed him Lazarus. 00:15:43.027 --> 00:15:43.642 He said come. 00:15:43.642 --> 00:15:45.607 They said come, pray for Lazarus. 00:15:45.607 --> 00:15:48.994 And Lazarus was just almost. 00:15:48.994 --> 00:15:50.100 He wasn't dead, but he looked dead. 00:15:50.100 --> 00:15:52.580 I mean, he looked like he'd already died, like Lazarus. 00:15:52.580 --> 00:15:56.460 It was in the grave four days before Jesus raised him. 00:15:56.460 --> 00:16:04.715 And so he said well, I'll go pray, but I want five good believers to be there with me, to agree with me, not novices. 00:16:04.715 --> 00:16:07.860 I need people that know how to believe God. 00:16:09.105 --> 00:16:12.820 And so they assembled there at Lazarus's bedside in his home. 00:16:12.820 --> 00:16:18.940 In his home he was in the second floor of a home and in the bed he was emaciated. 00:16:18.940 --> 00:16:24.313 He looked just like he was dying and he was dying. 00:16:24.313 --> 00:16:34.236 And so they gathered around the bed and joined hands, and all they simply did was they just said the name of Jesus. 00:16:34.236 --> 00:16:34.720 That's all they did. 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:39.179 They just said Jesus, jesus, jesus. 00:16:39.179 --> 00:16:42.428 It's just over and over like that for quite a while. 00:16:42.428 --> 00:16:53.740 And I mean God didn't tell him to lay hands on him, god didn't tell him to lay to anoint him with oil, he just had him approach it by using the mighty name of Jesus. 00:16:53.740 --> 00:16:57.250 And they all uttered that name in agreement. 00:16:58.864 --> 00:17:09.565 And after a while the power of God filled the room and the bed began to shake, literally began to shake, and Willisworth looked down at Lazarus and he said there's your healing, take it. 00:17:09.565 --> 00:17:11.892 And he didn't. 00:17:11.892 --> 00:17:13.396 And so he leaned over. 00:17:13.396 --> 00:17:15.750 The guy started trying to talk. 00:17:15.750 --> 00:17:18.089 He couldn't talk above a real faint whisper. 00:17:18.089 --> 00:17:22.161 So he bent over and the guy said I've been bitter. 00:17:22.161 --> 00:17:26.078 And Wickelsworth said well, repent. 00:17:26.078 --> 00:17:35.013 And I mean this man I mean I don't know what he said, but I mean it must have been like has a guy who turned his face to the wall and repented, you know. 00:17:35.013 --> 00:17:37.170 And he repented. 00:17:37.170 --> 00:17:44.238 And I mean he received his healing and within the hour he got up out of bed, he got dressed, he went downstairs, he ate. 00:17:44.238 --> 00:17:48.410 That night he came to the service and he testified. 00:17:48.692 --> 00:17:55.470 I mean all that was needed was that name, the name above every name, the name of Jesus and faith in that name. 00:17:55.470 --> 00:18:00.309 You know, revelation 1913 says his name is called the Word of God. 00:18:00.309 --> 00:18:05.084 I mean, when you have the name and we do, I mean you've got all you need. 00:18:05.084 --> 00:18:14.338 If you just ask in the name, if you make a demand in the name of Jesus, that demand has to be made and has to be met. 00:18:14.338 --> 00:18:18.650 So demand your due and Jesus' name. 00:18:18.650 --> 00:18:20.175 Come on, lift your hands right now. 00:18:20.470 --> 00:18:28.230 Father, we thank you tonight that we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 00:18:28.230 --> 00:18:32.990 We thank you that we have a standing in the throne room of God. 00:18:32.990 --> 00:18:34.574 We have the propitiation. 00:18:34.574 --> 00:18:45.190 The blood of Jesus is there to make us worthy to come bold into the throne of grace to obtain whatever it is that we have need of and Jesus' name. 00:18:45.190 --> 00:18:51.247 I know many of you are facing things today that and many of you have needs that are dire. 00:18:51.247 --> 00:18:53.210 Well, let me tell you something there's nothing too hard for the Lord. 00:18:53.210 --> 00:18:56.349 He said if you ask something that I don't have it, I'll make it for you. 00:18:56.349 --> 00:18:59.093 Praise God.