Proof producers : what must we do that we might work the works of God (John 6:28)

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by  Morris Cerullo

Proof Producers
What must we do that we might work the
works of God. (John 6:28)
Morris Cerullo
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Who is a Minister?
Chapter 2 Past the Point of Blessing... Into the Realm of Power
Chapter 3 New Spiritual Breakthroughs
Chapter 4 Are Miracles a Carnal Ministry?
Chapter 5 God's Healing Center ... The Church
Chapter 6 It Must Happen to Us!
Chapter 7 God is Not Depending on What We Are ... But What He Can Make
of Us
Chapter 8 They Sat Where We Sit...
Chapter 9 Every Movement of Jesus Was For a Divine Purpose
Chapter 10 How to Have the Faith of God Without Struggling
Chapter 11 Faith Cometh!
Chapter 12 What Does It Really Mean to Preach the Gospel?
Chapter 13 Staying True to The Task
Chapter 14 The Methodology o f Producing the Proof
Chapter 15 Authority Delegated to Us
Chapter 16 What to Do When Satan Challenges our Authority
Chapter 17 Negatives Must Flee Be fore Positive Performance
Chapter 18 The Roots of the Battle
Chapter 19 Assessing the Enemy's Strength and Defeating Him!
Chapter 20 It is Time to Take the Kingdom ... Now!
DEDICATION
This book is dedicated to my lovely and faithful
wife, Theresa, who has stood by me in the nations of
the world for almost half a century helping me
proclaim the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
She is known affectionately as "Mama" by millions
of Nationals worldwide who recognize her spiritual
life in prayer and support of our ministry together.
Theresa, only in Heaven will your true sacrifice be
known. I love you more now, as we approach the
coming of the Lord, than I could ever express with
mere words.
God reached an orphan boy...
Morris Cerullo returned in 1973 to visit the Daughters of Miriam Jewish
Orthodox home in Clifton, New Jersey, where God visited him, at the age of 14
1/2, and revealed Jesus as the Messiah.
INTRODUCTION
HOW THIS MESSAGE WAS BORN
Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the
works of God? (John 6:28)
To the historical religious systems of 2,000 years ago, our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ was an extreme revolutionary.
This Proof Producers message, What must we do that we might work the
works of God?, at this writing has been shared personally with more than
900,000 National ministers and laypersons around the world. I thank God
that He has anointed this message in a tremendous way to enrich thousands of
ministries worldwide many times over.
Two personal experiences I had with God have played an important part in
the development of this revolutionary message.
The first of these experiences took place in 1946 when God came to me...a
young boy in a Jewish Orthodox orphanage...in a tremendous, amazing act of
God's love and grace...to reveal to me Jesus as the Messiah.
This revelation did not come through ordinary channels or conventional
means of witnessing. It came through a very supernatural working together of
events, circumstances and manifestations of God. The supernatural manner in
which God chose to reveal Himself to me has become part and parcel of the
basic characteristics of my life. It has helped me to understand God's direct
leadings and dealing with individuals which often are unexplainable to the
human mind.
God speaks to His people today (and specifically to His prophets of this 20th
century) just as He spoke to Moses, Abraham, Isaiah, Elijah, or any of the
individuals we read about in the Bible that God chose to use in a special way.
In the 18th chapter of Genesis as the Lord planned to deal with Sodom and
Gomorrah after their wickedness, we read this revealing question:
And the Lord said, shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do?
(Genesis 18:17)
God wanted to share with His servant. God talked with Abraham and told
this faithful old servant just what His plans were. He also discloses to us in verse
19 why He chose to reveal Himself to Abraham. He said:
For I know him...
God knew what Abraham would do with the special privileges he receives
from Him. God knew that He could trust this man and so He was able to
communicate with him in a very personal way. James tells us that Abraham was
called "the friend of God" (James 2:23).
Moses also was a friend with whom God could communicate on a one-to-one
basis and reveal His plans:
And the Lord speaketh unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his
friend...
(Exodus 33:11)
Amos 3:7 says this:
Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his
servants the prophets.
These promises are not just for "Bible days." Actually there is no such thing
as "Bible days" or "days, of miracles"...what we have is a never-changing God
Who is present in every period of time. God never changes!
God has not discontinued dealing with men personally.
He has not drawn a cloak over Himself. He wants to reveal Himself. He
wants to communicate with faithful men and women just as much as He ever
has.
HOW GOD SPEAKS TO ME
God has spoken to me many times.
Sometimes God speaks in a clear voice just as real as my speaking to you.
Sometimes He speaks through impressions in the spirit which, while not audible
to the natural ear, nevertheless are very, very real. Because I know Him, I
recognize His voice.
In this book I will refer to a number of experiences when God has spoken to
me. These times of personal confrontation are what have shaped the course and
destiny of this ministry.
One such occasion when God dealt with me on a very personal level is the
foundation for this revelation message and of this book. It provides the
motivation behind the entire concept of training dedicated National ministers and
lay people around the world in the key of evangelism which God has entrusted to
me and through which an army of disciples has been trained to reach this entire
world for Jesus Christ.
This charge literally was thrust into my spirit by God in an extraordinary
way during the time I was conducting a crusade in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1962.
One night I was ministering to 50,000 people at the Exposition Grounds. I
had been ministering only a short time when a tremendous pain shot across my
chest. I thought I was having a heart attack.
We conduct most of our overseas meetings in a stadium or on an open field
where we build a very simple little platform. A board nailed to the railing serves
as the pulpit to hold my Bible.
When this pain struck me across my chest like a thunderbolt, I grabbed for
that little piece of wood that served as a pulpit, and I held onto it. My whole
body was doubled up in pain. "Am I going to die?" I wondered. "Is God going to
take me home?"
I grasped for my overseas crusade director's hand and pulled him to the
microphone. I was unable to tell him in that split second what was taking place,
but I said to him, "Please, you finish this meeting. It is impossible for me to go
on. Something has happened; I must get back to my hotel."
I managed to get to my automobile, which was parked right behind the
platform, and the driver took me back to my hotel room.
My clothes were wet with perspiration from exertion and pain but I did not
even pause to take them off. I just got on my face before God on the floor of that
room.
I THOUGHT I HAD MY HOME CALL . . .
I asked God, "Lord, are You going to take me home?"
The Spirit of God came into my room and spoke to me just as I suspect He
spoke to His prophets of old.
He said to me, "Son, I have permitted this to happen to you for a purpose."
I said, "Lord, please, teach me."
(By this time I realized that the pain had left. I have never had the faintest
recurrence of such a thing in my life.)
As I lay before God, totally submissive, God asked me a very peculiar
question.
He said, "Morris, what do you want out of this life?"
I thought, "That is very strange for God to ask me that."
God knew my heart. He knows all our hearts. He knows our thoughts, our
intents. He knows us better than we know ourselves.
My wife, Theresa, and I at this writing, are in our 46th year of evangelism on
the fields throughout the world without a break. In all of those years I have never
disobeyed God. Every time God told me to go somewhere, every time God told
me to do something, I did it. I never disobeyed Him.
Theresa and I both laid our lives and the lives of our children on the altar of
God.
I thought, "God, why would You ask me what I want out of this life when
You know the dedication and consecration we have made to You?"
DO YOU WANT TO BE USED OF GOD?
There are many altars on the road to answering the big question, "What must
we do that we might work the works of God?" You will encounter those altars
and you will have to kneel at them. You will have to make consecrations,
reconsecrations and rededications all along the road if you are going to realize
the answer to this basic question in your life and ministry.
My wife, our lives, our family, all that we have...all have always been totally
on the altar. Theresa, who says she "is called to be Mrs. Morris Cerullo," has
stood shoulder to shoulder with me for forty-six years of unbroken service.
ALTARS OF CHALLENGE
If you are hungry for the keys to working the works of God to be placed into
your hands, you must be willing to bow at every altar of God’s challenge.
Forty-six years of standing shoulder to shoulder with me is Theresa, whom millions affectionately call "Mama" of World
Evangelism.
THE CRY OF THE WORLD