Do You Know What God Can Do Shae Cooke

Do You Know What God Can Do

Shae Cooke

Port Coquitlam, B.C. Canada

The world is hungry today, hungry for someone who knows what God can do. Someone who can say, "He did it for me..."

Show me someone who "knows," and I'll show you a man or a woman with a burning message. How do we respond to cries of unbelief? With a message that says, "I know what God can do! Look at me, look what God can do. If He did it for me, He can do it for you. Watch what He can do for you!"

An "I know" message will rend the heavens for God's glory to come down.

An "I know" message will break through every principality of unbelief.

An "I know" message will break every rock and upturn every stone.

An "I know" message will spark revival.

Because...

The hand behind it went to work.

The hand behind it is mighty.

A man or woman who will spark revival is one who knows the hand of the Lord. One of whom people will say, "The hand of the Lord was certainly upon this one...it can only be God!" This person knows God, and longs for the day the Lord’s presence flows down and sweeps away the darkness with His glorious light for the glory of the King.

Such a man or woman is a conduit of revival because he or she has awareness of God and of what He can do. Such a person will confidently plead His promises into the lives of others, and see that Hand tear through the heavens to heal, to save, to deliver, to set the captives free!

An "I know" message is a message of Emmanuel, "God with us." It brings about an awareness of God. This awareness also causes a great emptying and a passion for greater and greater intimacy with the Lord, and for His presence. Intimacy adds another dimension to the "I know" message:

"Because of who He is, He did what He did."

"Flawless love did it."

"Vast, pure love did it."

Lie in the Dust and Be Full of Christ

When God prepared Jonathan Edwards for the great revival of 1739, God made this revivalist very aware of His love, presence, and glory. In his own words, Edwards said,

Once, as I rode out into the woods for my health, in 1737, having alighted from my horse in a retired place, as my manner commonly has been, to walk for divine contemplation and prayer, I had a view, that for me was extraordinary, of the glory of the Son of God, as mediator between God and man, and His wonderful, great, full, pure and sweet grace and love, and meek and gentle condescension. This grace that appeared so calm and sweet, appeared also great above the heavens. The person of Christ appeared ineffably excellent, with an excellence great enough to swallow up all thought and conception — which continued, as near as I can judge, about an hour; which kept me the greater part of the time, in a flood of tears, and weeping aloud. I felt an ardency of soul to be, what I know not otherwise how to express, emptied and annihilated; to lie in the dust, and to be full of Christ alone; to love him with a holy and pure love; to trust in Him; to live upon Him; to serve and follow Him; and to be perfectly sanctified and made pure, with a divine and heavenly purity. I have, several other times, had views very much of the same nature, and which have had the same effects.

Revival needs people with an awareness of God, of His love, glory, and a desire for His presence. God was real to Edwards. He walked in a heavenly consciousness that created within him amazing confidence in the power of God for what lay ahead. If we want to be bold agents of harvest we have to first know what it means to “lie in the dust and to be full of Christ alone,” to be emptied, to experience His grace, and the “excellence” of Christ.

See the Perfect Mighty Hand of God

Todd Bentley is a man aware of what God can do and a walking testimony of what God has done and can do for others. Where tidy words, sermons, or preaching fail or have failed to reach the lost, Heaven's hand upon this man, whom God raised up from the pit to the palace, from the ordinary to the extraordinary, has reached a multitude of closed ears.

"I know what God can do!" is the message Todd speaks. In a recent interview with Charlotte Observer staff writer, Charles Chandler, (www.charlotte.com) Todd’s reply to a question asking, “What really matters to you,” was, “What really matters to me is the presence of God…that people have an encounter with that tangible presence of God because I want people to know Jesus Christ in a real way, not a religious way.” He said, “I want the Holy Spirit to manifest His glory in such a way that people can’t deny the presence of a living God, and they have a true born-again experience.”

Theory is not always enough to win the lost but a demonstration of theory, is! Brought out of a life of addiction and recklessness, Todd demonstrates the same power of the same God whose hands came upon him in power and he’s quick to attribute the source as the Holy Spirit.

The hand behind it went to work.

The hand behind it is mighty.

People may look at Todd Bentley (or any other evangelist or minister) and see imperfections or untidiness. However, I urge you to see instead the perfect mighty hand of God upon his life that has brought Todd to that confident and sure place of trusting in God's power and faithfulness to fulfill His promises.

Oswald Chambers wrote that Pentecost didn't teach the disciples anything, it made them the incarnation of what they preached. Todd is one such man of many rising ministry leaders today who embody the Gospel of Christ. Through months of intimacy with God shortly after his conversion and the study of His Word, Todd has seen the glory and fire of God through great sacrifice and extended times of pouring out his heart at the feet of Jesus and laying his head against His breast. This young street-smart turned evangelist and lover of God is a walking testimony of what God can do for even the hardest or untidiest heart. Where words fail to touch, the anointing can.

I tell you the truth. The hand that will pour out heaven's anointing for revival will be the hand that knows. As the torch of revival fire passes hand to hand from the epicenter of this current revival in Lakeland and across the lands, into hard regions, principalities, and territories, the hands that serve as a conduit for revival will be those whose hands have touched and clasped the hand of the Man who stilled the water and calmed the sea. The fire of God will shoot through the hands of a person who knows the healing passionate warmth of the hand of the Man from Galilee and with conviction says, "I know what God can do." The Holy Spirit will flow through those words with multiple manifestations of God's character and power in and through His people.

When we pile up the "I knows" as wood and kindling, God will fan the flame for revival to reveal God's word packed with power to transform and to "revive all!" That's what revival is! It's God's heart to revive all!

God Wants You To Know!

In a vision, God commanded Ezekiel (37) to prophesy unto the bones that they might live. God wanted Ezekiel to know. Did Ezekiel have the ability to bring those dry bones to life? Did man's mere words bring them to life? No, only God's power can work such a miracle but God was pleased to show forth His power by having His prophet speak unto the bones. Through his words, God mightily worked to bring the bones to life.

As the Word says, "The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live" (John 5:25). God is using mouthpieces—even pierced ones that know for such a time as this!

God wants you know His hand upon you so that when He brings you out by the Spirit of Lord and sets you in the middle of valleys full of dry bones, just as He's placed Todd and others, you will know that those bones live. By the breath of the Spirit of God, those bones will come to life, as a vast army of "I know" testimonies to place upon the fire. Then, we'll have a great blazing bonfire of "I knows" that will be seen across the land revealing the glory of the Lord. The "I knows" have it. The "I know" people have what it takes to glorify God in revival. The "I knows" will blaze a trail of revival that will scar and brand people for Jesus! These ones know Whom they have believed and are persuaded that He is able!

It's hard to tell right now, how many "I knows" will come out of the Florida Outpouring in Lakeland, but Todd, and many other revivalists and evangelists of the past and present, are proof that it takes only one power-infused, Spirit-filled "I know," to break through hard places in the natural and the supernatural to spark a "revive all!" On day 43 of the Florida Outpouring, Todd said, “I’m ready to see this anointing out there…until the whole world is ablaze…the whole world Lord…let them come undone for You…. I believe there will be a revival which will lead to a reformation which will bring restoration. It will destroy racial barriers and produce UNITY. God wants to use everyone in the body of Christ. God wants to bring all of the camps, generations, tongues, and tribes to be healed in this outpouring. We want to see God pour out on His bride.”

If God Calls You

Only God can make a city or a nation God-conscious—but He can use any God-conscious person; man, woman, or child as His vessel to make that happen. Of any evangelist or revivalist, it’s vital to determine, “Does he or she have an “I know” testimony…has the person invested time seeking the face of God and being in His presence?”

The day is coming when God comes to whole communities in power—whereby His supernatural and very real presence will break the bonds of the natural and rend the heavens for His glory. Of all of the characteristics of revival, God’s presence is the most supreme. It’s in that atmosphere of His presence, that the other distinguishing marks of revival will surface. Heaven has touched down in Lakeland. People, some for the very first time, are getting a taste of what it means to experience Heaven on earth. That’s enough to spark revival in even the driest, hardest places of the heart.

God may call you to revive a valley of dry bones and if He does, I urge you to draw from your pile of "I knows" for the Spirit of God to breathe upon! Then, get out the marshmallows and settle in for a long season of bonfires. Make ready for harvest!

If God is moving in your area, you’re a ministry leader, or you have a documented healing testimony to share, please report revival fires and miracles to revivalfire2008@gmail.com for possible inclusion in upcoming editorials.

With a heart for revival and evangelism, writer/author Shae Cooke communicates through every means possible what God is doing among His people, believing that the Church must know more about the Person and work of the Holy Spirit. God is moving even small churches and ministries into incredible global impact for harvest. Shae ministers to the Body of Christ and to the lost through a variety of print media, reporting also on the growing global nature of the Spirit’s outpouring. On the global revival and harvest circuit, she works closely with international ministry leaders, writers, and publishers, as they advance and contend for mighty global impact for harvest through their various ministries or marketplace endeavors. She has worked with Todd and the Fresh Fire team as well, to that end for the past several years.

For more information, visit: www.shaecooke.com . To report revival fires, contact Shae at revivalfire2008@gmail.com .

[1] Jonathan Edwards, Personal Narrative, An account of his early years and testimony to his own saving faith in Christ.

[1] Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, p 70, March 10 devotional Have a Message and be One.

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