It's Supernatural

AUDIENCE:  Yes, Lord!

RICH: Can you raise your hands and say I receive it?

AUDIENCE:  I receive it!

RICH: So here when I came down I couldn’t believe that my hair turned white. And I couldn’t believe that instantly there was I came up from looking like a kid to looking like a man. You know in the presence of God I understood why Moses when he came down from the mountain his hair turned completely white. I understood why Benny Hinn in his early forties when I used to go to the church his entire hair turned white and I used to go why? And he’d, you know what he told me you know the presence of God and I go yeah, right. But the presence of God has 2 elements. It will bring maturity to your life but it will keep you always young. But now being young has nothing to do with your body. It has to do with the state of your mind and your spirits. You see you can be a hundred years old and you can be young or you can be forty-five and you’re ready to go to heaven and meet the Lord. You know what I’m talking about. Now one of the things the Lord taught to me was about prosperity. Now we hear prosperity about money, right? And every preacher you know goes on television says if you send me this God will prosper you. But prosperity goes beyond money. And if you look at Three John, chapter 1 verse 2 this famous verse that it says: “Beloveds I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health even as your soul prospers.” Now I have preached this. I heard it from every TV evangelist            and the Lord revealed to me there are 3 levels of prosperity that belong to every single child of God. Three levels of prosperity. Number one: that you may prosper in all things. If you see it right there it says I wish above all things that you may prosper. Number One, God wants you to prosper. To prosper in every area of your life. God wants you prosperous in your marriage. God wants you prosperous in your relationships. Yes, He wants you prosperous on your money. He wants you to prosper in every area that concerns  your life. Number Two it says: and be in health. The second prosperity that God wants for His children is to be in health all the days of your life. Now this is something that the enemy tries to take away from us but God has released. Now I believe that in these Last Days God is bringing that revelation back to the Body of Christ that God is called us to walk in His prosperity and His prosperity means every area of your life will be according to the will and the provision of God. Number Two: that every area of your body will live on divine health. Somebody say “divine health!”

AUDIENCE   Whooo!  (CLAPPING)

RODNEY:  To get the water to flow again. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! That’s what revival’s all about. That’s what the move of God’s all about. His Word is like a hammer that breaks the rock into pieces. His Word is like a fire that comes and burns. And then the water begins to flow. We’ve got people just sitting in the pew. Single mom. A single mom and her kids have led 45,000 people to the Lord. I mean I can go on and one with stories and testimonies. Just… you’d be sitting in church and next to somebody and that person’s… We’ve seen more miracles take place on the streets than what you see on television with some miracle ministries. That’s why they call me up, can we come by the church? I say not really. Our children are seeing more miracles than what you got on your television thing. Come on, seriously. Since when is this limited to one or two or three? God never did. He poured out His Spirit. His spirit is poured out freely! His spirit is poured out lavishly! The biggest insult you can give me is come to our church to ask me to pray for the sick. I tell ‘em go see the landscaper. His name is Jesus. He’s a Spanish guy. He’s chopping the palm tree. Go see Jesus. He’s in the parking lot. He’ll pray for you. He led two and a half thousand people to the Lord in one year. He’s just working as the landscaper. (silence) It’s like people want to have a proprietary ownership of the anointing. It’s not. It’s His anointing. It’s His power. And all we do is light the fire.      So you know don’t blame me for all of what’s going on. I just go around lighting fires. People catch fire. Listen, do you know the story of Sampson when he took 300 foxes and he set fire to their tails? Do you now about that? How many of you know that he caught 300 foxes and tied them together and put fire on their tails? How many of you know that these foxes were not show-bred foxes? Like perfect foxes. Not a hair out of place. How many of you know that? I mean come on. Do you think that Sampson went into a fox breeding program where they bred pure bred foxes so that he could choose perfect foxes…

AUDIENCE   (LAUGHING)

RODNEY:  …cause you got to have a perfect fox to put fire on their tail to set ‘em loose? NO! He just went out in the bush and caught a fox. Let’s say he caught the first fox and he looked at the fox and the fox had no teeth. He didn’t say oh, we can’t use this fox. Look, he has no teeth but does he have a tail? Yes! He has a tail. Put fire! A fox with no teeth is still going to run when the fire gets on your tail!

AUDIENCE               (APPLAUSE)

RODNEY:  Well first of all let me say what an honor it is to be here today to share with you. I want to read from Luke chapter four. This is the passage I was reading when the power of the Lord come into that meeting on that Tuesday morning in upstate New York. And I have got to share that many times Monday through Friday over the years since ‘89 so I love the subject of the anointing and the touch of God. “And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. He taught in the synagogues being glorified of all. He came to Nazareth where he had been brought up and as his custom was he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, stood up for to read and it was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaiah. When he opened the book he found the place where it was written ‘the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he hath anointed me.’” Another word for the anointing would be empowered me. He has graced me. He has enabled me. He has equipped me. “To preach the gospel,” which is the good news, “to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, and to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.” Now the Amplified says in verse 19 “to proclaim the accepted and acceptable year of the Lord, the day when salvation and the free favors of God profusely abound.” So here’s Jesus announcing that the spirit of the Lord was upon Him but if you begin a study the ministry of Jesus you’ll see that He did do absolutely nothing until the time when He was really anointed and that happened when He came down to the river Jordan. The Bible says you know John the Baptist looked up and said “Behold the Lamb of God which takes away the sin of the world” and Jesus come down and He was baptized by John, come up out of the water. The Holy Spirit descended like a dove. Didn’t say He was a dove. Said He descended like a dove. So the Holy Spirit’s not a bird, He’s God. Amen! And so the Holy Spirit descended, the heavens opened. Didn’t say they closed up again. The heavens opened, the Holy Spirit descended like a dove and God spoke out of heaven and said this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased, hear ye Him. And from that moment of time Jesus then went about and you could read about all these miracles that He did in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and the end of the book of John said all these miracles did Jesus do and all the others that if it were written down I do not suppose the books of the world would contain it. So now we could read through Matthew, Mark, Luke and John in a day but Matthew, Mark, Luke and John tells us just a small smidgeon of what really took place through the whole life and the ministry of Jesus. Three and a half years of hanging with Jesus it must have been miracles in the morning, miracles in the noontime, miracles in the evening, midnight miracles, I mean if I was there with him I probably wouldn’t have got much sleep. I would have kept one eye open on Him at all time just to see what He was going to do.