Then I quoted the scriptures to him: "Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them:
because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world" (1 John 4:4) and "What? know
ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God. . .
?" (1 Cor. 6:19). Then I asked him if he had ever read these scriptures.
"Yes," he said, "I have read them."
"Well, if you are born again and Spirit-filled, you have God the Father, God the Son, and God
the Holy Ghost dwelling in you and living in you [Col. 2:9,10 Amp.]. And, Brother, there isn't
anything more to get that will put you over in life. If God the Father, God the Son, and God the
Holy Ghost can't put you over, then you will never get over!"
"Well, I know that. But I need power."
"I thought you said you had the Holy Ghost," I said. "Jesus said, 'But ye shall receive power,
after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you . . .' [Acts 1:8]. In fact, the Holy Ghost is the Source
of all power."
I continued, "If you are filled with the Holy Ghost, you have the potential in you for all the power
there is. What you need to do is to learn to cooperate with Him — the Power Source. You need
to learn to walk in the light of what you have. You need to learn to put Him who is in you to
work for you."
He said, "But I don't feel like I have any power."
I quoted Acts 1:8 to him again: "''But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come
upon you. . . .' Jesus didn't say a word here about your feeling like it."
Then I said, "Acts 2:4 says, 'And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak
with other tongues. . . .' It doesn't say that they felt like speaking with other tongues. It just says
they did it."
I told him, "By way of illustration, I would rather have a million dollars any time, rather than just
to feel like I had it, because you can't spend what you feel. But you can spend what you have!"
The same principle works in the spiritual realm. I have had some of the greatest supernatural
things happen when I felt no anointing or unction at all. I have had the greatest miracles of
healing happen in my ministry when I felt nothing.
Why is that so? Because I knew how to put the Greater One to work for me and to stand on
God's Word regardless of feelings.
Basing Our Faith on the Word, Not on Our Feelings
Every believer has the Holy Spirit dwelling within him, and if he has received the infilling of the
Holy Spirit he has also received the enduement of power from on High. These truths are a
reality, whether we feel like they are or not. The Bible says, "For we walk by faith, not by sight"
(2 Cor. 5:7). We must believe what the Word of God says, regardless of what our feelings tell
us.