Mario Murillo: Contending for Miracles, Walking by Faith (Acts 4:20)
Channel: King of Kings Worship Center
Date: 31/08/2023

Mario Murillo: Contending for Miracles, Walking by Faith (Acts 4:20)
Mario speaks at a Central California regional Pastor’s lunch on March 4, 2021. Quotes: “The Lord said, "If you'll preach what I tell you to preach, you'll see miracles.” I said, “What do you want me to preach on?” He said, "Don't preach on healing." I said, “Wait, what? He said, “These people need to repent. And I brought you here so that you would learn to always preach what I tell you to preach, no matter what the consequences.”

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So he (Peter) stands there (Acts 4:29), and he did not first ask for miracles. That's where we got it wrong. He didn't begin by asking for miracles. He began by saying, "We want boldness to preach your word." Now, everybody - look at me because this part is so [essential] - God has a message for California. God has a message for California that will make the lame to walk, the blind to see, the deaf to hear, that will deliver the addict, that will turn your church around.

God has a message, God has a new word, a fresh word, a living word, a powerful, I'm going to blow up here in a minute. God has a word that will shake the very timbers of hell, that will bring power to your people, that will absolutely break every chain. What Peter wanted was to tell God, “I don't care what it costs me personally, the message you are bringing to Israel in the world in the first century, I am going to bring it boldly without any withdrawal. Look at Acts 5:19-20, the angel said to them, "Stand together in the center of the town and tell the people all the words of this life." 

Do you realize what a wickedness it is when a church says our pattern is never to quote more than two verses in a sermon because it offends the outsider who can take it. It's a lie from the pit of hell. Now, look, I understand that there are boring preachers that quote a lot of verses and they've got no life. I know some that are so boring if they explain kissing to junior high students, they'd never do it.

But now on the other hand, that's because there's no fire on them. There's nothing more powerful than when the anointing comes on a preacher. When a man or a woman stands there under the fire of God, quoting the word of God, it's unstoppable. Am I right? It's the message. You have no idea how many of your problems in church growth would be solved if you would repent of your disobedience about what you're preaching about. Because not telling the people what God told you to tell them, you're telling them something else. [You might think] "Well, I lose people. 

I'll never forget, this pastor walked up to me and he said, "Mario, you used to be a man of God, now you're nothing but a politician." So I looked at him and I said, "Can I ask you, why aren't you preaching against abortion? Why aren't you defending biblical marriage?" [He said], "Well, I would lose tithers." I said, "You mean votes?" I said, "Who is the politician?? 

When you listen to someone else tell you what to preach on after God told you what to preach on... and then here's how you do... You ask God to give you miracles when you're disobeying what he wants you to preach. So I'm going to close with one last story. That was wonderful. You know, that was just wonderful. I'm 19 years old and I get a letter to go to preach for Phil Johnson in Evangelistic Tabernacle in Vancouver, British Columbia. He said, we're going to have a great meeting, please come up and preach. So this was in the day before a lot of things, we did have fire and wheels. So I flew up there and I landed, and Phil Johnson looked at me and he said, you look a lot younger in person than you do in your pictures. And he said, “You are Morris Cerullo, aren't you?”

There I was standing in the airport, and I said, who? He said, well you are Morris, no, I'm Mario Murillo. And you got to understand people from Oklahoma, if you've never met people from Oklahoma, Will Rogers is a good model, and they're like, "Well, son, you're not Morris Cerullo, right?" Nope. You said, "Well, do you have a healing ministry?" I said, no. He nods his head, well, okay. We've got like 12 bus loads of people  coming from all over Western Canada tonight. We have a deaf section and a wheelchair section. They took us over to hotel, he puts my luggage in the entryway of the hotel room, and then I step in and he's about to close the door. He said, "Son, are you sure you don't have a healing ministry?" I said, "No, I don't." And then he slowly closing the door, like only in Oklahoman and could do, and he goes, "Well, son, you better have one by seven o'clock."