The All-Inclusive Promises of God
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What is the truth? “Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatsoever
ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall
agree on earth as touching any thing….” (Matthew 18:18-19) Touching what? We haven’t
reveled and immersed ourselves in the all-encompassing element of this. God could have limited
this any number of ways, but He made it open-ended. He made it huge. He made it unlimited.
What did He say? “If two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing….” Any thing.
Anything except healing? No. Anything except overcoming and living a long time? Anything
except getting all your bills paid and coming up? No, anything. “Any thing that they shall ask, it
shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.”
God has promised repeatedly to do anything, all things, whatsoever things, that whosoever would
ask in faith.
In Matthew 21:22, what does it say? “A lot” of things? “Many” things? Why wouldn’t healing be
included in this? “And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing,” now here’s a
qualifier, “believing,” so it’s not just asking. It’s not someone saying, “Well, I prayed and prayed
and prayed.” It’s not just praying. “Ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.” All things.
In John 14:14, He said, “If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.”
In John 15:7, He said, “If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will,
and it shall be done unto you.”
In verse 16, He said, “Whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.”
John 16:23 says, “Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.”
First Corinthians 3:21 says, “All things are yours.”
I believe in miracles. Some might ask, “Do you take that literally?” If that’s what it said, then
yes. “Do you take it literally that all things are possible?” Every word. All things are possible to
him that believes. I believe it just like that. “Well, some things are not…” He said all things are.
“Well, not everything, Brother Keith.” He said all things. Whether you understand that or not,
you have to choose whether you believe it or not.
I jotted down a couple of things to remind myself that I believe in miracles: I believe a 90-year-
old woman and 99-year-old man can have a son. (Genesis 21:15) I believe fire can encompass a
bush and it not burn up. (Exodus 3:2) I believe a stick can turn into a snake and back into a stick.
(Exodus 7:9,10) I believe an army, a whole army of folks, can cross through a sea on dry land.
(Exodus 14:22)
Now, I don’t know if you’ve noticed or not, but there are a lot of popular programs nowadays on
TV that try to explain these miracles away. They say, “Well, this is what happened: There was an
earthquake, and the water shifted off to one side, and they were able to go across. It was only
ankle deep, that’s how they could cross it.” No, the Bible said dry ground. (Exodus 14:22) That
