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Smith Wigglesworth on Healing
Transformed by the power of the Holy Spirit, Wigglesworth went from inarticulate plumber to powerful preacher and international healing evangelist. This collection of sermons and testimonies offers a glimpse at both the man and his message. Discover how you can receive God's special touch---and how he can use you to minister to others! |
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Power Healing By John Wimber John Wimber profoundly believes that healing is fundamental to the church's ministry and life. Power Healing dramatically relives his struggle to understand the nature of healing and how it brought him to a new understanding of why Jesus heals and how He heals through us. Wimber provides practical models for the healing ministry. He explores healing in the Old Testament, offers an overview of healing by Jesus and the disciples, and discusses the healing that occurs in hospitals. This clear, detailed, and hands-on analysis is essential reading for anyone interested in Christian healing today. |
Whatever is Pure, July-August 2003
Jesus,
Is there anything about me
That makes You think of You,
Something in the way I talk
Or in the things I do?
Can You see Yourself a little bit?
Oh, could it just be true ~
That in my most becoming ways,
I'm a little bit like You?
Jesus,
Just roll back the years.
Remember a starry night?
I know I've told it often,
How that new star shone so bright!
Remember when the lovely days
Of childhood were your own?
Then, You worked so hard at Calvary
To give me my mansion home!
Jesus,
You are so special.
It would please me, to no end,
To think I made you reminisce
About a child of God back then...
With a job to do for love of God.
Oh, Jesus! Let it be true,
That in my small but faithful ways,
I remind Yourself of You!
© 2002 by Joan Clifton Costner
As young people often tend to feel invincible, my daughter would be employed two and three places at a time. Being born flat-footed, her feet didn't always cooperate.
In time, x-rays proved her bones had actually moved to where they were laying side by side (instead of on top of each other). Additionally, there were bone spurs.
Joints throughout her body would swell, and doctors had failed in diagnosing it. Shoes often created too much pain to wear. Medical tests required funds that were otherwise needed.
Becoming a common thing for her to run to the basement to put clothes into the dryer, only to find her sitting at the bottom of the basement steps crying (not being able to climb back up the stairs), we began to supply a wheel chair for outings.
Having no insurance and two young boys to provide for (not being able to take 6 mos. off work), God would provide her with feet just long enough to finish a shift.
Though having been a person with a heart for the needs of others, she was never able to manage her own spiritual walk.
Finally realizing God had allowed this to physically happen, so we'd realize her spiritual condition was an infirmity, I began to research scripture.
If two shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. Mt.18:19
the verse God gave us was this...
"Make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed." He.12:13
Receiving that verse as God's instruction to teach the straight gate, she then began to walk both spiritually & physically.
Setting out to fulfill the required condition, we focused on listening for God and receiving His every next step of instruction - to not follow the laws in ink, but seeking to know God's heart.
Already knowing she had the gift of prophecy, her abilities became more refined. As long as her focus was on God, she'd continue improving. Seeking God with your whole heart, He reveals himself to you. Je.29:13 A few months into this journey, and she began experiencing God in newfound ways.
The following months were so exciting, she could hardly put God's Word down! She'd say, "Oh, this is so neat! I have to tell you what I found! I finally understand this!"... as the phone would ring all hours of the night (being about to burst just to tell the wonderful truths of God).
From the day God began revealing Himself, she's had no desire to turn back... and has had to separate from whomever would hold her to the Biblical laws (as both physical and spiritual conditions otherwise begin deteriorating).
There's no medical explanation as to how it's possible for her to walk, as surgeries were never done - or bones healed. Today, she is a walking testimony (both spiritually and literally) that you 'can' walk, if you keep your eyes on God. He isn't dead. He'll tell you when and which laws apply to accomplish His purpose.
God kept His word...
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. 2 Ch. 7:14
As the ability to stay home with her children was thereafter provided for, God even fulfilled a promise that wasn't sought.
Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, if any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. Ep.3:20
But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. Ja.1:6 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight. I Jn. 3:22
And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever
we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him. I Jn.5:15
© Joyce C. Lock
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Lord, I know you're in control
although I don't want to let go.
My own agenda grips so tight
a spiritual battle takes its flight.
The warfare churns and spreads its wings
trying to totally consume me.
"Lord, I trust you" is my cry
but fear continues to reside inside.
Anger results from lack of trust
Feeling full of self disgust.
Why can't I just take all my cares
to the foot of the cross and leave them there?
Weeping I take it to the Lord.
A humble heart He doesn't ignore.
"My child I love you, can't you see,
I want you to cast it ALL upon me.
For on the cross I took your place,
and exchanged the sentence with mercy and grace.
Sometimes My will won't always seem clear,
but trust me, child, put away your fear."
Prying my fingers, I relax my grip.
Joy replaces fear as I become content.
Peace and harmony replaces struggle and strife
when I resist toiling to trust my Lord, Jesus Christ.
© by Lisa K. Johnson
NurseLkJohnson@aol.com
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