|
I
couldn’t breath
My head felt
like it would explode, I was so badly congested.
Our boys were small, like two and seven.
Hubby thought going for a drive would take my
mind off how bad I felt.
So we loaded up the boys and started out. We were still in town and I started recalling some of an
audio tape that a friend had given us.
It had songs taken from Scripture and a man
reading healing verses.
We liked the songs so much that we listened to
it a lot, and without realizing it, we were learning
the healing verses!
I didn’t know it then, but I know it now,
that on that ride, God was leading me to say those
verses. I
did, and within a few minutes, I was completely
healed! My
sinuses were totally clear, and I felt great! We didn’t recognize then that God was showing
us something very important.
We had no teaching at that time about what had
just happened.
God
is Fabulous
That is the title of a paper-back book by
Frances Hunter. I
think someone gave it to me. I read it, and was
encouraged to use my faith on small things to develop
it. She
told about speaking to a bull that was charging at
her. She’d
crawled through a fence and was cutting across a
field, not knowing that a bull was in there!
So while it was charging her, she said,
“I’m God’s child, and you’re God’s bull, and
there’s nothing but peace between us.”
Immediately, the bull stopped, snorted, and
started munching grass!
I
have authority
One day, I was hanging out clothes to dry in
the sun, and a bumblebee that was enjoying the nearby
flowers, came over to investigate me!
So I said just what Mrs. Hunter had said. “Bee, you are God’s creature, and I am His child; so I
declare that there’s nothing but peace between
us.” And
it left! I was getting bold and wanted to try this
out on other things.
I learned other words worked too.
One day I was sitting outside reading, and a
fly was being pesky.
I’d shoo it away, and it would return
repeatedly! So
I said, “In the name of Jesus, go!”
And it went.
This
bee wouldn’t obey!
I had just recently found Luke 10:19, and was
excited to realize that I have authority over all the
works of the devil.
Bumblebees and flies are pests so must be of
the devil. That’s
why it worked! I
was excited!
A girl friend had boys near the same ages as
mine, plus two girls in their teens.
She invited me to join her for a picnic in the
nearby mountains.
She brought her two sons and one of the girls,
and I brought my boys.
As we were eating at a weatherworn picnic
table, a bumblebee started nosing about our food. The children started screaming, but I confidently told them
to be quiet; I’d take care of it.
I said, “Bee, in the name of Jesus, I command
you to go, for Luke 10:19 says I have authority over
you.” It
didn’t go, so I tried other words that had worked
before. Still
nothing happened.
I was devastated.
After I was home, I prayed, “God. Why
didn’t it work?”
The thought entered my head, “There was
unbelief there.” Oh, oh. I
thought I’d heard that in a sermon somewhere.
I looked it up and found it at Mark 6:5-6. It
says that He could not do many mighty works there
because of their unbelief. That made sense.
I will have to be more careful.
By the way, when I next saw those friends, I
asked if they believed I could do it.
The girl and the mom both admitted that they
didn’t believe.
So I showed them the verse and explained that
that was why it didn’t work!
Bad
Dreams
My youngest son was about three now, and was
having bad dreams
He would come into our bedroom crying, and want
to get in bed between us.
I decided to teach him that he had authority
too. So I
sat on the edge of the bed and held him in my lap and
said, “Fear,
I command you in the name of Jesus to leave; for it is
written, ‘God did not give us a spirit of fear, but
of power, love, and a sound mind.’”
(That’s II Tim.1:7.)
I gave him a hug and a kiss, and sent him back
to bed. He
told me in the morning that the fear didn’t come
back.
Next time he had a bad dream, I did exactly the
same thing, and spoke exactly the same words.
I did this every time for weeks.
Then one time while holding him on my lap, I
said, “Honey, see if you can do it.”
He could do it because I had said the same
thing so many times.
It worked, and we both were thrilled!
The next time he came in having had a bad
dream, I said, “Go back to your bed and try it
yourself.” I
said it with a tone of voice like it was an exciting
experiment. He
was eager, and in the morning was ecstatic, so he
wanted more! I taught him two short healing verses, and I recall that one
day when he was four, he came walking down the hall
muttering something to himself, so I said, “What’s
the matter, Honey?”
He replied, “Oh, the devil’s just trying to
get a sickness on me.”
Now, I was ecstatic, for my little boy
was learning to walk by faith.
Yes, it worked; he didn’t get sick.
Incidentally, neither of our boys got the childhood
diseases that most others get.
Our confessions of faith kept all of us well.
Work
fast
We found out that it was easier to get a cold
or flu healed if we started as soon as we detected the
earliest symptoms.
If the ailment got a strong hold on us, then it
was harder and took longer and some determination to
get it to leave.
An illustration we heard that really helped us
is this: Treat
a sickness as if the UPS driver delivered a gunny sack
full of snakes to your house and insisted he leave
them for they are addressed to you. Refuse them! Order
them away! And
don‘t give up until they are gone!
Most people say, when a sickness begins, “I
believe I’m catching a cold.”
They have accepted it.
This determination can’t exist if you think
God put the sickness on you to teach you something.
We heard many sermons and teachings that
showed us Scriptures that sickness is of the devil
and God is the healer.
John 10:10, Acts 10:38 and Luke 13:16 are
three.
Also, our faith is supposed to win in life’s
storms. I
John 5:4-5 says that faith is the victory that
overcomes the world.
(If it’s in the world, then your faith can
win over it.)
From
Faith to Faith
One day at another friend’s house, the wife
told me that her back was hurting, and had been for
several days. I
asked her if she’d be willing to try something.
She said, “Sure.”
I said, “Repeat after me:
“I, the Lord, am your Healer.”
She did, and then I said, “And, ‘By His
stripes, I’m healed.’”
She repeated that too.
And then I said, “Say them both.”
I did, and then she repeated them.
Then her face lit up, and she said,
“The pain’s gone!
I can move!”
And she showed me by bending all around.
I tried to tell her that God did that quickly
to show her that the Word works, and faith works. But
it’s like developing muscles. It will be harder next time, so you must memorize some of
these verses to build your own faith.
She objected and demanded that I show her in
the Scriptures where it was like building muscles.
I didn’t know a verse to use, so I was stuck.
But a year or so later, I found Heb.12:2,
“Looking unto Jesus, the Author and finisher
(or developer) of our faith.”
The Amplified Bible makes that clear.
These few stories show you how I got started,
and should encourage you that you can do it too.
God is no respecter of persons
(Acts 10:34), but He does respect His word and
faith. Those
work, but have to be developed.
Start small like I did, and listen to teachings on this subject and you will grow to be able to
do what Jesus did
(John 14:12).
|
