Big Healing Book - Here Are Some Wonderful Testimonies of People Who Were Healed

Objection: Here Are Some Wonderful Testimonies of People Who Were Healed After Submitting to God’s Sovereign Will Without Demanding That He Heal Them

(The wonderful testimonies follow. For example, John Doe [not his real name] got seriously ill but called on God, yielding to His sovereignty without speaking in faith, without commanding anything to happen and without being sure of how God would answer. God chose to heal him and he is fine now.)

I am glad that the people involved did get healed. God is merciful. He doesn’t necessarily demand technical perfection from everyone, especially people with little exposure to real divine healing. Moreover, perhaps this denominational author should visit some objectors who claim that there are no real instances of divine healing to be documented anywhere and show them that they’re wrong.

When I was young in the things of God, I would also pray to “seek God’s will” about particular healing cases. I didn’t know the Bible; I had been a flaming atheist not long before then. It was interesting that God always seemed to say, “Yes, I want that person healed,” and the person would be healed when I laid hands on him. I didn’t know any better and God met me where I was. That was OK for a while, but there came a time when I needed to ascertain His will from His Word rather than from a direct revelation in every case. I stopped getting “confirmations” on the inside in particular cases. But I was growing in the Lord and went with “a more sure word of prophecy” – the Word – rather than how I felt that the Holy Spirit was impressing me. Of course, the Holy Spirit had been leading me in line with the Word – He would never lead anyone in the opposite direction from the Word.

I talked elsewhere about the story of the woman who stuck her head in the oven and got baptized with the Holy Spirit and then excitedly told her neighbor, who came and stuck her head in the same oven and got baptized with the Holy Spirit too! That doesn’t mean that we would publish a new half-baked doctrine that ovens are where you get filled with the Spirit. God was just meeting them where they were. I am glad that He didn’t demand that I knew everything before using me. But He does want us to grow in our knowledge of the Word. He would not be happy NOW if a sick person came up in a meeting and I stopped to pray, “God is it Your will to heal this person?” The sick would not be happy either at how long a meeting like that would have to be.

I’ll praise God with anyone who gets healed. It sure beats staying sick! But the difference between the John Doe testimony and mine is that his is not necessarily reproducible. In fact, few people will get healed praying like that. What I preach is reproducible and it will work for anyone who believes it. There is a better way to pray if you want to be healed, and I’m hoping that this book will help you do that.