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The Lord said healing came out of Him like sunbeam rays and caused you and me to jump out of
there like a calf out of a stall. Why? Because when His power comes in, the disease goes out.
When His strength comes in, the weakness goes out.
Say this out loud:
“I believe in the power of God. I believe in the anointing.”
The New English Translation says, “For you who respect my name, the sun of vindication will
rise with healing wings, and you will skip about like calves released from the stall.”
Another one says, “You’ll jump around like well-fed calves.”
“You’ll be as free and happy as calves let out of a stall.”
“You will go forth and gambol like calves released from the stall and leap for joy.”
“You’ll go free leaping with joy like calves let out to the pasture.”
Hallelujah. Kick your legs a little bit. I think there ought to be a lot of jumping and bucking and
skipping. This is Bible—not fantasy, not imagination. “Unto you that fear my name… Unto you
the Sun of righteousness will arise with healing like sunbeams and you will go forth and grow up
as calves of the stall.” Glory to God.
Jesus laid hands on people. We practice this today.
I want you to notice something interesting here in Mark 7. They said, “Put your hand on him.”
He did, and he was healed.
A similar thing happened in Mark 8:22. “And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind
man unto him, and besought him to touch him.” What do they want? They want Him to touch
him. “And he took the blind man by the hand,” so He’s already touching him, “and led him out
of the town.”
Sometimes you have to get people away from other people in order to help them because they
are surrounded by unbelief and fear. Sometimes to help people, you have to get them away from
their own family. I’ve seen it. I’ve seen people improve greatly, and as soon as they got back
with their family, they just started going down again, because they just live in a pool of fear and
unbelief. That’s sad, but it’s true. That’s why you need a good church. That’s why you need a
bunch of good faith buddies, faith friends, people who will stand with you, believe with you, and
not ask you a thousand times a day, “How do you feel? I mean, you look bad. Come on now,
don’t give me all that faith talk. How do you
really
feel?” Friend, you don’t need that. You
already know how you feel. Talking about it isn’t going to make you feel any better about how
you feel, but faith will. Talking the Word will.
Verse 23 continues, “And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and
when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him,” notice He put His hands on him, “he
asked him if he saw aught. And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.” Well, he