225 / 298
The Gifts of Healings
219
“Preacher, I don’t understand. Why would God heal me? I’ve been mean. I’ve been a bad man.”
And he just broke. He said, “I’m healed. Why would God heal me? There are so many other
people who deserve to be healed. Why would God heal me?” This was his thinking. “Why would
God heal me?”
I told him, “He loves you. No matter what you’ve done, He still loves you.”
“Why would He do this?” He melted. He knelt down there on the floor and received Jesus as his
Lord.
Well, what if two years later something happened to his body, and he came to me and I said,
“Well now, it may not be God’s will for you to be healed.”
What could he say? “Yeah, but you told me that when He healed me the last time, it was because
He loved me, and that’s Who He is, and that’s how He is, and that’s His will.” They came in on
healing—a sign of God’s love and will. That’s what the sign indicated. How do we know it’s
God’s will for all to be healed? Because of His signs. The signs and the special things, the gifts
of healings, the working of miracles, the special faith—these are all saying, “This is God. This is
Who He is. This is what He is, and it’s still available to everyone by faith in the Word.”
We saw signs, and we saw wonders. We saw Peter’s shadow, we saw Paul’s hands on those
cloths, we saw the lame man at the Gate called Beautiful, and we saw Paul ministering to that
man on the island. But notice, so much of it was a result of this prayer. Acts 4:24 says, “They
lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made
heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is.” Then in verse 29, they said, “And now,
Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may
speak thy word, By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done
by the name of thy holy child Jesus.” It must have pleased the Lord because when they had
prayed, He shook the place where they were. He shook that place and filled them all with His
Spirit, and they immediately began speaking the Word of God with boldness, like they had
prayed, and just a few verses later, you see these healings.
A number of years ago, I was in a healing service similar to this, with this kind of flow and this
kind of spirit. The Lord led us to just all stand up and pray like this and believe for miracles,
“right now.” I’m not talking about some day and some dispensation. He led us to believe for
miracles “right now.” And we did. We just stood up. There was no fast piano music. I wasn’t
screaming and yelling. I just said, “Alright, let’s pray right now. Let’s believe.” And we prayed.
We released our faith. We asked God to do miracles in our midst “right now,” and then expected
Him to do it, and then thanked Him for it.
A few minutes later I asked the people, “Has something changed in you, that you can tell?”
Several people raised their hands. We had testimonies. Miracles had happened.
Then the next day, I found out about another thing, and I found out more in the days and weeks
after that; they just kept coming in. Some things are not always obvious at the moment.