The Laying On of Hands
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You have to interpret a scripture in light of other scriptures. Have you read about God’s enemies
melting at the presence of the Lord? God’s power, His light, is manifest and darkness flees. I
mean, when God comes in, it’s like turning on the light in a roach-infested apartment. What
happens? When the light comes on, they scatter, and that’s what happens when God comes in.
When He manifests, demons and disease can’t hang around.
Remember when Jesus came out of the wilderness, after the Holy Spirit came on Him in the
shape and form of a dove? (Matthew 3:16) All of this anointing and power came on Him, then
He went into the synagogue, and the demons said, “Why did you come to hurt us! You came to
torment us!” That anointing is in you, from the same Holy Spirit. But you must believe in it, and
you must yield to it. And that anointing was being ministered through touch in Jesus’ ministry.
He says specifically that in His hands, God’s hands, is the hiding place of His power.
What if God Who lives in you wanted to touch someone and minister anointing to them? You
shouldn’t think it’s strange that He would want to touch with His hand through your hand, since
you’re made like Him. You have a hand like Him.
Can you see how they’re saying, after just a short time in ministry, “Oh, Master, put Your hand
on him. Would You put Your hand on him? Would You touch him?” And He did, and he was
healed.
He told us that believers would lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. If you’re in a
situation where someone needs help, you don’t need to call the pastor. You’re a believer. You
have hands. That verse is not to preachers; it’s to believers. “And at His power the pestilence
went out.”
In Malachi 4:2, you’ll see a confirmation of this. “But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun
of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of
the stall.”
Another translation says, “For you who obey Me, My saving power will rise on you like the sun
and bring healing like the sun’s rays.” What do those rays come out of? The other verse we read
said that out of His hands was the hiding place of His power. “You’ll be as free and happy as
calves let out of the stall.”
Have you ever seen a calf that’s been well fed and well cared for, but he is kept penned up? Have
you ever seen when he is turned loose? We used to have a little dairy, so I saw it many times.
They grow like a weed, and you feed them and feed them, and they’re just fat and healthy, but
they’re in a stall.
You have that nice pasture, and they’ve been eating on their own really well, so they’re strong
enough to get out of the stall. Have you seen it? You let that calf out of the stall, and what are
you going to see? There will be a little spurt and jump, and then he will look around. He has no
walls, so he will jump a little bit more. And oh, you’ve never seen such jumping, bucking,
kicking, and running.
