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Health Food – March 31 By Rhema Team, Mar 31, 2020 Possess The Land! Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples  [examples] : and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.  — 1 CORINTHIANS 10:11 The Bible teaches us that what happened to those in the Old Testament happened as examples for us. For example, God delivered Israel out of Egypt, which symbolizes the world, and led them into Canaan’s land. What does Canaan’s land symbolize? In the early years, I was taught that Canaan’s land was a type or foreshadowing of Heaven. But how could Canaan’s land ever symbolize Heaven since there aren’t going to be any battles or enemies in Heaven? There are no giants there who are against us, no cities to take, and no battles to fight in Heaven! I believe that Canaan’s land is a type of the baptism in the Holy Ghost and of our rights and privileges in Christ Jesus, including divine healing. God said to Israel, “I give you the land” (Joshua 1...

Faith Food – March 30 By Rhema Team, Mar 30, 2020 To Usward Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward  . . . . — PSALM 40:5 Did you notice this phrase in Ephesians 1:19, “. . .  the exceeding greatness of his power to usward who believe  . . .”? All the demonstration of the glory of God shown in the manifestation of His omnipotence pointed to man — “to usward.” The Cross of Christ — with what is revealed of obedience to God, atonement for sin, and crushing defeat for the enemies of divine authority — shows us a representative Man. Christ was our Representative, our Substitute — overcoming for mankind and preparing a throne and a heavenly ministry for those who should overcome through Him. Therefore, the source of our authority is found in the resurrection and seating of Christ by God. In the Book of Ephesians, we learn that God wants the Church to gain revelation knowledge of all that this means to us. Confess...

Health Food – March 30 By Rhema Team, Mar 30, 2020 The Never-Failing Remedy Of God’s Word . . . he shall have whatsoever he saith.  — MARK 11:23 The next morning, Dr. Yeomans and her sister fed their patients breakfast. Then Dr. Yeomans asked this particular woman if she had been saying what she told her to say. She said, “Oh, it seemed like I didn’t sleep but ten minutes last night. I must have said it ten thousand times, but it doesn’t mean a thing in the world to me. I don’t understand it.” Dr. Yeomans said, “That’s all right, honey. You just keep saying it over and over again, every waking moment.” If people would work at receiving divine healing like they ought to, it would work for them. But so many times, they only do it half-heartedly and then go on thinking about something else. In that case, it won’t work for them. They have to get down to business. Well, on the third day, Dr. Yeomans went to this woman’s room again and read scriptures on the subject of healing to her for...

Faith Food – March 29 By Rhema Team, Mar 29, 2020 Resurrection Power That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection  . . . . — PHILIPPIANS 3:10 Paul was actually praying in Ephesians that the Church would receive revelation knowledge of spiritual things. If you’ve been praying the Ephesian prayers for yourself, as I’ve suggested, you know that Paul wanted the believers at Ephesus to know: “. . . the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is  to come ” (Eph. 1:19-21). There was such a manifestation of the divine omnipotence of God’s power in raising Jesus from the dead that it is actually the mightiest working of God!  And God wants us to know wh...

Health Food – March 29 By Rhema Team, Mar 29, 2020 You Are Redeemed From The Curse Of The Law Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree.  — GALATIANS 3:13 Dr. Yeomans had every scripture on the subject of divine healing marked in her Bible. For two hours, she sat next to this woman who had tuberculosis and read those healing scriptures to her. Then at the end, she read Deuteronomy chapter 28 and Galatians chapter 3. She read them over and over again. Then she just read Deuteronomy 28:61 and Galatians 3:13. Dr. Yeomans told the woman, “Every waking moment, say, ‘According to Deuteronomy 28:61, sickness and disease is a curse of the Law. Tuberculosis is a curse of the Law. But according to Galatians 3:13, Christ has redeemed me from the curse of the Law. Therefore, I no longer have TB.’” The woman said, “But I don’t understand it.” Dr. Yeomans said, “That’s all right. You just say what I...

Faith Food – March 28 By Rhema Team, Mar 28, 2020 Source Behold, I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing shall in any wise hurt you.  — LUKE 10:19 (ASV) Authority is delegated power. Its value depends on the force behind the user. Jesus said, “I have given you authority.” Who gave it? Jesus did. Who is Jesus?  Jesus is God manifested in the flesh!  That means that God said it. Therefore, God said “I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy.” (Serpents and scorpions represent demons and evil spirits and the power of the enemy.) God Himself is the Power, the Force, behind this authority. The believer who is fully conscious of divine authority can therefore face the enemy without fear or hesitation. Behind the authority possessed by the believer is a Power far greater than the power that backs our enemies. And those enemies are compelled to reco...

Health Food – March 28 By Rhema Team, Mar 28, 2020 God Sent His Word To Heal You He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.  — PSALM 107:20 Dr. Yeomans and her sister were both doctors and had a beautiful home in southern California—actually a two-story mansion—which they turned into a “faith home.” They would take patients into their home to get them healed by divine power, not by medicine. They could only handle four patients at a time because Dr. Yeomans traveled and taught most of the time. Her sister, Amy Yeomans, was the one who took care of the patients. What did they do to get people healed? They simply taught them from the Word of God. It wasn’t the Holy Ghost initiating anything, such as a gift of the Spirit (1 Cor. 12:9–11). The people were healed by initiating their own healing on the basis of their faith in the Word of God. In Dr. Yeomans’ day, tuberculosis was the number-two killer in America. As soon as a patient was healed, the ne...

Faith Food – March 27 By Rhema Team, Mar 27, 2020 Whom Resist Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Whom resist stedfast in the faith  . . . . — 1 PETER 5:8,9 In 1942, I had a battle with symptoms in my body. I prayed, appropriated the promises of God, and stood my ground. But at times it looked like I wasn’t going to make it. One such night I had a dream. I dreamed another man and I were on some kind of a parade ground. It was like a football field. There were stands on either side. As we walked along talking, suddenly the man looked back and yelled, “Look!” and he started running. I turned and saw that two ferocious lions were almost upon me. I ran about two steps. Then I hollered to the other man, “You’ll never make it! You can’t outrun them!” I stopped still, turned around, and faced them. I was trembling. My flesh was covered with goose pimples. But I said, “I stand against you. I refuse to budge ...

Health Food – March 27 By Rhema Team, Mar 27, 2020 Divine Healing That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.  — 1 CORINTHIANS 2:5 Dr. Lilian B. Yeomans was a medical doctor who was born and raised in Canada and then moved to the United States. Her mother and father were doctors, and her grandfather had been a medical doctor too. In her mid-forties, Dr. Yeomans practiced medicine in a large New York hospital. She began to take stimulants and narcotics to energize her and, eventually, became a dope addict. Other complications set in, and medical science of the day gave her up to die. An older gentleman told her about divine healing. She knew something about medical healing, but she had never heard about divine healing. This older gentleman asked her if she wanted him to pray with her. She said, “I’d better pray myself first, because I’ve gotten away from God. I knew God when I was a little girl, but I haven’t known Him for years.” She spent part o...

Faith Food – March 26 By Rhema Team, Mar 26, 2020 Be Strong Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.  — EPHESIANS 6:10,11 What would you think if you saw a traffic policeman in front of a car, trying to hold it back? You’d think,  He can’t do that. He’s no match for that car! Some people read Ephesians 6:10 and think that the Lord is telling them to be strong in themselves. And they’re trying to be strong. They’ll say, “Oh, pray for me that I’ll hold out faithful to the end!” But God didn’t say a word about our being strong in ourselves or in the power of our might. That traffic policeman steps right out in front of those cars and holds up his hand, because he knows they’re going to stop for him. He doesn’t have to exert any strength himself; he’s strong in the authority that’s been given to him. That is what the Lord is telling us. He’s saying, “Be s...

Health Food – March 26 By Rhema Team, Mar 26, 2020 As The Spirit Wills But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will . — 1 CORINTHIANS 12:11 The gifts of the Spirit are listed in First Corinthians 12. These gifts belong to the Church, and are manifested through individuals as the Spirit wills, not as man wills. I have had them manifest through me at times, and at other times, I would try to manifest these gifts myself. I would push every button, pull every lever, say everything I had said before, but nothing would happen. Why? Because the Spirit and the anointing weren’t present to manifest these gifts. First Corinthians 12:8 says, “For to one is given by the Spirit. . . .” No man controls the manifestation of the gifts of the Spirit; the manifestation is given as the Spirit wills. I have been in meetings where people ministered with the word of knowledge or the gifts of healing. The minister would only call out four or five people, ...

Faith Food – March 25 By Rhema Team, Mar 25, 2020 Delegated Power And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power [authority] is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore  . . . . — MATTHEW 28:18,19 The authority on earth that is invested in the Name of Jesus Christ and was obtained by Him through His overcoming Satan was then delegated by Jesus Christ to the Church. Jesus spoke these words in Matthew 28 after His death on the cross, after His burial, after His defeat of Satan in hell, after His resurrection, after His ascension with His own blood to the heavenly Holy of Holies — but just  before  His ascension to be seated at the right hand of the Father. Jesus said that all authority in Heaven and on earth is given to Him. Then He immediately transferred this authority on earth to His Church, saying, “ Go ye therefore  . . . .” Mark records that Jesus said at this same time, “ And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they c...

Health Food – March 25 By Rhema Team, Mar 25, 2020 God Does Some Things As A Sign For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had . — JOHN 5:4 I was preaching down in east Texas one time, and just as I closed my sermon, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, “There’s a sinner man standing outside this building, looking at you through those open doors. He has a double hernia. Call him in here and lay your hands on him, and the double hernia will disappear instantly.” Well, I just repeated what I had heard and that fellow came in. After I laid hands on him, some of the men took him into the back room and examined him, but they couldn’t find the hernia. It had disappeared! The next day, the pastor said, “Brother Hagin, nearly every man in this community knows this fellow, because he is the biggest landowner in this county. And if the governor o...

Faith Food – March 24 By Rhema Team, Mar 24, 2020 Authority Behold, I give unto you power [authority] to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.  . . . . — LUKE 10:19 The Greek word “exousia” means  authority . However, it is often translated as “power” in the  King James Version  of the New Testament. In our text, for example, two different Greek words are translated as “power,” yet the correct translation of the first word is “authority.” Our verse should read, “I give you  authority  to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy . . . .” What is the difference between power and authority? Well, what can one uniformed police officer do to direct the flow of rush hour traffic? He can do a great deal. Is it because the policeman has the  power  to hold back these mighty machines? No! His most strenuous efforts couldn’t stop the swiftly passing cars. He...

Health Food – March 24 By Rhema Team, Mar 24, 2020 You Can Receive Healing Anytime And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.  — MARK 5:29 Healings may also be initiated by man. In Mark chapter 5, we have the account of the woman with the issue of blood, who initiated her own healing. Notice verse 27: “When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment.” This woman started the ball rolling by doing something. She said, “. . . If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole” (v. 28). Jesus responded to her and said, “. . . Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague” (v. 34). You, too, can initiate your own healing by acting on God’s Word. You don’t have to sit around like those at the pool of Bethesda and wait for God to initiate something. No, you can receive healing from God at any time by acting on His Word. Confession:  I can reach ou...

Faith Food – March 23 By Rhema Team, Mar 23, 2020 For Another I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.  — 3 JOHN 1:4 When a Spirit-filled relative of mine couldn’t seem to grasp certain important Bible truths, I prayed the Ephesian prayers for him every morning and night, inserting his name in the appropriate places. Lord, I’m praying this prayer for “Joe.” God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, give unto “Joe” the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him. I pray that the eyes of “Joe’s” understanding be enlightened; that “Joe” may know what is the hope of His calling, and what is the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints . . . . And I continued on through both prayers. I prayed these prayers for him morning and night for ten days. Finally he wrote me, saying, “It’s amazing how things have opened up to me. I’m beginning to see what you’ve been talking about.” No human teacher had talked to him about spiritual matte...

Health Food – March 23 By Rhema Team, Mar 23, 2020 God Initiates Some Healings On His Own For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.  — JOHN 5:4 There is a difference between God initiating healing and you initiating healing. In John chapter 5, the Bible tells us that there was a pool called Bethesda in Jerusalem. And around this pool were five porches full of the weak, sick, and maimed. They were all waiting for an angel to come down periodically and trouble the water. And then the first person in would be healed. Everyone else had to wait until the angel came down again. God initiated that on His own. He didn’t ask you or me whether He could or not. He didn’t ask the Sanhedrin or anybody else whether He could or not, because He is God. God can do whatever He wants to do, and we know that whatever He does will not violate His Word, be...

Health Food – March 22 By Rhema Team, Mar 22, 2020 You Must Be In Position To Receive Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his  [Jesus’]  own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us . — HEBREWS 9:12 Because healing was purchased for us, it belongs to everyone, but not every person is in position to receive his healing. Sometimes we have to move people into position to receive what already belongs to them. You know, sometimes we don’t have as much sense when it comes to spiritual things as we do natural things. That’s why Jesus used natural things to explain spiritual things. Sometimes people have the idea that if something belongs to them spiritually, it’s just going to automatically fall on them, even though things don’t automatically fall on us in the natural. I want you to know that salvation belongs to the meanest person in your hometown just as much as it does to you or me. But he hasn’t accepted it, and he may n...

Faith Food – March 21 By Rhema Team, Mar 21, 2020 Wisdom And Revelation [I]  Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers.  — EPHESIANS 1:16 Ephesians 1:17-23 and 3:14-21 are Spirit-given prayers which apply to the Church everywhere. The turning point in my life came when I prayed them a thousand times or more for myself. I would kneel, open my Bible, and say, “Father, I’m praying these prayers for myself. Because they are Spirit-given prayers, this has to be Your will for me, just as it was Your will for the Church at Ephesus.” Then I would continue to pray by reading from these passages, except wherever Paul said, “you,” I would substitute “me,” as follows: That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto “me” the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: The eyes of “my” understanding being enlightened; that “I” may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in th...

Health Food – March 21 By Rhema Team, Mar 21, 2020 Healing Doesn’t Just ‘Fall’ On You “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find;” “knock, and it shall be opened unto you . — MATTHEW 7:7 I remember a man who wrote us from the penitentiary in McAlester, Oklahoma. He was in the penitentiary because he killed somebody. He was not only a murderer, but was also a gambler and a thief. He said in his letter, “I’ve tried it all and haven’t found satisfaction. I don’t know if there is a God or not, but if there is, I want you to help me find Him.” Well, we were able to help him find God. Now we didn’t write and tell him, “You’ve murdered people. You’ve been living in sin and immorality. You’ll have to wait for Jesus to die for you to purchase your salvation.” No! God had already purchased this man’s salvation through Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection. His new birth was waiting; it was wrapped up with his name on it. God was just waiting for him to accept it. Salvation didn’t ...

Faith Food – March 20 By Rhema Team, Mar 20, 2020 The Prodigal And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. And he arose, and came to his father  . . . . — LUKE 15:17-20 Jesus gave me this example from the New Testament of these four principles being followed. Notice that the first thing the prodigal son did was,  he said it ! Then,  he did it . He climbed out of that hog pasture, and he started down the road toward home. Next,  he received it . His father saw him coming afar off, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. His father said, “Bring the robe and put it on him. Bring the ring and put it on his finger. Bring shoes and put them on his feet. Kill the fatt...

Health Food – March 20 By Rhema Team, Mar 20, 2020 The Problem Is Not With God If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you . — JOHN 15:7 Many years ago, when I was pastoring a church, I was praying about a certain thing. I was praying just like everyone else does—leaving it more up to God than me—and God just dropped the following illustration down into my heart: One day after church, my wife discovers that the diamond out of the engagement ring I gave her is gone. She knows it was there before she left for church because she noticed it. The diamond must have fallen out somewhere between the parsonage and the church. What do I do? I search for it. I go over the ground carefully and, if necessary, get down on my knees. I divide every blade of grass, going over the area carefully, because I know it has to be there somewhere. Then I heard something on the inside of me say, “Similarly, it’s in ‘this’ area that you’re missing it in ...

Faith Food – March 19 By Rhema Team, Mar 19, 2020 David And Goliath Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. This day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give you into our hands.  — 1 SAMUEL 17:45-47 I asked the Lord to give me more scriptures which use these same principles. Jesus smiled and said, “All right. They’re in an Old Testament story you’ve known from your youth — the story of David and Goliath.” “Is that what David did?” I asked. “Exa...

Health Food – March 19 By Rhema Team, Mar 19, 2020 A Minor Adjustment Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines. . . .  — SOLOMON 2:15 The Bible says that the little foxes spoil the vines. So sometimes, we just need to make a little adjustment to receive our answer to prayer. Then we’ll receive our healing. I remember a person who was seeking healing. Now, he was saved and filled with the Holy Ghost. But if people were automatically healed because they were saved and filled with the Holy Ghost, then all Spirit-filled people would be healed. As I was talking with this person seeking healing, suddenly, he said, “That’s it! That’s it right there!” I really didn’t know what he was talking about. He wasn’t asking any questions; we were just discussing the Bible. But, all of a sudden, this person saw where he had failed to make the prayer connection. he made the connection and he got results. If you aren’t getting results, the problem is not with God. Too many times, peop...

Faith Food – March 18 By Rhema Team, Mar 18, 2020 Step 4: Tell It O give thanks unto the Lord; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people. Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous works.  — PSALM 105:1,2 Step 4: Tell it.  This woman, “. . .  knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth ” (Mark 5:33). Not only did Jesus hear her, but the whole crowd heard her. Jesus said to me concerning this step, “Tell it so that others may believe it and receive it.” There is a difference between this step and the first step. The first is,  Say it . This fourth step is  Tell it . The woman  said  what she believed. Then, after she received, she  told  what had happened to her. 1. Say it. 2. Do it. 3. Receive it. 4. Tell it. I asked Jesus, when He gave me these steps, “Are You telling me that any believer, anywhere, can write a ticket of victory over the world, the flesh, and t...

Health Food – March 18 By Rhema Team, Mar 18, 2020 God Doesn’t Remember Your Mist Akes I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins . — ISAIAH 43:25 What could be holding up your healing? The devil may be telling you that because you made some mistakes, because you sinned, you’re paying for it now. The devil is a liar. That’s not so! When you confessed and repented of those things, Jesus forgave you. He doesn’t remember that you ever did anything wrong. When my son Ken was small, he sometimes wanted to act up in church. I would say to him, “Now I’m going to punish you if you do that again. When we get home, I’m going to spank you.” Well, often, I would forget that I said that, so I never did punish him. For me to punish him, I would have had to have remembered that I said I would. God said, “I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins” (Isa. 43:25). For God to punish y...

Faith Food – March 17 By Rhema Team, Mar 17, 2020 Step 3: Receive It And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague. And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes?  — MARK 5:29,30 Jesus knew that  power  had gone out of Him. At that time, Jesus was the only representative of the Godhead at work upon the earth. He was anointed with the Holy Spirit (Acts 10:38). In that day, to get to where the power was, you had to go where Jesus was. Today, the Holy Spirit in the Person of the Godhead is at work upon the earth. He is everywhere present — and wherever the Holy Spirit is, there is  power . Nuclear bombs release radioactivity into the atmosphere — a power that can neither be seen nor felt, but a power that is both dangerous and deadly. However, there is a power working upon the earth this moment that is neither...

Health Food – March 17 By Rhema Team, Mar 17, 2020 Sickness Is The Work Of The Devil How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him . — ACTS 10:38 Right after Rev. Dowie heard from the Spirit of God concerning the bubonic plague, there was a knock on his door. Three young men burst into his study. One of the young men said to Rev. Dowie, “Come quickly, Mary is dying, and Momma wants you to come.” Mary was a twelve-year-old girl who had the bubonic plague. Rev. Dowie jumped from his desk, hatless and coatless, and ran down the street with the young men. He ran into the house, where the little girl lay on the bed in convulsions. That’s the way people died with the bubonic plague; they died in convulsions with bloody froth running out their mouth. The doctor said to Rev. Dowie, “In what mysterious ways God moves, His wonders to perform.” Rev. Dowie, having just receive...

Faith Food – March 16 By Rhema Team, Mar 16, 2020 Step 2: Do It What good is it, my brethren, if a man professes to have faith, and yet his actions do not correspond. . . . some one will say, “You have faith, I have actions: prove to me your faith apart from corresponding actions and I will prove mine to you by my actions. . . .” You notice that his [Abraham’s] faith was co-operating with his actions, and that by his actions his faith was perfected.  — JAMES 2:14,18,22 (Weymouth) Step 2: Do it.  It wouldn’t have done that woman with the issue of blood any good to have said, “If I may but touch His clothes I shall be whole,” if she hadn’t  acted  on what she said. Jesus said to me in that vision, “Your actions defeat you, or they put you over. According to your actions, you receive, or you are kept from receiving.” That’s important. Read it again. The Book of James is written to  believers . James said, “What doth it profit,  my brethren .” Most people think...

Health Food – March 16 By Rhema Team, Mar 16, 2020 Settle The Issue How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.  — ACTS 10:38 I have read about Rev. John Alexander Dowie, a Congregationalist pastor in Australia in the 1870s, when a bubonic plague came to Australia. People were dying like flies during that epidemic. Rev. Dowie had already buried forty-three members of his congregation, and had four more waiting to be buried. While sitting at the desk in his study one day, he began to cry out to God. “Dear God, is my whole church going to die? Did You send this plague? Is this Your will? Are You going to call them all home?” He didn’t know who was to blame for it. He had read in the Old Testament how plagues could sometimes be stayed. Could this plague be stayed? He wept for the members of his congregation. The Spirit of God spoke one verse of Scripture to his...

Faith Food – March 15 By Rhema Team, Mar 15, 2020 Step 1: Say It For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague. . . . And he [Jesus] said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.  — MARK 5:28,29,34 The Lord Jesus Christ gave me a sermon during a vision in 1953. He told me to get pencil and paper and to write down 1, 2, 3, 4. Then He said, “If anyone, everywhere, will take these four steps, or put these four principles into operation, they will always receive whatever they want from Me, or from God the Father.” The steps Jesus gave me are simple. They are (1)  Say it ; (2)  Do it ; (3)  Receive it ; and (4)  Tell it . Jesus used the healing of the woman with the issue of blood to illustrate these four steps. Step 1: Say it.  What was the woman’s first step toward being healed...

Health Food – March 15 By Rhema Team, Mar 15, 2020 Do You Believe In Divine Healing? Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men’s sins: keep thyself pure.  — 1 TIMOTHY 5:22 As I sat down to talk with the mother and her daughter, I said to the daughter, “Do you believe in divine healing?” “Well,” she said, “To be honest with you, no, I don’t. I didn’t want to hurt Momma’s feelings, so I thought I would just go ahead and have you lay hands on me.” “That’s the reason I’m not going to pray for you,” I said. “You understand that God can heal you though, don’t you?” “No, no,” she said. “We don’t preach healing in our church. But I have great confidence in my pastor, because he’s a man of God. And if divine healing were so, he would have told me about it.” I replied, “I’m sure your pastor is a good man who loves the Lord with all his heart and is walking in all the light he has, but there was a time I didn’t see some things in the Bible that I now know to be true. Let ...

Faith Food- March 14 By Rhema Team, Mar 14, 2020 Obstacles . . . And much people followed him [Jesus], and thronged him. And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years. . . . When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment.  — MARK 5:24,25,27 To receive her healing, this woman had a number of obstacles to overcome. In her religious tradition, a woman with an issue of blood was considered in the same category as a leper. She was not supposed to mingle in public. If anyone came close to her, she was to cry, “Unclean! Unclean!” In fact, the women in ancient Israel didn’t have the same rights and privileges to mix freely in public that most women in the modern world have. You could say that a multitude of people stood between this woman and her healing. Public sentiment and her own religious teachings stood between her and getting to Jesus. But she overcame all obstacles. She got into the very midst of the crowd, and she reached through to ...

Health Food – March 14 By Rhema Team, Mar 14, 2020 Don’t Lay Hands On Others Suddenly Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men’s sins: keep thyself pure.  — 1 TIMOTHY 5:22 In writing to Timothy, Paul said, “ Lay hands suddenly on no man. . . . ” If you read the whole context of this verse, Paul is not talking about laying hands on someone to do the person harm; he’s talking about the doctrine of the laying on of hands. He is instructing Timothy not to be quick to lay hands on people and pray for them. I believe it is important that people are ready to receive when hands are laid on them. I remember a woman who brought her daughter to me to be healed. The daughter was facing major surgery, and the woman wanted me to pray for her. Well, I endeavor to keep my spirit open to the Spirit of God, so before the mother said anything, I knew on the inside of me that the daughter didn’t believe in divine healing and was just coming to please her mother. So I said to the ...

Health Food – March 14 By Rhema Team, Mar 14, 2020 Don’t Lay Hands On Others Suddenly Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men’s sins: keep thyself pure.  — 1 TIMOTHY 5:22 In writing to Timothy, Paul said, “ Lay hands suddenly on no man. . . . ” If you read the whole context of this verse, Paul is not talking about laying hands on someone to do the person harm; he’s talking about the doctrine of the laying on of hands. He is instructing Timothy not to be quick to lay hands on people and pray for them. I believe it is important that people are ready to receive when hands are laid on them. I remember a woman who brought her daughter to me to be healed. The daughter was facing major surgery, and the woman wanted me to pray for her. Well, I endeavor to keep my spirit open to the Spirit of God, so before the mother said anything, I knew on the inside of me that the daughter didn’t believe in divine healing and was just coming to please her mother. So I said to the ...

Health Food – March 13 By Rhema Team, Mar 13, 2020 The Foundation For Healing That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.  — MATTHEW 8:17 Our faith is not founded on what man says, but on what God says. In Isaiah 53:4 and 5, Matthew 8:17, and First Peter 2:24, God says that it is His will that we be well. So don’t question that healing is the will of God! I’ve found again and again in my dealings with people that the majority of people are hung up on this issue of whether or not it’s God’s will to heal them. Even though they’re seeking healing and want to be healed, they’re not really sure if it’s God’s will. Something lurks in the back of their minds that was probably put there by religious teaching. Even though they may have seen others receive healing, they still aren’t sure that healing is for them. And, of course, the devil will do his best to talk them out of healing. If he can get them to l...

Faith Food – March 13 By Rhema Team, Mar 13, 2020 God’s Medicine My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health  [medicine]  to all their flesh.  . . . . — PROVERBS 4:20-22 A marginal note in a good reference Bible will show that the last phrase of the above text can read “and medicine to all their flesh.”  This means that God has “prescribed” His words for our healing and for our health! But medicine, even in the natural, won’t do any good unless you take it according to directions. You could go to a doctor, get a prescription, have it filled, take it home, set it on your bedside table — and still grow steadily worse! You could call the doctor and complain, “I don’t understand it. I paid good money for this prescription, but I’m getting worse.” The doctor might ask, “Are you taking your medicine according to the directio...

Faith Food – March 12 By Rhema Team, Mar 12, 2020 A Psalm Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs  . . . . — COLOSSIANS 3:16 Here is the psalm the Holy Spirit gave me on the subject of words. Words seem so insignificant and small that men oft times take no note of them at all. But words spoken in faith, create realities . . . So rise up and speak, like the Creator of the universe, Who, in faith, said, LET THERE BE — and THERE WAS. Words — you speak them all the time, filled with negativism and defeat, Those words create defeat, and make you unsuccessful, unhealthy, and unwise. But Words given by God, inspired by His Spirit, called by men, the Holy Writ, These words heard with the ear of faith, And spoken out of a heart filled with faith, Will create in your life, and your family’s too, Success and victory; health and healing; Circumstances and darkness and troubles too, will run away from...

Health Food – March 12 By Rhema Team, Mar 12, 2020 We Have A Better Covenant . . . he [Jesus] is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.  — HEBREWS 8:6 Under the Old Covenant, the Israelites were servants of God; they weren’t sons of God, as we are today. The Bible says concerning us, “ Beloved, now are we the sons of God . . . ” (1 John 3:2). Since God made provision under the Old Covenant for His servants to be healed and well, He has surely made provision for us as His sons. Under the Old Covenant, God said, “ . . . I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil ” (Exod. 23:25–26). He made provision for their healing, saying, “ . . . I am the Lord that healeth thee ” (Exod. 15:26). God made provision under the Old Covenant whereby Israel could live out their full length of time down here on earth without sickness and disease. Now since ...

Faith Food – March 11 By Rhema Team, Mar 11, 2020 Saying The Same Thing Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession [confession].  — HEBREWS 4:14 The Greek word translated “profession” here is translated  confession  elsewhere in the  King James Version . The literal Greek meaning of this word is  to speak the same thing . So instead of saying, “Let us hold fast our confession” we could say, “Let us hold fast to speaking the same thing.” Notice that  words  are involved here. The thing that defeats many people is that they have a double confession. One time they confess one thing, and the next time they confess something else. For example, they may say to you, “Yes, the Lord is my Shepherd, and I shall not want. According to Philippians 4:19, my God shall supply all of my need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus — and I’m believing God to supply my nee...

Health Food – March 11 By Rhema Team, Mar 11, 2020 Healing In The New Testament Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.  — JAMES 5:14–15 An inward intuition, that inward witness on the inside of me, told me that the answer was in the Book—in the Bible. And that was the difference between life and death for me. Most folks would have given up and died at fifteen years of age. But I got into the Book. I slept with it in my arms; I hugged it to my bosom; I hung on to it in the night. Praise God for the Book, for the Word of God. I found out that God not only dealt with sickness in the Old Testament, but He also dealt with sickness in the New Testament, under the New Covenant. Now I had read James 5:14 and 15 in the New Testament many times before. But...

Faith Food – March 10 By Rhema Team, Mar 10, 2020 Fruit Of The Mouth A man’s belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.  — PROVERBS 18:20 You won’t get the blessings of God just because you believe. You don’t get saved, healed, or get answers to prayer just because you believe. Most Christians think that is the case, but it isn’t what the Bible teaches. The Bible teaches that you must believe and you must say something. For example, in order to be saved, Romans 10:9 and 10 says, “ That if thou shalt CONFESS WITH THY MOUTH the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. ” Notice it doesn’t say you’ll be saved just because you believe. The very next verse says, “ For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; AND WITH THE MOUTH CONFESSION IS MADE UNTO SALVATION. ” Jesus didn’t conclude Mark 11:23 by saying you’d have whatsoever you believed. He conclude...

Health Food – March 10 By Rhema Team, Mar 10, 2020 Bible Principles Work My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.  — PROVERBS 4:20–22 Begin to see yourself well and confess that you are well according to Proverbs 4:20 through 22. What is not supposed to depart from your eyes? God’s words, which say that by Jesus’ stripes, you were healed (1 Peter 2:24). The word “were” is past tense, so if that scripture doesn’t depart from before your eyes, you will soon see yourself well. It’s amazing to me how people out in the world will unknowingly take Bible principles, put them into practice, and get results. I remember reading about a new therapy technique some hospitals were using on cancer patients. They would teach the patients to visualize themselves well. I don’t know whether or not they knew the source of that tec...

Faith Food – March 9 By Rhema Team, Mar 9, 2020 Overcoming Faith For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.  — 1 JOHN 5:4 I may be in the world, but I am not of the world. I am of God. My citizenship is in Heaven. And while I am in this world, I have the Greater One living in me. Greater is He that is in me, than he that is in the world (1 John 4:4). Who is in the world? The devil. He’s called the god of this world in Second Corinthians 4:4. What is in the world? Sin. But the Greater One in me is greater than sin. The Greater One conquered sin. What else is in the world? Sickness. It’s not of God. It doesn’t come from Heaven. There’s no sickness up there. Sickness is of this world. But the Greater One in me is the Healer. What else is in the world? Trouble. Adverse circumstances. Seeming impossibilities. But when I’ve faced such things, I’ve just remembered who is on the inside of me and what the Bible says...

Health Food – March 9 By Rhema Team, Mar 9, 2020 God Heals You Through Your Spirit He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions . — PSALM 107:20 AccAs you say the following confession, notice what happens on the inside of you: God’s Word works. Psalm 107:20 says, “He sent His Word and healed them,” so I know He sent His Word and healed me. I no longer have ____________ [fill in the particular sickness or disease]. Did something start to leap and jump on the inside of you? That’s your spirit getting excited. Your spirit knows you’re on the right road. Now your mind may not have grasped what you confessed. In fact, your mind may still be trying to get hold of what you said. Your head may be saying, “I don’t understand it.” But if you’ll listen on the inside of you, you’ll find that there’s something down in there that’s thrilled. Why? Your spirit knows the truth of your confession. God’s healing is spirit healing, not mental healing or physical healing as...

Faith Food – March 8 By Rhema Team, Mar 8, 2020 Transformed Talk Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly  . . . . — PSALM 1:1 . . . Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind  . . . . — ROMANS 12:2 When God’s Word tells us not to be conformed to this world, notice that it relates conformity to the area of the mind. In other words, we are told not to think like the world thinks; we are to get our mind renewed with the Word of God and  think  in line with the Word of God. Then we will  talk  and  believe  in line with the Word of God. The world is programmed negatively. The world thinks sickness, fear, doubt, defeat, and failure. That’s because the world without God is in spiritual death. Therefore, it is programmed to death instead of life. Listen to what people say: “That scares me to death.” If Christians do not renew their minds with the Word of God, they will make the same mistak...