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April 1,2021 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.—PSALM 107:20 Jesus Is the Word of God Under the Old Testament, the Word that God sent was spoken through the prophets. Under the New Testament, the Word He sent was the Lord Jesus Christ. John’s Gospel says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made” (John 1:1–3). Then verse 14 says, “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us. . . .” The Lord Jesus Christ is called “The Word.” So how did God send His Word to heal you? He sent Jesus to take your infirmities and bear your sicknesses (Matt. 8:17). In the mind of God, you’re already healed. First Peter 2:24 says, “. . . by whose stripes ye WERE healed.” God sent His Word and healed you. If you need healing, I dare you to hold fast to that confession and not say anything to the contrary...

March 31,2021 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. CORINTHIANS10:11 Possess the Land! 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 1:2), and when they crossed over Jordan into Canaan’s l...

March 30, 2021 . . . he shall have whatsoever he saith.—MARK 11:23 The Never-Failing Remedy of God’s Word 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 a solid hour. Then Dr. Yeomans said, “Are ...

March 29, 2021 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 You Are Redeemed From the Curse of the Law 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 told you to say.” The woman began saying, ...

March 28, 2021 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. —PSALM 107:20 God Sent His Word to Heal You 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 next applicant would be notified to come in ...

March 27, 2021 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.—1 CORINTHIANS 2:5 Divine Healing 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 of the night in prayer and got back on good ...

March 26,2021 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.—1CORINTHIANS 12:11 As the Spirit Wills 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, because he can’t go beyond what the Lord ...

March 25, 2021 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 God Does Some Things as a Sign 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 of this state is running for re-election...

March 24, 2021 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 You Can Receive Healing Anytime 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 out in faith and receive healing for myself, just l...

March 23, 2021 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 God Initiates Some Healings on His Own 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, because if He violated His Word, He would be a...

March 22,2021 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 You Must Be in Position to Receive 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 not even know about it. Yet it still bel...

March 21,2021 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.—MATTHEW 7:7 Healing Doesn’t Just ‘Fall’ on You 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 just drop on him while he was in the penite...

March 20, 2021 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 The Problem Is Not With God 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 prayer.” Do you know what I did? Spirit...

March 19, 2021 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines. . . . —SOLOMON 2:15 A Minor Adjustment 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. So he made the connection and he got results. If you aren’t getting results, the problem is not with God. Too.many times, people think, Well, maybe God doesn’t want ...

March 18,2021 I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins. —ISAIAH 43:25 God Doesn’t Remember Your Mistakes 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 you, He would have to remember your sins,...

March 17, 2021 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 Sickness Is the Work of the Devil 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 received this new revelation from God, said, ...

March 16, 2021 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 Settle the Issue 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 heart: Acts 10:38. Rev. Dowie said, in ef...

March 15, 2021 Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men’s sins: keep thyself pure.—1 TIMOTHY 5:22 Do You Believe in Divine Healing? 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 me ask you a question. What if the Bible sa...

March 14,2021 Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men’s sins: keep thyself pure.—1 TIMOTHY 5:22 Don’t Lay Hands on Others Suddenly 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 two of them, “Well, let’s just sit down and ta...

March 13, 2021 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.—MATTHEW 8:17 The Foundation for Healing 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 listen to him, he can rob them of the blessi...

March 12, 2021 . . . he [Jesus] is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.—HEBREWS 8:6 We Have a Better Covenant 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 . . .” (1John 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 He made that provision under the Old Covenant, and...

March 11, 2021 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 Healing in the New Testament 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 one day it dawned on me that James asked ...

March 10, 2021 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 Bible Principles Work 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 technique, but I know where I learned it. The...

March 9, 2021 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. —PSALM 107:20 God Heals You Through Your Spirit As 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 medical science teaches. God’s healing ...

March 8,2021 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.—1PETER 3:4 Listen to Your Heart, Not Your Head More than sixty-eight years ago when I was on the bed of sickness, I began to get a little glimpse of light from the Word of God concerning healing. So I began to talk to other Christians about it. They would tell me, “Well, yes, God did heal under the Old Covenant, but that was just for the Jews. That’s not for usnowadays.” Now many might have responded by thinking, Well, I guess that’s a closed subject then. They’re Christians, and they ought to know what they’re talking about. But, you see, I was no longer religious. I wasn’t just a church person anymore. I had become a Christian. There’s a difference between the two. Unfortunately, many church people have been religiously brainwashed; they’ve never really been taught the Bible. So many times, they just accep...

7th March 2021 And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.              Luke 10:17 - 19 Our Lord Jesus sent seventy disciples out against the kingdom of darkness, as "lambs among wolves." Look in today's Scripture at the exchange between the seventy disciples and the Lord Jesus when they returned. My friend, the power and authority our Lord Jesus gave them to operate in is the power and authority we have as believers today! Romans 16:20 declares that the God of peace will crush Satan underneath our feet! He is a defeated foe. The Bible is very consistent and always puts the devil beneath your feet (see Gen. 3:15, Eph. 1:22). You are not at the mercy of the enemy's attacks. Don't...

March 6, 2021 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 Jesus Is the Deliverer What is another Bible fact? The fact that healing belongs to us, because sickness comes from Satan. Satan is the author of sickness and disease, not God. Could it ever be the will of God for a child of His to be under the dominion of Satan? Could it ever be the will of God for a child of His to have anything that comes from Satan? No! Acts 10:38 says, “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.” What did God do? He anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and power. Then Jesus went about doing good. What is the good that Jesus did? He healed people. It is a fact that God is a healing God. Jesus said, “For he that hath seen Me hath seen the ...

I am sure you know that Romans 5:17 is a verse I love to preach on. It tells us that those who receive the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness will reign in life through Jesus Christ! My friend, when you reign in life, you reign over sin and destructive addictions. You reign over sickness and disease. You reign over poverty and lack. In other words, you reign over anything that holds you back from experiencing the abundant life that Jesus died to give you! Beloved, the Lord's desire is for you to reign in life. The more you receive the revelation of the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness, the more you will experience His abundant provision for every area of your life. Now, we know that faith comes by hearing and hearing the Word of Christ (see Rom. 10:17, NASB), so keep on hearing the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness preached. The more you hear, the more you will receive.

March 4, 2021 And Jesus went about all Galilee . . . healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.— MATTHEW 4:23 Healing Is the Will of God for You! I know from more than sixty-five years’ experience in the ministry that the thing that keeps most people from being healed is they do not know for sure if it is God’s will to heal them. If they’re sick, naturally, they want to be healed, especially if they have a terminal disease and medical science can’t help them. So they look everywhere they can for help. I don’t blame them. I did too when I was given up to die. And I found the answer in the Word of God. Many times, people are just seeking in the dark, hoping something will happen. They say, “Well, I may or may not get healed. And if it doesn’t happen, I’m going to die.” They are prayed for many times, and hands are laid on them, but nothing seems to work. And under those conditions, nothing will, because they are uncertain that it is God’s will to heal them...

March 3, 2021 . . . the Lord will hear when I call unto him.—PSALM 4:3 God Hears and Answers Prayer A number of years ago, our ministry received a letter from a dear woman. A portion of the letter read: “I am a widow woman with only one son. He is fifty-seven years old, lives in Indiana, and has cancer and a heart problem. The doctors say that he will die. At my age, it’s difficult for me to travel, so in talking to my daughter-in-law on the phone, I asked her if it would be possible to move him to a hospital closer to me so that I could see him one last time before he dies. My daughter-in-law talked to the doctors, and they said, ‘No.’ But my son wanted to see me. So after talking to the doctors many times, they finally said, ‘Well, we don’t believe he will make it, but if you want to try it, we’ll put him in an ambulance and hook him up to the necessary equipment. We hope he gets there before he dies.’ So they did.” When she wrote in asking us to pray, she wasn’t even thinking about ...

March 2 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.—ROMANS 10:17 Hearing the Word Over and Over A denominational pastor I knew daily visited the home of a woman with terminal cancer to pray with her and read the Word to her. As this woman was bedfast, he would also bring her a different cassette tape every day to listen to. He said to me, “I really didn’t know or understand the leading of the Lord at the time. But something on the inside kept saying, ‘So then faith cometh by hearing and hearing,’ and it stopped right there [Rom. 10:17]. That went on over and over inside of me for three days, and on the third day, I finally decided that God was trying to get something across to me. I decided that God was trying to tell me that this woman needed to hear one tape over and over again, instead of me changing the tape each day.” When he asked the Lord which tape he should play over and over, he felt impressed in his spirit to play my tape, “God’s Medicine.” So he took th...