When I was about seven years old I went to see a local football game with my Dad, and his best friend. At one point, my Father’s friend found a $10 dollar bill under the bleachers where he was sitting, and he gifted it to me. Now, this was a good amount of money at the time, especially in the hands of a professional candy consumer.
Now I remember a couple of teenage girls sitting behind us, and as my Dad was distracted in deep discussion with his friend, one of the girls tapped me on the shoulder and whispered that she had dropped the money and it belonged to her.
Immediately, I handed the $10 over to her, they giggled and took off. Hmmm, no “Thank you?” No relief on her part that the “her lost” money had been found? And why was she whispering? Even at that young age I sensed I had been played the fool. I felt so sad, and dump for falling for that.
Now, I didn’t lose the money, I recall Dad telling me to hang on tight to it, and I remember clamping my fist around it. You had better believe that my eyes were locked onto that treasure!
So, I couldn’t lose the gift, but, as it turned out … I could be talked out of it.
All these years later, I was reminded of this sad moment when I read Pastor Kenneth E. Hagin’s account of two women that attended a fellow Pastor’s church many years ago. Both women were diagnosed with stage 4 liver Cancer, and according to the Doctors, with only “a few weeks to live.”
Both women were prayed for in the church, and both were miraculously healed. Yet, 15 years later only one of the women was still alive. The other had gone several months in perfect health, but one day she stood up in church and stated “I want you all to pray for me. Those symptoms of cancer have come back on me.”
Well they prayed, but she let doubt get in. She grew steadily worse until she died.
And according to the Pastor of her church, “When the doctors performed an autopsy on her, they couldn’t find any trace of Cancer in any way, shape, or form in her body. Herr liver was just as perfect as anyone else’s liver. They couldn’t find a trace of Cancer. They don’t know why she died.”
Pastor Hagin went on to say, “A miracle began in her life, yet she was robbed of the best that God had for her, because of doubt. Doubt robbed Peter of the best that God had for him. Remember, Peter was a man who walked with Jesus. He was part of the inner circle that followed Him. Yet Peter was robbed of God’s best. I wonder how many more of those who walk with Jesus are robbed of the blessings God intended they should have.”
Peter was walking on water, but he took his eyes off of Jesus, focused on the storm and began to sink.
(Now, we don’t know, but what if the other woman was experiencing the same symptoms of sickness but chose to rebuke the Devil and he had to flee … “symptoms you are a liar, by the stripes of Jesus I WAS healed, I have no faith in you. And lived out her life to the fullest.)
There is no condemnation in Christ Jesus, but we are called to submit to God, resist the Devil and he will flee from us. Every good gift and every perfect gift comes down from the Father of Lights, Cancer is not a gift, it is a curse- and Jesus became cursed for us, so that we may be blessed.
The gifts and callings of God are irrevocable. He is not going to change His mind about His word.
You can’t “lose” a healing but you can be talked out of it. The Devil is a liar. A deceiver, manipulator and con artist. But God gave us power over life and death- the spoken word of God- on our tongues- spoken in belief will produce the fruit of life. Satan cannot do anything to us without our consent and complete cooperation.
Do not doubt when you pray, but believe in your heart that you HAVE received it and you will have whatever you say.
“The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill and to destroy, I have come that they may have it more abundantly.” John 10:10
Hold tight to the Word of God and His promises, and keep them locked in your heart, so when contrary suggestive thoughts and situations come you will know the Truth.
“I have my healing in Jesus name!”
1Peter 2:24, Proverbs 18:21, James 1:6-8,17, 4:17, Roman’s 8:1,11:29, Mark 11:23 NKJV
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