A number of years ago, a minister friend of ours was going out West to visit a relative who was
dying of cancer. She was the wife of another minister. My wife and I felt led to go out there with
him to pray for her.
After we arrived, we all prayed for two days and nights for this minister's sick wife. We ate only
one meal a day. We slept only three or four hours a night, getting up early in the morning to go
into the room to pray where the woman was bedfast.
On the second night I said to my friend, "Something is wrong. I have been saved for sixteen
years and healed for fifteen years, but never have I prayed this long for anything without
getting an answer, and I hate to start now.
"Something is wrong with our praying," I said.
"What I mean is this: In this little town there is
only one radio station. If the radio in your car failed to pick up the local station, you wouldn't
phone or write a letter to that station and say, 'You'd better have your radio station fixed. My
radio won't pick up the broadcast.'
"Nothing would be wrong with the sending end.
You would have to work on the receiving end.
So in the morning when we go into that room, let's concentrate on the receiving end."
The next morning when we gathered at the woman's bedside for prayer again, I told everyone
that we were missing it somewhere — that the fault was with us and certainly was not with
God.
The woman on the bed began to cry and said, "Oh, the trouble is with me. I have failed."
I said, "Wait a minute, Sister. Don't condemn yourself, because if you do, you can talk yourself
right out of faith. Maybe you have failed. Who of us hasn't? But you asked the Lord to forgive
you, didn't you?
And First John 1:9 says, 'If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to
forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.' So if you've repented and
have asked God to forgive you, He has forgiven you and cleansed you from all
unrighteousness. You can stand in the Presence of God as though you have never done
anything wrong."
I explained,
"When I say something is wrong on the receiving end, I don't mean there is some
terrible sin. I just mean that somehow we have not gotten in a receptive 'mood,' so to speak,
for it is a matter of receiving the healing that is already yours.
"In other words," I continued, "your healing was already paid for on the Cross; therefore, we
don't have to talk God into the notion of healing you." After explaining a little more about her
redemptive rights in Christ, we began to pray.
The woman who was dying with cancer was saved, filled with the Holy Ghost, a pastor's wife,
and a Sunday school teacher.
But we discovered she had much doubt and fear. In fact, doubt
and fear was hindering her from receiving the healing that God had already so graciously
provided for her in redemption.
When we prayed and believed God and dealt with the real problem, we got results.
In this
case, God directed me to cast a spirit of doubt and fear out of the woman. (The evil spirit was
not in her spirit because she was a believer, but it was affecting her mind — her thinking.)
When I cast that evil spirit out of her mind, the woman immediately raised up in bed and began
to praise God. She got up and went into the living room and knelt down and praised and
thanked God. That afternoon she ate dinner with us.
FFT: Cast out the spirit of doubt and fear from your mind!
ACTION POINT: Position yourself in faith to receive the divine provisions.
INTERACTIVE SESSION: Do you believe in divine healing?
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