The different ways Jesus has healed me over the past 25 years!

Going back to the very beginning of my walk with Him... I can remember receiving the revelation of divine healing shortly after I was saved in November 1981.. I had spent many hours previously, over a couple of weeks praying in the Spirit and reading the Bible.. Prior to this, I had fallen off a roof and damaged my neck upon impact.. "Nothing too serious I thought" Just hurt a bit. Well, you get used to living with things after a while and I lived in a small town with no chiropractors, so I just put up with the pain in the back of my neck. After a year or so, I started to get headaches, which was unusual for me.. First, one a week, then 2 and so on.. The pain got so bad, It felt like I wanted to pull my eyes out to get at it!.. and I used to bathe them with a hot flannel to help ease the pain. Eventually, I went down to the next town to get some treatment but it didn't seem to help for very long. Eventually, they sent me to the 'Big city' to get some expert advice. The prognosis was not good. The fall had damaged the spine and the cushioning between the spine had been damaged and had been slowly grinding itself away! They said this would only get worse as I got older and there was nothing they could do (Remember, this was 25 years ago and surgery was still very limited) So they sent me back home..

The Prayer of Faith:
One day, I got to the Book of James... Chapter 5, verse 14.. "Are there any sick amongst you?" it asked.. I put my hand up to Heaven and said.. "Yes, one over here!" I continued reading.. "Let them call upon the elders of the church and let them pray over them, anointing them with oil in the name of the Lord and the prayer of faith shall heal the sick and the Lord shall raise them up and if they have committed sins, it shall be forgiven them" The words 'shall' leapt from the page.. No 'maybes'.. just 3 shall's'.. so off I went down to the little local church.. I called upon the Pastor and a friend of mine and showed them James5:14 from my bible! I told them what was wrong and asked if they believed what the Bible said! Thank God they did! So I said, "Well I need a miracle in my neck and according to the Bible, Jesus hasn't changed, so let's pray now!" Well they anointed me with oil in the name of Jesus and started to pray.. It felt like someone was pouring warm honey down my spine. This beautiful presence seemed to envelope me.. time stood still. All I knew was, when I moved my neck around, it didn't go 'clunk' anymore!! All the pain had gone and my head rotated freely.. That was 25 years ago and I am still well today! Thank you Jesus!

The next time was when sickness struck my body. I had been getting the revelation on how to use faith for your self to receive from the Lord- and one morning, I awoke and felt awful! I can remember going down the driveway (we lived in a little farmlet at the time) and strting to pray about my healing. I believd what the Word of God said and started to praise God for my healing. I felt terrible! I continued in prayer and thanksgiving for about half an hour or so.. Then, it was like I seemed to 'know' what was the cause of this and 'where' it was. I turned and pointed to space in the air and said something like.. devil, I command you to leave me in Jesus name" I started to praise God for my healing... within a few minutes, the pain and sickness was replaced by joy and praise.. I was well.. very well! I found out that indeed, as the Scriptures says.. "God inhabits the praises of His people" ~ God turned up and everything that wasn't of Him... left!

His Mercy:
This is how I learnt about His mercy.. I had been out driving in my car and noticed that exhaust was leaking. So when I got back home. I got some spanners to tighten it up. As I lay by the side on the car, I heard the lord say.. "Careful, it's very hot" I can remember turning around and saying, "it's ok, I will be careful" Well, you guessed it. As I put my hand near the exhaust to tighten the clamp, I misjudged and my wrist hit the bottom of a very hot exhaust pipe! I pulled my arm out and looked at a painful, red burn.. I immediately said something like.. "Lord, forgive me for not listening to you. Have mercy on me Lord and heal me please" Immediately, all the pain left my wrist and I was instantly healed! I can remember sitting there in awe, looking at my wrist that was healed.. giving thanks and learning about his great mercy..

"His mercies are new every morning"

The Prayer of Agreement:
"Again, I say to you, that if any two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything they shall ask, it shall be done for them of My Father Who is in Heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them" Matt18:19

For some strange reason, I decided to climb a tree outside our house. (I wanted to see what the view was like from up there!) I got up a ways.. about 20 foot and was standing on a branch that, looking back, wouldn't have supported a squirrel! The next thing I knew, I was on the ground. I was a bit dazed and stood still for a bit to get by breath and take stock of things. I wandered back across the road to my house. I noticed that as I walked, my foot hurt.. Not too bad at first, so I ignored it. After a while at home, my foot started to 'really' hurt! There was this pain across the top of it! I reached down and felt it. It was then that I felt the break. You could feel the break in the top plate of my right foot. I thought about what to do. I could still walk but it was now 'very' painful.. Now notice this! ~ I 'knew' that I didn't have faith for a broken foot and was searching in my heart as to what to do.. It was then that my Pastors testimony came back to me. Many years before, he was jogging and fell and landed badly on his foot. He put his hands on his damaged foot and said "In the name of Jesus Christ, be healed" he then acted his faith, believed it was done and stated to carry on running. To start with, he said, it was agony and he literally dragged his damaged foot down the road.. thanking the Lord for his healing (faiths an act!) He said he had gone about 20 metres dragging his foot, when the power of God hit him and he sprinted off down the road.. completly healed...

Well, His testimony came back to me (see the importance of telling what the Lord has done for you!) and I knew 'He' had that sort of faith, so I rang him. He answered the phone and I told him.. "Jim, I've fallen out of a tree and broken my foot and I want you to agree with me about my healing" ~ He said.. "I've just finished my prayer time with the Lord!" and he prayed and I agreed with his prayer. That was the about the only time in my life that I 'felt' faith! ~ Something came down that telephone and lodged in my heart! Nothing outwardly seem to changed but I believed and gave thanks.. I walked around thanking the Lord for my healing.. (My head was saying 'you had better get to the hospital!') Only You can decide what needs to be done. I chose to believe it was done.. If you can't, then go to the hospital!!

For three days I walked on that foot, praising God for my healing.. It was so painful at night, I used to put 2 pillows either side of it, to keep the weight of the blanket off it.. In the morning I had to fight all the fear that would come.. "now you are going to have to walk on it and you'll make it worse" and so on.. Well on the third day (I think) I said something like.. "NO! Jesus said He would heal me and I believe it's done!" and I put my foot out of the bed and onto the floor and stood up! I was completely healed.. No pain and I could walk perfectly! (You could still run your hand across the top of my foot and feel where the break had been!!

Note: Only You can decide where your faith is at.. Jesus said "As YOU have believed, so be it done to you" If you can't believe, then get someone to pray for you who can! (It's the prayer of faith that heals the sick.. James5:14) not the prayer of unbelief) Go to the hospital, believing and giving thanks.. Don't get condemned about where you at in the Lord.. "There is therefore NO condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus"

Still more to come!!

Diabetes; If you wonder about the benefits of praying in the Holy Spirit. Here's a REALLY good reason!!

Its around 8 minutes long (8 megabyte) and was taken from a service I recently held. more..

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