By PJ Sorensen of Signs and Wonders Ministry
In the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. (Matthew 18:16)
You’ve been there many times, standing in the valley of decision. Perched precariously between victory and defeat. On one side of you is the word of the world authored by ha’satan/satan that says, for example, “You’re not going to get healed.” On the other side of you, the Word of G-d is saying, “My Word is Yea and Amen” and “By His stripes, ye were healed.” Who will determine how it all turns out? You will. You’re the establishing witness.
I remember a fellow once who wanted me to pray for him. I said, “Now the Word says you’re healed.” He interrupted me and said, “Yeah, I know it says that, but I’ve got this terrible pain here….”
I looked him in the eye and said again, “The Word says, ‘By His stripes, you were healed.‘”
“I know it,” he answered, “but I’ve got this terrible….”
I shook my head. “Listen, the Word says you’re healed!”
He turned beet red. “I KNOW IT SAYS THAT, BUT I’VE GOT THIS….”
Finally, he stopped and stared at me. He didn’t realize it, but he’d allowed his physical symptoms to become his evidence. It was what he believed. No matter what the Word said, he believed the thing he could see and feel.
But when he got quiet, I said to him, “Look, you’re wanting me to agree with you and you’re mad because I won’t. But if I agree with you, you’re going to die. Now if you’ll agree with me and the Bible, we can get you healed.”
Suddenly he saw it. His eyes lit up. “Oh, praise G-d! I see what you mean. I agree with the Word of G-d!”
I put my hands on his head and G-d healed him instantly.
You see, when he finally decided to get in agreement with G-d, he could have received in his bedroom or driving down the road or anywhere else. He could have received any time he decided to become the establishing witness.
You pray and establish your witness. That’s your part. If you’ll do it, G-d will back you–and when He backs you, everything else either has to get in line or get out of the way.
You’re the deciding witness. What do you say?
I know it’s highly unusual, but I do want to comment further on this subject. In these short daily thoughts I don’t get to expound all I really want to say; however,
I recently was challenged by a G-d encounter where G-d Himself, appearing as an 87 year old man, met me in a Bible bookstore and taught me for 2 hours and one of the revelations I received during those two hours was simply…as humans, we tend to think we believe when we don’t. When we ask G-d for something, why don’t we just believe He does what the Word says and accept His “yea and amen”? If we would start receiving and believing what He utters to us, and if we really believed and received that we are co-heirs with Yeshua/Jesus and walked in the authority of the Word the way Yeshua/Jesus did, we’d be kicking ha’satan/satan out of every situation we encounter. Yeshua/Jesus so thoroughly defeated ha’satan/satan on every level that we can walk in total victory…IF we will only believe it. So I challenge you today to walk, talk, speak the Word and believe it…and then watch what G-d does in response. Shalom
“Yea and amen” to the Word you have spoken, Auntie PJ =)
Sid
So true, we say it has been done and walk in that without checking for the evidence.
This post gave me chills! This is a very powerful teaching, and it is absolutely 100% Truth!
It was amazing to see how the guy finally got it, and I could literally see his face lighting up with joy when the lies of the enemy were exposed and he could finally see the Truth! Amen!
I just saw my name on the prayer list, and I wanted to say thank you for that too. That means a lot to me!
I’m afraid I disagree. If you firmly believe that it is God’s will for everyone to be healed then fine, but I do not. Of course the cross will bring us all ultimate healing eventually, but possibly not in this life. It is the experience of everyone in healing ministry that not everyone is healed. Healing is ultimately a work of grace and not based on us. This sort of teaching can make people guilty because they are not healed thinking they don’t have enough faith or have unconfessed sin.
I shall write a post on this teaching from the Word why healing is for all. I ask people to do just one thing: set aside experiences where healing was not received and set aside your notions of God’s willingness to heal.
If I can get people to do this, and approach the Word in humility I have no doubt that I can convince even a dispensationlist. God’s Word is crystal clear on this aspect.
For those who’d wanna conduct a research, I’d just ask them to study Jesus and even study the book of Acts. That is practical ministry.
But if anyone can prove to me from Scripture an instance where God refused to heal in the New Covenant a person who met the condition of faith, I am willing to change what I believe in concerning healing. Now thats a challenge! =)
Sid
The challenge is also this surely: If you really believe that Sidarth, then you will never get sick. Is that really your experience?
If our interpretation of scripture fails in our experience then something is wrong. Of course I don’t deny that faith may be lacking, and that faith may indeed realease healing in us, but the overwhelming experience of so many is that sometimes God does not choose to heal. That is a fact.
John Wimber, who had a great healing ministry experienced this and wrote about it. He himself died of sickness, despite the prayers of many. Smith Wigglesworth had an incredible ministry but both he and his family suffered with sickness.
I am open to being convinced but I feel the need to be completely open and honest about peoples experience of this. God has indeed healed me of some things but not others. For me it is faith to say ‘God is able to save me, but even if He does not….’.
Blessings
“Then you will never get sick….”
No, this is not true. We can get sick, just as much we can fall into sin. But the perfect will of God would be: God wants us to live holy and God wants us well, simply because He made provision for both these specifically at the cross.
Do we all live in perfect holiness? I am yet to see one. But that doesn’t nullify God’s will for us to live holy. Have I seen people living in good health, yes I have. Have they never faced sickness? Yes, they have, but they have practice their faith and gotten healed.
Sidharth
Hmm, would you say, “God has forgiven me in some areas, but He hasn’t in other areas”?
Forgiveness of sin and healing for the body have come as one package. God has given forgiveness freely to anyone who will meet the conditions, the same goes for healing.
Sidharth