Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Cyriac's Disease--Healed! HalleluYah!

Luk 6:19 And all the crowd sought to touch Him, for power went out of Him and healed them all.

A beautiful lady, a cosmetologist from Seattle, sat in front of me at a recent conference. She'd lay on the floor and rest, waiting for God to touch her and heal her. (I was concerned, for just a minute that her beauty would be a distraction to the men...but, ignored that thought and pressed in to listen to the teaching. Later, Jim told me to pray for her, she had "Cyriac's disease." When I had lunch with her later, she told me that she hadn't been able to eat a "square meal" for three years, that she'd mush her food into a shake or cook it to mush in order to be able to eat it. She could eat some small bits and pieces of chicken. When we broke from class for lunch, I felt led to hug her. As I hugged her, of course, I prayed. I felt the power of God fall on that embrace: warmth and peace, so I stayed and prayed a good 10 or 15 minutes. When we broke the embrace, I asked how she felt. She complained of pain all over that she's had for 3 years! Several others had joined in prayer for her. As we pressed in and continued to pray for her she reached out her arms as if reaching for another person. After another 15 or 20 minutes of prayer the pain (all pain in her body) was completely gone. Yay! We were all so happy for her. She confessed that frequently she would ask Jesus to hold her and today it really happened. While praying she saw Jesus with His arms stretched out to her and he completely embraced her and held her until her pain was completely gone. She said, "I know I'm healed!" All I know is that we serve a living and mighty God; He's the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8.) He healed everyone who asked when He walked this earth and He still heals today. In fact, when He said, "it is finished." He meant it: the work is finished, "we were healed," there, on Calvary 2K years ago. We are already healed and we have authority over all sickness and disease (Luke 9:1, 10:19). I ate lunch with the lady and her friend. She ate a full meal with desert, too! God's amazing. He still heals! Amen.

1Pe 2:24 He Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that dying to sins, we might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.