Exceedingly Growing Faith !

Exceedingly Growing Faith; Faith for Healing: How does faith for healing come ? In the same way. You can see this in the following passage: (Acts 14:7--10) "And there they [Paul and Barnabas] preached the gospel. And there sat a certain man at Lystra, imported in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked: the same heard Paul speak who steadfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed, said with a loud voice, stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked. A casual reader of the Word might say, "it is wonderful how Paul healed that man !" But Paul did not heal the man. The man was not healed because Paul was an apostle, nor was he hear about Paul's faith. The man himself had the faith. Paul did three things: [1.] He preached the Gospel [verse 7]. [2.] He perceived that the man had faith to be healed [verse 9]. [3.] He told the man to stand up and walk [verse 10]. The man did three things: [1.] He heard Paul preach him [verse 9]. [2.] He had faith to be healed [verse 9]. [3.] He leaped and walked [verse 10]. This man was not healed by some power which Paul had. The man himself had faith to be healed . And how did he get the faith to be healed ? He got it from what he heard. He heard Paul speak. And what did Paul speak ? He preach the Gospel [verse 7]. If Paul had preach what some have called the Gospel the man would have never being healed. Paul preached what the Bible calls the Gospel ! As a young Baptist boy I was taught that God can do anything if he wanted to which was an even bigger insult than saying he couldn't heal--- both are lies. As I read the Word, through, the devil was right there trying to bring to my remembrance all the doubt and unbelief I had ever heard. He reminded me that I heard that healing had been away with. But do you know how I was able to overcome that obstacle ? I could never remember having heard anyone say that faith had been done away with ! This cripple man at Lystra had faith to be healed. In (Mark 5:34) Jesus said to the woman who had just been healed from the issue of blood, "Daughter, thy Faith has made the whole." Faith has not been done away with ! In fact God has gave every man the measure of faith (Romans 12:3). It comes by hearing--- and hearing by the Word of God ! Jesus did not say that it was his power which made the woman whole: He said that her faith did it. The holy Bible is the object of our faith when we read the Word of God out loud then and only then is faith produced or when we hear it preached. How did this man at last forget faith to be healed ? From what he heard. And what he heard was the Word of God, the Gospel. Is there something about the gospel that would cause a lifelong cripple to be healed ? Decidedly yes ! Paul preached a Gospel of salvation and of healing, stating, "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek" (Romans 1:16). A footnote in the Scofield Bible referring to this verse says, "the Greek and Hebrew words for salvation imply the idea of deliverance, safety, preservation, healing, and soundness." Therefore, Paul was saying, "I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ. It is the power of God unto deliverance, safety, preservation, healing, and soundness" Paul preach the full Gospel, not just a part of it.