FAITH IN GOD COMES BY HEARING !

Faith in God Comes by Hearing: The boy told him that they were having a meeting under a bush Arbor. There were those to be a healing service that night, and the boy told the old man that if he wanted to go he would get someone to take him. The minister decided to attend, so they brought an old model T Ford and made a bid in the back of it for him. They drove the car up as close as possible. And after the service the preacher came out, anointing him with oil, and prayed over him. It was midnight before they got home. But when they arrived, the minister asked his mother to let the boy fire up the wood stove so that she could fry some ham and eggs. He hadn't had anything except baby food and some food in more than two years. He told his mother that he was healed. He told her that the preacher had anointed him with oil and pray for him. The mother said later that she thought he had lost his mind. He had asked for some old-fashioned country biscuits, too, and she reasoned that since he was going to die anyway, if he ate the biscuits he would at least die happy. So she did what he wanted. She fixed the ham, the eggs, and the biscuits--- and he ate what she prepared and didn't get sick. He was healed ! He began to write articles for publication in various magazines and calls began to come in for revivals. A citywide meeting was arranged for Kansas City. The boy told him that before he went to that meeting he must be filled with the Holy Spirit. He said that he was ready to believe anything that boy told him, so he asked the boy what he should do. The boy told him how. They went to an old brush Arbor meeting, and when they gave the invitation, the minister went to the altar and the sawdust, and there he received the Holy Spirit and spoke with other tongues. This minister has long since gone on to Glory, but this writings have been a blessing to many. Now how did this man get faith for healing ? He got it my hearing. I referred earlier to the woman who had an issue of blood for 12 years. The word of God tells us about her in the fifth chapter of Mark. We are told that she had spent all of her living and had gone to many physicians, but was no better. The 27th and 28th versus says about her, "When she had HEARD of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment. For she said, if I may touch but his clothes, I shall be Whole." And in the 34th verse we read, "And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague." Where did this woman get faith to receive healing ? When she had heard. . ." (v. 27). Some people think they are being humble, when really they are being ignorant. You will get no answer if you put "If's in your prayers when God's word has already made His will Plain. It is only when you are praying a prayer of consecration that you put an "if" in the prayer. This is because in a prayer of consecration you are not certain what the Lord's will is. "If" is the badge of doubt, and it should not be in your prayers when you are trying to change a situation. If the New Testament said that Jesus took our infirmities and bear our sicknesses, wouldn't it be His will for us to have our healing ? You probably will acknowledge that it is. So turn in the Word to (Matthew 8:17), which says "That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Israel the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bear our sicknesses." "It is God's will for us to be healed !" Well, many people see that in the Scriptures however they have a hard time believing that because of their physical conditions. Yes they are focusing in on the physical not the spiritual. Let us turn to (1 Peter 2:24 and read, "Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: BY WHOSE STRIPES YE WERE HEALED" (1 Peter 2:24). In Isaiah 53:4- 5) we read together, "Surely he hath bore our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and WITH HIS STRIPES WE ARE HEALED."