How Faith Comes !

HOW FAITH COMES : The boy there required turning him, dressing him, and completely caring for him. One day the boy said to him, "Doctor, why don't you let the Lord heal you ? The Bible says that if there is any sick among you, let them call for the elders of the church and let them pray for you." This minister had studied the Bible you would think--- he had been through seminary training--- but he did not know what was in the Bible. He instructed the boy to get his Bible out of the trunk and find that place. But the boy told him that he had never learned to read. The minister asked him then how he knew that it was an the Bible. His preacher told him that it was, the boy declared. And so the minister looked it up and there it was ! (James 5:14--15). The boy told him that they were having a meeting under a brush Arbor. There was to be a healing service that night, and the boy told the older man that if he wanted to go he would get someone to take him. The minister decided to attend, so they balked 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, anointed him with oil, and prayed over him. What do you suspect he prayed, it had to be the prayer of faith not the prayer or if. It was midnight before they got home. But when they arrived, the minister asked his mother to let the boy fire up the wooden stove so that she could find some ham and eggs. He hadn't had anything except baby food and soft foods and more than two years. He told his mother that he was healed. He told her that the preacher had anointed him with oil and prayed for him, listen to this man's confession of faith, he perhaps had no evidence of his healing yet he confessed in other words he agreed with God that by the stripes of Jesus he was healed. The mother said later that she thought he had lost his mind. He had asked for some old-fashioned country biscuits, to, 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 publications in various magazines and calls began to come in for revivals. A city wide 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. Faith comes by hearing. The Lord 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.