THE GOD KIND OF FAITH IN ACTION IN THE TWENTIETH CENTUR !

THE GOD KIND OF FAITH IN ACTION IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: In the early days of the Pentecostal movement, a woman evangelist was ministering to four people wheelchairs. In a very quiet voice she said, "Rise and walk in Jesus name." Three of these people got up and walked. The fourth said, "I can't walk." "The others couldn't walk either," the evangelist said, "but they did." "I know they did," the crippled woman answered, "but I can't. You see, I haven't walk in years." And the evangelist had to walk away and leave her sitting there. The others acted on their God kind of faith and reaped the results. In one of the buildings that is called church where I was ministering, there was a man who had been burned over the lower part of his body, leaving him unable to walk. He just scooted his feet along on the floor. During the healing service one evening, this man came forward for prayer. The Lord had told me what to do, and when I came to him I asked him, "Can you run ?" Astonished at such a question, he said, "Oh, no, I can't even walk, much less run." Then I said, "The Lord has told me to tell you to run." The man didn't even give it a second thought. He just turned and started schooling of the aisle as fast as he could. He scooted around the building in this manner three or four times, and by the time he got back to the front, he was walking normally. He was perfectly healed ! He had acted on the God kind of faith. In the service the next night we saw another miracle as the result of the first. Two elderly gentlemen responded to the invitation-- something which is not often seen. I learned later that these men were brothers, ages 72 and 74, who lived next door to the man who had been healed the night before. When they saw their crippled naval out working in his yard the next day, they thought he had crawled out there. But then they saw him get up, straight and well, and walk around the house. They hurried over to find out what had happened. He told them about his healing and what the Lord had done for him. As a result, both men came to the service that night and gave their hearts to the Lord. One of the best definitions of the God kind of faith is: if you believe, you will act. If you believe God's Word, you will act as if it is true. "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" (Hebrews 11:1). Faith is giving substance to the theme hope for. "Therefore, While the promise of entering His rest still holds and is offered [today], let us be afraid [two distrust it], less any of you should think he has come to late and has come short of [reaching] it. For indeed we have had the glad tidings [Gospel of God] proclaim to us just as truly as they [the Israelites of old did when the good news of deliverance from bondage came to them]; but the message they heard did not benefit them, because it was not mixed with faith (with the learning of the entire personality of God in absolute truth and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness) by those who heard it; neither were they united in faith with the ones [Joshua and Caleb] who heard (did believe)." (Hebrews 4:1--2). The amplified Bible.