On my way to the Christchurch airport, we visited a rest home, to minister to a lady with a leg ulcer that wouldn’t heal. We anointed her with oil and spoke healing in the name of Jesus. We saw no change and left to catch my flight. The ulcer has since healed, and the lady is walking. Read the full story.
In Tonga, I was called to the hospital. A lady lay comatose. “She flew from another island for an operation,” her friend said. “They found so much cancer, they left her to die.”
I laid hands and spoke Psalm 118:17: “You will not die but live, and will proclaim what the Lord has done.” She smiled, and I left. A week later I was told, “The next morning she awoke, ate breakfast, dressed, and flew home.”
A divine rebuke
Aaron and Miriam opposed Moses, saying he wasn’t the only one who could hear from God. The Lord rebuked them, and leprosy broke out on Miriam. Moses prayed, “Oh God, please heal her.”
The Lord replied, “If her father had spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Confine her outside the camp for seven days; after that she can be brought back” (Numbers 12:14). She obeyed and was healed.
A strange command
Ten lepers shouted to Jesus, “Jesus, Master, have pity on us.” Jesus replied, “Go show yourselves to the priests” (see Luke 17:13-14). They were not healed immediately, for they were cleansed as they went.
I can imagine the conversation. “It works for others, but not us. He doesn’t care. What a waste of time.”
The Samaritan might have replied, “Shouldn’t we do what he said?”
“Look at you! Nothing’s changed. How can we show ourselves to the priests like this?”
Sometimes he tests our hearts.