I believe—with all my heart—that we'd see far more miracles on the earth today if there were more faith in our hearts. May God stir up a fresh gift of faith in us! But I also firmly believe that there's a mystery to God's ways and that we don't dictate to Him; instead, we serve Him, honor Him, revere Him and trust Him.
Godly people get sick and die. I look at men like my dear brother-in-law Donny, or Nabeel Qureshi, the Christian apologist and author. Both of them died of cancer—far too young. But I now see that they won their battle. They didn't lose it. Cancer no longer grips them in its ugly, devastating clutches or robs them of health and peace. They're with Jesus—full, healed and free. And our time with them will far exceed our short time without them. And there are those whose lot involves life with a disability. But God is with them, and He'll either miraculously heal them, or He'll miraculously use them in a way that allows them to flourish and reflect the Father's heart right in the midst of their vulnerability.
Life on earth is short. God's promises are true.
And if you follow Jesus through the Gospels, you'll find a Savior who cares deeply about the human condition. That fact—our Savior's heart for the human condition—is what brings us the assurance that God wants us to thrive, and He's with us every step of the way.
October 2018
You and I need to make some adjustments amidst the craziness of this world and the toxicity of our times. God offers us wisdom from above, wisdom that's unique to us and to our situation. But in order for us to know the fullness and the restoration that are possible for us as heirs of God, we have some things to learn. We cannot and must not keep grinding our gears through life while ignoring the physical and emotional toll that our hardships have had on us. I can't prove this, but I believe there's a trapdoor in our hearts that drops things into our souls.
The Miracle Prayer
Our soul is the place where our emotions brew and our hurts collide, and the turmoil of it all can put the squeeze on our hopes, our dreams and our perspective. Jesus wants peace to rule and reign in our hearts so that we can prosper in our soul. He wants us to flourish in every way possible. We're going to ask God for a fresh vision of what flourishing can look like for us, and then we're going to position ourselves on the path of healing—whatever it takes.
Some of this will be hard. But you're no stranger to hard. You've done it before. We can do hard if it leads us to a better life, right? We're going to roll up our sleeves, take inventory of our habits, give our soul some room to breathe and maybe change a few of our ways so we can enjoy better health.
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And then we're going to go before the Most High God, who loves us with a passion we cannot fathom, and we're going to ask Him for a miracle, because He's the same God yesterday, today, and forever. He loves us, and He still performs miracles today. Excerpted from Fully Alive: Larson is a national speaker, radio host and author of 15 books.
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Use standard writing style and punctuation. Complete sentences and proper grammar will help others understand you. What really stirred that passion was the fact that I wanted the deaf to hear because my mother was deaf. God actually used that situation in my life to fuel the fire in me. When I learnt that healing was a part of the Christian faith I asked, "God, are you going to heal my Mom? This was even before I started pursuing healing in my own life and ministry.
When my Mom wasn't healed, a holy zeal and determination rose up within me: My number one passion in the healing ministry was that the deaf would hear. So in my healing meetings I would always go for healing of the deaf—that would sometimes be one of the first alter calls that I would give.
In those days, I remember inviting all the deaf up for prayer and none would hear, or perhaps one would partially hear. But that was how I began to increase in my healing gift. I teach more on this in the chapter about the deaf and dumb spirit. Describe how you got into the healing ministry and how you developed your gifts and your anointing.
All the different healing ministers kind of helped mentor me in my early days of healing ministry. I would look at the strengths of healing ministers like T. Osbourne and notice that their strong points were in the Word, faith and authority. Then I would look at ministers like Kathryn Kuhlman and Benny Hinn and the healings that came through the worship, the atmosphere the anointing and the Presence. Then you have guys like Kenneth Hagin and Oral Roberts—although anointed healing ministers, their strength and ministry of healing came through the presentation of faith and the belief that "faith comes by hearing.
I know that today God has placed on our ministry an apostolic anointing in which my two strongest suits are the call of prophet and the call of evangelist. I've had to learn how to operate in the office of the prophet and the office of the evangelist and then learn how to mix those two gifts together in the healing ministry.
So I would combine all those elements: Examining the strengths and weaknesses of different healing ministries allowed me to learn from each one. William Branham would hardly even preach, at times, in the beginning of his ministry. He would just do the word of knowledge and healing stuff. On the other hand, F. Bosworth and others had tremendous teaching ministries for healing—but when they saw the prophetic gift on people like William Branham, they made room for the guys with the powerful revelatory gift for healing.
Today, through Fresh Fire, we seek to combine the revelatory gift for healing, while strongly emphasizing the presence, anointing and the atmosphere of the Holy Ghost and the scriptural teaching of healing to stir faith. Past healing ministries would seldom walk in more than one of these many aspects of healing ministry.
We are operating in what I call faith, anointing and prophetic—each facet comes from the Holy Spirit, but they all operate in different ways. I grew in the healing ministry by believing that God gave gifts of healing and gifts of miracles—more than one healing gift, more than one miracle gift.
I came to see that there could be one hundred people in a room with gifts of healing but that the gift would function and flow through their lives in different ways and strengths.
Each one may see all kinds of healing but will probably have what I call a healing strength—yours could be backs; Mike's may be blind eyes while Joe's specialty is cripples. My healing strength is deaf ears. I've been especially blessed with a strong gift of healing for the deaf. Yet we have still seen healings from just about every kind of sickness and disease.
I can't think of a healing that we haven't seen, other than the dead being raised Still, we are contending and praying for the dead to be raised all the time. But here is the thing. I didn't always have a healing gift for the deaf. It's developed gradually as I've exercised it. I've always had a healing anointing for all sickness because healing is for all.
But how did I develop a healing strength so that today, in some meetings, all the deaf hear, whether it is 20 or 30? I've been in meetings where 80 percent of the people would hear or all but two would hear. I developed strength in healing.
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I believe, even though you have a healing gift, a healing anointing and a healing call, you can cultivate special healing strengths in several areas. I've learned how to develop the healing anointing into a healing gift specifically for the deaf. I began to pray for the deaf and when the deaf didn't hear, I'd pray for the deaf.
And when the deaf didn't hear I'd pray for the deaf and when the deaf didn't hear I'd keep on praying for the deaf! Wherever I was not seeing a great level of success, I would focus my prayer and faith. If I was seeing many arthritics healed, lots of deaf people healed and many people with pains in the stomach healed, yet there were no blind seeing in my meetings, I would begin to contend for breakthrough. I'd say, "OK, tonight we are going for the blind. Before I do anything else, I'm going to pray for the blind. As I contended for victory in an area of sickness, I would increase in authority until I was seeing miracles and until I got several healed of that affliction.
Suddenly those types of healings became easy. Then I would go, "Now where am I a little weak? Describe the greatest influences that propelled or helped you walk into the healing ministry. When I look at men of God today who stir me to go deeper and higher, I think of guys like Reinhard Bonnke who is reaching millions in a crusade when we are reaching 10's of thousands in our crusades. So I am saying, "Holy Spirit, that's where I want to be.
I'm not even so much moved by the kind of healings that happen, but by the Presence of God involved. I was deeply touched by Benny's ministry, years ago, when I was only saved a few months. At that time, in my first six months as a Christian, I would consume anything that I could get my hands on that Benny had taught, both books and tapes. So, as for contemporary guys—as I've grown in the Lord I've continued to love and be blessed by the anointing and presence of God upon Benny's ministry, while being challenged by the miracles and crowds in the ministry of Reinhard Bonnke.
But as for guys from the past, the greatest influences for me would be John G. Lake and William Branham. Benny was the first to expose me to anything to do with the anointing, the presence of God and miracles—that's how I came to learn about Kathryn Kuhlman. I had only been saved two months and so I knew nothing about anything.
I didn't know that there was anybody who, years ago, had been used in healing or had a healing ministry. I was living in a small community of about, 3, people, just coming off the street as a drug addict. I hadn't even seen Benny Hinn on TV at this time. I just had his book "Good Morning Holy Spirit. It was at that time, in those first few months, as I began to listen to tapes and videos of Benny Hinn, that I said "Holy Spirit I'll pay the price.
That decision became rooted deep within me. That was before I even knew there were guys named Kenneth Hagen, T. Osborn or Reinhard Bonnke. That was before I knew anything about church history and revival.
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I was reading the Bible everyday and praying and hungering for God when somebody gave me Benny Hinn's book on the Holy Spirit and that was it. I said, "God that's what I want! That's what I want on my life. I want to do that. I want to do healing.