How to Receive healing in the atmosphere and miracles by Faith & action! Day 14 Devotion The Lord has been speaking to me about healing and miracles in the atmosphere. I want you to listen for the voice of the Holy Spirit in the message in the Word of God, because Im talking about how to receive healing in the atmosphere, and how you can take action or steps to being healed in obedience to Gods Word. In Acts Chapter 14, Paul the Apostle is preaching, and theres a crippled man in the meeting. Reading in verse 8, A certain man without strength in his feet was sitting, a cripple from his mothers womb, who had never walked. This man heard Paul speaking. Paul, observing the man intently saw that he had faith to be healed (verse 9). Thats when I stopped and said, What did Paul see, and what did faith look like? While Paul was teaching and preaching the Word of God, they brought a man that was crippled in both his feet, and he was born that way. As Paul was preaching the message, Paul was observing the man intently, seeing that the man had faith. I said, God, what was the man doing? Was he jumping up and down? Did he have a sign? What was it about the man that Paul saw in the Spirit? In the Spirit, Paul saw faith. Paul was looking for faith. Faith is something you can see Ive been in meetings where people get into the prayer line. As I go down the prayer line, when I look at people, sometimes I can discern faith. Its a spirit of faith on them like an anointing. Other people are just without faith. You can feel that too. Faith is something you can see. Paul said with a loud voice, Stand up straight on your feet, and the man leapt and walked (verse 10). Paul didnt even touch him. Paul looked at the man that was crippled in the wheelchair and said, Stand up on your feet. Paul never touched him; Paul never prayed for him. Ive been in meetings where Ive spoken the Word, the healing word, and someone would believe God with faith when hearing the Word of God. Ill say, In the name of Jesus, take up your bed and walk, and someone will pick up their bed and start walking. Nobody prays for them, nobody touches them. What do you call that? It is the word for faith, and I call it a verb. It means action. Faith is moving, action. A lot of people dont have action in their faith. Let me give you an example. There was a crippled man Faith is an action in the Bible with a withered hand. He wanted to be healed. Jesus said, Stretch out your hand. The man stretched out his hand and he was healed. Jesus never touched him; Jesus never prayed for him. When the Lord said, Stretch out your hand, he stretched out his hand. It was action. One time when I was in a meeting preaching, the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said that if somebody had asthma, emphysema, or a lung disease that if they would stand up right now and run around the building, they would be healed. He said Dont even pray for them, dont touch them. Im looking for faith. A woman gets up and she had a lung disease. Her breath had failed her to the point where she could barely stand or walk. She had to use oxygen. She stood up, and I said, Run. She started running and I started chasing her, and as I chased her, I said, Dont let me catch you. I chased the woman around the building until she was healed. I never touched her and never prayed for her. Thats called action. Its like when Paul was preaching, he saw the man that was crippled had faith, so Paul said, without touching him, Stand up on your feet. I was in a meeting one time in Indonesia. They had about 4,000 people, and there was an area where all the wheelchairs were. There was a man paralyzed for seventeen years in a wheelchair. We were praying and miracles were happening in the atmosphere. A womans tumor came out of her leg. A blind woman received her healing. The power of God was moving, and all of a sudden, the man in the wheelchair heard me say, Be healed on the microphone. So he said, Okay, and he jumped out of his wheelchair and started walking. The crowd stood on their feet, and I turned around and I saw the man walking. I ran up to him with the microphone and said, What are you doing? He said, I thought it was time to be healed. You said stand up, so I just stood up before I had time to think about it. A step of Faith Ive been in meetings where people have had broken arms, and I would say, Move your broken arm. They did not get healed until they moved their arm. Meaning you have to take a step of faith. Sometimes there are steps of action that you must take before you can receive your miracle. It happened many times when Jesus was preaching. Mark 2:1-5 tells the story of a crippled man brought to see Jesus, but there were so many people they had to climb up on the roof. They opened up the roof and they lowered the man down. Jesus, seeing that the man had faith to be healed, looked at the him and said, Take up your bed and walk. Jesus never touched him. You see, God is looking for faith. Paul saw faith. As he was preaching, he saw that the man had faith. All Paul had to do was say, Stand up on your feet, and a man crippled from birth was healed. I said God, if I could get people into faith in my meetings, we could get people healed in the atmosphere. Just healed by taking a step of action. Jumping into a Miracle The first time I ever saw it happen, I was in a meeting in Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, Canada. They brought a woman to the altar, and this woman was in so much pain she could barely stand on her two legs. She had pain in her lower spine, and she needed a hip replacement. I wanted her to come up the stairs, and they said, She cant get up the stairs. Its going to take ten minutes to get her up there, because shes in so much pain. I said, Carry her up here. They carried her up the stairs and put her on the platform. I was going to pray for her to be healed, and I heard the Holy Spirit say, Dont pray for her. Tell her to jump off of the platform, six feet in the air onto the gymnasium floor, and I will give her a brand new hip. My first thought was, God, Im going to get a lawsuit. Somethings going to happen to this woman. How is it You want me to tell this woman before the healing that to get the miracle, You want her to take a step of faith and jump off of the platform onto the floor with her broken, fractured hip? I looked at the woman and I said, Sweetheart, the Lord just spoke to me that you will be healed if youll jump off of this stage. She froze, and tears started running down her face she was so scared. She said, I cant do it, but if its Jesus, Ill do it. I said, Im telling you, its Jesus. So I moved her up to the edge of the platform and said, When I count to three, jump. She looked at me, crying and scared. I said, In the name of Jesus, jump. On the third time, she jumped off of the stage. She froze before she hit the ground. As soon as her feet hit the ground, she ran around the building, totally healed with a brand new hip. I was in a meeting one time and they brought me a blind woman. I wanted her to be healed, and I said, Lord, tell me the key. I want this blind woman to be healed. He said, I want you to take a step of faith first. I said, What do You want me to do, Lord? He said, Spit on her. Dont even pray for her to be healed, spit in her eye. I said, Lord, are You sure this is You? He said, Spit in her eye. So I looked at the woman and said, I cant pray for you. Youre blind. If I dont spit on you, you wont be healed. So I spat on her. I looked at her and I said, In the name of Jesus be healed. When I spat on her, she was still blind. The Lord said, That wasnt a faith spit. Spit again. And again I spat on her eye. As soon as the spit hit her eye the second time, she screamed. Her blind eye was opened. Only Believe I had a man come to a meeting one time in an ambulance. The ambulance sirens were blaring, I stopped preaching, and they brought the ambulance all the way to the platform. They said to me, Theres a man in that ambulance. Hes going to die. He left the hospital and said, If Im going to die, Im going to go to that meeting and see if God will heal me. He had the ambulance take him from the hospital to the crusade. I said, Lord, what am I going to do? Everybodys looking at the ambulance, everybodys looking at me. They said theres a man in that ambulance thats going to die if he doesnt get healed. I ran down the stairs, opened up the ambulance door, and I looked at the man in his stretcher and said, Do you believe that Jesus Christ can heal you? He said, Yes. I said, Then get out of your bed. I didnt even touch him. If he had just lain there, I wouldve left, but I felt the Spirit of God on me tell the crippled man to get out of his bed. He got out of his bed and was totally healed, came running up onto the platform, and started running around the building. Ive been in meetings where people have needed surgery on their backs. They said, I cant even bend over, so what do I say? Bend over. Do something you could not do. Youve got a pain in your neck? God, Im in faith right now, just start moving your neck. Withered hand? Just stretch forth your hand. Some of the greatest miracles that weve seen in meetings have happened when people have come crippled and in a wheelchair. Even while Im preaching, I just say to them, Move your legs, stand on your feet, and start walking. People just start moving, and the power of God shows up and begins to touch them. Start seeing what you believe Theres a realm of healing and miracles that will not come without action; that will not come without steps of faith. Many times we have an excuse of why we cannot be healed, why God cannot give us a miracle, or why nothing has happened to us. Lets look at John Chapter Five. I want to show you one more time what can happen if you meet God in faith. I was in a meeting one time and the Lord said, I want you to pray for the sick. I said, Okay, God. He said, Only pray for those that are in faith right now. I said, Those that are in faith right now? What is faith? Faith is born in our hearts by vision and promise. Believe what you see, and all things will be possible. When I say, Believe what you see, Im talking about what you see in your spirit, what you see in your faith, and what you see in your vision. What you see by revelation. If you can see it in the spirit, all things are possible. Kathryn Kuhlman said, Faith is to stop believing in what you see, and start seeing what you believe. Some of us have too much faith in what we dont see. Too much faith in whats happening in our bodies. Too much faith in whats happening in our circumstances. Its time to stop believing in what you see, the way that the doctor says it, and its time to start seeing what you believe, what you believe in the spirit. Why? Hebrews 11:1, Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. You need to see yourself standing up; you need to see yourself whole and healthy. You need to see yourself leaping and dancing and running. You need to see yourself without pain. You need to see your miracle thats already happened in the spirit and receive it in Jesus name. The love and sovereignty of God The love of God, the sovereignty of God, heals people all the time that dont know Jesus. Some of the greatest miracles and healings that have happened in these meetings have happened to Hindus before they knew Jesus Christ. Why? Because of the love of God. The love of God and the sovereignty of God can heal. I dont have a message that you must be in faith, but Im saying when we get in faith, theres something that happens. God meets us and comes when He sees faith moving. Faith is a verb, faith means moving and action. Sometimes weve got to be willing to take that step, like the woman that jumped off of the stage. Weve got to be willing to take that step just like when Jesus said to the crippled man, Take up your bed. Jesus never even touched him; he just decided that he could be healed because Jesus spoke the word. He picked up his bed and walked. The same with the man with the withered hand. Jesus said, Stretch forth your hand. Or the story of the leper in the Bible, and the Prophet came to the leper and He said, Gods going to heal your leprosy. Heres what I want you to do. Go dip in the pool seven times. Until you go and dip in the pool seven times, youll not be healed of leprosy. There are things that we do sometimes that seem foolish and out of the box, unorthodox, and we dont understand. How is it that God couldnt just touch him, wave His hand over him and get him healed? Instead the Prophet said, Go dip in the pool seven times. The time is Now! I was in a meeting one time and a woman came to the altar. She said, Ive got a big goiter on my neck, pray for me. I said, Okay, and I prayed for her. Nothing happened. The Lord said, Dont pray for her goiter, pull it off her face. I said, Pull it off her face? He said, Grab that goiter and pull it off in your hand. So I grabbed the goiter on her neck, squeezed it, and I pulled my arm and the goiter came off in my hand. Totally healed. In that same meeting, I put my hands on a man with cancer, and the cancer came out of his pores as black tar. Black tar, like oil, came out of his pores as the cancer came out of his body. A woman came with cancer on her face. The cancer melted off and I had the cancer in my hand. There was another time a blind man came to Jesus, and Jesus took mud, and He put the mud on the blind mans eyes and then He said, Go wash in the pool and youll be healed. The man went and he washed in the pool, and he came back seeing. Im saying there are things that we need to do. Thats why I tell people to put down their crutch and walk. Put down your cane and walk. Leave your walker and walk. Stand up out of your wheelchair on your feet. God will meet you. Sometimes youve just got to get people moving. When I pray for people in wheelchairs, the first thing I do is say, Stand up. Why do I want them to stand up? Because theyve been in that chair for five years, or ten years, and they havent used their muscles or their legs. When you pray for them, and they feel heat or electricity come in their body, then you say, Stand up on your feet in the name of Jesus. Do something you couldnt do before John 5:2-4, Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water; then whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was made well of whatever disease he had. When there is an atmosphere and the Holy Spirit is moving, thats when we need to respond and do things. Its when the Holy Spirit is stirring and brooding and moving and hovering and vibrating. When the presence of God is moving, we just start speaking things into the atmosphere, and people start coming to the altar. I felt something happen in my body. There was heat in my body. People get healed in the atmosphere. You just need to get people moving. It also happens in worship. If were in the place of glory in worship, and we say, Do something you couldnt do before, someone stands up in a moment of faith and they bend over and touch their toes. Their herniated disk is healed, their back is healed, their vertebra is healed, in the name of Jesus. I believe faith is an anointing, I believe theres a gift of faith, a grace to have faith. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. Faith is rising in our hearts to receive healing right now in the name of Jesus. Thats why I tell people, Put your hand on the part of your body that needs to be healed. There is currently a fresh Healing Awakening and season of Revival on earth. Take a step of Faith and receive your healing right now. Todd Bentley
Posted on: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 14:15:30 +0000
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