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Physical manifestation of spiritual power And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness (Act 4:31) If we read in Mark 5:22-23 Jairus who is in-charge of a Jewish synagogue pleads Jesus to come and lay His hand over his dying daughter to heal her. On the other hand in Matthew 8:5-10 we read about the Roman centurion who approached Jesus to heal his maid who was very sick, when Jesus told him that He would come to his place, he insisted that Jesus just command the sickness to leave from the very place He stood and she would be healed. Both Jairus daughter and the Roman centurions maid got healed but scripture says Jesus was very impressed with the faith of the centurion. He went to the extent of commenting that they stood no man in whole of Israel who had faith like the centurion. When God instructed Moses to split the Red Sea to make way for His people or to make water available from the rocks for His people, the Lord had told Moses to make use or take hold of his staff. But when we see the Lord spoke to Joshua, Joshua impressed God with his faith by causing even the Sun and Moon to stand still, and he did not even told any staff in his hand when he did them. Laying of hands (touching a person) helps to encourage the people to have faith, same as holding on to symbolic objects. Lack of faith can caused Jesus to fail in healing people, even God cannot work in the life of the person. But a person of strong faith does not need someone to touch them to be healed, nor to hold on to symbolic objects, the Word does the job. In this scripture we read there was physical manifestation of the presence of the Holy Spirit by the shaking of the place. Personally I have experienced this shaking of a place during prayer wherein the people in the room and even adjusting rooms of a house experience shaking like that of an earthquake but the neighbouring houses in the building having common walls or houses above or below in the building did not feel anything. This was not just a feeling for objects in the house moved and some fell by the shaking. But this happen long time back when I was just growing in the Lord like it happened in the book of Acts to the just growing Church.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 16:35:17 +0000

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