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********** ADVERTISEMENT ********** You can have Healing School right where you are and learn how to use the authority God gave you to receive your healing—and stay healthy! Healing School 6 messages on 1 MP3 disc now $8.99 reg $18 #B191002 KCM.ORG/MAG 1-800-600-7395 (U.S. only) FREE standard shipping included. Offer price valid until Oct. 31, 2019 ********************************************* * * * * article from p. 25 continues * * * * “But Gloria,” someone might say, “things are different these days than they were in the Gospels. Back then, Jesus was here on earth ministering to people personally. Now He’s ascended back to heaven.” I know. But His Ascension didn’t change who He is and what He does. Acts 1:11 makes that clear. It says, “This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way…” ("New International Version"). This same Jesus! Those are the words the Lord quickened to me all those years ago when He first gave me this message—and they are good news! They assure us that the Jesus we see in the Gospels is the same Jesus who’s coming back for the Church, which means He is the same Jesus today. He hasn’t changed one iota. If it was easy for people to receive healing from Him when He was on earth in a natural body, it’s easy for us to receive healing from Him now. He is “the same yesterday, today, and forever” (Hebrews 13:8, "New King James Version"). That’s why I love reading the accounts of Jesus’ healings in the Scriptures. He never told anyone, like religious tradition does today, that it might not be God’s will to heal them. He never complicated matters by suggesting they might have to stay sick awhile for reasons they might not understand. No! Jesus always responded to those who came to Him for healing the same way He responded to the leper in Matthew 8. When the leper said to Him, “Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean,” Jesus answered very simply: “I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed” (verses 2-3). Speak the Word Only When the Roman centurion came to Jesus seeking healing for his servant and said, “Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, dreadfully tormented,” Jesus gave him the same kind of simple answer he had given the leper. Without a moment’s hesitation, “Jesus said to him, ‘I will come and heal him’” (verses 6-7, "NKJV"). That’s always the way Jesus is. If you call on Him for healing, He’ll come to your house anytime of the day or night. He won’t even stop to ask you what church you attend. All He’ll ask you to do is believe that He is Anointed of God to heal you and that He will do it. The centurion believed that! He had so much faith in Jesus’ Anointing and authority that he told Jesus not to bother even coming to his house. He said, “Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed” (verse 8). How did Jesus respond? He did exactly what the centurion requested. He said, “Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour” (verse 13). See how pliable and easy Jesus is? When people put their faith in Him for healing, He does whatever they say. We see Him doing it again after He healed the centurion’s servant, when He went to Peter’s house. There, He found Peter’s mother-in-law “sick with a high fever, and they made request of Him concerning her. So He stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her” (Luke 4:38-39, "NKJV"). Jesus didn’t stop after healing her, either. Later that evening, when the multitudes showed up, bringing with them all those that were sick with various diseases and many who were demon possessed, Jesus healed them with the same easy willingness. “He cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by [Isaiah] the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses” (Matthew 8:16-17). There were thousands of people in that crowd! If receiving healing from Jesus was ever hard, surely some of those folks would have gone back home as sick as they were when they came. But that’s not what happened. Every single person there got from Jesus what they needed. He healed all the sick who came to Him that day…which is good news for us, because He is exactly the same Jesus today. “Yeah, but I don’t know if there was anyone in that crowd like me,” someone might say. “I’ve messed up so much in my life and wrecked my body by making so many sinful choices, I’m too far gone now to be helped.” 26 : BVOV

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