BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

Need Healing? Stick With The WORD by Kenneth Copeland Not many people get to visit heaven and then come back to tell about it, but my friend Gary Wood did. He went there briefly after being in a deadly car wreck at age 18. As he was being escorted around, one of the places he saw was a room filled with new body parts—new hearts, spines, eardrums, lungs, everything necessary to make a human body perfectly whole. “What is this place?” Gary asked. “This is the parts room,” he was told. “When our people need new body parts and call for them by faith, the angels take them whatever they need.” It turned out Gary was in that room for good reason. While he was seeing firsthand in heaven just how much God cares about the physical well-being of His people, his sister was back on earth, refusing to give him up. She’d been in the wreck with him, came out unhurt, and was standing on The WORD. Never mind that he was DOA at the emergency room. She wouldn’t turn loose. When Gary’s body began to show signs of life, the doctors realized he would survive but gave a grave prognosis. Having determined that his larynx was crushed, and his vocal cords were destroyed, they said, “He’ll never talk again.” A singer who’d been headed into the ministry, for Gary that would have been tragic. But, thank God, he’d been in the heavenly parts room. So, when he regained consciousness, he confounded everyone by saying, “Hallelujah!” and ultimately wound up preaching, singing and bringing glory to God with a marvelous, booming voice! Isn’t that wonderful? “Yes,” someone might say, “but you have to remember, God’s ways are mysterious. When it comes to healing, we can never really know what He’s going to do.” Sure, we can! We may not know exactly how He’s going to do it, but we can know what He’ll do because James 1:17 says that in Him there “is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.” He doesn’t shift around, taking one position on healing today, and another tomorrow. He doesn’t vary from day to day, providing parts for one person and not for another. God is always the same. His nature doesn’t change. His Name doesn’t change, and His WORD doesn’t change. What He’s said to one about healing, He says to everyone because He is totally unchangeable. So is Jesus! The express image of the Father, Hebrews 13:8 describes Him as “the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.” So, if He healed yesterday, He’s still the Healer today. He’s still responding to us now the same way He responded to those who came to Him for healing in the Gospels. Remember the leper who came to Jesus in Matthew 8? When he said, “Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean,” without stopping to think about it, Jesus answered without hesitation, saying, “I will” (verses 2-3). And with those words He settled the issue forever for all men for all time: Healing is always God’s will! BVOV : 27

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