God Wants You Well
by Gloria Copeland
In 1979, the Lord spoke five words to me I’ll never forget. He didn’t say them audibly. If someone else had been with me at the time, I don’t think they would have heard His voice. But to me His words came through crystal clear and full of power.
'I want My people well!' He said.
Never before, or since, has God dealt with me more strongly about anything. That day He told me that we were to add a healing school to every one of our Believers’ Conventions and Victory Crusades. Confirming His instructions with scriptures about how Jesus sent out His disciples to “preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick” (Luke 9:2), He told me to teach the healing schools myself and, ultimately, to lay hands on people.
I can’t tell you how much I didn’t want to do that.
Although I’d learned from the Word how to live healed myself and how to raise my children healed, I was very quiet back then, even in our personal life. I preferred to stay in the background, so the thought of standing on the platform in front of people was not appealing to me at all.
Because the Lord dealt with me so strongly about it though, I did—and I’ll be forever glad.
It’s been one of the greatest BLESSINGS of my life. (It always pays to obey God! You’ll never regret doing anything He tells you to do.) I didn’t have any experience back then putting together a sermon, but I did know that faith comes by hearing God’s Word. I also knew that Proverbs 4:20-22 says, “My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.”
Since the word health in that verse can be translated medicine, I began my healing services by simply telling people, “We’re going to take a big dose of God’s medicine today. We’re going to listen to what He says, let it in our hearts and believe it; and healing will be the result.” Then I’d open my Bible and go through the healing scriptures one by one, adding whatever the Holy Spirit prompted me to say about them.
BVOV : 5
