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When we laid hands on her, all she could do initially was roll her eyes. So for a moment that’s what she did. Then she started hollering, “Untie me! Untie me! Get me off of here! I’m healed!” Her mother unbuckled her and she jumped off that board and took off around the room, running and shouting. When she did, almost everyone in the room jumped up and started running too. The Dinner Bell of the Gospel I was in three of the last four tent meetings Brother Roberts ever held. The anointing I experienced there—which I’ve come to understand over the years was the anointing of the New Testament evangelist—is the dinner bell of the gospel. When it begins to manifest people will come from all over the world to get in it. After my experience with it in the invalid room, I encountered it again just a few weeks later in Cobo Hall in Detroit. Brother Roberts was holding a series of healing meetings there and his associate evangelist, Bob DeWeese, was preaching the daytime services. Brother DeWeese was my boss at the time, and he came to me before one of the services and said, “Kenneth, there’s no way we’re going to get all these people prayed for without some help. So I’m going to set up a prayer line and let you pray for some of them.” This time I didn’t flinch. Oh yeah, let me at ’em! I thought. That afternoon I laid hands on about 500 people. My mother (who was a powerful woman of prayer) stood behind me praying for me the whole time. One woman in the line had a cancerous growth that had covered one side of her forehead and part of her eye. When I said, “In the Name of Jesus” and touched it—poof—it disappeared! Mother gasped and said, “Where did it go?” I didn’t have any idea. I just knew it was gone. As you can imagine, those experiences marked me for life. They left me with a permanent hunger to see the Body of Christ operating in that kind of anointing. Over the years, I’ve seen flashes of it now and again in my own ministry. One instance particularly stands out in my mind. I was preaching in St. Louis many years ago in Kiel Auditorium and The LORD instructed me to invite people who needed healing to come up on the platform to receive prayer. I didn’t usually lay hands on people up on the platform, but that day The LORD told me clearly, 'I want it done where all the people in the congregation can see what’s happening.' A young woman in her mid-20s came up wearing steel braces from her neck, down her back, and all the way down her legs. After I laid hands on her, she initially just hobbled away. But after she’d gone about 15 feet, she sat down on the platform and started unbuckling her braces and pulling them off. At first her legs were so weak from being harnessed in all that hardware that they were as limp as noodles. The best she could do was crawl around the platform on her hands and knees. She pushed herself over to the wall and pulled herself up. At my command, she took a step. Shaky and weak at first, she came to me and we walked together. By the time she left the platform steps she was walking strong, and so thrilled about it she wouldn’t stop. I found out later she’d come to the meeting on a bus with a group of other people, and when it was time to leave she refused to get on the bus. She just kept walking around the parking lot with the bus creeping along beside her, just having a good time. The next year, she came to the Southwest Believers’ Convention and testified about her healing. She was wearing very high heels! ***article continues on next page*** ******ADVERTISEMENT****** Total Healing & Wellness In this comprehensive healing package, Kenneth and Gloria Copeland provide a 10-Day Spiritual Action Plan designed to help you think scripturally about your healing and wellness. Begin to saturate your life with the Word using tools that include: • Healing scriptures and prayers on CD • Interactive devotional questions • Take-along Faith-in-Action Cards • Healing-focused worship music on CD • Bonus teaching DVD "Healing & Wellness—Your 10-Day Spiritual Action Plan" paperback with CDs and DVD sale $19.95* reg. $24.99 #B150702 Rx Follow These Orders brochure—a list of healing scriptures to get you started. FREE Renew your mind with God’s Word, so you can stand and believe for the answers you need. kcm.org/mag 1-800-600-7395 U.S. only +1-817-852-6000 *FREE standard shipping included. Offer price valid until July 31, 2015 ******************************** 6 : BVOV