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Notice, it’s actually healing that made Jesus famous. It’s what drew people to Him from all around. They came to hear Him because when He preached He ministered to them in the power of God. He worked miracles and healed them. As Ken likes to say, “Healing is the dinner bell of the gospel!” It started ringing 2,000 years ago, and because Jesus never changes it’s still ringing today. As it continues to sound, louder and louder in this last-days outpouring, not only will the sick be healed, the maimed will be made whole, just like they were in Jesus’ ministry. Unleash the Healing Power of God I know what you might be thinking: If the ministry of healing is a dinner bell designed to draw unsaved people to the gospel, what does it have to do with those of us who are already believers? It has a lot to do with us! Healing is a part of THE BLESSING of the New Covenant. It belongs to us because we’re God’s children. We can receive it by faith whenever we need it, but in times like these we can receive it with special ease through the ministers of God. Read Luke 13 sometime and you’ll see what I mean. It tells about a godly Jewish woman who received healing through the ministry of Jesus. After being bowed over by a crippling condition for 18 years, she encountered Him in the synagogue one day and He simply said to her, “Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God” (verses 12-13). When the ruler of the synagogue got upset with Him for healing on the Sabbath, Jesus called him a hypocrite and told him it was the right thing to do. “Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?” (verse 16). The word ought indicates this woman already had a right to healing. As a daughter of Abraham, it was hers under the Old Covenant. But she didn’t know how to act on that covenant and get free, so Jesus helped her. He’ll do the same for us today! As believers we have as much right to be healed as that woman in the synagogue did. Satan doesn’t have any authority to bind us. We’re born-again children of the Most High God and we ought to be loosed. If we’re struggling with sickness, we ought to be able to go someplace where the anointing is flowing, let someone pray for us and receive our healing! “Well, I tried that,” someone might say, “but I didn’t get anything.” Then you might want to make sure you have the right attitude about it. In Jesus’ ministry, everyone who received Him as an anointed minister sent from God got healed. The only people who didn’t get healed were the people who refused to receive Him that way. The same was true when His disciples went out to minister. When Jesus sent them out He said, “He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me” (Matthew 10:40). This is one of the secrets to getting healed when you’re in a prayer line or when a man or woman of God is praying for you: Receive their ministry as if it were Jesus Himself ministering to you. When you receive them as one that Jesus has sent, great power can be released to you from God. I’ve seen it proven over and over again. One time many years ago, for instance, a woman came to one of our meetings who had been badly crippled in a car accident. She had braces on her legs and was barely able to walk. Ken started praying for people to be healed and she came up in the prayer line. She didn’t really expect to be healed herself, she just came to bring someone else. But while she was there Ken laid hands on her. Initially, nothing appeared to happen. But as she turned to go back to her seat Ken said something like, “Jesus has healed you! You’re healed!” Well now, he’s a man of God, she thought. If he said I’m healed I must be healed. So she responded to his words as if they’d come straight from Jesus Himself. Even though she didn’t feel anything different in her body, she sat down on the floor and began to pull off her braces. The first few steps she took after removing the braces were pretty wobbly. But after stumbling into a wall and staggering around a little, she began to get stronger. The more she walked, the better her steps became. The next time we saw her she was not only walking normally, she was wearing high heels! (To watch this video, go to http://bit.ly/Kathy_Bruce_Testimony.) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ****ADVERTISEMENT**** Hear the Father’s Voice Through the Holy Spirit, God has given us the power to walk, talk, act and love just like Jesus. Now, in "Unlimited Victory," from Kenneth and Gloria Copeland, you’ll learn how to hear the Father’s voice and follow His leading—living just like Jesus did. Plus, you’ll discover how to stand strong in the Lord, giving your whole heart to Him. 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