Respect and Receive!
by Gloria Copeland
With the healing power of God flowing like a river, and ministers increasingly laying hands on the sick, if you need to get in a healing meeting right now, there’s no question about your being able to find one. The only question is, when you get there, will you be confident you’re going to receive?
You can be, you know. You don’t have to just show up at the meeting wondering and waiting to see what’s going to happen. You can show up in faith, assured in your heart that you’re going to be healed. You can be certain, even before the man or woman of God lays hands on you, that the moment they touch you, God’s Anointing will flow!
Think about how people in the New Testament came to receive ministry from Jesus and you’ll see what I mean. Literally multitudes of them came to His meetings expecting to be healed—and they were. If they came to Him in faith, Jesus never sent anyone away still suffering from sickness and disease. He never told anyone that it wasn’t God’s will to heal them…or that they’d have to wait awhile because God was using sickness to teach them something. On the contrary! Jesus was famous for healing absolutely anyone who reached out to Him—no matter who they were or how notorious a sinner they might have been.
His willingness and Anointing were so well known, in fact, that in some places the crowds not only came to receive from Him themselves, they gathered up everyone they possibly could who was willing to come with them.
Mark 6:55-56 tell us: “[They] began to carry about in beds those that were sick, where they heard he was. And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.”
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