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Most people take medicine only when they’re sick and trying to get well. But I want to talk to you today about a medicine you can take all the time. If you take it when you’re sick, it will heal you. If you take it when you’re well, it will keep you healthy. This medicine is so safe you can’t overdose on it. (I know because I’ve tried!) Yet, it’s the most powerful medicine that exists. Taken continuously in sufficient quantities, it will keep the power of God flowing out of your spirit and into your mind and body so that you’re able to live continually in divine health. What exactly is this wonderful medicine? It’s the written Word of Almighty God! It’s the medicine Proverbs 4:20-22 is referring to when it 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 [also translated medicine] to all their flesh.” That’s one of my favorite passages in the Bible! I like to use it when I’m teaching Healing School as a launching pad into the rest of the healing scriptures in the Bible. After reading it to the people—many of whom come with physical problems medical science can’t solve, I often tell them they’re about to get a big dose of God’s medicine. “It may take a few hours for us to get through all the verses,” I’ll say, “but if you’ll listen and receive the Word like a little child, faith for healing will come into your heart, connect you with the power of God, and heal you from the inside out.” I remember one lady who attended wrote me a letter afterward and said she almost couldn’t take all the medicine I dished out in Healing School. She said that at one point in the service she prayed, “Lord, don’t let Gloria give another scripture!” God didn’t answer that prayer, of course. He let me go right on preaching the Word—and it’s a good thing for her that He did, too, because after I read several more verses she got healed! I’ve seen more people than I can count get healed that same way, just sitting in Healing School listening to the Word. Many times, I don’t even get a chance to lay hands on them. God’s medicine does its work in them before I’ve finished preaching. By the time I’m ready to pray for them, they’re already healed! That kind of thing doesn’t happen just in Healing School, either. Although healing meetings can be great places to receive, God’s medicine will work anytime, in any place, for anybody. All you have to do is follow the instructions in Proverbs 4: Keep God’s Word in your ears, before your eyes, and get it in your heart in such abundance that it overflows from your mouth. Many years ago, Brother Charles Capps wrote a wonderful little book titled "God’s Creative Power for Healing." It was filled with scriptures and included these instructions, worded in prescription form: God’s medicine: to be taken by mouth three times a day until faith comes. Then once a day to maintain faith. If circumstances grow worse, double the dose. There are no harmful side effects. If you want to live in divine health, that’s the secret, right there! You keep God’s Word—particularly what He says about healing—in your heart and in your mouth. You continually feed on that Word (Romans 10:17) so that your faith for healing stays strong and ready to be used all the time. God Is a Good, Good God “But Gloria,” you might say, “what should I do about the verses in the Bible that undermine my faith for healing? What about the scriptures that say God sometimes gets glory from sickness, or that He puts sickness on us sometimes to teach us things?” There are no such scriptures! Those ideas are nothing but religious traditions. They’re sometimes passed along by well-meaning Christians, but they’re lies of the devil. He uses them to undermine the Church’s faith and malign God’s character. ******* article continues on p. 28 ******** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Points to Get You There: 1) God’s medicine will work anytime, in any place, for anybody who will take it according to prescription. Proverbs 4:20-21 2) God has always provided healing for His people. Psalm 103:2-3 3) God doesn’t get glory out of people being sick; He gets glory when people are healed. Matthew 15:31 4) God never puts sickness on His people to teach them something; He teaches us by the Holy Spirit and the Word. John 14:26; 2 Timothy 3:16 5) Because Jesus has already borne your sicknesses on the cross, healing belongs to you now. 1 Peter 2:24 BVOV : 27

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