This next story is for your situation. People have read this story and found faith rising in their hearts. Healing appears in two different forms. A word of faith came first and then someone had to pray in faith. In this story faith and action are mixed together, to produce Gods healing power. This story is based on a true story in 2 Kings 4:8

I am going to tell it as a modern parable.

Imagine you are a successful pastor, visiting a wealthy couple who go to your church. The woman is barren, they have no children. They offer you a cup of coffee and as it is handed to you; the word of the Lord drops into your heart. You stand up and proclaim,

” By this time next year you will give birth to a child.”

After the coffee you drive off feeling a bit strange, but at peace with what you said. Next year the rich couple have a healthy baby boy. Now you are a hero. Everyone is coming to you for a word.

A few years later the boy becomes sick and is in hospital. You are speaking at a conference, when the mother rings to tell you the bad news.

You say,” I will send my associate pastor to pray for the boy.” He goes to the hospital to pray for the boy to be healed. But it doesn’t work. The boy is dying.

The mother rings you again. She wants you to get in your car, drive back to the city and get over to the hospital.

But you are about to go on stage, and speak to a very large crowd. This is your big speaking opportunity.

You hesitate, the mother is crying, the crowd is singing.

What do you do?

The mother believes you are the best person for the job. She believes you are qualified.

The decision is easy; you remember what Elisha did. You do not settle for second best. You get in that car, drive to the hospital, and pray for Gods healing power to come upon that boy.

That is the choice you and I would make. It is how faith behaves.

Put aside every distracting thought and activity. Get yourself together. Stop worrying. Start believing.

Why not use your faith right now, to believe for Gods healing power, to come upon you or your loved one.

And put your trust in the God, who raises the dead, and calls those things that are not as though they were.

The Lord will sustain you on your sickbed, and restore you from your bed of illness. [Psalm 41:3]

Do not accept second best. You have been qualified by Jesus himself.

How loud is the good news?

Loud enough for you to realise God may be speaking to you through all the noise and activity going on around you.

It’s time to turn off the bad news, and tune into the “Good News,” radio station from Heaven.

Here is the six o’clock news.

“Someone was healed today, “says the announcer.

“And that was you.”

Start praising God that a gift of healing just dropped into you.

When someone gives you a gift; you thank them for the gift.

Activate your faith by praise. The gift is real. Let the joy of the Lord strengthen your heart, right now.

And all the people said. Amen.

The Lord sent his word and healed them. [Psalm 107:20]

Receive your gift from God as a seed. Believe you have it planted in your spirit.

Water it. Fertilize it. Protect it from the weeds of unbelief and doubt. Practise being thankful.

If you have faith as a seed; it is growing even if you cannot see it growing!

Something is happening under the surface. Maybe something has happened, and you are not aware that there has been a change.

God may have done something, while you were reading this story.

Your healing or financial or relational miracle, could be happening out of sight.

When your faith is ignited, resurrection life gets released. Is your faith switched on?

Why not turn it on now? Turn your faith into a seed by making an action.

Decide to do something differently today, so when you wake up tomorrow, there will be no doubt that you have changed.

Because you will remember what your faith action was, and no one can deny that you did it.

You should ask God for an idea from heaven, if the normal ideas are not working.

Healing grows like a plant.

In scripture the Lord likens the kingdom of God, to the planting of a grain of mustard seed, which grew and became a tree.

On another occasion he describes the growth, in a slightly different way and says,

“first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.”

The nature of the kingdom, is to grow from being small to being fully developed.

Divine healing is a part of the kingdom of God.

That is what Jesus meant when he said, “Heal the sick and say, the kingdom of God has come near to you.”

This means that because the character of the kingdom, is to grow, the character of healing is to grow as well.

Where there is faith, the nature of divine healing is to increase.

When we pray the prayer of faith, and our faith is equal to the mountain to be moved, whether it is for healing or for anything else, then we can expect to see the answer at once, or at least very soon.

But when we think of all the barriers there can be, of un-forgiveness or fear, we begin to see why the answers to our prayers, usually come in a more progressive way.

“According to your faith,” meaning in proportion to your faith.

Believe that your miracle is planted in you.

Believe that it is growing.

Accept that your faith is increasing.

Expect a result; keep your eyes open for a change for the better.

We need to keep in mind, that the nature of the kingdom of God, which includes healing, is to grow.

Our role is that of a gardener; by faith we plant the seed and then watch it come up.

In Colossians 4:2 we are told to, “continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.”

This means that we are on the watch for signs of growth.

“First the blade, then the ear…,” and we are thankful to God for the growth as it takes place.

Suppose we plant a seed in the ground.

For a while afterwards we see nothing at all.

There is no sign of what we have planted, and we might be tempted to think, nothing is happening.

We find, as time goes by, a slip of green poking its way up through the soil.

We are glad – even thrilled to see it.

And, as we go on watching it each day, tending it as best we can, it continues to grow and in due time reaches its full size.

And so it is when we pray the prayer of faith for healing.

God says that his blessing will grow like a plant.

We plant the seed by accepting healing, in the same way as we accept Christ for salvation.

At first we may not see any result at all.

Even so we believe something is happening, and sooner or later we will see, the first sign of healing appear.

Our part is to be on the lookout for this improvement, however slight, and to return thanks to God.

Previously, you were under the influence, of sickness and disease, which led ever deeper into depression.

Now you can be under the influence of healthy, and righteous living.

You will become the person you have always wanted to be.

When you were under the influence of sickness, you could not do all the wonderful activities, of a healthy person.

But now you are free from the power of sickness, and have become healthy sons and daughters of God.

Now you can do those things that lead to wholeness, and also enjoy a happy life.

For the result of sickness is depression, but the free gift of God is a healthy, whole and complete life, through Christ Jesus our Lord.

If there is sickness…

Grace will increase even more.

God will increase his healing grace, so that there will always be an abundance.

If you have one portion of sickness,

God will give you two portions of his healing Grace.

You cannot lose!

This is God’s plan for success.

This is God’s plan for your life.

This is God’s plan for your healing.

But where sin increased, grace increased all the more. Romans5:20

Thank you for reading.

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God Bless from Tony and Lorna

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We will continue to believe with you, for your healing gift to grow and increase.

God Bless from Tony and Lorna.

Brisbane. Australia.