TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Double Vision For A Single Mission

2. The Big Breakthrough

3. Laying On Of Hands

4. Laying On Of Hands - Plus

5. Let The Sick Lay Hands On You

6. Talk To A Mountain

7. What You See Is What You Get

8. Some Conditions For Healing

9. Anointing With Oil

10. Healing Through Intercessory Prayer

11. Healing Through Use Of Prayer Cloths

12. Other Ways To Heal The Sick

13. What If I Don't Get Healed

14. Being Sensitive To The Holy Spirit

15. Casting Out Devils

16. The Gift Of Faith

17. Creative Miracles

18. Growing Out Arms And Legs

19. Go Into All The World ... Heal The Sick

CHAPTER 1

DOUBLE VISION FOR

A SINGLE MISSION

By Charles and Frances

In June of 1980, God gave us a vision of the world

with silver and gold bands covering the entire globe

— but not in the orderly sense you would expect to

see them. These bands were spilling all over the

world like melted silver and gold rivulets and

running into all sorts of odd little places —

mountains and valleys alike. There was no obvious

plan of any kind represented by these silver and gold

rivulets — they went hither and thither all over the

place. Sometimes they were wide, and sometimes

they were super skinny. In some places it looked like

a big blob of melted silver and gold had fallen, but

there was no pattern of any kind! Then we saw

students begin to rise up and stand on these melted

silver and gold bands.

We began to ponder on this, because in the

beginning it seemed to us like nothing but a huge

hodgepodge, but slowly God began to reveal what

this vision meant, and how it applied to our ministry.

The more we examined this divine vision, the more

we began to understand that God was telling us to

take the total message of salvation, which includes

healing, to the entire world, by letting the masses

learn how to operate in the supernatural and heal

the sick.

Our hearts began to sing as God continued the

revelation of what he wanted us to do. First, he

directed us to teach on the subject of HOW TO HEAL

THE SICK. We had seen students from the City of

Light School of Ministry standing on the silver and

gold bands, and thought momentarily that they were

going to go to all parts of the world to teach the

nationals how to heal the sick. Somehow this

understanding did not give us total assurance that

this was actually what the vision meant. We

continued to think more about the vision.

Then the picture expanded even more, and we saw

the video schools going into ALL the world — into the

small places where evangelists never go, to teach all

the people in the remotest places of the world how to

lay hands on the sick and heal them. The students

who learned from these video tapes would then go

out and preach the gospel to the poor, heal the

brokenhearted, preach deliverance to the captives

and recovering of sight to the blind, and set at liberty

those who are bruised.

For the first time, we plainly saw the identity of the

students standing on the bands! We had seen

students of all nationalities, but had thought they

would be coming to the school here in Texas. Then

we realized they were the ones we might not ever

meet, the ones who might only see us through video

tapes, but the ones who had received the message of

how to heal the sick and had gone out to stretch forth

their hands to the sick!

This is God's timing for another great move of his

Spirit as the masses are being trained to go out and

minister on a one-to-one basis. Bible colleges and

schools of ministry have sprung up all over as a

hungry world says, "Teach us how to operate in the

supernatural the way the original disciples did!"

There is such a hungering among God's people to

learn more about the things of God that we believe in

a few years there will not be enough schools to fill

the need, and the people will have to be put on a

wait-list to get into the schools that are already in

operation. What a thrilling thought, and what a

thrilling time to be alive!

We were confident that God had opened our spirits

to a dynamic, far-reaching mission of teaching the

masses how simple it is to become a miracle-working

disciple like those in the book of Acts.

The Monday after we finished teaching on Friday,

God supernaturally sent a missionary to our school,

who knew nothing about our video tape ministry,

and we gave him fourteen hours of teaching on how

to heal the sick.

On Tuesday, God sent another missionary! We gave

him a complete set of teaching tapes as well. He had

a video player in Africa, but he desperately needed

tapes. He called us within two weeks and reported

that he had rented a building in Tanzania (formerly

Tanganyika), which would hold about three hundred

people, and after inserting one small ad in the

newspaper, he had turn-away crowds to see the

teaching. Great numbers were healed as they

watched these tapes, and eighteen were saved and

baptized in water the following Sunday!

In just two or three months, video schools have

started among the Catholic charismatics in Lima,

Peru, and other schools are in Bolivia, the

Philippines, three other countries in Africa and

requests are coming in from all over the world for

this particular series of tapes containing the "how

to's" of healing!

As we held a Healing Seminar in Kansas shortly after

this, Pastor Fred Kirkpatrick told us of a prophecy

about the end times which literally exploded our

faith as a confirmation of the part this teaching will

play in what we believe to be the end of the end

times before Jesus comes for those who love and

obey him.

Our book was ready for the typesetter with the

exception of the Introduction, when we contacted the

publisher of a book entitled PERTINENT PROPHECIES

I by John M. and Dorothea M. Gardner, and received

permission to reprint the following prophecy, given

by Tommy Hicks, noted evangelist, in 1961.

VISION OF THE BODY OF CHRIST

AND THE END-TIME MINISTRIES

My message begins July 25, about 2:30 in the morning

at Winnipeg, Canada. I had hardly fallen asleep when

the vision and the revelation that God gave me came

before me. The vision came three times, exactly in

detail, the morning of July 25, 1961. I was so stirred

and so moved by the revelation that this has changed

my complete outlook upon the body of Christ, and

upon the end-time ministries.

The greatest thing that the church of Jesus Christ has

ever been given lies straight ahead. It is so hard to

help men and women to realize and understand the

thing that God is trying to give to his people in the end

times.

I received a letter several weeks ago from one of our

native evangelists down in Africa, down in Nairobi.

This man and his wife were on their way to

Tanganyika. They could neither read nor could they

write, but we had been supporting them for over two

years. As they entered into the territory of

Tanganyika, they came across a small village. The

entire village was evacuating because of a plague that

had hit the village. He came across natives that were

weeping, and he asked them what was wrong.

They told him of their mother and father who had

suddenly died, and they had been dead for three days.

They had to leave. They were afraid to go in; they were

leaving them in the cottage. He turned and asked them

where they were. They pointed to the hut and he asked

them to go with him, but they refused. They were

afraid to go.

The native and his wife went to this little cottage and

entered in where the man and woman had been dead

for three days. He simply stretched forth his hand in

the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and spoke the man's

name and the woman's name and said, "In the name of

the Lord Jesus Christ, I command life to come back to

your bodies." Instantaneously these two heathen

people who had never known Jesus Christ as their

Savior sat up and immediately began to praise God.

The spirit and the power of God came into the life of

those people.

To us that may seem strange and a phenomenon, but

that is the beginning of these end-time ministries. God

is going to take the do-nothings, the nobodies, the

unheard-of, the no-accounts. He is going to take every

man and every woman and he is going to give to them

this outpouring of the Spirit of God.

In the book of Acts we read that "In the last days," God said, "I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh." I wonder if we realized what he meant when God said,

"I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh." I do not think I fully realize nor could I understand the fullness of it,

and then I read from the book of Joel: "Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: for

he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he

will cause to come down for you the rain, the former

rain, and the latter rain" (Joel 2:23). It is not only

going to be the rain, the former rain and the latter

rain, but he is going to give to his people in these last

days a double portion of the power of God!

As the vision appeared to me after I was asleep, I

suddenly found myself in a great high distance.

Where I was, I do not know. But I was looking down

upon the earth. Suddenly the whole earth came into

my view. Every nation, every kindred, every tongue

came before my sight from the east and the west, the

north and the south. I recognized every country and

many cities that I had been in, and I was almost in

fear and trembling as I beheld the great sight before

me: and at that moment when the world came into

view, it began to lightning and thunder.

As the lightning flashed over the face of the earth, my

eyes went downward and I was facing the north.

Suddenly I beheld what looked like a great giant, and

as I stared and looked at it, I was almost bewildered

by the sight. It was so gigantic and so great. His feet

seemed to reach to the north pole and his head to the

south. Its arms were stretched from sea to sea. I could

not even begin to understand whether this be a

mountain or this be a giant, but as I watched, I

suddenly beheld a great giant. I could see his head was

struggling for life. He wanted to live, but his body was covered with debris from head to foot, and at times

this great giant would move his body and act as

though it would even raise up at times. And when it

did, thousands of little creatures seemed to run away.

Hideous creatures would run away from this giant,

and when he would become calm, they would come

back.

All of a sudden this great giant lifted his hand toward

the heaven, and then it lifted its other hand, and when

it did, these creatures by the thousands seemed to flee

away from this giant and go into the darkness of the

night.

Slowly this great giant began to rise and as he did, his

head and hands went into the clouds. As he rose to his

feet he seemed to have cleansed himself from the

debris and filth that was upon him, and he began to

raise his hands into the heavens as though praising

the Lord, and as he raised his hands, they went even

unto the clouds.

Suddenly, every cloud became silver, the most

beautiful silver I have ever known. As I watched this

phenomenon it was so great I could not even begin to

understand what it all meant. I was so stirred as I

watched it, and I cried unto the Lord and I said, "Oh,

Lord, what is the meaning of this," and I felt as if I was actually in the Spirit and I could feel the presence of

the Lord even as I was asleep.

And from those clouds suddenly there came great

drops of liquid light raining down upon this mighty

giant, and slowly, slowly, this giant began to melt,

began to sink itself in the very earth itself, and as he

melted, his whole form seemed to have melted upon

the face of the earth, and this great rain began to

come down. Liquid drops of light began to flood the

very earth itself and as I watched this giant that

seemed to melt, suddenly it became millions of people

over the face of the earth. As I beheld the sight before

me, people stood up all over the world! They were

lifting their hands and they were praising the Lord.

At that very moment there came a great thunder that

seemed to roar from the heavens. I turned my eyes

toward the heavens and suddenly I saw a figure in

white, in glistening white — the most glorious thing

that I have ever seen in my entire life. I did not see the

face, but somehow I knew it was the Lord Jesus Christ,

and he stretched forth his hand, and as he did, he

would stretch it forth to one, and to another, and to

another. And as he stretched forth his hand upon the

nations and the people of the world —wen and women

— as he pointed toward them, this liquid light seemed

to flow from his hands into them, and a mighty

anointing of God came upon them, and those people

began to go forth in the name of the Lord.

I do not know how long I watched it. It seemed it went

into days and weeks and months. And I beheld this

Christ as he continued to stretch forth his hand; but

there was a tragedy. There were many people as he

stretched forth his hand that refused the anointing of God and the call of God. I saw men and women that I

knew. People that I felt would certainly receive the call

of God. But as he stretched forth his hand toward this

one and toward that one, they simply bowed their

head and began to back away. And each of those that

seemed to bow down and back away, seemed to go into

darkness. Blackness seemed to swallow them

everywhere.

I was bewildered as I watched it, but these people that

he had anointed, hundreds of thousands of people all

over the world, in Africa, England, Russia, China,

America, all over the world, the anointing of God was

upon these people as they went forward in the name of

the Lord. I saw these men and women as they went

forth. They were ditch diggers, they were

washerwomen, they were rich men, they were poor

men. I saw people who were bound with paralysis and

sickness and blindness and deafness. As the Lord

stretched forth to give them this anointing, they

became well, they became healed, and they went forth!

And this is the miracle of it — this is the glorious

miracle of it — those people would stretch forth their

hands exactly as the Lord did, and it seemed as if there

was this same liquid fire in their hands. As they

stretched forth their hands they said, "According to my word, be thou made whole."

As these people continued in this mighty end-time

ministry, I did not fully realize what it was, and I

looked to the Lord and said, "What is the meaning of

this?" And he said, "This is that which I will do in the last days. I will restore all that the cankerworm, the

palmerworm, the caterpillar — I will restore all that

they have destroyed. This, my people, in the end times

will go forth. As a mighty army shall they sweep over

the face of the earth."

As I was at this great height, I could behold the whole

world. I watched these people as they were going to

and fro over the face of the earth. Suddenly there was

a man in Africa and in a moment he was transported

by the Spirit of God, and perhaps he was in Russia, or

China or America or some other place, and vice versa.

All over the world these people went, and they came

through fire, and through pestilence, and through

famine. Neither fire nor persecution, nothing seemed

to stop them.

Angry mobs came to them with swords and with guns.

And like Jesus, they passed through the multitudes and

they could not find them, but they went forth in the

name of the Lord, and everywhere they stretched forth

their hands, the sick were healed, the blind eyes were

opened. There was not a long prayer, and after I had

reviewed the vision many times in my mind, and I

thought about it many times, I realized that I never

saw a church, and I never saw or heard a

denomination, but these people were going in the

name of the Lord of Hosts.

Hallelujah!

As they marched forth in everything they did as the

ministry of Christ in the end times, these people were

ministering to the multitudes over the face of the

earth. Tens of thousands, even millions seemed to

come to the Lord Jesus Christ as these people stood

forth and gave the message of the kingdom, of the

coming kingdom, in this last hour. It was so glorious,

but it seems as though there were those that rebelled,

and they would become angry and they tried to attack

those workers that were giving the message.

God is going to give to the world a demonstration in

this last hour as the world has never known. These

men and women are of all walks of life, degrees will

mean nothing. I saw these workers as they were going

over the face of the earth. When one would stumble

and fall, another would come and pick him up. There

were no "big I" and "little you," but every mountain was brought low and every valley was exalted, and

they seemed to have one thing in common — there

was a divine love, a divine love that seemed to flow

forth from these people as they worked together, and

as they lived together. It was the most glorious sight

that I have ever known. Jesus Christ was the theme of

their life. They continued and it seemed the days went

by as I stood and beheld this sight. I could only cry,

and sometimes I laughed. It was so wonderful as these

people went throughout the face of the whole earth,

bringing forth in this last end time.

As I watched from the very heaven itself, there were

times when great deluges of this liquid light seemed to

fall

upon great congregations, and that congregation

would lift their hands and seemingly praise God for

hours and even days as the Spirit of God came upon

them. God said, "I will pour my Spirit upon all flesh,"

and that is exactly this thing. And to every man and

every woman that received this power, and the

anointing of God, the miracles of God, there was no

ending to it.

We have talked about miracles. We have talked about

signs and wonders, but I could not help but weep as I

read again this morning, at U o'clock this morning the

letter from our native workers. This is only the

evidence of the beginning for one man, a "do-nothing,

an unheard-of," who would go and stretch forth his

hand and say, "In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I

command life to flaw into your body." I dropped to my

knees and began to pray again, and I said, "Lord, I

know that this thing is coming to pass, and I believe

it's coming soon!"

And then again, as these people were going about the

face of the earth, a great persecution seemed to come

from every angle.

Suddenly there was another great clap of thunder, that

seemed to resound around the world, and I heard

again the voice, the voice that seemed to speak, "Now

this is my people. This is my beloved bride," and when

the voice spoke, I looked upon the earth and I could

see the lakes and the mountains. The graves were

opened and people from all over the world, the saints

of all ages, seemed to be rising. And as they rose from

the grave, suddenly all these people came from every

direction. From the east and the west, from the north

and the south, and they seemed to be forming again

this gigantic body. As the dead in Christ seemed to be

rising first, I could hardly comprehend it. It was so

marvelous. It was so far beyond anything I could ever

dream or think of.

But as this body suddenly began to form, and take

shape again, it took shape again in the form of this

mighty giant, but this time it was different. It was

arrayed in the most beautiful gorgeous white. Its

garments were without spot or wrinkle as its body

began to form, and the people of all ages seemed to be

gathered into this body, and slowly, slowly, as it began

to form up into the very heavens, suddenly from the

heavens above, the Lord Jesus came, and became the

head, and I heard another clap of thunder that said,

"This is my beloved bride for whom I have waited. She

will come forth even tried by fire. This is she that I

have loved from the beginning of time."

As I watched, my eyes suddenly turned to the far

north, and I saw seemingly destruction: men and

women in anguish and crying out, and buildings in

destruction.

Then I heard again, the fourth voice that said, "Now is My wrath being poured out upon the face of the

earth." From the ends of the whole world, the wrath of God seemed to be poured out and it seemed that there

were great vials of God's wrath being poured out upon

the face of the earth. I can remember it as though it

happened a moment ago. I shook and trembled as I

beheld the awful sight of seeing the cities, and whole

nations going down into destruction.

I could hear the weeping and wailing. I could hear

people crying. They seemed to cry as they went into

caves, but the caves in the mountains opened up.

They leaped into water, but the water would not

drown them. There was nothing that could destroy

them. They were wanting to take their lives, but they

could not.

Then again I turned my eyes to this glorious sight, this

body arrayed in beautiful white, shining garments.

Slowly, slowly, it began to lift from the earth, and as it

did, I awoke. What a sight I had beheld! I had seen the

end-time ministries — the last hour. Again on July 27,

at 2:30 in the morning, the same revelation, the same

vision came again exactly as it did before.

My life has been changed as I realized that we are

living in that end time, for all over the world God is

anointing men and women with this ministry. It will

not be doctrine. It will not be a churchianity. It is

going to be Jesus Christ. They will give forth the word

of the Lord, and are going to say, "I heard it so many

times in the vision and according to my word it shall

be done."

Oh, my people, listen to me. According to my word, it

shall be done. We are going to be clothed with power

and anointing from God. We won't have to preach

sermons, we won't have to have persons heckle us in

public. We won't have to depend on man, nor will we

be denomination echoes, but we will have the power of

the living God. We will fear no man, but will go in the

name of the Lord of Hosts!

Can you see what we see in these two visions given

twenty years apart?

CHAPTER 2

THE BIG BREAKTHROUGH

By Charles and Frances

We have been assigned and commissioned to take

the gospel to all the world around us, and the only

way we will be able to accomplish this is with

miracles just like Jesus did!

"Jesus' disciples saw him do many other miracles

besides the ones told about in this book, but these

are recorded SO THAT YOU WILL BELIEVE THAT HE

IS THE MESSIAH, THE SON OF GOD, AND IN

BELIEVING IN HIM YOU WILL HAVE LIFE" (John

20:30,31 TLB).

We are in the very end of this age, and there is an

urgency in the entire body of Christ to prepare the

world for the soon-coming return of Jesus! We must

reach every kindred and every tribe and every

tongue with the supernatural.

How can this be done? By believing that THE

SUPERNATURAL CAN BE TAUGHT! We feel in our

spirits that the masses of ordinary people around the

world will suddenly arise to the supernatural move

of the Holy Spirit and will be healing the sick, casting

out devils, and presenting a living, vital Jesus to the

multitudes.

This will not be limited to the ordained ministers of

the gospel, but will include the multitudes. God has

anointed us and directed us to present the simple

ways of healing the sick that he has been teaching us

for the past few years. They have worked for us and

multiplied thousands have been healed. We have

taught others how to heal the sick and cast out devils,

and it has worked for them. And it will for you.

Now God has told us to present this teaching

throughout the world! Blind eyes are going to be

opened through this book — spiritual eyes that have

been clouded with tradition are going to find the

scales falling off as they receive new insight

concerning the healing power of God. God never

intended for healing to be complicated. He made it

very simple, but man tends to make it difficult. Jesus,

the Great Physician, gave us the earthly healing job

and said that those who believe shall lay hands on

the sick and they shall recover (Mark 16:18).

Is it really God's will for people to be healed? Let's

take a look:

"Large crowds followed Jesus as he came down the

hillside. Look! A leper is approaching. He kneels

before him, worshiping. 'Sir,' the leper pleads, 'if you

want to, you can heal me.' Jesus touches the man. 'I

want to,' he says, 'Be healed.' And instantly the

leprosy disappears" (Matthew 8:1-3 TLB).

Yes, IT IS GOD'S WILL FOR YOU TO BE HEALED! You

do not bring glory to God by walking around sick,

saying, "I am being sick for the glory of God."

Sickness does not bring glory to God — healing and

health bring glory to God! When the leper asked

Jesus to heal him, he said, "Sir, if you WANT to, you

can heal me."

What was Jesus' response?

"I WANT to," Jesus said, "Be healed!"

Does Jesus want to heal you? What did he say to the

leper? He said, "I WANT TO!" He says exactly the

same thing to you today!

In the King James Version, this passage reads: "And,

behold, there came a leper and worshipped him,

saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.

And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him,

saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his

leprosy was cleansed."

Hebrews 13:8 tells us that Jesus Christ is "the same

yesterday, and to day, and for ever." Is it God's will to

heal? In one translation, Jesus says, "I want to." In the other, he says, "I will." Neither one is negative, both say YES!

Is it really God's will for us to heal the sick? Let's take

a look, because it often shocks people when you say

THEY should heal the sick. The very first "religious"

thought that comes to mind is that saying YOU do the

healing doesn't glorify God and Jesus. Jesus very

plainly told us in the great commission to lay hands

on the sick, and then he simply stated they would

recover. The Living Bible even makes it simpler

because it says "... and they will be able to place their

hands on the sick and heal them" (Mark 16:18).

Jesus said, "He that believeth on me, the works that I

do shall he do also; and greater works than these

shall he do; because I go unto my Father" (John

14:12).

There are many, many different ways to heal the

sick. In this book we want to show you some of the

surprises that God has shown us as he has taught us

how easy it is to heal the sick. Healing is simple

according to God's Word, but man has attempted to

complicate it.

This book will teach YOU how to heal the sick in the

name of Jesus, and to give GOD all the glory! You will

also learn that if one method doesn't work for you,

you should try another way, because if God had

wanted US to heal only one particular way, he would

never have had Jesus heal in so many different ways

in the Bible!

A minister was watching a friend of ours operate in

the gifts of the Spirit described in the twelfth chapter

of I Corinthians. He said, "Can you give me any clues

which would help me to be able to operate in these

gifts?"

Our friend said, "Charles and Frances Hunter taught

me."

Surprised, he said, "Do you mean the supernatural

can be taught?" YES IT CAN!

This minister came to a three-day seminar where we

taught on how to develop the gifts of the Spirit, went

home and began to operate in all nine gifts, and to

teach other ministers who were working with him. It

works!

We visited an ophthalmologist who had just installed

a piece of equipment with which a laser beam of

light could be directed to the eye of the patient. He

explained to us that if there was a tiny hole in the

eye, he could direct this laser beam to the exact point

of the hole, punch a button, and "zap" and the hole

was sealed!

It was not the ophthalmologist who closed the hole. It

was not his healing touch that accomplished the

healing. It was the laser beam directed by the skillful

hand of the doctor.

It was a force, an energy, a power, a laser beam that

did the actual healing. But the ophthalmologist was

still the doctor who applied the energy which

accomplished the healing!

When the woman with an issue of blood touched the

hem of Jesus' garment and was healed, Jesus said he

felt healing virtue, or power, go from his body (See

Mark 5:30).

Jesus was the Great Physician who applied the power

of the Holy Spirit to accomplish that mighty healing,

just as the ophthalmologist did.

The Holy Spirit is a thorough teacher, and he never

stops teaching anyone who is willing to learn and to

apply the learning for the glory of God!

To heal the sick is exciting! It is the desire of Jesus!

It is the will of God! And — for the Spirit-filled

believer — it is natural!

Why don't more people heal the sick?

"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge."

(Hosea4:6).

This book will give you the knowledge you need to

heal those around you and to go around the world

and heal the sick.

There is a beautiful scripture we think everyone

should read. Everyone ought to know this scripture,

and everyone ought to do it! It is found in the 14th

chapter of Exodus, verse 15: "Then the Lord said to

Moses, quit praying and get the people moving!

FORWARD, MARCH!" (TLB).

That is what God is saying to you. "Quit praying and

get moving; FORWARD, MARCH!"

Let's go through that big breakthrough and learn

how to operate in the supernatural!

CHAPTER 3

LAYING ON OF HANDS

By Frances

Probably everybody who has a healing ministry has

his own favorite way of healing the sick. Charles likes

one way; I like another. My own favorite method is

summed up in Mark 16:17,18 where Jesus says, "And

these signs shall follow them that believe; In my

name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with

new tongues ... they shall lay hands on the sick, and

they shall recover." It seems to me that the simplest

way to heal the sick is by the laying on of hands.

If you will notice, Jesus did not say, "Those who

believe shall lay hands on the sick, they shall pray for

half an hour, they shall work up tremendous

emotions, they shall roll on the floor, they shall kick

and holler and scream, they shall shake all over the

place, and THEN the sick shall be healed." No, he

very simply says, "Those who believe shall lay hands

on the sick and they shall recover."

You will notice that the Bible does not leave any

doubt. It does not say SOME of you, or just a FEW of

you who believe; it simply says that ALL those who

believe are going to be able to lay hands on the sick,

and the sick ARE going to recover.

BELIEVERS are the ones who are qualified to heal the

sick! But what is a believer? A believer is one who

believes that Jesus is the divine Son of God and our

Redeemer; but a believer is also one who believes he

can cast out devils, who speaks in a spirit language;

who believes he can handle Satan and his demons;

who believes he can lay hands on the sick and heal

them. We need to believe ALL of the way if we want

ALL of that scripture to work!

You have to believe in divine healing if you want

signs and wonders and miracles to follow your

preaching of the Word.

You have to believe that healing is for TODAY, or else

the sick won't recover when you lay hands on them.

You have to believe that you have been

commissioned by the Lord Jesus Christ himself to

cast out devils, or you will never cast them out!

The greatest ministry Charles and I have is probably

in the area of healing, and the reason for this is that

we have never been afraid to step out and do the

things God has called us to do.

Sometimes we have experimented. While there are

many ways to heal the sick listed in the Bible, there

are also new avenues you can explore, where God

will open a tremendous ministry.

"But," you might say, "it is not written in the Bible."

John said, "And there are also many other things

which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written

every one, I suppose that even the world itself could

not contain the books that should be written" (John

21:25).

We need to understand that while we should never

depart from the PRINCIPLES of the Bible, we can see

many kinds of miracles which are not specifically

described there. These are still scriptural, because

they come under the authority of scriptures such as

Mark 11:23 or Mark 16:18.

The first way Jesus healed during his earthly

ministry was by touching people, or by "laying on of

hands." "Touching" still works today!

One of the most unique miracles that I remember

happened as I was coming down an aisle of a church.

God impressed me to reach out and touch the top of a

woman's head. This woman had cancer of the

tongue. That one little touch, releasing the power of

God, caused her to be totally healed of cancer and

her tongue was completely restored!

When any Spirit-filled believer lays hands on

someone, the power of God goes out of him into the

other person. If you are Spirit-filled, you have in you

the very same resurrection power that brought Jesus

Christ out of the grave — the power of the Holy

Spirit. You have that power residing in you at all

times! You do not have to work up an emotion. I had

no emotion except joy when I walked down that

aisle, but God's resident power was working, because

it is operable at ALL times whether you feel it or not!

Another time I walked down the aisle and touched a

man with diabetes. He was instantly healed! I did not

hear about either of these healings until years later,

so I often wonder how many others have

experienced divine healing through this method. In

neither of these two cases did I "pray up a storm,"

nor work up emotions. I just simply touched them!

Touching does a lot in many areas of our lives. When

Charles and I stand together, you will often see us

reach out and touch each other's hand. The most

wonderful service in the world can be going on but

when I reach over and touch Charles' hand or he

touches mine, somehow in a beautiful little way, that

touch says, "I love you." He does not say a word. He

just touches my hand, and it says, "I love you."

When you were a little child, did you ever fall down

and skin your knee, and come running to your

mother, screaming and hollering and carrying on?

Probably she just loved you, but that TOUCH did

something very special for you, didn't it? Even when

you are not saved, there is a lot accomplished by

touching in human love.

Did anyone ever pat your hand in a hospital when

you were recovering from an operation? That did not

say, "I hate you," did it? It said, "Everything is going to be all right!"

If you've ever been bereaved, hasn't it meant a lot

when people just patted you, even if they couldn't say

a word?

Even without words, that little touch says, "I

understand your grief, and my heart goes out to

you."

We need to realize how important our hands are in

the healing ministry. We need to be aware of the

importance of a touch!

Statistics show that babies who are given only a

minimum amount of handling are inclined to be

fretful, irritable and not as healthy as babies who are

picked up and loved. Children who are loved and

played with, and even just held have a much more

loving disposition.

Sometimes people will say, "It is not God's will to

heal." We need to remember that when people say

this, they do not know the scriptures.

A good scripture to give them is Acts 10:38, where

Peter told "How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with

the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about

doing good, and HEALING ALL that were oppressed

of the devil; for God was with him."

IT IS GOD'S WILL FOR ALL OF HIS CHILDREN TO BE

HEALED.

God anointed Jesus. What was the purpose of that?

God anointed Jesus so that Jesus would have the

power to do what God wanted him to do. When God

anointed him, he put his stamp of approval on him

with the Holy Ghost and with power, and then, "He

went about doing good, and healing all that were

oppressed of the devil."

Acts 10:38 says that Jesus went about "healing all that

were oppressed of the devil."

Sickness comes from the devil. God can take

sickness and make a miracle out of it, but God is not

the one who sends sickness to his children who obey

his commandments (Deut. 28).

I have heard people say, "God sent this sickness on

me to teach me a lesson; he is teaching me

something." I find it difficult to believe that, because

would God give something as horrible as sickness to

his children? Would you do that to your children?

And think how much more God loves us than we love

our earthly children! "(And the Lord answered) Can

a woman forget her nursing child, that she should

not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes,

they may forget, yet will I not forget you" (Isaiah

49:15 Amp).

I believe all sickness comes from the devil, but God

can take it, turn it around and make it the greatest

miracle in your life.

In my case, that is exactly what happened. I was in

an automobile accident in 1964. Some young man

ran into the back of my car and the blow that I

suffered caused me to lose the sight of my left eye.

That could have been a horrible tragedy, but instead,

God turned it into the greatest thing that ever

happened to me, because I found Jesus as a result!

God took what the devil did and turned it around!

After running from Jesus for 49 years, I finally

accepted him!

God did not cause that accident to happen. God did

not cause me to lose the sight of that eye; God had

nothing to do with that part of it. But God did take

that circumstance, and turn it into a miracle!

Another really good scripture is I John 3:8, "... For

this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he

might destroy the works of the devil." Jesus was not

sent here to create problems; he was sent to destroy

the very works of the devil himself.

In Luke 4:18 Jesus proclaims, "The Spirit of the Lord

is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach

the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the

brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives,

and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty

them that are bruised." Just like Jesus, we have been

anointed to preach the gospel. Wherever we are,

whether we have a healing ministry or some other

ministry, we are always anointed to preach the

gospel. That is a permanent anointing! You don't

have to say, "Oh Lord, anoint me again." You have

been anointed and appointed and that is why you

can go out at all times and know that the anointing of

God rests upon you. We KNOW that we have been

dispatched to do the same things that Jesus Christ did

when he was on this earth.

There are many examples in the book of Mark of

how Jesus healed people. Read Mark, and then read

all of the gospels, searching for just one thing: HOW

DID JESUS HEAL THE SICK?

Mark 1:40-42 tells how Jesus simply "touched" the

leper. He just laid hands on him, and he was healed.

Mark 5:35-40 says: "While he yet spake, there came

from the ruler of the synagogues house certain

which said, Thy daughter is dead: why troublest thou

the Master any further? As soon as Jesus heard the

word that was spoken, he saith unto the ruler of the

synagogue, Be not afraid, only believe." Believing is

so important! "And he suffered no man to follow him,

save Peter, and James, and John the brother of James.

And he cometh to the house of the ruler of the

synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept

and wailed greatly. And when he was come in, he

saith unto them, Why make ye this ado, and weep?

the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth. And they

laughed him to scorn."

You will notice he got the unbelievers out of the

room. (Unbelief can stop healing!) Mark tells us, "He

taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and

them that were with him, and entereth in where the

damsel was lying. And he took the damsel by the

hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi; which is, being

interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise. And

straightway the damsel arose, and walked; for she

was of the age of twelve years. And they were

astonished with a great astonishment." Jesus

TOUCHED the damsel's hand. At the very moment

Jesus TOUCHED her hand, life came back into her.

In this episode, Jesus put two faith principles into

action: he touched her, and he spoke. He issued a

command to get up. I don't know, and you don't

know, but maybe if he had never said a word, she

might never have gotten up off of that bed. Maybe if

he had just touched her and had not said a single

word, nothing would have happened. But Jesus

issued a command: he said, "Get up," and she got up,

even though she was dead. She didn't just lie there

and say, "I'm dead, I can't do that!" She got up!

In Mark 7:32-35, we read about a time Jesus healed a

deaf man: "And they bring unto him one that was

deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they

beseech him to put his hand upon him. And he took

him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers

into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;

And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto

him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened. And straightway

his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue

was loosed, and he spake plain."

Do you see what Jesus did? He took the man aside

from the multitude. He put his fingers in each ear.

(HE TOUCHED HIM!) And he commanded those ears

to be opened.

He healed those ears by touch, through the power of

the Holy Spirit. There are many ways for ears to be

healed, but one of the best ones I know is just to stick

your fingers in someone's ears and believe the power

of God is going to go through those fingers!

At a meeting in Colorado one night, we had a word of

knowledge on the healing of ears, and as we touched

their ears, 38 out of 39 people were instantly healed.

THERE IS POWER IN THE TOUCH!

At a service in Ames, Iowa, a little baby was brought

forward whose feet were turned in so badly that the

child was horribly crippled. I took one foot in each

hand, and while I was holding them, they completely

straightened out! I had the thrill of feeling and seeing

a miracle in progress. I don't think I even said

anything. I just touched the baby, and began to feel

the bone structure changing in my hands.

That was not prayer. That was not a command. THAT

WAS HEALING THROUGH THE LAYING ON OF

HANDS!

We share these personal examples with you because

we want to bring your faith up to the point where

you will think "Wow, I can do that, too!"

God will often heal more than one person with the

same disease in the same meeting, but in different

ways. We had a word of knowledge one night for

crossed eyes, and three children came forward. One

was healed when she came forward. The second one

was healed when we put our hands on her eyes.

When we removed our hands, the one eye "arced"

and settled in the right place.

To the third child we said, "Eyes, be healed in Jesus'

name!" She was healed by a command. Three

healings, same disease, three different ways!

Sometimes people will be in our services and say,

"Charles and Frances can really go out and heal the

sick. They just lay hands on them and things

happen!"

Charles and Frances Hunter HAVE NO MORE POWER

THAN YOU HAVE! But there IS something that may

be a little different about us; we USE that power

more than most people do. We are two of the most

persistent people in the world, because we do not get

discouraged like a lot of people do. Before we

received the baptism, we laid hands on something

like ten thousand people and maybe as many as TEN

of them got healed!

We were PERSISTENT even though we didn't realize

we needed the baptism with the Holy Spirit.

YOU NEED TO BE PERSISTENT, TOO! If you lay hands

on someone, and nothing happens, TRY THE NEXT

ONE! Lay hands on him or her. If nothing happens,

don't give up! Sometimes Charles and I have

ministered to the same person as many as five

different ways. We have tried commanding, laying on

of hands, casting out devils, but finally the

persistence pays off and we see the individual

healed!

What if we had said the first time, 1 guess this is just

not your night," if the person didn't get healed? They

might never have been healed! But we kept on being

persistent and continued to persevere and to explore

areas which are not fully described in the Word of

God.

This is what God wants every believer to do: just step

out in faith and begin laying hands on the sick, and

BELIEVE they are going to recover.

Do you know why I expect the sick to recover when I

lay hands on them? Because I believe without a

shadow of doubt that Jesus Christ lives his life in and

through me. If I did not believe that, there would be

no way that people could get healed when I laid

hands on them.

Throughout all of his epistles, Paul preached, "Christ

IN you, the hope of glory." Paul never portrayed Jesus

as being outside of a believer, dragging him along,

saying, "Come on, I am going to make you lay hands

on the sick. I am going to make you heal them!"

BECAUSE THE WORD OF GOD SAYS IT, WE HAVE TO

BELIEVE THAT JESUS CHRIST IS LIVING IN AND

THROUGH US! To me, the most exciting thing in the

world is to know that the physical body you see when

you look at me, is the body that was given to Frances

Hunter, but the PERSON WHO LIVES INSIDE is Jesus

Christ!

When you fully realize that Jesus is living INSIDE of

you, it will totally transform you. Then, one day you

will realize that when you put out your hand, it is the

hand of Jesus Christ!

Jesus said, "He that believeth on me, the works that I

do shall he do also; and greater works than these

shall he do; because I go unto my Father" (John

14:12). So, who did Jesus leave on this earth to

complete his work?

He left us! He commissioned us to lay hands upon the

sick, using HIS authority!! Remember, it's all done in

the name of Jesus! It is in the name of Jesus that all

miracles are done, because Jesus lives in and through

us.

That fact does not make us divine, but we do need to

know who we are in Christ. When the devil asks you,

"Who do you think you are?" You should be able to

answer, "I am a child of God. I have the righteousness

of God in me. I have Jesus living in my heart. I KNOW

who I am! I am not a mere nothing. I am somebody

who has Jesus living in me." Each and every born-

again, Spirit-filled believer is incredibly important

because Jesus is living inside EACH AND EVERY ONE

OF US!

Do something for me, will you? Put your hands out in

front of you and say, "These are the hands of Jesus, so

there is healing power in my hands." Pick your feet

up off the floor (not while you're standing) and say,

"These are the feet of Jesus! The power of God goes

through my entire body. It is not limited to my hands;

it is in my feet; it is in my knees; it is in my head; it is

all over me!"

Many times because of the size of an audience,

Charles and I do not have the opportunity to pray for

every individual in a meeting, so we say, "Every

person lay hands on yourself!"

THERE IS POWER IN YOUR OWN HANDS TO HEAL

YOURSELF! For example, four years ago when we

were in Melbourne, Australia, we did this, and said,

"Lay hands on that part of your body which is

diseased or afflicted, and God is going to heal you all!

That night God had dropped the gift of faith on us,

and when we went back to Melbourne four years

later, the sponsor of the meeting told us that every

person there was healed by laying hands on

themselves. Don't ever underestimate the power of

the Holy Spirit which flows through your own hands!

At a recent meeting, I had been laying hands on

people who had headaches or migraines, and I said

to one woman, "Just lay hands on yourself and say,

'Out in the name of Jesus!'"

When you say, "OUT IN THE NAME OF JESUS," say it

with authority! Don't whisper. Let the devil know

you have faith! This woman said with great

authority, "OUT, IN THE NAME OF JESUS," touched

herself on the forehead, and fell over backwards

under the power of God!

She had spoken with such authority and belief that

she knocked herself right off of her feet, and you

never heard an audience laugh like that in your life.

When she got up, she said, "My headache

disappeared before I ever hit the floor."

' THAT IS REAL POWER! That is believing there is

power in your hands! Now you go and do the same

thing!

By Charles

Have you ever turned a light switch on or off? If you

have, you are smart enough to heal the sick.

Somewhere not too far from where you are there is a

generator, a power plant which generates electricity.

This electricity, this power, is brought to your house

from the source of the power through a wire, and up

to your electric light bulb. The energy which flows

from the power plant to the light bulb causes the

filament of the bulb to illuminate, and we say the

light is on.

Between the power plant and the light bulb is a

switch, or a breaker. This switch is designed to break

the flow of the energy, the power, from its source to

the destination in the light bulb. If you turn the

switch "on" the two ends of the wire are connected so

the energy will flow through. If it is turned "off," the wire is separated and the energy cannot continue

because of the gap between the power source and

the light bulb.

In the same way, the Holy Spirit "in you" is the

generator or the power plant — the source of the

power. Your hands are the on and off switch, and the

person needing healing is the light bulb.

Now, it is entirely up to you whether you turn the

switch on or off. It is entirely your choice in healing

to "lay hands on the sick." The power of God will do

the healing, just as the electric current will light the

bulb. If you want a dark room light, you can turn the

light switch on. If you don't, the room will stay dark.

If you have an opportunity to heal someone, it is the

same kind of choice. You can lay hands on them and

heal them, or let them remain sick!

If you have not yet received your generator, do so

right now! Ask Jesus to baptize you with the Holy

Spirit, lift your hands up to God, begin to love and

praise him, but not in your native language. Start

giving sounds of love rapidly so that the Holy Spirit

can take those sounds and give you the language

which will take any individual and make an

extraordinary person out of him! Let your spirit soar

as it talks to God for the very first time! (I Cor. 14:2).

Be a "switch" for Jesus, but be sure you are "turned on" for him. Let this be a part of your way of being

the light of the world. Jesus said, "Ye are the light of

the world"(Matt. 5:14).

Laying hands on the sick and healing them is one

way Jesus used to be the light of the world — to

illuminate the way for the lost to find him. He passed

this earth-job on to us, and gave us this healing

virtue, this dynamic power in us so we could

effectively carry on all of his work while we are on

earth.

There is no power in the flesh of our hands, but there

is power when God's Holy Spirit flows through our

hands!

Our physical bodies are made of dust, or clay. Laying

one piece of clay on another piece of clay will not

produce any healing results. What we do with our

hands may reflect our love and compassion, but only

God's power can heal the sick. As human beings, we

cannot heal the sick by our own powers.

Our bodies do, however, have the ability to heal

themselves. God created us healthy, and he gave us

the physical components which will maintain health

if we keep the whole realm of our physical body in

line with God's laws.

We were in West Texas ministering when a girl

thirteen years old came to me for healing. She had

fallen at school a year before and a large lump had

remained for the whole year. It was still sore, and

her mother was very concerned.

I like to pray with my eyes open so I won't miss the

exciting miracles. Jesus LOOKED up when he did the

exciting miracle of multiplying loaves and fishes into

food for thousands.

I had my eyes fixed on the lump and just touched it

lightly with my forefinger and said, "In Jesus' name!"

The lump disappeared instantly! It was there, and

then it was not there!

When you ask Jesus to forgive your sins, he will

instantly do it if you mean it when you ask. Before

you ask him, your sins are there; and then they are

not there, just like that lump!

"Jesus' disciples saw him do many other miracles

besides the ones told about in this book, but these

are recorded SO THAT YOU WILL BELIEVE THAT HE

IS THE MESSIAH, THE SON OF GOD, AND THAT

BELIEVING IN HIM YOU WILL HAVE LIFE" (John

20:30,31 TLB).

One night a lady about fifty years old came to me for

healing of her nose. She had broken it when she was

four or five years old, and it was left crooked like an

angle. I softly ran my finger down her nose, and in

front of my eyes the bone straightened instantly.

Months later we were having a Mexican dinner with

a group of people and I was telling this story. To

demonstrate what I did, I ran my finger down the

nose of the lady sitting next to me. Her mother, a

minister's wife, was sitting across the table from her,

and she said, "Look at your nose — it isn't crooked

anymore!"

Faith had been brought to her by telling of a miracle,

and the power went into her nose by the laying on of

a finger and God did a twentieth century miracle.

Glory to his mighty name!

Have you noticed that the Bible doesn't say, "Lay

hands on the heads of the sick and heal them?"

Observe the healings we mentioned and you will see

that hands were laid on a nose, on ears, on heads, on

hands, on feet, on eyes. Since it is the flow of God's

power which heals the sick, we get our hands as

close as we can to the part of the body which needs

healing. This allows the power to go directly into the

sick part. Often the power goes in so strongly that if

we touch a foot, the people will go under the power

of God.

Another suggestion is to stand as close as possible to

the person being healed, because the power actually

flows from all parts of your spirit, through all parts

of your body, into the person near you. We believe

that many are healed in an audience because the

faith of believers causes the power of the Holy Spirit

in them to become a force field which goes into those

around them.

I take any desire of Jesus as seriously as I do a

command from God, and therefore I feel just as

strongly that we should lay hands on the sick and

heal them as I feel about obeying one of the ten

commandments.

It is a way Jesus used while on earth to persuade

mankind to believe in him as the Messiah, the Savior.

The disciples applied the same law, with the same

power Jesus used, and we are no different than the

disciples, nor in fact, than Jesus was when he was

made man for a short time on earth!

What a tremendous privilege!

What an awesome responsibility!

What a trust our Lord Jesus has placed into our

hands!

What a great commission he has given us — to

actually be his body working here on earth, to do his

good will. Jesus died not only to save the lost, but to

heal the sick and free the captives from the evils of

the devil.

Doing his will is so easy. Just simply lay your hands

on the sick and believe that this dynamic power will

go forth from the Holy Spirit in you into those who

need his touch through you.

If we were translated back to the days when Jesus

lived on earth and we had the privilege of being with

him, what would we do if he said, "Go catch a fish

and take the coin out of its mouth and pay the

taxes?" I believe I would outrun Peter to obey him!

Jesus himself set this dynamic way to heal the sick

into motion, and he wants us to do it to release

hurting humanity and to cause them to believe in

him. Jesus said, "... they shall lay hands on the sick,

and they shall recover" (Mark 16:18). The Living

Bible says, "... and they (that's you and me) will be

able to place their hands on the sick and heal them."

This is spoken directly by Jesus. It is a part of his

great commission. THESE ELEVEN WORDS WERE

THE LAST RECORDED WORDS HE SPOKE WHILE HE

WAS ON EARTH.

Is there a difference in obedience now than then?

Jesus has simply said, "Charles, go lay hands on the

sick and they will recover for you just like they did

for me. Frances, you go lay hands on the sick and I'll

heal them through you, too!" He has said the same

thing to you, so there should be enough faith in any

of us to obey him.

The Word tells us that we Christians are the body of

Jesus, so if he did it in a body two thousand years

ago, why should we try to change him today?

It is an exciting thing to know that Jesus lives in and

through us! It is overwhelming to realize that the

same power of the Holy Spirit is always available

within us to do miracles.

IF YOU HAVENT EXPERIENCED THE THRILL OF

SEEING GOD HEAL THROUGH YOUR HANDS, WHY

NOT TRY IT!

START RIGHT NOW!

CHAPTER 4

LAYING ON OF HANDS - PLUS!

By Frances

At times we use more than one method to heal the

sick. Sometimes we "lay hands" on individuals in

accordance with Mark 16:18, then we add to it Mark

11:23-24, which will be "saying" or commanding

something to be done; this might be followed by

"faith in action"; the "gift of faith" and being slain in the Spirit! You will often discover many different

methods are all wrapped up in one healing! So don't

stop at one if one way doesn't get them healed!

In the book of Mark, Jesus says, "And these signs shall

follow them that believe ... they shall lay hands on

the sick, and they shall recover" (Mark 16:17,18).

Jesus didn't give us any leeway in that promise. He

didn't indicate that there was a probability or

possibility of healing; he said THEY WOULD

RECOVER, so when we lay hands on you, we expect

you to get healed! We believe what Jesus said, and his

conditions are simply "those who believe!"

You can even lay hands on yourself, if you're the

"sick" one. I do!

If the devil starts to give me a headache, and there's

no one around to pray for me, do you know what I

do? I lay hands on myself!

The Bible doesn't say, "Those who believe shall lay

hands on the sick other than themselves!"

It simply says that those who believe shall lay hands

on the sick, and they shall recover. So I lay hands on

myself and say, "Headache, out in the name of Jesus!"

Many Christians let the devil rob them of their

healings through doubt and unbelief, so don't let

doubt sneak in! The minute the devil hears you

command an illness to leave, he goes right into

action, because he knows Mark 11:23 just as well as

you do. He knows you will have whatsoever you say

only IF you don't doubt in your heart.

Do you know what kind of personality the devil has?

Jesus said, "He was a murderer from the beginning,

and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth

in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his

own: for he is a liar, and the father of it" (John 8:44).

It is the devil's nature to lie to you; it is his nature to

try to kill you. Particularly if you have a "fatal"

illness, it is the devil's nature to come along with

doubt and unbelief after you have been prayed for,

because he was a murderer from the beginning.

How does he do it? He tells you, "It didn't work.

You're still sick. You don't look like you've been

healed at all."

I want to give you a marvelous example to show you

how faith works, because I believe that if we can just

understand that God's Word is really true — if we

will just stand on God's Word (the answer) and not

look at the circumstances (the problem), then we will

be going in the right direction.

Not too many years ago, a man named Gene Lilly was

writing a book on how to die gracefully.

Gene knew he was going to die, because he had been

paralyzed for seventeen years and his doctor had

told him he was going to die.

He had multiple sclerosis.

He had diabetes.

He had high cholesterol.

He had high triglycerides.

He had scar tissue on the brain.

His body was a mess.

He had listened to a pastor on television one time,

and that pastor had pointed a finger right at him and

said, "I bet you don't go to church because of the

hypocrites."

Gene Lilly said, "That's right! I can't stand

hypocrites!"

Gene said that the pastor had an old crooked finger,

and he pointed it right at the TV camera, and said,

"I'll tell you something about the hypocrites. At least

they're doing something. You aren't doing anything!"

As a result of that program, Gene Lilly got saved.

Then he thought, "Well, glory to God, I am going to

heaven when I die! Even though I have all this pain

down here, I am going to suffer gloriously for God,

and then I'm going to heaven to be with Jesus." So

Gene began writing a book on how to die gracefully

when God spoke to him and told him to go to

Orlando, Florida.

Gene and his wife lived in Phoenix, Arizona. They

didn't know why God had told them to go to Orlando.

Gene had quit work to preach the Gospel, and they

were so poor they had to sell everything they owned

for food and gas money, but they made it to Orlando

anyway. And the very first time they went to church

there, the pastor preached on "Healing is for you."

After that sermon, Gene began to notice healing

scriptures in the Word. One that impressed him was

Psalm 107:20, "He sent his word, and healed them,

and delivered them from their destructions."

Another one was Psalm 118:17, "I shall not die, but

live, and declare the works of the Lord." He had to

check his Bible to make sure that one was in there,

because he was still writing the book on how to die

gracefully when somebody quoted that scripture to

him.

Gene opened his Bible and there it was! His faith

began to mount up, and mount up, and mount up,

and finally he began to think, "Wow, I could get

healed! I really could get healed! According to God's

Word, I COULD GET HEALED!" Gene had reached a

point where he really believed that healing is for

today.

Unfortunately, many people have been told that

healing is not for today. According to some, healing

was possible back in the days of the disciples, but not

today. God does not heal any more. Have you ever

heard someone make that statement? IT IS A LIE OF

THE DEVIL himself! If Jesus Christ healed yesterday,

he will heal today. If he heals today, he will heal

tomorrow because he has never changed and never

will!

The devil wants you to believe in sickness!

God wants you to believe in healing!

Gene Lilly kept on reading the Bible, and the more he

read, the more he began to believe that healing is for

today. Then he really got rambunctious, and said, "I

believe that healing is not only for today, I believe

that healing is for ME!"

Now that's a big step for a man who's writing a

book on how to die gracefully!

Next Gene thought, "If I could just meet someone

who had ever laid hands on someone and they were

healed, they'd know how to pray the prayer of faith

for me.

Somebody gave Gene a copy of our book, SINCE

JESUS PASSED BY, which tells how God dropped us

into the miracle ministry in a Southern Baptist

church in El Paso, Texas. Gene said, "Oh, God, if

Charles and Frances Hunter would just come to

Orlando, Florida, and lay their hands on me, I

BELIEVE I WOULD BE HEALED!"

Of course, Gene Lilly didn't need Charles and

Frances Hunter, but he did need a point of contact.

He needed something that would release his faith. He

had just said to God, "Oh, if I could just meet

somebody who had laid hands on the sick and they

recovered, I know that if they laid hands on me, then

I'd recover too." Now he had just read about some

people who had actually had people healed in their

ministry.

Gene's faith was rising!

God is good because the very next day, Gene bought a

newspaper, and there was a large ad in it which said,

"Charles and Frances Hunter will hold a miracle

service at the Hilton Inn in Orlando, Florida, right

next to Disneyland."

Gene's faith skyrocketed. It literally exploded,

because of what he had just said. Here was his

opportunity!

The night of the service, Gene's faith was so strong

that he said to his wife, "Leave the walker at home!

Leave the crutches at home! Leave everything at

home, because I'M GOING TO GET HEALED, so you

don't need to take any of that stuff along!"

What a way to go to a service!

That night, Gene Lilly's family half-dragged and half-

carried him in. We were operating in the gift of word

of knowledge (I Cor. 12:8), and called out a healing

for a man who was sitting just four or five seats away

from him. The man came up and was healed of a

deaf ear. Gene was really excited about that, and he

kept thinking, "The next one is me! The next one is

me!"

Someone else in Gene's row got healed, and then

someone over here, and then someone over there,

and suddenly he discovered that the miracle service

was over and we still had not laid hands on him.

Gene was still just as sick as he ever was!

He was just as paralyzed as he was when he came!

He was just as diabetic as he was when he came!

The multiple sclerosis was just as bad as it was when

he came!

Then I said, "Now, if we did not call out your disease

in a word of knowledge, I want you to come forward

and you will get healed."

Gene thought, "There it is, there it is!" With almost

unbelievable determination, he dragged himself

forward, chair by chair, and row by row, until finally

he was at the front. Two ushers helped him onto his

feet, and held him up!

Gene said, "I have diabetes, I have multiple sclerosis,

I have been paralyzed for seventeen years, I have

high triglycerides, I have high cholesterol, I have scar

tissue on the brain, and I'm dying!"

I said, "Praise Jesus!" And his faith almost went out

his feet. Later, Gene told me, "I thought you were the

most hardhearted woman I had ever seen in my

entire life. Here I tell you I am dying, and you say,

'Praise Jesus!' But then I looked up, and when I saw

your eyes, I realized that for the first time in my life I

was looking at someone who didn't limit God! When

I looked at you, I could see that you BELIEVED that

when you laid hands on me, Jesus was going to heal

me."

Gene was right. Gene said that every other person

had prayed that God would give him grace to stand

the suffering in this life until that great day of glory

when he would go home to God. Suddenly, he found

himself staring into the eyes of a woman who was

not limiting God one bit. He said, "I could not believe

my ears when I heard that wild prayer you prayed!"

I did not say, "Now God," and go through a long list

about the multiple sclerosis, the paralysis, the

diabetes, or the other problems. I simply said, "What

you need is a Jesus overhaul!" Then I said, "Jesus,

overhaul him." And with that, I put my hand on his

head, and even with two ushers holding him, the

power of God was so strong that he fell flat on his

back!

Because his feet were paralyzed, Gene had not been

able to feel shoes for seventeen years. Suddenly his

feet began to hurt! His shoes were too small, but he

had not known this previously because of the lack of

feeling. An excited Gene Lilly knew that God had

begun a special work in his body!

After I prayed, Gene struggled to his feet. The ushers

helped him up, and if God hadn't spoken to me, I

would not have said what I said next, because he

went crawling back down the aisle the same way he

crawled up.

I said, "He may not look like he is healed, but he is!"

He certainly did not look like he was healed! He was

just as crippled, just as paralyzed, and he didn't look

one bit better than when he came, but God had

spoken to my spirit. I didn't let the devil come in with

doubt and unbelief and say, "He does not look to me

like he is healed. Sorry about that, folks! Maybe he

should come back some other time; he might get

healed!" I simply said, "He may not look like he is

healed, but he is!" God had given me the gift of faith,

and when I said that, Gene Lilly's faith exploded! He

believed, and he continued to believe!

Within twelve hours, he was walking like a normal

human being, totally healed by the power of God.

Even the diabetes was gone. However, I was very

emphatic when I told him the same thing we try to

tell everyone, "If you are on medication, continue on

that medication until the doctor takes you off."

Gene got up the next morning and took his usual shot

of insulin, and then he almost went into insulin

shock because his body didn't need it any more. He

had to drink about a gallon of orange juice, and then

he ate candy bars all day to offset the insulin. It was

the last insulin he ever took.

Gene's doctor was out of town on Monday, so he

called and made an appointment for Tuesday. He

told the doctor, "I got healed over the weekend."

The doctor said, "Who healed you?" "Jesus."

"Jesus who?" the doctor asked.

Hallelujah! Gene Lilly was totally healed by the

power of God! What would have happened if he had

said to himself that night, "Well, I guess I didn't get

it." That is exactly what he would have gotten! He

would have gotten, "I guess I didn't get it," because

the Bible says that if we believe, we will receive

whatever we say.

How did Gene get healed?

By the laying on of hands.

By going under the power of the Holy Spirit.

By the gift of faith in me.

By the gift of faith in Gene.

By a command.

By Gene's putting his faith into action.

You can heal someone by laying on of hands, but

since Jesus often used more than one way to heal the

sick, sometimes it is wise to use LAYING ON OF

HANDS - PLUS!

By Charles

Right after we received the baptism with the Holy

Spirit, we began to see an increase in the number of

healings in our meetings. The more God did, the

more excited we became, and the more we told about

his mighty miracles! The more we told about the

miracles, the more he did!

One night a man came up on the stage, held up by

two people, and leaning heavily on two walking

canes. He did not have the strength to lift his feet off

the floor; he scooted them along. We asked what

affliction he had, and then we prayed (we didn't

know at that time that prayer was not really used

much as the means of healing). But something else

was done!

When we finished praying, instead of saying, "Praise

the Lord and go on your way," we said, "PICK UP

YOUR CANES AND WALK!" He lifted the canes off the

floor and slid his feet forward, and he didn't fall! He

tried another step, and he didn't fall! He slid a little

more, and still he didn't fall! I took him by the arm

and began to walk him a little faster, and a little

faster. Then I said, "Bend your knees when you

walk." He began to bend his knees, and pretty soon I

was running alongside of him across the stage, and

he began to say, "Praise the Lord! Hallelujah!" Before we prayed, he spoke so weakly we had to have him

repeat his affliction five times before we could

understand! But now, it wasn't long before he was

yelling so loudly that you could hear him in the back

of the room.

What was different about his healing?

We had actually laid our hands on him, BUT we also

told him to walk! This was the very first time in our

ministry we had told an individual to put his faith

into action. And glory to God, he responded and

began to exercise his faith. He may not have had a

lot, but he had all the faith he needed when he made

the first little effort to move his feet and pick up the

canes.

Jesus had people put their faith into action!

"Stretch forth thine hand" (Mark 3:5).

"Rise, take up thy bed, and walk" (John 5:8).

"Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (John 9:7).

We were doing the same thing! Faith needs to be put

into action. Healing often takes place at that very

instant when people put their faith into action.

Laying on of hands PLUS faith in action produces

results!

When someone comes up to me with a problem in

their elbow, while they are saying, "It was hurt ten

years ago, I can't bend it, and it has pain in it," I

touch the elbow (laying on of hands) and say, "In the

name of Jesus," then quickly say to them, "MOVE

YOUR ELBOW, BEND YOUR ELBOW!" When they

instantly respond and bend it, even though they are

still telling me what is wrong with it, the elbow is

totally healed the majority of the time.

Why? Because before they can lose faith, or give me

time to lose faith, they have already been healed.

Three ways of healing are involved here: Laying on

of hands, PLUS a command, PLUS an ACTION OF

FAITH!

A national champion cowboy came to one of our

services with a real problem for a calf roper. He had

injured his shoulder quite seriously and couldn't

raise his arm. I reached out like a flash, touched his

shoulder and said, "In the name of Jesus, raise your

arm!" Without even thinking, he instantly shot his

arm straight up, and the expression of surprise on

his face was priceless! Prompt faith in action often

brings about the desired results because it happens

before doubt and unbelief from the devil begin to

creep in!

Exciting as this beautiful miracle of God is, the

fulfillment of its purpose is even more thrilling. This

cowboy is now traveling all over the nation, working

in rodeos, telling others how God healed his shoulder

—and leading people to Jesus!

Another example of laying on of hands — PLUS: We

went to the grand opening of the PTL Club Barn

(their great church auditorium), to ride in the

parade. We were standing by our float waiting for

the parade to start, when we noticed a staff member

limping and using a cane.

We asked, "What's wrong with your leg?"

She related an interesting story to us. She had

slipped, fallen and broken the bone in her right leg

six months before. When the doctor X-rayed it, he

noticed it had separated about three-quarters of an

inch. He said she would either have to undergo

surgery or the leg would be short for the rest of her

life.

When the doctor told her that, she said God

immediately placed our faces into her mind, and she

said, "I'll take my chances, so don't operate."

And here we were right in front of her for the first

time since the accident! We found some steps leading

up to a float for her to sit on, and held her legs out in

front of her. Sure enough, the one leg measured

about three-quarters of an inch shorter than the

other.

Notice the different healing methods we used. We

LAID OUR HANDS ON HER FEET as we held them,

and we began to speak to the leg. We COMMANDED

the bones to grow together and the leg to grow out in

the name of Jesus, and it was a real slowpoke! It took

about five minutes for it to grow full length, but it

did, and she walked the rest of the day without pain

or cane.

Later, she gave a testimony over the PTL television

network about God's mighty miracle of putting a

bone together out on a hot, windy parade ground!

God gives us many ways to heal the sick, so don't get

stuck on using just one way at a time. We have

discovered by common sense reasoning in the

natural, (Proverbs talks a lot about this) that miracles

can happen in the supernatural.

In the case of scoliosis, you need to command a spirit

to come out (incurable disease), and then command

the bones of the spine to straighten. Even though the

spirit comes out, the back doesn't necessarily

straighten until the command is given, so if you don't

do both, the spine could remain crooked.

A medical doctor in Ohio whose specialty is scoliosis

asked us before a service whether or not we had ever

seen a scoliosis healing. We related several to him,

and invited him to participate in the healing service

to help us learn and understand what God was doing.

We asked everyone in the audience of 4,000 to 5,000

people to check their arms to see if they were

uneven, indicating some kind of back, neck, hip or

shoulder problem. We estimated that over 700

indicated by remaining standing that they had short

arms. We asked the ushers to select ten people with

what we call "goodies" which are sufficiently

different in length to be easily seen from the stage.

The doctor was on the stage with us, and one of those

who came up had scoliosis which she said was about

a thirty-degree curvature. The left arm of the girl was

about three or four inches shorter than the right.

The doctor stood with us as we commanded the spirit

of scoliosis to come out in the name of Jesus AND

commanded the arm to grow. The arm grew out even

with the other, so we asked the doctor to check her to

see what happened to the back. He could only do a

limited examination without an X-ray and proper

examining equipment. He had her bend forward as

he ran his hand down her spine. He said it seemed to

him that there was still about a ten-degree curvature.

We had her remain in the bent-over position as we

did the next step in the healing. The doctor held the

microphone so he could talk to the audience as we

commanded the spine to straighten, in the name of

Jesus! A hush came over the audience, then exciting

enthusiasm filled the entire auditorium as this

medical specialist said, "It's moving! It's moving! It's

moving!" A long silence followed as he continued

running his hand up and down her spine. Finally he

said, "It appears to me to be straight!" Hallelujah!

Two days later a call came into our office from the

girl's personal physician. He said, "Send me every

tape and book you have about this. I have never seen

such a thing in my life! The spine is perfectly

straight!"

These same exciting miracles are in your future, too,

WHEN YOU LAY HANDS ON PEOPLE - PLUS!

CHAPTER 5

LET THE SICK LAY HANDS ON YOU!

By Frances

"Everyone was trying to touch him, for when they

did healing power went out from him and they were

cured" (Luke 6:19 TLB).

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" (Mark 6:56).

Jesus didn't need to touch them; they touched him

and were healed because the power of the Holy

Spirit, which is like a wind or energy, flowed out of

him into them!

"But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost

is come upon you" (Acts 1:8).

Was it Jesus who healed the people? Yes and no!

Jesus was God's earthly container, but it was the

power of God's Holy Spirit that did the healing.

We, too, can be those earthly containers for the

power of God to flow through, because this is a

scriptural method of healing which is the opposite of

laying hands on the sick.

Let the sick lay hands on you! There are not very

many examples of this type of healing in the Bible,

and I haven't heard of too many present-day

examples of it, but there are times when it does

happen.

"And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood

twelve years, and had suffered many things of many

physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was

nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, when she

had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and

touched his garment. For she said, if I may touch but

his clothes, I shall be whole. And straightway the

fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in

her body that she was healed of that plague. And

Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue

had gone out of him, turned him about in the press,

and said, 'Who touched my clothes?' And his

disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude

thronging thee, and say est thou, Who touched me?

And he looked round about to see her that had done

this thing. But the woman fearing and trembling,

knowing what was done in her, came and fell down

before him, and told him all the truth. And he said

unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole;

go in peace, and be whole of thy plague" (Mark 5:25-

34). This woman knew that she was healed.

You need to know HOW TO HEAL, but you also need

to know what to say to people who have a negative

attitude. For example, fairly often someone will come

up to us and say "Will you pray for my Aunt Jane?"

I will say, "Is Aunt Jane here? I would love to pray for

her."

"No, she was too sick to come."

Too sick to come! Let me tell you this. If Aunt Jane

called a doctor, and the doctor said, "I am calling an

ambulance, and I am taking you to the hospital,"

Aunt Jane would be in the hospital as soon as the

ambulance could get her there! Generally, it is a

weak excuse to say, "Aunt Jane is too sick to come." If you are too sick to come, that is when you need to

have hands laid on you!

The woman who touched the hem of Jesus' garment

could have looked for excuses. She could have said, "I

have been to every doctor in the world and nothing

has done me any good, so what is the sense of trying

to get up to this man Jesus? I might as well die and

get it over with!" Do you think there are people like

that today? There certainly are!

Not too long ago, the Spirit of God told me that there

was a man in our service who had very severe

emphysema, and that he was going to die if God's

healing touch was not on him. Although I announced

this, the man did not come forward for laying on of

hands. As Charles and I were leaving the service, I

said to him, "May I pray for you?" He said, "No, I am doing my own thing with God. If God wants to do it,

he will do it!"

Well, do you lay hands on someone like that? No,

because it would not do any good if you did. That is

the same kind of individual who would say, "I am not

going to pray the sinner's prayer, because if God

wants to save me, let him save me!" He would never

get saved, would he?

Here is another one of my pet peeves. "I have been

prayed for by the best. I have been prayed for by

Kenneth Hagin, Kenneth Copeland, Kathryn

Kuhlman, Oral Roberts, Jim Bakker, Pat Robertson,

Rex Hum-bard ..." and on and on. Then they'll say,

"Will you pray for me?"

What good would it do if I prayed? None, because

there are some people who just like to come forward

so they can go around naming all the great

evangelists who have unsuccessfully laid hands on

them. But they never believe anything is going to

happen!

The woman who touched the hem of Jesus' garment

could have said the same thing. "All these great

doctors tried to heal me, and it didn't do any good."

She could have looked at that crowd and said, "What

a mess, I am not going to try. Why, there is no way I

can get through to Jesus. It must not be God's will

Tor me to be healed!"

There are all kinds of excuses people can make. But

she didn't make excuses! I see her as a woman of

great persistence. She probably had come a long way

to get I here, and could have said, "I might as well go

home. I did all that traveling for nothing. I can't even

get close to him."

But she didn't. I imagine she stood there like a race

horse. She probably started pawing the ground with

her feet, saying, "Let me out of here, let me into that

crowd. I am going to get there. I don't care what I

have to do. I don't care if I have to crawl on my knees

to get there. Whatever it takes, I am going to get to

Jesus, and I am going to touch the hem of his

garment, because I know that when I do I am going

to be healed by the power of God!"

That woman could have used every excuse in the

world, but she didn't!

She could have let circumstances discourage her, but

she didn't!

She could have reached out and thought, "I will get in

trouble if I touch that man."

She could have let fear take over, but she did not! She

was determined that there was one thing she had to

do, and that was all! She was determined to touch the

hem of that garment, because she KNEW that when

she did, she was going to be made whole! And

because she was persistent, SHE WAS HEALED!

Her FAITH in that case was TOUCHING IN REVERSE.

She didn't even ask if Jesus would touch her. She just

said, "If I can just touch HIM, I will be made whole."

And she was!

This is a beautiful Bible story, but who has that much

power in his clothing today? Who is walking around

today with so much resurrection power that

someone can come up and touch him or a piece of

his clothing and get healed?

What is the answer to that question? EACH AND

EVERY SPIRIT-FILLED BELIEVER HAS THE SAME

RESURRECTION POWER IN HIM!

Here is the story of the hem of another garment.

I have been a fanatic from the day I was saved. I say

that joyfully, because when Jesus Christ came into my

heart, I KNEW that he came in. I KNEW I was a new

creature. I KNEW that old things had passed away! I

KNEW that all things had become new! I KNEW I was

saved! I KNEW that Jesus was living in my heart!

It was the wildest, most exciting thing in the world to

KNOW that Jesus was in me. I felt like going around

saying, "Look, look, can you see him? He is living

inside of me!"

Years ago, even before I received the baptism with

the Holy Spirit, exciting things had been happening

because I was totally committed to God. One of the

greatest, most important things in the whole world is

that total complete sellout to God when you don't

care what anyone thinks about you, you don't care

what happens, as long as you can just serve God and

do what God wants you to do.

I had come back from a trip, and in my home church,

which did not believe in the baptism with the Holy

Spirit, I was sharing some of the exciting things that

had happened, how God had used me, and how

hundreds and hundreds of people had accepted Jesus

as their Savior and Lord.

At the end of the service, a little note was handed to

me which said, "There is a woman in our

congregation who is very ill, and she asked if you

would stop by her house on your way home." I

agreed, and when I entered the house, I saw the

woman lying on just a plain mattress on the floor.

I didn't know very much about healing at that time.

I KNEW that God healed, but I wasn't sure exactly

how he did it. I didn't have any power, but blind

simple faith will do a lot!

When I came through the door, she said, "Would you

do just one thing for me?"

I said, "Certainly, I will do whatever you want."

She said, "Would you stand right over here?" Her

voice was so weak, and she began to inch across the

mattress until she got right to the very edge. Then

she said, "Would you come real close to me?"

I said, "Sure." She had not asked me to pray.

She said, "Would you get a little closer?"

I kept getting a little closer, but I didn't understand

what she wanted. Suddenly, she looked up at me with

the most beautiful faith that I have ever seen in the

eyes of any grown person. She said, "If I could just

touch the hem of your garment, I KNOW that I would

be made whole."

I looked down at my dress and thought, "It sure does

not look very special to me!" It did not look the least

bit anointed to me! But this woman felt exactly the

same way the woman in the Bible did.

She reached out and touched the hem of the skirt

that I was wearing, and when she did she was

instantly made whole by the power of God!

That was some fourteen years ago. I saw her the last

time I was back in Florida, and she has had no

recurrence of that horrible cancer that was causing

her to hemorrhage to death. She is an extremely

healthy, active woman today.

God had put faith into that woman. That faith said,

"Just touch the hem of Frances' garment." She didn't

even ask to touch me. She could have touched my leg

more easily than she touched my dress, but somehow

her faith was in touching the hem of my dress.

There is absolutely nothing special about anything I

ever wear! Absolutely nothing! But when you are

committed to God, you are anointed! Your skin is

anointed, your body is anointed, your hands and

your feet are anointed! You have been anointed to

heal the sick, therefore any piece of clothing that

touches you is equally anointed!

"And God did unusual and extraordinary miracles by

the hands of Paul, so that handkerchiefs or towels or

aprons which had touched his skin were carried

away and put upon the sick, and their diseases left

them, and the evil spirits came out of them" (Acts

19:11,12 Amp.).

Most people don't realize it, but that happens to be

just one very unique and scriptural way to heal the

sick.

CHAPTER 6

TALK TO A MOUNTAIN!!!

By Frances

In Mark 11:23 Jesus says, "For verily I say unto you,

That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be

thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and

shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that

those things which he saith shall come to pass; he

shall have whatsoever he saith."

Jesus is saying this to YOU! Whosoever is you!

Whosoever is ME! Whosoever is EVERYONE! God is

no respecter of persons. He simply says,

"whosoever."

This particular verse is very important because it has

a lot to do with ONE way of healing. It says,

"Whosoever shall SAY."

It does not say, "Whosoever shall pray!"

It says, "Whosoever shall SAY!"

And there is a BIG difference between SAYING and

PRAYING!

When you SAY unto this mountain, "Be thou cast into

the sea," you are COMMANDING that mountain to do

something, because you know who you are in Christ!

You have the power of God IN you, and you are

operating the way the Bible tells you to operate.

Speak with authority at all times if you want to see

miracles happen. This doesn't mean you have to yell

and scream (we tried that, too!) but it does mean to

speak with authority so that the devil knows that you

know you have power!

When you PRAY, you are asking God to do something.

When you SAY, YOU are commanding something to

be done!

Are you aware of the fact that the disciples never

prayed for the sick after they received the baptism

with the Holy Spirit? Jerry Horner, professor of

theology at Oral Roberts University, is one of the

greatest Bible scholars we know, and he said that to

his knowledge there is NO RECORDED PLACE IN THE

BIBLE WHERE THE DISCIPLES EVER PRAYED FOR

THE SICK AFTER THE DAY OF PENTECOST! Jesus

didn't pray for the sick! The disciples didn't pray for

the sick, so why should we?

After Paul shook off the viper and felt no evil effects,

he was ministering healing to Publius, the father of

the head man of the island. "... and Paul went to see

him, and AFTER PRAYING and laying his hands on

him HE HEALED HIM" (Acts 28:8 Amp.). It is

scriptural to pray before we minister healing. Please

don't get legalistic about this, however, and feel that

if you do pray you are not scriptural.

Jesus said that all authority in heaven and earth had

been given to him (Matt. 28:18), and then he turned

around and gave us his authority to cast out devils

and lay hands on the sick and heal them.

Several years ago we had been ministering at the

Willamette Christian Center in Eugene, Oregon,

when God started a beautiful miracle of "saying!"

Because our services are sometimes a little different

than the ordinary church service, a few people in a

congregation might tend to get "up tight" because we

praise God in the dance, or are extremely

enthusiastic about the things God does! As a result,

every year after we leave, Pastor Murray McLees

always "soothes the ruffled feathers" of anyone in his congregation who might not understand the

charismatic movement.

This particular year he made an unusual statement

to his congregation. He said something like this: "You

might not always agree with everything Charles and

Frances Hunter do, but I'll tell you one thing. If I ever

get sick, I wouldn't want anyone but Charles and

Frances to pray for me because their faith is so

simple, they just believe if they lay hands on you, you

will be healed! And you will be!"

Little did he realize he was prophesying about his

very own life! Shortly after this, the devil laid a

"killer" brain tumor on him which was one of the

fastest-growing types of cancer known. Before long,

he was blind in one eye, and deaf in one ear, and had

excruciating pain in his head.

God placed into remembrance in the mind of a

woman in his congregation what Murray had said

about who he wanted to pray for him if he ever got

sick, so she miraculously got our unlisted telephone

number and called us to let us know what Pastor

McLees had shared with his congregation that very

morning. THE DOCTORS HAD ONLY GIVEN HIM A

MONTH OR TWO TO LIVE! His congregation was

devastated by the news!

He resigned from all his community affairs, and they

credited him with perfect attendance as was their

custom for individuals with terminal illnesses. Pastor

McLees said he had always had faith to pray for

himself and other people, but this time his faith went

right out the window, and I'm sure we've all

experienced the same thing at one time or another!

We immediately called him, and the Spirit of God

emphatically told us we were not to go to him, but to

bring him to one of our miracle services. We told him

what the Spirit had said and told him we would pay

his way and his wife's way to any miracle service he

would choose in the United States. I'll never forget

his reply. He said, "That blends with my spirit!" They chose San Diego, California, as THEIR miracle service

because it was only about ten days away!

They did not arrive until the last service, and then

they were late. When we saw them come in, we left

the stage and ran over and hugged them. Our hearts

were breaking because of what the devil had done to

our beloved brother in Christ. We did not pray at that

moment simply because we were not led to do

anything except show him the love of God.

We returned to the stage with Pastor Jerry Barnard

for additional worship, and as Pastor Barnard was

ministering in the word of knowledge the Lord spoke

to me and said, "Pray for him RIGHT NOW!" I turned

to ask Charles to go get Murray, but he had already

gone, and when I turned back, Pastor Barnard had

turned to me to tell Charles to bring Murray to the

stage. The Spirit of God had spoken to ALL of us at

the SAME TIME!

Charles brought Pastor McLees to the center of the

ballroom at El Cortez Hotel where the meeting was

being held, and I laid hands on him and spoke to that

mountain! And I spoke it with all the authority I

know belongs to me as a believer, because I was mad

at the devil for what he was trying to do to one of

God's children! I said, "Devil, I bind you in the name

of Jesus and by the power of God, and I cut ALL your

power off. Now you evil, foul spirit of cancer you

come out of Murray RIGHT NOW IN THE NAME OF

JESUS!"

Pastor McLees fell under the power of God, and so

did his wife. It was an emotional moment for all of

us! The TV cameras which had been turned on him,

came back on me when he fell under the power, and

I shouted at the top of my lungs, "Turn the camera

back on him, because I want the world to see what a

man looks like when he's being healed of terminal

cancer!"

A gasp went through the audience as the Spirit

moved on everyone! Some thought I was calling into

being something that did not exist, just as though it

did! Some thought I had received the gift of faith, but

it didn't happen to be either, although you can see we

had spoken to a mountain to move! What really

happened was a vision, because I saw the fingers of

God descend into Pastor McLees' brain, and these

divine fingers squeezed the tumor right out of his

brain! I could see it being squeezed out as plainly as I

can see the pages of this book. It almost looked like

the fingers were pushing it out of every crack and

crevice in his brain!

He got up off the floor with no visible evidence of

anything having happened, except he said, "My head

doesn't hurt any more!" They returned to their seats

and sat down. Before long he looked at his wife and

said, "I can see the color in Frances' dress!" And by

the next morning, after God had moved on his body

the whole night long, his sight had returned to

normal as well as his hearing!

Instead of going home to die, three months later he

went to Sri Lanka. The first person he prayed for did

not have an eyeball, and when he laid hands on him,

an eyeball formed in his eye!

When Murray returned to the doctor, the doctor

made an X-ray to see what was going on, and his

report was, "It looks to me like THAT TUMOR HAS

BEEN SQUEEZED RIGHT OUT OF YOUR BRAIN! THE

SAC IT WAS IN IS COMPLETELY EMPTY!" Glory to

God! The doctor verified exactly what God had

shown me in a vision!

I hate the devil with every ounce of strength I have,

and when I spoke to the mountain, there was no

doubt I meant business. Notice that I did not pray,

but I really did SAY it!

This same principle also works in reverse, so we

need to watch what we say with our mouth!

Christians have brought the most horrible things on

themselves simply by the words they have said,

because Jesus didn't put any limitations on this

promise. He didn't say, "He shall have whatsoever he

saith if it's good for him," he said, "He shall have

WHATSOEVER he saith."

Let me give you a very good example. When I lived in

Florida, a wave of flu came through every October,

and EVERY October I had enough faith to move a

mountain, even though I wasn't saved at the time. Do

you know what the mountain was? It was my health.

I had enough faith to change my normally healthy

self into a flu victim. I did it with my own big mouth,

and didn't even realize what I was doing.

On the first of October, this was my typical comment:

"Well, here it is October again, and every October I

get the flu. It doesn't make any difference if it is the

Asian flu, the Hong Kong flu, swine flu, horse flu; it

doesn't make any difference what it is, I GET IT!!"

I was snared by the words of my own mouth! I had

absolutely no doubt in my mind whatsoever that I

was going to get the flu, regardless of the kind of flu

it was.

Then I would go on to an even greater act of faith,

and SAY with authority: "It doesn't make any

difference what I do. I can go to the doctor fifty

times; he can give me penicillin; he can give me B-12;

it won't do a bit of good, because I am going to be flat

on my back for three solid weeks regardless of what I

do!"

Guess where I spent October every year! I spent it in

bed, not because other people were catching the flu,

but because of my own mouth. I didn't have to come

down with the flu, but I was operating by the

principles of Mark 11:23. I SAID it and I BELIEVED it!

There was not one bit of doubt in my heart

whatsoever. I knew I was going to catch the flu. AND

I DID!

Glory to God! I AM NEVER GOING TO HAVE THE FLU

AGAIN!

I got saved, learned what the Word of God says, and

now I don't need to have the flu, because if the devil

tries to bring it around my house, I say, "Take it

somewhere else, devil, I don't want it here. I am not

signing for that package. Don't leave it an my house,

because I don't want any of that." AND I SAY IT WITH

AUTHORITY!

Do you see what I am saying with my mouth? You

can say the same thing. Mark 11:23 is just as true for

you as it is for me. I am "whosoever" and you are

"whosoever." When Jesus said "whosoever," he meant that each and every servant of God who believes that

verse can say, "Be thou removed and be thou cast

into the sea," and if he doesn't doubt in his heart, he

will have whatever he says.

Why do so many people find it so easy to believe the

devil instead of God? Why is it that people believe

bad things are going to happen instead of good ones?

The devil comes around with tiny little symptoms,

and it's such a temptation to say, "Oh, I'm coming

down with something."

Stop right there! Now is the time for the greater one

who is in you to rise up and say, "Oh, no you don't,

devil! I am not looking at the circumstances, and I

am certainly not looking at the symptoms. I am

looking at what the Word of God says, and the Word

says that if I want a mountain moved, I can have that

mountain moved — and the mountain I'm moving

now is sickness. Sickness — did you hear me?"

We hope you noticed what Mark 11:23 says to talk

"to."

Does it tell us to talk to God? Does it say, "Pray to God

and ask him to get the mountain out of the way?"

No, it says, "Whosoever shall say UNTO THIS

MOUNTAIN."

You need to talk to the disease itself. If it's flu, you

need to say, "Flu, get out! I am not the least bit

interested in your cluttering up my body. I have no

time for you. I have too many things to do, so go

away in Jesus' name!" If it's cancer, speak to the

cancer! If it's the back, speak to the back.

TALK TO THE DISEASE! Speak with authority and

then believe! Throw out doubt and don't let unbelief

creep in through wavering and listening to the devil,

because the next condition is, "and shall not doubt in

his heart, but shall BELIEVE that those things which

he saith shall come to pass..."

Doubt and unbelief ALWAYS come from the devil!

Any time you hear a voice that speaks doubt and

unbelief, don't listen, because it's the DEVIL himself!

God never speaks doubt!

Commanding a disease to go, or a body to straighten

up is one of the easiest ways to heal the sick. During

the past few years, there has been confusion and

misunderstanding at times between "saying" and

"confessing." These are two different areas of

healing. One is doing — the other is receiving. Let's

see if we can help clarify the difference between the

two: SAYING is a command to be healed!

CONFESSING is believing for a future act or

manifestation of the healing.

There is a vast difference between the two. SAYING is

giving authority to words, and CONFESSING is

receiving the promise; both confessing and saying

are calling into being something that does not exist at

the present time.

Both are great, but don't get them confused.

Problems have arisen because of this. Isaiah 53:5,

"But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was

bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our

peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are

healed," has become a well-known scripture to all.

Christians need to exercise faith when they use this

healing method, but they also need to exercise

discretion. Let me give you an example: One time a

young man was having an epileptic seizure. He was

foaming at the mouth, his body was doing all sorts of

contortions on the floor, and as we ran over to lay

hands on him, he became almost violent, and a

friend of his said, "Don't lay hands on him, because

he's healed!"

There happened to be someone there who was not a

Christian, and this guy looked at us and said, "Do you

believe that?" It totally turned this man off, because

he didn't understand. He just looked at what he saw,

and he thought, "Wow! All that foam is coming out of

his mouth, someone is getting a pencil to stick in his

mouth so he won't swallow his tongue, his body is all

contorted, and they're saying this guy is healed?"

After the seizure was over, the man said, "Why did

you pray for me? I'm healed by his stripes!"

Remember, Jesus healed the sick so people would

believe!

The man who was having the seizure meant well,

and so did his friend, but he did not use wisdom in

what he said, since he was talking to someone who

wasn't saved. Because the man was an unbeliever,

his faith level was nonexistent. "Claiming" healing

has turned off a lot of people because they say, "If

you say you are healed even though you are still

foaming at the mouth and having contortions on the

floor, then either you've lost your marbles, or you

don't serve a very good God. Thanks just the same,

but I don't want your religion — I think I'll try

another one."

We need to exercise discretion. When you say you

are healed by the stripes of Jesus, say it to someone

whose faith and understanding is on the same or a

higher level than yours, and your own faith will

build! Never say to an unbeliever that you are healed

when the manifestation is not there. It is more

correct to say, "I BELIEVE I receive my healing." The

best person to say it to is yourself! Keep saying it to

yourself until your faith level is built up to the point

where you can honestly believe it and receive it, and

once you've received it, you can go out and say, "By

his stripes I was healed." I personally think it's even

better to confess it to God!

How do we get to the point where we believe what

we confess? I read a book one time that said, "When

you finish reading this book, I want everybody to

raise your hands and say every morning, 'God, I love

you.' Tomorrow when you get up say, 'God, I love

you.' Get up the next morning and say, 'God, I love

you.'"

The first time I said that, I thought, "God, I don't

know if I do or not. I know that you love me. I know

that you let Jesus die so that I might have eternal life.

I accept your love for me, but I don't know if I really

love you or not. God I love you."

I still didn't know if I believed that or not, but I

thought I'd try it again the next morning. I got up

and said, "God, I love you." I paused and added,

"Hmm, I don't know if I love you or not!" I still didn't feel like I loved him. Both Charles and I have always

been honest with God, because God knows what

we're thinking anyway. So I kept on for thirty days

saying, "God, I love you. I don't know if I really do or

not, but God, I love you."

Then one morning, I got up and said, "God, I love

you." And then I said, "Oh, God, I really do! I REALLY

DO LOVE YOU! Not only do I accept your love for me,

but I LOVE YOU!"

How did I get to the point where I really loved God? I

kept on making a confession of my love for God. I

kept on saying, "God I love you," until it became a

reality in my life; until it got into my spirit.

Now can you understand the principle behind

saying, "With his stripes we are healed"? We need to

be honest with God, because we can't fool him by

saying, "With his stripes I am healed. I am putting

you on the spot, God, because I said it and now you

have to heal me." No, he doesn't! He doesn't have to

do a thing unless you really believe without a

shadow of a doubt that you were healed. But do you

know what? If you keep on saying it, one day, just as I

became aware of the fact that I really did love God,

you will suddenly realize that YOU HAVE BEEN

HEALED! In the meantime, if you are on medication,

stay on it so you will live until you are healed!

For several years, I had a great big dark spot on my

face, and every time we went on television, I had to

cover it up with heavy makeup. Even so, I could still

see that dark spot through the makeup. One day I

thought, "This really isn't God's best! The Word of

God says that I am healed." So I put my finger on the

dark spot and said, "Jesus, touch it."

The next day, I looked at the dark spot and it hadn't

faded a bit! So I said, "Thank you, Jesus. By your

stripes I am healed."

The next day when I put on my makeup, I said,

"Thank you, Jesus, by your stripes I am healed."

Then one day, I forgot to say it! Do you know why?

BECAUSE IT WASN'T THERE ANY MORE!

If this way works for you, great! Keep on doing it! But

if it doesn't work for you, don't feel bad about trying

another one of God's provisions.

You may be thinking, "Doesn't that indicate a lack of

faith?" No, it does not indicate a lack of faith; it

indicates a lot of intelligence! Many, many people are

healed simply because they quote the Word of God

until they believe, but that's not the only way God has

of healing us!

Here's an interesting example. We were ministering

in the state of Washington one time, and a lady came

to the service in a wheel chair.

She said, "My church teaches that once you have had

hands laid on you, you should never go back and be

prayed for again, because that indicates a lack of

faith." For years, she told us, she had been saying, "By his stripes I am healed."

"Are you walking?" I asked her.

"No!"

"Then you are not healed. The provision is there for

your healing, but THERE IS A GREAT DIFFERNCE

BETWEEN THE PROVISION AND THE

MANIFESTATION.

The provision was there for me to be saved 64 years

ago when I was born, but do you know what? It took

me 49 years to get around to accepting the provision

that was made for my salvation.

The provision for my salvation was available all that

time, but I was not saved until I BELIEVED, and

accepted my salvation. Even though the provision

was valid, my salvation was not, because I hadn't

accepted that provision.

What if I had gone to church just one time, and come

home and said, "Well, I didn't get saved. So I guess it

is not God's will for me to be saved. I went to church

once and I did not get saved."

Actually I went to church three times a week for nine

months before I got saved, because it was so hard to

get me to confess that I was a sinner. But, praise the

Lord for my persistence, because I kept on going

until I believed in my heart, until it got into my spirit,

and in the twinkling of an eye I was saved.

This woman said, "They tell me if I get prayed for

once more, it will be showing a lack of faith. They say

if you get prayed for once then you are already

healed unless you have a lack of faith or sin in your

life."

I said, "Do you know what I would do if I were you?

Honey, I'd get in every prayer line I could find until I

walked!"

"What about that scripture, 'By whose stripes ye

were healed?'" she asked.

"That is one way," I told her, "but let's try another way!"

That evening, we asked for those who wanted hands

laid on them to come forward, and this woman came.

I laid hands on her in Jesus' name, and she sat there

like a bump on a log. Some people from her church

got hold of her the next day and said, "See, you didn't

get healed. You'll never get healed now, because you

showed a lack of faith when you went forward last

night."

The next day, this woman didn't come. She cried all

day long. We were going to be there one more day,

and she came to the morning service. She got there

early, hoping to talk to us before the service started.

She said, "I don't know what to do. They all jumped

on me yesterday, and told me that I had sin in my

life, because I went forward for prayer again. They

keep telling me that since I've been prayed for I

already am healed. But I just think I am not healed."

I asked her, "Have you been walking this morning?"

"No," she answered.

"Then," I said, "the provision is still there, but you are still not healed. You come forward at the end of the

service this morning. You never know when YOUR

day is going to be."

Through tears, she asked, "Do you really think it is all

right if I come forward again?"

"Sure," I said, "if I were you I would not quit. I would be the most persistent person God ever had. I believe

God would heal me just to get rid of me, because I

would keep on knocking at his door until it opened."

At the end of the service, she came forward. I laid

hands on her and quoted that wonderful scripture in

Acts 3:6: "Silver and gold have I none; but such as I

have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of

Nazareth rise up and walk."

DO YOU KNOW WHAT SHE DID? Even though she

had been shot in the back and her spinal cord was

severed, she stood up and walked right out of that

wheel chair! HALLELUJAH!

You see, God had provided for her healing 2,000

years ago, and she had been quoting that scripture

for years. But if we had said to her, "That's great!

That's all you need, keep on quoting that," she might

still be in the wheel chair. We took pictures of her as

she put her healthy husband in the wheel chair and

pushed him out of the church. Hallelujah!

Thank God, there is more than one way to heal the

sick! If you are quoting scripture for your healings,

and it works, keep right on doing it! And if you teach

other people to get healed that way, and it works,

keep right on teaching it. But if one particular

method hasn't worked for you, try another one. God

doesn't limit himself to just one way of healing

people, so why should you?

God can heal you any way he wants!

We have seen people come forward and say, "When

you laid hands on me, I was just standing there, and

this tremendous cloud came all over me, and I felt

like a piece of jelly. All of a sudden, I could feel every

corpuscle in my body moving, and before I knew it I

was totally healed!" I suppose that's one way people

get healed, but it's not the only way. Everyone does

not have to turn into jelly and have a cloud come

over them!

We have seen people go under the power of God and

be instantly healed while they're lying on the floor.

We have seen people who didn't go under the power

of God who were healed standing up.

We have seen people who went under the power of

God and didn't get healed.

We've seen people who stayed on their feet and

didn't get healed.

God can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants!

He can even heal you on the way home from a

meeting. You don't have to be in church to be healed,

because God can heal you any place he wants.

God can not only heal you any place he wants, he can

heal you regardless of your problem. God can heal a

wart, or he can heal a broken toe just as easily as he

can heal cancer. In some of our meetings, we have

seen cancers actually fall right off, but God doesn't

heal them all that way.

We have also seen people vomit them up. But in the

long run it's not important whether a cancer fell out,

or was vomited out, or simply disappeared. The

important thing is that there's no more cancer in that

person's body!

Whether you SAY it or CONFESS it, or however you

get healed or heal others, remember the one

important thing, "And now, through Christ, all the

kindness of God has been poured out upon us

undeserving sinners; and now he is sending us out

around the world to TELL ALL PEOPLE

EVERYWHERE THE GREAT THINGS GOD HAS DONE

FOR THEM, SO THAT THEY, TOO, WILL BELIEVE

AND OBEY HIM" (Rom. 1:5 TLB).

CHAPTER 7

WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET!

By Frances

Praise God that the eyes of our understanding are

open for new spirit revelations because God is

always right there wanting us to have a greater

understanding of his Word and his workings.

One of the most outstanding teachings that has been

received by the body of Christ has been from Mark

11:23 and 24, "For verily, I say unto you, That

whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou

removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not

doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things

which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have

whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, What

things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye

receive them, and ye shall have them."

I believe there is a dimension to this scripture which

will take us into another realm of healing. The eyes

of our understanding are being enlightened, and I

believe that as we go into the final stages before Jesus

Christ comes back again, people are going to be

looking into the spirit world as they have never

looked into that vast, exciting world before!

I believe that God is going to open our spirit eyes! We

are going to see a lot more angelic activities! Many

people who never dreamed that an angel would ever

come down in the twentieth century are going to be

surprised to see angels accompanying them

wherever they go.

We will see the supernatural power of God greatly

accelerate where healing is concerned!

I believe the supernatural power of God will be

operating through great hosts of ordinary people. For

many years, we had only a few "stars" who went out

and laid hands on the sick. God is no respecter of

persons, so there are no "stars" in the kingdom of

heaven, but I believe that God is raising up armies of

people all over the world to go out and lay hands

upon the sick!

The more we learn about the different ways to heal

the sick, the more qualified we will be to go out. We

want to remind you that if one thing does not work,

try something else until you have victory in that

area.

I want to share something with you that I have not

totally developed yet, but I believe you can see from

some of the things which have happened as a result

of this revelation that it opens up a whole new world

for healing. I believe you will find this a real bell-

ringer in your own life!

Look at the second chapter of II Kings: "And it came

to pass, when the Lord would take up Elijah into

heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha

from Gilgal. And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I

pray thee; for the Lord hath sent me to Beth-el. And

Elisha said unto him, As the Lord liveth, and as thy

soul liveth, I will not leave thee." (I want you to

remember that phrase, because it is very important!)

"So they went down to Beth-el. And the sons of the

prophets that were at Bethel came forth to Elisha,

and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Lord will

take away thy master from thy head to day? And he

said, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace."

Watch the words that Elijah said, then note the

answer by Elisha, and watch for repetition.

"And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray

thee; for the Lord hath sent me to Jericho. And he

said, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will

not leave thee. So they came to Jericho." Did you

notice the repetition again?

"And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho

came to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that

the Lord will take away thy master from thy head

today? And he answered, Yea, I know it; hold ye your

peace. And Elijah said unto him, Tarry, I pray thee,

here; for the Lord hath sent me to Jordan. And he

said, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will

not leave thee. And they two went on."

I want to stop just one little moment there, because

this is so vital in your Christian experience. Elijah

kept saying to Elisha, "Get lost!" Notice he kept

saying, "Tarry here, I am going over to so and so, you

just stay here, Buddy!" Elisha knew that Elijah had

something that he wanted, and he was not about to

miss out on the blessing of God. And he kept saying,

"Oh, no, you don't, Brother. As long as you live, I'm

not going to leave you. As the Lord lives and as you

live, I am not going to leave you. Here I come." And

so Elisha went along with him.

Elisha was one of the most persistent men in the

Bible, and I want you to be the most persistent

follower of Jesus Christ that the world has ever

known; because God is looking for people who have

persistence! God will give you power, but God is

looking for people with persistence.

Persistence pays off in every area of your life. I don't

care what area you are operating in, persistence will

pay off.

I want to show you a really good example of that. I

was born with persistence! I lived with persistence. If

you could see me in person, you might find it

difficult to believe, but I weighed only two pounds

when I was born. My first bed was a shoe box,

believe it or not, because that is how small I was. No

one believed that my parents would ever raise me.

Praise God! I sure proved them wrong!

There was a little thread of persistence in there that

was hanging on, and hanging on, and it said, "I want

to live, I want to live!" Persistence is so vital! This has been with me my whole life long, and I praise God

for the characteristic of persistence. Persistence

brings success! I have never known anyone who was

a success who was not persistent.

Many times people get sidetracked because they lay

hands on the sick one time, and when that one

person doesn't get healed, they say, "Well, God didn't

call me into a healing ministry."

The first person I ever prayed for died! But that

didn't keep me down. I thought, "Well, surely I will

get a better track record!" You cannot do any worse

than that, can you? That should not discourage you.

You should just go on. I will have to admit, however,

that it was a terrible shock to me when the first one

died!

Someone told me recently about an evangelist in the

healing ministry years ago who said, "If I prayed for

500, and 500 dropped dead, I'd still go on praying and

believing for the sick!!" We feel exactly the same

way!

I want to show you another area of persistence, to

point out that sometimes we do not understand in

the beginning why we are so persistent. Yet, some

fifty years down the line we will know.

When I was a young girl growing up, a skinny little

Spaniard came into our school auditorium, and he

had a machine called a typewriter. Today, everyone

is familiar with typewriters, but when I was growing

up, a typewriter was really something that very few

people had ever seen. He sat down at this machine

and it spelled words right out on a piece of paper as

plain as anything. He typed 125 words a minute, and

I was completely fascinated. My own handwriting

was miserable, so I thought a typewriter would be a

perfect answer for me, and I purposed in my heart

that I was going to be a good typist.

I signed up for a typing class in school. After the first

week, I decided it was harder than it looked when he

did it, but I had made up my mind that I was going to

learn how to type, even though I didn't get up to 125

words per minute the first week.

I went to my teacher and said: "Do you stay after

school for a while, and if so, may I stay with you and

practice on the typewriter until you go home?"

Then listen to what I said, and it involved a Christian

principle I knew nothing about, because I said to her,

"I want to practice, because I am going to be the best

and the fastest typist that this school has ever seen." I

didn't even know what I was talking about, and I

could not even hit two keys without making a

mistake. But I made that statement because I had

purposed in my heart that I was going to be the best

typist that the school had ever seen. While the other

kids were down at the corner having cokes and

cigarettes and doing all the other things that high

school kids did at that time, I was sitting in the high

school going type, type, type, type, learning how to

type!

That wasn't enough, however, because the teacher

did not stay long enough after school. We had

department stores in St. Louis where I was raised,

and so I would spend a dime to get on the bus and go

downtown where they had three department stores

right in a row.

I would walk into the first one where they had three

different typewriters on display and say, "I am

interested in typewriters, may I try this one?" I didn't

think I was being dishonest, because I didn't say I

was interested in buying one, I just said I was

interested in typewriters. I would stand there and

type on each of the three typewriters until I had the

paper completely filled up, then I would thank the

clerk and go on to the second store. I would do the

same thing there, and then on to the third store.

Then I would go back the next day and do the same

thing over again!

What I am trying to instill in you is a desire to

develop your persistence. I used all the time I could

at school! I used all the time after school that the

teacher would give me! Then I went to the

department stores, and I used up all their paper!

Finally, came the great day when I had my first speed

test. If I remember correctly, I typed 31 words a

minute with 97 errors! You never saw so many errors

in your entire life! Thirty-one words a minute is not

bad for a beginner, but 97 errors was absolutely

unbelievable! But I purposed in my heart that I was

going to be the school's best typist, so I started back

on the same routine again. First I would stay after

school, then down to the department stores I would

go.

Finally the day came when I passed a test at 40 wpm,

50 wpm, 60 wpm, 70 wpm, 80 wpm, 90 wpm, and

even 100 wpm, BUT THAT WAS NOT GOOD ENOUGH!

I had purposed in my heart that I was going to type

125 wpm like that skinny little Spaniard did! And I

wasn't going to settle for less than that, so I kept

practicing and practicing until the day came when I

typed 125 wpm on a manual typewriter. You really

have to put forth energy to type that fast on a manual

typewriter. But I did it without any errors

whatsoever in a fifteen-minute test! That is what

persistence does for you!

I had no more talent in that area than anybody, but I

did have persistence! If you keep saying, "I am going

to be the world's most dynamic evangelist! I am

going to have the world's greatest healing ministry!"

do you know what you are going to have? You are

going to have exactly what you say, providing you

live the life God says! If you will keep on being

persistent, and you will keep on doing, even at times

when you would like to be doing something else, you

will succeed. Be persistent in whatever you do!

At that time I didn't understand why I was learning

to type, because most girls want to get married and

have a family and never think they are going to use

the skills they learn. Little did I realize that my

husband was going to die at a very early age, and

that I would be thrust out into the business world to

raise two children. I praise God for that ability I had

because it allowed me to support my children. I

owned and operated a secretarial service which

eventually turned into a big printing company, but I

don't believe that is the only reason God had me

learn to type. I don't believe that is why God kept

prodding me long before I was a Christian.

Do you know what I think God was doing? God knew

that he called me to be an author. God knew that I

would have no time to try to write a manuscript in

longhand. Fifty years before I ever used the talent,

God taught me how to be an outstanding typist, and

today I am one of the few authors who type all of

their own manuscripts. I do all of my own typing,

and after I edit the book I retype it myself, because I

know how I like to paragraph, and I know how I like

things spaced. I know how I want everything in a

book, and these are things I could never have done if

I had not been persistent in learning to type.

Now let's get back to Elijah and Elisha. Continuing

with II Kings 2, we read in verses 7 and 8 that "fifty

men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood to

view afar off: and they two stood by Jordan. And

Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and

smote the waters, and they were divided hither and

thither, so that they two went over on dry ground."

Elisha was very impressed with that, so remember

it!

Verse 9 says, "And it came to pass, when they were

gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I

shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee.

And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of

thy spirit be upon me." He wasn't satisfied to have a

little crumb of Elijah's power; he wasn't even

satisfied to have as much as Elijah; he was a spiritual

pig! A spiritual hog! He wanted twice as much! And

that is what EACH one of us ought to be - A REAL

SPIRITUAL PIG! I love Elisha because he wanted

everything God had for him!

Let's watch what Elijah said: "Thou hast asked a hard

thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken

from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall

not be so."I want you to circle the word SEE in this

book right now, because it's going to play an

important part in your life.

"And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked,

that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and

horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and

Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. And

Elisha SA W it, and he cried, My father, my father, the

chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he

saw him no more: and he took hold of his own

clothes, and rent them in two pieces."

Elisha could have let his attention be distracted by a

lot of things. He could have thought, "WOW, look at

those trees today, those leaves are really turning." He

was a young man, so he could have kept his eyes on

girls and missed God! But because he was a

persistent man, and he kept his eyes on Elijah, he

SAW Elijah when he departed in the whirlwind! AND

HE GOT WHAT HE WANTED!

He was a real man of action, because here is faith in

action, "And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell

from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is

the Lord God of Elijah? and when he also had

smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither:

and Elisha went over."

Elisha could have picked up that mantle and said,

"This is so holy and so righteous, I can't put it on."

But he knew that God was no respecter of persons, so

he picked it up and did the same thing that Elijah

did. He thought, "Boy, I will crack that water, and

watch that water split open." "POW!" There the

waters went! Elisha SAW him when he departed, and

then he immediately put into practice what he had

seen Elijah do.

I was teaching about persistence on the radio one

day, and as I began to teach on this, I suddenly saw a

whole new dimension open up through the word

"see." I began to think, "Lord, have we been missing out on things because we are not looking with

spiritual eyes the way we ought to look?"

A couple of years ago, an evangelist got up in a

meeting one night and said, "I had a man come up to

me the other night in a meeting, and he handed me a

little piece of paper, and he said, 'Brother, the Lord

told me to give this to you,' and I thought it was a

little note or something." He stuck it in his pocket,

thinking it was a prayer request.

He forgot all about it until he got home, and then he

took it out of his pocket, and it was a check for

$100,000. I always get excited when another ministry

receives a big gift, because we rejoice for all

ministers of the gospel. WE ARE FOR EVERY

CHRISTIAN MINISTRY THAT PREACHES THE GOSPEL

OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST! Neither of us has a

jealous bone in our body. I get excited because I

always feel that if God does it for one, he will do it for

another, since he is no respecter of persons!

Charles and I were driving to a meeting one night

and I said, "How come nobody ever walks up to me

and says 'Frances, the Lord told me to give you this

check for $100,000!'" I was really talking to God, and

God said, "Because you never SAW it."

What a surprise that was to me! And I began to think

about what he had said! I discovered there are two

kinds of visions. There is a supernatural vision

which is the kind that God gives you for a particular

circumstance and time. And then there is the natural

vision where you can stand on the Word of God and

begin to see a promise in your spirit, and it will come

to pass.

I believe we are in the days of Acts 2:17: "And it shall

come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour

out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and

your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men

shall see visions, and your old men shall dream

dreams (KJV). We all need to be more sensitive to the

spirit of God than ever before and to be aware of the

part that visions and dreams will be playing in our

lives from now on.

In his book, THE FOURTH DIMENSION, Dr. Paul

Yonggi Cho says: "Let the Holy Spirit come and

quicken the scriptures you read, and implant visions

in the young and dreams in the old." In another

chapter he says, "... the Holy Spirit comes to

cooperate with us — to create, by helping young men

to see visions, and old men to dream dreams.

Through envisioning and dreaming dreams we can

kick away the wall of limitations and can stretch out

to the universe. That is the reason that God's word

says, 'Where there is no vision the people perish.'If

you have no vision, you are not being creative; and if

you stop being creative, then you are going to perish.

"Visions and dreams are the language of the fourth

dimension, and the Holy Spirit communicates

through them. Only through a vision and a dream

can you visualize and dream bigger churches. You

can visualize a new mission field; you can visualize

the increase of your church."

The vision has to be given to you by the Holy Spirit,

or it will not come to pass, because you cannot use

your imagination to conjure up things that are not in

line with God's Word! But begin to envision

according to God's Word, and see what happens!

I quickly turned to Luke 6:38 which says, "Give, and it

shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed

down, and shaken together, and running over, shall

men give into your bosom. For with the same

measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to

you again."

I said, "Now, Father, Charles and I have given and

given and given, and given, and given, and now I

think it is time for us to receive a return, because we

have so many needs at the City of Light. Father, I am

going to ask you to give me a vision of a check."

I must not have had $100,000 faith, because instantly

God gave me a vision, but the vision was of a check

for $1,000, and all I saw was a man's hand giving it to

me.

WOW! Two scriptures, "my people perish for lack of

knowledge" and "without a vision the people perish,"

came into my mind. Here I was sitting in a car with a

vision of a $1,000 check. That was not unscriptural,

because I could stand on Luke 6:38 and KNOW that

we had given!

I was so excited I almost ran to get into the meeting

that night, and I kept thinking, "Who is it, Lord? Who

is it?" I would look at every person who came by and

think "You?" "No!" "You?" "No!" "You?" "No!"

Nobody handed me a check that first night.

I didn't say, "I guess God didn't want me to have a

check." I am persistent! The second night came and

when the service was over, I was standing back at the

book table, and every time a man came by, I would

think again, "You?" "No!" "You?" "No!" "You?" "No!"

The second night was over, and NOBODY HAD GIVEN

ME A CHECK!

I wasn't discouraged, because we still had one more

night! I repeated the same procedure, and still no

check! I wasn't discouraged, however, and as I was

packing the books for the next stop, and in a most

unspiritual position of almost standing on my head

trying to reach a box, a man walked up behind me

and said, "Frances, the Lord told me to give this to

you." Hallelujah! I didn't put it in my pocket! I

LOOKED AT IT! Right on the spot! IT WAS EXACTLY

AS I HAD SEEN IT IN MY SPIRIT — A CHECK FOR

$1,000! I nearly exploded!!

I could hardly wait to tell Charles and the next day I

was so wound up because I saw a new dimension

opening up in our lives, so I said, "Charles this is so

exciting, I'm going to ask God for another vision."

And I saw another $1,000 check! My faith had not

risen any higher than $1,000, but sure enough, about

two nights later, a man sent his child running down

the aisle before the service started with a check for

$1,000. Do you know why? He had given $1,000 the

year before and had gotten back over $100,000, so he

couldn't wait for offering time to get started again!

Again, I saw a new dimension working! God opening

spirit eyes to see more of what he has for us! I was

really excited, but I said, "God, could you let me have

a little bigger vision? It takes a lot of $1,000 checks to

reach the multitudes you have laid on our hearts.

On our next trip, we were leaving our motel room to

go to a meeting, when there flashed in my mind a

check for $5,000.1 thought, "Wow! We have never

had anyone put a check for $5,000 into an offering

before." But I was excited. I said, "Lord, you mean

that you are going to put a $5,000 check in the

offering tonight?" And somehow in that way that I

know that God speaks, God just assured me that the

check was going to be in the offering.

No one ever put that much in one of our offerings

before! Nobody! Glory, what a feeling of anticipation

we had!

Charles was teaching that night, and after I took the

offering, I looked for a place to sit until the

ministering time came. The air conditioner had

broken down, and the television lights were

extremely hot, and I saw a door, so I thought, "I'll go

off-stage because it's so hot, and when Charles needs

me, I'll come back on."

I stepped off the stage, and discovered that I was in

the room where the ushers were counting the

offering. They said, "Would you like to help us count

the offering?" My heart was really pounding, because

the first thing I did was to try to pull out all the

checks. I looked carefully at each one, but there was

no check for $5,000.

The ushers were counting the cash when suddenly I

saw one more little piece of paper underneath all the

bills, and I grabbed for it! You never saw anyone go

into action so fast in your life. I opened it up, and it

was a check to our ministry for $5,000, THE FIRST

TIME IN ALL OF OUR MINISTRY THAT ANYONE HAD

EVER PUT IN A CHECK THAT SIZE IN AN OFFERING,

JUST AS I HAD SEEN IT! Hallelujah!

Today I see in my spirit a check for $1,000,000 for the

work of the ministry. I have confessed it for almost

three years! I have seen it in my spirit, and I know it

will come to pass!

As a result of seeing in my spirit, I began to think, "If

it works in money, why shouldn't it work in other

areas as well?" I began to think this should work in

the area of healing. I gave this talk about seeing, and

then said:

"God made a package deal for us 2,000 years ago, but

the problem is that most of us only accept one

portion of that package when we are born again,

because we don't understand there's more than one

'goodie' in the basket!

"When all churches begin to preach the FULL

meaning of salvation, you're going to see people walk

into services unsaved, sick, and full of demons, and

they are going to walk out saved, healed, delivered,

and baptized with the Holy Spirit ALL AT THE SAME

TIME!

"Many people believe that salvation involves just one

thing: eternal life! Biblically, however, salvation

encompasses many things, of which eternal life is

only ONE! The Greek word soteria, which we

translate 'salvation,' also includes the meanings

'deliverance,' 'health,' 'rescue,' and 'safety.'

I continued and said, "How many of you believe

that .Jesus took all of our diseases on himself at

Calvary? Every one of those 39 stripes he had on his

back was a different disease."

I believe when Jesus was on the cross that he was the

most unhuman looking thing you ever saw. I believe

his body was so racked with pain that you would not

even have recognized him to be a human being,

because can you imagine all of the cerebral palsy

from the first man to the last man on the body of

Jesus? See him with all the cancer in the world from

the first man to the last one.

Every case of diabetes from the first man to the last

was on the body of Jesus! Name any disease, and it

was on the body of Jesus! Every case of it from the

first man to the last man.

I do not believe that Jesus appeared on the cross as

most artists paint him. I believe he didn't even

resemble the Jesus who had walked up the road to

Golgotha!

Isaiah 52:14 (Amp.) says: "(For many the servant of

God became an object of horror; many were

astonished.) His face and His whole appearance were

marred more than any man's, and His form beyond

that of the sons of men; but just as many were

astonished at Him."

Now, why were they astonished when they looked at

him? Because his body looked so terrible! Can you

imagine all the brain damage in the world on him?

Can you see all the crippling diseases on him?

Millions of all kinds of diseases, all on Jesus at one

time!

Do you think his fingers were straight? No, I think his

body was so twisted that we would never have

recognized it. That is why they said it was an object

of horror, and his face and his whole appearance

were marred more than any man's because no other

man has ever taken as much on his body as Jesus!

Then it says in Isaiah 53:10: "Yet it was the will of the

Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief and

made Him sick ..." It was God's will to make him sick!

Why? Because he loved you and me so much that he

put it on Jesus so that we do not have to have

sickness!

Isaiah 53:5 says, "But He was wounded for our

transgressions, He was bruised for our guilt and

iniquities: the chastisement needful to obtain peace

and well-being for us was upon Him, and with the

stripes that wounded Him we are healed and made

whole." WE ARE HEALED AND MADE WHOLE!

Do you know why some of us cannot receive the

healing we need? Because we cannot see it on Jesus. I

believe the day when our spirit eyes are opened and

we begin to see our healing back on Jesus where it

belongs is the day you and I are going to receive

whatever healing we need! When we begin to see our

disease back on Jesus where it belongs, healing will

become a reality in our lives!

Begin to see it for yourself. Begin to see it for other

people. When you begin to see it, it is going to come

to pass in your life. You begin to see your crippled

body back on the body of Jesus and that body will be

made whole!

But be persistent! If you do not receive healing the

first time you "think" you see your disease on Jesus,

keep trying! Keep seeing your disease back on Jesus

where it belongs! I have a little note in my Bible

which says, "He took it, so there's no sense in both of

us having it!"

The first night I gave this talk, believing for people to

see their diseases back on Jesus I said very carefully,

"If there is anybody in the audience who can see

their sickness back on Jesus, I want you to come

forward." It was a very tense moment for me because

I knew I was venturing into a new realm of healing.

A man came forward and I said, "What is your

problem?" He said, "I was in an industrial accident

some fourteen or fifteen years ago. My shoulder

blade is frozen, and I can't raise my arm, but as you

were talking tonight, I began to see this on Jesus, and

before long I saw Jesus with a frozen shoulder. Then

I saw myself swinging my arm like I was throwing a

baseball, and I haven't been able to move it for 14

years!" All the time he was telling me this, he put his

faith into action and was swinging his arm the very

way he told me he had seen in his vision! Glory, it

was working in healing as well!

Another woman got excited when she saw him,

because she had the same problem, and her arm was

totally healed that night.

Our faith was really rising in this area of healing, so I

gave this talk in another city and began to see what it

was doing to people and how their spirit eyes were

being opened. Again I gave the same invitation and

was very careful to say, "At this time I only want

those who have actually seen their problem back on

Jesus to come forward!"

I asked the first woman what she saw, and she said,

"I see my esophagus full of holes. I see my body full

of arthritis. I've got it in the elbows, in the knees, in

the hips, and all over me." Do you know what she

received? Nothing, because she did not see it on

Jesus. She saw it on herself. She was looking at things

in the natural. She was not looking at them on Jesus.

The next woman was in a wheel chair. I said, "Honey,

what do you see?" She said, T see myself walking all

the way across this stage tonight." I said, "You do?"

She said, "Yes." I said, "How long has it been since you walked?"

She said, "I have never walked. I had polio when I

was an infant and I have never walked!"

My faith was really on the line! But I believe that

with God nothing is impossible!

She continued, "I see my polio on the body of Jesus!"

Then, just like Elijah said unto Elisha, I said, "If you

have seen it on Jesus, it shall be so unto thee." Then I

gave her the scripture I always give, "Silver and gold

have I none; but such as I have, give I thee: In the

name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk"

(Acts 3:6).

SHE GOT UP AND WALKED, because she saw that she

did not have polio any more because it was back on

Jesus 2,000 years ago where it belonged. She did not

walk like you or I do, but she was walking! Legs that

had never moved from the time she was a tiny infant

were walking and taking steps across an auditorium!

By this time, my faith really went up, and I was ready

to become a tiger. I knew that anyone who could see

whatever their disease was back on Jesus Christ

would be healed!

A woman in her eighties who was horribly crippled

with rheumatoid arthritis came into one of our

meetings where I gave this same talk, and I wanted

to shake the very devil out of her that caused the

horrible arthritis. She was the first one up at the end

of the talk, and her crippled fingers straightened out,

her back straightened out, and every bit of that

rheumatoid arthritis left her! She bent over and

touched her toes with her fingers. Glory to God, she

had truly seen it back on the body of Jesus where it

belonged! In that same service we saw a Catholic

man who was so crippled with arthritis that it had

been years since he could tie and untie his shoes. He

sat on the front row tying and untying his shoes

demonstrating that he saw his disease back on Jesus!

We were privileged to be the pacesetter speakers at

the Pittsburgh Charismatic Conference one year, and

sensitivity to the Holy Spirit really brought results.

Sometimes it will go so against your natural mind

that it will be almost impossible for you to act, but

DO IT!

A woman came over to me prior to the beginning of

the service and said, "My daughter is dying. She has

been in intensive care for four months. The doctors

said she could not even live until the end of the

service, but I brought her anyway. Will you come

and pray for her?"

Normally I would have taken off like a rocket, but

God checked me and said, "Give her the Word first!"

Remember what it says in Psalm 107:20, "He sent his

word and healed them and delivered them from

their destruction."

We could not see this girl because we were sitting

below stage level, so when we went on to the stage, I

saw her for the first time. My first thought was, "Oh,

God, don't let her die during this service." I never

saw anyone who looked so dead without being dead

in my whole life! Her head was hanging over to the

side and her tongue was hanging out of her mouth.

Charles took one look at her and thought she had

died. He said, "God, is the miracle you want tonight

to have us raise someone from the dead?" We have

never raised anyone from the dead YET, but we are

ready.

All throughout the service I looked at this woman.

Her head never changed positions. She never opened

her eyes. Nothing, absolutely nothing happened! But

when I finished talking about, "If you see it, it shall

be so unto you," God said, "Go down and minister to

her NOW!"

As Charles and I walked down to this woman,

everyone at the conference stood to their feet,

wondering what was going to happen! I walked over

to this woman and said, "Did you hear what I said?"

A little voice came back to me and said, "Uh huh."

I said, "Did you UNDERSTAND what I said?"

The same little weak voice answered, "Uh huh!"

I said, "What do you see?"

She said, "I see myself completely healed tonight and

my disease back on Jesus!" (Note she put a time limit

on it!)

I said, "Elijah said, If you see me when I go, it shall be

so unto thee, but if not, it shall not be so,' so I am

believing that you have seen your disease back on

Jesus." Once again I said, "Silver and gold have I

none, but such as I have, give I thee: In the name of

Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!"

She shot out of that wheel chair full of the power of

God, and walked all the way down the long aisle of

the Duquesne University ballroom with Charles.

They walked all the way down and all the way back.

This woman had been in the intensive care section of

the hospital because she had been hemorrhaging for

four months. The doctors said she would die before

the end of the service because she was in such bad

condition, and here she was walking up and down

the aisle of the ballroom having a ball!

The next day she was running all over the mountains

where Duquesne University is located saying, "I don't

even feel weak!"

SHE SAW HER SICKNESS BACK ON THE BODY OF

JESUS!

Miracles happen when we can see our problems

back on Jesus who took them all for us!

We went on to another city where we were on a

circular stage. A woman was brought forward who

had multiple sclerosis. I said to her, "What do you

see?"

She said, "I see myself healed of multiple sclerosis

because it's on the body of Jesus, and do you know

what else I see?"

I said, "No, what do you see?"

She said, "I see myself running in circles on this big

stage."

I repeated what Elijah said, "If you see me when I go,

it shall be so unto you. You have seen it in your spirit,

now let us see it in the natural."

This woman began running in circles around the

stage. I held her arm, but she almost shook my hand

off saying, "I saw myself running with no help!"

Glory, hallelujah, she didn't run around that circular

stage once or twice, but she must have run around it

at least ten times. Why? Because she went into a new

dimension, und she saw the sickness where it

belonged, back on the body of Jesus Christ!

I could write a complete book on people who have

received healing by seeing their sickness back on

Jesus, but I believe we can go into the world beyond

in many other areas. I think of Pastor Cho when he

preached to empty seats, but he never saw one. He

preached with his eyes closed, and saw every seat

filled. He saw a 10,000 seat auditorium filled to

overflowing with people, but if he had opened his

eyes, do you know what he would have seen? Maybe

15, maybe 20, maybe 30 or 35 as it grew. He kept his

eyes shut. He began seeing in his spirit that great

auditorium filled to capacity. Today he has a church

with 150,000 members and is seeing in his spirit a

church of 500,000! I believe that would never have

happened if Pastor Cho had opened his eyes and

thought, "Oh, there are only 15 people in the

sanctuary today." He closed his eyes instead and saw

in his spirit. He saw an auditorium overflowing with

people. He saw an auditorium with people standing.

He didn't see what was actually there, because he

envisioned the lost coming to Jesus in unprecedented

numbers! Glory!

I want to emphasize that when I talk about SEEING, I

am not talking about imagination, but about having

faith that a thing will be so! Imaginations can get you

into trouble, but a faith vision can bring you

answers!

At the City of Light which we are building, God has

given us a vision. I can see the world's greatest

orchestra at the City of Light. I see God bringing in

musicians from all over the country to play at the

City of Light. Right now we certainly don't have it,

but I know it will be a reality, because I have seen it

with my spirit eyes.

I see our School of Ministry overflowing with

students. I see so many students that we won't have

enough room for them. That is what I see in my

spirit. It is going to come to pass. I believe that with

all my heart. I believe it with my soul, and I believe it

with my mind!

I believe we will see the glory of God in healing if we

will only begin to open up our spirit to see the things

God has for us instead of what the devil has for us!

Many people find it easier to believe what the devil

wants us to see than what God has for us, but it takes

a little supernatural vision to look into an area and

see what God has for you! The devil wants to see you

sick and in poverty, but God said, "Beloved, I wish

above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in

health, even as thy soul prospereth" (III John 2).

If you need healing — see that!

If you need finances — see that!

If you need deliverance — see that!

If you need a mate — see that!

If you need your husband or wife saved — see that!

If you need your children saved — envision them

with Bibles under their arms, spreading the gospel!

This is a spiritual and supernatural dimension that

can be most rewarding; however, I do want to

caution you not to let your imagination get carried

away, and don't try to visualize something that you

can't line up with God's Word. Line it up with God's

Word, and watch it come to pass that WHAT YOU SEE

IS WHAT YOU GET!

CHAPTER 8

SOME CONDITIONS FOR HEALING

By Frances

It surprises many people to discover there are

conditions to God's healing power! Even so, as you

read this, I want you to remember at all times that

GOD IS SOVEREIGN!

God can do exactly what he wants to do, exactly

when he wants to do it, and he can do it to

whomsoever he wills!

Just about the time we think we have everything

down pat and know all there is to know about a

particular way of healing, do you know what

happens? God throws a monkey wrench in the whole

thing and says, "Now look, I want to show you that I

can do it another way as well!"

However, there are many basic guidelines that we do

need to follow, and one is to understand that in many

instances there are conditions.

Throughout his Word, God is a God of "our" part and

"his" part.

We do our part, and then God does his part

God says, "You do this, and I'll do that!" Then he

says, "You do THIS, and I'll do THAT!"

He is a God of love, a God of mercy, a God of grace:

but he puts restrictions on us because we all need

rules to go by!

It is the same way with a child. If you brought up a

child with absolutely no restrictions whatsoever, you

would have a wild little animal of some kind,

wouldn't you?

If you let children eat what they wanted to eat, what

would they choose? Candy, candy, candy, candy,

candy, and that's probably all! But by the time they

grew up, they wouldn't have any teeth. They would

be very unhealthy; they would not have strong

bodies; and so, as parents, we have to bring these

children up properly. We need to see that the foods

they eat are good for their bodies, so their bodies will

not be weak and sickly.

Here's Malachi 4:2 from the Living Bible. "But for you

who fear my name, the Sun of Righteousness will rise

with healing in his wings. And you will go free,

leaping with joy like calves let out to pasture."

What is the condition that goes along with that

scripture? It is only "for you who FEAR my name!"

That is not the kind of fear the devil puts on us. It is

the one kind of fear that we all need to have in our

lives — the fear and reverence of God. If you want

healing in your body, Malachi 4:2 says one condition

is to fear the Lord!

There are people in this world today who do not fear

the Lord. There are people who curse God until the

very end. You might ask, "Doesn't he ever heal a

sinner?" Yes, because HE IS SOVEREIGN, he can heal

saint and sinner alike!

One night at a miracle rally, an agnostic was sitting

in the balcony, making fun of what he thought was

nothing but a series of "put-up" healings! Charles

pointed up to the balcony and said, "Someone in the

balcony has a big lump under his arm. It has been

paining you and you have just been healed!" This

same man had a tumor the size of a baseball under

his arm, and it instantly disappeared! He came

running down to the stage as fast as he could and

changed his mind about not believing! Miracles will

cause a sinner to do a radical turnaround in a hurry!

Proverbs 3:5 says in the Amplified: "Lean on, trust

and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and

mind...”

Does it say, "Lean on the Lord with a little bit of you;

lean on the Lord on Sunday, but don't worry about

Monday, Tuesday and Thursday?" No, it says, "LEAN

ON, TRUST AND BE CONFIDENT IN THE LORD WITH

ALL YOUR HEART AND MIND, AND DO NOT RELY ON

YOUR OWN INSIGHT OR UNDERSTANDING. In ALL

your ways know, recognize and acknowledge Him,

and He will direct and make straight and plain your

paths. Be not wise in your own eyes; reverently fear

and worship the Lord, and turn (entirely) away from

evil" (Prov. 3:5-7 Amp.).

That last verse gives us the conditions, and then

verse 8 gives us the reward: "It shall be health to

your nerves and sinews, and marrow and

moistening to your bones." "Learning to Lean" is

godly medicine!

If you want your nerves healed, obey the above

conditions and see what happens! Best cure I know

of!

The last phrase also really speaks plainly to all of us,

because it says to turn ENTIRELY away from evil. Not

a little bit, but ALL the way!

In the world we live in today, we are beset with

temptations every day of our lives! But what does

God say? HE SAYS TO TURN ENTIRELY AWAY FROM

EVIL!

You cannot live in sin and expect the best from God.

You cannot live over in the devil's workshop a

portion of the time, and expect God's abundant life to

flow all over you.

You cannot live under the devil's control and expect

God's blessings to overtake you and overcome you,

because he says to turn entirely away from evil.

Who has to do the turning? WE DO! God doesn't turn

you away; God gives you all the power you need; but

he leaves it up to you, and he says for YOU to turn

entirely away from evil.

There's the condition, and there's the promise. If all

the "nervous wrecks" in the world would just lean

on, trust in and rely on God, and fulfill the rest of

that scripture, we would have fewer nervous wrecks.

What if you were a sinner and you just got saved?

Would you have to get healthy before you could

become a Christian? No, but sometimes you have to

become a Christian before you can get healthy!

Before I was saved, I took nineteen grains of thyroid

every day. The doctor told me that I took more

thyroid than any person in medical history had ever

taken previously. It had been given to me in an

attempt to correct an adrenal insufficiency in my

body.

I was a victim of Addison's disease and by three

o'clock in the afternoon I didn't even look like a

human being. My skin would turn so gray it was

almost black, and then I would pass out!

God dealt with me one day in a hospital, and I began

to seek him, even though I had difficulty admitting

that I was a sinner. Nine months rolled around

before I was saved; but when I did get saved, I knew

that I wanted everything God had for me. I wanted to

lean on him, trust him, rely on him, and I certainly

wanted to turn away from every evil thing I knew.

God saw my heart, and the day I got saved he healed

me instantly! I never took another grain of thyroid

from the day I was saved because the healing power

of God went through my body, and I was totally and

instantly healed of Addison's disease, which is

normally fatal. I didn't even realize it until weeks

later when I remembered I hadn't taken any

medicine!

You may wonder why they gave me thyroid instead

of cortisone because this was unusual in treating

Addison's disease! The doctors said my thyroid was

destroyed because of overdosing me with cortisone;

therefore the super doses of thyroid were prescribed.

In spite of this, today I have a perfectly normal

thyroid gland! Glory to God!

Let's look at another conditional promise. This one is

found in Psalm 128 (TLB): Blessings on all who

reverence and trust the Lord - ON ALL WHO OBEY

HIM!" Did you know you can trust and reverence the

Lord and still be disobedient? Yes, you can! I know

people who go to worship services and say,

"Hallelujah, Lord, I bless you; Lord, I praise you," and then walk out the door of the church and right back

into sin. A lot of people do that, without even

realizing what they are doing. But the Bible says,

"Blessings on all who reverence and trust the Lord —

on all who OBEY him!" Healing is one of those

blessings.

God has a lot of natural laws. There is a time to stay

awake, and there is a time to go to sleep. There is a

time for everything. God expects you to take care of

your body. If you want to stay healthy, don't think

that you can stay up night after night without getting

sick or run down. I need eight hours of sleep — some

people need a little more, some need a little less. But

you cannot disregard God's health laws and maintain

a healthy body.

There is a price you have to pay if you do! I smoked

for 35 years, and ended up smoking five packages a

day! Your body suffers when you smoke that many

years: it's the worst thing in the world for your

circulatory system. Many people die of lung cancer

and many die of hardening of the arteries because

they have not taken care of their bodies; they have

gone on smoking, smoking, smoking, regardless of

what God and the government say about how

harmful it is. Now that's silly, isn't it? That's just like

taking a knife and cutting your throat a little bit each

day. Pretty soon you'll have your whole head cut off!

In the Living Bible, Psalm 128 goes on to say, "Their

reward for obeying the Lord will be prosperity and

happiness!" Your reward for obeying the Lord will

be prosperity and happiness! It even gives you some

specifics: "Your wife shall be contented in your

home. And look at all those children! There they sit

around the dinner table as vigorous and healthy as

young olive trees. That is God's reward to those who

reverence and trust him."

I love what the Bible says in Hebrews 11:6, "But

without faith it is impossible to please him: for he

that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that

he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him."

God gives rewards to those who believe and trust

him. GOD IS A REWARDER! I believe that divine

health is one of the rewards that God will give you

when you diligently seek him. I believe that healing

is one of those blessings that come to people who

diligently seek him. There is more, too!

He is going to reward you with happiness.

He is going to reward you with abundant life.

He is going to reward you with finances.

He is going to reward you with a good-looking wife

or husband!

Healing and health are two of the most important

things we could ever desire. If you had to choose

between being healthy and being wealthy, it would

be far more important to be healthy. It would do you

no good at all to have all the money in the world, if

you were always in pain.

In the 28th chapter of Deuteronomy, God teaches us

many of his conditions for obtaining divine health. In

the Amplified, the first condition listed is, "If you will

listen diligently to the voice of the Lord your God."

To "listen diligently" means to listen with your mind, your heart, your body, your soul, with EVERYTHING

you've got! And it doesn't mean listening to God

while you're listening to the TV, listening to the radio,

and listening to somebody else at the same time. It

means that when you listen to God you shut

everything else out and just listen to God Almighty,

because sometimes God says things that are very soft

and very quiet!

The second part of the condition given in

Deuteronomy 28:1 (Amp.) is, "Being watchful to do all

His commandments which I command you this day."

It won't do you very much good if you listen to God

but don't do what he says! This ties back with the

other verse that lists all those blessings which come

to those who obey him.

If you are watchful to do all his commandments

which I command you this day, Moses says, "the Lord

your God will set you high above all the nations of

the earth, And all these blessings shall come upon

you and overtake you."

You have to listen to the voice of the Lord your God,

and then you've got to be a doer of the Word and not

just a hearer only.

There are many people who run from one meeting to

another, from one charismatic conference to another,

from one full gospel meeting to another, from one

church to another, from one special speaker to

another, and who never get out to do a thing they

have learned!

I hope one of the things this book will teach you is to

quit being a conference hopper and get out there and

do something for the Lord: that is one of the ways his

blessings of healing and health will come upon you.

Let's look at a similar passage in Isaiah. Here's Isaiah

58:6,7 in The Living Bible: "No, the kind of fast I want

is that you stop oppressing those who work for you

and treat them fairly and give them what they earn. I

want you to share your food with the hungry and

bring right into your own homes those who are

helpless, poor and destitute. Clothe those who are

cold and don't hide from relatives who need your

help. If you do these things, God will shed his own

glorious light upon you. He will heal you; your

godliness will lead you forward, and goodness will be

a shield before you, and the glory of the Lord will

protect you from behind." GOD WILL HEAL YOU! He

will heal you if you live the kind of life he calls us to

live.

Here's another familiar passage that stresses this

same point: "If you will diligently hearken to the

voice of the Lord your God, and will do what is right

in His sight, and will listen to and obey His

commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put

none of the diseases upon you which I brought upon

the Egyptians; for I am the Lord Who heals you"

(Exodus 15:26 Amp.). Here again God is telling us

that we need to listen to him and we need to obey

him.

Another very well-known passage, Malachi 3:10 says:

"Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there

may be meat in mine house, and prove me now

herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open

you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a

blessing, that there shall not be room enough to

receive it."

We hear that verse over and over again. But look at

the verse that follows it, because it is the one that

tells you what happens when you do what Malachi

3:10 says. It says, "And I will rebuke the devourer for

your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your

ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before

the time in the field, saith the Lord of hosts."

There is a blessing promise for many in that verse!

Let me show you what I mean. Several years ago a

pastor came up to me at the end of a service and

said, "We have a missionary family here with two

children who have muscular dystrophy. They want

you to pray for them."

Muscular dystrophy is an incurable disease which

destroys all the muscles and it is generally fatal. We

believe that an incurable disease is caused by a

spirit, so when we come across an incurable disease,

we know the spirit needs to be cast out.

Normally I would have cast out the spirit of muscular

dystrophy, but God said something to me before I

started. He said, "Ask them if they tithe!" Wow! That

is a difficult question to ask in a church where there

were probably 1200 people listening to every word I

said. It takes real courage to ask a missionary a

question like that where everyone will hear the

answer, but God had said, "Ask them if they tithe."

With fear and trembling before the Lord, I said,

"Brother, before I lay hands on your children, may I

ask you a question?"

"Yes," he answered.

I said, "Do you tithe?"

"I have tithed ever since I became a Christian," he

told us.

"Hallelujah!" I said, "Then I will stand on Malachi 3:11, which is a verse so many people forget about,

and T will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and

he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground;

NEITHER SHALL YOUR VINE CAST HER FRUIT

BEFORE THE TIME IN THE FIELD, SAITH THE LORD.'

I said, "God is not going to let your vine cast her fruit,

he is not going to let your children die before their

time. Because you have tithed and you have been

faithful to God in your giving, I lay hands on these

children and speak healing in the name of Jesus."

Then I cast out the spirit of muscular dystrophy. I did

not see any visible evidence of healing at that

moment but the next morning his little girl got out of

bed all by herself for the first time in years and went

"leaping with joy like calves let out to pasture."

Hallelujah!

Why did that man's children receive healing?

Because he had been faithful in his giving to God and

God is a rewarder of them who diligently seek him!

What joy there was in their hearts because

obedience had brought rewards!

There are many different ways to heal, and many

different conditions to meet, but keep in mind that

God is sovereign; God can do anything he wants to.

He can override every single one of the conditions I

have mentioned.

Have you ever thought when you saw a rotten,

stinking sinner get healed, "Well, God, they never

gave you a nickel in their whole life; they're rotten,

they don't love you, they even use your name in vain

— and you healed them!" Have you ever questioned

God about something like that?

Regardless of how you feel, remember GOD IS

SOVEREIGN! He doesn't do it this way because you

think he ought to do it this way, he does it HIS way

because he is a sovereign God! Let's also remember

to seek God — not the healing!

CHAPTER 9

ANOINTING WITH OIL

By Charles

Shortly after Frances and I received the baptism with

the Holy Spirit, we were sharing the gospel in

Indiana. At that time Frances was the only speaker in

our family, and I was the CPA who tagged along with

her. She saw to it, though, that I had the opportunity

to share a little testimony at each service where she

spoke.

At this meeting, I began sharing my usual three-

minute testimony, when a heavy anointing of the

Holy Spirit fell on me and for about an hour

scriptures and threads of gold from the Word of God

flowed out of me. The message was so divinely

anointed that even little children sat completely

spellbound the entire time without moving — it was

a supernatural act of God!

Two pulpit chairs were to my left; Frances was in one

and the other was empty. The pastor was sitting on

the front row of pews with his wife. Frances was

amazed as she watched the way God's powerful

anointing was changing her husband.

After quite a while, Frances felt the sheer sleeve of

her dress move from a light breeze apparently

caused by someone sitting down next to her. She

assumed it was the pastor who had come up to

remind her that he had called her to speak, and not

me.

A few more minutes went by, then someone tugged

at her sleeve, so she decided she had better look to

see what the pastor wanted. As she turned, she was

shocked to discover it wasn't the pastor at all! What

she saw sitting next to her, relaxed, with his arms

resting on the arms of the chair and his legs crossed,

was JESUS!

His form was clearly visible, but he was transparent!

A soft but brilliant blue glow surrounded his entire

being! Frances said, "I was absolutely overcome with

the presence of God! I couldn't take my eyes off of

him."

Jesus looked at Frances, then pointed to the bottle of

olive oil on the stand next to the pulpit and said,

"That is symbolic of the Holy Spirit." Then he pointed to me and said, "That's the real oil! Because the

anointing is on him, let Charles speak tonight!" If you

will recall, oil in the Old Testament symbolically

refers to the Holy Spirit.

After almost an hour of talking, I suddenly stopped

speaking and said, "You have come to hear Frances

tonight, and I must stop!" so Frances, with the glory

of God all over her, quickly stepped to the

microphone and told the audience what had just

happened and related that Jesus had said Charles

was to speak because the anointing was on him!

For a few moments I struggled in the flesh as I began

speaking again, but soon the anointing began to flow!

What a night it was! After the service, someone in the

audience told us that they noticed the struggle I was

going through when I was trying to get started again,

so they prayed for the anointing to return. They

reported that waves of power started at the back row

of pews and moved forward, gaining momentum

until they reached the pulpit and then fell on me!

What a night of glory and power! One of the men in

the congregation left the church around eleven

o'clock and went racing up and down the streets of

this small town, knocking on doors saying, "The Holy

Spirit has fallen! The Holy Spirit has fallen!" Flames

of fire were reported to have been seen coming out

of his coattails!

Afterwards I began to ponder on the scripture about

anointing with oil and praying for the sick. I said,

"God, why do we need to use oil, which is only

symbolic of the Holy Spirit, when we have received

the real Holy Spirit power through the baptism with

the Holy Spirit?" James 5:13-15 is in the New

Testament, and it was written after the disciples

received the baptism with the Holy Spirit.

"Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of

the church; and let them pray over him, anointing

him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer

of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise

him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be

forgiven him" (James 5:14,15).

I thought, "Jesus, before the day of Pentecost you told

your twelve apostles to go out two by two and you

gave them power over unclean spirits. They did what

you told them to do, and your Word says, 'And they

went out, and preached that men should repent. And

they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil

many that were sick, and healed them' (Mark

6:12,13).

"Why, Jesus, do we need to anoint with oil to heal the

sick if we have the power to do so through the

baptism with the Holy Spirit?"

The reason he gave me is this: God loves every

Christian equally. He does not love those who have

received the baptism with the Holy Spirit any more

than he loves the Christians who have not yet

received the enduement of power promised. "And,

behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you:

but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be

endued with power from on high" (Luke 24:49).

Since he loves us all alike, and wants us to be in

health, he has provided a way for healing, other than

the Holy Spirit power flowing from a Spirit-filled

Christian into a sick body. Instead he made

provisions for those who love and serve him to be

able to ask HIM to do the healing.

Jesus said in Mark 16:17,18, "And these signs shall

follow THEM that believe; In my name shall THEY

cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues

(that's the baptism with the Holy Spirit with the

evidence of speaking in other tongues); They shall

take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing,

it shall not hurt them; THEY shall lay hands on the

sick, and they shall recover."

Prayer generally is asking God to do something.

Notice in the above scripture that Jesus did not tell us

to pray, but he told us to do the healing ourselves by

the laying on of hands. We do anoint with oil when

asked, because that will also heal the sick, but we

personally do not feel it is necessary once you have

received the baptism with the Holy Spirit, for the

power of God IN you will flow out of your hands into

the sick body or mind and that power will do the

healing. If you have not received the baptism with

the Holy Spirit, the enduement of power, then you

have the authority of the Word of God to ASK GOD

TO DO THE WORK FOR YOU, and he will!

God's Word can never be limited to our human

understanding, so there may be many other ways

God uses the anointing with oil in relation to healing

the sick. Other meanings than those I have given

above may be revealed to you. That's great! Always

do what God leads you to do, because God doesn't

always do it the way we think it should be done!

"But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world

to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak

things of the world to confound the things which are

mighty" (I Cor. 1:27).

Frances loves to tell about a healing where God did

seem to use a foolish thing to perform a mighty

miracle. In a small town in Louisiana, some ladies

called for prayer for a friend who had cancer. They

had been reading in James that the elders should

anoint with oil and pray with faith for healing, so

they decided to obey God's Word.

The pastor was out of his office at the time, and there

were no elders available either. They decided they

should do something, and since there was no one

else present, they felt that ought to make them

elders. They stopped by the grocery store on the way

to pray, and bought a gallon of cooking oil. The lady

was in bed, and because the Bible didn't give the

exact amount of oil to use when praying for the sick,

THEY POURED THE WHOLE GALLON OF OIL ALL

OVER THE POOR WOMAN while they were praying

the prayer of faith! But God honored their faith, and

totally healed the woman of cancer! Glory! We

certainly don't recommend a whole gallon of oil, but

it certainly brought results in this case.

If you are succeeding in getting the sick healed or

delivered another way than what we recommend,

praise God, don't slow down or change — keep doing

what God has led you to do! However, if you are not

getting them all healed, try some of our ways and see

if they won't work for you, too!

AND DON'T FORGET - GOD IS SOVEREIGN!

CHAPTER 10

HEALING THROUGH

INTERCESSORY PRAYER

By Frances

Do you remember the story in Matthew 8, about the

Centurion who said to Jesus, "Speak the word only,

and my servant shall be healed?" People are healed

the same way today! A friend or a relative stands in a

prayer line for someone possibly thousands of miles

away, and they are healed by the power of God,

because God is omnipresent. It is fascinating to

realize that God can be everywhere at exactly the

same time!

Some years ago, I was invited to a non-charismatic

church near Houston. At the end of the service, I

began to share what God is doing in the world today,

as he pours out his Spirit on all flesh!

I told them I sincerely believe that we are in the very

last age; I do not believe there will be another

generation beyond us — I believe Jesus will come

back long before this generation passes away. So I

began to share that this is why I believe we see a

greater outpouring of the Spirit of God now than we

have ever seen in our entire life.

After the meeting, a woman came up to me and said

she had a friend whom the doctors said was dying.

She was in intensive care, in a hospital miles away.

She said, "Do you believe God would heal her?" I told

her that all I know is what the Bible says, and it says

that Jesus told the Centurion, " 'Go thy way; and as

thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee.' And his

servant was healed that selfsame hour" (Matt. 8:13).

I thought to myself, "What do I have to lose?" When I

lay hands on a sick person, I do not have anything to

lose regardless of whether they get healed or not,

because the Bible tells me to be dead to self. When

you are dead to self, you cannot worry about your

reputation. No dead person ever sat up in a casket

and complained, "But what about my reputation?"

I began to pray for this woman's friend. I said,

"Father, I don't even know who she is. I certainly

don't know what her problem is. But, God, I ask you

to do the supernatural and go out and touch her and

make her every whit whole from the top of her head

to the tip of her toes." Then I said, "Thank you."

Those words are two of the most important words

you will ever say. When you say, "Thank you, Jesus,"

do you know what you are doing? You are saying,

"Jesus, I believe that you did it, so I am going to say,

'Thank you!' " If we REALLY believe that God has

heard our prayer, then we are ungrateful if we do

not say thank you!

Even if you pray for a thousand people in a prayer

line, say thank you after each one. Every time you

say thank you, you are telling God "I believe that it is

done, and I receive it as a completed miracle in Jesus'

name."

After I prayed for the woman's friend, I said, "Thank

you, Jesus," but then I did something I had never

done previously. I looked at my watch, and said, "It is

11:37." I didn't know at the time why I said it, but I do

today!

In a hospital miles away, something else happened at

exactly 11:37. Jesus Christ walked into a hospital

room! A lady in intensive care who was supposed to

be dying of cancer immediately got out of bed! She

very carefully took all the needles out of her arm,

disconnected the oxygen, walked out into the hospital

corridor and went to the head nurse!

The shocked nurse said, "What happened to you?"

The woman said, "Jesus Christ personally came into

my room at 11:37 and said, 'Shirley, get out of bed.

You are healed.'"

The nurse said, "Did you have a vision?"

Shirley said, "No, Jesus Christ personally walked into

my room!"

What a loving Father we have! God's supernatural

power had touched her the very instant I prayed, and

confirmed it by telling me to look at my watch, so we

would know that Jesus went into action in answer to

prayer that same instant in a hospital miles away!

Sometimes we may feel it is easier to pray for

someone when we can lay hands on them, and see

them, but start praying more prayers of intercession

for people at distances, and watch the miracles God

begins to do.

Make a list right now and get busy praying!

CHAPTER 11

HEALING THROUGH USE

OF PRAYER CLOTHS

By Frances

Prayer cloths are another instrument used to heal

the sick. So far as I know, the Bible only mentions

them once, but God really shouldn't have to tell us

any more than that, because if it happened once in

the Bible, it can happen again today!

Acts 19:11,12 tells us that "God wrought special

miracles by the hands of Paul: so that from his body

were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons,

and the diseases departed from them, and the evil

spirits went out of them."

We often send prayer cloths from our office to people

who write and say, "I believe that if you pray over

this handkerchief (or send me a prayer cloth), I will

be healed."

It is difficult for the natural mind to understand, but

there is POWER in a piece of cloth when the

anointing of God rests on it! Tremendous unlimited

divine power can be contained in anything, so when

someone requests a prayer cloth, we send them a

little piece of polyester about two inches by two

inches. This would mean nothing, except before we

mail it out, we lay hands on it, pray over it, and

believe God for a miracle!

Because we BELIEVE those little pieces of cloth are

anointed, many people have been healed when we

have sent them out!

One of the most exciting incidents started when we

received a letter from a grandmother in Failsworth,

England. She had heard about our healing ministry

and wrote us a letter. In it, she told us about her

grandbaby who had been born with a congenital hip

defect, plus a huge waterhead (hydrocephalus). A

waterhead baby rarely lives very long because that is

a very serious malformation of the body, strictly

from the devil, and certainly not given by God.

"If you can't come to England," she wrote, "Would you please send me a little prayer cloth?"

England is a long way from Houston, Texas, so we

and our entire office staff laid hands on a little piece

of cloth. We asked God to let his healing power go

into it, and along with it, so that when it was laid on

the baby, resurrection power would go from the

cloth into the baby's body, and the baby would be

totally healed by the power of God!

We believed with supernatural faith as we prayed

over that little piece of cloth and sent it on its divine

road. The baby was asleep when it arrived, so the

grandmother took the little piece of cloth, rolled it up

and stuck it inside the baby's hand. That was her

point of contact!

Grandma wrote and told us that the very second that

little prayer cloth touched the inside of the baby's

fist, the waterhead instantly reduced to normal size.

THAT BABY WAS NO LONGER A WATERHEAD. The

child was totally and instantly supernaturally healed

by the power of God!

Our letter to that English grandmother had to go all

the way across the Atlantic Ocean. Even though it

was just in a paper envelope, the anointing of God

stayed on the prayer cloth as it went from Houston,

probably to New York, and then from New York to

London and then on another kind of carrier from

London to Failsworth, England. THE POWER OF GOD

WAS STILL THERE! Probably a week or ten days

elapsed between the time it was prayed over and the

time it was put in the hand of that child, but the

power had not diminished! That power was as strong

as when we prayed, and so was the receptive faith of

the grandmother!

Two weeks later they took this child back to the clinic

where it had been previously treated, and when the

doctor X-rayed the baby's hips, he found two perfect

hip sockets. The child had been born without any hip

sockets at all, and now it had two! The grandmother

related that the doctor at the clinic said, "This is not

the same baby we have been treating. The medical

records show that the child has no hip sockets. The

medical records show that the child has a waterhead.

What did you bring this one for? This one has no

waterhead and has two hip sockets." Hallelujah!

Prayer cloths can also be used for other things beside

healing! While I was teaching about prayer cloths at

the City of Light School of Ministry, one of our

students stood and asked to share part of her

testimony.

"Three years ago," she said, "you gave me a prayer cloth. You told me to go home, put the prayer cloth

under my husband's pillow, and believe that he

would be saved before the end of the year."

"I put the prayer cloth under my husband's pillow in

January, and he was saved in November of that same

year."

"Before that time, I hadn't wanted anything to do

with prayer cloths, because I used to get letters from

certain ministries saying that they would send me a

prayer cloth if I would send them an offering."

"That day I realized it was not a piece of cloth that

would save my husband, but the anointing of the

Holy Spirit. Praise God, yesterday was the third

anniversary of his salvation, and he stood in our

church to testify."

PRAYER CLOTHS WORK!

If you have the baptism with the Holy Spirit, lay your

hands on some little cloths, and start putting them

where they are needed! Many, many husbands have

been saved through a prayer cloth under their

mattress! People have written to us who have glued

them under the seats of teachers in schools, and they

insist this is what has brought about the salvation of

the teacher! I never heard anyone talk of putting

them under students' chairs, but it might be a good

idea!

Also, please remember that you do not need to have

some big evangelist lay hands on a prayer cloth. YOU

HAVE EXACTLY THE SAME POWER OF GOD.

That is why we are so excited about this book. We

can hardly wait to see what is going to happen as a

result of what you're reading right now! Get busy!

CHAPTER 12

OTHER WAYS TO HEAL THE SICK

By Frances

Faith in Action

One of the most important things we need to

remember at all times is that God does want to heal

us. Over and over again in his Word, he tells us about

his healing power, and he wants us to appropriate it

for today.

Matthew 12:10,13 is an important scripture because

it talks about faith in action, which is one of the most

important ways to bring about a healing. "And

behold, there was a man which had his hand

withered ... Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth

thine hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was

restored whole, like as the other."

That was FAITH IN ACTION. Jesus gave him a specific

task to do. He was probably sitting there with an

undersized, deformed little hand and he could have

said, "Jesus, I was born with a withered hand. Can't

you see I can't stretch it out?" But he didn't. He did

exactly what Jesus told him to do. As he completed

his faith in action, that arm was totally made whole!

That same story is told in Mark 3:10-15 and Luke 6:6-

10. Exactly the same story, but with the different

perspectives of each of the three writers. God could

have edited the Bible and taken out anything he

wanted to take out, but he repeated it so you would

believe those stories were actually true. You will note

that there are some scriptures in this book that we

have used over and over again so they will stick in

your mind and you will remember them!

"When he had thus spoken, (he had just finished

telling them that he was the light of the world) he

spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and

he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,

And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam,

(which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way

therefore, and washed, and came seeing" (John

9:6,7).

When did the miracle occur? Did the miracle occur

when Jesus spit? Did the miracle occur when Jesus

made the mud pie? Or did it occur when the man put

his faith into action?

When did it occur? WHEN HE PUT HIS FAITH INTO

ACTION. Jesus could have spit all over the place.

Jesus could have made mud pies from here to there,

and he could have put them on the eyes of every

person there, but I doubt that anybody would have

been healed, until they obeyed the command, "Go,

wash in the pool of Siloam."

That would be a ridiculous command, because the

man was blind. How could he find his way down to

the pool of Siloam? He had been there lots of times,

but not without help. God can always do the

supernatural. He can take a blind man right through

every street without getting him run over.

The blind man could have said, "It is a long way to

Siloam. You can just touch me and I will be healed."

He could have said, "I don't know how to get there. I

never heard of the place." Or he could have said, "I

don't like the smell of the water down there. Smells

like sulphur!" He could have used all kinds of

excuses, but when he obeyed the command, went

down and washed the clay off his eyes, he was healed

by the power of God, because he had put his faith

into action.

We have told you stories all the way through this

book about various people who were healed because

they put their faith into action.

The story of Naaman as told in II Kings 5:1-15 is an

exciting story of faith in action. The Bible says that

Naaman was a great man and honorable, and a

mighty man of valour, but he was a leper. The devil

will attack anybody. He does not attack just a poor

nobody all the time. He goes to the top rank and hits

the general and the privates all the way down the

line.

There was a little servant girl there whom God used

in this great man's life. Most people would have

thought a little servant girl was at the bottom of the

barrel, but she told Naaman how he could be healed.

The person who had the lowest position in the house

was the one whom God instructed. As we have said

over and over, God is no respecter of persons. He

does not care who you are. He just cares whether or

not you are available and willing to do what he tells

you to do.

Naaman took along a lot of silver and gold because

he was going to try and buy his healing, but you

cannot buy a healing from God. God's healing is

absolutely free. The price was paid 2,000 years ago

when Jesus died on the cross! I have a feeling that

when Naaman got to the door, he thought Elisha

would come out and bow down and say, "Hello, Mr.

Bigshot. I am so glad you are here today. I respect the

fact that you are a great man and a big general, and

you have a lot of money and a lot of chariots!" Elisha

didn't even come out to greet him!

Elisha was not being impolite. I believe God was

teaching a lesson to Naaman, because Elisha sent a

messenger and told him to go wash in the Jordan

seven times and that he would be made whole.

Naaman had a big decision to make here. The Jordan

River was not nearly as nice as the river that

Naaman had in his own backyard.

What would you think if you had gone with your best

outfit on, your very best clothes, the very best of

everything you had, and this prophet merely tells

you to go down to that muddy river and jump in

seven times. Not only one time, but SEVEN TIMES!

You might have reacted exactly as Naaman did! He

was mad! But praise the Lord for the fact that

Naaman had some smart people working under him,

and they went on to remind him that if Elisha had

told him to do some great thing he would have done

it. But Elisha had asked him to do something that was

beneath his dignity!

A lot of people have the same problem, but Naaman

listened to his friends and went down and dipped

himself seven times in the Jordan with all of his good

clothes on. Can you imagine the cleaning bill he had

when he came out of that muddy river? But he was

obedient. Hallelujah, Naaman dipped himself not

one time, not two times, not three times, not four

times, not five times, not six times, but seven times.

YES! There is that perfect number of God!

If Naaman had never done a thing, he would have

died a leper, but because he was willing to be

obedient, he was willing to humble himself and go

down there and dip himself in the muddy water, he

was healed by the power of God! He put FAITH INTO

ACTION!

Faith is something you must put into action. It is not

a stationary thing. There is no neutral in faith. You

are either going up or you are going down. Your faith

will never stay on the same level. You get into the

Word of God every day, and what happens to your

faith? It begins to go "up, and up, and up!" You stay

out of the Word of God and what happens to your

faith? It begins to go "down, and down, and down!"

That is why you must put your faith into action. You

must read your Bible! Did you know that Bible

reading is an "act of action?" It takes stamina, and it takes discipline to get into the Word of God and read

the Bible, so we need to keep our faith in action at all

times. If you never went out and put your faith in

action, and you never went out and put this teaching

in action, do you know how much you would

accomplish? NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

What will happen when you do? EVERYTHING,

EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING!

Under the Power

Some of our greatest healings have occurred while

people have been slain by the Spirit of God! One in

particular that really thrills our hearts occurred

seven years ago.

A young lady had been brought to our meeting from

an insane asylum. She had been heavily sedated, but

her mother had faith to believe that if we laid hands

on her she would be healed!

She knew nothing about the meeting. She was so

drugged, her mind could not comprehend anything

that was going on, but at the end of the service, the

mother brought her forward, and we laid hands on

her. She fell under the power of God, and we never

saw her again until seven years later.

She told her story like this: "I don't remember a

single thing about the meeting. I don't even

remember being there. All I remember is waking up

while lying on the floor and seeing Jesus with his

hands outstretched to me. In that instant I was saved,

and then I began to speak in tongues, something I

knew nothing about! My mind was completely clear

and I have had no problems since that time when I

was slain by the Spirit of God, and a miracle

happened in my life!" Saved, baptized and healed all

at one time! Glory!

After a meeting one night, a president of the Full

Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship was taking us to

the motel when his wife said, "I got so involved in the

service tonight I forgot to go up for healing for

myself."

Charles said, "What do you need Jesus to do?"

She said, "I have a spinal bifida caudal which has

caused me to have pain all my life. As a matter of

fact, my mother used to wrap me in a blanket and

put me in the oven to try to alleviate the intense

pain."

Charles said, "As soon as we get to the motel, we will

lay hands on you."

And that's exactly what we did, right in the lobby of

the motel! She fell under the power, and while she

was there, her body moved around on the floor, and

she said, "I feel like something is happening inside of

me!"

When she got up off the floor, she said, "The pain is

gone, it's ALL gone!" She said she had felt like

something was being added to her body and hooked

up while she was on the floor! We have heard from

her since then and she is still on a cloud because of

how God healed her when she was under the power!

THERE IS POWER UNDER THE POWER!

Barren Women

I have that special "faith without a doubt" when

someone is barren or incapable of producing a baby.

I love to minister in this area, and there are little

"Hunter babies" all around the world! I use two

scriptures, Psalm 113:9, "He maketh the barren

woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of

children," and Exodus 23:26: "There shall nothing

cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the

number of thy days I will fulfill." Our files are full of

wonderful miracles about barren couples who have

conceived and brought forth healthy children even

after years of infertility. Most of the time these

couples are slain by the Holy Spirit, and this is when

the healing takes place. Glory!

By Charles

Strokes

A man had been paralyzed down his right side for

three years; his leg was as stiff as a board and he

could not bend his knee at all; his right arm was

totally incapable of moving and had been drawn up

against his waist with the fist so tightly closed that

his hand was white from lack of circulation.

As I started to minister to him, the Spirit of God

descended on me so mightily that it was like a warm

energy flowing through every cell of my head and

shoulders, then God spoke three silent but distinct

words into my brain: "SPIRIT OF DEATH!"

I didn't understand all that God meant, but I knew it

was God, and I knew that if he said it was a spirit, I

was to cast the spirit out. I also knew that Jesus called

spirits by what they did. Without taking time to

understand, I quickly bound Satan by the power of

the Holy Spirit, and commanded the "spirit of death"

to come out in the name of Jesus!

Then the "word of wisdom" began to operate, but I

didn't realize until later that God was speaking to me

by this supernatural gift of the Spirit to show me how

to heal stroke victims. I began to minister in a way

that was similar to therapy. First I said, "Say, 'Jesus I

love you!'"

He repeated my words, but not clearly. His wife was

excited about that because previously he could not

speak!

Then I took his immobile arm and began to bend it

back and forth at the elbow. It was very stiff at first,

but began to limber each time I bent it. It was not

frozen in place. Soon it was free, and he could move

it, slightly at first, but finally nearly normally.

I did the same thing with his leg. Then I began

opening his fist and bending his fingers back and

forth. Within about five minutes, he was able to lift

his arm and walk bending his leg without any help.

Within four days he had almost completely

recovered.

At another meeting, we discovered the left side of a

woman's face was dead from a stroke. The spirit of

death was commanded to come out, and I had her

pat her face with her hand for about five minutes.

The feeling totally came back into her face.

I could name scores who have been healed in similar

ways, and yet some seem not to improve. I personally

believe that the environment into which they return

has a lot to do with their improvement. If the family

or friends express no faith and give no encourage-

ment or aid, they regress if healing has started. If

they are with someone who has strong faith and

encourages and works with them, I believe

tremendous results will occur.

You can heal stroke victims the same way I do! Be

patient and loving with them as you minister, but do

not sympathize, because sympathy is one of the

biggest killers in stroke cases!

I asked a Spirit-filled medical doctor what happens

when a person has a stroke. He said usually they

have a blood clot in a vessel, or a rupture of the

vessel, which keeps the oxygen and food supply from

going into a portion of the brain. As a result, the

brain cells become dormant or die. Therapy will

sometimes bring a dormant cell back to activity.

What I believe now is that when a "spirit of death" is cast out, the spirit which brought about the clot

leaves and the flow of blood to the cells restores

activity. All you have to do is apply faith and therapy

to re-educate the communication between the brain

and the paralyzed portion of the body. By bending

the arm, leg, and fingers, as well as using the tongue

in speaking, the brain begins sending signals and the

limbs respond.

There is really nothing wrong with the arm or leg,

but since the brain cell cannot send signals, the arm

or leg quits functioning. If you are a doctor or nurse

and this isn't described quite right technically, you

can still get the idea.

Be careful as you bend a limb, because if the people

are not healed you could hurt them. Stroke victims

often cry when you talk with them. When you bend a

limb, it may hurt, or they may act like it hurts. This

requires extreme sensitivity to the Holy Spirit! I

generally tell stroke victims that I am going to cast a

spirit of pain out and that it will not hurt the next

time I bend it. Sometimes I simply rebuke the pain if

I feel it is not a spirit. Almost always the pain leaves

them.

Hay Fever & Sinus

God healed me of hay fever in 1970, after more than

thirty-five years of suffering. This he did

supernaturally, but from time to time I had a

problem with sinus. Somewhere during the year of

1977, it became so severe I had to take three pills a

day plus a shot about every three or four weeks to

kill the infection. Finally, after about a year of this

with both of us praying night and day for healing I

said, "God, please show me how to get rid of this!"

Shortly after this we were in the home of a medical

doctor in Florida eating lunch, when the doctor's

wife said, "I'm sorry I don't have any coffee or tea to

give you, but we all had such severe sinus problems,

we all quit drinking coffee and tea and started

drinking a lot of juices, and sinus left the entire

family within three or four weeks."

I said, "Thank you, Jesus!"

I quit drinking coffee and tea and started drinking all

the orange and apple juice my system would take,

and within a few weeks the sinus problem was

healed!

A singer friend of ours went to a doctor for a

prescription for a sinus infection. The doctor gave

him a slip and when he looked at what the doctor

wrote, he said, "But doctor, I want something to dry

this stuff up!" The doctor had prescribed fourteen

glasses of water daily! He took the prescription and it

worked!

All healing comes from God whether it's under the

heading of preventive medicine or common sense!

The healings in this particular area seem to be

related to possibly plain old common sense!

Mass Healings

Backs, necks and knees are three areas of the body

with which a lot of people have problems. When we

feel the Spirit leading us to minister in groups, we

call everyone forward who has a problem in

whatever area the Spirit has revealed to us will be

healed at that time. We line them up shoulder to

shoulder and then give a word of explanation as to

what is going to happen.

We use the principle of laying hands on the sick, and

faith in action. We tell them we are going to lay

hands on their necks (or knees) and as soon as we do,

we ask them to move their necks vigorously as soon

as we have touched them. We have often noticed that

the healing occurs as soon as their faith goes into

action, and we also notice that those who do not

move their necks do not receive their healing!

We have seen over one hundred people with neck

problems healed at one time! The same thing

happens to knees when people put their faith into

action! This can happen in almost any type of

disease. One night we saw more than two hundred

people healed of arthritis all at the same time. A

sound came over the auditorium like bones cracking,

as the arthritis was healed!

Back problems are in a different category, and we

share about that in another chapter.

You may not ever minister to more than one

individual at a time, but who knows what God is

going to do in the near future in your life — you may

be ministering to the masses, so you will need to

know how to do that, too!

Some Cities to Success

We hope we have given you some clues as we share

the different ways to heal the sick which can help

you as an individual with a desire to heal or be

healed!

If we asked the typical, average Christian to minister

healing to an individual, the first thing he would do

would be to close his eyes as tightly as he possibly

could. For some reason or other, we try to be

"religious," or to impress God in some way with how

super-spiritual we are, so here are a few little things

to remember:

Being pious won't heal the sick!

Being religious won't heal the sick!

Squeezing your eyes shut won't heal the sick!

Being afraid to minister won't heal the sick!

We haven't healed everyone that we've ministered to,

but we see more and more people being healed all

the time, so get rid of "self so that you won't worry

about what people think about you, and come along

and learn how to heal the sick, IN THE NAME OF

JESUS!

BE NATURAL in whatever you do. Be very natural. I

have a little "scripture" written in the back of the

Bible on the white pages that says: "Keep thy big

mouth shut when I pray!"

The reason I say that is because Jesus told us to be in

one accord and he said if two or more of us agree as

touching anything, it would be done for us. If I am

ministering healing to you, God may have a special

word of wisdom or a word of knowledge that you

need to hear. But if I am laying hands on you, and

you are saying, "Oh, Jesus! Oh, Jesus! Thank you,

Jesus! Please heal me, Jesus!" you are not hearing a

word I am saying. You are not hearing the very word

that you need to hear to be healed! Plus the human

mind isn't big enough to go in two channels at once.

YOU CANNOT TRANSMIT AND RECEIVE AT THE

SAME TIME.

If you are praying and I am praying, how can you

possibly agree with me when you don't know what

I'm saying? And how can I possibly agree with you

when I can't hear you? If you want to praise God and

love God, do it every way you can! Praise God in your

native language, pray in tongues, call on his name,

speak the Word, but when you are being ministered

to for healing, just keep your ears tuned in and "keep

thy big mouth shut!"

I have a special reason for saying this, because we

have noticed that very few people go under the

power of God when they are talking or praying in

tongues as we lay hands on them. Neither do they get

healed! We certainly believe in praising and

worshiping God, but it is not timely when you are

dividing your attention and not in complete

agreement!

We have had individuals come up and say, "There's a

severe burning right in my hands, right where the

nail went through Jesus' hand, and when that

burning comes in, I KNOW I've got the healing power

upon me." Let us always remember that Jesus didn't

tell us to watch for a burning sensation in our hands,

or any special kind of feeling, but he did tell the

believer to go out and lay hands on the sick and

know they would recover!

Don't ever depend on your feelings alone! There

have been many times when we did not "feel" any

particular anointing of any kind, and yet we have

stood on what the Word of God says, and not our

feelings, and great miracles have taken place.

Looking for feelings instead of healings can rob you

of what God wants to do through you. Develop

compassion, however, and don't ever become

legalistic or you'll leave the love of God out! Ask God

to give you a special love for those who are sick and

hurting!

CHAPTER 13

WHAT IF I DON'T GET HEALED?

By Frances

What do you do when you have done everything you

know to do to have faith to be healed? What do you

do when it seems that about everyone who has ever

been used to heal the sick has already prayed for

you, and you're still sick?

What do you do when it seems like all hope is gone

and time is running out? What more can you do

when you have seemingly already done all that you

know to do?

We have seen the percentage of people who get

healed in our services increase dramatically over the

years. We have learned many ways to heal, and our

faith has increased mightily because we have seen

God's miracle power work repeatedly as we have

used different ways he has shown us to apply his

healing power. Yet, our knowledge, understanding,

and discernment, and our perfecting of the operation

of the abilities given through the Holy Spirit have not

reached that of Jesus when he was operating on this

earth.

We urge those who don't get healed when we

minister to them to have others minister to them

because God seems to give special faith to some for a

particular healing, and to others faith for healing of

different sicknesses. If we minister this year without

success, try us again the next time you see us

because God may have added new faith or new ways

to heal the sick which will succeed for you.

Many years ago I developed an ulcer on my leg due

to phlebitis which I acquired during my "smoking"

days. I have been prayed for over and over by the

"best of them!" I have quoted scriptures and stood on

the Word. Charles has commanded; I have

commanded. Charles has laid hands on me; I have

laid hands on myself. Upon occasion we had whole

congregations lay hands on me for healing, and

nothing seemed to work.

When we finished the final teaching at the City of

Light School of Ministry on how to heal the sick, the

devil really took a wild fling at my leg, and I couldn't

even stand up! The pain in my leg was so intense I

couldn't stand it sitting up, lying down, or standing

up! The infection had spread to my entire leg, but in

my spirit I felt condemned because that healing

would not manifest itself!

I called John Osteen, a beloved brother in Christ, and

told him the doctor wanted me in the hospital

immediately. He instantly began to pray and said,

"Father, let her go to the hospital with no

condemnation in her heart. We know that all healing

comes from you, and we thank you that YOU are the

one who is going to complete this healing, and we

thank you in Jesus' name!"

With no feeling of condemnation, I immediately

went to the hospital. A bone specialist cut out the

diseased tissue, and much to the surprise of

everyone, my leg healed in absolutely record time.

They had advised me that my stay in the hospital

would be for several weeks. Charles had a word of

knowledge and told the doctor that I would be out in

eight days, and on the eighth day I came out!

As a result of my visit, my hospital roommate

accepted Jesus, her husband and son got saved, and

they all three were filled with the Holy Spirit Even

my doctor said, "God has got to be in this!"

Hallelujah!

So if you've tried and tried like I did, and nothing

seems to work, go without condemnation and seek

medical help! I did, and now my leg is fine!

CHAPTER 14

BEING SENSITIVE TO

THE HOLY SPIRIT!

By Frances

We don't go through airports or down the street

looking for people to heal, because we believe the

Holy Spirit will draw people to you whom he has

already prepared. We simply minister healing when

we have an opportunity, whether it is to one

individual or to multitudes; whether it is in a church

or on the street.

One time we were in the Atlanta airport, and as we

were walking to the gate, I stopped in the ladies' rest-

room. There was a lady sitting there in a wheel chair,

and the Holy Spirit implanted the thought into my

mind that I was to minister to her. I certainly do not

do this all the time; I just had an impression that I

should pray for her.

Months later I received a clipping from a newspaper

sent to me by a woman who knew us. Under the

headline of SALLY JONES HEALED BY UNKNOWN

WOMAN IN ATLANTA AIRPORT, was an article which

said something to this effect: Sally Jones, who has

been crippled from birth, went into the rest-room in

Atlanta on a recent trip. A woman walked up to her

and said, "My name is Frances Hunter and I'm a

Christian. May I pray for you?"

Sally said, "I'll take all the prayer I can get."

She related that the woman simply laid hands on her

and left the room. After the woman had walked out

the door, Sally Jones said she realized she was

healed, so she got up out of the wheel chair to run

and thank her, hut the woman had already

disappeared into the crowd. Sally has no idea who

the woman was, other than her name!

Be sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit. Notice

that I did not just go up and lay hands on the woman,

but I introduced myself and asked her if I could pray.

Many times being sensitive to the Holy Spirit can also

come under the heading of the GIFT OF FAITH, but

we share these stories with you to encourage you to

listen for even the smallest little nudge from the Holy

Spirit.

Several years ago we were in a western town and

were standing by the book table, just casually talking

to people and feeling the excitement of the meeting,

when a young man came in carrying a boy who

looked about nine or ten years old. He was also

carrying a pair of small crutches. I asked the young

man what the problem was with the boy. He said,

"Ray has a spinal bifida, and I tried to get his parents

to bring him, but they aren't believers, so I brought

him myself." He went on to say, "He has never

walked in his entire life, and I believe God is going to

heal him!"

Something within my spirit leaped! I said, "Ray, there

will be a time during the service tonight when I will

call out your name. When I do, I want you to get up

out of your seat and run to the front!" Speaking those

words in the natural could be a problem, but the

Holy Spirit had spoken to me, and I was just

repeating what he had said!

I forgot all about Ray because he was sitting so far

back I couldn't see him, when suddenly people

started getting up out of wheel chairs. I turned and

looked for Ray, but since I couldn't see him, I said,

"Ray, wherever you are, get up right now in the name

of Jesus and walk!"

Ray had been waiting all evening for that call! Hardly

had the words come out of my mouth when Ray

came out of what seemed like nowhere and came

running up to the front! Being sensitive to the Holy

Spirit, and being confident of the Holy Spirit can lead

to exciting miracles!

A similar incident occurred in another city when I

saw a beautiful black woman being pushed into a

meeting in a wheel chair. A nudge (or shove) from

the Holy Spirit prompted me to say to her, "During

the service today I will read the 23rd Psalm. When I

get to the part where it says, 'Yea, though I walk

THROUGH the valley of the shadow of death, don't

you dare SIT there. I want you to get up out of that

wheel chair and run as fast as you can around this

church!"

Little did I realize what the Holy Spirit had said! She

never took her eyes off of me during the entire

service, but sat in that wheel chair poised and ready

to go! Toward the end of the service, I began to read

the Psalm, and when I got to the part about walking

THROUGH the valley, she didn't sit there, she leaped

over the pedals of the wheel chair and began

shouting at the top of her lungs as she ran around

the church, out through the doors, into the narthex,

and then down another aisle and up another one!

The only thing that finally stopped her running and

shouting was when I met her in an aisle, touched her

on the forehead, and she fell under the power of God,

totally healed! She never went back in her wheel

chair again! We saw her two years later, beautifully

healthy because I had been sensitive to the Holy

Spirit, and she had received the gift of faith!

You might think it isn't dignified to run around a

church screaming. I don't either, but if you'd been

stuck in a wheel chair for years, how would you

react?

We were at a resort area one year and the last night

of a crusade, faith was really spawned because of the

miracles that had been happening all week, and the

Holy Spirit very softly whispered, "Tell them that

tonight everyone in a wheel chair is going to get out

and walk!"

When I KNOW that I've heard from the Holy Spirit, I

really get excited, so I shared with the audience in

advance what was going to happen. When the Holy

Spirit said, "Now!" I simply said, "I want everyone in wheel chairs to get up right now and walk to the

front of the auditorium, in the name of Jesus!"

The next sixty seconds were probably the longest

sixty seconds of my entire life, because not one

person moved! Finally, after what seemed to me an

hour, although it was probably no longer than the

sixty seconds mentioned, the woman in the wheel

chair closest to the front, got up and began to walk

toward the stage. She had taken no more than two or

three steps, when faith became alive in the person in

the wheel chair behind her, and a man got up and

began to walk!

One by one, one by one, every person in a wheel

chair got up and walked that night! There were

seven! Then a little girl came up wearing braces, and

when Charles laid hands on her, the mother took the

braces off, and the little girl began walking normally!

One of the things that is so exciting about being

sensitive to the Holy Spirit is how it will start a flow

of miracles! Hallelujah!

Be sensitive to God speaking to you. Listen to God's

voice. It is far more important than anything you

might learn about healing. Listen to God's voice. If he

speaks to you, you will know that it is his voice,

simply by the Spirit and by the Word of God. If you

don't read the Word of God, you will not recognize

God's voice and the devil will try to deceive you.

Don't be concerned about the devil if you are

spending time in the Word of God. It is so very vital

in healing the sick or operating in any of the gifts of

the Spirit that you saturate your mind continually in

the Word of God. Never let it get cold. Read it over

and over, because every time you go back through

the Bible, there is a freshness that comes and a new

revelation of God's meaning.

Be sensitive to God. Learn to be acutely aware of the

presence of God at all times so that you will be aware

of the slightest little nudge from the Holy Spirit.

CHAPTER 15

CASTING OUT DEVILS

By Frances

Here is a subject which is extremely interesting,

exciting, wild, stimulating, full of suspense and

action, but is also an extremely dangerous one! Not

dangerous to you as an individual, because you have

more power than a demon, but dangerous because

we can become overbalanced when we begin to deal

in this area.

When I say, "Don't get overbalanced," I mean, don't

say, "God has called me into a deliverance ministry!"

We are called to be like Jesus. Jesus was a balanced

individual. He spent PART of his time casting out

demons; so you should spend PART of your time

casting out demons, but not ALL of your time!

Neither should you say, "Casting out demons is not

MY ministry! Let someone else take care of that!"

Because a portion of your ministry IS casting out

demons, and you do not ever have to be afraid as

long as you remember that the one who lives in you

is greater than he that is in the world! You have

power and authority over any demon you come up

against. You always need to remember that!

Jesus cast out demons; Jesus healed the sick; Jesus

taught; Jesus preached the gospel; Jesus studied the

Word of God. Jesus did many things, so if you want to

have a ministry that is balanced, and a ministry just

like Jesus had, then you go and do likewise. You do

ALL the things that Jesus did!

You might say, "I am a lady, and I am going to leave

casting out demons to the men, because I do not want

to wrestle with demons."

You do not have to wrestle with demons. Jesus simply

said that those who believe shall use my authority —

my name — to cast out demons. I cannot find

anything in the Bible that says you have to wrestle all

night with a demon. It merely says, "In my name

shall they cast out devils." Matthew 8:16 says Jesus

"cast out the spirits with his word." I believe he used only a few words at most to get them out. I believe

what the scripture says, "Greater is he that is in you,

than he that is in the world" (I John 4:4). I believe no

demon in this world has as much power as I do. Do

you know why I believe that? Because the Word says

so, and that covers YOU as much as it does me!

Remember that each and every believer has been

personally commissioned by the Lord Jesus Christ. To

be a believer, you have to BELIEVE that you have the

power within you to override anything the devil

might throw at you.

Listen to what Jesus says in Luke 10:19, "Behold, I

give unto you power to tread on serpents and

scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and

nothing shall by any means hurt you." The trouble

with most of us is that we do not use the power that

God has given us. The power is in us — we are

endued with it, we are clothed with it, but we are

afraid to reach up and touch it, or to step out and

walk on spiritual water.

Don't be afraid to exercise the authority Jesus has

given you! You will never cast out the first devil until

you try. You might even be frightened the first time! I

certainly was!

The first time I was ever called on to cast out a devil

or run in the other direction, I stood my ground and

cast out the devil. The man was an executive of one

of the largest companies in America, and he lay on

the floor writhing like a snake. The demon was

trying to choke him, and after it came out, the man

got up, looked at me and apologized. "I never knew

that thing was in me," he said. He was a very well-

educated and successful businessman, but a demon

had control of his life!

Let me tell you what I did. I was shaking in my shoes,

but while the man was on the floor, I just stood there

and said, "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus!" I kept repeating the

name over and over again simply because I didn't

know what else to do! I had already commanded the

spirit to come out. And that is all you really have to

do, because Jesus said, "IN MY NAME shall they cast

out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They

shall take up serpents (That does not mean going out

in the bushes and picking up a rattlesnake, but if you

do happen to find one, it means God would protect

you if you were accidentally bitten by a snake); and if

they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them (If

you were out on the mission field and someone

slipped some poison in your water, you would not be

harmed, but don't think you can deliberately pick up

some strychnine and drink it and come out alive!);

they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall

recover."

Jesus is not describing just a partial believer here.

This isn't someone who thinks, "Healing passed away

with the disciples." This is an all-the-way believer,

someone who believes EVERYTHING the Bible says.

Let's look now at an incident in which Jesus cast out

a devil: "One of the men in the crowd spoke up and

said, 'Teacher, I brought my son for you to heal — he

can't talk because he is possessed by a demon. And

whenever the demon is in control of him it dashes

him to the ground and makes him foam at the mouth

and grind his teeth and become rigid. So I begged

your disciples to cast out the demon, but they

couldn't do it' Jesus said (to his disciples), 'Oh, what

tiny faith you have, how much longer must I be with

you until you believe? How much longer must I be

patient with you? Bring the boy to me.' So they

brought the boy, but when he saw Jesus the demon

convulsed the child horribly, and he fell to the

ground writhing and foaming at the mouth" (Mark

9:17-20 TLB).

Many times when a demon-possessed person comes

into the presence of a Holy Spirit-filled person, he

will have a seizure, because that demonic spirit

knows that he is going to have to go, and he's mad.

That devil knows that he has come up against

someone who has more power than he has; someone

who knows his authority in Christ.

The devil knows whether YOU know that you have

more power than he has. You can be a weak

Christian and have the power of God in you, but if

you do not believe that you have MORE power than

he has, that devil is going to sit there and laugh in

your face. He is going to say, "You have it, but you are

so dumb that you do not know it. You just don't

realize that you have that much power in you, so I

am really smarter than you are!"

I have had many demons back up, and begin to say,

"Don't touch me! I hate you! Don't come near me!"

The person will usually put their arm across their

face so as not to look at me, but do you know what I

do? I go after the demon! Many times I have put my

hand over a person's mouth and said, "In the name

of Jesus, shut up!" And the demons have immediately

shut up! Jesus said in Mark 1:25, "Hold thy peace, and

come out of him." They often speak through a human

voice, because they are then controlling the person's

mind.

I don't have to listen to a demon, and neither do you.

No demon is going to keep talking back to me,

because I have more power than the demon has, and

the demon knows that I know it! It takes authority to

cast out a demon, and YOU HAVE TO KNOW THAT

YOU HAVE THAT AUTHORITY!

Don't be surprised if you walk up to someone who

has a demon in him, and the demon begins to scream

and holler, because that's what some demons did

when they saw Jesus. When you KNOW you are on

the winning side, the devil is afraid of you.

When the spirit caused the child to fall to the ground,

Mark tells us that Jesus asked the father, "How long

has he been this way?"

"And he replied, 'Since he was very small, and the

demon often makes him fall into the fire or into

water to kill him. Oh, have mercy on us and do

something if you can.' 'If I can?' Jesus asked.

'Anything is possible if you have faith.' The father

instantly replied, 'I do have faith; oh, help me to have

more.' When Jesus saw the crowd was growing he

rebuked the demon. '0 demon of deafness and

dumbness,' he said, 'I command you to come out of

this child and enter him no more!' Then the demon

screamed terribly and convulsed the boy again and

left him; and the boy lay there limp and motionless,

to all appearance dead. A murmur ran through the

crowd — 'He is dead.' But Jesus took him by the hand

and helped him to his feet and he stood up and was

all right!" (Mark 9:21-27 TLB).

The demons at times tore the bodies or threw them

to the ground before or as they came out. We have

noticed that when we cast demons out, the person

very frequently falls under the power of God, and

because of the presence and power of the Holy Spirit,

the demons depart. That is exactly what happened to

the business executive in the story just related. JESUS

WON THE BATTLE, AND SO CAN WE!

Matthew 28:18 says: "And Jesus came and spake unto

them, saying, 'ALL power is given unto me in heaven

and in earth.'"

God gave ALL power in HEAVEN and EARTH to Jesus,

and then Jesus turned right around and said, "Now

YOU go out and use my authority to cast out devils."

That's right, he wants YOU to go, but I would suggest

you never try it without the name and the authority

of Jesus, and the baptism with the Holy Spirit,

because I have news for you — you could really run

into problems!

Let me share a very funny story about some people

who were trying to do just that! Several years ago

before we received the baptism, I went to a camp-

meeting where I heard the wildest story I had ever

heard. At that time I didn't even know that demons

were real, so it was quite a shock to me when I heard

that an old demon-possessed woman had been

brought to the camp-meeting for deliverance. A few

men went into a building far away from the rest of

the camp-meeting because this is where the

deliverance was to take place. They were in there for

just a short period of time when the noise and ruckus

soon brought a lot of other men who got the surprise

of their lives when they walked into the room!

Can you guess, using your wildest imagination, what

she was doing? She was picking up strong, young

men weighing from 150 to 200 pounds, and throwing

them across the room! Do you know why she could

do this? Because the men were in there without the

power of the Holy Spirit. They were trying to use

their own physical strength without the authority of

Jesus! What happened? DISASTER, because I can

assure you when you get a tiny, demon-possessed

woman against people who do not have any power,

what she can do to them is absolutely amazing!

Demons love to do that! They love to display their

power, but they have to run when you use the name

that is exalted above every other name! The name of

Jesus is above demons! The name of Jesus is above

cancer! The name of Jesus is above epilepsy. The

name of Jesus is above every other name there is!

That is a highly exalted name!

The talk of this entire camp-meeting was about this

wild creature who had thrown big men around a

room, and who had been sent home in the same

condition in which she arrived, because none of

them had the power that was greater than the one

that was living in her!

I remember how frightened I was! I'm sure the story

enlarged by the time it went around the

campgrounds several times, but nevertheless, it was

a real hair-curling story! How I wish I had known

what I do today! I merely would have said, "Out in

the name of Jesus," and the demon would have had

to go.

This reminds me of one of the beautiful stories in the

Bible which has a very funny twist concerning

casting out demons without power. The nineteenth

chapter of Acts tells us about the seven sons of Sceva

who went about saying something like this: "We

adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches to come

out!"

The demon in the man who was possessed said,

"Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?" He

knew that Jesus and Paul had power and authority,

but he knew these "Scevasons" didn't, so the demon

just beat them to a pulp! They got the beating of their

life! The demon was so powerful, he even ripped

their clothes off!

That is almost the same thing that happened to the

men who were trying to bring deliverance to this

little old lady. They got their clothes torn and got the

beating of their life! It might sound funny when we

tell the story, but it certainly was not humorous to

the men who were involved!

We learn by repetition! That is why we use Mark

16:17 over and over again because it is so vital that

we remember this. I've discovered if you keep

hearing the same thing over and over again, it

eventually gets into your spirit; and suddenly you

think, "Wow, I remember that now. That is a part of

me!"

The great commission as related in Matthew is the

same as what Mark said, only Mark expanded it! "Go

ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every

creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be

saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

And these signs shall follow them that believe; IN MY

NAME SHALL THEY CAST OUT DEVILS; they shall

speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents;

and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt

them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall

recover" (Mark 16:15-18).

In whose name do we cast out devils and heal the

sick? In the name of Jesus! Remember that it is

ALWAYS in the name of Jesus. We need to be aware

of the fact that Jesus Christ lives in us by the power of

the Holy Spirit. Jesus does not live out somewhere

forty miles away. He does not drop by your house

and drag you unwillingly down the road to eternal

life or the fulfilling of the Great Commission! JESUS

LIVES IN YOU! "Christ IN you, the hope of glory" (Col.

1:27).

Romans 8:11 says, "But if the Spirit of him that raised

up Jesus from the dead dwell IN you, he that raised

up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your

mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth IN you."

It is the positive, beyond-a-shadow-of-a-doubt

knowledge that the Holy Spirit lives in us that is

needed! The same resurrection power that brought

Jesus out of the grave, is exactly the same power

which indwells the Spirit-filled human! We need to

get that fact into our spirits, and realize that we have

exactly that same resurrection power! We don't have

a lesser power, a lesser potency, but WE HAVE THAT

SAME RESURRECTION POWER THAT BROUGHT

JESUS RIGHT OUT OF THE GRAVE. I have it, and YOU

have it if you have been baptized with the Holy

Spirit. Let's act like it!

In acting on it, Matthew 12:28,29 is important to

know in dealing with demons. Jesus said, "But if I

cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom

of God is come unto you. Or else how can one enter

into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except

he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil

his house."

First, Satan needs to be bound in that powerful name

of Jesus before you do anything else. When you do

this, it is as though you cut the umbilical cord

between Satan and his demons, and his little cohorts

are left without the source of their power.

Satan is the prince of the air, and he is the

commanding head of all fallen angels. Some people

believe that demons and fallen angels are two

separate kinds of beings. Truthfully, it does not make

any difference whether you refer to them as demons,

devils, fallen angels or evil spirits, they are all still

under the control of Satan, because he is the ruler of

the evil spirit world!

Once his power is bound in the name of Jesus, and

his authority is superseded or controlled by the Spirit

of God within us, then we can cast out the evil spirit,

demon, or devil, whichever you prefer to call him, by

the authority of Jesus!

Bringing this to a practical level, we believe

incurable diseases are caused by a spirit in the

majority of cases. When a doctor says there is no

cure, our spiritual antennas pick up the fact that it is

a spirit. For instance, because cancer is considered

incurable, we believe it is caused by an evil spirit

which attacks the body.

Let me show you how I understand the operation of

a demon of cancer. He cannot get into your spirit if

you are a Christian, but he can certainly come into

and attack your body and your mind. A demon takes

a look at a woman and says, "Wow, I think I will lay a

little cancer on her. She looks like a real good

victim." So he jumps into her body (not her spirit)

and before long the woman discovers that she has

cancer of the breast. She goes to the doctor. She

panics!

The doctor says, "We will cut that cancer out." The

demon goes right along into the operating room, and

probably sits there laughing at the doctor, and

watching him carefully. The minute the doctor

inserts the knife, the demon says, "Whoops, here I go!

I will go over to the other side." Then I imagine he

just sits there and laughs as the doctor operates,

because the damage of the demon has been done on

one side.

He will gleefully say, "They think they have me, but

they don't. I'll just jump over on the other side!"

Three years later the woman goes back, and they

find cancer on the other side. Why? Because the

demon has not been cast out, and you can't cut a

demon out in surgery. When they do the next

surgery, the demon says, "Whoops, I believe I will go

into the stomach this time, or maybe I'll go into the

lungs!"

Demons probably can plant a seed such as cancer

into our flesh, bones or blood, and hover outside us,

or even leave us, and the seed will continue to

produce fast-growing, destructive cancer cells to

destroy our bodies. When a male plants a sperm or

seed into the womb of a female, cells develop into an

infant. The devil counterfeits anything good with

bad; therefore, it's logical that he would plant killer

seeds instead of seeds of life. It is very likely that this

is the way many diseases caused by demons are

implanted into our bodies. We, of course, know from

the Bible that demons do occupy human bodies

when they can, so maybe they bring the seed and

stay with it in the body.

We are told by doctors and nurses that the marrow

of the bones is the manufacturer of blood, which is

life. We know that cancer patients often need a new

supply of blood.

Generally when we minister healing to a cancer

victim, our prayers are something like, "Father, we

praise you for the power you have given us over all

the power of the enemy and for the power and

authority to heal the sick. Satan, we bind you with

the power of the Holy Spirit, in the name of Jesus.

You spirit of cancer, we command you to come out

and not return. We curse you, seed of cancer in this

body, and command you to die. Marrow of the bones,

we command you to produce healthy blood and send

it forth for healing and health to this body. In the

name of Jesus!"

A friend of ours who is a Spirit-filled surgeon has

many patients referred to him because of his

excellent record with cancer patients. When he gets

in the operating room, he is the head "honcho" in

there, so he lays hands on the patients and begins to

pray in tongues before he operates, and then he casts

out the spirit of cancer. He has a great recovery

record, because once he commands and gets the

spirit out, it is not hard to cut out the flesh that is

diseased!

A friend of ours who is not only a successful medical

doctor, but is Spirit-filled and ministers healing in the

power of the Holy Spirit as well, was talking with us

about incurable diseases being caused by evil spirits.

He made this statement to us: "In this day and age in

which we are landing men on the moon and are

looking at DNA molecules through microscopes, I

consider that those diseases which we cannot

understand, and which we claim as incurable, must

have their origin elsewhere than in science." (DNA

molecules are chromosomes that carry the

hereditary factors — genes — which are made of

DNA.)

We believe that the "elsewhere than in science" is in

the spirit world and the origin is demons.

"For we are not fighting against people made of flesh

and blood, but against persons without bodies — the

evil rulers of the unseen world, those mighty satanic

beings and great evil princes of darkness who rule

this world; and against huge numbers of wicked

spirits in the spirit world" (Eph. 6:12 TLB). We are

not fighting against people! We are fighting against

unseen powers. We cannot fight them in the natural

as you would another human being.

When you are fighting against an evil spirit which

causes a disease, you are fighting against an unseen

principality. You are fighting against something you

cannot see. That is why in the natural, we have

absolutely no power or control over demons.

Remember that it is only in the supernatural area

where we win because of Jesus!

Remember that the attack from the devil comes in

one of two places. It comes either into your body, or

it comes into your mind. The devil wants your mind,

and he will attack every way he can to try to get

control of it. It is normally not your spirit that the

devil attacks first, but if you let him get into your

body, and you let him into your mind, then what do

you think is going to happen to your spirit? Your

spirit is going to go right down the drain with him!

He wants your soul, but he attacks through your

mind. The best defense is to start putting the Word of

God into your mind so it will permeate your spirit.

Then you can use the Word as a tool to fight off the

attacks of the devil, and you can sit him down and

say, "Look here, devil, IT IS WRITTEN.....”

There are many different kinds of spirits. Charles

and I never mess around telling them to name

themselves, because there was only one place in the

Bible where Jesus ever asked them to name

themselves, and they said, "Legion." Jesus did not

continue by saying, "Legion, name yourself," because

a legion could be a thousand or possibly thousands.

Can you see Jesus sitting there listening to thousands

of demons naming themselves? Jesus had more

important things to do, and he used only a few words

and they came out!

Our daughter Joan called home from college one

time and said, "We had such an exciting Bible study

tonight, and someone had the spirit of blab cast out!"

I said, "The spirit of what?"

She said, "The spirit of blab!"

Seems to me someone needed to be told to shut up

and not talk so much! That also reminds me of the

lady who wanted the spirit of "fat" cast out. The

evangelist said, "This kind goeth not out but by

prayer and fasting!"

Remember what I said about balance? We can get too

extreme, and we can manufacture the names of all

different kinds of spirits. I have heard about the

spirits of sunburn, frostbite, cold and hot and many

other interesting titles, but I do not believe these

should be classed under the heading of evil spirits or

demons!

Let us always remember, however, that there are

many spirits that are legitimate. If you will notice,

Jesus called spirits by what they did, not by names.

One of the spirits we have cast out successfully is a

spirit of inheritance. At times, a curse will have been

placed upon a family, and if you will trace their

family history back far enough, you will find

somewhere along the line they will say, "Oh, I

remember my great grandfather had a curse placed

on him," and that curse comes down to the present

generation.

At a meeting on the west coast, there was a young

man who was a member of a family of twenty-four

children. FOURTEEN WERE DEAF! What does this say

to you! This apparently came through a spirit of

inheritance, because there would not have been the

same set of circumstances surrounding each birth to

make these children deaf. So there had to be

something in the genes of the family. Who messes up

the genes? The devil does!

This spirit of inheritance had come down through

this family, so we laid hands on him, bound Satan in

the name of Jesus and by the power of God. After

that, we cast out the spirit of inheritance and the

deaf spirit. Then we asked God to create new ear

drums. He must have had defective ear drums, or

none at all, because for the first time in his life, the

young man began to hear!

But with only ONE ear!

He came back the next day and reported what he had

done the night before. He was so excited about

hearing that he went into a restaurant where there

were many people from the convention, and he went

from table to table saying, "Say something, say

something, I can hear!"

Then he got on the bus to go home and said to the

driver, "I can hear!" Big deal! Well/maybe it would

not be a big deal to you, because you have heard all

of your life, but to someone who had never heard a

sound, that was very exciting!

He had always hooked his alarm clock to his leg with

an electric wire so it would shock him and wake him

up, and the next day he said, "One of the most

beautiful sounds I ever heard was the alarm going

off!"

Notice how this was done. First of all, we bound

Satan in the name of Jesus and by the power of God

(See Matt. 12:29). We cast out the spirit of inheritance

and deafness, and then we asked God for a creative

miracle. James said, "Ye ask, and receive not, because

ye ask amiss" (James 4:3), and many times people do

not follow the ways of Jesus to heal the sick.

We could have prayed and commanded the spirit of

inheritance to come out, and then forgotten to pray

that the creative miracle would occur and he would

be given a new ear. You would have gotten rid of the

devil, but the man still might not have been able to

hear because of the defect in the ears. Many miracles

of healing occur instantly when the demon comes

out. By the way, the second ear was healed the

second night!

Please don't misunderstand what we say when we

are talking about different ways to heal the sick,

because GOD IS ALWAYS SOVEREIGN, and even if

you prayed, "God heal his toe," and he didn't even

have a toe, God could heal whatever was wrong with

the person. Or even if there was nothing wrong with

the toe, but the rest of the body had some defect in it,

God could heal him, regardless of what you pray.

Remember God is sovereign, and God can do exactly

what he wants to do, but God wants US to do a lot

more than we have been doing up until now!

At one of our services, our son-in-law Bob was called

into an adjacent room where about fifty people were

attempting to cast a demon out of a thirteen-year-old

girl.

Some of the men were trying to hold this little girl on

the floor, while others were loudly speaking in

tongues and yelling, "Come out of her, you demon,"

and others were screaming, "Name yourself," over

and over again.

There was so much confusion that the poor child

would have been scared in the flesh until she

wouldn't have known what to do if she had wanted

to.

As a part of our team, Bob was asked to help, so he

took charge and immediately asked everyone to

leave the room except the little girl and her foster

mother and father. Then Bob gently began to talk to

the little girl to calm her.

Because of his experience in operating in the gifts of

the Spirit, Bob knew that God could supply all his

needs at a time like this, so he asked him for a word

of knowledge about the spirit in the girl.

God spoke only one word — a surprising word —

LAO.

Bob asked the girl what LAO meant to her.

She was astounded, and said, "How did you know

about him?"

Bob said that God had told him.

Fearfully she said, "Nobody knows about him but

me! He is the one who came to me and offered me

the power and he is the one who tells me what to do.

His name is LAO, and he tells me how to cause people

to float up in the air and to make furniture and

things float. He tells me how to do supernatural

things in witchcraft." She said, "I'm scared!"

The little girl related that when she was only eight or

nine years old a spirit offered her special powers if

she would turn her life over to him. Just as Eve

believed the lie of the devil, this girl believed a lie

and made a deal with Satan. At first she thought it

was "fun" to be able to operate in this power, but as

time went on she became frightened.

Bob asked her if she would like to be free of this devil

control of her life. She said, "Do you really mean I

could be free without him destroying me with the

same powers he has given to me?" Bob assured her

that if she really wanted freedom, he could bind the

spirit so that it could not use its powers over her. He

told her that Jesus said in Luke 10:19, "Behold, I give

unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions,

and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing

shall by any means hurt you."

She said, "I want to be set free."

Bob very softly, but with belief and authority,

commanded the spirit to come out in the name of

Jesus! And the spirit came out and she was

completely set free from this tormenting demon.

We saw her about a year later and she was a

beautiful Christian, happy, and with no fear in her

life!

Glory to God, he set her free!

Through this word from God, the confidence of the

little girl was won and she was willing to talk freely

to Bob.

What would have happened if Bob had commanded

the spirit in her to name itself? The Bible gives that

answer: "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts

of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from

the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because

there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he

speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of

it" (John 8:44).

If the devil cannot tell the truth, how can we ask him

or one of his demons to name itself and expect the

truth? Isn't it more scriptural to ask God?

"Our words are wise because they are from God ...

But we know about these things because God has

sent his Spirit to tell us, and his Spirit searches out

and shows us all of God's deepest secrets" (I Cor.

2:7,10 TLB).

Please don't feel that we are criticizing those who

successfully exorcise demons by other ways than we

use. If you have success making demons name

themselves, keep on doing it! But do try an easier

way occasionally, will you?

If you have success wrestling with a demon all night

long, I suppose it's all right to continue, but I'd

certainly find a short cut so I could spend more time

talking about Jesus rather than demons.

I believe God is in heaven crying over churches

where they do not lay hands on people on Sunday

morning and believe for their healing, because God

wants you well!

We were at Bob Tilton's Word of Faith World

Outreach Center in Dallas, Texas, on a Christmas

Sunday. The people were giving testimonies, but it

seemed to me that almost everyone gave a testimony

about prosperity! Finally, at the end, one lady got up

and said, "I was healed of cancer this year."

After the service I said to Bob, "Don't very many

people get healed in your church?"

He said, "Not many."

I said, "How come?"

He said, "I teach them how to walk in divine health

so they don't need to get healed."

Glory to God! I think that is how we should be in

churches. We ought to walk in divine health so we

don't have to be healed, but we are teaching you

these different ways to heal the sick so you can go

around the world, or in your part of the world,

where the people don't know how to walk in divine

health, and heal them! They may have never even

heard that there is healing in the name of Jesus!

When God said, "Beloved, I wish above all things that

thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy

soul prospereth" (III John 2), he meant he wanted us

to walk in divine health!

God will often do the unusual when you first receive

the baptism or when you first start to go out and lay

hands on the sick. Did you know that? God probably

says, "Well, I am going to see if they really mean

business with me."

In our hometown area, shortly after we received the

baptism, Charles and I were speaking in a little

church, and a man brought a lady who had cancer.

Remember, we had just received the baptism, and we

had not been raised in Pentecost.

We did not understand the supernatural!

We did not understand falling under the power!

These were new things to us, and yet it was so

exciting to suddenly realize that when you put out

your hand, someone fell over! To walk down the aisle

of a church and see people fall over under the power

of God was a tremendously thrilling and awesome

experience!

We were so excited because of the things we had

begun to see Jesus do, that nothing could hold us

back! Charles and I laid hands on this sick woman

and prayed for her, and she went under the power of

God! We said, "Thank you, Jesus," and she began to

throw up! It did not seem to bother her in the least.

NOR DID IT BOTHER US, because something in our

spirits said, "That which is coming out is the cancer!"

About two buckets full came out, and all the time we

were standing there saying, "Hallelujah! Glory to

God!" If you don't think it will test your faith to see a

whole mound of horrible looking stuff come out, you

had better think again! God wanted to show us that

he does things whatever way he wants to whether

you think you are too lady-like or not to stand there

and see someone vomit!

It was the most awful-looking mess I ever saw, but

glory to God, the cancer came OUT of her instead of

staying IN her!

God doesn't always do things like that, but in the

beginning he can certainly test your faith! He said,

"Are you sure you want to be in the healing ministry?

Are you sure this is what you want?" Charles and I

said, "Yes," and we kept right on!

The same thing happened in a huge modernistic

church after one great service we held there one

night when more than seven hundred people were

healed at one time. One man who had just been

Spirit-filled came up to us and said, "How do I

explain to the janitors who don't know anything

about the healing power of God, why all that cancer

was vomited all over the floor last night!"

I have heard that at some of Aimee Semple

McPherson's meetings they had to come in with a

wheelbarrow and shovel up the cancers that fell off

people. Don't turn up your nose at it! Just wait until

you are there and some cancer lump falls off in your

hands! Do you know what will happen to you? The

Spirit of God will overcome you at that time, and you

will look at that nasty cancer and say, "Hallelujah!"

Because it is dead and just lying in your hands! It is

not living on the body of someone else!

Would you like to lay hands on someone and have

the cancer come off in your hands? I tell you, that is

real living! You might think that going out to dinner

at a real fancy place, and having all kinds of steak

and lobster to eat is really living, but that is not what

living is all about. Real living is seeing the sick healed

and the demons flee even if their evidence ends up

in your hands! We rarely see people vomit when they

are healed and delivered, but don't be shocked if this

does happen!

When Jesus arose from the dead, he left an eternally

defeated Satan behind him. Never think of Satan as

anything except a defeated foe. Don't get out there

and think, "Greater is he that is looking at me

through the eyes of that girl who has a demon in her

than he that is in me. I think I had better back off. I

think I had better run someplace else." Don't you

dare ever think like that. Remember the devil is an

eternally defeated foe!

Again, I want to issue a warning. The deliverance

ministry is exciting because of the tremendous

freedom it brings to people. But don't ever get so

lopsided that you see a demon on every door knob.

We have new carpet in the City of Light, and it is

"fuzzing" all over the place. Now that is not a demon

of "carpet fuzz" because it is just something that

happens when you get a new carpet, and you don't

vacuum it every day! Do you see what I'm saying?

There is a real valid place, and a real valid time, and

a real valid demonic spirit for you to cast out. And

there is a sufficient number of real live evil spirits

around so you don't have to run around trying to

make up demons of all kinds!

Here's a little warning that might help you. From

time to time, a mother will bring her child to me and

say something like this: "This child is possessed of

demons. I can't do anything with him. He needs

deliverance!"

She is holding a screaming, kicking, scratching child,

and he is so wild I can't even get close to him.

One day God showed me why some of these children

react like this. How would you like to have some

powerful evangelist lay hands on you for something

you didn't understand, shake you all over the place

and command, "Devil, you come out of him!" It

would frighten you so much, you would probably

decide right on the spot that you would never let

anyone else pray for you the rest of your life!

We saw an example of this recently when a mother

of a boy about nine or ten tried to present him to me

bodily. She said, "He's got 47 demons left in him. Get

them out of him!"

I looked at the child, and he only appeared

frightened to me, but when the child looked at me, he

broke loose from his mother and ran completely

around a huge auditorium so fast that nobody could

catch him. He was screaming at the top of his lungs,

and yet I couldn't see anything but a normal child

who was frightened.

That's when God spoke and told me that this child

had not been prepared for a healing touch of God,

the loving Father. God asked me how I'd like it if

someone dropped me on the floor and had ten adults

sit down on top of me to hold me down? You'd better

believe I'd begin fighting and scratching and kicking

and doing everything else I could think of to get free,

and I'm not demon possessed at all.

A man saw the same thing I did, and the next day he

sat down with this same child and with great love

prayed that the scars of careless deliverance would

be erased from his mind. This particular child was

beautifully set free through love, not deliverance.

By Charles

As Frances and I write this book, we are constantly

keeping in our minds that the ways of God are past

finding out, and that his wisdom and power are

beyond any possible way of expressing, and that we

have caught only a glimpse of how he does things.

We can't even begin to comprehend things God takes

for granted — like creating a universe, and placing

stars and planets into an exact orbit.

We are simply describing and sharing with you ways

that God has worked and is working in our ministry,

many of which are strikingly similar to ways he

worked in episodes recorded in his Word.

We are describing ways and examples of casting out

demons. There are no doubt hundreds of ways you

can go about it, but we know it finally boils down to

the principle that it is done by the power of God's

Holy Spirit in us, and that it is done in the name of

Jesus, and that it is done by the authority of Jesus!

Everything else we describe is to encourage you and

to teach you ways of going about performing the

commission of Jesus to free the oppressed so that

they can be brought into the kingdom of light.

A lady who had pain in her abdomen for three years

had been to many kinds of doctors and none of them

could find any cause for the pain. She had been

prayed for in many charismatic meetings, and still

the pain persisted. We praise God for our medical

profession, but I reasoned that if the doctors could

not find the cause, it must be a demon, because

doctors without the baptism with the Holy Spirit do

not have the supernatural discernment to know that

a spirit can cause pain.

I asked her to place her hands where the pain was,

and I laid my hand on top of hers, bound Satan, and

commanded the spirit of pain to come out in the

name of Jesus.

I saw her released from pain, and so I asked her

what happened. God must have opened her spirit

eyes, because when I said "Out" she replied, "What appeared to be a large thing like a leech with legs

dug into me came out, turned over in the air and

zoomed out into space away from me." All pain

instantly left! Praise Jesus for freeing the captives!

A few months later we were visited by a friend who

said his wife had a pain in her abdomen, that she

had been to many different kinds of doctors and they

could find no cause or cure, and that she had been

prayed for many times. The situation was exactly like

the other lady.

They lived about 400 miles away, so I asked him to

call his wife on the phone. I explained to her about

the other deliverance. She placed her hand on the

pain area, I bound Satan by the power of the Holy

Spirit, and commanded the spirit of pain to come out,

in Jesus' name. When I asked, "Where is the pain?"

she replied, "I DON'T HAVE IT ANY MORE!"

Glory to God, even distance doesn't make any

difference when the authority of Jesus is used to rid

someone of an enemy of God!

By the way, both of those from whom a spirit of pain

was cast out were Spirit-filled Christians. It is

possible that the deaf, dumb, blind, or other spirits

Jesus named could have been cast out of a believer.

Again, we do not believe a demon can be in the spirit

of a Christian, but that they can attack a body or

mind. We know of no evidence that the demon

actually has to "dwell in" a person to cause a "spirit of pain" or any of the other spirits Jesus named. They

can simply attack a part of the body, possibly even to

implant cancer into the body.

I was talking with a man one day who told me that

his right leg had been amputated above the knee.

That night he came to me for prayer, and said he had

pain in his right foot.

I started to lay hands on him when I suddenly

remembered that he was the one with no right leg or

foot. I said, "What do you mean, pain in your right

foot — I thought you told me you didn't have one?"

He said, "That's right. The doctors call this a phantom

pain."

The thought immediately came into my mind that

there were no human nerves left to signal pain to the

brain, so it had to be a phantom spirit. I commanded

that phantom spirit of pain to come out in the name

of Jesus and by the power of the Holy Spirit, and IT

INSTANTLY LEFT!

Then God gave me a word of knowledge that the pain

would return twice more, and that he was to rebuke

it each time, and after that he would never have it

again.

The next day he came to me to say, "You were exactly

right; it came back twice; each time I rebuked it and

it left!"

Is all pain caused by a demon? No, because if you

stick your finger on a hot stove or cut it with a knife,

it will pain you. If this occurs, command it to be

healed in the name of Jesus, and rebuke the pain.

When Jesus went to Peter's mother-in-law's house,

she was sick of a fever. Jesus took her by the hand

(touched her) and in Luke it is recorded that he stood

over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her (Luke

4:39).

Our daughter, Joan, had two wisdom teeth pulled

when she was a teenage girl. By the time I came

home from work, the effect of the Novocain had

worn off, and Joan was crying with pain. I put my

hands on her jaws and said, "Pain, I rebuke you in

the name of Jesus." The pain left and never returned.

This was not a spirit, just an injury through surgery.

We have ministered in audiences across the world,

and when the power of God is flowing and the people

are responsive to the sharing of the Word of God and

to the testimonies of his great miracles, demons

simply cannot stand his presence. They just leave

their human habitations.

One night in a large crowd, people were falling

under the power by the scores, they were getting

healed in masses, the gift of the word of knowledge

was working through us, and a hideous scream came

forth from the back of the audience.

Someone had brought an unsaved friend from a

dance studio, and the demon could not stand the

power of God, so it left without being told to do so.

It is very important that all of us do everything we

can to win those ensnared by the thief and the

destroyer before they are destined to be forever lost

from the glory God has provided for us.

Oh, if we could all get a vision of what God wants for

us, and realize the marvel of it all when we fully

realize that we are a chosen generation, a special

people who are called by God. He doesn't want us

bound by the devil, he wants us set free by his holy

and awesome power!

"Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Let my people

go ..." (Ex. 5:1). God was delivering his people from a

devil-controlled Pharaoh. And God wants us to

deliver his people from a devil-controlled world.

One of the most beautiful deliverances I have ever

seen happened in our office. A young lady was

brought to me who had repeatedly attempted suicide.

She was determined to kill herself. She was totally

possessed by this controlling demon of suicide. She

had been counseled by Spirit-filled Christians; she

had gone through inner healing; she had been

prayed for, and attempts had been made to cast the

demon out, but she was still determined to kill

herself.

She had a bitterness toward life so strong that her

determined desire for destruction plainly showed up

in her face!

She had been confined to a psychiatric ward of the

hospital, and even there attempted suicide, and had

even committed adultery in the hospital.

As I began to minister to her with a God-given love

and compassion, I very softly told her that God loved

her and wanted her to live for him and be in heaven

with him for eternity. I told her that the devil was the

one who was causing her to feel so defeated and

depressed, and that God could bring peace and

happiness to her even here on earth. I explained that

heaven was wonderful and beautiful, and then

described how hell is horrible and tormenting —

even much worse than the "hell" she was living in

now.

Then I told her that if she would just ask Jesus to

forgive her, he would erase and remove all of this

from her.

She whiningly said, "I'm so confused that I don't

know what to do."

I explained to her that she was not the one telling me

that she was confused; that this was an evil spirit in

her that was using her mind and her voice.

Again, speaking very softly, I explained that the devil

wanted her to commit suicide so that the murder of

herself would take her into his eternal control in hell,

and she would have no further opportunity to be

freed from the devil's control.

Again I invited her to make the simple choice of

going to the tormenting hell, or of having eternal

peace and joy in heaven.

Again she whimpered and said, "I just can't think."

She was sitting in a chair and I was standing in front

of her. I gently put my fingers under her chin and

lifted her head so I could look into her eyes.

The Spirit of God had anointed me with a

supernatural love and desire to win her soul from

the demon who was trying to rob her from God with

this last desperate attempt.

I said, "I'm going to command the spirit that is talking

to me out of your mouth to come out, and IT WILL

COME OUT, and then you can think straight to make

your choice for Jesus."

In almost a whisper, but with power and authority, I

said, "Devil, I bind you in the name of Jesus and by

the power of the Holy Spirit, and command you, you

spirit of suicide and you spirit of bitterness, come out

of her!"

There was no yelling, no loud voice, no fighting, no

struggle, no vomiting, no resistance, no evidence of

seeing anything come out; but in a soft, believing,

knowing voice, the command which Jesus told us to

use was given, and the young lady's whole

countenance changed in an instant. A peace came on

her face, a softness in her eyes, and a transformation

came upon her so mighty that she hardly looked like

the same bitter, devil-controlled woman who sat

there a moment before.

Then I simply, softly said to her, "Say, Jesus, forgive

my sins!" She repeated those ever-so-powerful words

from her heart with "her" voice which was now

controlled by her mind instead of by the demon.

"Jesus, come into my heart and make me the kind of

woman you want me to be. Be my Savior; be my

Lord. I love you Father; I love you Jesus!"

She left the office a few minutes later, loving Jesus,

loving God as her spiritual Father, and with a Bible

and some of our books in her hand.

"And they come to Jesus, and see him that was

possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting,

and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were

afraid" (Mark 5:15).

THANK YOU, JESUS!

Depression or oppression is a state of the mind, but

can be influenced by a demon. Demons can deal with

the thoughts of mankind, and consequently have an

ability to cause you to think unclean thoughts.

Therefore, they must also be able to attack the mind

with thoughts causing depression or oppression,

generally arising from some selfish attitude.

"If you are angry, don't sin by nursing your grudge.

Don't let the sun go down with you still angry — get

over it quickly; for when you are angry you give a

mighty foothold to the devil" (Eph. 4:26 TLB). The

Bible tells us to get over anger — that means we can

do it if we are willing. If we are not willing, it gives a

foothold to demonic activity and could lead to

possession by the demon through total control of our

mind and eventually our spirit and soul. Then there

can be no dwelling of Christ within us.

The demoniac who had the legion cast out, was back

in his right mind afterwards. This indicates that the

possessed man had his mind controlled by the

demon (Mark 5:15).

What causes people to follow Satan and his evil

ways? How do people submit themselves to a hating

devil when God has so much for us? Why would

anyone even consider making a deliberate choice to

submit themselves to an eternity of torment instead

of an eternal home with God?

"The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and

to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and

that they might have it more abundantly" (John

10:10).

The trickery of Satan is to pervert our minds into

believing that his way is best. If we accept his lies, it

is the beginning of the invitation by mankind for a

demon to kill and destroy their souls by stealing

them away from God. He does this principally

through bad attitudes, and BAD ATTITUDES ARE NOT

DEMONS, but they give a foothold to demonic

activity. Bad attitudes don't need to be cast out like a

spirit, but we need to overcome them by the power of

God!

The devil lied to Eve in the Garden of Eden, and she

had the choice of rejecting his temptation, or

believing his lie. She gave a foothold to the devil, and

he stole her away from God. Satan cleverly gained

this foothold through her mind. He cunningly put

thoughts or words into her mind and she believed

him.

When you are ministering to someone in the

deliverance of demons, first talk with them to see if

they are saved. Ask them if they really love Jesus and

if they would say, "Jesus is Lord of my life." If they are truly born again, they will be able to say that and

mean it, but if they are not able to say it, you need to

deal with a demon. Otherwise, inquire about

attitudes that are wrong. MAYBE THEY JUST NEED

TEACHING about their responsibility to get rid of bad

attitudes. "Here is the test: no one speaking by the

power of the Spirit of God can curse Jesus, and no

one can say, 'Jesus is Lord,' and really mean it, unless

the Holy Spirit is helping him" (I Cor. 12:3 TLB).

A woman came to Frances one night with a very sad

story. She started off by saying, "I've been prayed for

by the best, so I don't know why I'm coming to you,

but...

I've had the demon of smoke cast out!

I've had the demon of tobacco cast out!

I've had the demon of nicotine cast out!

I've had the demon of cigarettes cast out!" She

continued, "Do you have a word from the Lord for

me?"

Frances said, "Yes!" "What is it?" she asked.

Frances said, "Quit!"

The woman was obviously shocked. But too many

times we blame spirits or demons for things that are

simply our fault. We run from evangelist to

evangelist, from preacher to preacher, from

conference to conference, asking for deliverance at

every service, when the problem is really very

simple. It lies within ourself — QUIT SINNING!

Throw those cigarettes away, don't buy any more,

and quit blaming it on demons!

If, with all your heart, mind, body and soul, you want

to be obedient to all that God and Jesus want you to

do, there will never be a desire to sin. A desire to sin

is simply a way of expressing your disbelief that

God's way is best. God doesn't like that. But it delights

him when you want to do what pleases him!

"I advise you to obey only the Holy Spirit's

instructions. He will tell you where to go and what to

do, and then you won't always be doing the wrong

things your evil nature wants you to. For we

naturally love to do evil things that are just the

opposite from the things that the Holy Spirit tells us

to do; and the good things we want to do when the

Spirit has his way with us are just the opposite of our

natural desires. These two forces within us are

constantly fighting each other to win control over us,

and our wishes are never free from their pressures."

"When you are guided by the Holy Spirit you need no

longer force yourself to obey Jewish laws."

"But when you follow your own wrong inclinations

your lives will produce these evil results: impure

thoughts, eagerness for lustful pleasure, idolatry,

spiritism (that is, encouraging the activity of

demons), hatred and fighting, jealousy and anger,

constant effort to get the best for yourself, complaints

and criticisms, the feeling that everyone else is

wrong except those in your own little group — and

there will be wrong doctrine, envy, murder,

drunkenness, wild parties, and all that sort of thing.

Let me tell you again as I have before, that anyone

living that sort of life will not inherit the kingdom of

God" (Gal. 5:16-21 TLB).

Do you notice from that part of God's Word that these

are attitudes which come into our mind because our

old self-nature wants its way? That is the simplest

way I know to tell you how the devil gets a foothold

on your mind in his drive to take your soul away

from God.

The way to avoid the trap the devil sets is simply set

forth in the rest of that chapter: "But when the Holy

Spirit controls our lives he will produce this kind of

fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,

goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control;

and here there is no conflict with Jewish laws. Those

who belong to Christ have nailed their natural evil

desires to his cross and crucified them there. If we

are living now by the Holy Spirit's power, let us

follow the Holy Spirit's leading in every part of our

lives. Then we won't need to look for honors and

popularity, which lead to jealousy and hard feelings"

(Gal 5:22-26 TLB).

When we let thoughts contrary to God's nature enter

into our minds, these thoughts begin to develop and

become a part of us. Our inner desires either invite

the Holy Spirit or Satan's old nature in us to control

our thoughts.

Stop thinking about the negative, evil old nature and

you can stop most demons from having activity in

your mind. They don't immediately possess you, but

they begin to control you little by little until you no

longer desire God's ways.

"Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil,

and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he

will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye

sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded"

(James 4:7,8). Who is to do that? We are.

One day before Frances and I were married, I was

driving from one part of Houston to another while I

was working as a Certified Public Accountant. The

sun was shining, I was happy, I was singing songs of

praise to God, and the whole world was thrilling to

live in. I stopped in the bright sunlight at a parking

lot, got out of the car and started toward a cafeteria

for lunch.

My life had been totally surrendered to God and I

had spent over a thousand exciting hours meditating

in the Bible the past few months. Everything was

beautiful and perfect!

But as I stepped out of the car, a darkness, a

depression came over me and it felt like everything

was wrong, that all love left me, all joy and peace left,

and that my whole world had caved in on me.

I didn't know what had happened. It was so sudden

and my mind tried in a flash of a second to know

what had happened.

But, because my mind had been saturated with the

Word of God, and was controlled by the Holy Spirit,

and my desires were to please God and not myself, a

scripture came quickly into my mind.

I said, "God, if that is the devil, get him out of here

and draw close to me!"

Instantly, like a flash of lightning, all the darkness,

the depression, the emptiness left me like a wind.

The evil spirit which had so viciously attacked my

mind could actually be sensed like a wind which for

an instant rose out of me slowly and then it

accelerated to a tremendous speed and disappeared

into space.

Satan had sent a demon after me to try to get into my

spirit to control me and to steal me away from the

God I loved so much.

But, "the word of God is quick, and powerful, and

sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to

the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the

joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts

and intents of the heart" (Heb. 4:12).

The great weapon against demons is the Word of

God. That is one reason we should meditate day and

night in his Word, and think about him and what will

please him; not think about what we can get for

ourselves.

"For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after

the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not

carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down

of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and

every high thing that exalteth itself against the

knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every

thought to the obedience of Christ" (II Cor. 10:3-5).

The first time a demon attacks your thoughts is the

time to get rid of it! Don't let it get a foothold on your

mind or your thoughts. Preventive medicine is better

than having to take medication for a cure. The Word

of God is the immunization we need to protect us

from demonic influence, control or possession. We

need to have the nature of God implanted in us as an

inoculation against the infection the devil places in

our thoughts and inner desires.

Demons are invisible, bodiless creatures that have

the ability to move about wherever Satan sends

them, and they can hover over us, surround us,

attack us, put thoughts into our minds, put diseases

into our bodies, or even cause us to lose our minds

and become insane.

They can be present at our birth, or as we are formed

in the belly of our mothers, and cause defects in our

formation. Being spirits who live forever, they can

transfer from one generation to another and thus

cause diseases or defects which may be in the form

of genes or deformations.

They come against our flesh to try to control our

souls. We must use all the understanding we can get,

and allow the Holy Spirit to teach us how to get rid of

them, in whatever way they attack.

Your job and our job is to liberate our fellow human

beings from the influence and control of Satan and

his demon aides, and to teach them how to remain

FREE!

"Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead,

CAST OUT DEVILS: freely ye have received, freely

give" (Matt. 10:8).

I believe that God is preparing a body of people to go

out in mighty power. Why? His heart is crying out

because he knows that people need to be healed and

delivered!

God is saying to his people, "I want a bunch of

believers who are willing to go out and know they

are not wrestling against human beings, but against

principalities and powers. They are going to go out in

the name of Jesus and lay hands on the sick with

results for me! And they are going to be victorious!"

Do you know there are people crying all over the

world, "Somebody teach me the gospel. Somebody

teach me how you can get healed." That is why it is so

easy to heal the sick when you go overseas. Glory to

God, they just come believing!

And they do love to heal the sick! A friend of ours

just returned from Haiti where he said many of the

pastors do not even own a Bible, because they do not

know how to read, but you give them a scripture like,

"They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall

recover" or "And these signs shall follow them that

believe; In my name shall they cast out devils" and

they go on the run! They take a scripture like one of

those, lay hands on the sick and tremendous healings

take place! Once they hear the Word, they get it into

their spirits and never try to disprove it, they only try

to act upon it!

I can hardly wait until readers put these principles

into practice, and letters start coming back here

saying, "I went here and I went there, and I was in

this foreign country, and I was in that foreign

country, and people got healed all over the place!"

You might think that is not a reality, but with my

heart and soul I believe it is! I believe God is going to

take people who ACT, to places they never dreamed

of in their entire life, and begin using them to heal

the sick! THIS MEANS YOU!

CHAPTER 16

THE GIFT OF FAITH

By Frances

One morning as we were preparing to teach on

different ways to heal the sick, the Lord spoke to me

and said something which I believe can divinely

change your life and your ministry where healing is

concerned.

Can each and every one of us have the power to heal

the sick? Yes, the Word says that the ability to heal is

within each and every believer! (Mark 16:18).

But you may say, "I don't have the gift of healing,

because it hasn't been given to me by the Holy Spirit,

and he gives the gifts as he wills!"

God spoke to me and said, "The Holy Spirit gives gifts

as he wills, and HE GIVES THEM TO 'WHOSOEVER

WILL!'"

He is not going to give you a gift if you're not going to

use it! He is not going to let the gift of faith drop

down on you if you are going to be a spiritual

chicken and not do what he tells you to do.

He is not going to give you the gift of faith to tell

someone to rise up out of a wheel chair, if your

answer is going to be, "God, you've got to be kidding,

because I might be embarrassed if it didn't work!"

The gift of faith is one of the exciting gifts presented

to us by the Holy Spirit. It is not a gift that is present

at all times, but a gift that makes you rise over

supernatural barriers without any doubt and

perform a miracle! The gift of faith will make you

such a mighty person of valour that you can hardly

believe when it's all over that you were the one who

did it!

The gift of faith transforms you for a period of time

into a supernatural person. The exciting story in the

third chapter of Acts points this out when Peter said,

"Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I

thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up

and walk!" The gift of faith had fallen on Peter, and

he became a supernatural person, for the Word says,

"And he took him by the right hand and lifted him

up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones

received strength." The gift of faith was poured out

upon Peter, and ALSO ACTED UPON BY HIM, because

he was one of those who "will!"

The gift of faith is something you will immediately

sense when it falls! For one brief moment, the devil

will take his last fling and there may be a flicker of

doubt in your mind, but step out in faith, and

become a supernatural person!

We were not raised in Pentecost, so until we received

the baptism with the Holy Spirit, we had seen only a

few healings. After the baptism, healings began to

increase until God suddenly dropped us into the

miracle ministry in El Paso, Texas, and as a result we

wrote the book, SINCE JESUS PASSED BY. One day in

Louisville, Kentucky, a Catholic couple was reading

this book. They could hardly believe that God was

still doing supernatural things today. But they had a

little boy who had cerebral palsy. He had never

walked without braces and crutches in his entire life.

He had never crawled, because he had no motor

coordination. The more they read, the more faith

began to rise up in them! Could their five-year-old be

healed in the 20th century?

They remembered they had seen an ad in a news

paper that we were having a miracle service in

Louisville at Evangel Tabernacle. Excitement filled

the air as they made plans to come. They lived on a

farm, so they got up at 3 AM and milked their cows.

Everyone dressed in a hurry, got into the car and

drove about one hundred and twenty slow-moving

miles to get to the church by 8 AM because they

didn't want to miss the miracle service, regardless of

what time it was to start.

All they talked about on the way to Louisville was

Jeffie's healing! Never a negative statement! All

positive talk! JEFFIE WAS GOING TO BE HEALED!

They were disappointed when they got there because

they discovered the miracle service was scheduled

for that night, and they couldn't stay because the

cows had to be milked again; however, we promised

them that we would pray for Jeffie sometime during

the morning service.

We looked at that crippled little body, and our faith

wasn't very high. It was a small morning crowd

without great numbers of believers to help build our

faith, when suddenly the healing power of God began

to flow like a river, and God dropped the

supernatural gift of faith down on both of us, on

Jeffie's parents, and also on a little five-year-old boy.

I ran into the audience, picked Jeffie up, and told his

parents to come forward. I held Jeffie on my lap, and

asked him an important question, "Do you believe

God can heal you?"

Jeffie looked at me like I had lost my mind, because

all the way to Louisville his parents had been telling

him he was going to be healed, and here I was asking

him if he thought that God could heal him!

He said, "Oh, yes, he's going to heal me today!" No

hesitation, no doubt, no questioning, no nothing, just

absolute faith without a doubt!

The gift of faith was churning up in us. We laid

hands on Jeffie, and then Charles turned to his

parents and asked them if they would like to take his

braces off, and just as soon as they said "Yes," they

both fell under the power, so Charles removed Jeffie's

braces.

He took Jeffie off of my lap, held him in a standing

position, and with no hesitation at all said, "Jeffie, in

the name of Jesus, RUN!"

He didn't tell him to walk; he told him to run! And

there were three steps down from the platform to the

floor.

Jeffie never hesitated.

He leaped down the three steps and began to run!

He never doubted that he could run!

He never doubted that he was healed!

He just ran as fast as he could! Not too well for the

first 20 to 30 feet, but gradually increasing in speed

and ability! For those first few steps, his hips were

crooked, and his gait unsteady, but before long he

reached the back and turned around. I said, "Run

back here Jeffie!" and he took off and ran for the

pulpit as fast as he could. I stepped down to the floor

level with my arms outstretched, and when he was

about six feet away, he made a flying leap, climbed

right up me like I was a ladder, and wrapped his little

legs around my waistline!

This was the crippled child who had never walked

without braces in his entire life!

THE GIFT OF FAITH was not only given, but received

by ALL!

We ate lunch with Jeffie and his parents and they

gave us his braces because they knew he would

never need them again. They still sit in the foyer of

our home as a beautiful, modern testimony of the

power of God! He went shopping in his stocking feet

and got his first pair of Hush Puppies, something he

had wanted all his life!

When we were with Jeffie a year later, he had gained

twenty-five pounds. In one year his shoe size had

gone from a children's size eleven to a "man's" size

three, and he made the honor roll in school.

God had healed him completely, mind, body and

spirit!

What would have happened if we hadn't exercised

the gift of faith?

I believe that Jeffie would never have been healed!

I believe that if Charles had sat back and said, "I can't

ask that child to walk because he's never walked

without braces," that Jeffie would still be in braces

today.

The gift of faith is something that just wells up and

wells up within you, and whenever it does, step out

like a wild tiger, and do whatever God says to do.

Some of our greatest healings have come through the

gift of faith, and the same things can happen to you!

We were in Calloway Gardens, Georgia, at a

convention of the Full Gospel Business Men. As we

entered the room, Dr. Doug Fowler, a surgeon from

Jacksonville, Florida, was giving a prophecy that

ended something like this, "Tonight I am going to do

creative miracles! I am going to put parts in bodies

that are not there! Thus saith the Lord!"

Hallelujah, did we ever get excited! We probably got

more than naturally or normally excited because it

was such an unusual prophecy to come out of a

medical doctor who knows what it takes for a

creative miracle, because doctors know that creative

miracles don't happen on operating tables where

they take things out, but where it is hard to get

something back in that isn't there.

The first thing we did that night was to grow out

short arms to demonstrate the Spirit and power (I

Cor. 2:4). The ushers brought up a man who had one

arm that was probably eight or nine inches shorter

than the other one. We asked him what caused this,

and he said, "When I was about twelve years old, my

arm was almost severed at the shoulder, and they

sewed it back on. It lived, but it never grew after

that!"

Both of us felt something explode within us! We had

both heard the prophecy about new parts, and we

both wanted to minister to the man instantly,

because BOTH OF US RECEIVED THE GIFT OF FAITH

simultaneously! When two people receive it, that is

something electrifying!

There he stood with one forty-year-old arm, and one

twelve-year-old arm. Charles held the two arms out,

and with three medical doctors standing behind us,

Charles commanded the muscle, tissue, veins,

marrow, ligaments, skin, bone and other parts to be

put in, and in front of some thirteen hundred people

he commanded that arm to GROW, GROW, GROW!

There was no doubt or unbelief in either of us! The

arm responded to the command given through the

gift of faith, and it began to grow, grow, GROW!

Those three medical doctors began to cry

unrestrainedly because they knew what an

impossibility it was to see what they were actually

seeing! In approximately fifteen seconds, God had

put new parts into that arm. GOD DID IT AGAIN!

What happened as a result?

A woman got so excited, that she came right out of

her wheel chair! She forgot she couldn't walk. The

gift of faith had ignited from us to her!

A woman was healed of nerve deafness because the

gift of faith spread across the auditorium!

The arm grew to full size and length, BUT THE HAND

WAS STILL THE HAND OF A TWELVE-YEAR-OLD

BOY! That didn't faze us one single bit. We were still

operating under the supernatural anointing and

power of the gift of faith, and as we commanded the

hand to grow to normal size, that twelve-year-old

hand unfolded like a rose to be the same size as the

forty-year-old hand on the other arm.

Why?

Because the gift of faith fell sovereignly that night!

And two ordinary people became supernatural

people of God! And so can you!

By Charles

God speaks to his people in many different ways.

Sometimes when he speaks, it is in such a seemingly

ordinary, human way that we hardly know it is God.

Everyone has at one time or another wondered if it

was God speaking, or just the thought of the human

involved. The gift of faith operates differently! It will

come through God speaking or through revelation

knowledge! This can occur when you are praying for

the sick, whether it is one or one hundred, and

suddenly you very simply "know" that the healing

will take place.

In the case of Jeffie, it is difficult to tell how God

spoke, because we were so new in the operation of

the gifts of the Spirit. There was a sudden moment

when we had the positive assurance in our hearts

that we were to take off the braces. To remove braces

without positively hearing from God is sometimes

dangerous; it should only be done when you have

that "faith assurance." Presumption can do harm —

faith can heal!

There are times when the gift of faith and the word

of knowledge will operate hand-in-hand, although

they do not always do so. When God gives a word of

knowledge, which is through a word or a feeling in

the body, it can be relied on to be 100% accurate;

however, this is different than the operation of, and

the receiving of, the gift of faith. When you are

operating completely in the Spirit, both of these can

be relied on completely; however, the gift of faith

accompanying a word of knowledge will make an

electrifying charge of faith-without-a-doubt surge

through your spirit. Nothing that you can feel, but a

heart knowledge of what is happening!

Several years ago while we were ministering in El

Paso, Texas, God spoke to both of us at exactly the

same moment and told us we were to have a miracle

service on the following Tuesday night. We had

never had a miracle service in our entire life! We

had just received the baptism with the Holy Spirit

shortly before this, but we KNEW it was God who

spoke! We boldly announced what God had spoken to

our hearts because the gift of faith had dropped on

us and we knew that we could depend on God doing

miracles. There was no doubt, no hesitation, no

holding back, no questioning, no nothing, except

boldness to proclaim what God was going to do.

The gift of faith is not in operation at all times, and is

not something for which you can "pray through." It is

something that God sovereignly drops as we wills, at

a specific time and for a specific purpose. We should

always be sensitive to the Spirit of God, so that we do

not pass up some of the wonderful things of the

supernatural that God has for us. This gift does not

operate for healings only, but for many other areas

of our lives. The gift of faith will give us unusual

daring and confidence in business dealings. The gift

of faith was in operation when we married without

knowing each other, only that God told us to be

married! (See MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH CHARLES).

Peter operated in the gift of faith when he walked on

the water. Jesus operated in the gift of faith when he

turned water into wine — he also operated in the gift

of miracles simultaneously.

There have been times when the gift of faith drops

on people we have prayed for and it does not drop on

us. This is just as valid as if it had dropped on us, and

we are just as surprised at the response and behavior

of individuals as they are surprised at us!

A lady came forward one night in Minneapolis for

healing of a compound fracture. She had broken her

leg one week prior to the service, the doctor had put

her in a cast and told her it would be six weeks

before it could be removed. We ministered to her in

the prayer line by simply laying hands on the cast

and commanding the leg to be healed.

The gift of faith fell sovereignly upon her! She was so

positive that God had healed her that as soon as she

arrived home that night she soaked the cast off in the

bathtub! The next night she came back to testify, and

what a testimony she gave! Not in words, but in

action! She jumped up and down on the leg as hard

as she could to prove she was totally healed!

We did not operate in the gift of faith. BUT SHE DID!

HOWEVER!!! The next day we were in Denver and

before the service a girl about thirteen years old

walking on crutches, came up to the book table.

Suddenly the gift of faith began to operate because

when I saw her, I remembered what had happened

just one night before! I KNEW SHE WOULD BE

HEALED! I don't know how I knew, but I knew! I

questioned her to see if she wanted to be healed

before or after the service! At first she said she

would wait until after the service, but then she said,

"No, I want to be healed BEFORE the service!"

I simply ran my hands over the foot and ankle and

said, "In the name of Jesus, bones, I command you to

be healed." Notice that I spoke directly to the bones.

My spirit was leaping because of the gift of faith, so I

said, "Test it to see what God has done!"

She stepped on it, gently and gingerly, and a shocked

look came on her face! She pressed down a little

harder, then a little harder, and soon she began to

cry with joy! She came on the stage before the whole

church that morning, and again that night, to dance

before the Lord and tell of his mighty act! Was I

surprised? No, because the gift of faith was in

operation; therefore, I could tell her to act without a

moment's doubt! I'll tell you one thing, though, we

are thrilled and excited every time God does a

miracle!

Along the same lines, I had spoken at our City of

Light Christian Center church service, when the

anointing of God came on me strongly in ever-

increasing power. Frances received the gift of faith

and ran to the front. She said, "Charles, tell

EVERYONE who needs healing to come forward right

now!"

In my spirit I KNEW that anyone I touched would be

healed. The first one was a woman who had come

from California with a severe knee problem which

the doctors could not diagnose. She was discouraged

because it seemed as though nothing could be done. I

was so full of the gift of faith, I just touched her knee,

and she threw the crutches as high as she could and

started running — free from pain!

Next I ran to a twelve-year-old girl nearby who had

fractured her foot and ankle the day before. Prior to

the service, her mother had told us she could not

even bear a tiny amount of pressure on it without

crying. Even with pain pills, she was in excruciating

pain. She was also on crutches, but when I simply

touched her foot and said, "Be healed in the name of

Jesus," I KNEW SHE WAS! Why? Because the gift of

faith dropped on us after preaching the Word to the

people!

The little girl hesitated to put her foot down, but

finally she gingerly touched the carpet. A look of

surprise came over her face! Then she pressed a little

more, and a little more, and a little more, until

suddenly she said, "Mama, it doesn't hurt any more!"

Mama quickly took off the "half cast, and the little

girl took off on a run. She ran completely around the

big circular dome and that night she came back

wearing tennis shoes, playing as normally as anyone.

Her mother came up to us at the evening service

because when they had gotten home her husband

was very upset about the whole thing and said,

"Those Pentecostals have just psyched you out. You

didn't get healed!" As a result, he was insistent that

the little girl go back to the doctor to have it checked,

and the mother did not know what to do.

She said, "Will it show a lack of faith if I take her

back to the doctor?"

Frances said, "He won't believe you. He won't believe

me, but HE WILL BELIEVE THE DOCTOR, so go

ahead, because God's healings will stand the test."

The next morning the mother took the little girl to

the doctor. The little girl was so excited, she just

blurted out, "Doctor, Jesus healed my ankle yesterday

at church!"

The doctor said, "We'll see about that!" He X-rayed it, and after examining it said, "You are right, because

you have had a miracle!"

Later, the unsaved husband was heard telling his

sister, "Do you know what happened yesterday? God

healed our little girl's foot while she was at church!"

Jesus heals so that people will believe that he is the

Son of God, and is the only way into eternal life.

Glory!

Be aware of the gift of faith at all times, so that when

the glory begins to fall, you'll be right there!

Peter and John had the gift of faith drop on them

when they went up to the temple one day. The man

who had probably begged alms of Jesus was there,

and it would have been easy for them to think, "Jesus

didn't heal this man, so why should we try?" But they

didn't! Why? Because the gift of faith came upon

them, and without any doubt, as Peter fastened his

eyes upon him with John, said, "Look on us ..." Then

Peter said, "Silver and gold have I none; but such as I

have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of

Nazareth rise up and walk" (Acts 3:4,6).

This was an illustration of the working of the gift of

faith. The same thing can happen to you, so BE

ALERT!

You don't even have to be in a church service when

the gift of faith falls. During lunch time one day,

three of us remained in an auditorium where we

were holding a meeting. We looked up and saw a

couple entering, pushing a little girl in a tiny wheel

chair. The gift of faith came upon both of us at the

same time!

We went directly to them and inquired as to what the

problem was. They told us the child had been

attacked by a disease which caused the muscles to

become useless. Already she could not move her legs,

and it was beginning in her arms.

A friend had been to our services the night before

and saw Jesus healing the sick. She called them and

said, "You've got to take Belinda! She'll be healed, I

know she will!" Their faith ignited, and suddenly

they believed that if they could get the forty miles to

the service, their little girl could be healed!

We said to the child, "Do you believe God will heal

you?" Without any doubt, she instantly said, "I HAVE

FAITH IN GOD!"

We said, "Then, IN THE NAME OF JESUS, STAND UP

AND WALK!"

She shot out of the wheel chair as though she was a

rocket taking off, and FELL FLAT ON HER FACE!

Did our faith fall flat with her? NO! Why? Because

God dropped the gift of faith on us!

We picked her up off the floor, stood her on her feet,

and said, "NOW, WALK, IN JESUS' NAME!"

She took one step, AND SHE DIDN'T FALL DOWN! She

took another step, AND SHE DIDN'T FALL DOWN!

Pretty soon she started walking all over the place,

and her parents took the wheel chair back to the car

so she wouldn't even see it again.

That afternoon she danced for Jesus on the stage of

the auditorium!

... And there was an interesting postscript to the

healing!

Five years previously, the wife of a Christian book

store owner in Albuquerque came to a meeting, with

the same incurable disease little Belinda had. She

was on crutches with her legs dangling like they

didn't have any bones in them. They looked like a

rubber doll's legs.

Bobbie was the first one at the meeting, and sat right

in the middle of the front row. When she came in,

she said, "I believe when you pray for me, I'll be

healed!" And while we were making preparations for

the meeting, she kept saying excitedly, "Tonight's my

night to be healed!"

She came up on crutches and when we prayed, she

fell under the power. She said that Frances threw the

crutches across the room and said, "You'll never need

them again!" All we remember is she looked so

pathetic on the floor, struggling to get up with those

legs of rubber. Finally she made it, and although she

was walking, she didn't look like she was healed. But

we look not with the natural eyes, but with eyes of

faith.

She had come to the meeting to tell us of her healing,

little realizing there would be a little girl there with

the same disease. She said, "The only thing I haven't

been able to do is dance," so Charles said, "Come on,

let's dance right now!" And she and Charles danced

before the Lord as all of us praised and worshiped

God for her healing.

Many people wonder if God's healings last! Of course

they do! Bobbie walks perfectly today!

There are times when you need to heal without the

gift of faith, but when those beautiful, holy times

come and God literally dumps the gift of faith on you,

step out without a doubt and ACT QUICKLY AND

WITH FULL CONFIDENCE!

When the gift of faith is fully given, you step out of

the dimension of the human limitations and step into

the dimension of Almighty God!

"For with God nothing shall be impossible (Luke

1:37)

"... AND NOTHING SHALL BE IMPOSSIBLE UNTO

YOU"(Matt. 17:20).

CHAPTER 17

CREATIVE MIRACLES

By Charles

God does creative miracles! He makes physical things

out of things that do not exist. He said, Let there be

light..." and light came into being (Gen. 1:3). "And

God CREA TED great whales, and every living

creature that moveth ..." (Gen. 1:21).

God extended himself, with all his powers, into us

through Jesus, so his same power through us can

CREATE parts for bodies which become defective.

When you buy a car or an appliance, you need to

consider the availability of new parts when the old

ones wear out. God loves us and cares for us much

more than a car manufacturer cares for his cars, so

he provides a means of replacing defective or worn-

out parts for our bodies.

You, too, can call into being those things which do not

exist, using the power of God in the name of Jesus!

The Bible tells us that God "quickeneth the dead, and

calleth those things which be not as though they

were" (Rom. 4:17).

According to The Living Bible: "God will accept all

people in every nation who trust God as Abraham

did. And this promise is from God himself, who

makes the dead live again and speaks of future

events with as much certainty as though they were

already past" (Rom. 4:17 TLB).

Shortly after Frances and I received the baptism with

the Holy Spirit, I was reading the Living Bible and the

Holy Spirit made a scripture come alive to me! "Jesus

now returned to the Sea of Galilee, and climbed a hill

and sat there. And a vast crowd brought him their

lame, blind, maimed, and those who couldn't speak,

and many others, and laid them before Jesus, and he

healed them all. What a spectacle it was! Those who

hadn't been able to say a word before were talking

excitedly, and those with missing arms and legs had

new ones; the crippled were walking and jumping

around, and those who had been blind were gazing

about them! The crowd just marveled, and praised

the God of Israel" (Matt. 15:29-31 TLB).

I went to my CPA office after reading that story and

couldn't get it off my mind. I called Frances and said,

"God is going to do creative miracles in our ministry;

he is going to grow out limbs that aren't there! We

are going to see real legs grow where wooden legs

are now! My faith was ignited as we talked about

actually experiencing such phenomenal things as

that!

About a month or two later, we were in Florida at a

non Spirit-filled church when the pastor said we

would have to conclude our service by 9 PM because

his people would walk out if we held them too long.

God began displaying his amazing power, and

somewhere around 11 PM the glory of God fell on a

fourteen-year-old boy. We said, "What would you like

Jesus to do for you?"

He stuck out his hand and showed us a missing

thumb, cut off at the back joint, and said he wanted

God to grow him a new thumb!

Hallelujah! Did we ever get excited! After just having

discovered that scripture, God was giving us an

opportunity to put it into practice, and to call into

being that which did not exist!

By this time, the audience was wild with excitement

as they were watching the spectacular miracles God

was doing, one right after the other. They were no

longer sitting! They were not only standing on the

pews, but some were standing on the backs of pews,

holding onto the ones standing on the pews! We

didn't even know what the gift of faith was, but we

knew what God had said to us about growing new

parts!

We had him hold out both hands so we could see the

difference, and we began commanding the thumb to

grow in Jesus' name! We were almost shouting,

"GROW! GROW! GROW!"

Suddenly, it began to grow! You could see the end of

it moving out slowly alongside the other thumb.

The people were screaming! And so were we!

Because God was re-enacting his first earthly

miracles of creation!

In a matter of just a few moments, maybe a minute,

the thumb was full-grown, just like the other! It had

normal knuckles, and a place for a thumbnail, but

there was no nail on it. Expectantly we said, "Let's

ask God for a thumbnail!" Hallelujah! Why not? God

is in that kind of creative part-making business.

With about seventy-five people looking, we boldly

commanded a thumbnail to grow, in Jesus' name!

And it did! We watched it as it slowly grew out, but

were really surprised when it continued growing

past the end of the thumb! It curved over the end

and back down the underside of the thumb, like a

talon! Around it was a soft blue glow. We all excitedly

discussed the unusual way it had formed, and looked

closely at it for several minutes!

Good news travels fast, and the next morning many

were waiting for the boy to come to church and were

excited to see what God had done. The new thumb

was perfect! BUT THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE OF THE

THUMBNAIL -JUST THE PLACE FOR IT! We couldn't

understand what had happened, because so many of

us had actually seen it there.

As we thought about it, we recalled visions from God

where a blue glow surrounded the person or object

made visible in the spirit, but not physically. We can

only assume that this was a vision of God, where he

let about seventy-five people see the same thing — in

the spirit!

Shortly after this, our grandson brought a little

neighbor boy over to his house one night while we

were there. The boy had one foot about a half inch

shorter than the other. We commanded it to grow

out, but saw no evidence of change. However, the

next morning the boy came running over, exclaiming

that both feet were the same length and the same

size! The leg which had been approximately one-half

the size of the full-size leg, had filled out during the

night and was also a normal leg!

In Wisconsin several years ago a thirteen-year-old

girl came to a miracle service expecting a BIG

miracle. She had been to an orthodontist because of

crooked, overlapping, protruding teeth. They were

badly covered with tartar, and her gums were soft

and bleeding. The fees for corrective work were so

great that the family could not afford to have the

much-needed work done.

While we were worshiping God and praising Jesus in

song, the little girl turned to her mother and

exclaimed, "Mother, my teeth are moving!" Her

mother got so excited she didn't even stop to look!

She just said, "Get up there as fast as you can!"

The girl ran to the front, but the glory of God was so

upon her that before she got on the stage, she fell

under the power of God, and lay there for about

thirty minutes.

When she got up, her teeth were so perfect that

Frances said they looked like an ear of corn with

perfectly straight rows! To me it looked like God had

created a full set of new teeth out of heavenly pearls!

They were perfectly shaped and her gums were

beautiful and healthy! We could hardly believe what

we were seeing!

We asked if there was a dentist present, and a young

man who had driven four hours to get there ran up

to us.

When he looked in her mouth, he said, "I have never

seen such a perfect and beautiful set of teeth in my

life!"

God had done another creative miracle, and, just as

he said in Genesis 1:25, after he had made the beast

and the cattle and other creeping things after his

kind, "And God saw that IT WAS GOOD."

The gift of the word of knowledge is always exciting

to experience, but especially when used in

conjunction with a creative miracle! One night

during a miracle service, my gums and face felt like I

had been to a dentist and had a shot of Novocain to

deaden the pain. I recognized this as a signal from

God that he was healing someone with a tooth

problem. When I announced this to the audience,

five people came forward. God had filled the cavities

in the teeth of two of them; he had healed two with

abscesses; and the fifth one said she had been to the

dentist that day, THAT HE HAD DEADENED HER

MOUTH WITH NOVOCAIN, had filled two teeth and

prepared the other three for more work the next

day! God had filled the other three teeth perfectly

and the dead feeling had left her face! Glory to God

who does the impossible today —creative miracles

for the masses!

While we were on that same trip, a filling came out

of one of Frances' teeth. She showed it to me, I

examined it and threw it into a waste basket. When

we returned home, she went to the dentist to have

the filling replaced. As she was parking, she said,

"God, you filled all those other teeth. Why do I have

to waste all this time going to a dentist to have mine

filled?"

The technician sat her in the dentist chair and said,

"What is the problem?" Frances said, "The filling came out of a tooth."

The technician examined it, and said, "Which tooth

do you mean?" Frances showed her again, and then

again, but the technician could not locate where the

filling had come out! She called the dentist in and

they repeated the same routine, and he could find no

missing filling. God is a great and loving God of

surprises! How we praise him!

During a visit to Australia, a television station sent a

crew to cover one of our miracle services. The very

first thing they wanted to know was, "What is a

miracle?" They had never seen God do miracles, and

were excited about what was going to happen, even

if they were not Christians.

We explained to them that there were many healings

that you could not see or photograph, but there were

certain types of miracles that you could actually see

while they were happening. We told them to feel at

liberty to interview the individuals beforehand,

during and after the healing, and even photograph it

as it took place.

"How well he knew their thoughts! But he said to the

man with the deformed hand, 'Come and stand here

where everyone can see"'(Luke 6:8 TLB). Jesus called

into being something that did not exist, and had even

told them that it would happen before the healing

took place.

The Australian miracle service was underway! The

cameras were rolling. We had everyone measure

their arms, and then the ushers selected a few from

the audience who had enough difference in the

length of their arms to be seen from the stage. The

first one was a simple adjustment, and it was

accomplished very quickly!

The next person was a lady whose left arm was about

two inches shorter than the right. We asked her what

caused the arm to be short. Her reply shocked us,

because she said the doctor had removed about two

inches of bone from the arm!

Right on national television I looked up to God and

said, "God, you had better be here for this one!" God

had better be there for every miracle, or they won't

happen, but in this case I wanted to make sure he

was there!

But God is faithful and wants to demonstrate his

power so people will believe that he is a living God!

As we commanded that arm to grow, it d id so — at

just the right speed for all of Australia to see God in

action on a television screen!

God had put in two inches of bone, marrow, tissue,

nerves, muscles, and whatever else it takes to extend

an arm two inches. He had done a creative miracle

as we commanded the arm to grow in Jesus' name! If

that creative miracle had happened in the synagogue

two thousand years ago, it would possibly have been

in Luke 6:8, or some other exciting scripture!

One Thursday night in Houston, we commanded a

new part to be formed in a lady, and exactly one

month later she returned and reported she went to

the hospital the next Monday for surgery after we

had prayed for her and received an interesting

diagnosis from the doctor: "You won't need surgery

because there seems to be a NEW uterus!" If God can

put a star into a fixed position, he can put a new

uterus into one of his children!

One night in Oregon a man came for healing who

had one lung which had been collapsed by a surgeon

seven years before. We laid our hands on him,

commanded a new lung to appear, and commanded

his breathing to be normal. The next morning he told

us excitedly that he was filling that lung with air as

easily as the other. We talked with him several times

later, and he said it was great to have two perfect

lungs! Hallelujah!

One night the Spirit of God led us to ask how many

had never seen someone fall in the Spirit, or go

under the power. Over half of the audience said they

had not, so we asked for twenty volunteers who

wanted a touch from God to come forward!

We had felt led to ask this question because we had

prayed for someone at the very beginning of the

service. When that person fell under the power, a

gasp went up all over the audience, so we knew this

was something that not everyone present had seen

before. It didn't surprise us when half the audience

arose to come forward.

There was a limited amount of ministering room, so

we lined up about twenty across the front of the

audience, and then we touched each one on the

forehead gently and simply said, "Jesus, touch them!"

Every single one of them fell backwards to the floor,

and a surprising thing happened! Normally people

get right back up, but this time they all continued to

stay right there.

We finally started singing and praising God, because

momentarily it looked as though they were going to

stay there all night! Suddenly a young woman on the

floor started laughing hilariously! She put her hand

over her mouth, but couldn't stop! Soon a dignified

businessman next to her on the floor did exactly the

same thing! First he put his hand over his mouth, but

before long, he was laughing almost hysterically,

completely unable to stop. Then another, and

another, until it wasn't long before all those under

the power and the entire audience were doing

exactly the same thing! They were all laughing

hilariously as wave after wave of holy laughter

spread over everyone!

Finally, the first young lady who had gone down

under the power got up, still laughing energetically,

ran over to another lady, and started beating her on

the shoulder! We knew she wasn't angry, but couldn't

understand what she was doing! When we finally got

her settled down so she could talk, she explained that

her aunt had "forced" her to come to the meeting

against her desire. She had one arm which had

atrophied because of an incurable disease, and she

could not even lift it. She was a nurse, so she couldn't

work because of this. She was demonstrating to her

aunt by hitting her that God had healed her, because

she was laughing so hard she couldn't talk!

While everyone was still laughing, a man said to his

wife whose glasses had fallen off when she went

under the power, "Honey, your eye got healed! It isn't

crossed any more!"

A sixteen-year-old girl was watching all this, and

while she was laughing, she began to feel movement

in her foot. She had always had to buy two pair of

shoes, because she had one foot smaller than the

other, and right in front of her eyes, the smaller foot

grew to the same length as the other one! Hallelujah!

But the biggest surprise came the next morning

when a lady who had been working at the book table

reported that during the period of holy laughter, God

had restored a breast which had been partially

removed in surgery! Hallelujah!

We were sharing this with Dr. Lester Sumrall shortly

after that and said, "We didn't know there was power

in holy laughter." He said, "THERE IS POWER IN

ANYTHING THAT IS HOLY!"

What had happened? What methods did God use to

heal all these people and scores of others during that

one night of real glory?

The WORD OF KNOWLEDGE caused us to call them

forward.

The HOLY LAUGHTER was given by the Spirit as a

healing balm.

The GIFTS OF HEALING were in operation. We LAID

HANDS ON THEM. The divine presence of the HOLY

SPIRIT brought power to heal.

FAITH ignited among the people as God began to

allow his power to flow supernaturally.

How do you heal the sick in a situation like that? All

we can say is when the Spirit is moving, move right

with him!!!

We all think that the most exciting healing that ever

happens is the one that happens to us, and I'm no

different than you. I want to share what God did in

my life in the way of a creative miracle!

Some seven years ago I desperately needed a BIG

healing. I had an enlarged heart with a hole in it. My

blood pressure was 225/140 after medication! I have

a very high pain tolerance, and that is why, if I ever

do get sick, I am unaware of the fact that I actually

am sick. I totally believe in God and his healing

power, so I forget to notice some symptoms that

might occasionally come upon me.

I cannot help but think of how many times my blood

pressure had skyrocketed and given me such

headaches that I thought my head was going to blow

off, and yet I still did not even think there was

anything wrong with me. I would say to Charles,

"Honey, I have a horrible headache, and you KNOW I

never have headaches!" Then one day Charles

answered me and said, "Honey, did it ever dawn on

you how many times you've been saying that lately?"

The week that Bob and Joan were to be married, the

devil took a real poke at me, and I had gone to bed

because I had more pain than I could possibly stand.

My head felt like it was bursting open. I had been in

bed for 48 hours when Charles got mad at the devil!

He jumped on top of the bed, and I have never seen

Charles speak with such great authority in my entire

life. He really yelled at the devil! God had just spoken

to him to take authority over the heart, and when

God speaks to Charles, he acts with great power and

faith.

A technician was taking my blood pressure, and

when Charles took authority over the heart, he spoke

to it and said words to this effect: "Devil, you take

your hands off my sweetheart! Heart, in the name of

Jesus, I take authority and dominion over you, and I

command you to reduce to normal size! Blood

pressure, I command you to go down to normal, in

the name of Jesus! Hole in the heart, I command you

in the name of Jesus to be healed, RIGHT NOW!"

Charles said he was speaking to an enemy he hated

who was attacking his beloved and he really meant

business. He wasn't just saying words!

And God did a supernatural miracle! He brought the

blood pressure down to 140/80 in a matter of twelve

minutes, and it has remained there to this very day!

My horrible headache completely disappeared, and I

have never had one since then!

The most exciting thing, however, is the fact that

when X-rays were made after this, there was no more

hole in the heart, nor was it enlarged. As a matter of

fact, the doctor showed me the X-ray made before the

healing, and the one after the healing, and said,

"Frances, you have the heart of a sixteen-year old

girl!"

Charles is a very strong, but sweet, mild-mannered

person, but he scared me so that night when he

jumped up on the bed and started yelling and

pointing at my heart that I was afraid not to get

healed! I have never seen Charles the real tiger he

was that night, but the gift of faith really fell on him,

and God did a creative miracle! Glory to God! It's not

how loud you yell, but it is important that you

believe in your heart and speak with authority

because that is the way Jesus said to do it.

We give God all the praise and honor because that

new heart is what has kept me running all these

years for the Lord!

Let's look back over these examples and scriptures

and see "how to heal the sick" to obtain a creative

miracle.

There are times when we simply ask God for a new

part for a body, and he responds. We don't limit God

in any way, because he has demonstrated hundreds

of times that he heals in many different and unique

ways, and we are astounded at the ease with which

he does it. Jesus did it. The disciples did it. As you see

by these few examples, Frances and Charles did it.

And so can you!

There are times when we command a part to be

formed in a body, and suddenly something appears

that was not there before! "Through faith we

understand that the worlds were framed by the word

of God, so that things which are seen were not made

of things which do appear" (Heb. 11:3). Generally we

also lay hands on those to whom we are ministering.

Most of the time they fall under the power.

Just as God speaks things into existence, we can do

the same because he lives in us by the power of the

Holy Spirit.

We must believe that we have the power of God and

the authority of Jesus to apply this power.

We must believe that we are doing the will of the

Father; that we are doing it for his pleasure and his

glory.

We must be willing to walk on spiritual water and

never be concerned with what others think about us.

We must act upon what the Word of God declares

that others have done, and believe that "... He that

believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also;

and greater works that these shall he do; because I go

unto my Father. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my

name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified

in the Son" (John 14:12,13).

We must not let our trust in God falter when we start

toward a miracle — keep going no matter how little

you understand about what God is doing; move

rapidly when the Spirit is doing unusual things.

Operate in a combination of the gifts of the Spirit,

because they are the tools which God gives us to

perform the supernatural.

"Expect God to act!"(Ps. 42:11 TLB).

Watch for opportunities to glorify God and Jesus by

doing those things which show that Jesus is the way,

the truth, and the life, so that people will want to

serve God.

Be bold! Speak with authority; operate in love!

"Faith ... worketh by love" (Gal. 5:6).

Live like you really believe you are the body of

Christ! If you actually believe that you are the

dwelling place of God's Holy Spirit, that you are

endued with HIS power, that Jesus lives in you, then

you should be willing to DO THE IMPOSSIBLE just for

him!

Don't limit your healing methods to prayer, or the

way someone else has done it. Jesus didn't! He was

original in almost every act he did.

CALL INTO BEING PARTS WHICH DO NOT EXIST!

CHAPTER 18

GROWING OUT ARMS AND LEGS

By Frances

There are many common, ordinary, unusual, and

unique ways to heal the sick. God has told us only a

few of them, and we never attempt to limit God and

put him in a box. He surprises us constantly because

almost every time we minister healing, or teach on

healing the sick, God shows us something new, so

that adds to our knowledge and God multiplies the

number of healings.

It is somewhat like developing an automobile. It

would have been hard to invent an automobile if a

wheel had not been invented years before. They

already had the wheel so all they had to do was get a

motor and hook it up to the wheel! It is the same

with healing! You learn a little and you add that to

what you already know. Then you learn a little more,

and you add a little more knowledge. If you will just

keep on healing the sick, you will keep learning more

about how to heal.

When do you heal the sick? When you feel like it?

No! When you think there is a special anointing on

you? No! You lay hands when there is an

opportunity. Whether your ministry is preaching,

ministering salvation or the baptism with the Holy

Spirit, healing, casting out devils, operating in the

supernatural gifts of the spirit, or whatever, it is

always your job to use the tools God gives you at any

particular moment.

If you will let God work through you, and have the

freedom to do things even if you don't have any idea

as to whether you will succeed or not, and you just

jump out of the boat and start walking on the water

like Peter did, you will be absolutely amazed that

God will honor that act of faith! You literally have to

learn to walk on water spiritually to heal the sick.

When you are willing to step out of the boat, Jesus

will be there.

In the charismatic world, growing out arms and legs

is very common, and is done in big and small

meetings all over the world.

The very first time I ever saw this type of miracle

done, I will have to be honest with you, IT TURNED

ME OFF! I really thought the evangelist was pulling

some kind of a trick. Probably the thing that

influenced me the most was the fact that it seemed

like everyone in the audience had a short arm or leg,

and I knew this wasn't possible! Since then, we have

found out that over eighty percent of the world's

population have back problems, and this is one of the

greatest single ailments in the world!

However, about a month after that, God brought the

same evangelist to Houston, and we were sitting on

the platform with him when a lady came up who had

an arm about three or four inches short, and it grew

out RIGHT UNDER MY NOSE! I didn't doubt any

more!

Right after this, we met a Spirit-filled chiropractor,

Dr. Jack Herd, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and he

told us about the percentage of back problems, and

this began to make us think that there was some

great healing potential from growing out an arm or a

leg, so we began to experiment. We thought, "If it will

work for one evangelist, it will work for us!" In the

beginning, we really yelled loud and long, and

prayed and prayed, but little by little we began to see

results! The growing out of arms was not just a

physical miracle that you could see, but it was God's

way of adjusting or healing a back problem.

One night we had eight backs healed all at one time!

When people began telling us how the pain left their

backs the minute their arms or legs grew out, we

began to sit up and take notice of what God was

doing, and we began to appreciate more and more

the benefits and magnitude of this miracle!

Cowboy Ralph McRae had three smashed discs in his

back when he came to his first miracle service. I

pointed him out in the balcony and said, "Your back

has just been healed!" Instantly he felt the warm

power of the Holy Spirit go down all the way through

his spine, and he was totally healed! Up to that time

he had been wearing a "corset" to ride, but he has

not had to wear one since the night of his healing.

However, another very interesting thing happened!

He was so wound up after the service that he

couldn't go to sleep, so he started to read the Bible.

He put on his glasses which he had worn for 31 years

but HE COULDN'T SEE! Alarmed, he said, "God, you

didn't heal my back just to let me go blind, did you?"

He took the glasses off to clean them and discovered

his vision was perfect WITHOUT THE GLASSES! God

had healed his eyes at the same time he healed his

back.

We didn't associate the two healings until God began

to show us a relationship between back healings and

other healings. Could the back adjustment have

relieved an optical nerve or adjusted an eye muscle

to bring back the vision?

Another night a man came for prayer who had been

in an accident about thirty-seven years previously, in

which his back had been severely injured. Someone

who was with him suggested that he ought to have

his ear prayed for at the same time because he was

stone-deaf in one ear. Charles asked him what

caused the deafness and he said, "It happened the

same time my back was injured!"

Normally, Charles would have put his fingers in his

ears and commanded the deaf spirit to come out, or

he would have said, "Open, in the name of Jesus," but

before he could do that, God clearly spoke to him and

said, "Grow out his leg and he can hear!" Talk about

confounding the wise with foolish things — who ever

heard of growing a leg out to heal a deaf ear? We

certainly had not, but Charles was obedient.

He said, "Sit down; God said to grow your leg out and

you can hear!" I'm glad he didn't have time to think

that over because he might have thought Charles was

crazy. Charles measured his legs and one was about

three inches shorter than the other. He commanded

the back to be healed, and COMMANDED HIS

MUSCLES, NERVES, AND TENDONS TO BE ADJUSTED,

and his leg to grow.

The leg grew quickly to full length, and Charles tested

his ear. HE COULD HEAR PERFECTLY! He went all

over the church telling everyone he could hear with

his deaf ear. He was so excited about hearing that he

forgot to check his back for about an hour, and then

discovered his back was healed, too! Apparently the

injury had pinched or damaged a nerve to his ear

and caused nerve deafness.

This was a new insight for us into God's healing

world! Just about a week later a young lady came to

be healed of total deafness in one ear. She said it was

a dead nerve, so Charles checked her arms. One was

nearly an inch short, so he used the same commands

he did with the man. Her arm grew out and instantly

she could hear perfectly.

Hundreds have been healed this same way since we

discovered there is obviously a connection between

nerve deafness and back problems!

Since growing out arms and legs seems so

commonplace to us, we overlooked the vast field of

healings that belongs in this type of healing. God has

been revealing more and more miracles relating to

back, muscle, and nerve adjustments.

We were in Washington recently, and a man brought

a thirteen-year-boy to Ralph (the cowboy) for healing

of bed-wetting. As Ralph began to pray, God spoke to

him and said, "Grow out his leg and he'll be healed!"

This really shocked Ralph, but instead of praying as

he had originally planned, he sat the boy down on a

chair, measured his legs, and discovered one was

approximately two inches shorter than the other. The

leg grew out.

We want you to think about that healing. Isn't it

logical that this could cause pressure on the kidneys

or bladder? We talked to doctors and chiropractors

since then and they agree that this could very easily

cause bed-wetting!

We know without having medical knowledge, that

nerves and muscles are used in a body to effect

normal functions, so if a nerve or muscle is bound or

pinched, it can cause a body defect or malfunction.

This could cause a bladder or kidney problem.

We have talked to medical doctors and chiropractors,

not to learn how to be doctors because we are not

qualified for that, nor do we intend to practice

medicine, but to discuss some of these ways God is

healing by back, muscle, nerve or other adjustments.

A chiropractor friend really got excited when we

spent some time talking with him about the specific

ways God has healed through this method. He

pointed out to us some of their profession's findings

relating to spinal misalignments. One of the things he

told us was that the nervous system controls and

coordinates all organs and structures of the human

body, and that misalignments of spinal vertebrae and

discs may cause irritation to the nervous system and

affect the structures, organs, and functions which

may result in the conditions we were mentioning

and many others.

For example, he related that what is labeled vertebra

Number 2C, second from top of the spine, controls

the eyes, optic nerves, auditory nerves, sinuses,

mastoid bones, tongue, and forehead. We don't know

whether all doctors agree with this or not, but we

have noticed that when God makes an adjustment in

upper or lower spinal areas, hundreds of backs have

been healed, and other healings such as Cowboy

Ralph's eyes occurred when the back was healed. We

feel that we should take notice of what God is doing

through adjustments, and what doctors and

chiropractors already know.

This same chiropractor said that we would probably

be amazed if we knew how many problems which

have not even shown up yet, are prevented by backs

being adjusted in our meetings.

One thing we know for sure is that our ignorance of

what takes place when God adjusts a back, muscles,

nerves, or whatever else he does, does not result in

our making a bunch of damaging mistakes, because

we are not doing it — God is!

By Charles

You may have never seen an arm or a leg grow out. If

not, you're in for a real treat! One of the most

exciting miracles you will ever see is to watch the

power of God actually move a part of the body, right

in front of your eyes. This is also perhaps the

simplest and most commonly performed of all

miracles. It is tremendous to convince a sinner or a

person who has not yet received the baptism with

the Holy Spirit of the reality of the power of a living

God who has not forgotten how to heal the sick.

You might want to try it on yourself! Stand up

straight, put your feet together so that your toes are

even, and look straight forward. Extend your arms in

front of you with the palms facing each other, about

a half-inch apart, and then push or stretch your arms

straight out as far as you can.

While your arms are stretched, bring your hands

tightly together and hold them together until you

bend your elbows so that you can see the ends of

your fingers. If the length of your arms is uneven, the

fingers on your long arm will come out farther than

those on your short arm. Now you are ready to grow

out your own arm. Stretch your arms out in front of

you again, letting your hands lightly touch each

other, but don't hold them tightly together.

You might want to say something like this, "Arm, in

the name of Jesus, I command you to grow. Spine,

muscles, nerves, ligaments and tendons, be adjusted

in the name of Jesus." Then say, "Thank you, Father, I believe it is done," and stand there for a few

moments and watch the miracle as it grows! You

should see the short arm grow to equal the length of

the other, and maybe even feel the adjustment.

Now do it to someone else!

If you want to try it on legs, have a person sit erect in

a straight chair and stick their feet forward. You can

often see the adjustment needed by looking at the

bottoms of the shoes, or by putting your thumbs on

the ankle bones. Hold the feet lightly in your hands

and then command the back to align itself and the

muscles, nerves and tendons to move into place and

command the short leg to grow in the name of Jesus,

and by the power of the Holy Spirit. You do all the

work, and God gets all the glory! Generally if there is

an upper back or neck problem, the arms will need

adjusting, and if it is a lower back problem, the legs

will be uneven. Check your back, or the back of the

person to whom you are ministering, by bending it,

and see if it didn't get healed when the arm or leg

grew out. There are times when you need to adjust

both the arms and legs.

Now you are ready to start being a common,

ordinary, every-day miracle worker for Jesus,

remembering that he is the Master and you are his

servant to do HIS good will. It's fun and exciting to

watch God's power do this type of healing, and it is a

very effective witness to demonstrate God's power.

Then, after God has done the miracle, don't forget the

purpose: so that people will believe that Jesus is the

way into eternal life. GET THEM SAVED! Or if they

are saved, use this demonstration of the Spirit and of

power for ministry as you teach on the baptism with

the Holy Spirit, or for whatever purpose you feel

impressed of the Spirit that is needed at the time.

Remember, Jesus didn't come just to heal the sick; he

came so that they would believe in his name and

accept him and be saved!

We were talking one night to a young evangelist who

works with college students. He walked into a

fraternity house and said, "If you could have one

wish, what would that wish be?" A young black

student jumped up and said, "To have my two legs

the same length!" He was wearing a built-up shoe,

because one leg was about six inches shorter than

the other. The young evangelist had just received the

baptism shortly before this, but he sat the man down,

and the leg grew a full six inches at his command!

What a night of salvation it was for that fraternity!

Miracles will do what words won't!

If there is a defective spinal disc or some other

defective part, this must be divinely healed, or else

surgery may be necessary. A medical doctor or

chiropractor can often restore normal conditions by

adjusting the segments of the spinal column. God can

do this, too, and can do a much more permanent

adjusting, because of the healing he can do at the

same time. God often puts in new parts when

needed, and he doesn't even charge extra for that

service!

We have also discovered that the adjustment is not

always in the spinal column, but is sometimes an

adjustment of nerves, muscles, tendons, ligaments, or

cartilages. A doctor might describe this better, but

what it means is that parts need to be put back into

their proper place by adjustments of some kind.

One lady had a jawbone which was not "hinged"

right, and every time she bit down, it would pain her.

This had been a life-long problem. I commanded the

bone to align itself and the nerves and muscles and

bones to be adjusted and released. The jawbone

moved slightly and the pain left. She had a difficult

time believing that a lifetime of pain left in a few

seconds. God is so good!

We have commanded jaws to go into place when

children have "overbites" and have seen jaws move

into place and teeth line up. This hasn't worked

every time, but we are going to keep trying every

way we know to get as many as possible healed — all

to the glory of God and in the name of Jesus!

A young lady came to one of our services who had

never been to any kind of a healing service and was

utterly astounded as possibly three or four hundred

people were healed that night. She came to me after

the service and said, "I looked at all of these people

getting healed but I looked at all these people who

have this power to heal, and almost all of them wear

glasses. Since they can heal the sick, why do they

wear glasses?"

I didn't really know what to say, but I later asked God

why this is true!

One time Mel Tari, who wrote the book LIKE A

MIGHTY WIND, visited our home. He shared about

how God told him to go across a deep river and

witness to some people, so he and his team walked

over on top of the water! That was exciting to me.

Hallelujah! I said,

"Are you still walking on water over there?"

He said, "No, it hasn't happened in seven years." I

said, "Why?"

He said, "They built a bridge upstream a little ways,

and you do not have to walk on water; you can go to

the bridge and get across."

I thought about that in relation to glasses. I don't

really need to be healed, because with glasses, I have

tremendous vision. I have perfect distant vision, but

when I start to read, the words blur, so I wear glasses

so that I can read. But why don't I get healed?

Probably one of the big reasons is that I don't really

need to be healed. If glasses had not been invented,

and I couldn't see, I would get real serious with God!

We had not found an answer other than that one for

eye problems, but recently while we were

ministering in Canada, an ophthalmologist (eye

doctor) excitedly asked Frances a question that may

be leading to a tremendous advance in the number

of eye healings we can see God do. He had heard us

teach on growing out arms and legs, and how God

was healing nerve deafness by a back adjustment. He

said, "Do you know why so many people wear

glasses?" Frances said she knew why she did — to

see! He said, "Most people who need glasses have eye

muscles of uneven length and the glasses are

corrective for that. If God supernaturally adjusts the

length of arms and legs, or adjusts muscles and

nerves in a spine, why can't he do the same thing

with eye muscles?"

What a spirit revelation this brought to us! We have

just returned from a trip where we were on

television and had the opportunity to ask the viewing

audience if they would help us in an experiment. We

asked them to stand with their arms stretched out,

and we prayed and commanded the eye muscles to

adjust to the correct length for perfect vision for

everyone who needed it!

Four telephone calls came back in immediately! One

was a woman who was blind in one eye and had only

ten percent vision in the other, and when she stood

and received the prayer, she received sight in both

eyes and could read the Bible!

A man reported his sight was gone in one eye, and

during the prayer, his sight returned! Two other calls

reporting eye healings were not quite so dramatic,

but indicated that this could be the key unlocking the

door to many eye healings.

We were on a plane on our way to California and

were talking to a nurse. We began sharing about

backs, and arms and legs growing out and she shared

an interesting thought with us. She said whenever

her mother felt like she was catching a cold, she

immediately went to a chiropractor for an

adjustment, and NEVER HAD A COLD! We decided

that if the devil ever sneaks up on us again to attempt

to put a cold on us, we will ask God to give us a good

heavenly chiropractic treatment!

Another interesting miracle from growing out of

arms: a singer came for prayer for lumps which had

formed inside her throat. You could see fear that it

was cancer written all over her face. I started to lay

hands on her and command the lumps to leave,

when a quiet word from God came as a thought. I

tested her arms and sure enough they were uneven,

so just as God had told me to do, I commanded the

nerves and muscles to relax and go into place. Her

arm grew out even, and I said, "Vicki, I dare you to

find those lumps!" What joy she had when she could

find no lumps!

We are going to share with you several other

healings which God has done through the

adjustments which often result from growing out

arms and legs.

I woke up one morning with a charley horse in the

top muscle of my shoulder. I simply stretched out my

arms and commanded the muscle to relax, and one

of the most beautiful experiences of my life

happened. It was like the hand of Jesus released the

muscle and the cramp gently faded away in a

moment of time. The holy presence felt in my

shoulder was as overwhelming as I believe the

burning bush was to Moses!

All my life when I purchased a suit, the buttons did

not match the button holes by about an inch because

one shoulder was lower than the other. I had the

tailor put a pad in the shoulder, and it was never as

comfortable as the other shoulder. One day I just

thought to God that I didn't really have to continue

with that problem, and because he is so personal and

real to us, I stood straight, squared my shoulders,

and commanded them to be adjusted. I forgot about

this until I purchased my next suit, and sure enough,

the buttons matched the button holes perfectly. Oh,

the beauty of God's personal love for his people.

The devil threw me at the floor one night and I fell

unconscious. When I came to, my face pushed

against the carpet floor, and I stood up, but my hand

and elbow were in pain. The pain stayed with me a

couple of months, especially as I twisted the elbow

slightly. One day I was with a doctor friend and I

asked him about this. He made a quick examination,

and said this was a tennis elbow, and that he could

give me a shot of cortisone to alleviate the pain. I

thanked him, and said, "Now I know what to do." I

went to my car, sat in the front seat, stretched forth

my hands, and commanded the jammed tendon to

stretch out to normal, and it did! I have never had a

pain since then. The doctor had told me that when I

fell, it jammed, or shortened, the tendon from my

hand to my elbow. It's no wonder they call Jesus the

GREAT PHYSICIAN!

We have seen muscle spasms stop, frozen elbows

work normally, fatigue in the shoulder and neck

muscles relax, headaches, pain in arms, hands,

shoulders and other parts of the body be relieved,

bodies go into traction as God adjusts the bones,

muscles, and nerves or whatever else he does. All of

these and scores of other healings and blessings are

free gifts from God as his mighty power adjusts the

right parts, and it is all IN THE NAME OF JESUS!

God is showing the entire body of Christ, not just

evangelists or ministers in a healing ministry, the

simplicity of application of his awesome power so

that the multitudes will not only receive healing, but

will be freely giving to those around them, just as

God has so freely given to us.

Thousands have been healed just in our ministry by

this means of healing, and no doubt hundreds of

thousands have received healing through others who

have learned that they too can heal the sick. We feel

in our spirits that God is saying that healings will

soon be done by the millions throughout the world

by people just like you!

You will never know until you try, but God is

preparing the bride of Christ for that soon-coming

return, and he will do it largely through the

demonstration of his Spirit and his power. We want

you to be a living part of this exciting move of God

for the last days! Start growing out arms and legs!

INSTRUCTIONS FOR GROWING OUT LEGS

1. Explain to the person that while the back is being

healed, the legs will appear to grow, so watch the

thumbs as the power of God is released.

2. The person to be healed should sit erect in a

straight back chair with their hips tightly against the

back of the chair.

3. Have the person extend legs as straight forward as

comfortably possible. Do not force legs when severe

pain is caused.

4. Hold feet so that your fingers support the legs from

beneath; the thumbs should be positioned so that the

inside tip of the thumbs are exactly on top of the

peak of the inside ankle bones on both legs. Thumbs

should be held parallel and perpendicular, pointed

straight at the floor.

CHAPTER 19

GO INTO ALL THE WORLD ...

HEAL THE SICK

By Frances

"As I was at this great height, I could behold the

whole world. I watched these people as they were

going to and fro over the face of the earth. Suddenly

there was a man in Africa and in a moment he was

transported by the Spirit of God, and perhaps he was

in Russia, or China or America or some other place,

and vice versa. All over the world these people went,

and they came through fire, and through pestilence,

and through famine. Neither fire nor persecution,

nothing seemed to stop them."

"As they marched forth in everything they did as the

ministry of Christ in the end times, these people were

ministering to the multitudes over the face of the

earth. Tens of thousands, even millions seemed to

come to the Lord Jesus Christ as these people stood

forth and gave the message of the kingdom, of the

coming kingdom, in this last hour."

Twenty years ago that exciting vision was given, and

we see it coming to fulfillment today as men and

women are taking great steps forward to be among

the multitudes who are sharing the Good News to the

world!

In November of 1977 I had a dream, which for me is

an unusual happening, because I normally do not

dream. I dreamed that I was in a plane 37,000 feet in

the air, which is nothing out-of-the-ordinary, because

we fly all the time. There was something very unique

about this ride, however, because I was standing in

the OPEN doorway of the plane, with my knees bent,

and my toes hanging over the doorway of the plane.

I heard a soft voice say, "Jump, I'll catch you!"

I looked down! Thirty-seven thousand feet in the air

is a long way! Even in a dream, cold shivers went up

and down my spine!

I knew it was God, and yet instantly I thought about

the devil tempting Jesus. "If you are the Son of God,

jump off! For the scriptures say that God will send his

angels to guard you and to keep you from crashing to

the pavement below!" (Luke 4:9 TLB).

I looked down once more and it seemed even further

this time!

Again, the voice said, "Jump, I'll catch you. Don't you

trust me?"

It seemed as though I wrestled all night long,

standing in the open door of the plane, and all night

long the same voice kept saying over and over again,

"Jump, I'll catch you. Don't you trust me?"

Every time I heard that voice I looked at how far

above the earth we were, and 37,000 feet is a long

way down! Yet in my heart I knew it was the voice of

God, but I couldn't understand it. Suddenly I came to

a conclusion because I thought, "What difference

does it make? If it's the devil, I'll be splattered all

over the ground, but I'll be in heaven instantly! And

if it's God, and I'm disobedient, he might not ever talk

to me again."

There was that sudden knowledge that I HAD to

jump, so I let go and jumped right out into the

unknown!

INSTANTLY I was on the earth! There was absolutely

no time lapse between the jump and landing on the

earth. There was no sensation of falling, no sensation

of anything, just jumping, and being instantly there!

Once more I heard the soft, still voice of God say,

"See, I told you that you could trust me!"

God had told us in a dream that we were going to

take a giant step — a bigger step than we had ever

taken before in our lives, but that he would be there

at the end of the step to catch us!

We believe through that dream that God is telling the

entire body of Christ to take a giant step and begin to

do things they never dreamed of doing, and God will

be there waiting for you!

God is calling you to take a giant step because he

wants to make a giant out of you who will crush the

devil under his very feet! And it's not going to

happen because of ONE big giant, it's going to happen

because of multiplied hundreds of thousands,

perhaps even millions of Christians who are going to

step out and begin laying hands on the sick, and

healing them!

"And this is the miracle of it — this is the glorious

miracle of it — those people would stretch forth their

hands exactly as the Lord did, and it seemed as if

there was this same liquid fire in their hands. As

they stretched forth their hands, they said,

'According to my word, be thou made whole.' "

Twenty years ago those words were spoken! Note the

similarity to the chapter entitled "A Vision is a

Miracle" from the book we wrote in 1976 entitled

IMPOSSIBLE MIRACLES:

FIVE YEARS AGO, I WOULDN'T HAVE BELIEVED

THIS, BUT NOW I DO!

The final night of a Delightfully Charismatic

Christian Walk Seminar in Calgary, Canada, was a

night of power like we've never seen in our entire

ministry.

Faith was at top level because of the seminar

teachings. That night's subject was marriage, and as

Charles was talking about honesty in marriage, I felt

such a tremendous wave of power I nearly fell over. I

grabbed the podium and looked over at Charles to

see if he felt the same thing I did.

I couldn't believe my eyes!

Out of the ends of his fingers were shooting flames of

blue fire about four inches long, and as I looked at

them, God spoke to me and said, "The healing

anointing is upon Charles. The first thirty people

who reach the altar will be instantly healed!"

I had to interrupt Charles! The power was increasing

to such an extent I knew God had something special!

I repeated to the audience what God had said, and it

looked like the entire auditorium turned upside

down. I never saw sick and crippled people move so

fast in my entire life!

As Charles ran off the stage to lay hands on them, the

power of God was so strong they fell in waves as he

ran through the crowd. When he was about half-way

across the front of the auditorium, he raised his

hands to touch some, and about thirty to forty people

fell under the power at the same time. People began

weeping all over the auditorium as they felt the

power of God in a way they had never felt it before.

Bob and Joan were offstage at this particular

moment, but they felt something supernatural come

through the loudspeaker. Bob said, "I heard Frances,

say, 'Get out of the way and let Charles through,' then

I heard the word 'fire!' I came running out as fast as I

could, wondering if there had been a bomb of some

kind or other. There was —A HOLY GHOST BOMB!

Charles was plowing through the crowd and people

were falling all over the place!"

Joan said, "I kept hearing 'let him through, let him

through, there's fire on his hands,' so I ran to the

curtain at the back of the stage. The power of God

was so strong it felt exactly like a solid wall of God's

beautiful power, and I broke into tears, completely

overcome by the overwhelming presence of God."

By this time Charles had gone almost across the

auditorium, and the flames began to diminish, and

finally they disappeared. He came back up onto the

stage, and asked the people to raise their hands if

they KNEW they were healed. More than 100 hands

were raised, as God gave even more than he had

promised.

It is impossible to explain how you feel in a moment

like this. I was so awed by what I had seen and heard

that I just stood there wondering what was going to

happen next!

I didn't have to wait but just a few seconds and then I

saw things I had never seen in my entire life. The

Jubilee Auditorium is a large auditorium with two

balconies, and an extremely high ceiling. As I looked

out over the people, there appeared a huge dove with

a wingspread of about fifty feet hovering on the left-

hand side of the auditorium.

It was not white!

Instead, it was "like as of fire."

The dove looked exactly as if it had been carved right

out of fire! It was red, orange and yellow!

I have never felt the awesome presence of God as I

did at that moment, then a shocking thing began to

happen!

The quills from the wings of the dove began flying

out across the audience and landing on various

people.

It looked like skyrockets exploding as the quills flew

faster and faster across the auditorium.

God spoke again and said, "There is perversion in the

sexual life of married couples here. There is adultery

in marriages here, and I am sending the fire of my

Holy Spirit to burn it out."

Men and women began weeping as they cried out,

"God save me!"

The presence of God was a reality to many people

who had never before felt his presence.

The convicting power of the Holy Spirit was upon

many marriages ... then,

As suddenly as it had appeared, the dove

disappeared!

It was instantly replaced by a white dove.

I told the audience the dove "like as of fire" had

disappeared and had been replaced by a white one,

and waited for another message from God because I

didn't understand this at all.

God gave Charles the message this time and he said,

"I have sent my white dove as a symbol of

purification. Your marriages have been cleansed and

purified. Keep them that way!"

The white dove was gone!

Hundreds of people accepted Jesus as a result of this

awe-inspiring moment and many were baptized in

the Holy Spirit and healed at the same time. It was

estimated that around 1,800 people fell under the

power of God this one night.

We may never again stand in the Shekinah glory of

God until we get to heaven, but our lives will never

be the same again as a result of this night.

Some people might not believe it; maybe you won't,

but we have to, because we were there!

An IMPOSSIBLE MIRACLE, but it happened!

These are the days when the fire from heaven is

being poured out! Oh for that day when liquid fire

will come forth from the hands of ALL Spirit-filled

believers! Miracles are happening, the Holy Spirit is

giving visions, and the multitudes are rising up to

bring glory to God! This is you — and this is me! Let

us catch the vision afresh and anew!

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 5

CHAPTER 6

CHAPTER 7

CHAPTER 8

CHAPTER 9

CHAPTER 10

CHAPTER 11

CHAPTER 12

CHAPTER 13

CHAPTER 14

CHAPTER 15

CHAPTER 16

CHAPTER 17

CHAPTER 18

CHAPTER 19