© 19 Colin Melbourne. Edited from a message preached in 1923 at Springfield Assembly USA
Do You Want To Be Well?
I believe the word of God is so powerful that it can transform any, and every life.
There is power in God’s word to make that which does not appear to appear.
There is executive power in the word that proceeds from His lips.
Living Words
The Psalmist tells us, Ps. 107:20 KJV;
He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
And do you think that word has diminished in its power?
I tell you nay, but God’s word can bring things to pass today as of old.
The Psalmist said, Ps. 119:67 KJV;
Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
And again, Ps. 119:71 KJV;
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
And if our afflictions will bring us to the place where we see that we cannot live by bread alone, but must partake of every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God, they will have served a blessed purpose.
Healing for Spirit, Soul and Body
But I want you to realize that there is a life of purity, a life made clean through the word He has spoken, in which, through faith, you can glorify God with a body that is free from sickness, as well as with a spirit set free from the bondage of Satan.
Here they lay, a great multitude of impotent folk; of blind, halt, withered, around the pool, waiting for the moving of the water.
Did Jesus heal everybody?
He left many around that pool unhealed.
There were doubtless many who had their eyes on the pool, and who had no eyes for Jesus.
There are many today who have their confidence all the time in things seen. If they would only get their eyes off natural things, how quickly they would be helped.
The question arises, “Is salvation and healing for all?”
It is for all who will press right in and get their portion.
Humble Forceful Faith
You remember the case of the Syrophenician woman who wanted the devil cast out of her daughter, Mk. 7:27 KJV;
But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.
Note, healing and deliverance are here spoken of by the master as, the children’s bread; so if you are a child of God, you can surely press in for your portion.
The Syrophenician woman purposed to get from the Lord what she was after, and she said,
Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs.
Jesus was stirred as He saw the faith of this woman, and He told her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.
Today there are many children of God refusing their blood-purchased portion of health in Christ, and are throwing it away, while sinners are pressing through and picking it up from under the table, as it were, and are finding the cure, not only for their bodies, but for their spirits, and souls as well.
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© 19 Colin Melbourne. Edited from a message preached in 1923 at Springfield Assembly USA
