© 19 Colin Melbourne. Edited from a message preached in 1923 at Springfield Assembly USA
I was in Long Beach about six weeks later, and the sick were coming for prayer. Among those filling up the aisle was the Doctor. I said, “What is the trouble?”
He said, “Diabetes, but it will be alright tonight. I know it will be all right.”
There is no such thing as the Lord not meeting your need. There’s no “ifs” or “may’s”; His promises are for all “shalls”.
All things are possible to him that believeth
Oh, the Name of Jesus!
There is power in the Name to meet every condition of human need.
At that meeting there was an old man helping his son to the altar.
He said, “He has fits, many every day.”
Then there was a woman with a cancer. Oh what sin has done!
We read that, when God brought forth His people from Egypt, “…there was not one feeble person among their tribes.” Ps. 105:37 KJV
No disease! All healed by the power of God! I believe that God wants a people like that today.
I prayed for the sister who had the cancer, and she said, “I know I’m free, and that God has delivered me.”
Then they brought the boy with the fits, and I commanded the evils spirits to leave, in the Name of Jesus.
Then I prayed for the Doctor.
At the next night’s meeting, the house was full. I called out, “Now Doctor, what about the diabetes?”
He said, “It has gone.”
Then I said to the old man, “What about your son?”
He said, “He hasn’t had any fits since.”
We have a God who answers prayer
Jesus meant this man at the pool to be a testimony forever.
When he had both eyes on Jesus, He said to him, “Do the impossible thing. Rise, take up thy bed and walk.”
Jesus called on the man with the withered hand to do the impossible: To stretch out his hand and it was made every whit whole. And so with this impotent man; he began to rise, and he found the power of God moving within. He wrapped up his bed and began to walk off.
It was the Sabbath Day, and there were some of those folks around who think much more of a day than they do of the Lord, and they began to make a fuss.
When the power of God is in manifestation, a protest will always come from some hypocrites.
Jesus knew all about what the man was going through, and met him again, and this time He said to him; “Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.”
There is a close relationship between sin and sickness.
How many know that their sickness is a direct result of sin?
I hope that no one will come to be prayed for who is living in sin. But if you will obey God, and repent of your sin and quit it, God will meet you, and neither your sickness nor your sin will remain.
“The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sis, they shall be forgiven him.”
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© 19 Colin Melbourne. Edited from a message preached in 1923 at Springfield Assembly USA
