© 19 Colin Melbourne. Edited from a message preached in 1923 at Springfield Assembly USA
Faith is just the open door through which the Lord comes
Do not say, “I was healed by faith.”
Faith does not save: God saves through that open door.
Healing comes the same way.
You believe, and the virtue of Christ comes.
Healing is for the glory of God
I am here because God healed me when I was dying; and I have been all round the world preaching this full redemption, doing all I can to bring glory to the wonderful Name of Jesus, through whom I was healed.
“Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon thee.”
The Lord told us in one place about an evil spirit going out from a man. The house that he left got all swept and garnished, but it received no new occupant. And that evil spirit, with seven other spirits more wicked than himself, went back to the unoccupied house, and the last stage of the man was worse than the first.
The Lord does not heal you to go to a baseball game, or to a race meeting.
He heals you for His glory, and that from henceforth your life shall glorify Him. But this man remained stationary. He did not magnify God. He did not seek to be filled with the Spirit. And his last stage became the worst.
Father, glorify thy Name
The Lord would so cleanse the motives and desires of our hearts that we will seek but one thing only, and that is, His glory.
I went to a certain place one day, and the Lord said, “This is for My glory.”
Bed-ridden and About to Die
A young man had been sick for a long time, confined to his bed in an utterly hopeless condition. He was fed only with a spoon, and was never dressed.
The weather was damp, and so I said to the people of the house, “I wish you would put the young man’s clothes by the fire to air.”
At first they would not take any notice of my request, but because I was persistent, they at last got out his clothes, and, when they were aired, I took them into his room.
The Lord said to me, “You will have nothing to do with this,” and I just lay out prostrate on the floor.
God-Shaken
The Lord showed me that He was going to shake the place with His glory.
The very bed shook. I laid my hands on the young man in the Name of Jesus, and the power fell in such a way that I fell with my face to the floor.
In about a quarter of an hour the young man got up, and walked up and down praising God.
He dressed himself, and then went out to the room where his Father and Mother were.
He said, “God has healed me!”
Both the Father and Mother fell prostrate to the floor, as the power of God surged through that room.
There was a woman in that house who had been in an asylum for lunacy, and her condition was so bad they were about to take her back. But the power of God healed her too. The power of God is just the same today as of old.
The Rising Tide
Men need to be taken back to the old paths, to the old-time power, to the old-time faith, to believe God’s word and every “Thus saith the Lord,” therein.
The Spirit of the Lord is moving in these days.
God is coming forth.
If you want to be in the rising tide, you must accept all God has said.
“Wilt thou be made whole?”
It is Jesus who says it.
Give Him your answer.
He will hear, and He will answer.
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© 19 Colin Melbourne. Edited from a message preached in 1923 at Springfield Assembly USA
