08/14/2023
HEALING OF THE CRIPPLE
I had a meeting some time ago and everything was dry, so after a very long time I said I'll lay my hands on the first one down here for healing and you'll be healed
The congregation just sat there and looked at me. Finally, a dear fellow started trying to get up. He had a homemade crutch under one arm and what looked like a crooked little tree limb in his other hand. He finally made it up out of his seat and came toward the altar. I thought, Dear God, surely somebody could have come who had a chronic headache! But this fellow came
instead. It seemed like it took him forever to get to the altar. Everybody just sat and watched. Well, what are you going to do in a situation like that? You've got to fight your flesh and feelings! I felt like turning and running. I would have fallen through a crack in the platform, but there wasn't big enough to hide me! What are you going to do, though, if you've already given the
invitation? You're going to act like it's so!
You're going to just grin and wait for the person to get there because God's Word is true! All the time this fellow was making his way to the front, thoughts were running through my mind: Boy, he's going to show you up now. That poor fellow isn't
going to get a thing, and they're all going to think this faith business doesn't work.
What did I do? First, I recognized that it was the devil who was talking to me, and I just ignored him. I didn't pay any attention to him. You see, when you're in faith, you're not moved. On the inside, you say, I'm not moved by what I see. That poor fellow was gnarled and crippled, just
limping down the aisle with a homemade crutch in one hand and a stick in the other one! But I wasn't moved by what I saw. I wasn't moved by what I felt (when you're in faith, you don't have to feel a thing).
I'm not moved by what I feel or see. I'm moved only by what I believe! That crippled man finally made it down the aisle to the front of the church. I laid hands on him and, bless God, his crutch fell one way and his stick fell the other way. His body straightened up, and he started jumping around in front of the whole church! And do you know what? That whole place got lively! I mean, they were jumping, hollering, shouting, and praising God from the front of the sanctuary to the back. It may have been dull and dry in that service before, but
we all felt something then! Why? Because the power of God was released! The power or the anointing was released through faith, and that power healed the crippled man and drove the devil out of his body! Thank God for the anointing! I love the anointing, but if I don't have it upon me, I'm going to go right ahead and tell people what the Bible said and lay hands on them according to the Word.
- Kenneth E Hagin ( Understanding The Anointing)
- JESUS SAVES TV
