Thoughts for Life: #49 Witnesses of Divine Healing

Samuel Chadwick: There are many witnesses that the Lord is our Healer. A few years ago I was in the neighborhood of Bishop Auckland, where Pastor Jeffries had held a mission some months before.

As we were leaving the house where we had called, one of our party expressed regret to her sister that she had not brought some special tablets for her. She had been a martyr to severe pains in the head for years, and this was some new remedy to be tried. (Google Image, Man being prayed for)

She answered gaily, "You needn't bring them. My head doesn't need them. The Lord healed me and I have never had a suspicion of pain since." Her husband and children confirmed her testimony with the remark: "She is a different woman." There are many such witnesses.

The most remarkable example of divine healing I have known took place at the Southport Convention. The Rev. W. Tindall was president of the convention, and the strain of much speaking had brought on a disease of the throat.

For more than a year he had not spoken above a whisper and even that was painful. The specialists gave no hope of recovery. At all the meetings he was a pathetic and silent figure. Prayer was offered for him continually.

At the speaker's prayer meeting on the Friday morning there was a remarkable intensity and unity of faith. No one could pray for anything but the recovery of Mr. Tindall's voice.

Faith gathered courage, forgot impossibilities and claimed the promise. Dr. Ebenezer E. Jenkins presided, and when the rest of us rose from our knees Mr. Tindall remained kneeling.

Dr. Jenkins said, "This is the most remarkable prayer meeting I have ever known," and placing his hand on the president's head he declared, in the name of the Lord, that we would hear Mr. Tindall speak in the tent before the convention closed.

That night Mr. Tindall spoke in the tent for fifteen minutes and was heard by twelve hundred people, and he preached without loss of voice to the end of his days. I was present and saw and heard, and there are those still alive to confirm my testimony.

The experience of Stanley Jones as recorded in The Christ of the Indian Road is another great illustration of the divine will and power to heal.

Before the supreme missionary opportunity of his life he found himself spiritually impotent and physically broken. "I saw," he says, "that unless I got help from somewhere I would have to give up my missionary career, go back to America, and go to work on a farm to try to regain my health.

It was one of my darkest hours. At that time I was in a meeting at Lucknow. While in prayer, not particularly thinking abut myself, a Voice seemed to say, 'Are you yourself ready for this work to which I have called you?' I replied, 'No, Lord, I am done for. I have reached the end of my rope.'

The voice replied, 'If you will turn that over to me and not worry about it, I will take care of it.' I quickly answered, 'Lord, I close the bargain right here.' A great peace settled into my heart and pervaded me. I knew it was done!

Life—abundant life—had taken possession of me . . . For days after that I hardly knew I had a body. I went through the days, working all day and far into the night, and came down to bedtime wondering why in the world I should ever go to bed at all, for there was not the slightest trace of tiredness of any kind.

I seemed possessed by Life and Peace and Rest—by Christ Himself . . . Nine of the most strenuous years of my life have gone by since then, and the old trouble has never returned, and I have never had such health.

I seemed to have tapped new life for body, mind and Spirit. Life was on a permanently higher level. And I have done nothing but take it."

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THE PATH OF PRAYER
By Samuel Chadwick
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Let's pray-

Father, we see that the folks mentioned here have called on You to help them, and You have come through with the healing they needed!
May we pray more with believing-faith for the healing to be done in us, and in those we pray for.
We commit our praying into Your hands, knowing that You have a particular plan for each of us. We ask that Your will be done for everyone we pray for, to Christ's glory and their good.
Help us to tap into this new Life for our bodies, minds and spirits, and remain permanently on a higher level of life.
We ask this in Jesus' name. Amen

Today's Bible verses-

Is. 53:5 (NKJV) "But He (Jesus) was wounded
for our transgressions, He was bruised for our
iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was
upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed."

James 5:14-16 (NKJV) "Is anyone among you sick?
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. (v. 15) And the prayer of faith will save the
sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has
committed sins, he will be forgiven. (v. 16) Confess your
trespasses to one another, and pray for one another,
that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer
of a righteous man avails much."

Today's quote from Till Armageddon

~ Billy Graham- "Because of his omnipresence and omniscience, God is with us in all our struggles and understands our trials. Nothing is our lives takes God by surprise. We are not alone in our suffering. We have a God who loves us and is with us in the midst of our problems." (p. 48)

Words of wisdom:

~ Thankful hearts become ready hearts for the supernatural display of God's grace.

~ Our sensing God's heart for others, helps us keep from a typical religious response and brings us into a connection with His love for people.

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Today's question-

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