11.17.2021

Immunity From “All Our Diseases” (2)

(Audio)

David Eells - 11/17/21

Psa. 103:3  Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; Who healeth all thy diseases.

Father, in the name of the Lord Jesus, we come to You boldly before Your throne to receive Your grace today, to be encouraged in the Word of God, to have ears to hear and eyes to see, to have discernment that will stay with us forever. Lord, we ask that You will bring Your Words to our remembrance by Your Holy Spirit as You have promised. We ask, Lord, that You would raise this standard against the enemies of our lives, that Your Word would come to our mind and our understanding in a time that would defend us in these days. We are thanking You for that grace, Lord, to have a good memory of Your Word. We desire that Your Holy Spirit would help us to remember Your Word, to defend us. Lord, help us today to understand the authority You have given us through Your Gospel. Lord, help us to grow in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man, as the Word says about our Lord Jesus. Help us today to understand. We praise You, in Jesus’ name, amen. 

Well, before I continue with the real Good News of what the Lord has done for us, I’d like to refresh your memory a little. We discovered this awesome revelation in the Scriptures. (Eph.2:8) For by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, [it is] the gift of God; (9) not of works, that no man should glory. And we discovered that while the Greek word sozo used there for “saved” is used all through the Scriptures, in other places it is translated into different words, such as “made whole,” “healed,” “preserved” and “delivered.” It is used throughout the Scriptures for salvation, healing, deliverance, provision and saved from danger, etc; it’s all these things. When we apply Ephesians 2:8, we can see “by grace have you been saved, healed, delivered, provided for, protected,” and so on, “through faith.” We discover that this has all been done. In other words, the only way that we can take advantage of our benefits is through faith. We also discovered that the promises of God all through the Scriptures concerning the sacrifice of Jesus are past tense! And not only that, but the Lord Jesus told us, (Mar.11:24) Therefore I say unto you, All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye received them, and ye shall have them. It is literally past tense. “All things whatsoever,” everything that you could pray for, according to Jesus has already been provided. We saw in verses like these from 1 Peter and Romans that we were healed and we were delivered from our sins. (1Pe.2:24) Who his own self bare (past tense) our sins in his body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were (past tense) healed. (Rom.6:22) But now being made free from sin…. 

What we’re coming to understand is that we need to see ourselves in the light of what the Scripture says has already happened! We need to see ourselves as people who have already been saved, already been delivered, already been healed, already been provided for, already been protected by God’s Hand. And, if we do that, we learn to enter into God’s rest. We learn that God has already provided all these things for us. It only remains for us to enter into those works which He has done from the foundation of the world and we do that through our faith. (2Pe.1:3) Seeing that his divine power hath granted (again, this is past tense) unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that called us by his own glory and virtue. Notice that this is what we need to be seeing in the spirit, not what we can see in the flesh. This is what it is to “walk in the spirit” and to have “the eyes of the dove,” as Song of Solomon 4:1 says, which is to see things the way God commands us to see things. If we did this, we would be full of God’s holy boldness, power and His dominion in this earth. “Through the knowledge” is how we gain this spiritual sight of seeing that all things have been provided already and the knowledge is these verses that we’ve been looking at. It’s these past tense verses describing the dominion that the Lord has given us concerning the healing and the deliverance, the provision and the protection, and all these things the Lord has already given to us, already accomplished for us at the cross. (2Pe.1:4) Whereby he hath granted unto us his precious and exceeding great promises; that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust. The divine nature of Jesus Christ is imparted to those people who are serious about taking hold on these precious and exceedingly great promises, those people who realize through the eyes of the spirit that they have already been given everything that is necessary for this life. 

Finally, we discovered that, because of these past tense promises like those found in Hebrews 3 and 4, we could enter into what the Bible calls the “rest.” Why? It’s because we don’t have to struggle, we don’t have to strive, we don’t have to earn or even convince God of our needs. All we have to do is accept what the Bible says, which is that He has already provided them, so now any prayer you pray is a prayer of agreement with what God has already said is ours. (Heb.4:1) Let us fear therefore, lest haply, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it. Why should we have any fear of entering into the rest? It’s because all the promises together corporately are there to cause us to enter fully into all of God’s rest and we don’t want “a promise being left” out that would prevent us from doing that. 

The Sabbath was a type and a shadow of this rest. (Heb.3:7) Wherefore, even as the Holy Spirit saith, To-day if ye shall hear his voice, (8) Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, Like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness, (9) Where your fathers tried [me] by proving [me], And saw my works forty years. (10) Wherefore I was displeased with this generation, And said, They do always err in their heart: But they did not know my ways; (11) As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest. (12) Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God. Our fear should be that we would not enter into this rest because He called not entering into His rest “an evil heart of unbelief” that causes us to fall away from the living God. Why is that? If you look at Exodus, the penalty for not entering into the rest is that we have to live under the curse of death. (Exo.31:14) Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that profaneth it shall surely be put to death; for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. Well, why is it that all these promises are given to us in a past tense form? It is because if you believe them, you are restrained from doing your own works to bring them to pass. If we believe, for instance, that “by whose stripes ye were healed,” then anything we do to receive healing proves that we don’t believe that it was done at the cross. If we believe that when we pray, we have received, then what happens? What happens to a person who believes they have received? That person can stop; they can cease, they can rest from their own efforts. If we believe that “by grace have ye been saved through faith” and if we believe that “saved” represents all of the needs of God’s people, then we can cease, we can rest. You can enter fully into this rest through the promises of God. 

The Bible warns us, too: (Heb.4:2) For indeed we have had good tidings (This is the real Good News that we have been talking about.) preached unto us, even as also they: but the word of hearing did not profit them, because it was not united by faith with them that heard. So these promises do you absolutely no good until you believe them by faith, then they cause you to rest. (Heb.4:3) For we who have believed do enter into that rest.... Which is what? It’s ceasing from your works, ceasing from your self works to try to save yourself, heal yourself, deliver yourself and so on. We enter into this rest by faith and the penalty for not entering into the rest is to put up with the curse of death. (Heb.4:3) For we who have believed do enter into that rest; even as he hath said, As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. 

Notice the works are past. He has already healed us, already delivered us, already provided for us, already protected us. All these things were accomplished through the sacrifice of Jesus and yet people are not entering in because of unbelief. They have to live under the curse of sin and of death because of a lack of faith. (Heb.3:12) Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God: (13) but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called To-day; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin: (14) for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end: (15) while it is said, To-day if ye shall hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. We have to be confident in these promises; we have to stay firm in our confidence until the end. Jesus said, (Mat.10:22) he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved. 

So we are told, (Heb.4:9) There remaineth therefore a sabbath rest for the people of God. The word “sabbath” in this verse is mentioned only once in the New Testament. It is the Greek word sabbatismos and it means “a continual rest,” or in other words, a continual ceasing from your works. This is the only Sabbath that is commanded for the people of God in the New Testament. (Heb.4:10) For he that is entered into his rest hath himself also rested from his works, as God did from his. Because these promises are past tense, we can’t continue to work or we are proving that we are not believing the promise. That’s the whole point. The promises cause us to rest from our works when we discover that the Lord has already healed us, already delivered us, already protected us and already provided for us in every form. We come to this awesome rest through these awesome promises of God. 

There’s something else I’d like to mention concerning this rest. (1Co.1:26) For behold your calling, brethren, that not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, [are called].... You see, God does not want strong, able, wise people. He does not need that. No. He needs a people who are a faithful people, who will believe in His power, in His ability. He needs a people who will believe in what He’s already accomplished and not in what they can accomplish. This is the important thing to God. (1Co.1:26) For behold your calling, brethren, that not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, [are called]: (27) but God chose the foolish things of the world, that he might put to shame them that are wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong.... Things that are weak to the world are strong to God. Things that are strong to the world are weak to God. God did not choose for His methods the things that the world calls “strong” or that the world thinks is strong because He wanted to shame the world. (1Co.1:28) And the base things of the world, and the things that are despised, did God choose, [yea] and the things that are not, that he might bring to nought the things that are (This is a key to exactly what we have been talking about here.): (29) that no flesh should glory before God. God does not want man to be able to take any credit for His methods for His salvation or His provision in any form. He did not want that. So instead of choosing the things that are, God chose the things that are not to bring to nothing the things that are. 

The things that Jesus came to destroy were the works of the devil, whether they were manifested through people or not. (1Jn.3:8) He that doeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. To this end was the Son of God manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. The curse that we see around us is “the things that are.” It’s the sickness, the death, the destruction, the depravity, the lack. Jesus came to destroy these things that are and the method He chose is to use “the things that are not.” Now when you look at all the many, many past tense promises, the past tense provisions, that the Lord has given to us (1 Peter 2:24; Mark 11:24; 1 Peter 1:3; Colossians 1:13; Galatians 3:13; etc), you say, “I don’t see that in the physical realm.” They are not things that are; they are something that is not. If you look in the natural around you, you see the need, you see the lack, you see the sickness, you see the curse being manifested everywhere. And you look at those promises and you say, “That is a thing that is not.” Well, those promises are the only method that God has given to us to bring to nothing the curse around us, no matter what form it’s in. Why has He only given that one method? He tells you right here. It’s because with this method, “no flesh should glory before God.” Nobody can take credit for what God has done because it has already been done. 

And when we cease from our works, when we enter into our rest by believing these promises, that is what brings the promises into the natural realm. (Heb.4:2) For indeed we have had good tidings preached unto us, even as also they: but the word of hearing did not profit them, because it was not united by faith with them that heard. We have to learn to exercise faith in a promise that is totally outside of our natural sight; we have to learn to walk in the spirit and see these things as having already been done. (2Pe.1:3) Seeing that his divine power hath granted unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that called us by his own glory and virtue. Since all this has already been done, we have to see it to imagine it as done. If you can’t imagine yourself having been healed, then how can you expect to exercise faith in this? How can you exercise faith if you can’t imagine yourself delivered, if you can’t imagine that what the Scripture says about you is true and that you were perfected at the cross? (Heb.10:14) For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. Can you imagine (2Co.3:18) beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, and that you are transformed into the same image from glory to glory? Faith is to see the end from the beginning. God is demonstrating to us that He (Rom.4:17) calleth the things that are not, as though they were and that He chose (1Co.1:28) the things that are not, that he might bring to nought the things that are. How do we bring this to pass? How do we bring to naught the curse around us? We do that by using these promises that are not. 

Now notice this: (Rom.4:16) For this cause [it is] of faith, that [it may be] according to grace; to the end that the promise may be sure to all.... Why is that? It’s because everybody does not have the same strength, everybody does not have the same opportunity, everybody does not have the same resources. However, everybody in the Kingdom of God, no matter where they live, no matter what their resources are, can have faith and therefore they can have all the benefits of salvation. They can have all the benefits of Jesus Christ. Some people think that their health comes through health food, herbs, vitamins and all these things that people think that they can use to heal them, but that’s not an equal opportunity that everybody in the world has. Those are “things that are”; they are not “things that are not.” God chose the things that are not to bring to nothing the things that are, so that nobody could brag. No man could take credit because of their great wisdom or whatever. (Rom.4:16) For this cause [it is] of faith, that [it may be] according to grace; to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.... What makes Abraham our father? It’s not according to the things that are, but according to the promise. We are the seed of the promise. We are Abraham’s seed according to faith. (Rom.4:17) (As it is written, A father of many nations have I made thee) before him whom he believed, [even] God, who giveth life to the dead, and calleth the things that are not, as though they were. We are children of Abraham by right because God calls the things that are not as though they were and because He’s giving life to the dead. We were dead in our sins, yet through faith we have the life of Christ and we are now sons of Abraham. 

Just as God calls the things that are not as though they were, so also must we. By what right are we sons of Abraham, unless we claim that right, unless we accept that by faith we are sons of Abraham? You see, it’s not just God Who calls the things that are not as though they were. We also call things that are not as though they were. How do we claim God’s method to use “the things that are not, that he might bring to nought the things that are”? First of all, we have to give up our works and all our worldly methods in order to bring this to pass. Man chooses to use the things that are to bring to naught the things that are. Man does this because man gets the glory. Man creates things out of things, out of that which does appear, but Hebrews 11 says that faith does not use that method. What Jesus said is different from what man says today. Man says, “Now God uses methods of the world to bring to pass His healing” or “Now God uses methods of the world to bring to pass His deliverance.” But where in the Scriptures did Jesus demonstrate that? Jesus used the things that are not to bring to pass the healing; He just spoke the Word. He did not use the things that are or any of the methods of man. He did not use the doctors. He did not use the medicines. He just spoke the Word of faith. What about “psychiatric” problems, as people define them today? The truth is He did not use psychiatrists to bring to pass the deliverance of men from the curse; He spoke their deliverance. He commanded the demons to loose their minds. He brought salvation into their life and restored them from their corrupt thinking and their corrupt ways. (Rom.12:2) And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Men always love to use the things that are to try to attempt to do away with the curse, which they cannot; it is a dismal failure.

Let’s take another look at the method God uses. (Heb.11:1) Now faith is assurance (or “the giving substance to”) of [things] hoped for, a conviction of things not seen. We are using the things that are not and calling them as though they were. (Heb.11:2) For therein the elders had witness borne to them. (3) By faith we understand that the worlds have been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen hath not been made out of things which appear. That is God’s method and now He is training His sons to walk in that method. Our using the things that are not, the promises that are past tense, are God’s method of bringing to naught the curse that is and creating His creation. Man does not use that method. Man uses things to bring to naught the curse, to bring to naught sickness and all these other things. But tells us that everything that can be shaken will be shaken. And what does He say about the things that are made by man? (Heb.12:27) And this [word,] Yet once more, signifieth the removing (talking about the shaking of all things) of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain. Man’s works and methods are going to fail. The shaking that is coming is going to prove them fruitless. The only thing that is really going to work in the wilderness experience to come is when God’s people call the things that be not as though they were, when they hold fast to these promises that proclaim clearly that we have already received all these things and that they are ours now. 

(2Co.4:16) Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. So the spiritual man, the one that is the Son of God, is growing up while the old, outer man is decaying. And here is what brings this to pass: (2Co.4:17) For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory; (18) while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. Many people have their eyes on the things that are seen. They see what they think is the Kingdom of God, but Jesus said, (Luk.17:20) The kingdom of God cometh not with observation. What is the Kingdom of God is not observed by the flesh. When we look at the things that are not seen, we are looking at these promises that tell us what we’ve been given. We see that we are (2Co.5:17) a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new. (Heb.10:14) For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. (2Co.7:1) Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. What do we use? He tells us here: (2Co.4:18) While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal.... They are temporary and are passing away. The shaking of the whole world is going to prove these things worthless and not up to the task of destroying the curse or sickness or bringing salvation in any form to man. (2Co.4:18) While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. 

So the outer man is decaying and this inner man is coming to life only while we walk in the spirit, when we see things the way God commands us to see things and accept these promises that proclaim that we have received all these things through the reconciliation of Jesus Christ. We have already received our healing, deliverance, provision, blessing, protection, maturity and perfection, according to the verses of God. Most people say, “That is a thing that is not; I can’t see it.” Well, it is true. You can’t see it in the natural but we claim it by faith. That’s the power of faith, the power of the sons of God. We are to walk in the spirit, as our Lord taught us to walk in the spirit, and we can only do it if we have eyes to see and ears to hear – spiritual eyes and ears. (Col.3:1) If then ye were raised together with Christ... Why does it say that? (Eph.2:5) Even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved), (6) and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly [places], in Christ Jesus (There it is again! We are already made to sit with Him. We are seeing the end from the beginning and calling the things that are not as though they were, just as God is doing in this verse.): (Eph.2:7) that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus: (8) for by grace have ye been saved through faith.... The people who walk by faith in verses 5 and 6 are going to see this come to pass. People talk about the rapture a lot, but they don’t say much about Enoch being raptured, or translated, by faith. 

What is faith? (Heb.11:1 KJV) Faith is the substance of the things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. So it’s you claiming something while there is no evidence seen. You’re claiming something that you can’t see and calling the things that are not as though they were. And now we can go back to Colossians. (Col.3:1) If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. What did Jesus teach us to pray? (Mat.6:10) Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so on earth. What do we have up there, seated next to Christ? Is there any sickness there? Are there any demon-possessed Christians there? Is there any lack there? Is there any poverty there? None of these things are there. God’s will is done in Heaven and He tells us to command His will on Earth. What did Jesus say? “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done ... on earth.” It does not sound much like a prayer, does it? It sounds like He’s telling us to exercise authority to bring the Kingdom of God on earth. And Who else is going to bring it? The Lord through us, through the renewed mind, is going to bring the Kingdom. (Rev.11:15) ... The kingdom of the world is become [the kingdom] of our Lord, and of his Christ: and he shall reign for ever and ever. (Col.3:1) If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. (2) Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth. (3) For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. (4) When Christ, [who is] our life, shall be manifested (Greek: “to make visible” or “cause to shine forth”), then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory. He is talking about (Col.1:27) Christ in you, the hope of glory. Here He says, “Seek the things that are above, where Christ is” because you are seated with Christ in heavenly places. 

I also like, (Col.3:9) Lie not one to another; seeing that ye have put off the old man with his doings. I once had a lady tell me that to claim my healing according to (1Pe.2:24) by whose stripes ye were healed was a lie. She said, “I just can’t lie. I can’t say I am healed when I am not.” Notice it says right here, “Lie not one to another” and then it says, “seeing that ye have put off the old man with his doings.” In the natural, folks, that would be a lie. This would be a schizophrenic verse. First he tells you, “Don’t lie,” then he speaks something that is not true in the natural. But remember, the things that are not seen are eternal. They are more truthful than the things that are temporal, which we can see. The people of the world lie; we tell the truth when we speak the Gospel, the eternal truth. The old man has passed away and all things have become new. That old man was crucified. (Rom.6:11) Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus. We’re told, “He made you free from sin” (Romans 6:18,22) and that’s the truth, not in the natural realm, but in the eternal realm and that is what counts, folks, forever and ever. (Col.3:10) And have put on the new man, that is being renewed unto knowledge after the image of him that created him. Without the knowledge of these spiritual things that are not, without believing them or mixing faith with them, we are not coming into the “image of Him that created”; we are just walking in the flesh. Now you can walk in the natural or you can walk in the spirit. To walk in the spirit is to have the eyes that He commands us to have, to have the faith to speak those things that He commands us to speak. 

I am going to give you an example, one of the first ones that ever happened to my wife and me. We were reading the Bible diligently as baby Christians and we honestly did not know much of anything. Though my wife and I had been studying the Scriptures and we had seen Scriptures about healing, we hadn’t been to a church that really believed in it. At that time, I loved motorcycle riding. I had two dirt bikes, one for myself and one for my wife. I was teaching her how to ride a dirt bike and, well, I made a dumb mistake. I took her to the hills of Mississippi after I had taught her only the basics. So there we were, riding over these hills and, of course, you know it takes a little more expertise than a beginner has to be able to negotiate hills. 

Now, in dirt biking, you ride into the air when you go over a hill and that day, when we rode over the top of this hill, I peeled off one way and my wife peeled off another, but her side of the hill went almost straight down. I heard her screaming, “MOMMA!” all the way to the bottom, where she was finally stopped by slamming into the woods. She had bounced off several trees, so I scraped her up out of there and got her to the hospital. We learned she had bruised her kidneys and they made an appointment to operate on her the following month, but first they wanted to clear up an infection she had. In the meantime, we went to a Pentecostal church and we had them pray over her, according to the verses that we saw as we continued to study the Word. 

I think we were home for probably a week when my wife was complaining to the Lord. She said, “Lord, we did what you said there in James 5. We called for the elders. They prayed over us and, Lord, I just don’t understand why I have not been healed.” And the first time the Lord ever spoke to my wife, He said to her loud and clear in her spirit, “If you believe that I have healed you, then why are you taking all that medicine?” It did not make one bit of sense to us because we had not discovered the fact that we have already been healed, but she acted on it. This was a revelation straight from the throne room! But that, right there, is heresy to most Christians. In other words, why weren’t we acting as though the Word of God is true? Why didn’t we believe that by His stripes we were already healed? Why were we trying to use “the things that are” to heal her? Of course, men would have received great credit for it or maybe even the drugs would have received the credit, but the Lord would not have received the credit. The Lord is a jealous God (Exodus 34:14). He does not want to share His glory with man. The methods that Jesus gave us are the same methods He uses today and they’re contrary to most Babylonish doctrine. The Lord Jesus was careful not to use the methods of man so nobody would receive credit but the Father. He jealously guarded the glory of the Father and, of course, we should, too. 

Well, when my wife understood that the Lord was saying she was already healed and realized that she was putting her trust in the medicine, she took her medicine and ran into the bathroom. As she was flushing her medicine down the toilet, she was healed right there! She felt a warmth go from her feet up to her head and back down to her feet again, and she knew she was healed. Glory to God! She was healed not just from the damage of the dirt bike accident but also from kidney problems that she’d had since she was a little girl. Her mom and dad would take her back and forth to the doctors for this inherited weakness that had been genetically passed on to her. When that warmth came over her body, she knew that she was healed and the pain and symptoms went away. Do you know when the symptoms came back? They returned on the day that she had an appointment to go back to the hospital, but we had been studying the Word. We had discovered that we were healed at the cross and it had nothing to do with what we saw with our eyes or felt with our body. We were healed at the cross and we are to call the things that are not as though they were. When these symptoms came back on that particular day, she knew that there was some evil intelligence behind this. She immediately rebuked those symptoms in the name of Jesus Christ and they went away. 

How many of you have received a healing from God? Or a deliverance? Or a provision? Or a victory in your life and in your soul, and then lost it? Don’t walk by sight. Remember it has nothing to do with what you see. It is “calling the things that are not as though they were.” So don’t be double-minded; continue to see things the way God tells you to see things. (Mar.11:24) All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. (2Pe.1:3) Seeing that his divine power hath granted unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him.... Seek knowledge, brethren; seek the Word of God. Find out what is yours and claim it. Well, the devil was obviously trying to steal what God had given my wife and Jesus clearly said that the devil comes immediately to steal the seed that was sown in your heart. (Luk.8:11) Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. (12) And those by the way side are they that have heard; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved. How does he do that? He puts his thoughts in your mind; he puts his symptoms on your body; he gets you to walking by sight, rather than walking by faith in what “thus saith the Lord.” She won that battle, by the grace of God, by the wisdom of God. She rebuked the devil. She rebuked the symptoms and they left and have never returned. She has no more of that weakness that she inherited; it’s gone. God is faithful. We need to be faithful to what He said and we need to abide by His methods. 

We learned from that first lesson the Lord gave us that the Lord can speak to us even outside the Word, but it will be in the Word if it is truly Him. We searched the Scriptures and we discovered what He meant by, “If you believe that I have healed you.” So many people are suffering but they won’t do their homework. They suffer and suffer and think that this is normal. Do your homework; get into the Word of God because that is where salvation and victory come from. Well, some years after this, a similar thing happened to me whereby I broke my arm and I needed a healing from God. To make a long story short, I had received a vision in my mind several times that I was about to hit a car. The car turned sideways in front of me and there I was on my motorcycle, about to hit this car. You would not have called it an “open vision,” but it was a vision I saw in my mind three times. It was like a warning the Lord was giving me of something that was coming. And there came a day, those many years ago, that I was going to work and the Lord decided to chasten me because I was speeding on my motorcycle. As I came up to the bottom of this interstate ramp that went over another highway, the car in front of me was in the middle lane and I was on the inside lane. That car in front of me suddenly slammed on its brakes and quickly turned sideways. Because it was turned sideways, it was covering two lanes and, of course, because it was sideways, it stopped very quickly. I couldn’t stop. I knew I was going to hit him and it was as if my mind had been programmed for me to stand up on my motorcycle because that was what I had seen in my visions. I saw myself about to hit this car and suddenly I stood up on the foot-pegs. I did it automatically, just like the Lord had programmed me. I was traveling at probably 65 miles an hour (100km/h) and there was nothing that I could do; that car stopped right there in front of me and I stood up. And at the last possible moment, I steered the bike away from the driver and the front wheel to kind of in-between. When I plowed into the car, my trajectory was pointed up because I had just started on this overpass ramp and I literally flew over the front of that car because I was standing up. 

If I was not standing up, I am sure I would have been dead or if I laid the bike down and let the bike slide up under the car, which I didn’t have time to do, I think I would have been dead, too. But since I was standing up instead and my bike suddenly stopped and I didn’t, I flew over the hood of the car and completed my trajectory by landing on top of the overpass. I’ve thought many times since then that I would have loved to have a picture of that, of me flying through the air, because it was a pretty long flight. I landed quite far away from the car that I hit. So there I was, on top of the overpass, and my sight was gone from hitting the concrete, but when I started praising the Lord, my sight started coming back. An ambulance came and took me to the hospital, for the first time I had ever been to a hospital or even been to a doctor since shortly after becoming a Christian. I was witnessing to the nurses. I had the joy of the Lord all over me and I was worshiping and praising God. It was like the Spirit of the Lord came down on me while I was on top of that interstate ramp. They X-rayed my arm at the hospital and found my arm was broken. I told the doctor who was going to set my arm and put it in a cast, “I don’t want you to do it. Don’t touch my arm.” Basically, I told him that the Lord has always healed me and He was going to heal me this time, too. So he didn’t set my arm and when my wife came with the car, they had to wheel me over and put me in the car because I had stretched out all my ligaments in my flight. I think maybe one foot actually hung on the handlebars and it pulled my shoe off. 

When I got home, my next-door neighbor actually carried me into the house and laid me into my bed. We prayed the prayer of faith, he and I, and I accepted my healing. As soon as I could, I think in a day or two, I was up and hobbling around. I walked around my neighbor’s yard, where I had been helping to clear off some of the trees and brush. He had a backhoe and we were cutting the limbs off the trees and burning the trunks and brush. Anyway, I walked around his house and was on the way back to my house. There was a tree trunk, maybe eight inches in diameter and fairly long, lying on the ground next to the fire, waiting to be burned. It was a pretty good load, even if I did not have a broken arm. I thought to myself, “I’d love to pick up that trunk and heave it over on the fire and burn it in half so that the next time it would be easier to handle.” That’s the way I think. I do try to do things efficiently. The next thought that came into my mind was, “Yeah, if you pick up that trunk, what’s going to happen to your arm?” There was just flesh holding it; it was broken. And then the next thought I knew was from the Lord because the next thought that came into my mind was, “If you were healed, you could pick that log up.” I knew that was what the Bible said. I had studied my Word. I knew that, “By the stripes of Jesus” I was healed. This is something that has already been accomplished and we can act upon what God says, much like Peter, who walked on the water when the Lord said, “Come.” He was walking on the Word of God. Water does not hold people up, but the Word of God does. I thought, “That’s right! I agree! I am healed!” When I reached down and picked up that log and heaved it over on the fire, I never felt a thing. I did not feel any pain, not anything, and I knew I was healed. 

The next day I was back out at the plant, wanting my job back. I worked at Exxon at the time and they had a pretty nice hospital where they could send people if they had any problems at work, or to make sure people returning to work were fit to do their job. They sent me to the infirmary. They would not let me come back to work. The doctor said, “Well, Mr. Eells, it takes at least 12 weeks for a break like this to heal.” I told him, “Doctor, I am healed. By the stripes of Jesus, I was healed.” He said, “You will have to go prove it. You go get this X-ray.” And I went and they took the X-ray and the X-ray proved my broken arm was healed. The doctor was very confused. He didn’t understand how this was possible. I asked him, “What religion are you?” and he told me whatever denomination it was. I said, “Don’t you people believe that the Lord heals?” He answered, “Yes, we believe that the Lord uses doctors to heal.” I replied, “Well, He didn’t do it this time.” Then I did calisthenics for him to prove that my arm was healed and they finally had to let me go back to work. 

God does not want to use the methods of man. He wants to use the methods of Jesus. He wants to bring it to pass for the glory of God. Praise God that He is faithful to His Word! Praise God that we can stand and act on that Word, even though we don’t see it in the physical realm. If you need a miracle, act on what “Thus saith the Lord” because He is faithful every time to bring it to pass. People think that would be a dangerous thing to do because what if God didn’t answer? That’s like asking, “What if God fell off His throne?” The Lord knows that He has given us these promises so that we can be partakers in His divine nature, power, dominion and of His blessings. And He’s going to bring it to pass when we act upon it. That’s why so many people don’t ever see the answers. It’s because they don’t act upon the Word of God. So, brethren, act on the Word of God. Imagine that these promises are true. Imagine yourself as healed, just like the Bible says, and walk by faith. God bless you, in Jesus’ name.

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