PAT: And all of a sudden, you said, “There’s a person” Out of the blue, you said, “There’s a person that’s got a swelling below their knee,” and you put it right where mine was, and said it’s healed. It’s healed, my arthritis is gone, my knee, I’m perfect.
RR: Oh, glory to God.
LR: Halleluiah.
PAT: And will you pray right now for this terrible tendinitis.
RR: Now, Pat, you see our program up in New York, don’t you?
PAT: Yes.
RR: And yet here we are in Tulsa, Pat. Now you may be somewhere else watching the program tonight. How does that happen? I’ll tell you how it happens. Because the anointing of God is upon us when we pray and minister to you. And when we send that word, it reminds us of the Scripture where it says, “He sent his word and healed them.”
LR: And delivered them.
RR: And we send the word to you, and here we are in Tulsa, and there you are in New York, and there’s no distance in prayer, Pat. We pray here, and you receive the healing there. I just give God the glory and the praise. Halleluiah. Pat, thank you for calling.
LR: Halleluiah, halleluiah.
RR: I get so excited.
OR: Richard, the basis of the ministry of healing is in Jesus. Many people are astonished, many people wonder if it’s true, many people actually doubt. There are many honest people who doubt. I used to doubt myself, when I had tuberculosis and was lying there five months on the edge of death. I didn’t believe. But something happened. Listen to this brief Scripture in Matthew, chapter 4, verses 23-25. It will settle the issue for you. “And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.”
Three things: He went about teaching. Secondly, preaching the Gospel. Three, and healing all manner of sickness and disease. Now notice what followed. As far as I can tell, Jesus didn’t make an altar call like we have. As far as I know in the Bible, He did not. He taught, He preached, and He healed, and that combination of teaching, healing, and preaching the Gospel tendered the hearts of the people, convicted them, and drew them until they saw Him that they might be saved. Today we beg people to be saved, and we’re beginning them because they’re not seeing what Jesus did, who taught, who healed, and who preached the threefold ministry and His fame.
“And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto Him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy or paralysis; and he healed them.” Now notice. “And there followed him great multitudes of people.” They didn’t follow Him when He finished His teaching.
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