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Perhaps the question that is asked me most is,

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when did you realize that God had given you this

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ministry of healing? May I make something very

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clear in the very beginning, and that is the

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fact that Catherine Kuhlman is not a faith healer.

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If you forget everything else that you've ever

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heard about me, always remember Catherine Kuhlman

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has never healed a human being. I have no healing

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power. I have no healing virtue. I would not

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even go so far as to say that God has... given

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me the gift of faith or the gift of healing i

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would not even go so far as to claim any gift

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of the spirit for you see i am so convinced that

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if one has been so richly blessed and if that

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one has been given a gift it will be something

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so sacred something so precious that one will

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guard it very carefully and the holy spirit is

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never boastful i am frank to tell you that when

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there are those who come to me and boastfully

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speak of some gift that the holy spirit has given

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to them i shy away a little because knowing the

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person of the holy spirit i have learned that

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he always glorifies jesus he always magnifies

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jesus he is never boastful never and when one

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has been given some gift to the spirit that one

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will always acknowledge that it is still the

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supernatural power of god it is still the power

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of the holy spirit and the holy spirit through

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that gift and through that yielded channel that

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yielded vessel will continue to glorify and magnify

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jesus no my friend i have no healing power i

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have no healing virtue i want that clearly understood

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for a few minutes you and i are going to have

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one of those good heart -to -heart talks and

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i shall try as simply as possible to reach your

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understanding regarding the key to these great

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miracles that take place a little knowledge and

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an overabundance of zeal always tends to be harmful

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and in the area involving religious truths it

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can be disastrous very disastrous not long ago

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a well -meaning person painted my portrait in

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oils to the artist to the one who painted my

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portrait it was a masterpiece but our radio engineer

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who happened to be in the office when i was unwrapping

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the picture took one look at it and in his quiet

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way commented an overabundance of good intentions

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but no talent often i am prone to react in exactly

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the very same way to those who have so much to

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say about faith those who claim to know all about

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divine healing those who profess to be authorities

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on the subject who claim to have all the answers

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regarding the manifestation of god's power even

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to the point of judging those who fail to receive

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healing from the giving hand of god in the early

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part of my ministry i was greatly disturbed over

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much that i saw occurring in the field of divine

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healing i was confused by the many methods that

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i saw employed i was disgusted with the unwise

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performances that i witnessed none of which i

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could associate in any way whatsoever with either

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the action of the holy spirit or indeed the very

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nature of god and to this very day there is nothing

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that's more impulsive to me then the lack of

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wisdom and i'm putting it very mildly when i

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say the lack of wisdom there's one thing i cannot

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stand and that is fanaticism the manifestations

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of the flesh that bring a reproach on something

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that is so marvelous something that is so sacred

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too often i had seen pathetically sick people

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dragging their tired weakened bodies home from

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a healing service having been told that they

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were not healed simply because of their own lack

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of faith my heart ached for these people i knew

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how they had struggled day after day trying desperately

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to obtain more faith and then when they were

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not healed they were rebuked by the fact that

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they had not had enough faith to be healed having

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been told that if they had had sufficient faith

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they would have been healed i could see the defeat

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in their faces and i saw that because of their

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lack of teaching their lack of knowledge that

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they were looking to themselves almost to the

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point where they were trying to heal themselves

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through their own strivings rather than looking

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to the great physician rather than looking to

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the one who is the author and the finisher of

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our faith jesus christ the son of god it was

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almost as though faith to them was something

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that they could manufacture they could work up

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something they could take out of their pockets

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look at and then say do i have sufficient faith

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is it enough is the quality the quantity enough

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to heal my poor sick body forgetting the great

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physician forgetting the power of the holy spirit

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looking at themselves rather than to god but

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what was the answer again and again i was to

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ask myself the question why were some healed

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and others not was there no balm in gilead was

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faith something that one could manufacture or

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work up in oneself was it something that could

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be obtained through one's own goodness or moral

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status was it something that could be procured

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in exchange for serving the lord or through benevolence

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i knew that god could not lie i knew he had promised

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for i believed every word in the bible i knew

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the promise was there i knew he was all -powerful

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i knew in my own heart that there was healing

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for i had seen the evidence from those who had

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been healed it was real it was genuine it was

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a part of god himself it was his promise but

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what was the key i could not see the hand of

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god in man's zeal and i saw the harm that was

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being done in attributing everything to the lack

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of faith on the part of the individual who had

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not received his healing inside myself i was

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crushed my heart told me that god could do anything

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my mind told me that through ignorance and a

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lack of spiritual knowledge there were those

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who were bringing a approach on something that

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was sacred, something that was wonderful, something

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that God had promised to all. No preacher had

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to tell me, no theologian had to tell me that

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the power of God was real and that God knew no

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such thing as a miracle as such, for I was assured

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of these facts as I read the word of God. The

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word was there. The promise had been given. there

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was surely no changing of god's mind and certainly

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no cancelling of the promise i think that no

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one has ever wanted truth more than i have sought

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truth it seems that i have sought truth all my

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life even to this very hour i do not believe

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that there is a person that is so hungry for

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the things of the spirit there is no one who

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is a greater seeker after his truth i remember

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well the evening when i walked from under a big

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tent where a divine healing service was being

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conducted the looks of despair and disappointment

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on the faces that i had seen when told that only

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their lack of faith was keeping them from god

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it haunted me for weeks was this then the god

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of all mercy the god of great compassion i remember

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that night with tears streaming down my face

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i looked up and cried they have taken away my

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lord and i know not where they have laid him

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and i remember going to my room and sobbing out

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my heart to god praying for light on the truth

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i can take you to the very spot i can take your

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hand and walk with you down the streets where

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i walked that night i can take you to the very

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room this hour where i prayed as i had never

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prayed before and sought him as i had never sought

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him before fortunately i had learned a very valuable

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spiritual lesson early in my ministry one which

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was to come to my aid now i had learned that

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the only way to get the truth is to come in sincerity

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absolute honesty of heart and mind and let the

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lord himself give one the blessed revelations

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of his word and through the word make his presence

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real and his truths known if you want real truth

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go to him he is the source of all truth if you

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want knowledge if you want to know the way he

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is perfect knowledge he is absolute authority

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there is no greater authority than the spirit

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of the living god sometimes i think that we perhaps

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with great sincerity and in our search for truth

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go to other sources than the real source the

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mighty god himself and he reveals the truth through

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his word at no time in my search did i profess

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to wear the robe of infallibility i did not seek

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as a dogmatist nor as one with a closed mind

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but only as one who was daily learning willing

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to be guided by the holy spirit longing to be

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taught of the father as one who was hungry for

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deeper spiritual knowledge not from man but from

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god and i went to the highest authority and sought

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from him the great revelation i waited expectantly

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for the answer and it came it will always come

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one night during a series of services that i

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was conducting a very fine christian lady arose

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from where she was sitting in the audience and

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said miss coolman please before you begin your

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sermon to -night may i give a word of testimony

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regarding something that happened last evening

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while you were preaching i nodded and quickly

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recalled that i had spoken the night before on

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the person of the holy spirit at that time i

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knew very little regarding that wonderful fellowship

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that constant communion with the holy spirit

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but i had been giving a very simple message regarding

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the person of the holy spirit i clearly recalled

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the sum and the substance of that message god

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the father is seated upon his throne and is the

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giver of every good and perfect gift at his right

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hand is his only begotten son through whom we

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receive salvation and the healing for our bodies

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and in whom every need of our lives is met the

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holy spirit is the only member of the trinity

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who is here on earth and working in conjunction

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with the father and with the son he is here to

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do anything and everything for us that jesus

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would do were he here in person that was a part

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of the message that i had given i listened it

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now as the little woman spoke as you were preaching

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on the holy spirit she said telling us that in

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him lay the resurrection power i felt the power

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of god flow through my body although not a word

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had been spoken regarding the healing of the

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sick i knew instantly and definitely that my

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body had been healed and so sure was i of this

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that i went to my doctor to -day and had my healing

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verified the holy spirit then was the answer

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an answer so profound that no human being can

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fathom the full extent of its power and yet so

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simple that most folk miss it even to -day i

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had my answer i understood that night why there

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was no need for a healing line no healing virtue

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in a card or a personality no necessity for wild

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exhortations to have faith that was the beginning

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of this healing ministry which god has given

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to me strange to some because the fact that hundreds

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have been healed just sitting quietly in the

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audience without any demonstration whatsoever

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none very often not even a sermon is preached

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there have been times when not even a song has

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been sung no loud demonstration no loud calling

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on god as though he were deaf no screaming no

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shouting but in the very quietness of his presence

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and there have been times literally hundreds

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of times when in a great miracle service there

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has been so much of the presence of the holy

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spirit that literally one could almost hear the

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beating the rhythm of the heartbeats of thousands

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of people as their heart did beat as one in the

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stillness of that moment i have more than once

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slipped my feet out of my shoes for the ground

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whereon i stood was holy ground no screaming

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no manifestations of the flesh, no exhorting,

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no admonishing, just the very presence of the

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Holy Spirit. Yes, that was the beginning of this

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healing ministry which God has given me. Many

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have been the times when I have actually stood

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awed at the great moving of the Holy Spirit.

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Many have been the times when the power of the

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Holy Ghost was so present in my own body that

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I've had to struggle to remain on my feet. feet.

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Many have been the times when His very presence

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healed sick bodies before my eyes, and I stood

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speechless, knowing better than anyone else that

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I had nothing to do with those healings, nothing

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whatsoever. My own mind so surrendered to the

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Spirit that I knew the exact person being healed.

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the sickness the affliction and in some instances

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the very sin in their lives and yet to this very

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hour i do not pretend to tell you why or how

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i do not know from the beginning as now i was

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sure of two things first that i had nothing to

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do with what was happening second i knew that

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it was the supernatural power of almighty god

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i had been satisfied to leave the why and the

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how to him for if i knew the answers to those

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two questions then i would be gone in the light

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of god's great love in the light of his tenderness

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and compassion the holy spirit revealed to me

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my worthlessness and helplessness of self his

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greatness was overwhelming i was only a sinner

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saved by the grace of god the power was his and

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the glory was his and there's something i found

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out a long long time ago and that is the fact

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that he'll not share the glory he'll not share

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the praise with any human being the glory the

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praise shall be his for ever and ever and ever

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you know sometimes i think that our chief difficulty

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is that we seek healing instead of the healer

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of what use to look for light and disdain the

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sun the woman that had the issue of blood was

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not struggling to grasp a lifeline of deliverance

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by the power of mental apprehension all that

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she wanted to do was to get to jesus all that

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the poor miserable wretch on the jericho road

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did was to just crowd into that heart -rending

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cry the story of his own helplessness and his

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belief in the love and the power and the compassion

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of jesus of nazareth even though our blessed

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lord did tell him it it was his faith that had

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made him whole yet i am sure that what faith

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he had was given him by the lord himself the

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presence of the nazarene was the source of faith

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in the days of old and it is the presence of

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jesus the power the holy ghost that is the source

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of our faith in these days of doubt and unbelief

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for the word says without me ye can do nothing

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may i exhort you get your eyes off of yourself

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get your eyes off of your own faith stop struggling

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and into this moment look to him who is the author

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and the finisher of our faith the lord jesus

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christ for any faith that i may have he is the

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one who's given it to me any faith that you have

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or will ever have is the faith that he has given

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to you