Well, we are now answering our 14th question
of the 42 questions that have been written me
and asked to be answered by a very influential
magazine. After I get through answering these
42 questions, don't you make out a list of questions
yourself. and send them in because I'm not going
to answer them. When I have finished these 42
questions, anything that you might ask will have
already been answered, I'll tell you that. Because
this reporter has not missed one. He has not
missed anything. And so don't get the idea. that
if you send a list of 42 or 50 questions, then
I'm going to sit here and do the same thing for
you. When my 42nd question is answered, that's
it, my friend. I've had it. This is the 14th
question. How have you overcome the disreputable
cloud regarding faith healers? Has the self -confessed
hypocrisy of Marjo affected you or your ministry
in any way? Let's take the first part of the
question. How have you overcome the disreputable
cloud regarding faith healers? Well, confidentially,
I don't think I have overcome anything because
I do not put myself in the class with... faith
healers. It's only the news media that has put
me in that class. I am not a faith healer. I
have never healed anyone. I never expect to heal
anyone. I have no healing virtue. I have no healing
power. I really do not believe that I have been
given anything that's special or something that
any Christian could have if they would pay the
price of full surrender and yieldedness. I am
not a healer. on the mercy of the Lord Jesus
Christ. I'm dependent on the power of the Holy
Spirit. In exactly the same way that when Jesus
was here in the flesh and walked this earth,
he was dependent on the Holy Spirit for the manifestation
of the power of the Holy Spirit in his ministry.
And that was the reason that before Jesus ever
came in the form of flesh, he offered himself
through the Holy Spirit to be given. Jesus knew
the secret of the miracles in his ministry. That
was the reason that the Holy Spirit came upon
him in a very special way when Jesus came upon
the waters of baptism. And the Holy Spirit is
the same today that he was then. That is the
reason that the gift that Jesus gave to his church.
was the secret of power. And he said, and ye
shall receive power. After that, the Holy Ghost
has come upon you. What power? The power to see
miracles performed. The power of the supernatural.
And when it comes to faith, I have... seen miracles
performed. I have seen the healing of the physical
body. Where there was no manifestation of faith
whatsoever, the person admitted they did not
believe. They were awed when they realized that
they had been healed. And over and over again
they have said, but I just can't believe it.
I just can't believe that it happened to me.
We have lost sight of the mercy of the Lord Jesus
Christ. Oh, if we could come back again. To the
mercy. We're living in an hour when the Holy
Spirit is going beyond the faith. And again I
say, if you and I have any faith whatsoever,
it is not something that we have worked up. It
is not something that we have struggled to attain.
For the Bible says that Jesus is the author and
the finisher of our faith. If you have any faith
whatsoever, it is still a gift. Know that. A
faith healer? No, my friend. I... only remind
you how big God really is, that his promises
are real, and that he will never fail to keep
his word. Now we come to the second part of the
question. Has the self -confessed hypocrisy of
Marjo affected you or your ministry in any way?
The answer is definitely no. I'll tell you something
very confidentially. The Today Show phoned and
asked me to be on a panel when the film was first
shown. I considered it for a very brief time
and then I called back and said I would decline
to be on the panel defending My faith are defending
this ministry. I'll tell you why. I do not believe
that God's word needs defense. I do not believe
that God needs any defense whatsoever. I do not
believe that the son of the living God The true
Messiah needs any defense. Oh, sure, there was
a day when I was inexperienced and young in the
ministry and a young Christian. I started out
as a teenage girl defending my wonderful Jesus.
I'd fight at the drop of a hat. Just say one
word against Jesus. And I was right there, remember?
I have red hair. Oh, I was a one army defending
Jesus. But then after years of experience, I
found out that he needs no defense. He'll defend
himself. And when it comes to the Holy Spirit,
The Holy Spirit needs no defense. All that I
have to do is to just be true and faithful in
preaching the Word, and He will defend me. The
fifteenth question. What is your definition of
a miracle? How unusual must a phenomenon be to
warrant that designation? Well, what a miracle
may mean to you may not mean the same thing to
me. If you turn the dictionary, Webster says
that a miracle is an event or an action that
apparently contradicts known scientific laws
and is hence thought to be due to supernatural
causes, especially to an act of God. I remember
one day coming out of Bullock's Wilshire store
in Los Angeles. I'd gone in there to get a little
something and I was rushing out of the store.
when there were two little boys. I found out
later they were brothers. Oh, not more than eight
and ten years of age. And they were standing
on the outside of the store selling candy bars.
One came rushing up to me and said, Miss, Miss,
would you like to buy a candy bar? Then he looked
up into my face. Oh! And he said, Willie, Willie,
here's the miracle lady. Here's the miracle lady.
And I just stood there and smiled. And he continued
by saying, you know, I had a miracle happen to
me once. I had a wonderful miracle happen to
me. And I said, what was it? Willie said. One
day I needed a quarter, and I needed it all for
bad. I had to have a quarter, and you know what?
I was walking down the street, and there on the
street was a quarter. And God had made a miracle
for me. to the little boy in his life. That was
a miracle. In the life of someone else, it may
be the healing of cancer in that body. You've
prayed. The medical profession said there's no
cure. And then suddenly, in his tender mercy,
He reaches down, and the supernatural happens,
contradicting all known scientific laws. The
supernatural power of God, an act of God, and
to that one, that's as great a miracle as the
little boy who found the quarter on the street.
I believe that every time a baby is born, that
mama has just given birth to a miracle. Do you
understand what I'm trying to say? What do you
mean by coming under the power? What is the biblical?
Criterion for such an experience. This is the
sixteenth question. I call it falling under the
power. I do not know how better to describe it.
I only know that I have nothing to do with it.
Nothing whatsoever. Two questions I'm going to
ask the master when I get home to glory. The
first one is, Jesus, why wasn't everyone healed?
I'd like to know. I don't have the answer to
that question. And my second question is to have
him tell me regarding the manifestation of the
power of God, the slain power of the Holy Spirit.
I have nothing to do with it whatsoever. I do
not understand it. But I told you before that
I will not accept anything except it is scriptural.
It must be in the Word of God. And the part of
this question is, what is the biblical criterion
for such an experience? You've read it over and
over again. You're familiar with it. The conversion
of... Saul on the road to Damascus. Oh, I wish
Paul were sitting right here and he could answer
this question for me. You remember that suddenly
something happened to him? All of a sudden, he
found himself on the ground. Literally knocked
to the ground. Fat on his back. I'm sorry I missed
it. I'm just sorry I wasn't there. Oh, and he
didn't have someone to catch him when he fell
either. Me thinks he fell hard. Lying prostrate
on the ground. So they had knocked him to the
earth. But the Lord spoke and said, come on,
get up. Get up, Paul. What happened? Open paw?
Methinks his face would shine with the glory
and he could not answer the question any more
than I can answer it. Or literally thousands
would experience the slaying power of the Holy
Spirit. All that he knew was that it was a supernatural
power. All that thousands can tell you today.
is that it's a supernatural power. But oh, so
peaceful. So wonderful. You're never quite the
same again. Even though you do not understand
the experience. Yes, it's in the Word of God.
Paul experienced it. And you can experience It
too. The seventeenth question. Do you have many
healings from drugs, youth or adult? Remember,
wherever the Holy Spirit is present, you will
always have, first of all, the great miracle
of salvation. That's the greatest miracle in
the world. There is no greater deliverance than
the deliverance from the power of sin, that new
birth experience. When the Holy Spirit is present,
there will always be the deliverance from sin,
from habits. There have been those just sitting
in the audience without hands being laid upon
them who have been delivered from drugs. after
having been on drugs for years, not only the
youths, but adults alike. That, my friend, is
the power of God. The 18th question. To what
extent do you take medication yourself? When
should one pray for healing and seek medicine?
or conventional therapy. The question is asked,
to what extent do you take medication yourself?
I thank my God for His keeping power, and I believe
that the fact that He keeps me in good health
without medication is as great a miracle as though
I had been healed from some disease. We take
these things so for granted. If you do not have
the faith to be healed, then, my friend, go and
see the best physician there is. God heals in
more than one way. We work very closely with
the medical profession. All healing is divine,
but God does not always heal in the same way.