Guess what we're going to do today. You're right.
We're going to answer questions. And when I tell
you that I am down to the 38th question, and
we have only 42, and then I'm going to finish
the whole thing today, you're going to say, oh,
it's been so good. Can't we go on and have some
more questions? Well, bless you, I don't want
everybody who's been listening to me to send
in a big list of questions because I'm not going
to answer all of them. I think I've done pretty
well in answering these that have been submitted
to me by some very intellectual people. representing
one of the most fundamental magazines, Christian
magazines in the world today. The 38th question.
To what extent are the healings you witness the
result of the removal of a psychosomatic origin?
Is anxiety the cause of most... Let me answer
the last part of this question first. Is anxiety
the cause of most illnesses? Now, you will remember
that in another question that was asked, I think
it was the 35th question, what is the most common
ailment that people come to you with? And I answered
that question by saying cancer. Now, everyone
knows that cancer is not psychosomatic. It couldn't
be. If cancer was the result of a psychosomatic
person, then remember, we would not be spending
our billions and billions of dollars for cancer
research. We would just say cancer was psychosomatic,
and there it is. And yet, I take it the truth
that the most common ailment that people come
to me with is cancer. And we have seen literally
scores, and there will be doctors who will substantiate
the healing of these people who have been healed
from cancer. Do you understand what I'm trying
to say? Therefore, those who are healed by the
power of God are not merely those who have been
healed as a result of something that was psychosomatic.
I admit very freely that there are those who
are neurotic. I'm the first one to admit that
there are those who need to be healed mentally
and spiritually. who come for physical healings.
Who would know better than I because I deal with
literally thousands and thousands of people.
That's my work. That's what I do. 16, 18 hours
a day. And I've come to the conclusion that this
age knows almost everything about life except
how to live it. And it's not enough to know about
life. We must know how to live life. We've handed
the body over to the doctor. We've handed the
mind over to the psychiatrist. We've handed the
soul over to the minister. treating these three
parts as separate entities. And they're not separate.
Life is a whole. Man is a trinity. Body, soul,
and spirit. Life is a whole, and you cannot affect
one part without affecting... All three. I know
that there are doctors who vary in their estimate
of the percentage of people who pass on mental
and spiritual sicknesses to their bodies. And
one can. It's the easiest thing in the world
to pass on a mental sickness to your body. or
a spiritual sickness to the body. A doctor here
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has contacted me
very often. He's come up to the office to see
me. And he said, you know, Catherine Kuhlman,
I'm deeply interested in that which you teach.
I have been listening very closely. I've been
watching the ministry very closely. And I would
like to bring into my practice as a doctor that
which you give as a minister. For he said the
combination of both would make for a perfect
practice. And it's just like that. They tell
me that in a group of John Hopkins doctors, one
psychiatrist said that 40 % of the cases that
come to their clinic were mental and spiritual
in origin. And I believe that the percentage
is just like that. You understand something?
Man was made to give himself to a higher power
than himself. And if you have not given yourself
to a higher power than yourself, then you are
going to find that you're going to be mastered
by things, by circumstances. You see, that's
the reason a Christian need never go down in
defeat. Never. No man, no woman need ever go
down in defeat or be defeated on a single score
if his faith and his confidence is in God, for
God knows no such thing as defeat, and a Christian
knows where to go and what to do in his hour
of disappointment, in that hour of tragedy. I'm
not going to have anything master me is one of
the greatest phrases declaring a life purpose
that has ever been uttered. The man who was completely
mastered by the will of God said that he would
not be mastered by anything. If you are completely
mastered by the will of God, you will not be
defeated in the hour of sickness, in the hour
of mental strain, in the hour of disappointment,
in the hour of temptation. For you and I are
not only conquerors, we're more than conquerors
to Christ who loved us. And if you're not mastered
by God, you'll be mastered by things, by yourself,
by people, by circumstances, by the world. When
death comes, when sorrow comes, when disappointments
come, you'll be mastered by these things. Some
are mastered by the world. Some are mastered
by circumstances. It's usually a very slow and
silent process. We scarcely know what is happening.
But these things do happen. And it isn't long
before we find that we are sick in body. and
we wonder how it ever happened. That's why, you
see, it's more than just a miracle service in
the healing of a sick body. If, with the gospel
of the Lord Jesus Christ, I can get through to
the mind of that individual, And allow him to
see that God is still God Almighty. Bigger than
his sorrow. Greater than his heartbreak. God
Almighty. Greater than the circumstances under
which he has to live and labor. and that he does
not have to go down in defeat. Jesus has given
to him and made possible to him all the necessary
resources. All these things are at his disposal
and that he can live an abundant and victorious
Christian life. If I can get through to that
individual, through to his mind, For as a man
thinketh, so is he that's scriptural. Jesus himself
said it. As a man thinketh, so is he. If you
think defeat, you'll be defeated. If you think
discouragement, you'll be a discouraged person.
You can't think pain without feeling pain. You
can't think sickness without being sick. It all
goes together. Sure. Oh, don't go down in defeat.
Don't be a person who is beaten. God is still
God Almighty. The God of Abraham is still our
God. The God of Elijah is still our God. The
God who made the iron to swim is still God Almighty.
The God who sent the water from the rock. The
manna from heaven. The God who supplied the little
widow with her meal and her oil. is still God
Almighty. And there's no uncertainty about that.
Don't be mastered by things. Be mastered by God.
And it'll not be long before you'll find that
you're living an abundant and victorious Christian
life. And then when afflictions do come, and
no human being is immune when it comes to diseases
and affliction, no human body is immune from
cancer. Know that. I believe in divine healing.
I preach divine healing. I believe in the power
of God to heal sick bodies. But in... Despite
all of this, my own physical body is not immune
to cancer. I think of that stuff very often.
My own physical body, I'm still in the flesh.
This mortal has not yet put on immortality. This
which is corruption has not yet put on incorruption.
I'm still a part of humanity. I'm still living
in the flesh. Sickness may come to my body. But
when it does, there is a Heavenly Father. There
is a God to whom I can go. All -powerful, I need
not go down in defeat. And a million times I
wonder what people do. in an hour of tragedy
who do not have a simple confidence in God Almighty.
They're defeated. They're beaten. Many give themselves
to inward self -pity. We are not only conquerors,
we are more than conquerors. In the face of tragedy,
seemingly defeat, and even in affliction. The
39th Question, how much knowledge do you have
of medicine and therapeutic science? Absolutely
none. Now that's being perfectly honest. I have
practically no knowledge of medicine and therapeutic
science. That's the reason Dr. Kerr, a well -known
doctor, was in one of our miracle services. And
so many people doing that service were being
healed of arthritis. It was one of the very first
services he had ever attended. At the close of
that miracle service, he went to... my Maggie,
and said, may I please ask you just one question?
Does Catherine Kuhlman realize that when it comes
to arthritis, we doctors can give relief, we
can tell what the patient can do for relief,
but there is no cure for arthritis? He said,
I asked the question because... So many were
healed today. One after another being healed
of arthritis. And Catherine Kuhlman takes these
things so lightly and says, oh, that's wonderful.
He said, of everything that I've seen, the healing
from arthritis were the greatest miracles because
as a physician, I know there's no cure. And when
these people say, They've had arthritis throughout
their entire body for 20 years, 15 years, and
suddenly they're healed instantaneously. He said,
that has to be supernatural. Though I know practically
nothing regarding medicine or therapeutic science,
that's the reason I have doctors on the platform.
And often, after a person has been healed, I...
Ask members of the medical profession to please
step forward and examine the one who's just been
healed. And the conversation is between the one
who's just been healed and the doctor. For the
doctor understands the case better than I do.
I enjoy my association with the medical profession.
I'm just a Christian, believing that there is
no limit to the power of God. What do you regard
as the ultimate goal of your ministry? May I
go a little further? The purpose of my ministry.
is the salvation of the soul. We have been discussing
miracles, physical healings. But remember something.
The greatest miracle a human being can know is
the transformation of a life. Divine healing
is so secondary. Please believe me. The salvation
of a soul, the new birth experience, is the greatest
miracle a human being can know. How do you understand
the apparent desire of Jesus and the disciples
not to publicize certain healings is the 41st
question. I cannot give you the answer. I do
not know what was in the mind of Jesus. There
have been literally scores of opinions regarding
the answer to this question. I do not know what
was in the mind of Jesus. One day I'll ask him.
Then I'll let you know. The last question. Do
you have anything special you would like to say?
to Christianity today. Just one. Believe God
to the point of action. Remembering always that
the only limit to the power of God lies within
you as an individual. And to the church, may
I say, no nation is greater or stronger than
its spiritual forces. And the church today has
a great responsibility.