Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Personal Dealings of and from God

Guy C. Bevington was an itinerant preacher in the southern United States and Ohio. The following encouraging words from his book Remarkable Incidents and Modern Miracles Through Prayer and Faith are a confirmation of the way the Lord Jesus has been leading me and it bears repeating to others:

"I am reminded of something that I feel should be recorded right here, relative to symptoms. When I first took healing I was taught that in order to exercise faith and get direct results, I must deny the symptoms. Well, of course, I tried that, but I would get confused. One time I had a severe toothache, 'Well, just deny it.' I did, but the fact was against such proceedings, as I knew very well that I had the toothache.

"Well, I dropped on my face, and said, 'Now, Lord, these people here tell me to deny that I have the toothache. What am I to do? There must be some better way out of this than that.'

"I lay there over an hour waiting on God. The answer came, and this is it: 'You need not deny the symptoms, but you can deny their right on your body.'

"Then I saw at once where I had been wrongly instructed. So I jumped up, and said, 'Yes, they are there, but according to the Word, they don't belong to me; this toothache does not belong to me. I will not have it. I belong to Jesus. This body, this head, with every tooth, belongs to God; 'tis His property, as He says, "Ye are not your own, for ye are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's."'

"So I took that stand, and in twenty minutes the toothache was gone. I have followed that plan up ever since, and always come off conqueror. Hallelujah!"

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