It was in this meeting that I witnessed the tangible healing power of God, as I have
seen in many a meeting before. I will explain what exactly this tangible healing power is a little
later.
I prayed for the sick, one after the other. I expected every
person to be healed. I expected every single person to be healed instantly. I
cannot tell you that everyone was healed instantly, nor can I say that everyone
was healed at all. I am just saying this was how I functioned. I would even ask
them right away if they noticed anything different.
An older lady stood before me. I could see her one eye was
blind, because it was completely white. I asked her, “Mama, what do you need
from Jesus?” To this day, this is the way I still ask people what they need.
She said, “Headache.” Headache? Here she stands with a blind eye and she needs
healing from her headache. I said, “Mama, I will pray for your headache, and
Jesus will heal you. But I will pray for your eye too!” I prayed for here
headache, and I suppose she was healed from that too, but my mind was on that
eye.
I laid my thumb on her eye, and prayed like my life depended
on it. “In the Name of Jesus! I rebuke this blindness! I command it in the Name
of Jesus to be removed. In Jesus’ Name, blind eye… OPEN!” I prayed it with
power and authority.
Then I said, “Mama, can you see me through that eye?”
Without giving it a thought, she promptly said, “No.” I said, “No, Mama. Let us
close our good eye, and look only
through the blind one.” We did this by closing her good eye with her hand, or
maybe someone else helped me by holding their hand over her good eye. “I see
your button!” she said. She saw the button on my suit jacket.
I looked at her eye. It was still white. Yet she could see
the button on my jacket. I cannot explain it, but I can tell you, the healing
power of God is real.
I will now tell you what happened in that same meeting,
where someone walked into the zone of
the tangible healing power of God,
and was instantly healed, but I want to say a couple of things here about the
healing ministry first.
The healing ministry is a messy business. What I mean is,
most healings I pray for do not instantly appear to be perfect. People have
this idea that a healing evangelist can pray at will for whoever, anywhere, and
that people will all be healed, almost like it is some kind of show.
I will never ever strive for picture-perfect healings, just
so it looks good on TV. I pray for the sick. Some are not healed. Some may
begin to be healed, but their healing is not manifested fully yet. Some are
healed, but do not seem perfectly healed. And some are perfectly healed.
In the case of this lady, her sight was healed (I do not
know to which extent,) but here eye was still white. If I was God, I would have
restored the pupil instantly and surrounded it with a brown iris, just like her
other eye. Perhaps God did this later, because I have seen in other instances
where the miracle that begun at the point of our prayer, was completed only a
few days later. But what I have really learnt is: Honor God for the miracle,
regardless of how perfect or completed it looks. Honor the Lord for whatever He
did, and to which extent He did it. And move on…
Now, let me tell you about this healing miracle that
happened in that same service, which powerfully illustrates the tangible healing power of God…