February 9, 2002
Healing in a Name
Now as the lame man who was healed held on to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch which is called Solomon’s, greatly amazed. So when Peter saw it, he responded to the people: “Men of Israel, why do you marvel at this? Or why look so intently at us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk? The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let Him go. But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses. And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. Acts 3:12-16 (NKJV)
Where is this power by which man is healed? The power of the name of Jesus and the faith thereof is where this power is. So why do these things not happen like they should? Oh, where is our faith? Now, we know that not all people in this time were healed. By the same token, not all will be healed this day in age. However, there should be evidence of the Spirit-filled life. There should be enough evidence in your own life to bring you to trial and be convicted of serving the Lord Jesus. Do you have evidence of this service in your life? If you were taken to trial for serving Jesus, would you be found guilty? What we must understand is what Peter and John understood. This power was not their own. It was not up to them. This power is the power of the Holy One, the Prince of Life, Jesus. Oh, please, do not be like those who cried out, “Crucify him.” Do not deny this one, the Just, the Messiah.. Yes he is real. Yes he does change lives today. Yes, I have seen witness of this in my own life more than once.
I have to tell you what an awesome God we serve. There is a seven year old boy playing outside as I write this. He is my son, Nathaniel. Five years ago, Nathaniel was with me at my Mother’s where he got into what he thought was baby aspirin. He chewed it up and swallowed. In fact, he chewed up every pill there was and swallowed them all. When we realized what he had done, I rushed him to the hospital. Remember, I said he chewed them all up. At the hospital, it was over half an hour before they got us to the back and then it was several more minutes before they begun to pump out his stomach. There was not a single pill fragment to be found. This made the doctor rejoice, in that he said he did not believe he had taken anything after all. Then, I reminded him that Nathaniel had chewed them all up and that at least an hour had passed since he had first taken the medicine. My Mother arrived, telling us the med he had taken was Ludiamil (not real sure of that spelling). Poison control was called and told the approximate number he had taken, 6-8, and what the med was. The nurse that called is a Godly man. He said there was dead silence on the poison control end and he could hear them take a deep breath before they replied. According to Poison Control, Nathaniel had taken and 100 % fatal dose of a medicine that no child had ever survived taking. Robert, the nurse, immediately rebuked this word in the name of Jesus and sent this out through the prayer chain. Then he came to tell me that Poison Control said my son would be dead before midnight.
That night, Nathaniel’s heart rate was dangerously high. It was over 200. I spent the evening holding my little boy in ICU, praying over him, talking to him, telling him of the power and the glory of the Lord. At 11:59 PM his heart had climbed to a rate that I knew he could not survive for long, when suddenly, his heart rate dropped to normal, he looked at me and said he was sleepy and was going to sleep. The nurses in the ICU were amazed. At midnight, when poison control said he would be dead, my son lay down and went to sleep. He was made whole by this same Jesus! I am here to tell you Jesus is in the healing business. Whatever your challenge, whatever your illness, whatever it is that hinders you from serving him, speak to it in the name of Jesus of Nazareth and command it to go. In Jesus name, you are set free and healed. Take the right hand of the Savior and walk in that healing. No matter what your eyes see, believe.
Father, this is not a message promising physical healing for all things in Jesus name. Lord, in Jesus name, let that be clear. Father, right now, in the name of Jesus of Nazareth, we command the illnesses to go, the lame to walk, the blind to see. Lord, in that name of Jesus, remove whatever it is that hinders our service to you. Lord in Jesus name, you set us free from anything that holds us back, amen!!
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