Years ago when Pastor Mac and I first started pastoring Living Word, I knew a lady who had a terrible stomach disorder. She desired healing from this stomach disorder, but no matter what she did, healing never came. She asked me to pray for her. I laid hands on her for healing, but she remained unchanged. I began to lift her up to the Lord in my personal prayer time, and I began to sense by the Spirit of God that the reason why she couldn’t get her healing was rooted in her thinking.

I called her in and talked with her. I found out that her perceptions of God were terribly warped. Her background was that she was raised in a very religious home, and she thought the only way for her to get healed was to become a perfect person. Otherwise, in her mind, she didn’t qualify. She thought God was hard to please, and she could never be good enough for Him to heal her.

I told her, “You will never be good enough. You cannot make yourself good enough. But Jesus gave His blood so that you are good enough.” I then instructed her on what she needed to do. I said, “Now listen to me, the Word of God will bring health and healing to you. However, this situation is not going to change if you only come to church once a week and that’s all the Word you get. Just as you take medicine the doctor gives to you, you have to see the Word as medicine that will bring health to all your flesh. And you must take that ‘medicine’ on a regular basis.”

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