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Settle the Issue
By Rev.
Kenneth E. Hagin
How
God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who
went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil;
for God was with him. (Acts 10:38)
I
have read about Rev. John Alexander Dowie, a Congregationalist pastor in
Australia in the 1870s, when a bubonic plague came to Australia. People
were dying like flies during that epidemic. Rev. Dowie had already
buried forty-three members of his congregation, and had four more
waiting to be buried.
While sitting at the desk in his study one day, he began to cry out to
God. "Dear God, is my whole church going to die? Did You send this
plague? Is this Your will? Are You going to call them all home?"
He didn't know who was to blame for it. He had read in the Old Testament
how plagues could sometimes be stayed. Could this plague be stayed? He
wept for the members of his congregation.
The Spirit of God spoke one verse of Scripture to his heart: Acts 10:38.
Rev. Dowie said, in effect, "Like a flash, I saw it! The plague didn't
come from Heaven - there aren't any plagues in Heaven. It didn't come
from God. Satan is the oppressor - Jesus is the Deliverer.
From Genesis through Revelation, scriptures began to come to me. I saw
that it is the will of God that people be healed and live their full
length of time out down here below and die without sickness and
disease."
Then Rev. Dowie said to God, "Help me preach this to my people. Help me
teach them so that they can see it and walk in the light of it. Give me
the wisdom to share it with them."
Confession Jesus is the Deliverer - Satan is the oppressor. Sickness
and disease don't come from God; they come from Satan. Therefore, I
choose to live my full length of time out down here on earth and die
without sickness and disease!
(Taken by permission from
RHEMA Bible Church , aka Kenneth Hagin Ministries , Tulsa , OK , USA.
www.rhema.org )
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