EVALUACIÓN DE SOLICITUD DE POSTULACIÓN

By Frances

We don't go through airports or down the street looking for people to heal, because we believe the Holy Spirit will draw people to you whom he has already prepared. We simply minister healing when we have an opportunity, whether it is to one

individual or to multitudes; whether it is in a church or on the street.

One time we were in the Atlanta airport, and as we were walking to the gate, I stopped in the ladies' rest- room. There was a lady sitting there in a wheel chair, and the Holy Spirit implanted the thought into my mind that I was to minister to her. I certainly do not do this all the time; I just had an impression that I should pray for her.

Months later I received a clipping from a newspaper sent to me by a woman who knew us. Under the headline of SALLY JONES HEALED BY UNKNOWN WOMAN IN ATLANTA AIRPORT, was an article which said something to this effect: Sally Jones, who has been crippled from birth, went into the rest-room in Atlanta on a recent trip. A woman walked up to her

and said, "My name is Frances Hunter and I'm a Christian. May I pray for you?"

Sally said, "I'll take all the prayer I can get."

She related that the woman simply laid hands on her and left the room. After the woman had walked out the door, Sally Jones said she realized she was healed, so she got up out of the wheel chair to run and thank her, hut the woman had already

disappeared into the crowd. Sally has no idea who the woman was, other than her name!

Be sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit. Notice that I did not just go up and lay hands on the woman, but I introduced myself and asked her if I could pray. Many times being sensitive to the Holy Spirit can also come under the heading of the GIFT OF FAITH, but we share these stories with you to encourage you to listen for even the smallest little nudge from the Holy Spirit.

Several years ago we were in a western town and were standing by the book table, just casually talking to people and feeling the excitement of the meeting, when a young man came in carrying a boy who looked about nine or ten years old. He was also carrying a pair of small crutches. I asked the young man what the problem was with the boy. He said, "Ray has a spinal bifida, and I tried to get his parents to bring him, but they aren't believers, so I brought him myself." He went on to say, "He has never

walked in his entire life, and I believe God is going to heal him!"

Something within my spirit leaped! I said, "Ray, there will be a time during the service tonight when I will call out your name. When I do, I want you to get up out of your seat and run to the front!" Speaking those words in the natural could be a problem, but the Holy Spirit had spoken to me, and I was just repeating what he had said!

I forgot all about Ray because he was sitting so far back I couldn't see him, when suddenly people started getting up out of wheel chairs. I turned and looked for Ray, but since I couldn't see him, I said, "Ray, wherever you are, get up right now in the name of Jesus and walk!"

Ray had been waiting all evening for that call! Hardly had the words come out of my mouth when Ray came out of what seemed like nowhere and came running up to the front! Being sensitive to the Holy Spirit, and being confident of the Holy Spirit can lead to exciting miracles!

A similar incident occurred in another city when I saw a beautiful black woman being pushed into a meeting in a wheel chair. A nudge (or shove) from the Holy Spirit prompted me to say to her, "During the service today I will read the 23rd Psalm. When I get to the part where it says, 'Yea, though I walk THROUGH the valley of the shadow of death, don't

you dare SIT there. I want you to get up out of that wheel chair and run as fast as you can around this church!"

Little did I realize what the Holy Spirit had said! She never took her eyes off of me during the entire service, but sat in that wheel chair poised and ready to go! Toward the end of the service, I began to read the Psalm, and when I got to the part about walking THROUGH the valley, she didn't sit there, she leaped over the pedals of the wheel chair and began

shouting at the top of her lungs as she ran around the church, out through the doors, into the narthex, and then down another aisle and up another one! The only thing that finally stopped her running and shouting was when I met her in an aisle, touched her on the forehead, and she fell under the power of God, totally healed! She never went back in her wheel chair again! We saw her two years later, beautifully healthy because I had been sensitive to the Holy Spirit, and she had received the gift of faith! You might think it isn't dignified to run around a church screaming. I don't either, but if you'd been stuck in a wheel chair for years, how would you react?

We were at a resort area one year and the last night of a crusade, faith was really spawned because of the miracles that had been happening all week, and the Holy Spirit very softly whispered, "Tell them that

tonight everyone in a wheel chair is going to get out and walk!"

When I KNOW that I've heard from the Holy Spirit, I really get excited, so I shared with the audience in advance what was going to happen. When the Holy Spirit said, "Now!" I simply said, "I want everyone in wheel chairs to get up right now and walk to the front of the auditorium, in the name of Jesus!" The next sixty seconds were probably the longest sixty seconds of my entire life, because not one person moved! Finally, after what seemed to me an hour, although it was probably no longer than the sixty seconds mentioned, the woman in the wheel chair closest to the front, got up and began to walk toward the stage. She had taken no more than two or three steps, when faith became alive in the person in the wheel chair behind her, and a man got up and began to walk!

One by one, one by one, every person in a wheel chair got up and walked that night! There were seven! Then a little girl came up wearing braces, and when Charles laid hands on her, the mother took the braces off, and the little girl began walking normally! One of the things that is so exciting about being sensitive to the Holy Spirit is how it will start a flow of miracles! Hallelujah!

Be sensitive to God speaking to you. Listen to God's voice. It is far more important than anything you

might learn about healing. Listen to God's voice. If he speaks to you, you will know that it is his voice,

simply by the Spirit and by the Word of God. If you don't read the Word of God, you will not recognize God's voice and the devil will try to deceive you. Don't be concerned about the devil if you are

spending time in the Word of God. It is so very vital in healing the sick or operating in any of the gifts of the Spirit that you saturate your mind continually in the Word of God. Never let it get cold. Read it over and over, because every time you go back through the Bible, there is a freshness that comes and a new revelation of God's meaning.

Be sensitive to God. Learn to be acutely aware of the presence of God at all times so that you will be aware of the slightest little nudge from the Holy Spirit.

CHAPTER 15