| My wife, Beverlee, and I came home from a meeting late
one evening, and found that our a three-year-old son, Thomas, had a high
fever. He wasn't only burning with fever, he was extremely lethargic. We
took him into our bedroom to pray for him.
We prayed for a few minutes, and then I laid my hands on his forehead and commanded the fever to leave. Nothing happened. We prayed for a while longer, and I laid my hands on his forehead and again commanded the fever to leave. Again nothing happened. We both prayed silently for a while, and then the incident about Paul praying for the young man who fell out of the window and was picked up dead, came to my mind. In Acts 20:10, it says that Paul fell upon the young man and embraced him. It seemed to me that the Holy Spirit was telling me that there was something about the amount of contact that Paul made with the young man's body. Going with what I believed was being said to me, I picked up Thomas and placed him on my lap and put my arms around him and held him close. I then again commanded the fever to leave him., Almost faster than I can write this, his body cooled and he wiggled out of my arms and crawled to the center of the bed and started jumping up and down. The change in him was so fast and amazing, that we almost couldn't believe it. We even tried to quiet him down so that he wouldn't hurt himself. Then we decided that maybe he was jumping up and down because he'd been healed, which he had, of course. He also had so much energy, that we had trouble getting him to go back to bed and to sleep. Eventually we did and he did, and my wife and I spent some time in prayer praising and thanking the Lord, and trying to figure out what happened. But at the time we couldn’t come to a conclusion as to why the added body contact was needed, and I don't recall the Holy Spirit ever leading us to pray for anyone that way again. Over the years, however, we noticed that healing took place much easier when our hands were laid directly upon the area of the body that was affected. We assumed that this had to do with transference of power. Luke 4:1 says that Jesus went into the desert full of the Holy Spirit, and Luke 14:1 says that Jesus came out of the desert in the power of the Spirit. Immediately after that He began to do miracles, which is a word that is more properly interpreted as works of power. When the woman who was hemorrhaging touched the hem of Jesus’ robe, power went out of Him and healed her (Mark 5:29-30). In Acts 10:30, Peter told Cornelius that God had anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and He went around doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil. So it’s the power that went out from Jesus that healed the sick and cast out demons. It's the same with us today. Therefore, it's most likely that the reason I had to make full body contact with my son was that I had little power at that time, and needed the contact to transfer as much power as possible to drive out the fever.
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