| This was a quick and unexpected healing that had me
thinking about it for several days, trying to determine why it happened. It took place during our Sunday morning service. We were meeting in a school auditorium at that time. (In those days a church group could rent rooms in a school, but I'm certain that is long gone now.) We did not have a wireless mike in those days, and since I liked to walk along the front and up the aisles while I talked, I used a mike with a 30-foot cord on it. I don't now remember what my sermon was that morning, but since most of them had to do with some aspect of faith or healing, I assume it had to do with one or both of those areas. As I think about it now, I'm certain it had to do with faith for healing, because I remember saying that it was interesting to me that Mark 16:18 did not say anything about praying for the sick, it simply said, "And these signs will follow those who believe in my name: . . . they will lay hands on the sick and they will recover." I was walking up the center aisle as I said that, and for no particular reason I reached out and laid my right hand on the side of a young man's head as I passed him. I continued up the aisle for a ways and then went back to the front. That's all there was to it. About ten minutes after the service, however, the young's man mother, Gwen, came up to me and said that her son, who had been sitting with a friend, told her that he had been suffering from a blistering headache all morning, but that when I touched the side of his head, the pain instantly left him. Her son was about 22 at the time. Now you can understand why that healing kept me thinking for several days.
Sometimes the Holy Spirit does things that just throws your doctrines right out the window. Guess that's why He's supposed to lead and we're supposed to follow. Too bad so many of us try to do it the other way, and then can't figure out why nothing seems to work.
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