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The stories of healings on this
site are truethey actually happened. And to the best of my ability, none of them will be,
or are, exaggerated or understated, but simply told as they happened. God
does not bless exaggerations.
Whether you believe in healing, or
think it's foolishness or fantasy, or psychological aberrations or mumbo-jumbo, is
between you and God. Your unbelief, or belief, doesn't affect the truth of the things that
happened in the least iotaand I've taken neither into consideration in writing about
the events that took place. I've simply concentrated upon the details of the events and
put them into writing.
Why am I writing about these things? To glorify
God and Christ, to show the power of the Holy Spirit, and to hopefully help those who have eyes to see, and who perhaps the Lord
is urging to walk a similar path, to learn from my mistakesthere were many of them.
So the stories will be about the Lord's victories, and my stumblings, fumblings, and
failures. They'll also contain many questions that I've never satisfactorily answered, and
many theories about spiritual matters that will remain theories until I enter that place
where Truth dwells eternal, and I can ask my questions and get my answers.
Most of these healings took place from about
1973 to 1983a few have taken place in the years since then, and they're not in
chronological order. When they took place isn't important. All that's important
is what, how, and, if possible, why.
But there's an advantage to so many years having passed.
I now know much more about the Word of God and His ways in Christ than I did then (I
received Christ in 1971, just 2 years before these events started), and so can examine the
events from a greater scriptural perspective and spiritual understanding. Perhaps that
will help, or perhaps it will hinder. Only God knows. But I'll do my best to make it
helpful.
*Original Greek has no
punctuation. Sentence repunctuated to agree with Acts 3:16, "And His name, through
faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith
which comes through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you
all," and Acts 4:10, "let it be known to you all, and to all the people of
Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God
raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole." Italics added
for emphasis.
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