Wise or Otherwise by Norvel Hayes

Author:Norvel Hayes [Hayes, Norvel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-03-23T12:33:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOUR

GOD WILL NOT OVERRIDE HIS WORD

APPROXIMATELY THREE YEARS after this experience, I was sitting one night behind a Full Gospel church pulpit in Augusta, Georgia. The song service was in progress. As the Sunday night speaker, I was waiting to be introduced following the usual preliminaries.

Suddenly the Spirit of the Lord reminded me of that sanctuary experience three years previous when He told me what was wrong with people. Now He was saying, "Tonight I am going to show you in reality what I meant. Tonight I want you to read from two verses in my Word, James 5:14, 15. Break these two verses down, word for word, and ask these people a question, just as if you were in a classroom. I want you to ask this congregation how many have obeyed these two verses, and through this I will reveal why even my children make me so complicated and why I can't help them when they do this. When they twist my Word or ignore it in their daily living, I can't help them."

I taught the people from those two verses that night, and this is essentially what I told them.

"The last time you were sick and in bed, did you pick up the phone and dial the pastor's number, or the number of one of the elders of the church, and say, 'I am in bed, sick, and I want you to call the elders together and come over and pray for me. Bring a bottle of anointing oil with you. I am calling you to do this according to the Word of God. I want you to stand around my bed, anoint me with that oil, and pray the prayer of faith. When you do this, God has promised He will raise me up. I will come up off this bed and go home!'" Not many that night could honestly say that they had obeyed God's Word in this area of faith the last time they were in need of healing.

If you could travel with me for two weeks it would be as easy for you to have this kind of faith as it would be to take a drink of water. It would become that natural to you.

God is not going to write another Bible. Neither is He going to send Jesus back again to die, for He has already paid the full price, both for our salvation and for our healing. Jesus accepted the stripes on His back, the thorns on His head, the nails in His hands, and the spear in His side. And while He was suffering and bleeding and dying, He said, "Father, forgive them, for they don't know what they are doing."

For the salvation of our souls and the healing of our bodies, what else do we expect a man to go through for us? If we can't accept what Jesus has already done, and we don't appreciate someone literally suffering hours of physical torture in order that we

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