Here’s what the Bible says.” I had a little bottle of olive oil, and I told her, “I’m going to anoint you with oil.” Then I said, “Here it says that these signs shall follow them that believe. Wasn’t up yet when I arrived at the hospital. I got up very early the next morning to get to her before they gave her a shot and I couldn’t communicate with her. When she wasn’t there one Sunday, I asked about her and was told she was in the hospital and was scheduled for surgery the following morning. One of these early experiences with healing involved the pianist of the little country church I was pastoring. I didn’t have any anointing I didn’t feel anything and nothing went out of me into them. The difference was that I was teaching faith and prayer. Some said they seldom got anybody healed. “I’m going to lay my hands on you, and God is going to heal you,” I’d tell them.Īfter coming into Pentecostal circles, I found from talking to the pastors that while I was a Baptist boy preacher, without the baptism of the Holy Spirit, I was getting a higher percentage of my people healed than any five Pentecostal pastors were their people.
“Yeah, I believe on Him, all right,” they’d say. We believe, don’t we? Don’t you believe on Jesus?” Them in their homes, I’d read this to them. I’d preach it from the pulpit, but I didn’t lay hands on them publicly. Shall follow them that BELIEVE… they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover” (Mark 16:17,18). The Scripture doesn’t say, “These signs shall follow those who are baptized with the Holy Spirit” it says, “… these signs