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Thirty Five Years Of Burning . . . Suddenly Stops
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A Miracle of Healing Through Confessing God's Word
By Robert Fitts
At the age of thirty I was teaching public school in Southern California.
One day I was reading a book on the life of George Mueller, an Englishman
whose life and ministry in Bristol, England became known to the Body of Christ
worldwide mainly because of his life of faith. He made it a principle in his
life and ministry never to tell anyone his needs, but to simply pray and ask God
to provide both for his family and for his ministry to orphans.
His ministry grew to the point that he had thousands of orphans looking
to him for their daily needs. Sometimes they would sit down to an empty table,
but before they got up, God had provided something for them to eat.
His life of faith spoke to me in the depths of my spirit and I began to
ask God that someday he would give me a ministry in which I would look only to
God and tell no man of my needs or the needs of my family or my ministry.
As I read this man's story, I came across this statement, "If I know that
I am praying within the will of God, I can pray daily for years if necessary
for I know that it will eventually come to me."
When I read that testimony, I said to myself, "I am going to start
praying today that God will fulfill Acts 6:4 in my life. Acts 6 is the passage
telling what the early apostles of Jesus decided to do when faced with a multitude
of responsibilities in the early church. They said, "It is not reasonable that
we should leave the word of God and serve tables, Find capable men to take
care of such things and we will give ourselves continually to prayer and the
ministry of the Word." As a result of that decision, the word of God spread
throughout the city of Jerusalem and many people came to Christ.
For years I had desired to be full time in a ministry of prayer and the
word, but due to the size of my family and their daily needs it was necessary
that I have a job to meet those needs. But that day I decided that if God would
answer the "Acts 6:4" prayer, I could be certain that the needs of my wife
and kids would also be met even if I did not have a stated income or salary.
For the next six months I prayed that God would fulfill Acts 6:4 in my
life. "Father, set me free from school teaching and put me into a full time
ministry of prayer and the ministry of your word." Within six months, I was asked
to become the Executive Director of Child Evangelism Fellowship of Southern
California. I resigned my teaching position and accepted the position which
became a full time ministry of prayer and the ministry of the word, looking to God
for his financial supply. My motto was "Trust God and tell the people." We
did not tell the people our needs. We told them what God was doing in the
ministry we had in evangelizing the children of Southern California.
God answered my prayer to have a ministry in which I would have to look
to Him and not to men for my income. I did have a stated monthly salary, but it
was up to me and my co-workers to pray and ask God to provide the necessary
funds for the work of the ministry. There was no guarantee that the money would
be there unless God provided it in answer to prayer without letting anyone
but God know of our needs.
It wasn't long before the four hour drive each day to my office in Los
Angeles and back began to take its toll. As I got more deeply engrossed in the
work of an evangelistic ministry among children and children's workers in an
area with a population of over twelve million, the pressure began to mount and I
began to have a digestive problem. I began to take antacids to put out the
fire that burned within me after almost every meal. It was a problem, but I was
enjoying the work and didn't pay a lot of attention to it.
But the problem grew worse. I was taking more and more antacids to keep
the burning down . . .I prayed for healing, I read books, I was examined by a
physician, I took the medicine he gave me, but nothing would touch the depths
of the problem. Almost everything I ate caused severe heartburn.
The weeks of burning turned into months, and the months into years, and
the years into decades. Thirty five years later, still suffering indigestion
and all the side effects, I had almost given up hope of ever being healed.
Then one day while conducting some meetings in the little town of Cave
Junction, Oregon, something wonderful happened. I was staying in the home of the
pastor and his wife. Every morning she would get out a little booklet and
begin repeating something out loud. She would take about ten minutes two or three
times a day to do this. One day I asked her what she was doing.
"I am taking God's medicine." She said.
"How do you take God's medicine and what is God's medicine?" I was more
than curious.
She began to explain to me that what she was doing had been used of God
to bring healing to many people and she believed it would also bring healing to
her. She had had a stroke some months before and was getting progressively
better.
I read through her little booklet called "GOD'S CREATIVE POWER FOR
HEALING." By Charles Capps which gave a thorough explanation of the power of the
spoken word. I began to read aloud once a day the confessions of faith for
healing based on the promises of divine healing in the both the Old and New
Testaments.
I did this for about three months and did not see any noticeable change,
so I started to do it twice a day. One month later I began to cut down the
number of antacids I took after each meal. I had no ill effects, so I stopped
taking them completely. I could hardly believe what happened next. Day after day
I ate my meals with absolutely no heartburn whatever!
Now I can eat or drink any combination of foods with no indigestion at
all. THIS IS THE BIGGEST MIRACLE I HAVE EVER EXPERIENCED IN MY ENTIRE LIFE IN
THE REALM OF THE PHYSICAL. It is not the greatest miracle I have ever witnessed,
or that I have ever read about, but it is certainly the greatest miracle that
I have experienced in my physical body.
When you have suffered for thirty five years with a sickness and have
tried everything to alleviate the suffering, then you try something new and you
are healed, you have no doubts about what it was that brought about the change.
The enemy has come to me to say, "It was not your spoken words of faith that
brought about the healing, it was just that you stopped doing something or
started doing something and that is what caused the healing." I have no problem
dealing with that. I fully believe it was and is a supernatural healing, but
even if were a healing brought about by something in the natural realm, Jesus is
God of the Natural as well as the supernatural and it was after I began to
make those declarations of faith that the healing came.
Dear reader, if you are suffering from a disease and have not been able
to find a cure, I encourage you to begin to "take God's medicine" today. Use
Marilyn Ludorff's list of promises, or my list, or get a copy of Charles Capps'
little book by going onto his website at <www.CharlesCapps.com> and start the
healing process in the name of Jesus today.
These declarations of faith in God's word are especially helpful if you
have been declared "incurable" by the medical profession. We praise God for all
the medical profession does to help heal the sick, but most of them will
readily admit that there is a higher healing power than what they can offer.
We would appreciate hearing your testimony of healing through using the
supernatural remedy the message of this book offers.
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