The Triumphant ChurchCancer: Deliverance by a
Manifestation of the Holy Spirit
I want to show you that God has a variety of
methods of delivering His people. I'm going to relate
several instances of dealing with people who had cancer
and the various ways the Holy Spirit led me to deal
with each of them. I want you to see that you will have
to be led by the Holy Spirit—you cannot formulate
ironclad rules about ministering to people.
In 1952, I held a revival in Texas. One of the
ministers told me about his niece who was dying of
cancer of the lungs. She was twenty-three years old and
had two small children. During the first week of my
meetings, she was brought to a service, and I prayed for
her. The second week, I laid hands on her two different
times and prayed for her.
During the third week, the young woman was
brought to the service again. I no more expected what
happened than anything in the world. When I laid my
hand on her this time, suddenly a white cloud of the
Holy Spirit came down and enveloped me. The altar
disappeared and it seemed like the young woman and I
were the only ones standing there in that cloud of glory.
No one else could see what I saw, nor hear what I
heard, but they could all hear me talking.
Enveloped in that white cloud, I saw into the realm
of the spirit, and I saw a little creature—a demon—
hanging on the outside of this woman's body. It looked
like a little monkey hanging on to a tree limb. This
woman was saved, so she wasn't demon possessed, but
her body was being oppressed from the outside by a
demon, that little monkey-like creature was hanging on
to her body over her left lung; that's where the cancer