Peculiar Anointingswhy—why, it's gone!"
I said, "It sure has."
She looked at me sort of startled and said, "I don't know
where it went."
I said, "I don't, either."
Where did it go? Thank God, it just went.
That was my first experience along that line. But I didn't go
around hitting people in the stomach with my fist from then on
just because I had the unction that one time! Without the
unction, nothing would have happened, and I might have gotten
into trouble.
Through the years, the Lord has said to me several times,
"Hit them." I've never hit anybody yet without their being
instantly healed.
Several years ago we were ministering in Atlanta, Georgia,
and the Spirit of God led me to call out somebody who was very
hard of hearing in one ear. When the man got down to the front,
the Spirit of God told me to hit him.
I hit him on the side of the head, and it popped like a gun
went off. Some people asked him about it later, and he said, "I
have no knowledge of it. It didn't hurt. I thought he tapped me
lightly." But his deaf ear was opened.
And then—and I don't know why I said it—I suddenly had
the unction to say, "Run down the aisle." He turned and ran
down the aisle. He hadn't run in 20 years.
As this man was changing clothes later, preparing to come to
the next service, he called to his wife, "Look, look, look!" All of
his varicose veins had completely disappeared.
Now, you can't ordinarily get people healed simply by
having them run down the aisle, but when the unction's there—
when the anointing's there—it works, glory to God!
Not long ago I was teaching in the afternoon at our Healing
School, and just as I came to the close of the service I saw