How the Anointing Led Me
believe. I believe I receive healing for the deformed heart. I
believe I receive healing for the paralysis. I believe I receive
healing for the incurable blood disease."
And while I was saying that and praising God for it, that
anointing in me—IN me—said, "Arise. People who are well
ought to be up at 10:30 in the morning."
I thought for a moment, How am I going to get up? I'm
paralyzed. But when I made the effort and acted upon the Word,
the power of God came down on me and went through me like a
bolt of electricity!
I stood upright on my feet and was healed—and I have been
healed ever since. I say this to the glory of God: I've had half a
century of divine health.
The last headache I had was in August 1933, but don't
misunderstand me: I'm not opposed to doctors. Thank God for
them. Medical science will help people as much as it can. If I'd
have needed to go to a doctor in the past half century, I would
have gone—but I haven't needed to. I've sent other people to the
doctor, however, paid their bills, and bought their medicine.
(Doctors often can keep people alive until we can get enough
Word in them to get them healed.)
My healing came about by my listening to that inward
anointing that teaches you all things. I listened, obeyed, and off
the bed I came.
I would challenge anybody who is born again (because
you're born of the Holy Spirit): The Spirit will lead you into the
baptism of the Holy Spirit. It was that same Spirit—that same
anointing that teaches—who led me into the baptism of the Holy
Spirit.
After my healing, I began to seek out the fellowship of those
who believed like I did.
Some Full Gospel people had come to our town. Even
though there were a lot of things about them that I didn't
understand and didn't agree with, I didn't criticize them. I
welcomed them with open arms. I was glad to find somebody