The Fivefold Ministry Giftstaken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed."
Why? Because Philip was gifted to minister only in those
areas o f healing.
Our RHEMA Bible Training Center students all have read F.
F. Bosworth's classic book, Christ the Healer. I knew Bosworth.
I've talked to him personally. He was 77 years old the last time I
talked to him, but you'd have thought he was 55 just to look at
him.
I heard him minister in another man's meeting. Bosworth
would teach in the daytime and this other man would minister in
the night services.
Bosworth would say, "Anybody who's deaf or has any ear
trouble, even if you've had an operation and had your eardrum
removed, come up here and I'll lay hands on you and you'll be
healed." Every single one of the people Bosworth prayed for—
without fail—got healed.
Bosworth said, "I can't tell you why—I don't know why—
but God uses me along that line. I usually never fail to get a deaf
person healed, or one whose hearing is impaired healed, or God
will put a new eardrum in there if they've had an operation."
Bosworth was endowed by the Spirit to minister in that area.
When Bosworth said he didn't understand it, that started me
thinking. If there's something I don't know, I'll stay up day and
night and burn the midnight oil until I find the answers. That's
just my nature.
We ministers used to compare notes at Voice of Healing
conventions that were held during the great Healing Revival.
One preacher had great success in getting "deaf and dumb"
(mute) people healed. Another said, "I don't remember of one
deaf or dumb person being healed in my ministry, but nearly
every blind person I lay hands on gets healed." The first man,
who got deaf and dumb persons healed, couldn't remember of a
blind person ever being healed under his ministry.
In comparing notes, I discovered that I got more people
healed of cancer (usually in tumor form) than all the rest of them