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  (THE GOSPEL OF HEALING) 2. PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS
  by A.B. Simpson
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We have already considered the Scriptural grounds of the doctrine of
healing by faith in God. The practical question next arises: How can one
who fully believes in the doctrine receive the blessing and appropriate
the healing?

Be fully persuaded of THE WORD OF GOD in this matter.

This is the only sure foundation of rational and Scriptural faith. Your
faith must rest on the great principles and promises of the Bible, or it
never can stand the testing of oppositions and trials which are sure to
come. You must be sure that this is part of the Gospel and the
redemption of Christ that all the teachings and reasonings of the best
of men could not shake you. Most of the practical failures of faith in
this matter result from defective or doubtful convictions of the Divine
Word.

The writer may be permitted to mention the case of a lady who had fully
embraced this truth and accepted Christ as her Healer. She was
immediately strengthened very much both in spirit and body, and her
overflowing heart was only too glad to tell the good news to all her
friends. Among others, she met her pastor and told him of her faith and
blessing. To her surprise, he immediately objected to any such views,
warned her against this new fanaticism, and told her that these promises
on which she was resting were not for us; but only for the Apostles and
the Apostolic age. She listened, questioned, yielded, and abandoned her
confidence. In less than one month, when the writer saw her again, she
had sunk to such depression that she scarcely knew whether she even
believed the Bible or not. If those promises were for the Apostles, she
argued, why might not all the other promises of the Bible also be for
them only? She was invited to spend a season in examining the teaching
of the Word of God. The promises of healing from Exodus to James were
carefully compared and every question calmly weighed, until the truth
became so manifest, and its evidence so overwhelming, that she could
only say, "I know it is here, and I know it is true, if all the world
should deny it." Then she knelt and asked the Lord\

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