The Undeserved Reward

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After my healing, which happened from about January, 2002 to June, 2007 I felt
very grateful to the Lord.
Also, I felt that I was supposed to pray for, or lay hands on
the very sick and the dying, so that some could be healed, just as others had prayed for me when I was dying.
I believed I was doing so to thank God for my own healing. It made me wildly happy when
I got my first healing. I was told in prayer to accept no money for anyone helped, nor could I accept any
thank you at all, ever. God heals and he deserves all the thanks.

I was not sure how to ask for people to be healed so I read in the New Testament all the major healings of Christ and
I tried to pray for healings as close as I could to the way he did it. This was helpful, but he healed people right away and
mine took time.

I would pray for a dozen or so of the very ill every month and this went on for about 5 years.
How does God heal people? Christ healed people all at once, but I am nothing compared to him,
and so people take time to heal. Circumstances slowly change and before you know it the
patient is enjoying a much improved prognosis. I once was asked to pray for two men with cancer.
I sent to them or their familes emails containing prayers for them. They were both in hospitals, if I recall, and
one had been diagnosed recently and one for many months. I started praying for the recent one, and within
two days I was startled to see that there had been a mistake with his diagnosis, they thought, and he
no longer had cancer. Praise God, I said, and I moved on to the one who had suffered the longest.
This one took longer and it was 14 days longer when I got the word that evidently there had also been
a missed diagnosis with him, and he did not have cancer either. I prayed and thanked God.
Quietly people were helped, but not always, they must have some tiny bit of faith, and so must I
when I pray for them.

If you are very ill, you need Christians to pray for you. Try a house of worship that believes in healing, but do not pay for it.
It should be free.

Also it seemed to me that my own healing was greatly helped and speeded up when I prayed for others. It also seemed that
I was given rewards when people were healed, but I did not deserve it. God is the one who deserves the thanks for healings!!!

One more thing....

After there were some healings of people I had prayed for, in prayer I was told to choose a reward for, I suppose, what I had done.
Well, I just said that I wanted God's name to be further glorified, but I was told that was not what I had been asked, although it
was a good thing to ask and I was again told to choose something. This time I asked for something that I will not disclose here,
but it was something that would be a blessing to myself and many others who live in my area. Within a year what I asked for
was received. Thank you, Jesus! You are so generous!!! Do you think I deserved any thing else? I had been healed and I was one of
the happiest people probably on earth.

The first I prayed for was a small child, about 2 yrs. old, a relative of a friend of mine. I prayed for him, and prayed
hard for a couple weeks, but then I was told to stop because the child was dying and I was asked to pray for the
parents. But I told my friend that I did not feel released and that I had to continue praying for the child. And I did.
The day that the child was supposed to die, he rallied and by evening the doctor could see that he was going
to make it, that is survive. The Dr. told the parents that it was a miracle from God, although he did not
mean it literally. I think that it was literally true.

As I prayed for people, many people saw me as a mostly disabled man who they put up with because of his
family and his history, perhaps...while some others saw me as their saving angel who stood between them and
death. Who was right? I did not heal anyone, the thanks go to the Father and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Some Christian healers say we should always avoid doctors. Not I, but I recommend always going to them, but pray
for the best. If they say you will die soon anyway, then ask for serious prayers to the Lord.

It has been years since my healing, and I no longer have much of the healing anointing for others, but I am into personal prophecies.
Sometimes I can sense something of what a person's future will be. I am not a big talker and I try not to say anything
from the spirit unless I am sure.

Thanks to God for his wonderful mercy!!! Thank you Jesus! Thank you Holy Spirit!
For mercy undeserved!!!
 
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I read an account in the Bible, in II Corinthians, of King Solomon when he was given the choice of asking
for something from the Lord. Because he asked for something that pleased God and not something like
a huge amount of money he was given what he asked for and other blessings. I am no King Solomon.
But the Lord may ask the same question of ordinary men as well. Yes?