I’m sorry he acted unwisely and brought a reproach on the Lord Jesus Christ and His cause. Within three days this minister was dead. Throwing away your medicine is not trusting God. He said, “I’m just going to trust God or die.” A real confession of faith would have been, “I’m going to trust God and live.” If I had been there the day he threw away his medicine, I would have known what he said wasn’t according to the Bible.
I knew of another pastor who had an incurable condition-without proper medication he could not live. It will not work unless they have the same conviction, the same inner assurance. Now for somebody else to do that just because he did, will not work. I knew on the inside of me: This is it.” And it worked. He gave this testimony, “I had listened to your tapes over and over, day and night. Those three days have now stretched into years-and he is still healed. Unless he is really believing God, he’s dead. Then he took his medication and threw it down in the canyon (I would never tell anybody else to do that). They drove their jeeps, then hiked back up to a remote cabin where they listened to tapes and read books.
He and the young man from Trinity and some Indian brothers went back in the mountains for a retreat. If he was off medication three days, he would die. Several times he gave his testimony in our crusades. Before long they had the Presbyterian missionary and his wife baptized with the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues. They went to a little Presbyterian mission there. After graduation they felt the call of God to work among the Navajo Indians in Arizona. Duncombe’s school, Trinity Bible College, was here in Tulsa, a young couple from Ohio came for the husband to attend. I wasn’t just imitating somebody else.Ī few years ago when Dr. But, you see, I did it because I had been feeding and meditating for months on the Word until I had that inward conviction. He said, “Your heart is so bad you would die.” Yet that is the very thing I did-even before I had any manifestation of healing. The doctor cautioned me not to try to raise up in bed. It takes time for it to get from your head to your heart. They talk about acting on God’s Word, so I’ll just act on it.” He got up trying to act on it and fell dead in the middle of the floor.Īs I said, you don’t get there just because you hear it one time. “If I can’t be preaching, I’d rather die anyhow. It has to get beyond the head down into the heart-and that takes time. And you do not get it just because somebody tells you once. But even though he had preached for years, this was a new area for him. Of course, they talked to him about faith. So he got some of them to come and talk to him. He had minister friends who believed in divine healing and had been healed by the power of God. At one point his heart was in such condition the doctor said, “Don’t dare try to get up. The doctor told him that his preaching days were over-but that if he would stay on medication and lie around and rest, he could live another couple of years.
He preached a simple salvation message and won thousands of souls. He wasn’t opposed to it, but he didn’t preach it. I knew a minister, mightily used of God, a great soul winner, who in his mid-50s came down with a severe heart condition. Now-it is possible to act on mental agreement. Weymouth’s translation makes it more clear, “Faith without corresponding actions is dead.”įaith is an act. Well, after all, James said that faith without works is dead (James 2:17). He said he would run over to one side of the platform and say, with his English pronunciation “Faith is an act.” Then he would run over to the opposite side of the platform and say, “Faith is an act.” He might do this several times. He told of how Wigglesworth would hammer this thought home: Faith is an act. As a young man he knew Smith Wigglesworth well. Charles Duncombe, able minister and Bible teacher who now writes a regular column for “Christ For The Nations” magazine, is from England. Mental agreement simply recognizes the truthfulness of the Word it does not act upon it.ĭr. The mental assentor sees what God’s Word says, admires what God’s Word says, but usually winds up saying, “For some reason, it doesn’t work for me.”įaith is acting on God’s Word. I believe every word is so.” Yet when the crises of life come to that person and they say, “It doesn’t work for me,” it cannot be faith. It sounds terribly religious and awfully good for someone to say, “I believe the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. The mental assentor agrees that the Bible is a revelation from God-that every word in it is true.
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