W. B. Godbey - Enter His Rest

his minions. Surely God makes them a blessing to His true people.
This probation is full of mysteries, which we will never comprehend in this dark valley of sin and sorrow, but
will perfectly understand when we reach the glorious Beyond.
I here give you the key to this great problem of Divine Healing. Rom. 8:11, “And if the Spirit of Him who raised
up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Jesus Christ from the dead will also create life n your
mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwelleth in you.” As above observed, this is the key that unlocks the
mystery and solves the problem of Divine Healing. The normal attitude of bodily healing is with the sanctified
who have the Holy Ghost dwelling in them. As the soul is the man proper, and the body only the tenement,
therefore the normal economy of grace first administers full salvation to the soul and afterward heals the body
so long as God willeth our abiding in it. The bodily healing of the unsanctified is His superabounding mercy.
“This is my will, even your sanctification.” I Thess. 4:3. Therefore the normal economy is to save and sanctify
all who will humbly and appreciatively reciprocate the gracious interventions of the Holy Ghost, now, through
the intercession of the glorified Christ, freely given to all as a Convictor of the wicked, Regenerator of the
penitent and Sanctifier of the believer, and an indwelling Comforter of the sanctified; e. g., you are living in a
house in Cincinnati, a break appears in the roof, and you have it repaired, then you find another in the wall and
calling in the mechanics you have it repaired at your own expense; the chimney falls down, and You have it
rebuilt, and so you keep on repairing your house. But the time will come when your house is really out of kilter
and every passer-by recognizes that it needs repairing again, and still you are not doing it, though the
dilapidation is getting worse all the time. Then what do your neighbors think about it? Why, they have entirely
quit talking about it, because they have all settled down in the conclusion that you are not going to repair it any
more, but take it down and build a new one.
The application is easy. The Holy Ghost is dwelling with me in my tenement of clay. It has often been seriously
out of kilter and He has repaired it. Thirty-four years ago physicians gave it up and took hands off, leaving it to
die of lung trouble in its worst form. He repaired it so perfectly that I have never had a vestige of that ailment
since. Sciatic rheumatism twenty-two years ago disqualified me to walk a step without a crutch. He, so far as I
can tell, perfectly repaired my body, so I am entirely free from rheumatism. Twelve years ago the physicians
pronounced a troublesome sore on my body a cancer, and told me I must have it cut out as quickly as possible. I
turned it over to the Great Physician, who took it away, leaving only the scar as a souvenir of His mighty work. I
have, in cases innumerable, been so afflicted that I was utterly disqualified for work, and He healed me
suddenly. When conducting a Free Methodist Campmeeting, ten years ago and surrounded by the presiding
elder and all of his pastors, they had me teaching the Bible morning and afternoon, and preaching every night,
leaving them for the street preaching and the altar work. I got up in the morning and found my body so violently
attacked that it would have been impossible for me to have attended any of the meetings. I had a good old Free
Methodist preacher get down by me, put his hands on me and pray for my healing; which came, so far as I could
tell, at the very moment, at least the ailment left me and returned no more and I went along in the three meetings
that day.
God has so wonderfully healed me and done it so quickly that I have lost less time from His work, perhaps, than
any other person you can find. In the above instances of healing, I stopped longer in the case of that lung trouble
than any other, and that was only five days. While my heart is full of praises for His miraculous healing, which
is not speaking extravagantly, as He is a God of miracles, and they have not ceased, as some say, I am assured
that if He does not soon appear and translate me, as I am constantly watching and waiting, the time will come
when this body will be out of kilter in some way, and perhaps in many, and He will not heal it. Why? Because
the house will be no longer worth repairing and my work will be done, the battle over and the victory won, then
I will know Heaven is nigh and begin to shout the approaching triumph.
“Some morning fair I am going away,
And not get back till millennial day,”
For I know I have another building not made with hands.
You see the danger of running the doctrine of Divine Healing into fanaticism. I have known good holiness
people to make this serious mistake. They pray for the sick, anointing them with oil, laying hands on them, and