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64 The Believer's Authority
This is what happens in big meetings—I saw it happen in the
well-known evangelists' meetings during the days of the Healing
Revival, which was from 1947-58.
However, when these people get back on their own, the devil
comes along with lying symptoms. The people don't have a
foundation of faith in them, and the devil puts the same thing
back on them. That's the reason you see people get delivered
from evil spirits, sickness—a lot of things—and the next time
you see them, they're right back where they were.
Somebody will say, "Well, they never got healed to begin
with."
How could a crippled man walk who had never walked
before if he hadn't been healed? If that wasn't healing, what was
it? How could a blind man see—I've seen them do it—who had
never seen before? How could a deaf person hear who had never
heard before?
They were all right until they got home, and after two or
three weeks, their healing was gone. Why did they lose it?
Because they didn't know their authority. They didn't know how
to hold onto what they had, so they didn't try to exercise
authority themselves; or, if they said anything, they said the
wrong thing.
I've seen polio victims completely healed—their feet and
legs straightened out—and in 10 days' time they lost their
healing.
I remember one woman who had been completely bedfast
with arthritis for three years. She was stretched out stiff as a
board in her bed. She was healed instantly, got up, and walked.
Her doctor couldn't find a trace of arthritis in her body. But six
weeks later she was as stiff as a board again. Why did she lose
her healing?
Some people say, "They hypnotize them." Is that it? No,
people get into the presence of God where the gifts of the Holy
Spirit are in operation and it's easy to receive healing. Then,