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