Power for Abundant Living

Believing Equals Receivingout his hand. Yet this man, believing what The Wordsaid or what God said by way of Jesus Christ,stretched it forth.... and his hand was restored whole as the other.He did not receive his wholeness first and thenstretch forth his hand; it was in the stretching forththat he was made whole. Before one receives anything,he must act as though he already has it andthen he receives.Whenever I read this record from Mark 3, it remindsme of the times I was practicing the principlesof the greatness of God's Word in other countries ofthe world. On one occasion when I was teaching inJubbulpore, India, a lady who had worked in a missionservice for thirty years was delivered by God'spower of a number of sicknesses which appeared incurable.This deliverance caused such a stir in the cityof Jubbulpore the morning after the miracleoccurred, that when my family and I were ready toboard the train and leave Jubbulpore, hundreds ofpeople gathered at the railroad depot. This crowd,which was composed mainly of Hindus, wanted me tolay my hands on them individually because theythought that I must have some special power in myhands since I had laid my hands on the woman theprevious day. They felt that if I just laid my hands on29