<TITLE>02. Par 5-7</TITLE>L-5 And now, all that could ever be done for a person--for you, I, or anyone--was completed and finished at Calvary. Now, when I... many... I've heard many say that they had healing in their hands. And that--that may be all true. I don't know. But the way I believe it, is that our healing is completed with our salvation. "He was wounded for our transgressions, and with His stripes we were healed." It's a past tense.
Now, the only way that we can receive anything from God is (Now, catch this.), is not to look for something... Say, "My hand's crippled; I was prayed for. My hand doesn't straighten out in a moment." That doesn't mean I'm not healed. No. That doesn't have one thing to do with it. See? Because I've noticed in thirty-one years in the ministry (fifteen years around and around the world), that sometimes you pray for a person, it'd be a week or two before it ever happened.

L-6 And I was thinking of a case just now. I've often referred to it. A lady came into the meeting, and it was in the prayer line. And the Holy Spirit begin to tell her about who she was and what was wrong. She had a tremendous ulcer in her stomach. And--and then It told her that... That's what the Holy Spirit was saying. She knows it had to be something to reveal that. She recognized it, and she wanted to act upon it.
And then down the line a little farther was her neighbor, and her neighbor had a growth on her neck. And she was prayed for, and the Holy Spirit had pronounced her healed.
Well, when she went home, she said, "Well, perhaps I'll just go ahead and eat now. I'm all right." So she started to eat, and it made her real sick. And three or four weeks passed, and still she would try to have faith and move on.
And her husband told her, said, "Honey, I don't mind you having faith like that," but said, "you're just bringing reproach upon the very cause of Christ." How little that husband knowed. She can't do that as long as she's confessing His Word, for He is the high priest of our confession. He cannot do one thing for us till first we confess it is done.

L-7 You people that's been saved, you know this. You could come there at the altar, and cry, and lay on the altar, and confess, and--all you want to--and cry, and pray, and beat on the altar for year after year, and you'll never be saved until you accept His pardon. See? It's something you accept. It's yours. It belongs to you. Healing is yours. You've got to accept it. And until you accept it...
The Book of Hebrews says He's a High Priest of our confession or profession (both translated the same). When we confess it, He's the High Priest to make intercessions on what we confess. And we confess His finished work at Calvary.


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