This is a wonderful testimony from once skeptical preacher who had spent all his earnings on hospital. He switched from ignorance to knowledge, from doubt to faith. He got his healing and became a dispenser of healing.

Down in Texas several years ago,
a fine denominational minister had a very outstanding ministry. Many of
the denominational churches would sponsor him in citywide meetings. In
his evangelistic endeavors he became sick.
And by his
own testimony, within a couple of years, all of his own money
was gone. He had had
$10,000 in the bank, and that was a lot of money back then. But in two years’ time his
money was gone. He had to sell his automobile, his home, and most of
his books in order to pay his doctor bills. He had been everywhere, including
the Mayo Clinic to try to receive help, but was none the better; rather, he
grew worse.
Finally he
was hospitalized in California. The doctor said that he was
going to die. The minister
contacted his brother who lived in California to borrow some money so he could go
home to Texas where he could die. Their ​eighty-two-year-old mother lived in
Texas and he wanted to see his mother before he died. So his brother sent
him the money and he went home.
The minister
went to live with his mother at the old home place in Texas
where he grew up. His mother
was so glad to see him. He told his mother that he had come home to die. His dear
old mother had a nineteen-year-old boy who lived there with her who did
the chores around the place.
This
nineteen-year-old boy became the sick minister’s nurse; the boy had
to turn the sick man on his
bed and dress him. One day the boy said to him, “Why don’t you let the Lord heal you?
The Bible says that if there is any sick among you, let them call for the
elders of the church, and let them pray for you” (James 5:14,15).
Here was a
minister who supposedly knew the Bible and yet didn’t even
know that these scriptures
were in the Bible. He had gone to school and studied everything but the
Bible!
The
minister told the boy to get his Bible and find that passage of
Scripture, but the boy had
never learned how to read. The man asked him how he knew that passage of
Scripture was in the Bible. The boy said that his preacher had told him it was in
the Bible. So the denominational minister looked up the scriptures and read
them.
The boy
told the minister that his preacher was having a healing meeting
under a brush arbor and
invited the minister to come. Arrangements were made for the minister to come to the
meeting; someone brought an old Model-T Ford and made a bed in the
back of it for the minister. They drove up as close to the brush arbor as
they could, and after the service the preacher came out and anointed the
sick minister with oil and prayed over him.
It was
about midnight before the minister and the boy returned home.
When the minister got
home, he asked his mother to let the boy fire up the wood stove so she could fry him some
ham and eggs. He had been eating baby food and soft foods because he
couldn’t eat any solid food. In fact, he hadn’t had anything to eat except
baby food in two years.
The man
told his mother that he was healed. He told her the preacher had
anointed him and prayed
for him. The mother said later that as her son related this, she thought he had
lost his mind. He also wanted his mother to make some old-fashioned country
biscuits for him to eat too. She thought that since he was going to die
anyway, he might as well die happy, so she did what he wanted and made the biscuits
and fried ham and eggs. He ate that meal and didn’t suffer any ill
effects whatsoever; he was completely healed!
This
minister then began to write about his healing and send articles in
for publication in various
magazines. Calls began to come in for him to hold revival meetings. He arranged a
citywide meeting for Kansas City. The boy told him that before he went to that
meeting, he needed to get filled with the Holy Ghost.
The
minister said that by that time he was ready to believe anything
that nineteen-year-old boy
told him, so he asked the boy what he should do. The boy explained to him how to receive
the baptism of the Holy Spirit and invited him to another brush-arbor
meeting. When the invitation was given, the minister went to the altar, and
he received the Holy Ghost and spoke with other tongues.
That
minister has long since gone on to glory, but his writings have
been a blessing to many of
us, including the denomination he was a member of. How did that man get faith for
healing? He got it by hearing the Word of God




Culled from BibleFaith Study Course
Kenneth E.
Hagin.