Healing Leads to Hunger to Read God’s Word

August 7, 2020

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“Praise the LORD, my soul, and forget not all his benefits—who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases. ”

— Psalm 103:2-3

While a Muslim girl was taking medication for cancer, a GCM disciple maker began praying for her, as this was the only thing she could think of to do. Even though many people tried to help the girl, her condition worsened.

After her family and friends had tried everything medically, they brought the girl back to our disciple maker so she could be prayed for. During the process of many prayer sessions, our disciple maker did not get disappointed or lose hope. In faith, she kept asking God to heal this girl.

Then one day, our disciple maker went to check on the girl and discovered that she had been healed. The girl shared that every time she was prayed for by the disciple maker, she felt good and could sense that something positive was happening to her body.

When the girl was questioned if she was truly healed and if she no longer had any problems with cancer, she realized that it was only because of the prayer that she was healed by God.

Her mother asked the disciple maker what she read to her daughter—a chapter out of the Koran or something else—and what did the disciple maker say that brought about this healing? Simply but powerfully, the disciple maker stated that it was God and God alone who had healed her daughter.

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“For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”

— Hebrews 4:12

The disciple maker admitted that she had not read any chapters out of the Koran, but that there were some stories that had changed and blessed her life, which she could share with them.

Quickly, all the women in the family agreed to meet with the disciple maker to hear the stories. They continue to gather together, reading the scriptures and intently listening.

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“O Lord my God, I cried out to You, and You healed me. ”

— Psalm 30:2

PRAY WITH US

For the Lord to continue to open the hearts and pull back the veil over the women in this family to His love and truth.
For our disciple makers to continue to follow the Holy Spirit’s leading when talking with others.
For people in the Middle East to be open to prayer in the name of Jesus, the Healer of our souls.

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We believe the Scriptures, both the Old and New Testaments, are inspired by God and are the revelation of God to man, the infallible, authoritative rule of faith and conduct. (2 Timothy 3:15-17, 1 Peter 1:21)

We believe that there is one God, eternally existent who has revealed Himself as embodying the principles of relationship and association as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. (Deuteronomy 6:4, Luke 3:22)

We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father where He intercedes for us, in His present rule as Head of the Church, and in His personal return in power and glory. (Matthew 1:23, Luke 1:31)

We believe in the creation of mankind in God’s image, and the fall of man, resulting in universal guilt and total depravity; and the necessity, therefore, of redemption and restoration; that all men and women are lost spiritually and face the judgment of God, that Jesus Christ is the only way of salvation, and that repentance of sin and faith in Jesus Christ is necessary for regeneration by the Holy Spirit. (Genesis 1:26-27, Genesis 2:17)

We believe salvation is received through repentance toward God and faith toward the Lord Jesus Christ. By the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, being justified by grace through faith, man becomes an heir of God, according to the hope of eternal life. (Luke 24:47, John 3:3)

We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; the saved unto the resurrection of eternal life in the presence of our Lord, and the lost unto the resurrection of damnation and eternal punishment. (Matthew 25:46, Mark 9:43-48)

We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ and that all true believers are members of His body, the Church, which has the duty to preach the Gospel to every person. (Ephesians 1:22-23, Ephesians 2:22)

We believe that we must dedicate ourselves to prayer, to the service of our Lord, to His authority over our lives, and to the ministry of teaching, preaching, the prophetic, the apostolic, and evangelism. (Ephesians 4:11-13)

We believe in upholding the ordinances of the church of water baptism and holy communion.

The ordinance of baptism by immersion is commanded by the Scriptures. All who repent and believe in Christ as Savior and Lord are to be baptized. Thus, they declare to the world that they have died with Christ and that they also have been raised with Him to walk in newness of life. (Matthew 28:19, Mark 16:16, Acts 10:47,48, Romans 6:4)

The Lord’s Supper, consisting of the elements—bread and the fruit of the vine—, is the symbol expressing our sharing the divine nature of our Lord Jesus Christ (2 Peter 1:4), a memorial of His suffering and death (1 Corinthians 11:26), and a prophecy of His second coming (1 Corinthians 11:26), and is enjoined on all believers “till He comes!”