Apply Your Heart to the Word

Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my knowledge -Proverbs 22:17

Some years ago Janet and I taught for several days in a small campmeeting. While we were there, we noticed a young woman who came to every service. She used crutches and couldn’t walk at all without them.

One afternoon we taught the congregation to feed on healing Scriptures when they needed healing. That evening another evangelist preached. When he called for the sick to come forward for prayer, this woman was the first one to the front.

The minister laid hands on her to pray and the woman was instantly healed. Later she testified, “For a long time, I suffered with multiple sclerosis. I couldn’t even walk without crutches. The doctors told me my condition would only get worse. But I’ve been coming regularly to this church, endeavoring to feed on the Word, keep a good confession and believe God for my healing.

This afternoon I heard the message on the importance of feeding my faith with healing Scriptures. I’d been doing all I knew to do, but until then I hadn’t saturated myself with God’s Word on healing.

So, this afternoon, I opened my Bible and started studying healing Scriptures. I studied for hours. Suddenly, my heart got so full of the Scriptures I’d been meditating on that my faith rose up inside me. I came to church tonight and wrote inside my Bible with today’s date, ‘Healed by the power of God!’ I just knew in my heart things were going to change tonight.”

Now, taking hold of a miracle by faith doesn’t necessarily work this quickly for everyone. But how did this woman know her healing would manifest that night? She got so full of the Word on the inside that it produced faith in her that was unstoppable.

You see, many times we wait for God to drop an extra measure of faith on us. But faith comes from the inside. We cannot produce faith on our own. Faith only comes by applying our hearts to the Word of God.

CONFESSION:

Faith builds up in me when I hear and hear the Word. I hear the Word of God, and hearing produces faith in me.

From: A Devotional for Divine Health Prescription for a Miracle, Mark Brazee, 1999