During 2009, a family member ended up in the ICU of a hospital, his body ridden with cancer of the lymph nodes. By mid December 2009, the medical staff at the hospital didn’t expect him to survive the night. I received a desperate call from his son on his way to hospital to see his dad, probably for the last time. I could hear the desperation in his voice. He told me that they had a cell group meeting of believers that gathered the previous evening to pray for his dad. He said that during this gathering some members of the group remarked what they felt in their spirit that God was saying, ”It is in God’s hands now”.

On my way to hospital to meet with him and offer my support, I wondered what the words “It is in God’s hands”, really mean for people in a time of calamity? The answer flashed into my mind like lightning: “YOU are My hands, my feet and my mouth on earth!” Of course, the Bible states that we are the body of Christ! I knew then that this man’s life is going to depend on our words, faith and acts. I thought: If I would ever end up in a devastating situation where I am too weak to fight my own battle, I would want the people around me to take up their spiritual authority and help me fight.

I arrived at the hospital. While we washed our hands, putting on the sterilized aprons and gloves to enter the ICU, I told my friend what God was speaking into my spirit. If God says we are His hands, well then the outcome is in our hands, and we must decide what to believe, accept and do with this delegated authority.

Many times we as believers like to ask God do something miraculous  for us, and then we wait for God…

I thank God that by His grace and love, He do answer and do wonderful things for us sometimes when we ask, but this time God was waiting for us to take up our responsibility.  We agreed there and then that his dad is going to live! I told him: “From this very moment, you must change your speech and your attitude, by willpower. Do not agree with anything that anyone might say to the contrary, not even the doctors. Your dad is going to live! Don’t blame anyone if they do not believe in the same way, the revelation was given to you and they might not understand.  Remember, sometimes we have to take the chance and walk on water against all odds, then we are moving in the dimension of manifesting a miracle.”

When I entered the ICU, his dad was weak, but fully awake and conscious. I conversed in a few words with him about our faith and the fact that if we believe and agree on the same outcome, we can manifest a miracle. He agreed and thankfully accepted our prayers and faith-talk. I laid my hands on him and anointed him on the forehead with oil according to James 5:14, declaring out loud that he will live and not die! Then this man, although weak and tired, did something that astonished me; he asked me if I would do something special for him. At that moment I realized that he understood the power of faith-meditation.

My wife and I were about to spend a week in the mountains on a game reserve.  We travel to this tranquil hideaway for a few days every three months. Her uncle (the sick man) also knew the place from a previous visit with us. While he weakly held my hand, he asked me to go to a specific spot in this nature reserve, to a specific mountain stream where there are many beautiful, smooth-shaped rocks. He asked me to select a rock about as big as the palm of his hand and to bring it to him when we return from our short holiday. He didn’t need to tell me why, I knew, during those lonely hours of the night and when he is alone in his hospital bed, he is walking in the fields and spending time in the mountains far away, or maybe he sits next to a mountain stream, looking at God’s beautiful creation.

During our stay at the game reserve, we received the message that he was dying, his health and strength just took a turn for the worst and he was in a coma. I could hear my wife talking to family members on her cell phone, and from the conversation I could gather that they have given up hope. Everyone expected the worse at any moment. When she told me what they have said, I stubbornly remarked: He will live and not die! My wife knew me by now, she has witnessed and heard me talking like this before: “If Lazarus was raised by Jesus after four days in the grave, and someone is still breathing, I will never accept and talk what appears to be natural fact“.

My wife and I went to the mountain stream and we selected a smooth, oval rock from small river bed. I then thanked God, that as surely as I was holding that rock in my hand, that it will be a token of God’s healing power at work in the body of this sick man.

It was two weeks later when we had a chance to visit him in hospital again. He somehow managed to survive, against all odds. His weakened body was suffering from many infections. For short periods of time he would come out of the coma. He was conscious when we visited him. I put the rock into his hand, tears flooded his eyes and he held it to his chest. When the nurse wanted to put the rock aside, he told her that he want to keep it against his body, at all times! Was there healing power in the rock? No, the power to heal his body was in his mind and in his spirit. The rock was the material symbol and representation of his image of meditation that he held alive in his mind.  He was in the mountains, far away. Now, he could feel nature in his hand and on his body, and it reminded him constantly to go and “visit the mountains“. I encourage him to meet me there, “in nature”, once every day.  I told him: “Someone else would be there also to meet with us, and we will have a good time together“.  He knew I was talking about Jesus.

The next day, we heard that the infection in his body was under control and his strength was returning to his body, he was growing stronger by the hour. He left the hospital a few weeks later and went home where his wife is taking care of him. Yes, six months later, his battle against cancer is still not completely won, but he is alive and filled with hope. Strength is returning to his body…

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God bless!

Philip