Ebenezer Asiamah: Last week, Marie did a wonderful job teaching on Jehovah Jirah, God our provider, and she shared practical examples of how God provided for her and her family in difficult times.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And I was so blessed to receive what God has for us through her.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Tonight we're going to be looking at Jehovah Rapha, God our healer.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And it's very important because it is one area that sometimes there can be a lot of controversies about it.
Ebenezer Asiamah: But I want to share a story with you.
Ebenezer Asiamah: I grew up in Ghana and my parents were believers, so I grew up going to church.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And when the Lord started revealing himself to me and giving me the desire to follow him, I had so much faith that God can heal everything.
Ebenezer Asiamah: I had a big mountain in my family because my brother, I have four brothers.
Ebenezer Asiamah: One of them, who is just after me, was born with a disability.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And he had cerebral palsy.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And I said, God, you can heal him.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And I will wake up and I will pray and I said, God, I know you are Jehovah Rapha, you can heal him.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And his condition was still the same.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And he's lived with a disability for 30 years.
Ebenezer Asiamah: But one thing that I see with my brother is that I've never seen him sad or depressed.
Ebenezer Asiamah: You always see him with a smile on his face.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And I believe that is also part of healing.
Ebenezer Asiamah: But personally, I remember about 15 years ago, it was an evening service like this.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And after the service, I had some money with me to renew my health insurance.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And I just felt that I should just give it as an offering.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And I said, God, just be my insurance.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And I gave the money that I was supposed to use for my health insurance as an offering.
Ebenezer Asiamah: So young in the faith, but I I trusted God.
Ebenezer Asiamah: I don't remember the last time I went to the hospital after that.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Like God protected me.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And in times of sickness, he healed me to the point that I didn't need to go to the hospital.
Ebenezer Asiamah: So personally, that is something that God has done that I feel like sharing.
Ebenezer Asiamah: That indeed He is our healer.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Now, when God revealed this covenant name, it was after He had delivered the children of Israel from Egypt.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And we read about it in Exodus chapter 15, verse 22 to 27.
Ebenezer Asiamah: It says, Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea and they went into the desert of Shah.
Ebenezer Asiamah: For three days they traveled in the desert without finding water.
Ebenezer Asiamah: When they came to Marah, they could not drink.
Ebenezer Asiamah: They could not drink its water because it was bitter.
Ebenezer Asiamah: That is why the place is called Marah.
Ebenezer Asiamah: So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, What are we to drink?
Ebenezer Asiamah: Then Moses cried to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a piece of wood.
Ebenezer Asiamah: He threw it into the water, and the water became fit to drink.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Then the Lord issued a ruling, an instruction for them, and put them to the test.
Ebenezer Asiamah: He said, If you listen carefully to the Lord your God, and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all he commands, and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the disease I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord who heals you.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there near the water.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Shall we pray?
Ebenezer Asiamah: Our Heavenly Father, we we thank you so much that you reveal yourself.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And you've revealed yourself in your word to us as Jehovah Rapha, the God that heals.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Lord, I ask that tonight will be a night of healing.
Ebenezer Asiamah: That if there is anybody among us who is dealing with a particular sickness or anyone among us who has a loved one who is in need of healing, Lord, we ask that you touch us and bring complete healing and restoration in the name of Jesus.
Ebenezer Asiamah: We thank you, Lord, that you are our healer and with your stripes we were healed in Jesus' name.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Amen.
Ebenezer Asiamah: So this is very important.
Ebenezer Asiamah: As the children of Israel, they've just crossed the Red Sea and everybody was in high spirit.
Ebenezer Asiamah: They were prophesying, everybody was happy.
Ebenezer Asiamah: But as they continued the journey, for three days, no water, and there was a problem.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Because I don't know if anyone of us have gone three days without water before.
Ebenezer Asiamah: It is very hard.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And as a matter of fact, it's not advisable to go three days without water.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And so the people started to complain.
Ebenezer Asiamah: But one thing I saw is that they didn't complain to God, they complained to Moses.
Ebenezer Asiamah: So one thing I learned from this story is that the people did not know God, or they did not know the ways of God.
Ebenezer Asiamah: But Moses knew the ways of God.
Ebenezer Asiamah: But the people were just content with the acts of God.
Ebenezer Asiamah: It is one thing to know the acts of God, but it is another thing to know the ways of God.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Moses was acquainted with the ways of God.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And so the people, when anytime they were confronted with a difficulty, they will complain to Moses.
Ebenezer Asiamah: They won't cry to God, they won't ask God to do anything.
Ebenezer Asiamah: They will blame Moses and they will start wanting to stone Moses and all kinds of things.
Ebenezer Asiamah: But when you read Psalm 103, I love it so much.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and do not forget all his benefits, who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who renews your life like the eagle and satisfies you with good things.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And when you continue, he says that he shows his righteousness and judgment to the oppressed.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And then he said, Moses knew the ways of God, but the people knew the acts of God.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And it's not okay to just know the acts of God.
Ebenezer Asiamah: We must grow from knowing the acts of God to knowing the ways of God.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Daniel chapter 11, verse 32b says that the people who know their God, they shall be strong and do exploits.
Ebenezer Asiamah: So tonight I want to challenge all of us that we will get to know God personally.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And we will not just uh like the people of Israel, just always going to Moses and bringing their complaints before Moses, but never going to God.
Ebenezer Asiamah: God wants to reveal Himself to us, God wants us to know Him.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Another thing I saw from this scripture is that the fall of man made our waters bitter.
Ebenezer Asiamah: In Romans chapter 3, verse 23, it says that for all have sinned and we've fallen short of the glory of God.
Ebenezer Asiamah: You know, the people could not use the bitter water because it needed healing.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And that is what sin has done to all of mankind.
Ebenezer Asiamah: It ruined our relationship with God, it ruined our relationship with one another.
Ebenezer Asiamah: When Adam fell, the first thing he did was to blame God.
Ebenezer Asiamah: He said, the woman you gave me.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And, you know, his relationship with God was gone, and it affected his relationship with the gift that God had given him, too.
Ebenezer Asiamah: But I thank God so much for the cross of Jesus Christ.
Ebenezer Asiamah: You know, when you look at the cross, the cross heals our relationship with God, and it also heals our relationship with one another.
Ebenezer Asiamah: So Moses was told by God to get a wood and throw it into the waters.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And we know that our Lord Jesus Christ had to pay the sacrifice of our sins on a wood.
Ebenezer Asiamah: You know, Peter, quoting from Isaiah chapter 53, says that he himself bore all our iniquities on the tree, and by his stripes we were healed.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And so when God showed Moses to throw the wood into the water, and the water was healed, he was just giving us a sign that one day he will send his son Jesus Christ, and by the sacrifice that he made on the cross, our better waters will be healed.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And so tonight I want to remind all of us to pay attention, close attention to the word of God, because God instructed the people to pay careful attention to his words.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And one thing that I've learned in my walk with God is that his word is medicinal, his word has healing effects.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And when the word of God heals you, it doesn't have any side effects.
Ebenezer Asiamah: You know, we go to the store, you buy drugs, they are side effects.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Some of them are very dangerous.
Ebenezer Asiamah: I'm like, but when the word of God does a work of healing in you, it doesn't come with side effects.
Ebenezer Asiamah: So God said in his word in Proverbs chapter 4, verse 20, 21, 22 to 23, says, My son or my daughter, give attention to my words.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Incline your ears to my sayings, do not let them depart from your mouth, set them in the midst of your eyes, for they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And so by this word we know that the word of God has the power to bring healing.
Ebenezer Asiamah: When you read Psalm 107, verse 20, he says, He sent forth his word to heal them and to deliver them from all their distraction.
Ebenezer Asiamah: God instructed Joshua that this book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And what we say is very important, especially when we are going through sicknesses and diseases.
Ebenezer Asiamah: You know, sometimes we take ownership of the sickness and um uh we we make it our identity, but God wants us to move from that and not identify with our particular ailment that we are going through, because our identity is not in our sickness, but our identity is in Christ Jesus.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Tonight I want to share a story with you about a great king, King Hezekiah, in Isaiah 38.
Ebenezer Asiamah: This man walked with God faithfully and he trusted God.
Ebenezer Asiamah: When the Assyrians wanted to attack the people of Jerusalem, and they sent letters to intimidate him and wanting to destroy them, Hezekiah and Isaiah, the son of Amos, prayed to God, and God sent an angel to wipe out 185,000 of the Assyrian soldiers.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And he had so much faith in God that God said, He's one of the kings that trust me.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Now, this man, when he was in the prime of his life at the age of 39, the word of God came to him through Isaiah.
Ebenezer Asiamah: He said, Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, set your house in order because you would die and not recover.
Ebenezer Asiamah: That is a very scary word.
Ebenezer Asiamah: So, how would you react to such a word?
Ebenezer Asiamah: But Hezekiah, being a man that he was, a man of trust and faith in God, he knew that even though Isaiah was a man of God, a prophet of God, his words don't fall to the ground.
Ebenezer Asiamah: But Hezekiah said, Thank you.
Ebenezer Asiamah: I need to talk with God.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And then he turned to the wall and he started praying and crying to God.
Ebenezer Asiamah: God, remember, remember how I've walked before you faithfully.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Now remember that King Hezekiah at that time Jesus Christ had not died on the cross.
Ebenezer Asiamah: So he didn't even have a better reference.
Ebenezer Asiamah: He was referencing to his good works.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Remember how I've walked before you, how I've been obedient to you.
Ebenezer Asiamah: But you and I we have a better reference.
Ebenezer Asiamah: We have Jesus Christ.
Ebenezer Asiamah: So in times of sickness, instead of uh pointing to our own good works, which is not good enough, we can point to the good works of Christ.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Hezekiah didn't have that, but we do have that.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Tonight, I pray that it will not just be a teaching experience.
Ebenezer Asiamah: I pray that it will be a healing experience.
Ebenezer Asiamah: That by the time we live here, God will do a work of healing in our hearts and in our lives because many are going through sicknesses and diseases.
Ebenezer Asiamah: I remember last Saturday we were at the prison, and as I was sharing the word, somebody said, Please pray for me.
Ebenezer Asiamah: I'm being sexually abused.
Ebenezer Asiamah: So uh Matthew, brother Scott, actually had to walk the brother and take him to the offices and report the issue and then pray with him.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Now, after the message, I asked for those who needed prayer for healing, and almost everybody was there.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And I was standing there alone with all the men, everybody needing healing.
Ebenezer Asiamah: I'm like, wow, let's just pray for one another.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And so we spent time praying for one another, and there was one man who just broke down, said, Please, I need healing and forgiveness and restoration in my family.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And he started crying.
Ebenezer Asiamah: So these are things that God is doing at the prison.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Now, Hezekiah, when he started crying to God and praying to God, God told Isaiah, go back, go tell Hezekiah that I've heard his prayers and I've seen his tears.
Ebenezer Asiamah: I just want to encourage you that God is not ignorant of the prayers and the tears that we've been shedding in secret places.
Ebenezer Asiamah: He said, I have heard your prayers and I've also seen your tears.
Ebenezer Asiamah: God sees the tears that we cry, even in our secret place.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And God said, I have added 15 more years to your life.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And God prolonged the life of Hezekiah.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Another story that I want to share with you, there are many, many stories about healing.
Ebenezer Asiamah: One of them that stood out to me was the centurion and his servant.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Let us read the story in Matthew chapter 8, verse 5 to 13.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And this centurion, he was not an Israelite, he was a gentile, but he has such incredible faith in God that it's so remarkable.
Ebenezer Asiamah: We can learn something from it tonight.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Matthew chapter 8, I read from verse 5 to 13.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And Jesus, when he had entered Capenum, a centurion came to him asking for help.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Lord, he said, my servant lies at home, paralyzed, suffering terribly.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Jesus said to him, Shall I come and heal him?
Ebenezer Asiamah: The centurion replied, Lord, I do not deserve to have you under my roof, but just say the word, and my servant will be healed.
Ebenezer Asiamah: For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me.
Ebenezer Asiamah: I tell this one, go and he goes.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And that one come and he comes.
Ebenezer Asiamah: I say to my servant, Do this, and he does it.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And when Jesus heard this, he was amazed and said to those following him, Truly I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith.
Ebenezer Asiamah: I say to you that many will come from east and the west and will take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.
Ebenezer Asiamah: But the subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside into the darkness where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Then Jesus said to the centurion, Go, let it be done just as you believed it would.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And his servant was healed at that moment.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Remarkable story.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Stories like this, it it preaches itself, so there's there's nothing to add.
Ebenezer Asiamah: The man who was just a gentile knew that Jesus had authority to just speak a word, and that word is enough to cause a sick servant to be healed.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And tonight I want to encourage you, let's go back to the word.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Because in times of difficulty, when you remember the word of God and you pray the word of God, the word will not return void, but it will go forth and accomplish the purpose for which it was sent.
Ebenezer Asiamah: God has not stopped healing, God is still healing.
Ebenezer Asiamah: He can heal right now, or he can heal in the future, or he can heal when when all has ended, and we've we've done with our assignment on this earth.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Because healing is the nature of God, God is eternal, but sometimes we we look at our world and we think that is all that there is, and so even when we are asking for healing, and sometimes it doesn't happen in this life, we think that's the end, but it's not because God is eternal, he is the existing one, Jehovah, eternal God, and his healing doesn't end here.
Ebenezer Asiamah: As a matter of fact, it is made perfect and complete when we stand before him, because all the stories that we read, Lazarus was dead four days, he came back to life, but he had to die again because this is not our home.
Ebenezer Asiamah: You know, we are just passing through this life, we have a better place in God.
Ebenezer Asiamah: So tonight I just want to encourage you that let's not stop praying for healing, even when we don't see it.
Ebenezer Asiamah: I've been praying for my brother for 30 years, still keep praying, still trust God that God will keep him, and in his own time, he will heal him.
Ebenezer Asiamah: One thing that I found so fascinating about God is that he is not the God of the dead, he's the God of the living.
Ebenezer Asiamah: As a matter of fact, when Jesus said this, and I was I was thinking about it, even at the Mount of Transfiguration, Moses was there, and Elijah was there.
Ebenezer Asiamah: But to us, Moses died on Mount Nebo in the mountains of Moab.
Ebenezer Asiamah: He died.
Ebenezer Asiamah: But on the Mount of Transfiguration, he was there.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And he says, He's God of Isaac, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Ebenezer Asiamah: He's not the God of the dead, but the God of the living.
Ebenezer Asiamah: To him, they are all alive to him.
Ebenezer Asiamah: That is the God that we serve.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And so, even our loved ones who have departed this world, to God, they are all alive.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And so let's let's trust in God and let's keep hope alive in God.
Ebenezer Asiamah: I want to share another story about a woman that she was also a gentile, and her faith always blows my mind.
Ebenezer Asiamah: We can read the story in the Gospel of Mark, chapter 7, verse 24 to 30.
Ebenezer Asiamah: It's also in Matthew chapter 15, verse 21 to 28.
Ebenezer Asiamah: But this woman came to Jesus for healing.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Jesus wouldn't say anything to her.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And the disciples told the woman, you know, he he is not ready for you, just go.
Ebenezer Asiamah: But the woman kept persisting.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And when Jesus opened his mouth, he said, It is not fit to give the children's bread to the little dogs.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And the woman was not offended.
Ebenezer Asiamah: He didn't, she didn't turn back.
Ebenezer Asiamah: She said, Yes, Lord.
Ebenezer Asiamah: How can you say yes, Lord, to a word like this?
Ebenezer Asiamah: And I was studying this the account and I saw that the reason why Jesus was doing what he was doing was to bring out the great faith that was in the woman.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Because sometimes we can easily get offended.
Ebenezer Asiamah: The woman came to Jesus, Jesus wouldn't speak a word to her.
Ebenezer Asiamah: The disciples were pushing her off, go away.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And when Jesus opened his mouth, the word that came was not very encouraging.
Ebenezer Asiamah: But the woman said, Yes, Lord.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Now, how do you respond yes, Lord, to a word like this that is not fit to give the children's bread to the dogs?
Ebenezer Asiamah: But the woman didn't end there.
Ebenezer Asiamah: She said, Yes, but the little dogs under the table have access to the crowns that fall from the table of the master.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And Jesus said, Woman, for this saying, go, your daughter is healed.
Ebenezer Asiamah: You have great faith.
Ebenezer Asiamah: That's amazing.
Ebenezer Asiamah: She did not get offended.
Ebenezer Asiamah: I want to encourage you tonight.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Let's not get easily offended with God.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Let's trust God.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Let's look to Him.
Ebenezer Asiamah: I want to share a final story before we move to our group conversations.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And I want to read this story from Luke chapter 9, verse 37 to 43.
Ebenezer Asiamah: There are many accounts of God showing himself as Jehovah Rapha, but we don't have enough time to delve into all of it.
Ebenezer Asiamah: But let this one is very, very remarkable.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Luke 9, chapter 37 to 43.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Says that the next day when they came down from the mountain, a large crowd met him.
Ebenezer Asiamah: A man in the crowd called out, Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my only child.
Ebenezer Asiamah: A spirit seizes him and he suddenly screams.
Ebenezer Asiamah: It throws him into convulsions so that he foams at his mouth.
Ebenezer Asiamah: You unbelieving and perverse generation, Jesus replied, How long shall I stay with you and put up with you?
Ebenezer Asiamah: Bring your son here.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Even while the boy was coming, the demon threw him to the ground in convulsion.
Ebenezer Asiamah: But Jesus rebuked the impure spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And they were all amazed at the greatness of God.
Ebenezer Asiamah: So this is a story about a father who is in asking healing for his only son.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And from this story, we got to know that it was a demon that was afflicting the only son.
Ebenezer Asiamah: You know, when the enemy fell with the fallen angels, all that they are interested in is stealing, killing, and destroying.
Ebenezer Asiamah: That's what Jesus said.
Ebenezer Asiamah: But when Jesus came on the scene, he said, How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil.
Ebenezer Asiamah: For God was with him.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Some of the oppressions and sicknesses, some of them Satan and his agents, really oppresses people.
Ebenezer Asiamah: So Jesus rebuked the spirit and healed the boy.
Ebenezer Asiamah: But later on, the disciples would go to Jesus and ask him, Why could we not heal him?
Ebenezer Asiamah: And Jesus went on and said that this kind does not go except by prayer and fasting.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And so sometimes these spiritual disciplines are very important, even when we are believing and trusting God for deliverance for our loved ones.
Ebenezer Asiamah: We should spend some time in fasting, spend some time in prayer, and God, who is faithful, will hear us.
Ebenezer Asiamah: We'll be moving into our group discussion, but I want to share some resistance to healing.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And the first one I want to share is sin.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Sometimes it's not all the time, but sometimes sin uh prevents God's people from receiving healing.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And there was a story in John chapter 5 about a man who was at the pool of Bethesda and he had been there for 38 years.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And when Jesus saw him, he said, Do you want to be made well?
Ebenezer Asiamah: Then he started going into the details.
Ebenezer Asiamah: I don't have any man to carry me into the water when the water is dead.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And as he was going on, Jesus said, Get up, take up your bed and walk.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Now, as this man heard the word, immediately he was healed.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And when the Pharisees and the rulers were asking him, Why are you holding your bed on a Sabbath day?
Ebenezer Asiamah: Well, there was a man who told me to pick up my bed and walk.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And he found out later on that it was Jesus.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Jesus told him, Go and sin no more, so that something greater than this will not come to you.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And so not all situations are caused by sin, but sometimes too there could be a sin issue.
Ebenezer Asiamah: In John chapter 9, the man who was born blind, the disciples asked Jesus, Rabbi, who sinned that he was born blind?
Ebenezer Asiamah: Is it his mother or his father?
Ebenezer Asiamah: He said, No, neither his father or his mother sinned, but for the glory of God to be made manifest in him.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And I struggle with that.
Ebenezer Asiamah: This man has been blind for 40 years.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Jesus said, It is not because of anybody's sin, but for the glory of God to be made manifest in him.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Tonight I want to share with you that anything that we may be going through or dealing with is an opportunity for the glory of God to be made manifest in it.
Ebenezer Asiamah: When we receive any report, any diagnosis, which is not what we were expecting, I want you to know that it is an opportunity for God to manifest his glory in it.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And you can ask God, God, how are you going to manifest your glory with this?
Ebenezer Asiamah: Amen.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Like Hezekiah, he didn't accept the report that came from God.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Not from a doctor, from God.
Ebenezer Asiamah: He didn't accept it.
Ebenezer Asiamah: So sometimes we need to wrestle with some of the reports too.
Ebenezer Asiamah: I I have a story to share.
Ebenezer Asiamah: There is a woman in Ghana, and she's very old.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Her dad was just a farmer, and they were blessed with many kids.
Ebenezer Asiamah: He had like 11 children, but suddenly they were just dying.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And he got very desperate.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And he had few children left.
Ebenezer Asiamah: All of them just died mysteriously.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And his daughter was sick at the point of death.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And he said, God, this time it's either you heal my daughter or you kill me with the daughter.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And he was in his farm and he was praying and crying out to God.
Ebenezer Asiamah: This was in the year 1930.
Ebenezer Asiamah: This man was filled with the Holy Spirit.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And he was the first man to ever speak in the language of the Spirit for the first time in Ghana.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And when he was filled with the Holy Spirit, he had so much faith.
Ebenezer Asiamah: At that time, the daughter was dead.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And God used him to raise the daughter back to life.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And the woman is still alive today.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And I've met with her, I have pictures with her.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And the last time I met her, she told me she's not feeling very well, but she's afraid of going to the hospital because they will tell her all that is wrong with her.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Now I'm not saying that going to the hospital is wrong.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Sometimes God uses doc, you know, God has given us gifted doctors and physicians that, you know, can diagnose and bring healing.
Ebenezer Asiamah: But this woman, this old lady said, I know they will tell me all that is wrong with me.
Ebenezer Asiamah: I already know.
Ebenezer Asiamah: So I'm not going.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Well, where she lives, there's no hospital anyway.
Ebenezer Asiamah: So yeah.
Ebenezer Asiamah: I shared it here before.
Ebenezer Asiamah: You go to some places in Ghana, no electricity, no hospital, no school, nothing.
Ebenezer Asiamah: They hear the gospel for the first time and they are all excited because they know that it's either God or nothing.
Ebenezer Asiamah: And they will say, Oh, please pray for this water, pray over this water, because we know that when we are sick, we drink it, we'll be healed.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Okay.
Ebenezer Asiamah: They have so much confidence and you know, trust in God.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Some of us here we are very blessed, and you know, and there's nothing wrong.
Ebenezer Asiamah: I'm not saying there is something wrong with going to, you know, for checkups.
Ebenezer Asiamah: You know, if we have the opportunity to do that, we can take advantage of it because God can use it to bring restoration and healing.
Ebenezer Asiamah: But, you know, you understand me from where I'm coming from, right?
Ebenezer Asiamah: Yeah, sometimes there are no hospitals and God still heals his people.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Shall we pray?
Ebenezer Asiamah: Lord, we thank you that you are a healer and you haven't stopped healing.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Lord, right now I ask that you touch your people.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Anyone here, oh God, who is been diagnosed with a with a sickness or is dealing with uh needing healing emotionally, spiritually, physically, Lord, let your word bring complete healing and restoration in the name of Jesus.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Lord, I thank you that you heal us and by your stripes we were healed.
Ebenezer Asiamah: We give you praise in Jesus' name.
Ebenezer Asiamah: Amen.