In the previous post, ‘Faith Like a child part 1, (link below)
https://kingdavids.family.blog/2018/11/01/faith-like-a-child-part-1/
I shared a personal healing testimony and showed how by Gods grace, I stood on and practiced 1st Timothy 6:12 and came out victorious glory to Jesus.
I promised part two of the blog post ‘Faith like a child’ and here we are, I want to confess I did not do as I know I should have. The testimony in part 1 was from last year and I promised to share an experience I recently had. You will then understand why I titled this post faith like a child. Enjoy the read and thank you for choosing to be here. God bless you.
So a-few weeks ago days ago I was feeling off and I could not put my finger to what exactly the matter was, I assumed it was something spiritual but I honestly could not discern and pin point what exactly I was picking or feeling. You see at times God allows me to feel what others are feeling so I never associate what I am feeling with myself. Allow me to give you a quick example, I could be in the midst of a group of people and suddenly feel a pain in my body out of nowhere and then the pain would disappear as quickly as it came. When this happens I know that there is someone near me that needs healing in that particular part of his or her body. I therefore do as the Bible tells me to do……..
Mark 16:16-17 NASB – These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name………. they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
So as I was saying, a-few weeks ago I was feeling off. I tried to put my finger on it and discern exactly what i was feeling and why but i couldn’t. Was I picking somebody’s feelings, was I being warned of an attack on my health or somebody else’s? I honestly could not tell. So rather than stress about it or dwell on it, I ignored it and carried on my business as I usually do when it comes to anything negative concerning me. I simply move on and do not allow to be moved in the negative or feel in the negative.
Philippians 4:8 NASB – Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things.
I did not dwell on the fact that I was feeling off knowing that in due time God would reveal the reason as to why I was feeling off. Later in the evening my four year old daughter comes from school and in her usual fashion, she comes straight to my bedroom, from where I work, to say hi.
So she comes up and the first thing she tells me is ‘Papa today I was tired. I was feeling tired in school. I want to sleep and rest’. Those are very strong words for a four year old to use. I must admit, looking into her eyes I could tell something was cooking and I did not like it. I bath her and as I dress her I notice that she is shivering like a leaf, I put on the heater to keep her warm and even after dressing her fully, the shivering persists. I carry her downstairs and tell my wife, the Queen, to serve her dinner so that she can sleep early and get some good rest. After 10 minutes I go back down to check on her. I find her sleeping and hot, one look at her and I knew my daughter was very sick. Now I understand why I was feeling off earlier on, it was connected to her.
She manages to eat what she could gather enough appetite and energy to. In my little attempt to make her comfortable, I hold her and she tells me, ‘papa put oil on me and pray’
James 5:14 NASB – Is anyone among you sick? Then he must call for the elders of the church and they are to pray over him, [a]anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;
My wife and I have trained our children in the ways of the Lord, we make sure that even at their tender age, they know that Gods word is real and not what they necessarily feel or see. By the grace of God we managed and continue to bring up and train our children in pure truth. That God wants the best for them and that they already have it, they just need to exercise faith to manifest it. Our 3-year-old son for example knows how to lay hands on the sick and preach. Many times I have walked in on him and found him ‘preaching’ to teddy bears and toys as he holds his small bible on his hand shouting at the teddy bears as he puts his hands on them, ‘ii ild Yisas aim‘. He means to say be healed in Jesus name.
Just last week I got a praise report from our daughters (Gabby is her name) teacher. Apparently Gabby is in the habit of praying for the students in the class and laying her hands on them. One day the teacher came in with a flu, having lost her voice as a result. Gabby asked he ‘teacher, can I pray for you?’ The teachers agreed and Gabby put her hands on the teacher. The teacher said she said Amen in faith and by the grace of God her voice came back within hours with the flu having cleared. The teacher also shared with me that there is a particular boy who used to regularly get sick due to chest complications and as a result miss school severally. One day he got extremely unwell during class and Gabby, our four and a half year old daughter prayed for him casting the sickness out of his chest. The next day the boy came back to school whole and hearty and he has never taken medicine ever since then. He was completely healed. Isn’t God and faithful. Let it be on record today that Gabby started her healing ministry at the age of four and a half. I give God all the glory.
Proverbs 22:6 NASB – Train up a child n the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Anyways, let me get back to the main story, You know I have been saying my daughter as if I got her by myself so let me correct that, besides my wife is about to check into this story, I might as well include her in the my daughter phrase hehehe.
So Gabby our daughter asks for prayers and oil, remember the point where I was holding her to make her feel comfortable and she asked ‘Papa put oil and pray? Yes, so we all go upstairs, my wife and I and all the three children. I pray over them and anoint them with oil all including myself. I cast that sickness out of our daughter Gabby and speak healing. However nothing immediately changes. We proceed to do our family evening devotion all the while Gabby is sleeping or rather trying to sleep looking very uncomfortable, extremely uncomfortable. After devotion she says she wants to eat so we go back and give her some food.
You know God always answers our prayers, at-least the ones prayed in accordance to His will i.e the word.
2 Corinthians 1:20 NASB – For as many as are the promises of God, in Him they are yes;………………………….
God at times sends us signs to show that the prayers have been answered but we unfortunately many times miss out and fail to even give thanks. Let me use this as an example, I had prayed for healing and believed for the same but because I did not see immediate restoration as I has expected on my daughter, I assumed the healing had not manifested. Earlier on remember I said that Gabby was not able to eat well. Now after prayers and devotion she asked for food. Is that not a sign that something has happened? I admit. I allowed sight and emotions to get to me and could not even see that the fact that she had asked for food was evidence that the healing had kicked in.
So we went down and served her some food. I asked my wife to make Gabby a ginger, honey and lemon mix to help with her throat because by this time Gabby was already sounding like a 14 year old boy breaking his voice. My wife looks at me straight in the face and says, ‘she does not need it. She is healed, she is ok’. You know there are eyes a woman can give her man and the man would be a complete idiot to speak anything against the last statement that came before the ‘eyes’. Married men can bear me witness. Maybe I should do a post on ‘the eyes of a wife and the meaning behind different facial expressions of a wife’.
Moving on, so like a dog tucking its tail under its hind legs, I kept my cool and hushed. My wife is the full ninja, do not mess with her (another blog post perhaps). I was not sure whether I really agreed with my wife that Gabby is ok and did not need ginger, garlic mix or it is for the sake of peace (read fear) that I agreed and kept silent. In my defense I can even quote scripture,
Proverbs 20:3 NASB – Keeping away from strife is an honor for a man, But any fool will quarrel.
I did the honorable thing, I aint no fool. hehehe. I was not going to speak anything against her resolve and the eyes.
In my temporary ignorance (the power of life and death are in the tongue), I tell my wife, ok Gabby does not need the ginger mix but I do, make me some. I think I thought because Gabby is now sick and I was feeling off earlier, it only meant that I am next in line. I do not even know where such a silly thought came from. ‘I am next in line to get sick’, really?
2 Corinthians 10:5 NASB – …………………………. taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ,
Next time you have such thoughts, just apply 2 Corinthians 10:5. Do not allow any thought that does not match up with the truth in Gods word to settle in you, give no airtime to negative thoughts, allow no fear to creep in. I allowed myself to think in the negative and even took precautions to mitigate my fear of being next in line to get sick.
As I carry Gabby upstairs and she says to me, ‘papa I cannot be sick, I refuse to be sick, Father God healed me, and even today He will come and heal me’. Ooh my, I felt so proud of our daughter, what great faith she was displaying. She was putting her faith to work and i was busy asking for honey, lemon, ginger and garlic mix.
After 3 hours she woke up crying, I believe due to discomfort because I found her with a high fever. I went up, held her and cast the fever out and glory to God it reduced. I have learnt that in this faith journey one has to activate a crazy attitude, you will speak to the most random of things and at the most random of situations. If Jesus spoke to a tree who am I not to tell a fever to leave my daughter? Anyways, she took some water and said to me, ‘papa, father God is healing me, we will not go to hospital‘ then she slept again.
I went down stairs and the first thing I asked for was my ginger mix. A four year old who is showing signs of being sick is convinced she cannot be sick and a thirty five year old who is showing no signs is convinced that he will get sick. This is the point where I believe stupid is a spirit and it was on me. I should just have stood in agreement with my wife that Gabby did not need it and nobody else did for that matter. I took my drink, had my dinner and slept.
In the morning Gabby woke up all strong and full of life. True to her faith and words, God worked on her during the night, Glory to God. As for me, true to the fear I allowed in and the garlic mix I ‘needed’, I woke up with a flu. Hahahaha, I actually laughed at myself. A 4 year old was reaching out for faith and I was reaching out for ginger, garlic and lemon drink. She got her healing and I got the flu.
Numbers 13:30-33 KJV – ……………………… And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
In the scripture above, God had already given the land to the Israelites, however the spies allowed fear to creep in, they saw themselves as grasshoppers in the sight of the giants and as a result the giants saw them as giants too. Notice the Bible is very clear, it says, ‘we were in our own sight as grasshoppers and so were we in their sight…’…….. What you perceive is what you will receive, what you desire is what you acquire, what you believe about yourself is what you will be and live, what you fear is what you will hear, what you see is what you get, what you mind is what you find, what you fan is what you earn.
Gabby slept in faith. She knew she would be healed and she woke up healed, totally restored, happy and all over the place like nothing ever happened. I slept in fear of getting sick and I woke up with a flu. Needless to say I was on ginger and garlix drinks for the next day 3 days.
Later that day I noticed her nose was running and she kept pulling back the mucus. I told her, ‘ mama come I blow your nose‘. Guess what she told me? ‘No, papa, I do not have a flu, I will not blow.’. Talk of being challenged head to head by a 4 year old. Then she says, ‘do not worry papa, I will tell Father God to take your flu away, kwani you are still sick?’ In humility and embarrassment I reached out to sip my garlic mix.
I am still amazed at the faith of our 4 year old, child like faith.
Through this incident I was been reminded that child like faith is all we need, it is all God desires of us. Take God at His word and speak it, do not try and figure out the details or possibilities thereof. If God said so, then it is so, simply receive it. Keep logic and ginger mixes out 🙂 lol.
Mark 9:24 NASB – ….Immediately the boy’s father cried out and said, “I do believe; help my unbelief.
If there be any unbelief in you, I bind it in the name of Jesus. Be free and believe the gospel. Accept the good news as is, stand on it.
3 John 1:2 NASB – Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers.
May the Holy Spirit help us conquer the spirit of unbelief, doubt and fear. Refuse it and reject it the minute you sense it, smell it or see it. Do not allow it, I have learnt my lesson the hard, you do not need to. It is Gods will for you to prosper and be in health.
Child like faith
Have you ever thought that no matter how old we get we will always be Gods children, the Bible never mentions Gods adults or teens, we are constantly and consistently referred to as Gods children. You are a child of God. We must mature as Christians but maintain childlikeness when it comes to matters God i.e take God at His word like a child takes the fathers words and promises. Simply and innocently choose to trust and believe.
If you are sick, lay your hands where you are sick and cast out that sickness out, do it in faith and receive your healing NOW in Jesus name. AMEN.
I remain King David Mure and I love
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