On Saturday, January 17, a Bethel Healing Rooms leader had a word of knowledge that a woman would come in whose finger would grow out.
That morning, a woman came in for prayer for something else, but her pinkie finger, much of which had been lost in an accident years ago, started to grow back out.
When she was 12, she was starting to hear God's voice. Her family had a fence with a roof that hung over. One day, she left her house key in her bedroom. She used to wear a lot of rings. She decided to hop the fence and go through her bedroom window. She heard a voice, which she now knows was the Lord, tell her to take her ring off. Another voice said, "What are you dumb? Leave it on." There was one nail on the fence and her ring hooked on it and it took off her finger. There was trauma to her whole body.
In the Healing Rooms, she felt a tingling sensation when she was receiving prayer. Her finger is now stronger. It was shorter and fatter, and now it is longer and thinner. Her husband and children could see it growing. They kept seeing gold dust forming on her hand, and it got on the ministry team, too. She felt a glory and weight sensation on that whole side of her body that had previously felt the trauma.
She could feel it stretching and growing out. It was really tight and she could not bend easily. Now it is loose and not tight anymore. She was very touched by the Lord and later that morning forgave herself for not heeding the warning.
Her finger has grown out already about 3/4s of an inch and is continuing to grow and form.
The framework for renewed mind is the nature and promises of God. Living aware of and out of that reality is how the renewed mind is shaped. The renewed mind, for example, honestly sees the potential for a child's lunch to feed a multitude. This kind of thinking does not come easily.
Bill Johnsonが言うところであるが、病気を用いて自分の子を訓練することは、罪を用いて訓練することと何ら変わりがないと。病気の中で成長するといった考え方がキリスト教ではかなりよく見られることは事実だが、罪の中で成長するといった考え方は、少なくとも私の知る限り、ない。ここでも罪と病気の絡みが問われるわけだが、私たちの見解ではなく、父がこれらをどう見ておられるかが重要なのだ。つまり父のアイデンティーが問われる。それにはイエスの行動を見てみればよい、彼は父の完全なる反映だから。
この節は時制が重要。天ですでにつながれていること、すでに解かれていることを、地上でもつなぎ、また解くのだ。かくして地上にて天で裁決されていることを具体的に執行するのが、天の門であり神の家であるエクレシアの役目となる。もしこの権威を用いて私たちがその役目を果たしたら地上で何が起きるのだろうか?繰り返すが、現状をひっくり返してみればよい。具体的にはイエスご自身がなされたことそのものなのだ*2。くだらない神学論争をしている暇があったら、御父の完全なる体現者イエスを見よ!(John 14:9)そしてその通りに行うこと*3。SO BE IT!