What Are You Believing God For?

Are you a believer? What are you believing God for in your life? What are you expecting?

There’s a story about a woman, Eugenia Sanderson, in a book written by Kathryn Kuhlman titled God Can Do It Again. She worked as the director of a department at a new hospital in San Diego, California. She became acutely ill and was admitted to the same hospital and was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that affects nerve endings and caused severe pain in her muscles and joints. Every treatment known to medical science failed to cure her. She lost her job and was living in an apartment with a roommate. Her situation got so severe the doctors were planning to move her to a nursing home. Eugenia feared this was the end of her life. 

She heard about a monthly healing service in Los Angeles and that there was a bus taking people to the meeting. She called and bought two seats for the trip. She rented a wheelchair and convinced her 16-year-old nephew Randy to go with her to the healing service at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. On the highway somewhere between San Diego and Los Angeles the bus had a flat tire. It took hours for the repair to be done, and they arrived at the healing service too late. The building was packed full of people and the doors were locked. A crowd of people had gathered outside. Eugenia could hear the music and the singing inside. She looked up at the roof of the auditorium and thought of the Bible story of four men lowering their crippled friend through the roof to get to Jesus. She prayed, “Oh, God…even if You have to let me down through the roof, please help me get inside.” Randy had wheeled her to the front door, but it was impossible to get through the mob of people outside. Just then, a woman stepped up to her and said, “The Lord just spoke to my heart, you are to be healed today, this is your day.” That woman then went to the front door and began pounding on the door. Soon the door opened a crack and an usher stuck his head out. The next thing Eugenia knew, the crowd parted and suddenly she was inside. Within that very hour she experienced her healing at that service. Miraculously, several months later she was back to work at her old job at the hospital. 

What was Eugenia expecting? She was expecting a miracle. She set the criteria for her faith. She said to herself, if I go to this healing service I believe God will heal me. You set the criteria of your faith by the action you take. Joan of Arc is quoted as saying, “Act and God will act”.

“…there was no room left, not even outside the door, and He preached the word to them. Some men came, bringing to Him a paralytic, carried by four of them. Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus and, after digging through it, lowered the mat the paralyzed man was lying on. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, ‘Son, your sins are forgiven.’” Mark 2:1-5 ~George DeTellis, Jr.