The scriptures the gifts of the Spirit in 1 Corinthians, chapter 12, the word of wisdom, the word of knowledge, the gift of faith, the working of miracles, and so on. There are nine gifts.
One of those gifts is the word of knowledge. The word of knowledge is supernatural information from God. God said the word of knowledge will work through me. And my wife and I got our Bibles, and we began to study every healing scripture we could find.
And we came to Mark, chapter 11, where it says, “What things so ever you desire when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them.”
She and I said to the Lord, “Our desire is for a healing ministry. We believe it is Your will because You spoke it to us. And so by faith”—listen to me tonight—“by faith”—everyone say, by faith (Response)—“by faith we receive a healing ministry.”
We did not ask Him a second time. We believed by faith we had it. We did not yet have the manifestation, but we had it by faith. And every day that went by, we thanked the Lord for the healing ministry that we believed was on the way. No one was getting healed, yet by faith we had a healing ministry.
Listen to me, my friends in Ibadan, faith is what you hold onto until you receive what you are believing for. If you have naira in your hand, you have no need of faith for naira. It is when you have no naira that you need faith to believe for naira. So then faith is what you hold onto until you receive what you are believing for. And we held on to what God had said.
Days passed, weeks passed, months passed, no one was being healed. But we held on to our faith, confessing a healing ministry. God had said it. Some people say, “God said it, I believe it, and that settles it for me.”
But I have a better one than that. “God said it, and that settles it whether you believe it or not.”
And I believed it. Months passed. We kept studying our Bibles. We came across every healing scripture in this Word. “I am the Lord that healeth thee.” Exodus 15:26, “I am the Lord that healeth thee.”
First John 3:8, “For this purpose the Son of God was manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil.”
Acts 10:38, “How God anointed Jesus with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed of the devil, for God was with him.”