JAMIE: Well hello! I’m Jamie Galloway! Welcome to Something More. I have Art Thomas with us today and I’m excited because we’re going to get into a topic that I love! It’s a topic that’s near to my heart. I’ve been healed. Maybe you have or you’re believing God for healing. Art Thomas has seen so many people healed of
of different illnesses, diseases. Art, welcome to the show!
ART: Thanks! Good to be here!
JAMIE: So you walk in healing.
ART: Uh-huh.
JAMIE: It’s one of the primary modes or manifestations of God’s presence in your life. You’ve seen people healed.
ART: Sure.
JAMIE: How long have you been activated in this gift.
ART: Yeah it started in August of 2009. Yeah, I was on staff at my church. Had credentials in the Pentecostal denomination. We believed in healing but I had never seen it until then. And then all of a sudden I mean it’s kind of a long story but God opened my mind to understand oh my goodness! Jesus paid for it. He wouldn’t pay for something He doesn’t want. It is God’s will to heal and when I saw that I started preaching it and the results just followed.
JAMIE: So you know one of the things I see with people that actually walk in the healing gift there’s usually a moment, a crisis moment that really makes them press in.
ART: Uh-huh.
JAMIE: It seems to be a theme. Anyone that I know has a healing ministry, a crisis moment has pushed them to the edge where they ask God what is the deal with this?
ART: Yeah.
JAMIE: Did you have anything did you have anything like that?
ART: I did. I did. There was a husband and a wife at our church, both of them diagnosed with cancer. Both of them were convinced God wanted to heal them. And I wasn’t convinced cause my theology at the time was still sometimes God wants it, sometimes He doesn’t and it just so happens that every time I pray He doesn’t. Right?
JAMIE: Right.
ART: So they were both diagnosed with cancer. They were going around to every faith healer they could find. Our church was praying for them hoping if it be Your will. Right? And the husband ended up healed of cancer. The wife died of cancer.
JAMIE: Whoa!
ART: And they were û you know their son and I had gone to school together. I was real close with this family and it really messed with me cause first of all I prayed for the dad and he wasn’t healed.
JAMIE: Right.
ART: And so I was like well when I prayed for him and he wasn’t healed I just assumed it wasn’t God’s will but then someone else showed up and did it so maybe that guy’s got a gift. And then I realize wait a minute there’s a problem cause what I’m really saying is God’s up in heaven going not my will, not my will, not – ooops! I gave that guy a gift. I guess I got to heal him.
JAMIE: Ohh!
ART: And I realize like gifts don’t trump God’s will. They illustrate God’s will!
JAMIE: Mmm!
ART: So I no longer had that excuse but now I mean I like to say I had developed a very complicated theology to make myself comfortable with my lack of results.
JAMIE: Mmm!
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