Prodigal: That is an old house.

Me: Yes, it is. Reminds me of an old story.

This is from the book God Will Make A Way

Before William Booth became a full-time minister, he conducted religious services as a lay preacher in small rural churches At seventeen, he was made a preacher in the Methodist Church. His superintendent wanted him to become a full-time preacher at the age of nineteen, but Booth’s doctor advised him against the ministry. He told Booth that he health was so poor that he was totally unfit for the strain of being a preacher!

Nevertheless, Booth undertook a ministry among London’s poorest people, engaging in strenuous labor and long hours. He launched an international organization now called the Salvation Army, which still ministers the Gospel to the poor today. Booth lived to be eighty-three before he went home to be with the Lord.

When someone has M.D. behind their name, it means they are in the business of medical practice. A doctor’s diagnosis is always limited, and the physician’s prognosis is always clouded by human judgment. Only God knows what lies ahead for you and what you are capable of accomplishing. Whenever sickness and disease present themselves to you, listen to what the Holy Spirit tells you.

Booth chose to believe what Almighty God was speaking in his heart more than the negative and limiting report given to him by a human being. Consider what he would have missed had he built his life around man’s words instead of what God had placed in his heart. History is filled with men and women, and children who have trusted in the supernatural healing power of God to overcome natural odds and achieve great things for the kingdom of God.

Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Romans 10:37 NKJV

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org