For years, in our overseas meetings, I have seen men and women, boys and girls, who perhaps had never been in a religious service before. They came merely out of curiosity, and, standing on the fringe of the crowd, they suddenly received healing!

Like the woman with the issue of blood, they had a need and heard a message of truth. That truth, coupled with the basic consciousness of God born into every person, drives out the forces of the enemy and he has to flee. This can happen without even a prayer being spoken for them or hands being laid on them as the Spirit brings a God-consciousness and they reach out by saying in their innermost being, “I believe the Word.”

In areas of heavy demonic influence, such as regions of Brazil and Africa where there is much spiritualist worship and voodoo practice, people have come to meetings saying that they felt as though hands were at their throats choking them. As they stand in the crowd listening to the message and hearing the testimonies, they lock onto the message, the feeling of unseen hands leaves them, and they are able to swallow and breathe normally for the first time in years.

I shall never forget a little fifteen-year-old boy in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Through a traumatic experience at the age of seven he had lost his power of speech and for eight years had been a deaf mute, living as a beggar, sleeping under the wharf on the waterfront by day and going through the garbage cans of the city by night to survive.

What consciousness did this boy have of God? Who could deliver him and set him free? He came to the sports stadium, stood at the edge of the crowd, and as we began to pray for the sick and afflicted, he felt warm hands upon his shoulders. He turned around to see who it was, but there was no one behind him. As he became more conscious of that presence, all of a sudden his tongue was loosed and he could speak for the first time in eight years! That little boy's spirit locked onto a message. Though his mouth could not speak or his ears hear, his spirit heard the message communicated by the Holy Spirit.

The same is true with people in our services who do not understand English and there is no translation for them. Many have been healed even though their conscious minds never heard a word because their spirits locked on to the message of truth.

Here is one of the most important points: If you are to receive your miracle — if your impossibilities are to become possibilities — your focus of attention must be on the message, not on your affliction or circumstance.

Do you need to change your focus?

I am taking my focus off of my impossibilities and getting my focus on the God of the impossible.