Editorial
JAMES E. COSSEY
EDITOR IN CHIEF
A LIVING
TESTIMONY TO
W
E RECENTLY celebrated my accept the fact that our God is a healing
mother’s 88th birthday. Given God. Do not accept sickness and disease
all of the advancements in as a death sentence for your life or for
medical science over the recent your usefulness to Christ. Be wise and
decades and modern geriatric care, that is prudent. Seek medical assistance. Follow
not as unusual as it once was, but for our the doctor’s orders. Take your medica-
family its implications are gargantuan. tions. But all the while, fill your spirit
My mom was born on January with the words of Scripture that remind
DIVINE
HEALING
7, 1922, as one of a set of premature you of God’s healing power! Refuse to
twins—Troy and Toye. Absent the pedi- entertain doubt. Call for prayer from
atric care and equipment that we take the elders of the church (James 5:14).
for granted today, Troy died shortly after Receive the anointing of oil by the lay-
birth, while Toye struggled for life, ulti- ing on of hands, and believe that “the
mately surviving but faced with multiple prayer of faith will save the sick, and the
ONLY A GENUINE
health issues. Lord will raise [you] up” (v. 15 NKJV). As
ARTICLE CAN BE
Numerous times during my forma- old-timers used to say, “God is still in the
tive years, our family was forced to face healing business!”
COUNTERFEITED.
the reality that Mom might not survive. This issue of the Evangel is devoted to
Extremely low blood pressure, anemia, divine healing because in many circles
WHENEVER THERE
and various other maladies took her it is rarely, if ever, emphasized. It is true
to the brink more times than we can that charlatans have made a mockery of
IS MERCHANDISING,
recount. But my mother was and is a the doctrine and practice, and extremists
MANIPULATION,
Spirit-filled believer and part of a local have given bad press to the term divine
church that believes in the healing power healing. Be reminded that only a genuine
AND PHONINESS,
of God. While taking advantage of all of article can be counterfeited. Whenever
the God-given medical assistance avail- there is merchandising, manipulation,
SOMETHING REAL HAS able to her, she was regularly anointed and phoniness, something real has been
with oil and prayed for by godly men prostituted! Be reminded also that the
BEEN PROSTITUTED!
and women. “gifts of healings” (1 Corinthians 12:28)
Today she lives alone in an adult are not resident in any individual, but in
retirement community, cares for her- the Church—“the body of Christ” (v. 27).
You are invited to visit the online
self, and regularly ministers to fellow The Lord of the Church can manifest
Evangel site at www.onlineevangel.org
residents. A couple of years ago, shortly healings in your life whenever, wherever,
and my personal blog at
before Christmas, Mom led a neighbor to and however He chooses. The place He
www.jecossey.blogspot.com
Christ. During the holidays, the neighbor does not minister healing is where people
Views expressed on my blog are my
personal views and do not reflect
passed away—to be with Jesus, not to refuse to have faith in Him.
the views of the Evangel staff, the
face a Christ-less eternity in torment. Be blessed as you read these articles.
Church of God, or Pathway Press.
For those Evangel readers facing sick- I have been. Now, I need to call my
ness and disease, I encourage you to mother!
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