Healed of chronic pain in collar bones after 10 Years

I had a chronic pain in my collar bones since 2005 and this would sometimes progress into pain in my chest.

In 2008, I developed ulcers which were characterized by epigastric discomforts. Eventually, I started to experience intermittent strong pains from my chest to the stomach. These would sometimes last for a few hours, days and sometimes even a month.

On the 21st April 2016 while attending Phaneroo fellowship , I had an episode; I was in so much pain that I could not stand the sound of the speakers at the front, where I normally like to sit !

At the end of the service that day, I went to the front to seek prayer for healing. The pastor laid hands on me and prayed for me. The pain I had been feeling reduced at that instant, and then COMPLETELY LEFT after a short while. I AM NOW COMPLETELY FINE. Praise the Lord!

Jenny Dickens.

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If Our Gospel Be Hid

2 Corinthians 4:3-5 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.

If Our Gospel Be Hid

I was meditating about this and it seemed so apparent how true it is, that if our Gospel be hid, it is hid from them that are lost. The truth is that our Gospel is hid from some people. The god of this world has blinded them that believe not. The blindness comes because they believe not lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ should shine unto them.

Even though we preach, this Gospel is hid to many which are lost. Sadly I have realized that it is hid from men who profess the faith, they which say they are Christian and Born Again. There are things men call light but they are not light, they are darkness in their own selves but because they are unveiled to them some think that anything unveiled is light.

Of the Testaments

For example, when you look at the New and Old testaments you wonder, why did God choose 2 testaments only? Why not 3 or 4? Why old and new? Why not 1st and 2nd? Why do we have old and new? The word testament means covenant, it’s more of a will. When we go to the Old Testament dispensation, the men of old didn’t see what you and I are seeing. If you understand a testament as a will, you appreciate that the place of a covenant is a place where there is a requirement of the death of the testator. The Bible says in Hebrews 9:16; For where a testament [is], there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. The will of a man can only take effect if he is dead. There is no necessity to enforce a will when a man is still alive. So then I will ask you; what death necessitated the Old Testament?

The way God looked at the Old Testament was that he wanted to teach the church something. But before he teaches them what the real point is, he wants to first put a testament for them so that they have the appreciation of that life it is meant to show before he takes them into the life of Christ. So everything done and made by God in the Old Testament is just a picture to point men to the need of Christ. When Christ comes, he begins the New Testament. If Christ had come before the New Testament, they might not have appreciated it when he finally came in the New Testament. There is something God wanted to bring but he knew people would take it for granted or misunderstand because they didn’t know how important it was so he gave them the old that would point to how important the new is.

That is why the bible speaks of experiences where the scriptures see that God would justify the Gentiles by faith and so he goes and preaches the Gospel to Abraham saying in thee shall all nations be blessed. (Galatians 3:8) So when he preaches and Abraham understands it, Abraham is not dealing with the children of Israel by mistake. He deals with them as one who understands the original script. It is the same thing with Moses and all the prophets of old. Moses refused to be called the son of the daughter of Pharaoh esteeming Christ’s greater riches than the pleasure of sin because he had respect for the recompence. (Hebrews 11:24-26) But how can he esteem Christ if he has not seen him? That means that what Jesus does is; he goes to these Old Testament fellows, reveals himself to them and gives them the fine print of what he is up to. So, all of them are part and parcel of and contributing to this one end-that they will lead men to the position of need and appreciation of the life of Christ which was to come in the next dispensation.

As a new creature this is how you view the Old Testament; as something that reflects the real Christ. The bible calls it the shadow of things to come but the substance is of Christ. Jesus is the substance of that shadow cast in the law.

Of the Order of Things

I have realized that the church has run out of the true order of the spirit. When we walk out of the true order of the spirit, it does not matter how accurately and articulately our doctrine or sermons or discourses are laid before men, we will still minister disorder in the lives of people because if a man does not understand the order of events, the bible calls him a man which ministers questions in the hearts of hearers rather than Godly edification which is after faith. People go back with questions because every time you minister to them out of order it does not matter how articulate you are. You might minister something that just takes them out of order. We need to know the order of these things. What are the first principles of the oracles?   

Hebrews 6:1 says;

Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God.

That means if the church has to follow the first order, the first thing in the church is repentance from dead works. Dead works are the works of the law. If a man has not gone past that, he cannot go to the secondary things.  

Hebrews 9:14;

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Dead works are the things a man does to get to God, instead of embracing what God wants or has done in that man’s life. Firstly, when a man is Born Again, he should repent from dead works. For every born again, the moment you come to Jesus Christ, the fist difference you have to see is the law and the grace. Because the law was by Moses and has been existent but grace and truth came by Jesus. The bible says for the law is read in every city. Study many of these religions such as Islam; it’s all about the law. They have been there so long. So when a man shifts from the first principle of laying of the foundation of repentance from dead works, he moves to faith toward God. The works of faith come after the man has understood repentance from dead works. People who are so given to the teaching of the law and are under it do not see the miraculous like the people who walk in the grace of God because they have not yet broken through the foundation which is repentance from dead works and faith toward God. When a man understands the grace, the miraculous becomes a daily life experience.

Sowing To The Spirit

[Phaneroo 83]

The Bible is Just a Sample

And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they were recorded one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written [John 21:25].

There are many things that were done by the Christ but they were not recorded. If the bible says that there are many things that Jesus did and that if we have to write them down, the scriptures tell us that the earth cannot contain the books that could be written, it means that the Bible is only a sample of who Jesus is. The Bible is too small to tell us about all that Jesus is.

John who is writing knows those things that were not written. Don’t think he is imaginatively supposing. He could have said ‘there could be’ but he says there are many things Jesus did. Now when John is writing, he has to pick a few of these things. Jesus is bigger than even the Bible.  He is bigger than what we read in the word; these are just a few pages about the man.

Of the Dimensions of Christ’s Teaching

The reason why we do not see God is because we do not understand the dimension by which he teaches men. God is not subject to the way we think he ought to teach or we think men ought to learn and sometimes I have seen that delusion around the camp. That is why Paul says, ‘let us go without the camp and bear the reproach of Christ.’ There is a camp which thinks that Jesus has to be predictable and fit in their box the way they think he should. If he does not do it a certain way then it is not God. That is why when the disciples meet a man casting out demons, they forbid him because he did not follow with them.

Now here is the challenge. I thought a disciple was going to ask Jesus Christ, ‘How did this one learn? We were with you. You spoke to 5000 people, you fed us and we walked with you. When we were alone, you expounded the parables, and you healed the sick while we were there. We watched you opening blind eyes, raising the dead and healing the sick. We saw you with our very own eyes. How did you teach a man who was not with us? How did you reveal yourself to a man who was not with us?’

The Bible says that, By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.   It means that Jesus appeared to Moses, but not in the fashion and way men think he ought to appear. So Moses refused to be called the son of the daughter of pharaoh because when he saw Christ, he started to respect the recompense of the reward. He started to have a certain honour of the reward that should come with that and the Bible says that he counted the house of Pharoah lower.

Let me tell you; men don’t just leave comfort zones. If a man has seen Jesus, he will let go of anything that he holds dear; he will let go of those things that you think are important. If you see men who are not ready to lay down their lives, they have not seen Christ. I see Christians who are still being pleaded with to pray and preach; they have not really seen Jesus. The day you see Jesus, everything grows strangely deem; everything starts to loose sense and meaning.

The challenge with many Christians today is that many people have not seen the Christ. He has not been revealed. They love him, yes, but they have not seen him or interacted with him. You cannot see God and stay the same. You cannot see Christ and walk away.

Look at Cornelius. The Bible says that he was a devout man. He was not a Jew. He was an Italian but the Bible says that the angel of the Lord appeared to him. I always tell people that there is always a place for men who are hungry; it is there.

Now, when we look at the man who is casting out devils, he was not shown “the five steps of rebuking devils”  or “Seven ways to know that spirits have left” or “Thirteen ways to identify which demon is tormenting an individual” or “two ways to know whether you can rebuke or not” or “three easy steps to demon chasing. He did not have those books but God taught him.

That is why you ought to take heed of men who are taught outside the camp. When Jesus Christ revealed himself to Paul, he said that no man taught him this gospel. He was in Damascus preaching “Jesus is Lord”. But when Jesus wanted to take him to a certain depth, he separated him unto an experience in Arabia. When he was in Arabia, he was not in Bible school. I am not saying that there is no place for Bible school in a man’s life but I have seen men who have come from bible school and they still don’t know Jesus because there is something deeper about God and the way he wants to teach you that is deeper than any camp. Because of the fulfillment of prophesy that in the last days knowledge shall increase and fill the earth, I have come to the understanding that God is going to start and has started teaching men in ways we can never understand. The one thing I know is that men shall start speaking and other men will ask themselves; where did this one go to school? People will start asking you; ‘how did you get it? Where did you dig it from?’ And honestly, you won’t be able to explain it because the way God teaches is too diverse to be limited to the way we think he should teach.