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But He really heals people? You believe that? It is not all just psychological o
r misdiagnoses?
I know it. I've seen it. I've experienced it.
Let me tell you a story. Almost 40 years ago a young man named G.E. Mullenax wal
ked into an A. A. Allen crusade in Little Rock, Arkansas. He was in bad shape. D
octors had removed three of his ribs and one lung, all apparently to get to a de
ad disc. He had almost died during the operation. He had laid on the operating t
able for five hours. During the procedure they had taken his heart out of its no
rmal position and massaged it to keep him going. That was just unheard of in tho
se days, and it was a very desperate thing to do. Afterward, they left a hole in
his side about the size of a man's hand just to help with te drainage. It was n
ot a good situation. It was very serious.
But he believed that God would heal him. A. A. Allen called him out of the crowd
, listened to his story, showed the audience the hole in his side, and then pray
ed for him. Mullenax claimed an instantaneous healing. R. W. Schambach was there
. Both he and Allen felt the place where the hole had been. Mullenax had a frien
d with him who ran up to the front and felt it too. Mullenax said that it felt l
ike God had actually restored the ribs, which would have been a real miracle. Th
e audience went wild. Mullenax just stood there weeping.
Of course, everyone wondered. Who is this guy? What happened to the hole in his
side? They had felt it. Or had they? Was his story true? Had doctors really remo
ved the lung and ribs? And if so, why did it now feel like the ribs were restore
d? Had they instantaneously formed? Or had they been growing back ever since the
operation?
Well, it turned out to be true. He came back nine days later with the doctor's X
-rays and full reports. Allen wrote it up for Miracle Magazine.
Now there is a reason I'm telling you this particular story. Just a few months a
go, almost 40 years after the fact, The Pentecostal Evangel reported the Mullena
x story all over again. The Pentecostal Evangel is th voice of the Assemblies of
God. This is the same denomination that had once dismissed and ridiculed A. A.
Allen. One could say that this was a vindication for the evangelist. After all t
hese years, A. A. Allen is gone, but G. E. Mullenax is still with us.
Now let me ask you a question. How could a doctor misdiagnose the removal of a l
ung and ribs? Either they were taken out or they weren't. And how could the mind
re-create a lung? The sets of X-rays show the whole story. They were gone, and
now they are back. Explain that.
Now, you can still deny it, of course. Some refuse to even consider any evidence
. Others say that it is all satanic, that the devil is doing all those wonderful
things. Today we have a whole army of New Age experts. The generation before sa
id that all those Bible stories were myths. Now, the New Age generation suddenly
claims to be experts on how it all happens. Some say that it was aliens from ot
her planets, or they may offer soe new or more trendy, "designer" religion that
explains everything while still letting them live the way they want. But to anyo
ne who really wants to know, Jesus is indeed the same yesterday, today, and fore
ver. He is alive and well. He can touch you. Believe it.
All things are possible. Only believe.
Pages 175-176 ONLY BELIEVE, Don Stewart, Revival Press, Shippensburg, PA 1990
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