The Spirit of Faith Newsletter – November 1982 (Print Edition)
“Good Reports” (From the Satellite Seminar)
Last month, at the Satellite Seminar, many folks received their healing and gave some good reports! The Satellite meetings seem to get better and more anointed each month. Even before the meeting, God was moving to meet the needs of one dear sister. She has been on our mailing list for quite some time. Brother Bill received a phone call from this lady two weeks before the Satellite meeting. She said that if Brother Bill would pray with her over the phone she would receive her healing by faith! Well, he did, and she did! She reported at the Satellite meeting that the same doctor that had diagnosed her as having glaucoma in her eyes told her at a return visit, after prayer – that her eyes were clear and that they were 20/20. Her vision wasn’t that good to begin with! Others that reported that they were now well included: lumps that got smaller – one brother that didn’t even think to check himself after Marilyn Hickey called out that lumps and tumors were leaving, after the meeting felt – and it was gone! – legs were healed of pain – teeth and gums were healed!
Write the Vision!
“Proclaim the Word of Faith, Be A Showcase of Ministries, and Train People to Fulfill the Word of God.” This is the vision of Word of Faith Ministries. So many exciting things have happened as we have been operating within this vision God gave us!
We have laid out this issue of “The Spirit of Faith” so that you can see the vision coming to pass. Habakkuk 2:3 says that the vision will speak, and it is speaking! The Lord reminded me recently that the second part of our vision is to be a “showcase of ministries.” The Satellite Ministry is a very direct fulfillment of this part of our vision. What else could “showcase” ministries in any better way? What is a “showcase”? It is a means of displaying your finest things. We are making available the finest ministries in the world – Live Via Satellite! Glory to God, it is exciting!
The first part of our vision is to proclaim the Word of Faith. We have been doing this through our church, Healing Springs Faith Center, our radio broadcast; even this newsletter, which we put out every month. 2 Timothy 4:2 says, “Preach the Word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. ” In the Greek, the word translated “preach”, used here, literally means – “proclaim”. We are proclaiming the Word in any way possible! In fact, God told me recently to be a real “Electronic Church,” that is, to preach and teach the Word with every means of electronic mass media. Because of this, I see all kinds of new and exciting things in store for us in this ministry!
I’d like to take this section, which we have headed up with the third part of the vision the Lord gave us- that of training people to fulfill the Word of God, to tell you something God said to me recently. In order to train you to fulfill God’s Word we have to bring out some subjects that are not “shouting ground,” so to speak. Last month, on the “Spirit of Faith Broadcast” I taught on the fact that God wants Christians to prosper financially so that they can, in turn, support the ministry of the Word in the earth. (Deut. 8:17, 18) In doing so I brought out the point that some folks are speaking words of faith about their needs being met according to Philippians 4:19 – yet, they are not givers! Read that chapter closely! It was written to givers!
We have set our faith to receive the Satellite Receiving Equipment that we have – paid off in full by the end of the year! I was meditating on this one day, as I was driving down the road. I was thinking, “I wonder if someone will write us a check for the full amount?” God interrupted me and said, “If 200 people gave $25.00 one time, it would be paid for. You see, son, I’d rather bless 200 people with one hundred fold on their gift to the ministry, than just blessing one!” Now, if you knew my own natural mathematic ability you would appreciate – I didn’t even know how much 200 times $25.00 was! But God is a mathematician!
Those of you that have received either the radio broadcast or this newsletter know that I do not make appeals, or beg for money. God is capable of supplying our needs – BUT He uses people to do it… “Why? Because He wants to bless the giver! All I will say is this, of God is speaking to you about being a supply line to pay off the Satellite Equipment- simply be obedient. You will be blessed!
Items of Interest in This Issue
Cassette Offer… Invitation to Healing Springs Faith Center… Invitation to the Spirit of Faith Broadcast
