​AB Simpson was a minister from the 1800’s. He became a pastor and by the time he was in his 40’s he had broken down his body from not resting, and he started having heart trouble. The doctor told him he had six months to live. He said, “You have the heart of a 90 year old man.” When Dr. Simpson would climb the stairs of his church, he would take two or three steps and almost pass out because it was too much exertion for his heart. He had never before preached healing, but he had heard some of his congregation members talk through the years about how they had gotten healed.

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 So he went aside, and separated himself. He went to a cabin in the mountains and spent time searching through the Word to see what it said about healing. And in it he saw that Jesus paid the price for sickness and disease. After 2 weeks of feeding and meditating on healing scriptures he wrote in the front of his bible “Jesus bore my sickness just as He bore my sin, as I received freedom from sin by faith, I now receive freedom from sickness by faith. So I declare that I am now healed of that heart condition by my faith by what Jesus did for me.”

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There was a Bible school that wasn’t too far from where he was staying, and they heard that Dr. AB Simpson was there. They sent someone over to him and ask him if he would minister to the students there in the Bible school; so he did. He got up and preached from Matthew 8:17 “Himself took my infirmities and bare my sicknesses.” He focused on the word ‘HIMSELF’ that Jesus did it ‘Himself.’ He gave his testimony of how he received his healing by faith. 

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They were staying in a wooded mountain area and after class some of the students came and told him they were going to go mountain climbing and asked him if he would like to join them and spend some time fellowshipping with them. His first thought was “Well, you can’t climb mountains; you know that you almost pass out when you climb steps in your church building.” That was his first thought, but then he turned his first thoughts toward “Yes, but Himself took my infirmities,” so, he got ready to tell them, “No” and then he said, “Yes, I will go with you.”

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So they went on the climb, and as he started to climb his head started spinning—not getting enough oxygen and proper blood and he almost passed out, but when all those symptoms started to come on him, he started reminding himself of what he had been feeding on the last two weeks “He Himself took my infirmities and bare my sicknesses.”  So he turned his attention to these verses that spoke on of healing. When he took his attention off of what he was feeling and put his attention on the Word, then the dizziness would clear up and he continued to climb that mountain and all the symptoms left.

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Then some of the students would come up and start engaging him in a conversation, and his attention was drawn toward the conversation, and when it was, all of the symptoms would start to come back, his head would start spinning and chest would hurt. Then he would stop the conversation and turn his attention back to the Word, when he did, all the symptoms would leave again. Then a few minutes later another student would come and engage him in conversation, and he would start conversing with them, and when he did all the symptoms would come right back.

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He said all the way up that mountain it was as though a lion and a lamb was on either side and the one I touched was the one that possessed me—the lion of symptoms or the lamb of healing. He said, “The one I touched was the one that possessed me.” From where did he touch one or the other? In his thought life with his attention—what he put his heart on. You see he said that the one I touched is the one that possessed me. He said by the time I got to the top of that mountain every symptom had gone. All the way up the mountain it was back and forth—back and forth, but he said when I got to the top of that mountain every symptom had left me. At the time of his writing he was over 74 years old and he said it hasn’t’ come back in over 30 years. He said he could work 18 hours a day without any strain on his heart whatsoever.

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Your healing is as easy as where your attention is. (Proverbs 4:20) When we hear our pastor and do our devotionals, we are attending to His words; but what about when a situation slams into your life? That is a time to attend to His words. Healing is not hard, it’s all about where you put your attention. Symptoms come to try to gain your attention. Praise helps hold your attention on the Word. “Lord, I praise you for redeeming me from sickness and disease.”

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Matthew 8:17 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken.  What is spoken is what is fulfilled. The opposite of that is, what is unspoken is unfulfilled.  God fulfills what you speak. Your words tell Him what you believe and He will fulfill. Isaiah was a man. It’s not enough that God said it, you have to say it. He speaks, so we know what to speak.

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You speak the Word against opposition, what he bore for you, when it comes upon you.

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It is important to keep your eyes fixed on the Great Manifester and not the manifestation. It matters where your attention is. When we attend to the Word of God, we are looking in the direction of the Manifester.

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Have a great week everyone, and remember that Jesus is coming soon.