John G. Lake, mighty apostle of God, went to South Africa around the turn of the century. In five years, he built 500 churches there.
The wife of one of the government leaders was at the point of death with terminal cancer. Knowing that Lake taught divine healing, the husband asked him to come and pray.
Because of great pain, the woman was taking pain-relieving drugs. But she made the decision to stop. She said, "I'm going to throw myself completely over on the mercy of God. I'm not even going to take anything for pain."
Lake said, "If that's your stand, and that's your faith, we'll stand with you," He and some other ministers stayed by her bedside praying 24 hours a day.
The only way she could get any rest was for them to pray until she fell off to sleep.
One morning Lake went home to bathe and change clothes. On his way back, within two blocks of the house, he heard her screaming in agony. He rushed back to the house. He stated that as he ran, compassion overtook him. He rushed into the house, rushed up to the bed, and without thinking, he picked up the woman's emaciated body and held her in his arms as he sat on the bed and wept in compassion. While he was weeping, she was completely healed—every symptom of terminal cancer left.
I've noticed in my own ministry that when I can yield to the Spirit of God and allow the compassion of Jesus to well up in me and flow out of me, greater healings take place.
We have His Name.
We have His authority.
We have His compassion.
As He is, so are we in this world!
... we take Jesus' place and use Jesus' Name just as though Jesus Himself were here.
The only difference is that instead of Jesus doing it, we are doing it for Him; we are doing it at His command.
- Kenneth E. Hagin ( the name of Jesus)