Sid: My guest, Linda Josef is red hot for the Messiah; she is a PHD Christian Physiologist for over thirty years. She is a co-author of my book “Supernatural Healing” my latest book.” What we decided to do was to get the best healing interviews we’ve had in over thirty years of investigative reporting of miracles and find out the keys the nuggets that caused the person from going to I believe to manifesting that promise. And Linda for those that aren’t familiar with you, I met you many years ago and as a matter of fact you got healed through, I believe it was a word of knowledge when I was speaking. Tell me about that.
Linda: Well, I was sitting in a congregation and you had given I think it was a service in which you were talking about the finished work of Jesus the Messiah that when He died on the cross He took our sins and our sicknesses, it wasn’t just one He took all the curse. And then you said, “Now I have a Word that someone with neck pain is being healed.” And I had been a car accident several years earlier.
Sid: And by the way, can our sponsor interrupt you right now? Our sponsor is God, GOD and He just had a word of knowledge that someone’s back was just healed as you were speaking.” So please continue.
Linda: Well, that’s more or less the way you said it to the congregation you said, “Someone’s neck has just been healed.” And I wasn’t expecting that this would happen to me I noticed “Oh my gosh, my neck doesn’t hurt anymore.” So I stood up and you prayed for me and that was the end of that neck pain.
Sid: I think it is so wonderful when God operates through words of knowledge, but do you know what He’s been telling me lately? That the words of knowledge as wonderful as them are, I mean when I hear a word of knowledge I believe that word more than I believe what people say. I know that God has healed someone whether someone acknowledges it or not and they usually acknowledge it, but He’s saying that anyone at this point can lay hands on the sick that’s a believer and just say the name of Jesus and they are going to be healed. There is going to be such a move of God’s healing on planet earth and I believe that at this point in history we’ve released the book, “Supernatural Healing.” Now you wrote me a letter, I’m sure you remember it many years ago and you said, “Sid, I follow your ministry and I love it and if I can ever help you in writing things, I’d be glad to.” And I filed that letter away and I didn’t respond to it for awhile and then one day I got the idea what if Linda was to take the interviews that I had of healing and write them up in a book. But I have to tell you Linda, you went further than my idea and you made the book so easy for people. Not just with your writing ability but with nuggets at the end of each chapter what these people did so by reading all of these testimonies one or more is going to trigger someone to get their healing. Of all the testimonies that you did in the book, what was your favorite?
Linda: Well, I would say that the testimonies fall; really I know that it’s probably not always wise to categorize things, but in this case I think there’s two kinds of healing. I think there’s the healing that God gives to somebody whether their looking for it or not and the second is the kind of healing that people can claim and lay hold of because of the finished work of the Messiah. Now my favorite one of the people that are given a gift of healing would be I’d have to say, Jan Aldridge or Delores Winder because both of those ladies, especially Jan had a very severe deformity and I believe you’re going to interview her later this week.
Sid: Right, on Wednesday we are going to have Jan on.
Linda: She was born with a hideous deformity of her tongue and she’ll tell you and details of her story, but she wasn’t expecting to be healed. And the pastor had a word of knowledge for her when she was just sitting church and came over and told her that God was going to heal her. And a short time later, she was completely healed of that physical deformity. And that’s an example of somebody who is healed when they’re not particularly seeking it. But on the other hand there are people who know that God’s promise for healing is real, it’s real today, it was real when Jesus was present. That it’s part of His finished work that when He died on the cross He took our sins and our sicknesses. And I would encourage everyone to go into the scriptures for themselves and become fully satisfied that from God’s viewpoint there’s very little difference between sin and sickness, they’re both works of the devil. And when Jesus paid the price for one, He paid the price for the other. And a great person who experienced this or a great example of this is Dr. Gary Hill. Now Dr. Hill.
Sid: Now, by the way let me interject one of the things I love about the particular testimonies we selected three are doctors.
Linda: Three are doctors.
Sid: But so let’s talk about Dr. Gary Hill.
Linda: Well, just as Jan Aldridge illustrates an example of God healing someone who wasn’t expecting it, Gary Hill illustrates someone who called on God because of the covenant that we have through the Messiah. Gary was an Emergency Room Physician in Canada in Edmonton, Alberta. His wife was pregnant with their fourth child and by the eighth month the baby was very small and not moving. So they went for an ultrasound and the results of the ultrasound and some other tests that were run showed that the baby’s brain was very damaged, half of it was missing. The doctors told them that the baby would probably be born dead, but if it were born alive, it would be terrifically handicapped, it would never walk, it would never talk, it would never see and they offered Gary the option of an abortion. And he said at that moment the Spirit just rose up in him and he said, “Doctor I’m a Christian, I would never consider an abortion.” So he went home and just fell on his face and cried out to God and he said, “Father this is my hour of need, you’ve promised to be our ever present help in time of need, this is my hour of need.” And he began to search the scriptures for healing and he became convinced that healing was a real thing, that he could lay hold of. So he quit his job in the Emergency Room and his wife got her parents to come and take care of their other children.
Sid: So he had a new full time job, understanding healing so that his baby would be normal.
Linda: Exactly so, and he mediated on healing scriptures, he watched videos and listened to tapes about people who have been healed, he read books on healing, but it was his full time job. And at the end of everyday he always took time out to worship. He always at the end of day would put on praise music and just worship God. Because he said, “You know it was so hard to stand this ground because there was nobody that he knew that believed as he believed.”
Sid: You know I find a lot of people going back to the worship, they’ll go into a hospital room and just play worship music twenty-four seven. There is something about getting the atmosphere of heaven and the word of God just putting them together.
Linda: That’s exactly what happened to Gary, he was worshipping and this cloud came into the room and it was heavy and it pressed him down to the floor and he became very frightened. And he tried to crawl out of the room and then he said to himself, “You idiot, this is what you’ve been praying for.” And while he was laying there he had a vision of someone being healed of a head trauma, so he knew that it was the sign to go pray for his baby at that moment. And his wife had been woken up out of sleep to come meet him and they met in the hallway and he put his hand on the baby and prayed and nothing happened. And you know Gary is not a guy to give up easily as you can imagine someone who’s quoted Bible verses over their unborn child twelve hours a day for a month. And he prayed again and still nothing happened. And he said, “I know that I’m suppose to do this,” so he laid his hand on the baby’s head and then he put his hands on his wife’s head and power came out of his hands and knocked both of them unconscious. And the wife came to with such a feeling of love of God’s love. She said, “I’ve never felt so peaceful and so much love and she was just murmuring, Father, I accept this, I know that you’ll be with me and whatever you ordain for this baby I accept.” And Gary came to saying to himself “Lord I’m not worthy, you are so holy, I am so unworthy.” And they just hugged each other there and then they noticed that the baby was moving. And to make a long story short, they delivered a normal child and today that baby, she is a teenager, she’s a healthy child, she get’s A’s in school, she plays soccer and she’s a blessing to everyone who knows her.
Sid: You know Linda our time is slipping away, but it’s there are other types of healing; for instance the healing brought out in communion by Dr. John Miller. So I want to prepare people to have the elements for communion ready on Friday and I believe many of you will get your healing. And I’ll give you one of the nuggets of Dr. John Miller, he’s the first one that showed me that communion is a progressive healing just like you take medicine and then you progressively get better, every time you take communion you are a little bit better. Well our time is slipping away.
